Ben Update:

1. Job is going well. Learning all about Grants.
2. Just moved into my new place. Biggest and nicest place I've ever rented alone.
3. My "sexy little blue car", as it has been called, is working great, no probs.
4. My opinion on the new pope is that I didn't really care one way or the other. If they elected a liberal then great. The catholics would be a more liberal order. If they elected an arch-conservative then, well, then the church would start to lose patrons and start to diminish. Either way, I'm ok with.
5. It just so happens that others I know are moving at the same time I am and I'm ending up with more free stuff that doesn't fit into others' plans. I get all my stuff this way. None of it matches, but it's all good stuff.
6. Reading "Good Omens". Sort of a mix between Master and Margarita / Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Sort of British silly at times, but very entertaining.