Despite some setbacks, Fun at Bay Meadows

Last week, 2 bad things happened:

(1) My good friend Sunny's husband Torben, who was deported last August ran into yet another bureaucratic hurdle, making it unlikely that he'll get home before their first anniversary on May 4th.

The heartless, mean spirited lady interviewing Torben first aggressively accused him of having a criminal record in England.  When she was inevitably proven wrong, she openly told him how irked she was that his interview had been scheduled so "quickly"- (not that 8 months is setting any kind of land speed record) and began to demand all kinds of irrelevant paperwork that had not been previously requested.  Needless to say, they've already submitted thousands of pages of documentation, and she has absolutely everything she needs at this point.  This woman, the very last step in a very long chain of red tape, has evidently decided, for reasons all her own, to make a point of making it as difficult for Torben and Sunny as possible.

There should be a special place in hell for bureaucrats on a power trip.

(2) Republicans in the Senate blocked the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, inexplicably.  At MomsRising's urging, I sent John McCain my resume. Senator McCain,who didn’t even come to vote, insultingly said that instead of legislation allowing women to fight for equal pay, they simply need "education and training."

I am frustrated and saddened by both of those things, and sadly both are out of my control.  So instead of worrying about setbacks, I took the kids to Bay Meadows yesterday to watch the horses run like the wind. 

And boy did we have fun.  My dad was able to get Turf Club passes out of some friend, and we had a lovely afternoon cheering the horses from a luxurious table right by the window.  Bay Meadows is scheduled to close its doors forever in 2 weeks.  Sigh.  We had a good last run yesterday though.

Yesterday morning, Quinn got ahold of a pair of my sunglasses... and so I'll end this post with my sweet fly: