Chris Garrett’s Personal Blog

It seems my long-suffering relationship with Microsoft has passed a new milestone, I just un-installed Visual Studio from my laptop!
While I haven’t turned my back on ASP.NET completely, it is now over 8 months since I did any coding in a Microsoft environment whereas due to Performancing work have dabbled quite a bit in PHP [...]

The wise thing to do when we arrived back from Canada would have been to have a really good sleep. A week on and I haven’t done that. I didn’t really believe I was immune to jetlag but on the other hand I didn’t really take steps to deal with it either. Right away from [...]

Cloudy Mountain

Photo by chrisgarrett.

Well we are back in the olde countrie. The school and house hunt was an exercise in frustration. At this time I have doubts we will acheive our dream of moving to Canada, or at least timeframe.
Maybe it is just jetlag talking.
On the plus [...]

We are loving it in Canada, having a wonderful time (as usual).
The house hunt has been quite frustrating. Property market here is overheating, there is absolutely no chance of us looking at pre-owned houses, people are buying them up sight unseen. New build is not much a nicer story. Everywhere nice and in our price [...]

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Photo by chrisgarrett.

We have been in Calgary a few hours and Amy and I have already been shopping for crap we don’t need. Amy got a soft toy and pet carrier from build a bear workshop, and I bought season 1 of Battlestar Galactica (well I need some entertainment for the flight back).
Surprisingly Clare was well restrained, [...]