Turns out Andreas Naive's modified attack on the CPS-2 encryption was able to deliver keys for two of the three versions of SPF2T, just not the "Asia" release, which isn't in English. The one I play works just fine. Whew.

As for my mortgage (you thought I wasn't going to mention that in this post, didn't you? Well, two posts in a row with no house crap is just out of the question, I'm sorry), it looks like my broker spammed the offer out to a few lenders and at least one more bit, meaning that they are willing to give me the money. They also still have to call LANL and verify my employment, but this time the broker listed my group leader instead of LANL HR, so the same problem shouldn't materialize. It's kind of coming down to the wire, since I close at noon on Wednesday... but I'm a lot less worried than I was.

Minesh and I took a hike down to the Rio Grande today, via White Rock. On the way we stopped at my home-to-be and I showed him around via peering through the windows (don't worry; it's vacant; the current owners live in Indiana now). Everything looks great, though I did notice that the lawn mower that was in the shed is now mysteriously gone... hrmmm. Oh, and for the first time I got to see what the back yard really looked like, since during all of my previous visits it was entirely covered in snow. It looks good, if somewhat smaller than my current yard.