Links and Minifeatures 07 25 Wednesday

I went home last night intending to schedule a post for this morning. Only my home internet was down. I tried piggybacking on the public library's wireless with my laptop, and they were down as well. It was still down this morning. So that's why there wasn't a post this morning at the usual time. There will be one tomorrow.



Next week, my wife is going to be out of town at a conference, which means I'm on my own with a seven year old and a not quite three year old. The younger's day care is close to my wife's office, over fifteen miles out of my way on freeways heavily impacted at rush hour. It's going to take over two hours out of my day just to drop her off and pick her up - never mind trying to run errands with two children, one of which is in the middle of terrible twos. New articles are likely to be non-existent until I recover from that.

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Sometimes, the little things mean a lot. One of the sharper escrow providers I've worked with sent me an email this morning after we closed a deal on Monday

You are a very good agent who takes care of your clients as if they were family.

Okay, so I'd rather have a referral from a client. It's still a good thing when a fellow professional who's earned my respect notices and takes a few seconds to tell me.



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House Democrats Pass Contempt Citations



Is there anyone who doesn't believe that the whole thing was partisan political point scoring right from the very beginning?



A pox upon both their houses. Again or still.



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Captain's Quarters about the BBC and the con game it hopes to use to convince people they're not dishonest.