So, not only do we not have phone or internet at our new place, but for some reason it temporarily stopped at our old place as well (yes, we are still renting the old place since the lease isn't up for a few more weeks). I cannot wait to be rid of the whole renting thing again - this last experience was a memorable one, and not necessarily in the best way either. I realize that renting a home is a business transaction, but I often wish that the seedy landlord stereotype was much less common than it is.

In any case, good old Comcast hasn't yet gotten their act together to get us online, so we're thinking about switching to another provider. We used to have them as our phone, cable, and internet provider but now we are thinking about switching to AT&T for phone and internet, and not having cable (at least for a little while). Part of this is to pare down our budget a little bit (did I mention that finances were going to be tight for a while), but in reality, we really don't watch very much television at all. Maybe a total of 10 hours a month between the four of us, if that. It will be kind of a bummer for those rare times that we do want to watch something, but in the long run, I don't think we'll be affected much at all.

In any case, I still have to head back to our old place to log onto the internet and do work, which is what I am (supposed to be) doing right now. I hate to think that we are so dependent on the internet that we can't get by for two weeks without it, but considering that all of our major correspondence with work is via email, it is rather difficult. All of my readings for my current rotation are posted online not to mention all the directions to the various sites I have to go to. In any case, we'll hopefully be up and running at the new place soon.

Here's a recent photo of the kids watching some model trains.

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