Well, that sucked. But hey, at least we're not Michigan!
In more joyful news, the 7-year-Old, who becomes the 8-Year-Old tomorrow, has been accepted into the school district's gifted program, because he is very smart. Fiendishly advanced in the diabolical arts, for his age. Anyway, I'm too lazy to look up at the moment exactly what the "gifted program" involves, though surely for now it is sufficient to know that he has distinguished himself from the common, doltish rabble that constitutes the rest of the third grade.