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I've been a lot busy so I haven't been able to meet my daily quota of rambling here at the old blog.  It's probably a good thing as I tend to ramble too much, so I'll just hit some quick notes here before sharing some pics that I think best highlight all the work that TAA put into its Labor of Love project at The Children's Home.

• Forsyth county commissioners' decision to appeal the prayer ruling.  I think it's a big mistake.
• Is there an Olympic Games going on right now?  I ask because NBC says they're covering the Vancouver Games, but every time I turn it on there's some schmo sitting there talking to Bob Costas.  When did he start working for Dateline?
• Google's super-high speed data thingamajig.  Why are Winston-Salem and Greensboro looking at it separately?  Seems to me that this would be a perfect initiative for the Piedmont Triad Partnership.  Maybe they're already working it and I just missed it.
• I heard a rumor that the sun appeared one day last week.  True?  If so it was so brief I missed it.

That's about it.  Here's some pictures from the "dating room" at Stultz Cottage at The Children's Home. On the last two pictures you'll see a lady in an orange shirt.  She grew up at The Children's Home and lived in the Stultz Cottage and as you'll see she was really thrilled with how the room turned out.  Apparently it was where the girls could have supervised visits with their boyfriends.  FYI, the raw numbers for the Labor of Love project include 3,000 volunteer hours, over $30,000 in cash and material donations, and according to The Children's Home we probably saved them in the neighborhood of $150,000.  Not a bad two weekends of work!