For the last few weeks, I've been hearing from my online friends that I've been on AIM at times I know I haven't, and I doubt I've left my AIM client on that often. Also, gaim logs all conversations, and I have no record of any messages from them that I didn't respond to. Further, on Perlmonks, I've been getting messages that look like they're trying to continue conversations that I don't remember ever being in (and I haven't been active on Perlmonks for the last few weeks). So, there are three possibilities:

• Coincidence - I really have just left gaim running when I left, and for some odd reason it hasn't been logging properly, and the perlmonks snippets are parts of conversations that I've been in for awhile but forgot about
• Intrusion - Either I've been hacked or one of the very few people who I've given my low-security password (I have several) to is abusing it, and logging in as me
• Sanity - I have some kind of problem either with my memory or perhaps dissociative personality disorder or similar, and have been doing a lot of things that I don't remember, and am somehow getting on the internet while not at home and am running another IM client that does not log things

I'm leaning towards the second, maybe with tinges of the first. Time to change the low-security password, I guess. It's probably been too long since it was changed anyhow.

No DSL yet. Today I need to go to the old place, and wait for the time in a 4 HOUR TIMEFRAME when the carpet cleaners will show up. ARGH! I hate it when companies do that..

I might visit Brecksville this weekend, and spend some time with my grandparents and immediate family. I don't know how long I'll stay -- I do need some wind-down time, and never seem to really be able to relax when I'm there, but it'll be nice to see them all.

I found that Dell has some nice deals on their online store for USB keychains. Woot.

I'm happy that it seems that many of my friends are tidying up loose ends and unhappiness in their lives. Someone who I've been hoping would meet someone wonderful seems to have, and another person who has a lot of similarities to me, including his name, seems to have possibly found his 'other half', and is off in a better place. Another person who left in search of a more cultured, living place has found it, I think. And another someone has found her 'other half', but is still glowing with the same odd fire that always lit and occasionally burned her. Another is set to take another sip from the ladle that gives her a lot of her distinction. I only have two friends that come to mind who I know don't seem to have a life I would hope for them. I wish I could help, but the distance and means arn't available to me.

There are lots of people selling furniture that I'm shying away from because I temporarily should not be spending money. I'm not sure if I should just put it on the credit card, or miss out on everything. A lot of it is cash-only too, and that's the worst -- it's easy for money to flow from cash and my normal bank account into my credit card, refilling my credit union and paypal coffers, or similar. Going the other way is considerably harder.