As I prepare this post it becomes obvious that it is time to introduce my family.  My wife is Nora, who works at Colorado State University like I do.  She works for the VP Student Affairs office, so between the both of us, we have both ends of the university pretty well covered.  Holding down the fort at home are Sophie, the grey cat, Hania the brindle fat cat, Romy the black rescue mutt with the corkscrew tail, and the newest addition, Wilson, the grey tuxedo kitten.  

Today we tried to go down to campus to see Barack Obama who was rallying the troops in Northern Colorado.  By the time we got to the end of the line we were at least a mile and a half from the gate where you got into to where the rally was being held.  From what we could hear on the car radio on the way home, lots of people must have not gotten in, because of the length of the line.  A quick look at the local paper's website says that 50,000 were in attendance, a number that doesn't seem farfetched to me based on the line that I saw.  Listening to the speech on the radio after we got back to the car, it seemed to be a pretty standard stump speech, nothing that I hadn't heard before, but it would have been nice to see him in person seeing as how it looks like he might be our next president.

Bad luck on the way home.  We had parked at the north end of town and ridden our bikes on in to campus.  Riding home, Nora approached the train tracks at too sharp an angle and took a pretty nasty spill.  Not as bad as this summer when she chipped her elbow and broke a rib, but bad enough.