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…bringing up everything I eat and drink, and doing a fair impersonation of a confederate soldier with his favorite disease. (After all it’s confederate history month).
Believe it or not my wife is even worse shape (different but worse) so regular posting will resume when it no longer hurts to look at the screen.
Meanwhile let me give you the video of the cab driver that both Barbara and I commented on this weekend. If the tea party people are wise they will have him speak.
This man is amazing.
Well here comes the bleg…
I owe debts of gratitude to Stacy McCain, Barbara Espinosa for their assistance in Washington. I owe a particular debut to Andrea Shea King who helped out a total stranger on the word of someone else. Finally a tip of the Fedora to The Charming Roxeanne of Haemet who provided moral support.
Thanks also to all who have linked and all who have read or commented on the posts I’ve put up and will put up on the subject.
As regular readers know I’m about 6 weeks from the end of my unemployment. Although I had a free ride down I racked up an extra $250 of expenses consisting of The train Ticket home ($135), Memory Cards and batteries ($40) and cell phone stuff ($70).
If anyone is able and willing to help offset these expenses I would really appreciate it. Just click on the “I’ll do it myself Tucker fund“. Please specify in comments that it is to offset Washington so I don’t put it toward Ga.
I’m still offering my Have Fedora will travel services for a full week of blogging & filming etc to anyone with a story they want told. Price $1000, plus flight, hotel and rental car.
To any who can kick in from $5 to $500 I will not forget it.
And of course if anyone wants to hire a full time telecommuting staff blogger let me know.
Update: Wow! It’s one thing to get an instalanche, it’s another to get one on a tip jar request. What an amazing thing to wake up to after a day of illness. Thanks to all who stopped by. when it no longer hurts to look at the screen I’ll thank you properly.
Update 2: You guys are really something. Washington is paid for, anything extra will go to the Ga Trip. Thanks to each and every one of you.
A side effect of my spontaneous trip on the tea party express was my decision to finally break down and get a cell phone. During a stop in a mall in Connecticut rather than eating I went to get a tracphone and a memory card for my camera.
I found myself in line behind a familiar face. The lady in question was busy purchasing a camera and for whatever reason the two young people behind the counter seemed to be moving very slowly on it.
At the sight of it I smiled. One of the side effects of finding yourself on the other side of the barriers is encountering the occasional person severely infected with the: “Do you know who I am?” syndrome, and others smug to the point of to the point of downright bigotry. But here at Radio Shack in Connecticut stood a person who has appeared in television and film not flaunting herself or her fame, but just being an another customer looking to find something.
It was a great pleasure to introduce myself noting “Of course you need no introduction.” At that point I looked at the two clerks, they couldn’t have been more that 20 and they had blank faces as they read off her credit card “Victoria Jackson“.
She turned to me smiling, “Before their time”, I smiled as well not mentioning that my two teenage boys both think she is very cool. As she walked back to her bus I turned to the clerks to get my items, they were busy goggling her to find out just who they were taking care of.
She joined the Axis of Fedora later in the day, always a plus, but I found myself very impressed later that evening during the Freedom works tea party. She was in great demand both on the stage and behind the camera. Reporters talking to her seemed to radiate the “I’m smarter than you” style that I dislike so. Yet she never declined and gave time to person after person. When a gentleman I interviewed asked if there was any chance of getting a photo with her. I took the liberty of asking her as a favor to do so. She was pulled in 12 different directions but at her first convenience came over to the barrier and let the incredibly excited fellow get a shot with her. I think that fellow’s day was made right then and there.
Later on I talked to her daughter, she is the same age as my oldest and had the pleasure of being impressed once again. This girl was no less a teenager than any other but just a little time showed that she was raised right. She is exactly the type of kid I want my kids to hang with.
I have heard people go on about how they would be so thrilled to hang with or drink with this celebratory or that, I think the highest complement I can give is to say, I wish her family lived on my street. She would make a good neighbor and good neighbors are worth my weight in gold.
Plus my teenage sons are jealous of me for the first time I remember. I owe you one Ms. Jackson.
…so that’s a start. I’ll be uploading and posting for the next several days I have an awful lot of material and it might take a little bit to get it all taken care of.
Meanwhile lets have fun with Liberal Math!
No wonder the teachers union need Crist to cover their backs..
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