Mostly: Classical

[Sexton O Blake]

So what brings you to my country?

(Born and raised in Richmans Hill.. myself and sons born in that there same hospital)

Funny - everytime I think of Alberta I think of SCTV when they are going from the Maritimes to Montreal to Toronto.. looking for work..

Lots of jobs in Toronto..
Garth and Gord (surgeon and lawyer) drive to Toronto from the Maritimes in search of lawyering and doctoring jobs. They pick up Fiona, a nuclear physicist, in Quebec, and run over a woodchuck being filmed for Hinterland Who's Who. They arrive in Toronto full of hope, but Garth's pal says things are slow and there are no jobs after all. They go to Yonge Street, where they meet Alice. Fiona finds a job setting up pins in a bowling alley. Gord gets Alice pregnant. They go to Yonge Street to think. Alice leaves Gord. They decide head out to Alberta.

OT: My friend was going out with this girl for years - and she wanted to go on a trip to France - so she went (not sure who with but not with him). She comes back and dumps him - tells him she is tired of small town "Maple" (now that she has seen the world.. har har). Anyways, she lives somewhere else or something and then a few years later when visiting there she sees him flipping pancakes at the Maple Pancake Fest.. can't get much smaller than that. Anyways, he lives over in Scarberia (the bad part where the cars either have bullet proof windows or no windows at all.. chuckle).

Can't recall (based on all the emails) - you going this Sunday and meeting everyone? I haven't decided 100% what I am doing. If it was this time last year, no brainer.. but ... The names are not familiar to me so I was less inclined (far less even to actually break bread with them). (If any part wants to go -- I would hope to see you though)..

Probably more inclined to see Frank in Edmonton actually.. perhaps in a few years...

Cheers Kirby..
blake