Chicagoan in Montreal

After three weeks of vacation in five weeks, it's back to the grindstone (back to the calculator anyway). Had a good time and did a bit...

I have now been working 9 to 5 (or 8 to 8, 8 to 12, etc) for a decade. One aspect of life in the office that I have found funny is how many...

Here are a couple pictures from the Tour de France in July 1995 at Place de la Concorde. I had just arrived for my second tour of duty and i...

In lieu of a post on this site, I've asked the readers of Metroblogging Montreal where the reputation for bad drivers in Montreal comes...

Here are a couple shots of the Tiffany ceiling at the Marshall Fields Department Store in Chicago. They were taken during a 90 minute mad da...

When I was growing up in Chicago during the '70s and early '80s, there was one object whose image represented the city on most publi...

Took this photo in Chicago over Labor Day weekend in 2004. The Lurie Garden and the Pritzker Pavilion of Millenium Park are in the foregroun...

Coming to Montreal there was one aspect of work that was pretty interesting. The last two full weeks of July are the Construction Holiday h...

While in Chicago we encountered two signs I found pretty funny. This first one we saw while going to pick up the car from the mechanic. Mayb...

Friday, I became a permanent resident of Canada. But what exactly does that mean. I am not a Canadian citizen....yet. As my wife keeps telli...

Happy Bastille Day. Pictures of the Fete de Nuit at the Chateau de Versailles in Fall of 1995. My second attempt at taking night shots and ...

Can somebody explain to me what the heck is going on? We got excited earlier this summer when we heard there would be a new reality show cal...