I-day

[astra_nomer]

The nice thing about living in the DC area for one of the biggest Inauguration Days in history, is not just that downtown DC is an easy metro ride away, but also that I get the day off from work for it! So I braved a quick drive over to the metro station this morning... and drove right past it to my friend's house, because she's got a big screen TV and cable.

So no, I didn't freeze my tail off along with millions of my closest friends, but spent it in a warm living room. Unfortunately, I didn't get to hear much of Obama's speech because a four-year-old someone was whining for food, or drink, or scissors, or glue, or paper, or something.

So, now I'm going to go downstairs and see if our VCR did its job at noon.

Comments

[kirisutogomen.livejournal.com]

Strangely enough, most of Obama's inauguration speech consisted of promises that the government would provide us all with food, drink, scissors, glue, and paper.

[astra-nomer.livejournal.com]

Courting the youth vote, eh?

[vfish.livejournal.com]

What's a VCR? :-)

[astra-nomer.livejournal.com]

The VCR thing was DH's doing. It's the most advanced video recording technology we have in our house. Actually, my husband is to blame for the fact that virtually all technological gizmos we own date to the previous century. He barely tolerates the Macs that I've infiltrated into the house.

[unclenomer.livejournal.com]

Hold on a minute. I may be technologically backward in almost everything, but not on computers. I may like extremely simple interfaces, but it's always running on modern hardware. :-)

But considering this is the first thing we've recorded off the TV in probably a decade or so and we only did it for my parents (who are out of the country), there's not really a need to invest in newer tech on that front.