The house isn’t 100% yet, but it is 100% of what it needs to be.  What a long, long process this has been.  I’ve taken injuries and psychological stress and lost many pounds (not such a bad thing, but I really wasn’t trying).  And tonight was the first night we actually relaxed.  A bike ride, a visit to Ten Ren’s Tea Time, we put up a chandelier, some exercise (part of my physical rehab) and now some TV.  Not, “We will watch TV while doing other things we must do” TV, but “Wow, we can actually relax and just watch TV” TV.  What a difference.

And, really, we only need to finish painting the downstairs, which will happen this weekend, and we’re good to go.  Nothing more we “have to do” though we have plenty of “we want to do” to keep us busy for awhile.

But, while watching TV, a commercial came on for Home Hardware.  A Canadian store with home stuff.  I looked it up online and their store located showed they have a location I could easily walk to from my house.  The Web really is a wonder.  Without the ability to search, it might have been years until I knew it existed.  It really isn’t in a place I would go by on the way to any place I might go.  It does make me wonder how much commercial marketing has changed the success of smaller shops by adding a simple URL into the video feed.

It certainly helped me locate the closest hardware store to us.