O! Bama!

LOL. I really did not want to go to work today; but I did manage to catch a moment or two of the inauguration on tv. I did cry, quite a few times during the day. Wish I could have followed it all day long.
I was born in Huntsville, Alabama in 1962. I recall seeing a cross being burned in someone's yard ... a yard outside a house I was IN as a small child. I remember seeing the grief on people's faces as they mourned Kennedy for years after his death.
I remember firehoses being sprayed on HUMANS here in the street. I remember feeling ASHAMED to be from Alabama. Obama's election makes it possible for me to no longer lie when people ask me where I am from... I will no longer say I am from Alaska.
One thing that thoroughly amazes me is that people that came into the diner were by and large ignoring the whole thing. A comment or two here and there but ...why wasn't every single face turned to the tv and every ear bent to the broadcast?
These people were simply more interested in their hash browns, bacon and grits and eggs than they were in witnessing America finally move out of childhood and into adulthood.
Obama is smart as a whip, he's hip, slick and cool, and he's got family and he's got a LOT of people hanging a LOT of hope on him.
I pray he is NOT in anyone's back pocket. Please, don't be, ok?
I like what he had to say about people being responsible. I am doing my level best to be responsible for my own actions and for myself; here's hoping every other American will do the same.
I worked my ass off as usual today and when I got out to my truck...the battery was dead. I'd left my lights on. Fortunately, I had signed up for AT & T's 'roadside assistance'..it's free the first month then about three bucks a month...totally worth it. I think that triple A is around a hundred bucks a year these days.
Well...it WAS in ALASKA at any rate.
so they got there within forty five minutes which gave me a chance to sit in the motel lobby and watch the inauguration parade. Love to watch Obama and Michelle dance to the bands.
So this was one hell of a day in history. I'm glad I was alive to see it. I'm completely giddy that I voted in this election, and I voted for Obama, and I voted for a black man from a Baptist church in Huntsville, Alabama.
I find it so amazing.
I'm watching a rerun of NCIS. I had a lot of things I wanted to say but suddenly I am overtaken by cramps. It is time to take some ibuprofen.
I really need to pick up this sketch pad and start sketching something. I have all this fruit here...