Thanks!
I was using a 16F84A (I have a tube of ten that I've had lying around for a while). I just recently acquired 2 16F628A's, one 16F627, and three PICAXE-08M's to play with. I use a Velleman K8048 to load them. I've been using notepad....but I just downloaded MPLAB a couple weeks ago and it's been awesome for debugging.
I'd like to check out the ZX series of microcontrollers someday.