The Big Day

So today is a pretty big day in a lot of ways.  First of all, it's my birthday.  Second of all, it's inauguration day.  OK, just kidding.  It IS my Birthday but the inauguration thing seems a little bit bigger, only because 1.3 Million people were not on my front lawn before dawn this morning.  I was kind of expecting them, I left the gate open and everything, but they were a no show.  I guess they had something more important to do.  Our daughters we both so excited about today that they decided to wake up really early. Lucy was up at 1:00 AM, 

and Gillian followed at 4:00 AM.  

I've added their photos here in case you see them and want to reinforce healthy sleeping habits. Just remind them that it makes it really hard to focus during the day if you don't sleep at night. This seems to work well for me.

Anyway, I was pretty excited about the inauguration and even had CNN on at the house while Sarah and I tried to counter bleariness with large doses of caffeine and get everybody ready for our day.  By the time I got to work I had NPR streaming on my PC and they were doing a heck of a job talking about whether or not Abe Lincoln's bible had made it to the capitol for the swearing in and how nice the garlands looked on the nations capital.  Then we lost our Internet connection.  I did everything I could think of to get hooked up again to no avail.  Then, Mysteriously, right about the time that the stage had cleared, boom, I'm back up and running. And just in time to hear the commentary on how cold everybody there is and how they shouldn't expect to get home until early fall at best due to the large amount of humanity standing directly in their way.  Now I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, but The bush administration did hold the reigns of power up until the actual swearing in.  Coincidence? Could it be that they were just giving me one more stick in the eye?  I'll never know.  

But I do know this: It's a heck of a day to have a birthday, and even if you think The Democrats are a bunch of sniveling badminton players you have to be proud of America successfully handing over the reigns of power for over two Centuries, and to an American of mixed racial heritage to boot.  Well I'll be.