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August 04, 2004
My new life in Waterloo
This post goes out to all the fans of bushland.net who are wondering where Daryl is right now? I mean, I haven't updated my website in a while, right? Well don't you worry, I'm actually alive and well. I've been living in Waterloo, ON for the past month now starting my "career" with Research In Motion. It's actually a bit freaky that I'm not leaving here in four months to go back to school, but the pay cheques are great so I'll look past that!
All honesty though it is a half big adjustment to move up here for good. Right now I'm still sleeping on an air mattress, although I'm buying a nice bed this week for myself. I'm actually looking to spend around 1200 or so for a bed that will last me more or less a life time. Can't cheap out on sleep, you do it 8 hours a day, or less if you're like me :) The drive up here (3300 km) from Newfoundland was actually quite enjoyable. It took me three days to do it this time, but then again I did take my dead time to get up here. Nothing amazing happened on the drive up, besides the ferry not running and me having to stay in my car for 14 hours and wait for it to start up again :( I stopped into Ottawa for a day/night to visit a few people I know there, that was a blast.
I haven't really been up to much since I moved here. I started to go to the gym again religiously, oh joy. I've also broke out the good ole squash racquet and my bike and I've been slowly attempting to get my cardio health up again, although not like it's bad now. One good thing about RIM is that they will pay me up to 200 dollars for a gym membership, in other words a year membership costs me about 100 bucks! That's a great deal, plus they have 4 squash courts at GoodLife fitness.
I got an apartment lined up for the 14th, so not much longer and I can move in to relax! It will be really nice to unpack and just start buying stuff to fill up the place, like food and other very important things. My new apartment is a 1 bedroom in Kitchener and I got a pretty good deal on it, 635 everything in. That includes cable, internet, utilities, phone etc. Not to shabby if you ask me. The only downside is that it's only until December, but that's kind of good I guess. Let's me get my feet on the ground and stuff right??? Right!!! :)
Anyway, this post is long and boring so I'll go now.
Cheers,
Daryl
Posted by Daryl Martin at August 4, 2004 03:31 PM