Good morning! Bright and early out here at Pearson International. Anne and I enjoyed a lovely weekend visiting the parents. We stopped first in Georgetown to have afternoon tea with her folks, then drove up Highway 7 to Guelph and stayed overnight with my parents. Everything went swimmingly, and the weather was lovely (though a […]
6:20 on a Friday afternoon, and I’m still in the office. Partially, yes, because Anne has to work late tonight so there’s no particular rush to get home, but also, I’m working too hard… A big weekend coming up. Tomorrow we’re picking up a rental car and heading out to Georgetown to visit Anne’s parents. […]
Happy September, everyone! ‘Tis the end of the summer, psychologically speaking. And a lovely end it was, in Toronto, anyway: a nice, bright, sunny, warm weekend, perfect for puttering about town. Saturday was shopping day: over to the Eaton Centre for a failed attempt at getting picture frames and a successful attempt to get new […]
Working like mad here in Hartford. Paul Golding sent me an interesting NY Times writeup on the city from yesterday which goes some way towards expaining why the downtown core dies so thoroughly at dark. According to the article, 30 percent of residents of the city live below the poverty line, and only 61 percent […]
A belated review of a book I finished weeks ago. A Body in the Bathhouse, by Lindsay Davis, is another in her line of Marcus Didius Falco (informer, Rome, 72AD) detective novels. This one takes Marcus and his family from Rome to the construction site of a new palace in the south of England. Since […]
Hey, I just found Heather Hoffman’s web site! She started a blog in July. She and Gene have a baby girl of four months (God, the last 12 months have been productive) and are enjoying the daily mysteries of parenthood. Good times. What else is new? Well, today’s my baby sister’s 31st birthday (Happy Birthday, […]
A lovely Toronto summer weekend. On Friday I was homebound by the laundry machine, but Anne came around and cooked a lovely stir fry. We watched the Buster Keaton classic “The General” and had a quiet evening. Saturday she went off to have her hair done, and I did some miscellaneous shopping. The plan had […]
Just back in from Hartford. The city centre is all of eight square blocks, and everything shuts at the end of the business day except a couple of restaurants and the hotels. Not much to do but work. Still, it’s not so bad: there’s some lovely colonial architecture, we’re right across the street from the […]
Well, what to say? I’ve had a wonderful, wonderful weekend with my new sweetie Anne Macdonald. She’s amazing. I’m SO happy! Yesterday we had a great afternoon at High Park with Craig and Susan. I picked up a Frisbee and a soccer ball and we alternated tossing the ‘bee (and sweating like mad, it was […]
The choir trip photos are here! I’ve lumped them all into one category: sheer laziness, I’m afraid. Having a great lazy weekend, in preparation for going down to Hartford next week to start my new project there. I went with Anne to the Bellevue Diner in Kensington last night, a great restaurant run by her […]