Another busy and productive weekend!

Friday night, Mum and Dad came in from Guelph to see the new house and take us out to dinner. We had a nice meal up at Omonia on the Danforth, though Dad wasn't impressed with the greek style of serving meat with potatoes and rice but no vegetables. We resolved to take him to little Chinatown next time.

Saturday we had our first sleep in in the new house. After working on the crossword for a while, we gave up, got up, and went about our errands. First stop was the Home Despot to get the parts required to install the washer/dryer. After dropping off Anne at home, I took my new and unsatisfactory DVD player/recorder back to Future Shop to swap it for another unit. Saturday night we installed the washer/dryer, which required some athleticism on my part: the hoses didn't reach long enough for us to connect everything while it was out in the hallway, so Anne pushed it partway in with me stuck in the back of its closet. After completing the installation, I climbed out into the hallway over the top of the unit, pulling our new four-foot ladder out after me. We then pushed the washer/dryer all the way back in, completed the setup, and left it to think about itself while the glue on the drain pipe dried. Miraculously, it all seems to work!

Yesterday we had church in the morning. Craig Martin was a total star and agreed to help me move my TV from Steph and Bruce's to the new home. Little did he realize how heavy it was! We had a bit of a brutal move, which included getting the beast up their stairs from their basement, hauling it out to the car, driving it off to our place, and installing it -- up to the second floor! We ended up rolling the TV up the stairs -- not nearly as easy as it sounds -- but it seemed to survive the trip largely intact and it's now, mostly, installed and working fine. We inaugurated the new setup by watching two back-to-back episodes of the Simpsons. The second ended a bit strangely with the entire cast singing the Canadian national anthem. Very weird.

Anyway, so now I have my computer and my TV set up, it feels like home! While I was at Future Shop on Saturday I picked up Call of Duty, a great new WW2 action game. It's like watching Band of Brothers all over again... Fabulous!
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