Crisis Avoided

Ok folks, I had a mini-crisis early this week that sent me into a little bit of a panic.

If all of you can re-call I was dancing my happy "I'm Official" dance on Saturday, but I was singing a bit of the "I-might-not-be-able-to-get-my-credentials" blues on Monday and Tuesday.

It turns out that the good people at the PIC start passing out press credentials today and they will be giving out those credentials up until 8 p.m. Sunday.

Yes, folks SUNDAY. For those of you who have been following this blog, you know that the bus group I'm following isn't pulling out of the Capital City until Monday, and that was not going to work.

So Monday I'm e-mailing and searching for a contact number -- nothing. Note to Mr. President-elect Obama: I understand that you're going to be the social-networking president, but there are some things that require a human. And the day that I need to find out if I can have another reporter pick-up my credentials is one of them. I get no response on Monday.

On Tuesday, after e-mailing and finally finding a phone number to call, late that afternoon I get an e-mail. Guess what's in it? The same notice I received Saturday about getting the credentials, with a message saying that some people didn't get the e-mail at all.

While I feel bad for those poor journalists who didn't get the e-mail Saturday and were in a different kind of panic mode, that didn't help me at all. Plus, the person I called didn't even call me back.

Finally, today, I received notice that I could have Doug Abrahms, our Gannet News Service correspondent, pick my credentials up when he picks his up.

Whew...crisis avoided. Now I just have to figure out how I'm going to get them from Doug!