it has been one hell of a week here at mooseparty labs.

on the upside, there was a really good party friday night, full of friends from out of town and in at least one case out of the country who i hadn't thought i'd be seeing again for quite a while. (hi, jo!)

on the downside, that was pretty much the high point of the week, and the party was a wake for john m. ford. in other news, i had to call the plumber back to fix my basement drain *again* (although as of this morning, my basement floor hasn't been wet for a week).

and in other even less good news, probably the low point of the week, my uncle died on tuesday. we were hoping for four to six weeks; we got one week. i'm hanging in there okay, the rest of the family is hanging in there okay, i think, we're all sort of keeping busy. eventually there will be the part where we all run out of things to do and crash hard, but we'll get through that, too.

go scritch your favorite mammals, okay?