Moving to Calgary

There is a bit of catching up to do here, but basically the thing is, we're moving to Calgary, and it will be interesting to see how it goes.  I grew up in Edmonton, and we've spent the last eighteen years here.  It's not really a move I really want to make all that much, but I think it's the best option for our family, for reasons I may get into at some point.

Oddly enough, despite having lived in Edmonton for most of my life, I knew precious little about Calgary before starting in on the process of exploration a year ago.  I'd driven through it many times, but you don't often have reason to stay overnight in a place only three hours from home.

We have a place to live in Calgary.  It's a rented house in Parkhill.  How we settled on Parkhill is a long story, and I need to get into that too.

It's not like I don't know anyone there.  There are people I know from BC Swing Camp, for example.  That's good, because one of the things that saddens me most about leaving Edmonton is losing a lifetime of connections, and also the musical network I've built up over the past few years since I started learning jazz piano.  

And I'll be working from home mostly in Calgary, because for now I'm keeping my Edmonton job.  How will that work?  I'm thinking I will take the Red Arrow once a week or so.   Is that realistic?   In the best case, I'll get six hours of work done on the bus.

Yeah... there are a lot of things that I feel deeply ambivalent about.