After playing with this speech to text thing for a while, I figured it out. Mostly. One thing I learned is to never let chipmunks write your 'About Me' section thing. The one that's up now, is the cleanest of the fifteen Lewis wrote for me. He's the only one who's any good at using a keyboard so we had to let him do it, the software wasn't enabled for that... widget? What the hell kind of a name is a widget, Nancy?

That's just what they call them Renard.

Whatever, I guess the Internet isn't supposed to make sense.

I'm sure if anyone is reading this, they know that I've been voluntold to write this blog about the ins and outs of my dear local legislature. Not that I'm complaining, Mr. Mayor.

A good example of how the local governance works just happens to also be an explanation of how this new career direction for me came about.

So here goes nothing.

I have a friend from Forest Intermediate School, who recently moved to a different constituency and lost track of the goings on here. I've been getting Lewis to help me keep in touch with her through MSN (a gift from the Internet gods, that thing is). Somehow, Mayor Stag got ahold of the saved conversations (I blame you, Lewis) and thought that I would make the perfect candidate for this new blogging outreach program to get the public more involved in local politics.

Great Idea Mr. Mayor. Pick the surliest, most iconoclastic member of the legislature and get him to write a blog trying to encourage people to get involved in this comedy of errors. Great Idea.

(A note from Lewis: Renard only likes to think he's surly and iconoclastic, because he read too many comic books in the nineties and now wants to be an anti-hero.)

This blog was recorded using the speech to text software, Woodland Accomplice ver. 4.9.