another quiet day

It's about 3pm on Friday afternoon. It's another quiet day here for us,
and we walked up to CTC here to use the internet about an hour ago.
Taxis are running again, and we hear from our friends that things are
getting back to normal. The US embassy is suggesting people leave the
country if they can, but what we hear from friends on the ground here is
that it looks like things are settling down, so perhaps the embassy errs
on the side of caution. If the calm continues through the weekend,
we'll head back into work on Monday, which we reach on the other side of
town via taxi. We've spent this week working from home and visiting
with neighbors. Julia, the Cameroonian lady we employ to do
housekeeping (this arrangement came with the house, and she's very nice)
managed to get in today, since the taxis are running.