Obama Inaugurama – Down and Dirty Version, Part II

Sorry again for the delay in posting the rest of this. We’ve moved to downtown Phoenix and have been busy packing/unpacking one house, and I started packing our Casa Grande house. I have way too much stuff and need to have a yard sale to offload a lifetime of collecting. Anyway…the bonus for the long [...]

Obama Inaugurama – Down and Dirty Version

Sorry for the delay. Started writing this last week and didn’t get very far and didn’t have internet access. Got back last night and started packing more boxes – we’re moving on Saturday! This only covers events till Monday, but I’ll write about the rest of the inauguration when I can.
January 17, 2009: We [...]

“What would President Obama think if he saw you now?”

Hey y’all! I’ve been chastised, and deservedly so, for not doing my Inaugural blogging duty as promised. I did say I would try to do some posting while I was there, but like Ted Prezelski said when I ran into him at Jim Pederson’s shindig, “You can either participate in the Inauguration [...]

So I guess it’s incumbent upon me to pick up right winger slack on this donut scandal

I wish I were kidding but this is an honest-to-goodness press release from the American Life League about Krispy Kreme giving out free donuts on Inauguration Day. Seems that the group (“largest grassroots Catholic pro-life organization in the United States”) is taking issue with the company’s use of the phrase “freedom of choice” in [...]

Obama Inaugurama – The Tentative Itinerary

My adventure starts early tomorrow with a direct flight to D.C. – arriving around 4pm. When we heard we got tickets from Congresswoman Kirkpatrick, we initially thought we’d have to get from the airport to Kirkpatrick’s office by 5pm to pick them up. Not sure if that’s doable, so I put in a call to [...]