For several days, I’ve been plotting my strategy for how to cover the impending visit of Senator Barack Obama to Monroe and the rest of the Lake Erie West region.  So, I saved all the visit coverage in my Google reader and tried to figure out how I might gain access to some of the events.

And, of course, I failed miserably.  My wife takes precedence over any blog-related events and we just so happened to have planned a night out at the Westin Hotel at Metro Airport.  We had a great time, but that meant I pulled up to Washington Street in Downtown Monroe at noon.  Anyone who saw the crowds gathered there this morning knows that I didn’t get tickets.  No one else got them either.  The barbecue was limited to 180 participants.

Plan B was to head to Battle Creek for Obama’s evening rally at the local baseball stadium.  However, by the time I reached Adrian at 3PM, I was already seeing pictures on the internet of hundreds of people in line for the event.  Rather than risk driving two hours each way for nothing, I decided to stay at home.

So, I think that I’m going to stick around Monroe and just catch the vibe of the visit.  My sister got one of the lucky tickets, so I’ll be able to get the scoop from her every once in a while.  And I’m going to see if I can snag a media credential so I can live blog up-close.  If not, I’m charging up some auxiliary power sources and checking out the wifi situation around Detroit Avenue.  Maybe I’ll just live blog from my Buick on the motorcade route.

This is EXCITING.  Over and out.

Update: I have decided to sit this one out.  It’s the last day for me before school starts and I’m going to grill out at home with my wife.

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