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I almost got to spend the inauguration ceremony stuck on MoPac in traffic. But I made it to the office in time to watch the pre-show and swearing in, and the speech on the interwebs. CNN.com’s website hiccuped a few times and I got the show about 20 seconds later than my coworker 15 feet away. That anti-gay pastor part could have been left out. What a douche. I was thrilled to hear the shout out to the heathens that Obama gave in the speech.

It does feel good that Bush is on his way back to Texas and the long nightmare is over. On the way to lunch we were listening to the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s coverage of the day and their correspondent in DC was giddy with excitement about America being back. And goddamn it I’m giddy too.

It was pretty dope that Whitehouse.gov went live with a new look and feel, a Creative Commons license on third party stuff (government docs are in the public domain) and more interactive with the citizenry.

It was the first time I had watched the US media since election night and god it sucks. Babbling on and on about nothing, and then when Kennedy got sick MSNBC cut away to the ambulance outside and missed President Obama’s words for the luncheon. In doing so, they missed Obama saying who had taken ill (they were just reporting “someone” but clearly not the president). And Chris Matthews is a fucking idiot.

President Obama has a lot of work cut out for him and nothing is going to happen overnight. I still might be unemployed in two weeks. Others may have the same problem. The troops can’t come home from Iraq overnight. Guantanamo can’t be closed today. It took Bush eight years to get us this fucked up, it will take Obama time to fix it. And of course, there’s a lot of stuff he can’t do. But with a strong person with charisma at the helm, it does a lot.

I’m happy to report that Peanut doesn’t seem to mind Obama’s speaking like she did with Bush. She’d give a low growl as if annoyed and would often time go hide under the bed when Bush was on. Cats are a good judge of character.

Somewhat unrelated, my dream girl Jessica Alba said on Bill O’Reilly’s show last night she thought he was an asshole.