We went to the lawyers this morning and signed the papers for both buying and selling the houses. I remember having to sign a lot of documents at the lawyers’ when we bought the current house, and this time we had more documents from the other side of things to sign. That’s all out of the way now though, so we’re 10 days from taking possession of our new house (we have the movers booked for the 29th, so we’re 13 days from moving in completely.) It’s getting down to crunch time. I think we’re going to have to spend some time packing this weekend :)

Jason has a really good analysis of the football game posted on his site. I agree with everything that he said. Just ask Jason - that’s a rarity :P

Actually, that’s not true. I quite often agree with him, but I tend to not go on about it. When I disagree with him, it tends to turn into one of those marathon email sessions, where I bury him under information until he throws his hands up in the air, and calls me the better man (ok, I made that last part up.) I feel bad about it, because I tend to do that to a lot of people, which makes me seem like a pompous jerk who’s full of himself. While I don’t deny that I’m a pompous jerk, I think that’s false evidence of it. I just don’t go in for a lot of back slapping and nodding in agreement. I know that there’s value in it, but that’s not how I’m made up. The end result is that I have to consciously try to be more supporting — and I’m not very good at it just yet. I’m the king of responding to an email with: “You’re wrong, and here’s why” — with followups to quash any resistance efforts. In and of itself that isn’t a huge deal, but when you couple that with the typical “You’re right. End of discussion” emails that I send out, it winds up with a bunch of really long negative emails, and a smaller bunch of really short positive emails.

So, Jason (and everyone else) — here’s my apology. I’ll try to do a better job of the back slapping positive type stuff in the future, because you’re good enough, you’re smart enough, and doggonit, people like you. (For those of you who don’t recognize that - it’s a “Stuart Smalley” quote, I’m not just being facetious.)

Simpson’s quote of the day: “Is there some confusion about this? Take it! Take it, you poor shmo!” - Mr. Burns