I'm glad all of this has come up. Not only did I intend to read Pepys's diary this year, I had meant to start reading him at
this site, which posts the entry for the corresponding day in 1660, the year he started it. You can even get the daily entry sent to you by email or follow it by RSS feed and I see they have a twitter account, too.
If you check the
archive, you could get caught up and then follow along. Granted, it'll be a long time before you're done, but it's very manageable that way and perhaps your interest will be fired. I hope to get myself started.