This evening, Kim, Fiona and I went to a fundraiser for the Connecticut Democratic Party with National Party Chairman Howard Dean. Of course, Fiona had to have her photo op. You can see her photo here. You can see the other photos here.

All of the usual suspects were there. There was some friendly banter between Gov. Dean and Congressional candidate Diane Farrell over who Fiona liked better. Fiona is over at her grandparents’ house and is not available for comment.

I wore the ‘Blogger’ shirt that Kim had embroidered for me. Early on, one person asked how I knew if my blogging was having any sort of effect. I said I didn’t really know. I can measure the number of times pages on my blog are accessed, or how many different Internet addresses they are accessed from, but I can’t tell for sure what sort of effect this was having. What matters is that people get ideas and then they talk with other people about these ideas. However, for the rest of the evening, people came up and spoke with me about reading my blog.