Update

Greetings. It's been a busy and unsettled few weeks, but I'm able to post now. The biggest news is that I just moved to Mobile. Found a great little house in the Oakleigh Historic Garden District, a few blocks from Parks. Yes, after years of following Dan around the country, I felt it was time to make a change. Parks is my new beacon. I left DC last week, got here last Friday, and I'm now basically settled. Come visit.

Painfully, I still don't have my computer back, which made it hard to wrap up my affairs in DC - subletting the apt., etc - but I made do by using other people's computers. The bad news is that it's now been 4 weeks since I had my computer, but the great news is that Apple told me last week that they're replacing my broken iBook with a new MacBook! Amazing! The iBook was still waiting on a part, and they didn't want to make me wait indefinitely, so they're sending me a new one! And it's a huge leap over the old one, so I'm about to jump out of my pants I'm so excited!
Another bit of pleasant computer news is that as of today my DSL service is operational, I've got the wireless going, and I remembered my old Dell laptop still works for simple things, so for the first time in a month, I can sit on the couch and be online. It's a huge relief. But I do need my Mac, with all my data & stuff, before I'm back at full strength.

So there are the headlines. More tales & details will be along in time.