A blog is born
I finally put a blog live, after sifting through Moveable Type, with encouragement from my friend Matthew. I've put off trying to put my whole website into Moveable Type management to some other time.
I've given my wife Emma her own blog to play with.
We finally got Emma's bridging visa B yesterday after much hoopla, and we're visiting Canada VERY soon! Like in less than two weeks!!!!!!!!!
Without this piece of paper, she wouldn't have been allowed back to Australia. It turns out the call center's advice was wrong, and it only takes 10 minutes to get the document if you go into the office, rather than the five weeks we waited on the "quick" postal application - which was then cancelled or lost. I'm glad I offered to keep Emma company, and had my credit card handy. Emma's wallet went missing last weekend, so she would have been stuck with only cash to pay the fee. Naturally, the office refuses to take cash.
We get to try out IBurst wireless 1Mbs broadband before we go for *free*, which is an excellent deal. Its very smooth and very fast. I hope the ISP they go with has an uncapped plan.
After flying from Sydney to Honolulu going through US customs and signing away all my rights just to go into another departure lounge and security check to fly to Vancouver with more security checks, to fly to Montreal, where our flight was delayed by 5 hours due to snow.
Snow. crystallized water falling from the sky, like slow rain, or fast feathers.
The flight before us was cancelled because their crew decided it was too dangerous to try. However, come midnight, our intrepid crew boarded, and I was faced with real live snow to walk through to reach our little plane to Charlettetown. Half melted and refrozen snow. Slippery. I was trying to balance after 36 hours without sleep, 24 hours without being able to eat, with a backpack, a bag on wheels to drag, and 45 tired Canadians rushing to get into the plane to get home. I really can't afford to slip on the ice with my back injury.
Conclusion: Snow is icky, wet and wrong. I'm here for another seven weeks.
As we left a store today I snagged the pamphlet above from the counter. I think its self-explaining.
I also got to see for myself the legendary 
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