Today’s job was getting the inaugural tickets to the swearing in ceremony from Senator Dianne Feinstein’s Office and for one of the parties we’re attending, the California Democratic Party’s ‘Fly Me To the Moon’ event. As I’m writing, I have the best editor watching over my shoulder so you’ll notice this post is written a [...]

After the official invite comes the notice of availability of tickets via email. That didn’t come until last week. UPS was supposedly going to deliver during the period of January 8-14th. They didn’t come. I was a bit concerned that I wouldn’t get the tickets before our flight left Thurs night…UPS was so slammed that [...]

That’s right.   For those of you I haven’t seen, I am headed to D.C.  To answer the most important questions:  I am staying with good friends Russ Paulsen and Ann Mosher and their two little girls, Ellen and Claire at their home in Bethesda, Maryland.  Russ, Ann and I met through San Francisco politics years [...]