We met for dinner in Vieux Montreal, the old part of town, before heading off to a quiet party. Montreal has a well-deserved reputation for being very “European”, and in large part that’s because of Vieux Montreal. It’s been maybe 15 years since I last spent a night out here it’s full of great restaurants and a party we had secured invites too. There was…
Montreal GP – Qualifying
So today was final practice followed a couple of hours later by qualifying. A very interesting day at the track. Vettel looked good, easily leading the practice session and took a fairly comfortable pole by almost two-tenths of a second. Ferrari (and their thousands of supporters) must be content with their speed this weekend. A little distance behind Vettel, but clear of everyone else. The…
Monreal GP – Friday Practice
Made it to the track for the afternoon practice session. It was stopped a couple of times for accidents, but it ended with Alonso fastest, almost 0.369 seconds ahead of Vettel. Massa was third, Ferrari must be happy with that, even if in reality it means very little. McLarens are fourth and fifth, while di Resta ends a creditable sixth. Good gosh it’s fun to…
Detroit Airport
I’ve been to Detroit Airport a few times, but this is the first longish layover (the Delta lounge is large and very good here) and I’d forgotten how big a 120 gate terminal is, it’s about a mile from end to end and has a train running the length of it. Not interesting to most, but I thought it worth mentioning.
Positive Thinking
During the doctors appointment yesterday I had a brief talk about how I feel, what’s going on and for the second time in the same day “the tyranny of positive thinking” was mentioned. Now I get my humour is black and a couple of people have expressed issues with the way in which my friends so casually divided up my stuff last weekend. There is…
Go Canucks Go
This is the banner draped on the control tower at Vancouver Airport, yeah it’s kind of a big deal…
It’s been 20 years…
…Since I was in Toronto. A day with long and very detailed meetings at the vendor, it feels like I may actually be starting to get some of this process stuff. This is as much of a surprise to me as it probably is to my boss. It does seem like a long way to come for a one day of meetings and I’m going…
Day 3 – How black can humour get?
Yesterday I spent a lot of time with friends. A little time sitting on the beach and a quiet drink, followed by nap (which came after day-2, I’m really appreciating naps again) and then an evening sitting on the deck with friends drinking chocolate Martinis, explaining cricket, looking at CAT scans, deciding who is getting what, joking about work, telling rally stories and generally laughing…
The last time
Visiting someone for what may be the last time is a strange and rather complex thing. With my grandfather it was pretty clear this was about it. With mum I really hoped there would be at least one more time. Both visits ended with the same words “I love you”, both times my elder was coherent and knew we were saying goodbye. I love mum…
Day-1… Again
I’m still not 100% sure how I’m going to handle this, how much I’m going to talk about what’s going on, but for now this is up. “When someone goes after you, the only way is to take the fight to them” – Sir Vivian Richards. Not sure why I pulled out a Viv Richards quote, but it seems to fit after the last 72…