Our stuff arrived this morning – we were up at 6am to go meet the movers and get things prepared for unloading, and then spent the rest of the day rediscovering (like Christmas!) all the fantastic stuff we own as we opened boxes and tried to find places for everything. There was a lot of [...]

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A fuller post is coming once I have a chance to decompress, but we drove 856km today to get into Ottawa just before dusk. It was another beautiful (but long) day of driving! I really enjoyed the freeway through Sudbury, and the 17 east of North Bay. There’s really nothing out there except beautiful endless [...]

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Today the weather completely improved over yesterday – we had fantastic blue skies the entire trip from Thunder Bay to Sault Ste. Marie. I felt for most of the trip like I was in a car commercial – shiny black car running along the mountain roads into the sunrise.
Northern Ontario is gorgeous, but a couple [...]

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We’re in Thunder Bay, safe and sound, despite a harrowing after-dark drive through a torrential downpour an hour outside of our destination… it was a pretty low point in my decision-making history and left us both a little frazzled, so we’re spending an extra day here just to get some proper sleep and recover.
We got [...]

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Natasha and I are on our way! Our plans are already a little behind schedule because the movers had to come late, but once they showed up everything went really smoothly. It helped that we started packing 2 weeks ago – pretty much everything was boxed up and ready to go. (And we even had [...]

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On the outside chance that the Large Hadron Collider tears our universe apart molecule by molecule today, I just wanted to state for the record that I’ve had a pretty good life. If the LHC produces no usable science results, the threat of imminent annihilation should at least give people the world over a [...]

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At my family going-away party I convinced Uncle Jim and Ron to pull out their guitars and jam to an impromptu set list of simple 70’s music I’ve learned. It was my first time playing for anyone other than Natasha or my music teacher, so it was a bit of a rush (even just in [...]

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In a quirk of incredibly bad timing, my service provider accidentally blew up my blog, again, plunging you all into radio silence while huge important life-changing things happened to me. I could approach all of this stuff as individual posts later, but here’s at least the gist of what’s going on:
I’ve left MTS and am [...]

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