Bringing back the blog

After two and a half weeks of working here in the CVLAS loft, we're finally getting around to putting up our first post. We've been hard at work on all sorts of issues: custody disputes, divorces, bankruptcies, unemployment, you name it... 

Yesterday most of us took a break from the loft and attended a conference put on by the Virginia Poverty Law Center explaining updates to relevant areas of Virginia law that will come into effect in July. We especially appreciated how the explanations of upcoming changes gave us better insight into the legislative process in general and how specific policy goals are achieved. We are also grateful to Cayman and Alec for being so savvy in consumer rights and winning fun prizes for us. 

Cayman won a "magic firefly" (in case you're not aware, it "soars to incredible heights!" and "glides down with awesome spiral action!"). It also comes with a "high intensity light for day or night launches," but so far we have not been able to find this light. It must not be very intense. Needless to say, the loft is a perfect location for firefly launches into the conference room. 

Alec won a "mystical tree," which is an "amazing tree [that] grows like magic." It does, in fact, grow like magic. At 9ish AM this morning it was just some cardboard twigs, and now, at the end of the day, it looks like this! 

That's it for now!