42 hours with the 'rents

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... and that's exactly enough, i think. :-) it's not (quite) that i'm glad to see them go -- but i am glad to send them on their way before any of us gets powerfully annoyed at anyone else. (full disclosure: this is usually a matter of self getting annoyed at dad, and i do try to muster some control over my own annoyed-reflex, but sometimes the reflex wins. mom is usually, though not always, innocuous.)

must now do some laundry.