I'm now committed.

No, not in the nice men with white coats sense. I plunked down my deposit; room reserved.

Ended up being none of the six I talked about last week; there were three more I saw on Tuesday (sorry for not mentioning them earlier) and two of them were good enough to get involved with last week's #1 in a lengthy, three-way battle in my mind that involved a runaway water wheel. But in the end, the winner was a reasonably sized room in a house with all the basic features I needed, pool, close to a good-sized shopping center, nice neighborhood, no real disadvantages, and at least $50 a month cheaper than everything else I was even remotely considering.

The room becomes available on September 1, which is conveniently about when I needed it (lease here expires Sept 15). I'll take advantage of Labor Day weekend to get moved in and thoroughly settled, though hopefully I won't need all three days.

Yar.

Finally saw Pirates 2 last night. Needed some pacing work, and the ending bit was especially abrupt, but Jack was as amusing as ever and the general plot was great (even if they took some roundabout routes to get there).

I'm not going to put up a full review, since everyone else who cares has seen or will see it soon enough, but if anyone on my list put up something behind a cut earlier due to spoilers, I'd appreciate you linking to it in the comments (it'd take way too long to hunt back two months for them).