so, hey, welcome to the new design. If you don't like it, stifle yourself for a while, because I'm still hammering out the tiny details. The old index will continue to function and will be available here. You can bookmark that if you're such a stick in the mud.

For those of you ready to brave the new frontier, you may be enjoying the new wider aspect ratio and easier to read fonts. I pretty much stole the fonts from the default WordPress setup. I may still end up switching to that, but for now, we go on with Movable Type and the Fantastic Newness.

There's been some fun new frontier stuff in life recently, but it's not the kind of stuff I necessarily want to try to encapsulate into an already trumpet-laden blog entry. So, I'll tap out some bullet points so I don't forget them, and maybe elaborate on them later.

I had a wonderful trip to Atlanta. It's amazing how there are bits of Atlanta that are every bit as Hipstery as the fratboy-plagued lands of Athens, but filled with the nicest and most interesting people imaginable.

After getting through a rushed Wednesday morning, I managed to make my way to Atlanta and even get to where I was going without a hitch. This is pretty amazing, given that it's been 4 years since I lived there and I was going deep into downtown urban confusion-sprawl. I had locally made ice cream, and I played scrabble. I lost at scrabble. That part sucked, but it was incredibly fun. It's been a while since I played a real boxed version of scrabble, but even longer since I lost. Next time, that ice cream place better have Boggle, and then it will be on. This paragraph was brought to you by the National Stilted Description Awareness League.

Then there was actual dinner, at this hip place where I actually had a delicious sandwich that I swear to God was called a Betty. Later on, for like a midnight snack, there were fish tacos. Quite an out-of-character but delicious culinary day for me.

Oh, and there was exotic fruit Arbor Mist, most hillariously fruity cheap wine in the known universe.

Thursday I drove around a bit downtown, and napped a bunch. Saw Shrek 2, which was an amazingly good movie - I still haven't decided which I like better, but Puss in Boots is about the cutest goddamned thing I've ever seen. Watched Matthew Perry get screwed by the dealer on CPS, commenting the whole way and impressing the people around me with my Bill-Murray-watching-Jeopardy-in-Groundhog-Day-esque clairvoyance about celebrity playing habits.

Twas a great couple days.

'Tis a brave new world.

[my heart is reeling]