Ten years later

Today I can indulge in a person milestone of ten solid years of work. I did experience one scary month of unemployment following a relocation, but I prefer to think of that as a hiccup rather than a full disruption. Ten years ago I was twenty-two and starting my first day of work at Kepler's Books and Magazines in Menlo Park. I'm so jaded now it is hard to image being excited about working a cash register forty hours per week, but it was a place I wanted to work and the thrill of having a real full-time job, no matter how low-paying, was almost tangible. We have all scattered to the wind for the most part. I wonder where most of them are now. Some are still there, one is no longer of this world and the rest...I might have a stray e-mail address lying around if I feel like dropping them a line. I don't think that ten years ago I would have

In other anniversary news, the Obama administration turns fifty days old this month. So how is Obama doing with all of those promises from the campaign trail? Here's his scorecard, as reported by PolitiFact. 19-2-2 is a score any sports team could be proud of, and politics is certainly one of the nastier sports out there. I agree with Cory Booker (the mayor of Newark, NJ) when he said on the Bill Maher show last Friday that we have the best president we could possibly ask for right now. Of course, I'm a shameless partisan. Sin embargo, it is good to keep this kind of news in mind when faced with the neverending chants of "no we can't."