Apartment secured; Bitminers rock

For all you folks following the saga, I've now got an apartment (well... for values of now starting in around two hours), the furnishing of which is currently being plotted.  I was originally looking at renting furniture for the first few months, but the rental places want waaaay too much money.  This, however, is where it must be noted that bitminers rock, as I'm currently being deluged with offers of assorted free furniture from midiamin, thoanthbel, echristo, and others.  Suddenly a full-fledged plan has emerged, ex nihilo, which entails much running around the valley in a U-Haul truck tomorrow, with dump runs and furniture haulage and multiple 'miners.

It's really weird to be back living somewhere you have friends local when you've gotten used to not having anyone locally you can rely on except yourself.  (Note:  This latter clause should not be taken to apply to captoblivion, who has been of invaluable assistance in rack haulage despite not being local, and despite being grabbed in tender places by Wen the Eternally Surprised.  You know your friends are true friends when they get their nuts used as a climbing handhold by a 2-year-old and still come back.)

I'll know a bit better by the end of tomorrow what I still need to hunt down, but it sounds like I'm going to be fairly well set.  Verily I say unto ye, bitminers rock.