Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

This morning I took the TTC subway and bus system up to York to sign the paperwork for the first house offer (lease, not buy). A few friends who are also business partners were kind enough to fax in letters of reference (since I have no residential references having been an ex-pat recently), and it turns out that in order to save paper, the fax machine at Saira's work where they arrived was printing out on pink paper (very difficult to photocopy) with ads for “Fresh Blood” on the back.

After those were cleaned up I signed off on the offer to lease and related documents, so as of tomorrow I suppose I'll know if I'm going to take this house — if not, the big studio at Richmond and Spadina is option two. The studio is swanker in a lot of ways, albeit a bit more expensive, but I think when I include Nefarious in the equation, the house is a much better option. It's a safer location, there's at least a little yard, more clearly delineated playspace, and kids and resources in the neighborhood.

Thanks to the wishlist elves I got the first book gift of my Canadian return, Mind Hacks. It was a greatly enjoyable and quick read that I devoured almost entirely on today's travels, but I'll be checking it out again in the future. There's actually a lot in the book about how the mind works that's not just interesting trivia, but is applicable to programming because it gets you to think about complex problems in a different way when you see some of the organic solutions that have evolved.

Sorry I'm not writing much that interesting here these days. I feel like it's a little mundane perhaps… As soon as I get myself relocated where I have my own space to work in, I've got a lot of things I want to accomplish both creatively (writing here and elsewhere for both book and magazine work, and of course for BME also) and technically (overwhelmingly large and exciting plans as always).

Anyway, updates later today…