Our coworker Ben bought a house, and Jon and I moved into it with him. Moving all of our stuff out of the apartment and scrubbing the place clean with frighteningly acidic concentrated citrus cleaner was quite a bonding experience for Jon and me. Jon has a huge lot of books, and I have a fair number myself. One room in the basement was designated the “used book sale” because of how all of our books looked stacked randomly on the tables. Living here is pretty nice, even if it’s farther from work and farther from Hiroko. We all have plenty of space to go off by ourselves and sit in the dark staring at a screen, which is pretty much all any of us does.