Radio Silence

So it's been a long time.  I was on a roll there for a while, and then I stopped posting completely.  What happened?  I got busy.  Really busy.  For the past 2 months I've been redesigning and building the new Atlantic Business Magazine website (abmonline.ca).  It was a departure from writing, and something new to learn, and ultimately, it was a great experience (still is, actually, you're seeing the beta version -- I've got the next few weeks to finish up a couple details).  I worked with Tall Brian on the project (I had to deal with the magazine, he had to deal with me) and it was great to be working with a friend.   It was also tiring.  We both worked all day and all night for weeks in a row, and it's good to take a breather now.  



If you're interested in the Newfoundland Dairy Industry, you might want to take a look at that article as well.    Finally, I redesigned my site and would appreciate any criticism.



A lot of people ask about the weather up here.  We're north, but not really that far north (around 48 degrees).  We also live on the Avalon Peninsula, where it does rain in the daytime not withstanding arthurian naming.    Newfoundland is where the labrador current meets the gulf stream, so we get a lot of storms (winter is a bad time to be in the water) but it's also not super cold.  Temperatures hover around freezing, trending a few degrees above or below depending on the week.  That said, the wind is wicked, and it's damp.  So the cold gets under your coat and in your socks. 

This weekend we're having a homemade doughnuts and hot buttered rum gathering, loosely linked to Emily's birthday, which is today.   Doughnuts were something we made once, last year at the hut.  The hot buttered rum just sounds delicious.

I'll have to report how it goes.

m.a.c