First, important news. Tucker, a 5-year old Corgi, needs a new home.

His person, who provided daily walks and lots of attention, recently passed away. Now Tucker is looking for a new home.

Information is being channeled through Pawprints Rescue (you’ll have to scroll down on the page until you get to Tucker, although the long list of dogs needing to be rescued is touching).

With the Democratic Convention in Denver just a few days off, I’ve been checking out the schedule of activities scheduled for Hawaii’s 29 delegates. It’s full agenda. I’m getting tired just trying to enter events in a reference calendar.

The delegates will gather every morning for breakfast at the hotel. They have to show up at breakfast to pick up their daily credentials to get into the convention (while bloggers will have to make the trek to a hotel downtown to get our daily entry credentials). The schedule has both Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton making separate breakfast appearances, but I imagine that could change.

The convention proceedings in Denver’s Pepsi Center take place every evening between about 5 and 9 p.m. During the rest of the day, delegates can attend various issue caucuses and other activities. Of course, they can also take in the planned demonstrations and educational sessions, or just go sightseeing.

Did you notice this comment yesterday?

I think Delaware is staying with the Hawaii and Arkansas delegations at the Marriott South Park Meadows in Littleton. If Senator Joe Biden is the VP nominee, that might be interesting Sunday night at the reception to have the Presidential nominee’s birth state, the former President and the former First Lady/runner up’s “home” state, and the vice presidential nominees’ state in a place about forty-five minutes away by the light rail from LoDo and the Convention Center.

There aren’t a lot of corporate sponsors lined up for Hawaii events. On Sunday night, Suncor Communications is sponsoring a reception for the Hawaii, Arkansas, and Delaware delegations. All three states are staying at the same Marriott hotel in Littleton, a suburb about 15 miles south of downtown Denver. As far as I can tell, Suncor doesn’t do business in Hawaii.

There’s a buffet lunch on Wednesday hoted by AT&T. To prepare for that, I’ll try to attend the Common Cause symposium on media and democracy, which will be taking place in The Big Tent on Tuesday morning featuring FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein, to be followed by a panel on net neutrality.

I have ended up with credentials both for the convention floor and The Big Tent, which is a whole separate entity put together by the Allliance for Sustainable Colorado, Daily Kos, and ProgressNow, and a supporting cast of other sponsors. I have to admit that the fee for the Big Tent includes the beer garden, so I may gravitate in that direction from time to time.

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity followed up on their earlier offer of a Convention Survival Kit. In an email, the groups western region communications director said:

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity has prepared the kit just for political die hards like you — to sign up for your free survival kit go to www.americaspower.org/kit.

Remember, we’ll be right there with you in Blogger Alley, at the Press Center and at convention events throughout Denver and the Twin Cities. Let us know if you’d like to meet up for a chat. We’ll give you a chance to fire off some questions and find out where we stand.

Thank goodness. Friends are at hand!

I’ve heard lots of criticism of House Speaker Calvin Say. But maybe Say’s critics need to check out what happened to a member of the California Assembly when she failed to support the Speaker’s position in a key budget vote.

The result–an eviction order executed within just a few hours, and the offending Assembly member found herself in a new office across the street, the only member to be housed outside of the state capitol.

Ooops. Maybe I shouldn’t give people here any ideas!

Here’s another journalism experiment, a project known as “The Public Record“.

And I can’t resist linking to this National Public Radio story which explains how a widely used Internet security system is helping to digitize old books and newspapers. I found it fascinating.

And, finally, a look at the weather yesterday morning just a few minutes before the rain hit. It made for a soggy walk home.

It rained for the next couple of hours before the day turned quite hot. Neither end of the day was particularly pleasant!