Kingston Visit

Webgear, I was thinking about you on my train ride home on Sunday night, realizing you were arriving as I was leaving. I hope you're having a good trip.

Yes, the Sleepless Goat Cafe is really neat, and it's a worker's co-op! I'm not sure how that translates into wages and working conditions, but I assume it's better than the lower servers' minimum wage that most servers earn in Kingston before tips.

Another place that is neat, if you're interested in the pub scene, is the Kingston Brewing Company, known locally as "The Brew Pub". It's on Clarence Street. They are a microbrewery, and the atmosphere is nice in there, or at least it used to be - I haven't been there in years now, but I'm sure it hasn't changed terribly much.

I saw on the weekend that they've torn up the street and market area behind city hall. Looks like interesting stuff they're doing there, and apparently they're making a permanent market behind city hall instead of the former parking-lot-cum-occastional-market. I think that's a positive thing - surprising for Kingston, really, where City Council seems to constantly be asleep at the wheel when it comes to urban planning.

Don't even get me started on that. The outer areas of the city are abhorrent, with the nasty sprawl and big-box hell that is taking over. Transit sucks there, and developers seem to be able to do anything they please. It's not good at all.