'Tis Done!

We actually did close today, and the sale did actually get recorded with the register of deeds. There was a final monkey wrench or two, but all monkeys were successfully wrenched out of the way by the end of the day. The house is finally ours. (Well, okay, a teensy bit of it is ours, with a big bit belonging to the bank -- but it's more than we've ever owned before.) For the record, any transaction involving two law firms, a huge lending institution, an arm of the United States government, and professionals in two different fields simply cannot go smoothly and according to plan for the poor normal people caught up in it. It is impossible, I believe, the probability of such an event taking place being on a par with purely natural abiogenesis. In other words, somebody said it happened once, but I don't really believe it.