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  • #1

    The New Advice Thread

    I know we have one of these buried in the bowels of the RR, but it's easier to just start a new one.

    As an APOLITICAL question--I have the choice of taking MLK day off in January (a scheduled holiday for my company), or working MLK and deferring the day off until Tuesday.

    I am considering deferring and taking my son downtown to see the inauguration.

    The considerations are whether I want my son to see the transfer of power process, or whether I want to leave him in school that day and hibernate so I don't have to get anywhere near the mob scene downtown, take the day as a day to get things done as it's not a holiday (you can get a lot more done while everyone else is at work), or just take the original day off and fight the congestion to get to work on time on inauguration day. Or take a vacation day on inauguration day...

    Anyway, ideas? (please keep your views on the president elect or the election itself out of this discussion)
    "Greatness is not an act... but a habit.Greatness is not an act... but a habit." -Greg Jennings
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    take the kid. history in the making.

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    • #3
      take the vacation day

      watching the inauguration will be something your kid never forgets. sure it'll be a pain in the ass to move around down there, but thats just for one day. memories last a lifetime

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      • #4
        Re: The New Advice Thread

        Originally posted by MJZiggy
        I am considering deferring and taking my son downtown to see the inauguration.
        I would defer and take your Son to the National Museum of Health and Medicine:

        National Museum of Health and Medicine, Silver Spring, Maryland
        http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2114
        A great medical museum of arcane specimens. Where else can you see the bullet that killed Abraham Lincoln and a human hairball? Nowhere else, that's where.


        But that's just me.
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        • #5
          It's gonna be super hard to get tickets for inauguration. Just watch it on TV
          I am better looking than you.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by arcilite
            It's gonna be super hard to get tickets for inauguration. Just watch it on TV
            You got that right. Even the post election rally tickets in Chicago went for like $800 a piece on eBay.

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            • #7
              They're trying to defer them so they can't be sold. They're not mailing them out until a couple days before because they're supposed to be free. Problem is, my only shot at tickets is through Wisconsin--I think FedEx will be quite busy.

              The museum idea is a good one. Perhaps I should wait until this part of BRAC is complete...
              "Greatness is not an act... but a habit.Greatness is not an act... but a habit." -Greg Jennings

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              • #8
                Yup, that's exactly what they did in Chicago, too. Even a step further, the person who received the ticket originally had to show ID at the door. Sooo, what these clever rip-off artists did was "take a guest" with them to the event.

                I sure hope you get a chance to go though, that def is something you'll never forget.

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                • #9
                  Well, to this one, you only need the tickets if you want a seat, and there's only one ticket per person. I've gotten into the ugly habit of waking at 5 a.m. lately so if that keeps up, getting there early won't be much of a problem. The bigger issue will be weather.


                  The Mall will be full. And if any rats I've met are planning on coming into town, pm me.
                  "Greatness is not an act... but a habit.Greatness is not an act... but a habit." -Greg Jennings

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                  • #10
                    If you have the opportunity, by all means take him.
                    Lombardi told Starr to "Run it, and let's get the hell out of here!" - 'Ice Bowl' December 31, 1967

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                    • #11
                      can't ya watch a car salesman on TV ?

                      ah........I'm just kidding democrats
                      TERD Buckley over Troy Vincent, Robert Ferguson over Chris Chambers, Kevn King instead of TJ Watt, and now, RICH GANNON, over JIMMY JIMMY JIMMY LEONARD. Thank you FLOWER

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                      • #12
                        How old is your son?

                        What does he want to do?

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                        • #13
                          He's 9 and if it got him out of school, he'd go to a Turkish prison for the day. That said, he was kind of into the election for a kid.
                          "Greatness is not an act... but a habit.Greatness is not an act... but a habit." -Greg Jennings

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                          • #14
                            404 Not Found | wusa9.com
                            http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=78311


                            You may not have to worry about taking him out of school........

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                            • #15
                              Dress him up in all sorts of Obama paraphernalia and let him have his big time if he's really interested.

                              He'll grow up and become a conservative and tell all his friends, "I can't believe what my mother did to me when I was nine years old."

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