I had my first birthday anywhere other than the Midwest or England yesterday. It came to my attention how many people asked me if we were going to do anything special. We didn’t do anything too different, but then, everything we…
Apartment Tour
We finally have all the furniture we intend to own in the near future, so here is a short blog post on the state of our new apartment. We have an odd mix of Wal-mart and rented furniture. They look…
Minor Differences: Starry, Starry Nights and Credit Unions
One of the reasons we picked the Phoenix area is the mostly clear, epic skies. They have not disappointed and have been a bit of a minor difference from our life in the UK. Whenever we were out at night,…
Minor Differences: Power Sockets and Light Switches
As long time readers may recall, we prefer American plugs to British ones. One thing I am less sure about is the relationship between power sockets and what I think of as light switches. I know they don’t need to…
Settling into Our New Apartment
After being here for a few weeks, we are mostly settled in. There are a few things of note though. For one, as you could have guessed, we have very much enjoyed the facilities, especially the pools. Something unexpected but…
Getting to Know Chandler
After weeks of moving, finding a flat and filling it, we finally had enough free time on our hands to check out the local area. We are about a mile one way from shops either way, so we thought we’d…
Early Mornings and Card Cloning
Our first week in our new place was mostly quite good. We did lots of swimming and Chris got quite a nifty Macbook from his new job. We did lots of swimming and saw lots of really excellent sunrises and…
Certainly Sony
So this may be a rather obvious thing to say, but Sony appear to make better products than Proscan, a television company we’d never heard of. In our rush to get things, we bought a tv a bit too hastily.…
Happy Arrivals
Chris’s server safely arrived from England, so that is good news, as we were both a bit worried about how to best get that to the US. As we mentioned previously, we had considered flying with it, but carrying it…
Move-in Day Part Two
On Tuesday, the bed did indeed arrive. Since it’s memory foam, it came rolled up with all the air removed: It was quite cool getting to see it just pop right up into a bed. Have a look at that…