A New Blog, A New Year, A New Habit, A New President

That title is only an abbreviated version of all the changes I have been encountering over the last few weeks. But it is also likely that anything I post from here on out, is only to be an annotated version of my life. So to start, I will make this blog and its title short and sweet.

As some of you know, my computer's keyboard was out of commission for quite sometime. And it was about a week after I could no longer use my spacebar or type u, 7, ; (semicolon), ' (apostrophe), that I got the urge to write a blog. However, thanks to my wonderful, loving parents, and a blessing from the gods that the water damage didn't spread to the hard drive, my computer and new keyboard reunited and became an unstoppable blogging force. Mostly the force has been compelling me to seek and read, rather than sit and write. And although I could see the theme I wanted and various possible post subjects, all of my words were blurry.

For the last three years, I have had a countdown widget reminding me that soon, this day will come. It's numbers were rolling back to the moment George W. Bush leaves office. I have only been on this planet for a short period of time, and more than half of it has been spent with a Bush in office. So, rather then doing the thousands of errands I should have taken care of today, I made some lunch and watched Barack Obama be sworn into office. This is the sort of life experience I have been waiting for. And I will admit here, I am little worried for what these next few years hold. At least while the Bush's were in office, I could always count on being disappointed. But President Barack Obama is inspiring hope and raising our expectations of him and our nation. Because of this, I have been playing the skeptic, and hoping he doesn't disappoint. But today, watching his twenty minute inaugural address, I caught the fever. I felt the change. I got inspired. And I started this blog.

Here's to hoping that no other Bush serves in public office and that our cyber paths will meet again.