Well, it's the end of the week and I'm sitting here, a lot of work done and a lot of work to do.

We stayed the course as regards CPS, and asserted our fourth amendment rights. We have heard nothing from them since that point. I assure you that if they had the authority to bash down our door, they'd have certainly done it by now. Noone, but NOONE, likes to be "shown up".

I don't fancy myself a Don Quixote. A more apt description would be a person exercising Teddy Roosevelt's policy of "speak softly and carry a big stick". You see, the US Constitution offers us far more protections than most people realize (more on this later). And it's a mighty big stick to use on government officials who routinely take advantage of our lack of awareness of our rights to wrangle their way around them.