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 in the process of leaving Manitoba to head back east, with Natasha uprooting herself to come along! I’ve accepted a fantastic new position at Bitheads in Ottawa, doing design for video games and websites. We’re about 95% packed at this point, with the movers coming on the 12th to pick it all up.

We’re hitting the open road the same day to drive across Northern Ontario, which is something I’ve always wanted to do, so we’ve scheduled ourselves a little extra time to do some exploring while we’re out there. We’ll be in Ottawa sometime around the 15th, depending on weather and how many interesting rocks I want to pull over to take a picture of.  (Did you know there’s a giant amethyst mine in Thunder Bay?)

It’s both exciting and sad. The opportunity is fantastic and it makes a lot of sense for us to be in Ottawa as we start planning to have a family (no news there yet – don’t have a heart attack), but I’ve had so many crazy experiences here in Manitoba, and met so many awesome people, that it’s been hard to leave. I’ve really fallen in love with the place, and it’s starting to feel as much like “home” to me as anyplace else. I’ve spent nearly a third of my life here!

Now that my blog’s eaten a bunch of my old entries, I’ll have to figure out some way to reconstruct some of the articles before my memory of Manitoban summers starts to fade. Here comes an Ottawa autumn! We’re so excited to start over in Ontario!