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So where's the snow?
Oct. 3rd, 2007 11:44 pmIt's October in Canada. I'm still walking around outside without a coat. Temps are 10°C above historical norms, but then Global Warming is the "new normal". Québec now has thriving blueberry farms!
The moving van finally arrived today; no more sleeping on an air mattress! A few bits of minor breakage (van driver gave me $5 for a broken mirror, apologized for a broken lamp which I managed to fix, etc). Now I am the proud owner of a house full of packing boxes.
Rogers.ca is disappointing. I'm supposed to get 7 Mb/s broadband speeds, but I'm actually getting only 1.5-3.5. Being out in the country has its downside! The physical plant in my town is old and can't support broadband-telephony or any digital-TV tuner that was made during this century.
I've been here for almost a week and still feel like a fish out of water. My passport says I'm a permanent resident, but I'm still "an American in Canada", hiding out from the US Fascists. It seems most of the people on my street are twice my age. The local hardware store has a cartoon that makes fun of people with college educations who don't know the stuff that really matters. Maybe I need a local job. UWaterloo is hiring for a Linux administrator position, but the required qualification is just "a college degree in computer science", so I'm probably overqualified with a master's.
Didn't get anywhere near as much for my NJ house as I had hoped, so the ON house has a lot of debt on it. Thankfully I moved mucho dinero up from the States back when 1 CAD = 0.97 USD. Now it's 0.99975 USD. That makes a difference for a down-payment on a house!
The moving van finally arrived today; no more sleeping on an air mattress! A few bits of minor breakage (van driver gave me $5 for a broken mirror, apologized for a broken lamp which I managed to fix, etc). Now I am the proud owner of a house full of packing boxes.
Rogers.ca is disappointing. I'm supposed to get 7 Mb/s broadband speeds, but I'm actually getting only 1.5-3.5. Being out in the country has its downside! The physical plant in my town is old and can't support broadband-telephony or any digital-TV tuner that was made during this century.
I've been here for almost a week and still feel like a fish out of water. My passport says I'm a permanent resident, but I'm still "an American in Canada", hiding out from the US Fascists. It seems most of the people on my street are twice my age. The local hardware store has a cartoon that makes fun of people with college educations who don't know the stuff that really matters. Maybe I need a local job. UWaterloo is hiring for a Linux administrator position, but the required qualification is just "a college degree in computer science", so I'm probably overqualified with a master's.
Didn't get anywhere near as much for my NJ house as I had hoped, so the ON house has a lot of debt on it. Thankfully I moved mucho dinero up from the States back when 1 CAD = 0.97 USD. Now it's 0.99975 USD. That makes a difference for a down-payment on a house!
