It has been a stressful week over here in Kagledom. What started out as us feeling somewhat put-upon by the house buyers ended up with us feeling generally harassed. After feeling harassed we were advised to draw a line and not allow it to be crossed. And, after standing up for ourselves, we unfortunately irritated the buyers (a whole lot). We hope that the three lawyers involved in this one, generally minor, transaction can work things out amongst themselves. During the Day of Irritation, Simon got a 24-hour cold and decided not to nap making him somewhat unmanageable. He went to sleep for the night at 6:30 PM and woke up at 8:30 AM which caused him to nap at 3 PM so his schedule (and ours) is all screwed up. Matthew's last two classes were this week so he was scrambling to get final touches on the final exams and we have BOTH managed to separately get stuck on the subway for relatively long periods causing us to be late to our respective destinations. And, due to lack of sleep and general irritability, yesterday Hava told high level managers she was unwilling to take a meeting that was, for no particularly good reason, from 11 PM to 12:30 AM. Lines must be drawn. And now we wait for fallout...

(None so far.)

And, never to forget, tonight we celebrate the beginning of Hanukkah AND Simon's half-birthday. In honor of those occasions, tonight Simon gets the gift he wants most - his first guitar.