Apple-Ville

ok, i broke down & finally bought us an iPad.

i want to return it.

Their Way or the Highway

TaDaa! The New Computer Desk

  Well, after two or three weeks of fitting in the work with everything else, it's done.
  By now, it's even functional, beyond what you see here. This is from is from last Sunday, when it was newly set up. 
  MyGuy is a really good mentor, and Max enjys the assembly process.

Determination & Artistic Vision

  This is the first time

Not Quite Wordless Wednesday: Another Desk, Another Time

Brothers "Musty," short for Mustard, and Inky

 Inky was an "engagement present" from an aunt.  Musty came to my sister, because of course there were lots of kittens.  But they were always my parents' cats.

Another Family's Medicaid Experience

  Life is busy on the Computer Farm just now, with rearranging a 12x24 room, building a big computer desk in scraps of time, and i won't even get into the organizational  doodoo MyGuy and i are sorting through.
   Fellow blogger Anne Higley's (Two in Transition)  Meandering Through the Medicaid Minefield  post then came at a very opportune time.   She's wading through the same Medicaid muck we are, and expresses herself very well.
  i recommend you wander over and take a look.

Two Recent Things that Made My Day

another view of Whitefish Point

  Last week i was having breakfast with a girlfriend.  As often happens,

Wordless Wednesday: Family Vacation Past

Bushkill Falls, Pennsylvania, October 2002

One of many places called "The Niagara of ____________"

Life on the Computer Farm: Upgrading Again

The Library Table, Home to "Duckpond"

  This is  not a good setup.  The table is magnificent in its way, but

Who Are the Poor?

H.K. Bennett is an Indiana lawyer working in eldercare.  i list his On Guardianship post in my RH sidebar.
Today he writes powerfully about Medicaid and Medicare.  While he writes, as always, from the eldercare perspective, but his points are valid from the standpoint of considering our kids'care as well.
Plus, many of us have parents to consider, as well as not knowing our own future needs.

More About PCP

  In the continuing saga of our little computer farm, i've written of the addition of a digital signature key to my main email account.
  Usually it works.
  Sometimes the encryption fails and i can't send a message.
  Sometimes

Tomorrow and Friday the finals of the 

are being aired.  You may want to catch them if you can.
Not only do i simply find Jeopardy! a fascinating program, but i believe one of the finalists is a young woman on the autism spectrum.

Wordless Wednesday: Whitefish Point Lightstation

A remote area, Whitefish Point is where Lake Superior narrows
into "merely" a large bay.

SSI, Speech, and Max's New Mattress

  Max receives Supplemental Security Income.  It is considered a welfare benefit, to be used for his support.
   MyGuy and i together are his legal guardians, but