Thursday, June 10, 2004
Hey, pick yourself up off the floor. This is another blog entry!
We get our new home tomorrow, and I'll be able to post more often then. Like, every day I hope. Right now, I am sitting in a DR office and can hit the corporate proxy server, so here I am posting. I have a few minutes until work starts so I'm making the most of the opportunity.
Tampa Bay won the Stanley Cup, Guelph fell out of the Memorial Cup (big time), and the Jays are winning, albeit inconsistently. Euro 2004 starts this weekend, and the Canadian Grand Prix is any day now. That concludes the sports section.
The bank account has been taking a few hits, but in return we got some appliances, a bed and some other furniture. Oh, and a house :-) Tomorrow we pick up the keys and spend our first night there. No bed yet, so we'll slouch on the floor. Yumm! The bed, furniture, appliances, the cable hook-up and phone line all get delivered the day after, on Saturday. Sunday we're touring the GTA in a truck, picking up the stuff that we've asked other people to look after for us, and on Monday all our possessions from the UK get delivered. After that, we're in. And I mean really IN. On our own, independent, and in control of our own destinies once more.
Getting utilities set up can be a pain if you're not from round these parts. Most of them want hundreds of dollars in deposits before they'll open an account for you. That sucks, and new immigrants better have a couple of thousand dollars that they can spare for a year or three so that they can begin living like Canadians. You get the money back of course, but that's not the point, is it?
Ack - just spotted that one of the test PC's got wiped last night by someone after I left yesterday. I got an hour or so to set up a new one from scratch. Nothing's ever simple, is it?
We get our new home tomorrow, and I'll be able to post more often then. Like, every day I hope. Right now, I am sitting in a DR office and can hit the corporate proxy server, so here I am posting. I have a few minutes until work starts so I'm making the most of the opportunity.
Tampa Bay won the Stanley Cup, Guelph fell out of the Memorial Cup (big time), and the Jays are winning, albeit inconsistently. Euro 2004 starts this weekend, and the Canadian Grand Prix is any day now. That concludes the sports section.
The bank account has been taking a few hits, but in return we got some appliances, a bed and some other furniture. Oh, and a house :-) Tomorrow we pick up the keys and spend our first night there. No bed yet, so we'll slouch on the floor. Yumm! The bed, furniture, appliances, the cable hook-up and phone line all get delivered the day after, on Saturday. Sunday we're touring the GTA in a truck, picking up the stuff that we've asked other people to look after for us, and on Monday all our possessions from the UK get delivered. After that, we're in. And I mean really IN. On our own, independent, and in control of our own destinies once more.
Getting utilities set up can be a pain if you're not from round these parts. Most of them want hundreds of dollars in deposits before they'll open an account for you. That sucks, and new immigrants better have a couple of thousand dollars that they can spare for a year or three so that they can begin living like Canadians. You get the money back of course, but that's not the point, is it?
Ack - just spotted that one of the test PC's got wiped last night by someone after I left yesterday. I got an hour or so to set up a new one from scratch. Nothing's ever simple, is it?
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