What were you doing the day that Barack Obama was inaugerated as the first Black President of the USA?

I'm sitting in a very messy house partly answering emails for work and partly watching the proceedings on the tv with the heating and fire on this cold grey January day.

Why messy house? Because we are partly through our sitting room being redecorated due to a leak caused by the mfi bathroom fitters (this journey started last June remember) and the ceiling which should have been finished now needs to come down and be rebuilt and then plastered again and hence the mess and dust.
But the tv has just shown Barack fluff his declaration poor love I think he was bit over excited and raring to go. Lets listen to the speech.

He is talking about the crisis facing the country and that people should pick themselves up, dust themselves off and (no not start all over again but re build the country again. Massive public works similar to FDR and the new deal. I wonder if they need to build the country in a different way rather than rebuild.
He's now saying they will look at what works will be kept and what doesn't will be got rid of.

Its funny watching the crowd, you see his daughter filming him on her digital camera and a friend yawning.
A link to his fathers village in Kenya says America is friends with everyone!! Wow even those that oppose capitalism?
Sends a strong message to the terroists that they will be beaten. I guess that pleases lots of people that worry about capitulation and yet he talks about wanting peace and is talking directly to Moslems.
The world has changed and we must change with it.
He changes his tone and volume when talking of positive attributes of honesty, goodness and kindess.
He talks of being a man who 60 years ago would not have been served in a restaurant is now the president.

Builds to a crescendo when talkin of going ahead through difficult times, icy winds and weather.
It sounded like he was trying to manage difficult expectations.
He has just shaken George Bush hands who has been very gracious through this transition and perhaps that is the best thing I will say about him!

So Barack can you do it? You said you could but did you really know what it was that was needed and now you are beginning to find out can you really do it?
the world waits to find out and meanwhile I wait to find out if my sitting room will be re decorated.