Post Inauguration E-Mail

Greensboro, NC -- Now that life has returned to normal, id est -- waking up early, going to work, trying to work out, eat dinner, and sleep -- the blogging schedule should slot in there nicely. The large news magnet this week is obviously the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of these United States. While I didn't vote for Obama, I do hope that he succeeds in turning around this downtrodden economy, providing a clear vision and outlook in Afghanistan and Iraq, and following through in his promise to provide health care for all. Further, I hope his terms provides two important things: 1. He provides hope and inspires anyone (minorities) that it is possible to succeed in life regardless of your race. 2. Most important, I hope that he can unite this country -- enough of the partisan politics, red and blue, black and white, etc. If 2 million people can join together to view his inauguration in person without an arrest, we may be on to something. Good luck, Obama.

Not everyone in America was cheery over Tuesday's election. I received some viewer e-mail and decided to post this one from one of my favorite readers... call him Hillbilly Tom from Tennessee. He offers a different point of view of Tuesday's inauguration; enjoy:

"Having realized that his acceptance speech would be anticlimatic to any of
his fainting-spell, pre-election rallies, Obama bookended his appearance at the
Capital yesterday with presentations more boring and wacky than his own
misguided thoughts-- a wombat from the astro plane reading her etheral,
Hait-Asbury poetry that, of a million attendees, only a selected few
brain-frozen tumbleweeds took deep meaning from, and Dr. Lowery's prejudicial,
nursery-school benedition at the end, which effectively stirred half a dozen
racial pots that Barak's election was designed to simmer and cool.

If Obama's team of experts figures to entertain a million strong, outdoors, in 20 degree
weather, with a traditionally indoor Chamber Music ensemble consisting of a
frozen cellist and violinist, both of whom cringed at the damage they were
inflicting on their sensitive instruments even as they were attempting to play--
is this same team capable and ready to rule the world-- to decide how much of
our money we get to keep and where to best spend it? 'We Want
Change!' You can settle for change. I Want My Money Back!"

Happy New Year!

Walt Disney World, FL -- Happy New Year, B's Bistro audience. We haven't vanished because it's 2009. The entire staff of B's Bistro is taking an eleven day odyssey to Florida to start the new year. The trip began in New Port Richie (20 miles north of Tampa) for an evening, followed by a six day, beach-filled stay in Sanibel Island (outside of Fort Myers), and now onto a three day trip to Disney World for the third and final leg. We promise to be blogging our guts out upon return next week. Until then, enjoy tonight's College Football Championship (predicition: Florida Gators) and this weekend's Divisional Playoff round in the NFL. We'll try to navigate the millions of Gators' fans here in Disney World. Today's trip to Epcot Center was filled with Gators fans. Depending on the outcome of tonight's game, we'll either see more Gator fan merchandise in the Magical Kingdom and Animal Kingdom in the subsequent days or none at all. Speaking of championship teams, when did there exist so many Phillies fans? Fair weathered, I guess. Send us a postcard in the "comments" section. Cheers to 2009!