There is a lot, and I mean A LOT going on right now. On the work front, the home front, the personal front, the crazy front. It's all good stuff, thus far, but I will share more soon.
In the meantime, how is this for poetic?
I work at a software company, where the majority of the office is composed of Apple nerds who follow one another's Twitter feeds. Sometimes, though, we join the rest of the world and act like normal people.
In honor of Obama's inauguration, a co-worker had the brilliant idea of streaming the video on her laptop and projecting the image on the wall, rather than have us eat up space by each secretly streaming the video on our individual computers. Excellent thinking! However, we tried four different sites and all the streams were choppy and kept cutting in and out. We sat around nervously for awhile, willing it to get better with our collective geekiness. No luck. As the time for the inauguration grew near, concern mounted that we may not really get to watch the ceremony at all.
Then, a different co-worker suggested we pull out the television. The old, retro TV that someone was keeping on his desk because it looks super groovy and he was going to do an art project with it. Yeah, technically, it works, but...
Within minutes, the TV was on the floor, the dials were tuned to a station that got reception, and the antenna was in a good spot. My coworkers and I crowded around the TV on the floor of the office, sitting cross-legged while watching the black-and-white image with smiles on our faces. A few of the girls cried.
I thought it a fitting and fabulous way to watch the inauguration. Rabbit ears and everything. Amidst all that technology and the noise that comes with it, we ended up participating in the inauguration in the same way I bet many did when Kennedy was sworn into office.
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