Hello Austin, Texas!

Looks like nature heeded the warning call posted on this blog only days ago and pushed Hurricane Dean away from our flightpath. In other news, S. and I are throughly enjoying the beginning of our new lives and new lifestyle in the southern USA. It's hot here (when I checked the thermometer yesterday it was 101 Fahrenheit, which is 38 Celsius), but it's really not as difficult to cope with as I expected. Just like any old hot summer day in Canada. People go out and do stuff anyway. Avoid running any marathons or tarring any roofs and you'll be just fine. And like many hot places, the temperatures seem to coincide with a more laid back attitude, just the thing we needed after living in uptight Yankee land for the past eight months. So yeah - life is fucking good.