Totally.

I just *totally* lubed my "microscope."

What's I've Been Up To

If you've been wondering what I've been up to recently, my main external activity has been helping a friend of mine get his house ready to sell. He's getting foreclosed on by his bank, and we've been busting our asses trying to get the property on the market and sold before the foreclosure date, which is now early January. This is a really shitty time of year to be trying to sell a house, especially one that needs work on short notice. The situation really sucks, because if he had the money to put into repairs, he could probably walk away with a substantial amount of equity in his pocket, but as it stands, we're just trying to get him to a point where he could break even, and even that might not happen. So we've been boxing and moving shitloads of stuff to my place, where he'll be staying for a while, cleaning carpets, fixing things around the house, scrubbing everything, and trying to figure out how to put carpet in the living room and replace or repair the garage doors without actually spending any money. I'll still be working on this until Wednesday, after which I'll be headed north to see my Mom for a few days over Christmas.