Allison just received some extraordinarily good news that means, in short, that we won't be living in a cardboard box come February '06. We're rapidly approaching the end of what has personally been a truly shitty year, on all but a few fronts, and the indications are that we're almost out of the woods. I've received a couple of bits of promising news in recent days, and with the whole not-living-in-a-cardboard-box thing now in the mix, this is shaping up to be a fine holiday season.