Monday, January 19, 2004
Checklist pretty much done for today. Posted the eBay items (£23!), put my coat in for repair (£12!), and checked in with the estate agent. Still not a lot of movement, so will call them again tomorrow. Must make more of a nuisance of myself to get things moving.
Discovered a company in Ontario that's hiring big-time. Research In Motion (RIM) based in Waterloo. Looks like a wireless communications company. Interesting stuff. I've earmarked a few open positions to chase, and I'll tailor the old CV to fit them. It would help if I had a move date, so I'll apply to them once I have that date so they know when I'll be available for interview.
I caught up with some old colleagues from my CIX days at the party, and a couple of them have set up Novacaster.com - a place for interconnected online discussion communities. I'll dip in and out of there to see what's what.
Disaster! We're out of beer. I know how that happened - we're just not buying in as much stuff as we used to, and if we run out of anything, we don't bother to replace it. As we can't take food with us, there's no point. Although we're assured that we can take chocolate as long as it's still boxed, so there's a hundred quid's worth of Cadbury's best waiting to be packed away. That's not all we have to take in bulk, there's soap and other bathroomy stuff that we've grown used to that you can't get in Canada, and as M&S closed their Canada outfit we'll make sure we wonder through the Enfield branch one last time.
So tomorrow there's the Hotpoint engineer coming (yeah, right). He's due to repair the washer/dryer which died a noisy death, and save us from the trek to the local launderette. Still on the appliance front, we bought a new kettle yesterday. The old one went BANG and started to issue smoke. I'm pretty sure they're not supposed to do that, so to be safe, we went and splashed out on a new one. This one is better than the old one, but I'm not sure that's why I've had more tea today than in the past month.
More tomorrow, when if I get the chance I'll call the removal company to make sure they can fit us in for the first week in February. Do you think I'm chancing my luck?
Discovered a company in Ontario that's hiring big-time. Research In Motion (RIM) based in Waterloo. Looks like a wireless communications company. Interesting stuff. I've earmarked a few open positions to chase, and I'll tailor the old CV to fit them. It would help if I had a move date, so I'll apply to them once I have that date so they know when I'll be available for interview.
I caught up with some old colleagues from my CIX days at the party, and a couple of them have set up Novacaster.com - a place for interconnected online discussion communities. I'll dip in and out of there to see what's what.
Disaster! We're out of beer. I know how that happened - we're just not buying in as much stuff as we used to, and if we run out of anything, we don't bother to replace it. As we can't take food with us, there's no point. Although we're assured that we can take chocolate as long as it's still boxed, so there's a hundred quid's worth of Cadbury's best waiting to be packed away. That's not all we have to take in bulk, there's soap and other bathroomy stuff that we've grown used to that you can't get in Canada, and as M&S closed their Canada outfit we'll make sure we wonder through the Enfield branch one last time.
So tomorrow there's the Hotpoint engineer coming (yeah, right). He's due to repair the washer/dryer which died a noisy death, and save us from the trek to the local launderette. Still on the appliance front, we bought a new kettle yesterday. The old one went BANG and started to issue smoke. I'm pretty sure they're not supposed to do that, so to be safe, we went and splashed out on a new one. This one is better than the old one, but I'm not sure that's why I've had more tea today than in the past month.
More tomorrow, when if I get the chance I'll call the removal company to make sure they can fit us in for the first week in February. Do you think I'm chancing my luck?
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