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After my erstwhile teammates played their last 3 games of the tournament — doing much better without me than with me, though they politely denied any belief in a correlation — I wandered to Mondo Frites to overeat with the best of them. After that, Geoff and Mehmet and Hoye and I failed our willpower rolls (Tyla wasn’t too happy with me, it seems, but I think we’re all OK now) and ended up playing another game of Titan until about 1:30am. With the Indy jammed into the back seat of Geoff’s car, alongside its new caretaker (Hoye), they took off back to Ottawa.

And so departed our last Montréal guests. I’m really looking forward to being in Toronto, but I think we’re really going to miss this house. It has served us tremendously well in our frequent and ambitious hosting, and I like to think that others will miss it as well. We’ll certainly be entertaining in our new house — as though that needed saying — but it won’t be in such a palatial fashion. People had better get used to more crowded floor-sleeping. (I think our new kitchen will allow us to continue in our culinary ways, happily.) Thanks to everyone who came and visited us over the last two years — even those who showed up on minimal notice with their entire Ultimate team. We really enjoyed having you around, and your periodic presence brightened our already-pretty-sunny home. Blah, blah, maudlin, blah.

I stayed up pretty much all night pruning the office and bookshelves pretty viciously, and it now feels like we own nothing. Our packer, Colin — ask for him by name; he is professional in ways previous packers are not even able to pronounce — has been putting our remaining trinkets into boxes at a somewhat frightening pace. I’m starting to think I should hire someone to do this every year or so, just for the tidying angle.

Pretty much everything that’s not required for me to type this entry is in a box now, and I think we’re going to get lunch soon. I might head to Toronto tonight as the advance team, but we’re supposed to go to Lezvos tonight, and I really don’t want to miss that. Maybe I’ll just get an early flight/train tomorrow.

There is apparently a heat wave starting up in Toronto, which will make our planned acquisition of a pair of window AC units that much more difficult. Maybe we should get them in Montreal, where there is no such heat wave? Running out of time for that sort of cleverness.

I am still sore from Ultimate, but it’s a good sort of sore. What are the muscles (?) over the bottom half of the ribs called? Mine are quite tender at the moment, and I don’t even know their name.

Madhava says our keys work, which is great. Also, he took some very nice pictures of our new place. I can’t wait to make a huge mess of it!

It seems the US gov’t has an ingenious plan for dealing with unemployment, or something. Feeling glad I didn’t move to the states again.