Day One

After some flight delays, I made it to Manchester, NH and to the McCain headquarters here on 250 Commercial Street. The McCain HQ is located in an old textile factory that I call the Mile Long Building.

One of the nice things about offices here is that you have the feeling of room, even if your crowded next to people, because there are 15 foot ceilings.

Initially, I was assigned to call perspective voters to ask for them to support Senator McCain in the New Hampshire Primary on January 7th. I hate, hate to ask anyone for anything, never mind some stranger who has been called on average 7-15 times to support candidate "X". So, I was definitely not looking forward to this. Nope...even with an occasional pep talk.

Fortunately, within an hour, I was asked to work on some work on designing credential badges for those going on Senator McCain's Straight Talk Tour bus. The assignment was pretty open-ended, so I took my cue from a security badge I saw that day and the badge I wore while at JPL. When it came to actually building up the design, I decided to use Apple's own Pages i-App. So, I spent the Day 1 doing what I did way back in 1993-1996, but it was fun.

Later, I was asked if there was a way to broadcast the Iowa returns using the campaign's projector. Initially, the returns were being show on a TV that belonged to one of the staffers. After getting Zach's speakers from his office, we hooked everything up and everything went great.

My first day was fun and interesting. I met a lot of interesting people, stood outside in 3°F weather (not gonna do that again) to greet Senator McCain as he returned to New Hampshire from Iowa, and did good work that will most likely outlast my time here in the Granite State.