Like our team, I suppose millions who had to work today took time out to watch President Obama's Inauguration.
We had it planned out well. With no cable TV at the office, we planned a high tech solution to stream it through one of about a hundred web sites offering coverage or even stream it via my Slingbox at home. Using a projector, we would have a giant picture. Then the computer didn't have java for the web player. Then the stream was clogged with a zillion connections, then it was time for the ceremony. Times looked bleak, our office faced a crisis...the cynics said it couldn't be done, a great depression was threatened. Our inauguration watch party needed a rescue plan; a bailout, if you will.
Then, a leader emerged. An ironic leader, to be sure. Although he's an accomplished IT professional and a Republican Southern Baptist, he came to the rescue with a low tech solution to watch a liberal take office. In rolled the media cart with an old 20" TV with broken buttons. No problem, an old remote was at hand. Old remote had dead batteries - our man had new ones. No cable for CNN (or even Fox News) and snow for a signal on CBS, NBC and ABC. Our man chose PBS and we saw the whole thing: Crazy hat, messed up oath and all.
Folks, we can come together as a nation to solve our common problems. Yes we can.
