Karen just stopped by on her way home from Nova Photo.

She had a very eventful birthday. Luckily, she's fine.

From today's Buffalo News: Rumsfeld likens critics to Nazi appeasers

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld compared critics of the Bush administration to those who sought to appease the Nazis before World War II, warning Tuesday that the United States is confronting "a new type of fascism."

Of course, I doubt somehow that he recognizes the irony involved in his characterization of Fearless Leader's opposition as representing "a new type of fascism"...

If I weren't so lazy I'd take a picture of the "education manual" we got from the agency during our initial consultation yesterday - but that would require finding the camera, then uploading the picture to my computer, restarting the computer when it crashes, getting back online, finding the picture, and pasting it in here. In short: too much like work. So you'll just have to trust me when I say it's easily a full ream of paper, comb-bound with plastic covers & tabbed dividers that separate the information that will be used in each of the classes.

"You don't have to read it cover-to-cover," K, the social worker, told us. "It's got tons of information in it that will be helpful to you while you're going through the homestudy.""Well, our classes don't start until October," I said, "and I hate waiting around with nothing to do. I'll probably have it read by Friday."

We laughed, but I wasn't kidding. Except I was wrong on the timeline; I finished reading it tonight.

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I meant to start posting as soon as we started, but between working & trying to paint the dining room, I just haven't had time. So here's a first post to get this blog up to speed.

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