A fun, but tiring weekend… Warning: probably not terribly interesting for the layperson, unless you care about the minutia of my life. Friday night I went with Molly and Anne to see Poochwater, a fun little play about a guy with acute amnesia, in the tiny Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace. We had a great dinner […]
We had dinner round at Paul and Kelly’s wonderful newly-renovated home yesterday. I’m deeply envious of the kitchen, in-house washer/dryer, and whirlpool tub. Easily impressed, I guess… It was lovely. Molly was showing off her article in Canadian Business, her first time in print. I haven’t had a chance to read through it yet, but […]
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 […]