If you are going to live in France, make sure you have enough space on your keychain and/or that it's big enough. For some reason, just about everything wants you to carry a little thingy on your keychain.

Oh boy. That was something. And somehow, I feel like I haven't made the most of it, but New Year's Eve in Barcelona is still something, nevertheless ( Read more... )

Did you know that, for the price of a pint of Guinness in Montréal, you can buy a whole freakin' five litres of fine Cabernet-Sauvignon here?

Now, is that a good or a bad thing? I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader.

We're in Montréal-La Cluse for Christmas ( Read more... )

I'm so tired. I feel like a whiny bastard, and I can see myself coming up with how things are better back home or shit like that ( Read more... )

Big surprise, I'm depressed some more. It's difficult to pinpoint any one source, but there's this general feeling of insurmountable inertia that would put the biggest and heaviest icebreaker to shame. It's in the heavy bureaucracy, the attitude of people, the ever-present ads for insurance company, the traditionalist attitude, the enforced ( Read more... )

Booked some tickets on the TGV for Christmas, to visit some of azrhey's family. I'm looking forward to finally trying this out!

I'm pondering ideas for projects, and I think I've got one or two things that could be promising, so this is rather encouraging. I'm still having more questions than answers, of course, but everything in its time...

Ouch, that was a bad week. So, of course, I didn't writeThere was this moment, at some point, where the root causes of my annoyances here were coming together before my eyes, and I could see that they weren't specific to particular companies or individuals, but a product of the whole system, and that, therefore, there was precious little chance of ( Read more... )

It is All Saints day today, which is a holiday in France. And since they're like that, my workplace is closed Thursday and Friday as well, so I'm on a five days weekend here, which I am at the moment using to hack on Quadra from the comfort of my bed. Accordingly, I am not wearing pants.

I stumbled upon the programme, which is giving me a severe ( Read more... )

It's odd how the climate difference surprised me in a way this morning. I woke up, and it was almost dark outside. But it's also still warm. The oceanic climate makes for a more uniform weather than in Montreal, but the reality is inescapable, the days are getting shorter: it's fall ( Read more... )