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Yet another reason to be completely ashamed of my neighbors.

If you live in Manassas, and your nephew (for example) happens to live with you, for zoning purposes he is not considered to be related to you; the city has redefined family, "essentially restricting households to immediate relatives, even when the total is below the occupancy limit". If you're white, though, you're probably okay with your three roommates, since enforcement requires someone to complain and surprisingly</sarcasm> the complaints have overwhelmingly been about Latino households.

"We were stymied by families who met the existing definition," [Brian Smith, chief building official] said. And so the city changed the rules to break up more households.

They're not racist though. Really. Ask them, they'll tell you. They just hate illegal immigrants. And people who look like they might be illegal immigrants.

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Today is Boomtime, day 70 in the season of The Aftermath, 3271. (Ha! Indeed.)

Good: Making substantial progress on the project I wanted to have done by the end of the year. (The really hard part is done and the rest is mostly a little script tweaking as needed and data conversion).

Bad: Totally trashing my development server, which currently won't boot. (D'oh! Don't ask, really. )

Perspective: Having done this once now, I can fairly easily recreate the changes I made using copies I have on another machine. At least I was not working with a live server. I needed to wipe down this system and start fresh anyway, this is just a little more of a kick in the butt to actually do it. And hey, an excuse to try out Knoppix. If it was really a catastrophe, I wouldn't be laughing as I type this.