Good evening everyone, and welcome to a special edition of GeekMan's World, live from Toronto.

"What am you doing in Toronto?" you might ask. "None of your damn business!" I might answer. Nah, I won't do that. But I'm more likely to give you a more detailed answer in person. For now, it will suffice to say that, "I am here on business." And: "Ooh, ooh, ooh! Jesse's first business trip!"

It is cold here, but not that cold. Vancouver's recent winter woes have hardened me. Plus I have a toque and scarf.

I have been trying to wake up extra early these past few days so that the time shift isn't quite to jarring for me. Nevertheless, I can tell that getting up for a regular Toronto workday tomorrow morning is going to hurt somewhat. Hopefully these cruel Torontonians will go easy on me.

I am right in the downtown core, and it's the first time I have been since I was a kid too young to remember it. Like Montreal, and unlike an American city, it still feels like Canada. But the scale of everything has been amped up by a factor of ten. Nondescript office buildings are a full block wide and as tall as the tallest buildings in Vancouver. 5-lane highways and railroads go right into the heart of downtown. The CN Tower looms overhead.

An interesting note! Walk into a Shoppers Drug Mart in downtown Vancouver and you are immediately hit by a particular (pleasant) odor made up of an assemblage of smells. The Shoppers Drug Mart next door to my hotel smells exactly the same. Coincidence? Or olfactory engineering at work?

I had previously decided that the best way to charge my phone while here was to simply plug it into my computer. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that my clock radio has an iPod dock, perfect for charging my phone while I sleep. Marvelous! The room also has a 50-ish inch flatscreen embedded in the wall across from my king size bed. Strangely, there is no minifridge, and while the shower looks amazing there is no bathtub. Priorities!

On the flight over, I amused myself much of the time watching Discovery channel on the mini-TV in the seat in front of me. For a while, I was wondering if I could endure the unsettling irony of watching an episode of Mayday whilst in-flight.

It wasn't on. Probably for the best.