the world goes on >>

Congrats, everyone!  We survived the bunk (just like we scraped through Y2K way back when) and I'm optimistic there are better things ahead, assuming human beings can stop acting like we can do whatever we want to each other, the environment, and ourselves without consequences (now that we know we have the time to live with 'em).  It's hard not to have that optimism when you spend such a milestone in the last best place, though.  Montana is for idealism, and a backyard walk today restored some of mine.