So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen , Goodbye........

I have spent the morning in the hospital saying goodbye to the multitude of friends and co-workers that I have made or worked with over the last 20+ years. It is an emotional road. I will be coming back in October in a casual capacity, but don't know yet, where, but have some options. We'll see. At least working will put gas in the tank.

My main priority will be to sign up for health care insurance and I am going with  Health Care Providers as that will give both of us some coverage. If I stayed with Sunlife, then only I will be covered. This way, Michael gets coverage as well.

The first week in the motor home has been interesting and now as we move into a new phase of RV living, I think it will be more interesting than ever. Still so much to get rid of. Today we go back to Pickering to get our mail and do some unpacking of the storage area. We have that for $70 a month for 3 months, then it has to go.

The IS Department gave me a final farewell. Lovely cheesecake, chocolate cake and fruit cake. Thanks guys!

Down to the last 2 days.

Today the staff of the IS Department gave me a farewell lunch. They also gave me an Apple gift certificate towards an iPad. I am going to wait for generation 2, hoping that it will come with a USB port and a camera. I will have to decide if I am getting the 3/4G version or just the wifi version. The girls from 2West also gave me an Apple gift certificate as well as a lovely pearl and diamond pendant. I am really lucky to have so many good friends.

Michael has mounted the TV into the Motor home using a mount that hangs from under the old TV cabinet. Inside the old cabinet we have the DVD recorder and the satellite receiver/PVR. He did a really good job. Now we need to get the HDMI cable to connect the receiver to the TV to replace the huge flat cable that came with the TV.

I will take some photos as soon as I have a bit more time.....in 2 days time.

So far we have not been able to find the Satellite signal, even with the satellite finder. Tomorrow Michael is going to climb up a tree to see if he can get a clearer line of sight.

Satellite installation

We spent the day down at our son, Greg's, house getting the satellite system installed. Then we came home to the motor home and tried to find a signal. I tried everywhere and so far have not found the signal for Nimik 91. I can get 82 often, but 91? No. I thought the best place to put the dish was up next to the road, but still was not able to get the signal. Michael is going to put the dish up on the roof next week. If we still can't get the signal, then we will just use the antenna. We get several stations and because we have an HD TV, we get HD reception from several local stations.

Tomorrow we head up to Gravenhurst to visit friends.

We've moved....again!

We are now at Cedar Beach Resort on Tom and Sunita's site. It was a little difficult getting in because the sewer is situated right under the vehicle and also because of our slide we had to come in really close against the patio stones so that we didn't stick out into the neighbours yard. Anyway we are now parked and getting settled. We tried to get the satellite but realized that we have probably been cut off until we get setup again tomorrow at Greg's house.

We are supposed to be going to Cambridge on July 1st to get the Bike Rack fitted, but having spent so much time getting into this site, Michael is very loath to move until the end of July.

I have been sick the past 2 days. I woke up on Wednesday with a very sore throat. I had root canal scheduled that day and went ahead with it. Anyway, I have been off sick for 2 days, Coughing, sneezing and croaking. Should be better for work on Monday. Last 3 days of work!

Officially Homeless.

Got a call from the lawyer to say that the sale of the condo had all gone through successfully. We are now awaiting the call to go and pick up a big fat check. That will go into the bank as soon as possible and then we will think what we are going to do with it. Where to invest so that it won't be inaccessible just in case the full time RVing doesn't work out and we need to buy a house.

I went into work this morning, but got sent home because I am sniffling, sneezing and coughing. Slept the morning, half if it from recovering from being up half the night because of the heavy thunderstorms that roared through the area and half because I had taken some medication and wasn't feeling too alert!