Still moving stuff

Just like in the real world, I'm still 'unpacking' things from my old site to this new home. I imagine that most people are seeing this new site for the first time today as I've cross-posted this entry to both sites. For those checking my Blogger journal, know that this will be the last post I make here - from now on everything will be gathered together at insideericshead.com.

So far I have managed to manually transfer the house archives back to the day I took posession of my home. In the near future I'll complete the move and get all the pre-build text (and photos) copied over. While I was moving everything I noticed a post wherein I was talking about hanging up my Pink Floyd poster on the wall. For the record, it's still leaning against the wall where it was all those months ago. For the moment, I'll hold off on making any new promises regarding it.

Now, despite my life being a little crazy of late (work, my friend's wedding, a trip to San Francisco, start of the softball season etc.), there has been some cool news on the home-front. I have a driveway, a tree, and grass! While I'd like to show you everything in place, the best I can offer tonight is a shot of the new driveway:



Once I have some shots of my grass (just watered tonight, in accordance with strict local by-laws on when you can and cannot water your lawn I might add) I'll get them up here and talk about how wonderful it is not to feel like that character from Peanuts, leaving a dusty trail behind me whenever I'm walking around in the neighbourhood.

For those of you still not sure why I'm forcing you to change your bookmark in Firefox, let me try and explain myself very quickly: while a good website is -at least for me- a focused website, there is more to me than my house. Along those same lines, now that I'm moved in here, what is happening in my life is heavily overlapping with life in the house and vice versa. I will continue to post about my house and everything that happens in a new home, but I'd also like the luxury to talk about things like the wedding I attended on the weekend, or that new CD I heard, or last night's softball game, etc.

"But isn't this going to remove your focus?", you ask? I'm looking at it as a refocusing of my energies. Most, if not all, of the people reading this site know me personally so while they're probably happy to hear about my place, they might also like to know what I did last weekend, or what I'm listening to, or what I think about topic "x". I also hope that allowing myself the freedom to write about other topics on occasion will keep me interested in this site and therefore keep me on schedule more than I have been of late.

So, I encourage you to stay with me for at least a little longer; if you really don't care about anything other than my house, I can show you how to do that in an upcoming post (part of the WordPress explanation that I talked about last post). Hope to see you again soon!

The world around us

The world is an amazing place. I encourage everyone to get out there and explore it.



I have just returned from an incredible weekend in San Francisco, California, where I had the chance to experience the wonderful west coast culture... but that's another post altogether. What I'm writing about tonight is the differences in housing from place to place to place. As you can see from the photo above, the homes that dot the warmer climate of the SF are very different than the brick and aluminum siding structure I call home.

It's no secret that most of the developments that are being built in this province seem to be cookie-cutter copies of one another. You might have the opportunity to choose between one of three basic building models and one of six colours of brick (likely all shades of red or beige). Wandering the streets of SF I was amazed at the variety of colours and shapes and entrances of the homes. Now I assume that most of these homes that I saw were not built in the last twenty years, but it was just so different than anything I can think of around here. The photo above shows only three homes, and while the streets do not quite look like a tie-dyed tee shirt factory exploded, there is a wonderful mix of shapes and colours to keep the eye interested. Does anyone know about the housing regulations in SF (or the region)? For example, is there a set palette of colours to choose from?

In closing, my suggestion tonight is that next time you're off on an adventure somewhere, have a look at the neighbourhoods around you while traveling from Coit Tower to the Golden Gate Bridge (or Casa Loma to the CN Tower). Where do people live in this town/city and how is it different than where I call home?