Well, we’re by no means settled in Thunder Bay yet, but the anxiety levels are dropping. I’ve got a full week of work under my belt and am feeling like I’m fitting in and am able to “get the job done.” It should be a good job. Our department (all four of us) went out for lunch at The Madhouse on Friday, so that was nice too.

Friday night was Harbron Hullabaloo time. In addition to burgers and snacks, there were a lot of people that I hadn’t seen for a long time. It was good to catch up with them all at once, but there were some obvious omissions to the crowd. It was a last minute thing, so even though not everyone could make it, there was a good turnout.

After the BBQ at Harbrons’ Jenn and I started to head home. It was around 10:45 p.m. and I suggested that we swing by Chapters to see what was going on. At midnight they were selling the first copies of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. We pulled into the parking lot and it was full. Inside there were hundreds of people, young and old, dressed up (and some not) and participating in the fun and festivities. We saw Heather Martin Laakso at the Starbucks and the three of us decided to wait until midnight together. You already know that I managed to luck out and get to the front of the line and had my copy before 12:05 a.m. so I’ll tell you that Heather teaches a high school course that includes C. S. Lewis’ Perelandra. I just happened to be reading through the space trilogy now (well, it’s currently on the back shelf due to the new HP novel) and she promised to e-mail me all her notes.

Robin, Doug and I finished up some recording at Rich’s place and we caught up with a few friends at First Baptist on Sunday, but we spent a lot of the weekend house hunting. We got the crazy idea on Friday and will look into the financial possibilities of the whole thing becoming a reality this week. Never the less, we hit eight open houses and got the addresses of several more places that looked interesting. We’ll see how that works out.