Now that I’m back from DC it’s time for a redesign of the blog. The Inauguration is over and the “special” coverage is finished.

So what’s my new look? It’s a hard act to follow. Dewey Quach, our magician of all things on the Intertubes, created a brilliant design for the Inauguration coverage and I’d like to emulate it somehow.

But first I’ll probably go back to a design element I had thought of long ago — a caricature of myself. I love how king blogger Andrew Sullivan has a tremendously whimsical yet enigmatic cartoon of himself on his blog.

It’d be cool to emulate that somehow. So I did this sketch of myself tonight. Let me know what you think. Should I  make that one of the main elements in the redesign?

P.S. I have so many people I need to thank for making my trip possible. But the most prominent among them are: Mary Butler and Dave Tainer (for the lodging in DC and so much more), Robyn Piper (for emergency Internet access, encouragement and showing me how to get to Whole Foods!), and Congressman Campbell’s office.

I should clarify that I paid my own way to get to the Capitol as some folks thought I was sent there on the company’s dime. I decided to go on my own because I wanted to be part of what would likely be one of the biggest stories of my life. I’ve covered presidential appearances before, but never anything even remotely of this magnitude. I thought our readers might enjoy a closer look at the DC goings-on from our local perspective, and I just wanted to report on a majorly historic event. I hope you enjoyed what I did.

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