putting the brakes on

... my frustration, that is.

We had some good things happen, we accomplished some stuff.

We're on Houseblogs.net (waves at the legions of other housemad people out there).
We got several things we need for the house, including a nifty lockset-positioning thingy for installing our new deadbolts.
We finally remembered to pick up a couple of smoke alarms.
We also finally remembered to get the new digital thermostat that ought to make our gas bill less horrible, once the gas is back on.

And the sun finally came out, to at least partially melt the snow.