Happy long Canada Day weekend, everyone! It's been a stinking hot week here in Toronto, and despite promises of thunderstorms cooling the air last night we're still suffering from lack of air conditioning. But maybe not for too much longer! My place went on the market last week and we're expecting offers this coming Wednesday. Once a price and closing date are settled we're free to move back in for the rest of the summer and enjoy the air conditioning.

We've been moving forward on the other front of the "where to live" project this week as well. After weeding through long lists of houses on the market, we did a road trip with our real estate agent today and saw about a dozen places. There were many which were ok, and a couple we liked a lot and will want to see again. We'll probably do a couple more weekends of touring around to make sure we've seen enough to make an informed decision, and then start putting in offers. So far, the best we've seen is a lovely house right by High Park subway.

In the recent purchase department, I picked up a sweet new desktop for home from a Toronto company named "Uber Gear". It's really, really fast. Gaming nirvana!
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Huge news to report! Anne Macdonald and I are engaged to be married! Still to be settled: almost everything except time frame -- early next summer. Thank you to everyone who've been sending congratulations and best wishes... We're really lucky to have such great friends and family! If you didn't get the message, you can assume (a) I don't know who you are, or (b), I didn't think you'd want to know, or (c), I don't have your email address. If you suspect (c), please email me at feedback@tomleslie.ca.

And the adventure continues!
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A couple of weeks with no content! Shameful! Bad blogger, no dessert.

The main news, of course, is that Anne's now running a hotel, or at least, what was a hotel up until last week. Now she's got until September to turn it into a U of T residence! So far, everything seems to be going very well due in large part to the amount of work put in by Anne and her staff. She's still working long hours, but we're hoping they'll settle down a bit in the next couple of weeks.

My project continues to be very busy... We're wrapping up System Test at the end of the week. So far everything's been going remarkably smoothly, and we're still on schedule.
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