Dwight was in Office

It's early on January 21st, so I'm still feeling the impact of 'inauguration fever'. I don't want to appear to be critical but the celebratory atmosphere seemed a bit over the top. The only time I remember being more uncomfortable by media overexposure occurred those days after Princess Diana died. I'm not a stick in the mud, honestly. I simply hope the next few months don't feel like a hard-to-cure hangover.


The whole process got me to thinking about my age, a little. I had to run to Wikipedia to find out that I was born when Dwight D. Eisenhower was president. When I was a tot in New Hampshire, he was the thirty-fourth. Barack Obama is now the forty-fourth. I've been around during eleven different US presidencies which doesn't really bother me much. Yet, the new guy in office is the first who is actually younger than I am. That feels a little scary.