Quoting a local radio dj from today’s morning show… “Big things are going on right now. Barack Obama is about to be sworn in as president and the Arizona Cardinals are going to the Super Bowl.”

Why, yes. Yes, indeed. These are the events surrounding Jan. 20, 2009.

… Which also happens to be the day I resurfaced from Blogging Oblivion to once again join the World of WordPress as a (hopefully) consistent member.

Notent Notables of the Inauguration Festivities:

- Aretha Franklin’s oversized headdress. 

The Queen of Soul rocks a rhinestone-studded bow.

- President Obama jumping the gun on the first line of the Oath and then forgetting the words of the second line.

 - Ted Kennedy (and some other senator) needing medical attention during the Presidential luncheon.

 - Rick Warren’s over-zealous pronunciation of “Sasha” and “Malia” during the invocation.

And in a twisted turn of fate, the sports world has turned on its head, while everything I know to be true about the NFL has changed.

The Arizona Cardinals are going to the effing Super Bowl. Yikes. I won’t pretend that I think they have a chance against the Steelers defense, but hey, crazier things have happened and I also predicted they would lose the first round of the playoffs…

Then I predicted they would lose against Carolina… then again at home versus Philly. So anyway, I am 0-for-3 on the Cardinals predictions and that means I could quite easily go 0-for-4. But the law of averages has to kick in at some point, right?

Well, I feel better already. Yay for bringing blogging back.