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Things overheard repeated around the Fullerton household since Tuesday: “Have you seen my ______?” “Do you know which box the _______ is in?” “Have you unpacked my _____?” “Did you see where the movers put the ______?” “I can’t find the ______.” “Where did you put the _____?” “Are you sure we remembered to pack the ______?” As you can imagine, the conversation has been riveting.
      You were a good house. An excellent first home, I may even venture to say. We had many great times here (too many to list) – but I won’t miss you. Not one bit. Things I’m looking forward to in our new neighbourhood:
Let’s add that up… 8 + 11 + 9 + 18 + 7 + 26 = 79 – 5 = 74 A 74% improvement of Quality of Life. Even half that number would have been worth it. Hello Barrhaven! Do me a favour – pull out your last telephone bill. What did having a land-line cost you last month? $50? Plus long distance? One option is getting rid of that pesky land-line, and depending on only your cell phone. I did it for a while, and it’s OK. However, when cell coverage sucks in your residential area, that’s less of an option. We received our monthly bill from Primus today for our home phone service. $26.35. It’s been $26.35 for the past 6 months. No matter how much long distance we call. And that includes our cell phone long distance too, which gets billed to our home number. And tax. It’s $23 without tax.
There *are* tradeoffs. If you do any filesharing or downloading and like to leave it trickle in the background, your call quality goes to crap, so you have to put that on pause before you answer the phone. And if your internet connection goes down so does your phone. And most importantly, it only really makes sense if you have high speed internet through your cable company, not your phone company, because you’d need your landline for you to get your DSL internet connection. So you have to be able to totally sever your relationship with Bell or Telus for it to really save you the big money. BUT … if you have high speed internet through cable, and you want to cut your phone bill in half, consider Primus Talkbroadband. It saves us hundreds of dollars a year. Check it out. For comedic relief during game 7 between the Carolina Hurricanes and our Edmonton Oilers (yes, I had firmly secured a seat on the badwagon), Dan and I began flipping back and forth between CBC (Canadian) coverage and NBC (American) coverage. Hilarious. My favourite example of NBC’s inexperience with broadcasting hockey games was when the announcer called it an inning rather than a period. Ahhhh…brings back memories of the Fox puck.
June 21, 2006 - 10:18 am
An INNING? Please tell me you’re kidding. I don’t even care about these things, and I still find this deeply disturbing.
June 22, 2006 - 8:34 am
I planned the “flip back and forth” as a study in differences in coverage style. I didn’t expect such a blatant faux pas. The other observation was the difference in how they commentated on the confusing first period delayed penalty -> hand on puck in crease = a) goal, b) penalty shot, or c) penalty. NBC was certain it was a goal, and was shocked when it wasn’t. CBC was certain it was a penalty, but could have accepted a penalty shot. I was certain that an Edmonton defender touched it near the boards before it entered the crease, so thought the discussion moot. |
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I keep wishing that I was Sabrina the Teenage Witch (minus the scary puppet cat) so I could just point my finger and have the whole house set itself up. Ya, even the horrible clothes would be worth it.
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The Dread Pirate Lindsay - I would like to say that yes, i agree that your mutt is by far one of the cutest dogs I’ve ever seen. I admit that I say ‘one of’ because due to stict black lab dog owner guidlines, I am obligated to believe that my dog is adorable as well. I still like the picture of Humphrey with his head in the bookcase though. That was classic. It was awesome to see you guys on the weekend. Hope that there’s not a lot of TIMMMMMMMMMME…. (hahaha!) between the next visits. Love ya both, Linds