The weather's been fairly wet for about the last month. If I didn't know better, I'd think that Gaia is crying for me. Come on, there's no need. Anyhow, as I mentioned in my last entry (currently not available to you because it's, for now, written in a pad of paper), Holly is dead again. This is not at all fun -- moneywise I'm encountering disaster after disaster. I guess I need to replace holly's CPU and motherboard, and be more careful about heat next time.

The local group I'm working on regenerating has a name now, PUSH, for Pittsburgh University Skeptics and Humanists. I registered pushgroup.org, but it's not live yet (DNS takes awhile to float around). I temporarily have the content up here, although that's going to get hosted someplace where a redirect isn't needed as soon as I can manage it.

My new place is now beginning to approach some level of cleanness, as the big piles of things get sorted and put where they belong. I'm enjoying my new, mostly carless, life. It's not worth driving when parking is so hard with my big Taurus :) It's also probably healthier for me to hoof it most of the time. I was going to comment about how Pittsburgh is so much nicer for walking, but then I realize that Columbus really was too. I think it's all psychological -- it's always been possible to walk to many of the places I'd like to go in Columbus, but Columbus is ugly. Squirrel Hill isn't. It's funny how much of a difference that makes. I wonder if there's any kind of self-perpetuating effect there -- does having a lot of walkers help keep a neighborhood attractive and friendly to such things?

Verizon. Decent service, horrible bureaucracy. I called today to complain about no DSL yet. Their DSL people said I didn't even have my phone number yet. I called the local service number, and they know I have it. Apparently it takes a week for their databases to sync with the DSL people. This wednesday is the next sync. Then the DSL people can start testing the line, and then start to set it up. Wonderful. I was seriously thinking about trying to bribe the DSL people to turn it on today. Why does this take so long? Argh!

I'm probably going to go eat dinner at Srees today, for the first time. Afterwards, I'll probably settle, as usual, at Coffee Tree. Life is good. Lonely, but good.