a very SIM day
The Boy and I had a busy day, today. We were out the door at 05:30 or so in search of SIM cards for our phones. That went well enough but you now have to activate these things online so we wound up in a MacDonalds getting that done. Oddly, the Wi-Fi wasn't working but the manager turned on his hot-spot so I could finish the process. Another gave me her name tag so I could open the SIM card trays. Canadian cell phone service remains crazily expensive but we're sorted thanks to helpful Canadians.
We had breakfast, then went to the storage unit. Which turned out to be liberally sprinkled with rat droppings. I had never seen anything like it, a pretty disappointing outcome but most of our stuff is in boxes or plastic containers and I didn't see any sign that they had been gnawing on the cardboard. There was no sign of the guitar that The Boy wanted but we retrieved the fishing gear and some of the wood-carving tools that The Boy wants to use in Japan. I dropped off some hard disks I'd cut in Tokyo last week; backups of all our stuff. The Girl's movies alone are now 1.3TB....
We had an early lunch, and in perhaps the hottest weather I've experienced in this city, we went for a tour of the dear old Brock campus.
After that we went to the credit union to get my PIN's for the credit card and debt card. I seem to go through this every time I'm back.
The jet-lag started to hit around 16:00. We did a bit of stocking up on things we need in Japan and with Mari's help I got this website going again after an incidental power outage seemed to have corrupted the virtual filesystem in my hypervisor.
Tomorrow we set out to the city of Waterloo for a scheduled tour of the campus of the university by the same name, and the science faculty.
Three reasons to be thankful:
- If your university must have gone through dramatic changes since 'your day', let it be to grow with abandon as mine has done, and not to wither away. Because I have seen the latter in Japan and it is a horror.
- People are so helpful in this country.
- It's hot but it's dry. 32ºC and middling humidity? I'll take it!