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Well, that’s it for my stint guest-editing here at DCist. Thanks for reading, and stay tuned over the next two days, when site founder Mike Grass will be taking over the chief editorial duties.

• One blogger really loves the District’s new Pay By Phone parking meters.
• Vanity Fair profiles the Post’s Sally Quinn. Have at it.
• Wrapping up his first day with his eponymous blog, the Post’s Mike DeBonis pledges to call Don Peebles’ people until he finally decides whether he’s running or not.
• Metro has brought in an outside expert to solve the system’s escalator problems. A revelation: many of the companies that supplied the escalators and their spare parts are now out of business.
• Apparently DC Vote’s action on the Hill went well, but Rep. Childers’ staff called the cops.
• Sen. Richard Lugar’s (R-Ind.) wife pleads guilty to DWI.
• Happy 20th Birthday, Moby Dick! The restaurant chain, that is.
• “The largest over-the-year increase in nonfarm payroll employment occurred in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, Va.-Md.-W.Va. region.” High-five, D.C.-area!