i'm baaaaaack!!!

okay, so it's only been about five bajillion years since i blogged...
i have excuses, really:
1)our buddy ethan was in town, hence us being a tad busy entertaining
2)we moved suddenly, meaning yes i'm now only 5 miles from work
3)the computer somehow broke in the move
4)it took forever for us to find the broken computer under the piles of boxes and whatnot
5)once i found the computer and got it fixed, i had to catch up on everything i'd missed already (i.e. deleting 5,487 emails, hate-mailing some evil bastards who set a leg jaw trap and maimed a bobcat, and so forth)
6)i haven't totally thought this excuse out yet, but it has something to do with beavers.