Yes Joe, you're right: Posting is hard.

With the recent flurry of posts, surely you're thinking to yourself, "But how do they find the time to post so much?". Wait, right, you're not thinking that.

The brief version of the story is that we were computerless for a while, and then burecratic inertia took hold and has been hard to shake. My ibook crapped out on us midway through the drive up (thank you apple), and meg's vaio didn't fare much better once we'd arrived in Anchorage. All was not lost, however, in that Apple did me right and replaced my old ibook with a brank-spanking-new ibook (thank you apple!). Meg's computer has a prognosis for full recovery from Best Buy here any day now. With the new machine set up, we're ready to start sifting through the 200+ photos to separate the good from the bad (who wants to see blurry mooses?).

Meg, the dogs and I are doing well. We're settled in and quite comfy. Meg's job is keeping her quite busy, especially now that the school-year has started up. The prospect of a strike by the teachers in Anchorage might offer her a little bit of short term relief. I began my classes last week - and I have to laugh at myself when I realize how much I've managed to forget in the four short years since I finished undergrad. The classes are interesting, and I'm looking forward to starting some research in the next week or two. Honey and Frodo are doing well - adjusting well to their new environment. They have a number of new friends in the building - seven dogs total living in the four units. And yet, you can still sleep at night!

Here's a snap of the northwest side of the Chugach range as you head toward Anchorage -