Saturday, September 1st, 2001
Hard to believe it's almost the end of summer, although you could have fooled me. It still feels like mid-July around here.
Work is progressing slowly on montrealsushi.com. The enthusiasm is there but the content isn't. I might just open it up and then see how it goes. Lots of folks want to see it up, so that's good news.
In the R.I.P. (Resto In Pace) department: correct me if I'm wrong, but Angus Noir seems to have gone to the Great Steer in the Sky. Least that's what the boarded-up windows indicated to this party of one.
Wednesday, September 5, 2001
I’ve put the Forums section onto the navigation bar at last. It’s a big production, considering I have to do it to about 300 pages. I’m working on Cascading Style Sheets for montrealsushi.com, but they’re unpredictable at best. I won’t be implementing for this site.
Also added a Cooking Class section, thanks to the Gazette. I would just link to them instead of going through all the trouble, but since they’ve been digested by Canada.com, their site is a generic horror that changes more times than a Micronesian dictatorship.
Wednesday, September 12, 2001
It's weird to look at the entry above. It almost belongs in a different era, one in which the radio played gentle tunes and all was right with the world.
I keep waking up and thinking, what a hell of a dream.
It’s all a dream, right?
So what's the deal with the cold sweat?
I used to live there, in Manhattan, on E. 76th street.
My Dad worked on the 42nd floor of the Pan Am building. That was a long time ago, when radios played gentle tunes.
I have a friend in New York. Maybe he was working in a tall building. Russ, if you read this, will you email me?
Friday, September 14, 2001
 According to the New York Daily News, World Trade Center restaurant Windows on the World, located on the 106th and 107th floors of Tower One, is . . . “missing numerous workers.
“'It’s taken the wind out of us,' said spokesman Frank Diaz. On Tuesday, the luxurious restaurant served breakfast to 600 employees of a brokerage firm.
“Among the 80 or so restaurant staff members missing is promising pastry chef Heather Ho.
“’She was one of the hardest-working chefs I’ve worked with,’ said Tim Quaintance, a sous-chef at Boulevard, the San Francisco restaurant where Ho worked until several months ago.
“’It’s devastating. She gets to work at 7 a.m. We can only assume she was there. We hope she was able to get partway down before the second plane hit.’
The petite chef, who used to volunteer with senior citizens in San Francisco, attended the Culinary Institute of America and worked at Gramercy Tavern and Clementine restaurants in New York.”
Tuesday, September 18. 2001
Well, it’s a week today. All sorts of shit be hitting the fan, so to speak. But for some, there will be no shit hitting the fan. There will just be a void. Having lost my elder brother this year, I know what this means. It means that every time the “x”th of the month comes around, that “p.m./a.m.” of day, it’s trying to compartmentalize that which can never be compartmentalized.
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