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Hi everyone. I don't have too much exciting news today, just been working on my transcriptions for one of the local senior centers. I also had another admin assistant shift last week at the CIF office. They asked me to come in a bit later than I had been scheduled, because they had someone for me to meet and talk with about CIF a bit. On Friday my mom and I attended an employment seminar which was hosted by CIF, and there were actually some very good presentations made. One of these presentations was given by a mother of someone with severe CP who has a paper-shredding business. My mom and I have known them for several years. The paper has thus far been used mainly for gift baskets, one of which I picked up at the CIF office for Christmas. She does a great job! I spent that night at my parents' house because I had to have a routine blood test the next morning. I then came back to my apartment early that afternoon, because there was a meeting of the newly-formed CIF Mens' Group. That was fun. I read something a few days ago that really caught my eye. Or maybe it caught my ears or eyes or both. A young man in Florida was dumped out of his wheelchair as he was awaiting questioning for a traffic violation. The police officers who did this--one of whom was a deputy police officer--then laughed at him. I don't know about anyone else, but I fail to see the humor in dumping someone out of their wheelchair. And, they shouldn't have laughed at him. What they should've done was carefully pick him up and carefully put him back in his wheelchair. I cannot believe this kind of behavior is still to this day going on. If this had happened to someone of a different race, ethnic background, etc., you can bet that some people would've gotten in trouble. But since it happened to someone with special needs that somehow makes it perfectly acceptable? I think not!