Houston: Sunday
This is a belated, and largely truncated, review of things that happened during the first full day of the convention yesterday (Sunday).
I didn’t get to write it up yesterday, well frankly because I had to choose between eating dinner at 10:30 pm or writing things up. My stomach won out over my other considerations, and the need to relax & get to sleep shortly after returning from eating further trumped any blogging. Oh well, I guess it’s my own fault for taking so long to get back to the hotel after my meetings; however, I just couldn’t pass up the chance to be a bit of an Issues, Etc./Todd Wilken groupie, and watch a little while of the national/syndicated Issues, Etc. live broadcast. ;^) And then have to walk the 12 blocks back to my own hotel. :^(
It was a very long & hectic day. And it was, all things taken into account, a contentious day on the convention floor. You can check various sources like CAT41 or the LCMS website for official results & information (if you already haven’t). Thus, I’ll just deal with some of my general thoughts & impressions.
I’m not sure what they’re showing, in terms of floor shots, on the live video feed, but I’m sitting near the front of section D, where the voting delegate seating sections are laid out like this:
FRONT
A-B-C-D
E-F-G-H
I-J-K-L
BACK
IOW, I’ve actually got pretty decent seats up front. I’ve got a pretty good & nice group of people around me, including a couple of folks that I actually met/knew before the convention, so I’m not really isolated and it’s not a bad/uncomfortable situation to be in for the week. Perhaps of most note, at least for some of you out there (and you know who you are…) is that I’m sitting next to an Otten.
It was, as I said before, a long day, with lots of odd & interesting happenings. Politically-speaking, the only comment I want to make right now (mainly because I want to process the whole convention experience before I start to make comments of an overly snarky nature) is that after Sunday’s elections, I now know what it feels like to have ‘your ass handed to you’…
It was pretty darned interesting to have the video welcome message from the “locals” come from President George W. Bush (43). If I had been made to guess who it would’ve been from, knowing that the greeter would be famous, I would’ve guessed former President George H. W. Bush (41). I gotta give SP Kieschnick this much - he must have some pretty serious stroke to have pulled that off!
Well, that’s about all I can recall for the moment (and I still have to write up today’s/Monday’s notes).
-ghp
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