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On Residing Permanently

Called our new postal carrier this morning to make sure he had the right mailbox for us; changed the home address on all my financial accounts; and even got out to lunch before my boss came in (then it was 7 straight hours of typing for him, hence the lack of blogging). Meanwhile, Robin did the Verizon thang today since that didn't work out for me last Thursday, and naturally the technicians arrived within an hour of him. There's good news and bad news - while the inside connections are working fine, the points where they connect outside the house are dead, as are the backups, so they needed to call in another crew to install new points (for which they don't need either of us on the premises, fortunately), which should take about 48 hours at the most. So by Thursday when Rob returns to take care of other internal matters, our new phones should be working and the DSL all ordered up. With any luck I won't miss a day of blogging. :)

But the most wonderful news is that Robin finally received his permanent residency ("green") card!! He'd never received a conditional one due to address mixups which were never corrected, and his passport (which has been his only form of ID this past few years) expires next month, and of course we were very anxious that the card arrive before we vacate these premises. So we're celebrating with sushi tonight, and the only important piece of mail we're still awaiting at this address is our tax refund.