Hello friends and family,
We have some not-too-bad news. Both of us have fallen a bit ill. With colds. Nothing very serious, but it's given each of us a couple days out of work to sleep and think and, in my case, compose a short blog entry. We did it a bit staggered; Alyssa got sick last week and missed a couple days. I picked it up over the weekend and so I spent today at home although I've got my fingers crossed that I'll be passing for better enough to discreetly cough my way through a day of work tomorrow. But I'm letting my wonderful nursemaid of a wife tell me if I'm being stupid so far so if she says stay I'll probably stay. You can say a lot of things about me, but I'm a pretty good patient.
We have some good news, though. We priced some things out and we're probably going to pick up one of those mobile internet dongles to get broadband; our install date for home internet has been delayed and indefinitely postponed a second time and this way will actually probably save us money. One unfortunate consequence, however, is that it has some pretty steep use limitations. We'll mostly be confined to the web activities we'd already been doing, but in the comfort of home and as long as we want; emailing, blogging, etc. downloads and streaming are out (so no internet tv; shucks) and skype is completely not-supported. But we also looked into some new phone plans now that we're figuring out what our usage patterns are like, and we'll probably get one with enough US and Canada minutes to call home about 30 min a week each. And there's not much stopping us from doing the skype thing in more public places like, for example, the pub. Although I'm trying to picture what that would look like and I don't like the face the imaginary bartender is giving the imaginary me with headphones talking to himself. That'll probably get sorted out in the next day or two, depending on if I'm still sick and if my wife lets me go out of the house while I'm sick.
This past weekend we wanted to take it easy 'cause we were both feeling a bit pokey so we canned our planned trip out of London and went to Buckingham palace again to see the changing of the guard. We got some nice photos, but I have to confess to being a bit underwhelmed. I guess I expected something on a grander scale. There was a long boring bit we couldn't see because we'd gotten spots on top of the Victoria monument to see them march in and out from the high ground but couldn't see past the crammed pack of people by the gates. It didn't make our top 5 list, anyway, and for the time investment (2 or 3 hours by the time it's all finished) I wouldn't build a day of sightseeing around it. There's probably cooler stuff to do.
Other bit of news; we booked our flights to Paris over the Christmas break, and we're getting super-excited. We've been poring over the chapters on Paris we've got in the travel books we have already and we may start scouring the library soon for other ideas on things we want to put on our to-see list. It's going to be a lot of fun.
I think that about wraps things up. Please be in prayer about sickness, as well as some job stuff. Alyssa has a trial lesson for a potential full-time position starting in January tomorrow. She'll be doing a day of cover, except one lesson will be a maths one she's prepped and will be observed for. Seems to me like trials happen even before interviews here, and the impression we're getting is the school is quite keen on her, so we're hopeful.
Cheers!
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