I have DSL!!! (Halleluyah playing in the background) For the next 30 days at least, I have broadband internet access! I still don't know where in the world I will be after that, but time will tell. I have not left the apartment since monday, and now I just may not leave for a week ;-) So in my housebound state, living in NY in the winter has been much like living in Armenia in the winter. Don't want to go out because it is cold, the restaurant/bars are smoky, and here in addition, I don't want to go out often because of sticker shock. I am still not used to these prices.

A couple of days ago I finally heard what our friend Juan's (who logs in the Diaspora log) music sounds like. He told me his group won an award in Argentina and described it as a mix of genres which I didn't know what to make of. It was really good! Raffi Meneshian better sign them onto Pomegranate before Rick Rubin gets his hands on them!