Quick update

Things not usually heard in the workplace (names changed to protect the guilty):

"You know Jesus? Go to Jesus. Turn around. His left hand is pointing at it."
--Niner (paraphrased)

"There's something bigger than me out here and it wants to eat me"
--Bravo


House summary:
We finally bowed to the karmic whirlpool around the housebuying and gave up on the house we'd been working toward since September. We've found another house we're now in process on. The area is not as good and the external paint job is dreadful, but it's in much better shape and it's much larger. We figure, we're in love with the inside; the outside, we can change.

We're really hoping to be out of the apartment before the roof starts to leak again for the spring. (Not the landlord's fault--flat roofs are a no-no in this part of the country. He had no idea, before he bought the building, and nothing he does will fix the problem--every spring is full of patching between snowstorms and melt-offs, and there's a fresh coat of tar in the summer, and it starts all over again the follwoing spring).