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we’ve moved, and our new place is sick. the good kind. more space but not too big. great view of the city and the sunsets (which are more or less always in the same place on the equator. and night happens fast afterwards). a living room wall that completely opens up on to the patio that faces the aforementioned view. and a huge garden. lush tropical flowers, trees, jungle vegetation, the works. good neighborhood. the house next door is renting for usd 6000/month. in case the saudi emir wants to move in? who pays that? oh, the us government. anyway, given the rental market around here, we got a steal. the place has been vacant for a few months. our property guy said people thought it was too small. that’s perfect for us and the jungle cat. here are some flower pictures from today’s walk around the garden and a couple from the other evening where you can see the house a little. wes, there is a coop in the lower terrace and plenty of space for chickens.

paige is in the states and in the rush of moving etc we forgot to make a cd of the gorilla trip that she could show her parents. so here is a small album of the rwanda trip that’s a little anderson-centric, but you can look at it too. there are more pictures there than the few i put up on my photo a day site. no captions because i’m trying to get it up in a hurry while she’s still with her parents. today is the first day of internet at our new house.

my brother is going to iraq. some town called fallujah? maybe you’ve heard of it. spellcheck wants me to change it to hallelujah. that’s about as far off as you can get. you can learn all about it at his eric in iraq blog. tell your friends. he will increase the number of independent journalists currently embedded in iraq by 33%. so this is not stuff that you will see elsewhere.

on the subject of media, i recently installed the new york times reader. it’s basically an electronic version of the paper. it’s quite different from nytimes.com. it caches on your hard drive and does not navigate like a web site (although most articles do have some hyperlinks). ads are almost non-existent and photos are few so it syncs pretty fast even on african internet. and then i can take my laptop anywhere and read the ny times! the fonts and headlines look just like the paper version and are large and easy to read. very cool. it is free in beta, but i’m sure they will start charging for it soon, because it’s worth it.

ok, more soon.