Memorable moments from the past week;

• We moved into the main floor of our house from the basement suite on the 31. It was a great feeling of freedom to be able to go wherever we wanted and explore the new environment. The kitchen is beautiful with high-end appliances and design. Lots of storage, gas range, corian countertops. A wonderful place to be with our family.
  
• My daughter is ambivelent about the hardwood floors but has certainly enjoyed the fact that the entire place was baby safe since we had no furniture. :-)
• On Sunday we carved a pumpkin and put it out on the front step and handed out candy to neighborhood children and their accompanying posse of adults. I felt very adult.
  
• Had a fun interlude with my daughter on the front deck. I swept it off and encouraged to come outside, appropriately attired in the her purple fleece jacket and velour pants. She went to the glass railing and looked through. Turned around and saw the baby in the releflection of the sliding door. High speed crawling back to the door. Turns around, a baby reflecting in the glass in the railing. Saddle up and away we go. This went on for a good 10 minutes. On a sidenote she eventually napped for 2 hours. Lots of fun for her.
• Worked Monday and then had a Transit Advisory Committee meeting. Thankfully, they have brought in a professional facilitator to make the meetings more effective. Kudos to them for recognizing things weren't going well and changing their approach.
  
• Took the Skytrain home on a night that made me think that Noah may have been onto something. Came out of the station to see the bus I needed pulling away from the stop as I was 30 feet away. 9:30 at night, pouring rain, half an hour to the next bus. So I walked up the hill. Cold and wet but relaxing at the same time. I was pretty soaked by the time I saw my house and seeing the glow of the front yard lights brought the tune of the CCR song Long as I Can See the Light to mind. There is a magic to summer songs and the music of your youth...actually my parents youth... :-)
  

• Put a candle in the window
  
  'cause I feel I gotta move.
  
  Thought I'm goin' goin'
  
  I'll be comin home soon
  
  long as I can see the light.

• Busy day at Venue West on Tuesday. Pounded through a bunch of work and then caught the train to my parents where my wife and daughter had been all day. Had dinner and then loaded up the whole fam damily to head home again. Loving the fact the commute is substantially shorter.
  
• Spend Wednesday with my daughter. Pancakes in the morning, playing with the ball and associated toys, snuggling will drinking the bottle, nap, repeat.
  
• Thursday and Friday ... wife in design frenzy. Happy that she can go out and buy things and change things in her house. Paint chips appended to various walls. Somewhat of an unstoppable force.... all those hours watching design shows are paying off.
  
• Worked from home, somewhat worked at least, Friday. A little persistence and a 50 foot network cable meant I could sit in the kitchen and work and remote into my desktop computer from the laptop using TightVNC. Ran the cable out of the office, down the hall, out the basement window, up the deck and back in the kitchen window. I've got to get wireless. :-)
• Saturday was laundry, cleaning, bonding with baby and our first dinner guests. My brother in law and nephew came over for some squash-pear soup, buns and meat and cheese. Simple but nice. Enjoying cooking with a gas range and the instant heat.
  
• The place is starting to come together - have the family room set up, figured out how the appliances work and settling in.
• Heading to Bowen tomorrow for a wine and cheese with a retired transportation planner I'm doing some pro-bono database work for. Should be a bunch of counsellers and other participants in the survey process. I was referred to this by my current boss who also lives on Bowen.
  
• Reading Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss. It validates many a rant I've had about improper use of language and punctuation.
  
• Time for some sleep....the days go by so fast.
  
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