The woman who got to the door at the office before I did apparently didn't have the keycard to get in so she waited for me. She didn't have any gloves on which I asked her about, and she said she left them in her car. WTF??? You don't leave your gloves in the car when it's not supposed to get above zero today, for cryin' out loud!

Oh dear. And hee. Dan Savage is asking readers to pick a definition for "saddlebacking" a la "santorum" a few years ago: [link]

Mr Obama exhibits an almost monastic self-discipline.

Well, except for the Crackberry addiction.

Um, and the smoking. He's not a saint. I get annoyed when people [not us people, media people] try to make him so "other", since the fact that he's a real guy is such a big part of why I like him.

I'm guessing we're not going to have any intern nonsense going on in the Oval Office this time around.

Probably so, but I think Obama can still be a good president.

Oh, my mom just called. She won tickets to the inauguration from the lottery for campaign workers! She is thrilled, but since she is 80 and hates the cold, she's not going. The tickets are for a place outside to watch the parade and the swearing in.

She is giving the tix to my niece and nephew, who are incredibly excited. My nephew, bless him, told her he would be happy to drive her and her BFF down and wait for them all day, so they could go. She is having a small viewing party at her house and is really happy she can give this piece of history to her grandchildren. These are the two whose sister died last year, so it means even more to her and to them. Go mom!

My friend's Marcia's husband knows Konrad Ng from way back. And they've been chatting with him a bit more lately, since he's going to be in town for a while at least. Then this morning I suddenly heard this burst of squeeful clapping from Marcia's office. Then she floated into my office and explained that Konrad had just emailed to say he'd gotten them tickets to the swearing-in.

So awesome.

That's so awesome both for and of your mom, Scrappy!

I was watching part of the American comedy thing on PBS last night, and they did a segment on "All in the Family." I don't remember much of it when it was orignally on, though we watched it all the time, but there were many good parts. After the segment, they did a segue to "The Bill Cosby Show," and they showed a bit of a talk by Cosby where he said "Archie Bunker never apologized for the things he said," in such a way that it seemed he disapproved of that.

And I'm thinking, "Archie would not apologize. He'll change, reluctantly and slowly, but he won't apologize. He's not there to apologize, he's there to be the object lesson on bigotry and stupidity."

If Cos was looking to Archie Bunker for remorse and political correctness, he was letting himself in for a lifetime of disappointment.

I couldn't stand "The Cosby Show", it was too treacly.