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Blind leading the blind --- High tech style

What a Monday morning this is. Lessa left for boot camp in South Caroline at 4:00 AM this morning. we'd all said our good byes before she went to bed, but I heard Sgt Cranford's truck in the gravel out front and got up to say one final good bye, but she was already out the door. I got to watch her climb in the truck and saw the truck drive off. Can't quite place the emotion that caused. Not quite sure that I've really grokked that she's gone off to the Army. Sigh.

Meanwhile, amy is taking her Series 66 exam this afternoon. If she passes it, we're all of a week or two away from her going to work and me becoming Mr. Mom. Amy has been writing practice tests in the 80's all week, and I'm confident she will pass the exam. On one level I've been ready to submit my resignation for months; on the other, its a bit scary to walk away from my job and take on the OHPAA cause full time.

One final note on the "blind leading the blind goes high tech." This morning there was a blind man on the bus, complete with seeing eye dog and white cane with the red tip, etc. He was on his cell phone talking to another blind man. I could tell the other fella was blind because my guy asked him if he had his cane. At any rate, the jist of their conversation was my guy giving the other guy directions from the Energy Solutions Arena Trax station to a bus stop on North Temple between 2nd and 3rd west. Kinda reminded me of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game.
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