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Our neighbors are indeed moving, I have confirmed--the upstairs apartment is listed on Craigslist with a Sept. 1 start date. 4 bedroom for $2400, 2 baths, relatively recently renovated. You do have to pass through one of the bedrooms to get to the stairs to two of the other bedrooms (the first floor is laid out like our apartment, with stairs to the next floor going through what in our apartment is the bedroom), so it's not really an effective apartment for four people to share, but it would be great for a couple with a home business or a couple of kids. It would be great for a musician and a belly dancer each of whom strongly desires their own workspace, but it's way too expensive for us. Obviously we're thrilled at the thought of not having the rampaging children overhead, but they were very good neighbors in most other regards, and genuinely nice people. I just learned that the father of the family does research into owl calls at MIT's Media Lab, which is awfully cool. Hopefully the next people will be just as nice and interesting but a lot quieter.

Lovely birthday dinner for my brother at my parents' house last night. Nephew Timmy is so much fun. He has a great sense of humor already, and even when he's tired and cranky you can almost always tease a smile out of him. I'm sad that my brother and his wife are finally selling the house and moving away, though I'm happy for them that their plans are finally happening. My mom is not going to take it well. But hey, now we will have a reason to visit somewhere I've never been before, Colorado.

yawn...
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