> btw, I pypi has been timing out and causing pip to fail about 1/2 the
> time.  I setup a local dir for pip to read from, that works 100%.  For now
> if someone runs into this "try again" will get them though it.

Maybe something like https://pypi.python.org/pypi/proxypypi or https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip-accel ?