This past week I got together with my friend Jen who needed headshots as she is an aspiring actress. The following are my first-edit picks. I really like the way the first shot came out. I still need to pick one more photo with a good big smile. Some of the photos below are not appropriate as headshots but I posted them anyway because I like them! I’ll update the post after I get Jen’s reactions!

I had the pleasure of working a summer internship at the Rocky Mountain News a few years ago. As I watched this video that the newsroom posted this morning, I recognized many people that I worked with. I am saddened for their loss as more than 200 people are now out of work and I am saddened by the loss of one of America’s greatest and most decorated newspapers. It is a sad day for Colorado and a sad day for Journalism.

Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.

My first try at King Cake. I think it came out pretty well! It’s late and I just got finished and I have to work in the morning so the second part of this post will have to wait until morning.

I was going thru my iPhoto library to see how iPhoto’s new Faces feature worked at recognizing people in my photos and was shocked when I came across this guess by the program! I couldn’t stop laughing, then realized that I was very thankful that iPhoto was very wrong!

It’s becoming tedious to cross-post my blogging to this site in addition to my local newspaper from my iPhone. I would ask my readers here to please view my writing at obama.pmpblogs.com

I will combine all my writings on the inauguration into a special series here on this site when I return.

After a long day of hoofing it all over downtown DC, I wanted to share some photographs with you all. This morning we headed first to the White House to check out the Presidential Viewing Area.

Then we were off to Dupont Circle where we came upon a group of protesters demanding that Bush and his administration be tried for war crimes. They had erected a 20-foot-tall inflatable caricature of George W. Bush as Pinocchio and were throwing shoes at him. Over and over people took off their shoes and threw them at his long pointy nose. A speaker in the background spoke of how he reserved one shoe for Bush and another for Obama. About 30 minutes after we had come upon the group, they assembled into a march and headed down Connecticutt Avenue with a police escort.

Our next stop was a nearby Starbucks to collect our entry tickets for the swearing-in ceremony tomorrow morning. We met up with photographer Kasia from the Daily Camera, who captured us receiving the tickets and photographing them with our cell phones. From here we traveled several blocks and met up with a reporter for the Scripps Media News Service. Scripps is the parent company of the Daily Camera and Rocky Mountain News. We spoke with him for nearly two hours about a variety of subjects including what role we felt the internet played in this election as well as are people being too idealistic with their expectations for the Obama Administration. We greatly enjoyed speaking with him.

Later we met up with two friends of mine from several years ago - fellow alums of the University of Colorado. We found a really good Irish pub in Chinatown that reminded me a lot of Conor O’Neill’s. Finally we made our way back toward the Capitol Building to get a feel of what we would be getting ourselves into tomorrow as well as to view the Capitol lit up in the night sky.

I can’t wait to see what tomorrow will bring.

-Logan

*This post originally appeared at the Boulder Daily Camera’s Inauguration Blog and ran yesterday, January 18th at 11pm.

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My friend Ben and I have a busy day ahead of us. We arrived into DC late last night and finally got settled at my family’s house by 11pm.

We were able to watch a rebroadcast of the “We Are One” event last night after relaxing from the long plane flight. I am bummed that I wasn’t able to be there like the previous blogger, but it excited me even more for what lies ahead the next several days.

It is markedly colder than Colorado, here today. Cold and damp. The weather report is saying they could well recieve the first significant (by DC standards) snowfall of the season.

Our first order of business is to retrieve our swearing-in tickets from Congressman Jared Polis’s staffers. We will jump on the metro at the station just down the street from the Pentagon and make our way into the District. I’ll post photos of the tickets as soon as I have them!

-Logan