Saturday morning started with the weekly demolition job on the Globe and Mail’s Saturday cryptic crossword. This week we cruised through it in about half an hour: unlike last week (whose answer “ambushment” will forever reign in infamy) this week’s had reasonable clues. After lunch I saved the world (ahem… finished playing NOLF2 on the […]
Freedom! My rolloff date from the Hartford project is confirmed for this Friday. Tomorrow will be my last trip on a Dash 8 (pictured) for… well, at least a couple of weeks. Actually, it looks likely my next project will be in Toronto, which I’m psyched about… Yesterday’s theatre trip to the Hartford Stage was […]
Just finished speed reading through Iain Bank’s new book Dead Air last night. (I only read a little bit during the work day… ;-)) Iain’s back to form!! I was disappointed by his last “conventional” novel, The Business, which was not up to his usual standard, but Dead Air was great. Most similar to another […]
I’ve posted the photos from last weekend’s trip to Dirk & Christine’s cottage near Haliburton. Check out the leaves! Check out the wolves munching on beaver carcasses! The two mug shots here are their sons Sean and Kevin. I’ve also posted a couple of pictures of Hartford. Looks like I’ve only got a couple more […]
By your search engine requests will ye be known. From the Dreamhost web server logs for my site, here are the search requests from this week that led people to tomleslie.ca: #reqs: search term —–: ———– 3: tom leslie 2: kelly baxter golding 1: book reviews no one lives forever 1: romantika party estonia girls […]
Another great weekend! On Friday I manned the door at the Exultate concert “In the Beginning”, which presented a wonderful collection of American choral music, featuring the Copeland work of the same name. It was a beautiful concert. Despite the fact that half of the bass and tenor sections were new to the choir this […]