So, though today was a busy and hectic day for me, it turned out to be a great day as far as brewing goes.  Finally got a chance to get together with a friend of mine and cut the tops out of these two kegs with a plasma cutter (putting me dangerously close to having a usable keggle).  FYI, plasma cutters are awesome - the actual cutting process took less than a minute a keg, it was like a hot knife through butter.  It took a half hour start to finish to do both kegs, most of the time was spent filling them with water (to catch slag) and dumping afterward.  Now they just need some quick grinding to clean up the cut edges and they're golden. 

Also, my sack of Maris Otter malt showed up, which is good since I ran out of base grain a few days ago.

My stock of yeast is growing - I've got a pitchable quantity of belgian yeast ready to roll, irish ale yeast in a 100ml starter (ready to step up to 1L), and a slant and 1L starter of 'Pacman' yeast cultured from a couple bottles of Rogue beer, which I can't wait to try out.

Lastly, I've started filling bottles from my kegged beer, using a nice cheap DIY counter-pressure filler of sorts, dreamed up by BierMuncher over at the homebrewtalk.com forums.  It's really easy, a few days ago I filled a 12-pack in just a few minutes.  I recorded a short video of the process, to demonstrate how simple and effective it is.