Samir, the taxidermist who lives upstairs, told me today that he is trying to find a tenant for the apartment next to us because it is going to be vacant soon. Samir’s brother is actually our landlord.

Anybody want to move to Beirut? It’s the same apartment as ours except Samir says there are “many antiques”. Also, there are a billion plants and even grapevines (with grapes) on the terrace.

In other news, Ethan is giddy because the company he is doing work for just set up webVPN, so it may not matter that our IP keeps intermittently blocking the port that he needs in order to work.