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So, for various reasons, we are without a camera again.  It may be a bit before it's replaced.  So for now, here's what's happening.  Today was Elliot and Elsie's first day with their new babysitter and my new favorite person ever born, Beth Nichols.  Beth lives about 2 1/2 blocks from our apartment and will be watching Elsie and Elliot while I work on Monday and Thursday mornings.  THIS is a good thing.  This buys sanity for me, at least a couple of days a week, and guarantees that the children will probably be alive on Tuesdays and Fridays.  Elliot did not want to leave when I came to pick them up, which is a good sign.  Beth has a daughter, Zoe, who is 3 1/2 whom Elliot seems to adore.  And he seems to get along with Beth's 21 month old, Max.  

I found a job as a transcriptionist for a very interesting company.  They do transcription for mostly PhDs all over the world.  Right now I'm working on one that is mostly focusing on root cause analysis (RCA) in nuclear power plants.  Yeah.  It's like listening to NPR, and then typing it.

We're slowly making friends, getting to know the basics about people.  Michael has a couple of college friends here whom we have hooked up with.   We have both been noticing how much smaller of a town Savannah is than St. Louis.  People wave at you on the street.  People strike up conversations in stores and on playgrounds, almost every time.  It's nice, and strange at the same time.  I've been in St. Louis for a long time, and lived in neighborhoods where people didn't talk to me, much.  So, that's interesting.   

Just so you know, as I'm typing, a train is going by and it's shaking the house.  Elliot and I run out onto the sidewalk and down three houses at least once per day to watch a train go by.  I seriously think that's just God being nice to Elliot.

So there are good and bad things here.  Moving is hard.  Elliot asks every once in awhile for his "old house".  And he still hates church.  I'm hoping he makes some friends in his class soon.  

I think that's it for now.  The train's gone.  Have a good night.