This blog has included pictures of our kids for as long as they've been around. Long ago I had noticed how some other parents never put pictures of their kids on the internet. When I asked them why, they said they didn't want undesirables to use the pictures along with other context clues to somehow figure out where their kids lived. Of course I understood those decisions but believed (and believe) that the chances of random human strangers finding our kids like that were basically zero. We continued to post pictures of our kids.

But with the advent of AI bots scanning websites, including blogs, for images from which to generate content--content of all kinds, if you catch my drift--I am no longer comfortable having pictures of our kids online. I know for a fact that AIs have already harvested this blog for VW content and they very well could have harvested it for other much more nefarious purposes, but I can still shut the door now.

Thank you for visiting our more-or-less-most-recently-much-less active blog all these 20 (!) years. The whole thing may get relaunched in some new, AI-proof form, but I'm not particularly hopeful as the internet is quite likely dead at this point.