The Blork Blog

I listened to CBC Radio’s Radio Noon phone-in today, because the guest was Lynda Cronin, author of Midlife Runaway, A Grown Ups’ Guide to Taking a Year Off. I first got the idea for a year off about two years ago. Unfortunately I haven’t done anything about it besides think.
According to Cronin, just about anybody […]

Get this: May 1, 2001 was the warmest May 1 on record in Montreal (about 28 C). Today, May 30, 2001, is the coldest May 30 on record! Specifically, today had the “lowest high on record” (the high was about 10 C). Grrrrrrr!

Any anglo Montrealer can tell you about our “small town within a big city” environment, where we all seem to know each other, share the same viruses and STDs, and everyone seems to have bonked everyone, and if you haven’t at least your room-mate has. Well here’s an anglo Montreal Small World Story of global […]

Tomato, basil, unripened goat cheese, and bacon bits (real ones) on a big-ass hunk of sourdough bread. Oooo, baby.

Saturday night and I had nothing to do. Then I started thinking about it. Wendy is in Toronto. Mikel is in Ottawa. Frank and Diana are in the Eastern Townships. Suki is in Ottawa. Jeff is in Taiwan. Judith is in Rome. John is in California. Ehab is in Dubayy. Sheesh! Everybody’s somewhere but me!
So […]

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Shaddap, I don’t like the new design either. Too dark, with too much contrast. (Nod to Bill.) I’m going to redesign it this weekend with a whole new set of ideas.
I was looking through my notes from Paris. The sandwich that is pictured in the photo spinner on the Stuff page cost 19F, which is […]