Seems like Summer

How quickly things change. Scroll back to hear of snowy, grey days just recently, and here we were in Montreal for a couple of days in sunny warm days. It's too hot, we were fond of saying occasionally in jest.

A nice visit to that city, lots of walking through favourite areas. Up the side of the mountain, snow remains under trees. In the city streets it could be July. A visit to Schwartz's is always good. An Italian meal on St. Denis. A Boréal in a pub.

This morning the work looms again. Some interesting things to see on email no doubt. Results of the lofty plan voting to come up with something reachy and challenging - I suspect this is where the system starts to bog down. As we pick some watered down oceanographic research topic (pun!) and then erode morale as people get assigned to it, either without deference for their current deliverables, or excluding some of those who contributed. Perhaps we'll figure out how to avoid that... but I'm skeptical.

Taking a couple of days off this week for a jaunt up to Chicago. These long weekend vacations are a great way to enhance the quality of life. Consider it dear reader. You can do the traditional thing, where you work like a dog for weeks then have a brief work-forgetting week or two of vacation, then you're back to the day-in, day-out slog... or you can make every other weekend a long weekend, occasionally a four-day weekend, and for months at a time have a more leisurely life. A better choice, no?

Hmmm, don't I have a conference call about to start...