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I want to pass along the general prayers that I am praying for people in Boston and families of all those affected by today’s bombs.
I also want to include a prayer that I say everyday and also on days when something like this happens. (The last time was the day of Newtown.)
St. Michael the Archangel,
defend us in battle.
Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray,
and do thou,
O Prince of the heavenly hosts,
by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan,
and all the evil spirits,
who prowl about the world
seeking the ruin of souls. Amen..
Saturday, my wife and I took Josie to CPAC to meet some of my friends. Despite what happened to me Friday, we still went late Saturday morning and got there closer to noon. I know I’ll leave someone out who got to meet her but I’m going to try to include everyone. Obviously she met Dan Bongino (pictured with Josie at left.)
We got there and ran into Duane Lester, Thomas LaDuke, John Brodigan, and Fingers Malloy right off the bat. Then we ran into Robert Stacy McCain.
As we walked down the hall past the coat check we ran into Emily Borkholder, her husband Brandon, and their little girl Ella. Ella was captivated by Josie and tried to divebomb Josie’s stroller from her dad’s arms.
As my wife was buying her day pass at registration, we ran into Brian Griffiths of Red Maryland. He took some pictures and video for his girlfriend Marie who couldn’t make it into town for CPAC this year.
We ran into Warner Huston several times throughout the day – my wife figured out who he was by his hat since I’d told her about his collection before which scares her (I have one Stetson fedora I got a few years ago.)
We ran into Da Tech Guy while he was doing his live radio show and they got pictures and video of Josie that I haven’t seen posted as of yet. We ran into a few other people outside the ballroom at that point, including Teri Christoph, before heading down to the exhibit hall.
We went to the exhibit hall and went up and down the aisles where we ran into Brad Kehr and Dr. Michael New hanging around at the Alliance Defending Freedom booth. We also ran into Don Irvine and Chandler Hudson at the Accuracy in Media booth. We looked for Matthew Vadum but didn’t find him at the Capital Research Center table, but we ran into him later. We also saw some of my former colleagues at the AUL booth.
We then went to the book signing area to get Amelia Hamilton’s books signed and dedicated to Josie. While we were there we ran into Glen Asbury and Sean Hackbarth (Sean and Josie at right.)
We went back upstairs and ran into Da Tech Guy and some of the FTR Radio guys I ran into when we first arrived and Dina Fraioli got to meet Josie and enjoyed making her giggle.
I had seen Adrienne Royer posting online that she had yet to meet Ella or Josie so I had been looking for her all day. We finally ran into her later in the day. After that Josie got to meet Ali Akbar before we headed for home.
Some of the others I remember Josie meeting included: Jim Jamitis, Sarah Smith, Chris Moody, Andrew Bair, Jim Simpson, and Dave Weigel.
Again, apologies if you met Josie and I forgot to mention you. Also, I know some people like Jackie Wellfonder wanted to meet her but didn’t get to. I hope to get Josie to another event in the area soon.
As some of you know, 2012 was a blur for me. My wife lost her job right before we found out she was pregnant, my dad was diagnosed with cancer and later passed away, and we welcomed our baby(a picture of Josie is at left) in September. Additionally, I came into the Catholic Church at Easter Vigil last year.
Fast forward to March 2013, and my wife is still unemployed (but with some leads) and as of this past Friday I no longer work at Americans United for Life (AUL.) I can’t say anymore about that situation right now, but may be able to at some point in the future.
I already participated in two job interviews earlier this week and have at least one more scheduled later this week. I feel good about both of the interviews I’ve already participated in and I’m confident things will work out soon for a new job.
This post isn’t intended to be a bleg. When I made my post last year about things going on, I did get some donations to the tip jar and I appreciated all of them. If I get any out of this post, I’ll appreciate them a great deal as well.
I just wanted to update my friends and readers (all 5 of them) who might not have heard what was going on yet. Additionally, I covet your prayers more than anything else right now. I will be blogging more now in the immediate future and I’ll have some pictures and blogging about Josie’s trip to CPAC soon.
If you have any job leads or any other idea, drop me a line to jeff.quinton@gmail.com.
