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October 22, 2008
It's educational. It's educational.
The blogging has gone way down here since I got onto Facebook. It's so much easier to stick a meaningless one-liner status update onto Facebook, than it is to, say, write a blog post.
Remember when I took the kiddos to the McCain-Palin rally? At the time, my kids expressed interest in going to an Obama rally, too. Sure, I told them. It would be good to see both candidates. It would be educational.
Okay, but McCain and Palin were here on a nice, sunny, warm day. Outside, in a nice park. In the early afternoon. Near my house.
Suddenly, it turns out Obama will be in a little park practically next to my parents' house. Okay, but he's talking at 5:30, which is just a lousy time. Outdoors. As it's getting dark. And COLD. In a little park, which in no way is going to be able to accommodate the number of people I'm sure will be there. And cold. Accounting for both DC and Obama traffic, I figure I'd better leave my house four hours or so before the event. Then I'll be driving home in the dark, which I usually avoid, because I kind of have no depth perception in the dark.
I tried to passively get out of it, to have an excuse, but my husband took care of my excuse, and my children really want to go. Plus, my older children feel strongly that they should go to help keep a lid on their Grandma. I think they have visions of her being duct-taped and hauled off by Obama's security.
No, really, we're going. Yes, I'm whining about the logistics, but obviously it will be interesting and educational, and historical, and an opportunity that should not be passed up. I am wearing red, though.
Posted by lynx at October 22, 2008 8:11 AM
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For those of us who missed it, how do we find you on Facebook?
Posted by: Daniel Kirk at October 22, 2008 11:56 AM
Cold? Come on, you just moved from Michigan. Don't you have some of our SnowBelt Antifreeze still flowing through your veins? Drive careful on the way back - or maybe you could stay at your parents' place. If the security forces haul your mom off (and your dad is then kept busy filling out forms in triplicate to spring her from the hoosegow), you might even get a big comfy bed to sleep on that night before the drive home!
Posted by: Obi-Mom Kenobi at October 23, 2008 8:29 AM