I nearly shed a tear over the loud groans of our tape gun, as it laid a final stripe of packing tape over the last box of liquor to be extracted from our bar. Our rather lackluster posting performance has been due to some moving and shaking on the home front, as we’re embarking on building a new house. As one would expect, we’re also selling our current house, and it went under contract right after Christmas, several months earlier than we were expecting.

This brought home a stark reality: an entire home’s worth of possessions needed to be sorted, “bagged and tagged,” and placed into storage while simultaneously dealing with work, family, and the administrative overhead of moving. Moving day is only a couple weeks in the future, so hopefully we’ll be reporting soon from our temporary digs after establishing our temporary bar. Until then, bottoms up!