Grandma's pictures

I finally got my CD of photos from the Bjorklund. My dad was there with a camera, but neither Autumn nor I stopped for pictures to be taken, and dad was a bit slow with the shutter. However, the professionals weren't so slow, and I've got 6 pictures of me to share with y'all at the link above.

Marathonfoto.com now sells personalized CDs of the jpegs from the photographers' digicams. It's spendy, but not as spendy as the glossy prints. All I really want are the jpegs anyway. They retain the copyright, but they're licenced for use on the web.

Here's one of them, resized for blog consumption. Click on the link for the full set of pictures.

Minnesota government shutdown

According to Yahoo! News, the Minnesota Legislature and Governor approved a budget for the state.

As Gov. Pawlenty put it:
"I'm pleased to announce agreement has been reached by the legislative leadership to put Minnesota back to work," Pawlenty announced around 2 a.m.

Boy - by Minnesota I sure hope he meant the state government. Near as I can tell, most of Minnesota didn't particularly notice the shutdown, other than annoyance with both parties that they let it happen. Minnesota as a whole seemed to do just fine without parts of the state government for a week - we've been working all along, thank you very much.

That said, I sometimes forget that I'm currently a state employee, but the U wasn't shut down as part of this.

I'm still disgustipated by the whole thing. Minnesota voters - please don't forget about this come election time.