I have been taking a look at the visitor logs for the last few days, and there are some interesting people coming to my site. I have logged at least one person from Belgium and one from the Philippines, both of which looked at my Master Links page. Some one in the US searched Google for "tying tzitzit nusach chabad" and got my Links page, as well. Someone else used AOL's image search to look for "ultralight planes", and I show up on the first page of results because of my awesome Father's Day present this year. Someone in Turkey found me on a Turkish Google search. They looked at my page about the Shem Hameforash (a.k.a. the Tetragrammaton).

I decided that this traffic is interesting enough to warrant an account with gVisit.com, so here is my Visitor Log. I just now updated the rest of the pages on my site to be logged by gVisit, so my blog will not be the only page listed within a few days. This should be fun. :D

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From the new Dry Bones blog:

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In case I don't get around to posting tomorrow before sundown...

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Lindsey and I have signed a lease on a duplex here in Austin. It is a really great little place that Lindsey found while she and Delanea were looking for temporary housing for Richard and Delanea. It is a 2 bedroom, 1 bath (800 sq.ft.) duplex in the same subdivision that the rabbi lives in, only .8 miles from his house and 2 miles from my office. The kitchen has stainles steel countertops:

and the house has stained concrete floors throughout:

Here is the view from our back yard:

Yes, you are seeing a farm! They even have horses! :)

The owners live in the other side of the house and seem to be a very nice couple (with a 2-year-old boy). They are holding the house for us until November 1st since our lease here at the apartments does not end until November 13th, and they only wanted us to sign a 2-year lease in return for the wait (Don't throw me into that briar patch!). I'll get some better pictures once we actually move in. We are probably going to scrape and re-paint the kitchen cabinets and probably also re-paint the bathroom, but the rest of the house will not need much to get it ready.

The greatest thing about this whole venture is that we will only be paying $725 per month for the first year and $775 for the second! We are paying $550 for our current lease, so that is not a bad increase at all.

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