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Well, here we go...we put in an offer on the house we really like yesterday! Contingent on the sale of our house, and we have to wait another day for an answer because one of the sellers is in Iraq. We're feeling good about the offer we made as well as our chances of selling our house. We've got a couple interested parties and a good backup if they don't come through. More details to come as things develop. Also saw another nice house that would be a good backup if the first one doesn't work out, coincidentally, with a floor plan identical to Turi and Mich's place.

Been a booming last few days around here. Family is all gone home now, but we had a great time with all our visitors. Shot some balls at the Aqua Range with Paige and Grandpa Dave, and even made some beer yesterday for next month's celebration of impending baby brother. It's bubbling away happily on the basement stairs now.

Also during my nice five-day weekend, I finally finished The Kite Runner, enjoyed the last third of it far more than the first two-thirds that took me forever to read; plowed straight through Michael Connelly's new The Overlook and really enjoyed it (although it was a pretty quick read, a bit shorter than a typical Connelly book); and finished the Burning Man book I started a long time ago, Inspired Madness, and put down when I found it a bit too Burroughs Naked Lunch oddball-like in language and style. Wow, that was quite the lengthy sentence. Oh yeah, we also started watching Volver last night. Jury's still out for me particularly since we didn't finish it yet, but it's sort of weird too.

OK, that's all for now. With any luck, next time I write we'll be in escrow.