Another Thursday, another week in Hartford winding to a close. A VERY busy weekend ahead, though since Monday’s a holiday I should have a chance to recover. Tomorrow morning the appraiser from TD is coming around to do an appraisal of the apartment. I have to be awake and functional at 7:45 am. Ugh. Tomorrow […]
I forgot to write a review of Me Me Me, by David Huggins. This was a strange mystery novel set in Hollywood, with the protagonist a young failing playwright, Ralph Tait, whose grandfather was a major movie star and whose family is still warped by the pressures of fame. When his grandfather disappears, Ralph seems […]
Happy Autumn! The leaves are starting to turn, and it was… 28 degrees yesterday. Nice weather for JUNE. Bizarre. Reminds me of the Simpsons’ newscaster Kent Brockman’s line about an unseasonable warm snap in the middle of winter (in the Mr. Plow episode): “Could this record-breaking heat wave be the result of the dreaded ‘Greenhouse […]
Ok, a long time since my last post. Sorry! I’ve had a busy spell at work, though it’s settled down now and the next few weeks are looking relatively sane. Hard to believe September’s almost over, and fall is here. The temperature plummeted this week, pretty much right at the official first day of fall, […]
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, […]