Waaaagh!

Winter has come to montreal...

today is the christmas parade, and gathering along St Catherine are thousands of mothers and fathers shepherding many thousands more tiny little bundled up children - all dressed in holiday hats and giant padded coats that make them look more like colorful marshmellows than not. The weather is brisk and breezy, and only the obnoxious francophones and their aggressive homeless friends make the event less than it could be.

This is one thing I dont miss about austin... winter can be a wonderful season.

In the mean time, things are going well at work. A bit of drama - but as I'm the CIO at the parent company - drama is part of the job. The model is huge... we have relationships in place with huge players... and it's all remarkably well positioned. Oh sure, a kick ass PMM would be nice - someone like my ex - but then again there arent enough of those to go around.

My flat is nice... an easy place to stay... though the building is into the 'rip the residents off for the phone service' business (i know that one... i helped put some of those together back in austin for the west campus dorm/apt community - so i guess karma's a bitch). I'll probably end up somewhere else when i come back to mtl as a result... but we'll see. Right now there's so much going on I still cant be sure where i'll be in a month. I sorta hope to be here through the holidays - simply because if i'm NOT then that means i'm buried with work in some country where the english-speaking crowd is even less pronounced. Then again, maybe I could be the man to bring Festivus to China... (i can see it now... 'no mr customs person... it's an aluminum pole, not an aluminum tube...')