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If you follow me on Twitter, you might’ve seen my tweets about the day I had. If not, you can go over there and read them, but now that I’m home I thought I’d post the email that I sent to my boss and some co-workers while I was at SFO earlier today. So, without further ado, here it is:

Here’s a recap of my day so far for your amusement :-)

1. Get up and head to the Montogomery St. BART to get on the train to SFO.
2. Have to switch trains/platforms in Daly City, even though I was on the Daly City/SFO train.
3. Wait forever for the train, which was delayed.
4. Get to the airport 30 mins before my flight and cannot check in. Miss my flight.
5. Wait in a line of 20-30 people for much longer than anyone should ever have to wait in line for anything.
6. Get told the 4:00 flight is full and get put on standby.
7. Decide to eat something since I have 5 hours to kill.
8. Get a tuna sub from Subway, which I have done a hundred times in the past without issue.
9. An hour later, I am hunched over in a stall vomitting repeatedly.
10. While in the stall vomitting, I get to listen to the guy in the stall next to me that seemed to be masturbating.
11. Repeat #9 for the next 2 hours, thankfully without #10.
12. Head into security about 45 minutes ago, and surprise, surprise, I get chosen for “additional screening”.
13. Get treated like a terrorist for the next 10-15 minutes.
14. Arrive at gate and sit down. A guy sits down next to me that is literally yelling into his phone at the top of his lungs.
15. Loud guy gets off phone and toddler behind me begins screaming.

All of this, and I still won’t find out if I’m even on the flight for another 10-15 minutes.

Holy crap. Can I get a do-over for today?

- jim

Sent from my iPhone

Sounds like fun, huh? I didn’t think so :-) I am so, so, SO happy to be home right now words can’t even explain it.

Here in the U.S., today’s Black Friday. The traditional day-after-Thanksgiving spend-fest where people line up outside of stores for hours to get their hands on whatever the hot item is this holiday season.

Maybe it’s because I’m getting older and pay more attention to the news than when I was a kid, but it seems like every year there’s a report of someone getting trampled or getting into a fight over this year’s must-have item. This year is no different.

In New York, a worker at a Wal-Mart was trampled to death after the crowd of 2000 people outside pushed their way in through the locked doors. When I first heard the story, I thought it was probably some elderly greeter at the door that couldn’t get out of the way. It wasn’t…

It was a 34-year-old temporary employee. 34! That’s my age. Insanity.

The first thing that came to mind is what in the hell is wrong with the people who gathered outside the store that couldn’t act like normal human beings and wait until the doors were open? What was so important that they had to bust through the doors and crush this poor guy trying to pick up some cash over the holidays? Perhaps the most telling part is this quote from the article linked to above:

“When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling ‘I’ve been on line since yesterday morning,’” she said. “They kept shopping.”

Seriously? Your shopping is more important than this man’s life? You should all be ashamed of yourself. I know it will never happen, but I’d like to see all of these people rounded up and arrested. The fact that people stepped over the guy as he’s on the ground dying infuriates me to no end.

Get over yourselves, people. While you were rushing to get the gifts your family “has-to-have”, this guy was on the floor dying. His family is going to spend the holidays completely devastated while your kids will plant their fat asses in front of the big screen TV you had to have for $400 off list-price. I hope what happened today haunts all of you selfish assholes for a very, very long time.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted one of these, so here’s the latest installment of the iPhone apps I currently have installed on my iPhone. I’ve trimmed down what I have installed a little bit :-)

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Tiff and I after the ceremony., originally uploaded by jmock.

I can’t believe I forgot to post this before, especially since I put the pictures up right after the wedding. Anyway, here’s a collection of wedding photos from Tiff’s family.

We haven’t got the “official” pictures back from the photographer yet, but when we do, I’ll post those too.

AP Photo/Morry Gash

In what turned out to be a landslide, tonight we elected Barack Obama to become the next President of the United States. Tonight, we decided enough is enough. We decided that we want a fresh start, and we decided that we don’t want more of the failed policies of the current administration. We decided that we want change.

To everyone who voted and volunteered, no matter who it was for, thank you. Thank you for being part of history. Thank you for supporting what you believe in, and for exercising your right to make your voice count.

To Senator McCain, thank you for a very thoughtful, gracious, and respectful concession speech.

And, finally, to President-Elect Obama, thank you. Thank you for giving myself and countless other people hope that things can actually change. Thank you for proving to everyone that what matters isn’t the color of your skin, but the values and vision for this country that you hold. Thank you for inspiring millions of people to share their voice and, most of all, thank you for inspiring me and giving me hope that all isn’t lost when it comes to the state of our country.

Tonight, we—together as a country—made history and, for the first time in my life, I’m proud to call myself an American.