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The geese are still perching up on the roof. Alisse took some photos for me:

Also, the goose was guarding the mail one day but he flew away when I got close.

This morning was wakened by an earth quake! In Indiana! Being from the upper mid-west, earth quakes aren’t something we worry about, so I was definitely nervous. It wasn’t very big, just rattled the building a little. There’s more about the quake here. Well, off to work…

Yesterday, when Alisse and I were outside by her car. She heard geese and was starting looking to see where they were. I turned toward the direction of the noise and there, on top of the building across the street were to geese! The building was probably 20-25 feet tall. Alisse and I turned and looked at each other and burst into laughter. I wish I had a camera, it was really funny.

I don’t think I had ever seen geese perch on a building that high. Yes, they were ‘Canadian’ geese (to some and ‘Canada’ geese to others.)

We didn’t get to Obama this weekend. It was a little disappointing after waiting in line for so long. But we did go to Bed Bath and Beyond and registered for a bunch of stuff.

Obama had to reschedule his trip to Munice. He’ll be here this Saturday. His campaign started handing out tickets for the event today at 5:00PM. So, I left work a little early and went and got in line. The line was really long! After two hours in line, they ran out of tickets. There were maybe 100 people in front of me. I was pretty disappointed. Campaign workers did take the names of the rest of the people in line to go on a waiting list. I should know tomorrow if I will get tickets. I really hope I do.

The Star Press covered the wait for the tickets.

Two real men, the same age:

Person A

• After hearing President John F. Kennedy’s challenge to, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country,” gave up his student deferment, left college in Virginia and voluntarily joined the Marines.
• volunteered again to become a Navy corpsman
• Earned three letters of commendation from the White House
• Total of 6 years active duty.

Person B

• Four deferments for college
• One deferment for being a prospective father.

There answers are in this article.

Yep, that’s right! Obama is coming to Muncie. I would really like to go, but they haven’t announced when/where yet. It’ll probably be during work, so I don’t know if will be able to go.