what i learned in the past 7 weeks on my summer vacation.<\/p>\n
1. living in the same house for 45 years or so means that you accumulate a lot of stuff. when it comes time to move that stuff, it takes a lot of people a lot of time to sift and sort before you start moving the stuff that floated to the top.<\/p>\n
2. if you don’t exercise, helping to move your mom from one house to another over 5 weeks is bad for your back, and your arms, and your legs… in fact, it’s bad for just about everything.<\/p>\n
3. a professional massage therapist knows how to fix a bad back, and arms and legs…<\/p>\n
4. my french is not as rusty as i thought. at least as much french as is required to make conversation during a massage.<\/p>\n
5. orange rum liquor is bad for a macbook pro keyboard.<\/p>\n
6. when you spill orange rum liquor in a macbook pro keyboard, it takes more than contact cleaner to repair all of the damage.<\/p>\n
7. the cursor keys from an old white 12″ macbook with a russian keyboard fit on a new 15″ macbook pro, albeit upside down.<\/p>\n
8. i used to use my cursor keys a lot.<\/p>\n
9. it’s harder to replace the keyboard on a new macbook pro than it is on my first powerbook titanium.<\/p>\n
10. the sunrise at cape spear is pretty spectacular on a good day.<\/p>\n
11. montreal has grown up since i left. there is now a dedicated bike path on de maisonneuve running through the middle of downtown.<\/p>\n
12. even after 7 years, canada (and montreal) still feel like “home”. and even after 19 years, so does newfoundland.<\/p>\n
13. traveling trans-atlantic with two small kids is not as bad as i thought it would be.<\/p>\n
14. life is cheaper in canada than it is in denmark, but pretty-much-everything (from houses to roads) is more poorly made by people who are either lazier or just trying to cut too many corners.<\/p>\n
15. my relatively-ecologically-responsible life in denmark is infinitely more ecologically responsible than a life that is possible to lead in canada. this statement may not be strictly true, however, it is certainly infinitely more convenient to lead an ecologically-responsible life in denmark than it is in canada.<\/p>\n
16. when push comes to shove, i can throw an amazing amount of stuff in the garbage. however, there are some strange things that i cannot.<\/p>\n
17. i come from a long line of pack rats.<\/p>\n
18. new houses in montreal are disgustingly ornate. there are silly brick mini-castles stuck next to each other in suburbs all over the west island. they all look like someone ate, and subsequently threw up a legoland set. new house design in denmark is much more new.<\/p>\n
19. stuff is still much, much cheaper in canada than it is in denmark. even stuff that is exactly the same (like a lowepro camera bag or a pair of ecco shoes (oddly enough), for example…)<\/p>\n
20. 185 gb is not nearly big enough for a laptop hard drive when you have a new camera on vacation and you have a propensity to experiment with hdr photography…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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