Care and I are packing up and heading back east to vacation for the next few weeks, so posting will be predictably sparse during that period. I should have access to an internet connection most of the time, but I’m not so sure about having the energy, opportunity or wherewithall to do much posting. I plan to expend most of my energy towards gaming and poker-playing, if there are any folk around town interested in such things.

From June 29 - July 9, 2006, Montreal is once again hosting its annual Jazz Festival. I picked up a schedule at a Chapters store the other day, just to see if there might be any names in there that I had heard of. I was more than a little surprised at the contents. I suppose I’m a bit of an urban neophyte; the biggest city experience I’ve had before Montreal is Halifax, and while the ‘Fax is a lovely city, it just isn’t on the same scale as cities like Montreal. In the past I’ve made half-hearted attempts at getting out to the Halifax Jazz Festival, mostly just to take in the atmosphere and see what some of the free shows were like. Tracy has even volunteered there in the past, and I have it on her authority that it’s a wonderful time.

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