So today's the last day of apartment habitation for us. Hopefully forever. The walls are re-primered, the door frames repaired and restained, the rooms cleaned and the fridge emptied. Tonight we're off for Chicago, next week for England. I'm really hoping this will be a good vacation… I'm tired of being so stressed out.

Of course even on vacation I won't be completely on vacation. I'm taking a pair of books to learn all about Design Patterns, and I'll have to mail off some resumés before we leave the country. But at least I might get to sleep in a couple of days.