Here's to Alan "everything you want to be, to some degree" Moore, Robert K. "bow before my grasp of history" Massie, Angela "possible literary agent" Livingston, Soren "I make doubt look as good as it truly is" Kierkegaard, and, most contemporarily and importantly, Elspeth, without whom you could not spell "you rarely meet folks this particularly cool."

Life is solid. Rock solid. Of course, that could always change, but it does nothing to detract from this moment. And that's what matters.