Code Neon Blue!

It is highly possible I am an idiot.

Our DNC Field Liason Annajo sent me an email invite to a “webinar” tonight. I managed the online RSVP sign-up okay, which got me several more confirming instructive emails. I made a note of the time and got the program downloaded and installed without any exceptional difficulty. Since this my first webinar, I was nervous I would do something wrong. The pics soon started rolling, though, and I relaxed and sat back to enjoy the show.

But after a few minutes, I began to think the timing of the slides was odd. Sometimes screens with only a few words would stay up a long time, and yet complex screens whisked by after just a few seconds. And sometimes I could see a cursor moving around, which felt weird since I wasn’t the one moving it.

I recognized some of the pages from Pat Waak’s recent visit in Las Animas, although a few had new captions. I particularly wish I had done a screen capture of the one that said in big red letters: Remove Hard Core Republicans. (Oh, if only….)

I was also intrigued by the promise: New Activists Get Their Own Universe. Man, they spoil these new kids! *I* certainly wasn’t offered my own universe when I was getting started!

About 40 minutes in, I found a thingie to click which revealed a second chat window! I had made a few remarks on the more obvious one, and gotten a reply, but I hadn’t known there was more to it. I ALSO had not understood that YES, there was an audio component to go with the visual, and I ought to have phoned in as well as logged on. As soon as I found out, I dialed in…just as the webinar was ending.

So, um…house parties next weekend. We are going to be getting people to go out talking to people and getting them to talk to more people. All joking aside, it seems like a good plan.

But I am probably not the number one choice to try to explain it to anyone. Try the website instead Democrats.org/OneYearOut