Woot! House is Sold!

Weather: A little cloudy, but it's 16.5 degrees Celsius, which is pretty warm for this time of year/morning.

Music: 3 songs on repeat: Plain White T's – Delilah, Stabilo – Kidding Ourselves, Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah.

Family: Nick is back to St. John's for another year at MUN. Tom finished his helicopter's license a few months ago, and yesterday he completed the PARE test in 3:31 (requirement: 4:45 or less). Gratz Tom!

Work: The usual. iMaint3 is coming along nicely. Most of the other programmers are deep into my architecture now and the system is refining quite well. I'm working on a scheduling recurrence system right now (generate 'every last weekday of every 3^rd month' type stuff) which is proving to be a lot of fun.

Zievo: Dead stop. Too much else going on.

Home: House is sold! Woot! Nicole and I have temporarily moved into my aunt and uncle's house (they are currently living in Nunavut) while waiting for our new house to begin construction. We purchased a block of land at Grenfell Estates (block 13) and will start building soon. The house we are going with is a custom design, yet simple, that we arrived at by using graph paper cut-outs to lay out the rooms and sizes we wanted. The final plans were completed by an engineer in Gander and picked up Tuesday of this week. So far so good.

Next step: contractors. We are going with a RewardWall house which is stronger, warming, and more sound proof than a wood framed home. Sounds great, but finding certified workers is tricky. We are also fairly sure we want a geo-thermal heat pump system, water to water. That'll give us in-floor heating with a very attractive monthly power bill.

Exciting times!