September’s been a very busy month, but it’s almost done. We’ve had lovely weather for the most part, and a lot of social and choral activities on the calendar. Exultate fired up again with the wedding of one of our members, Brent Fifield, and with our participation in the Colours of Music Festival in Barrie. […]
Oh yeah, some other things happened this weekend as well. First, I sang the 9:30 and 11 am services at St. Thomas’s as a substitute soloist while the regular choir’s on their England tour. Fun, but early for a Sunday, a bit terrifying learning the music and performing it less than an hour later. And […]
We had a long and gruelling weekend fighting trolls in Jintha’alor with Kelayr. Ok, no, we actually had a long and really fun and gruelling weekend playing World of Warcraft with Kelly, who was on probation from her sons and who set up her fancy new laptop (and BTW Dell, I’m still pissed off you […]
We returned last night from a wonderful week in British Columbia. We stayed at my parents’ new house in Langford, B.C., where they are close to Victoria but also practically back onto a provincial park. The weather was spectacular — sunny, warm, but not humid at all — and we made full use of the […]
Hoover Leslie, domestic short haired cat, ?/?/1991 – 7/28/2005. Rest in Peace. Hoover’s last day was spectacularly beautiful — warm, but not too hot, not humid for what seems like the first time this summer, sunny with little shreds of clouds — but by today it was clear she had very little left in her. […]
Full props, very belatedly (if I’m using the slang correctly) to Tom Popyk, who was in my year at Trinity College. Tom’s a world famous journalist now, in large part because he has the courage to be where the story is. He’s back in Baghdad again, for the fourth or fifth time since the war […]
We had an excellent weekend! Saturday was the big Exultate choir BBQ at our house. I grilled up some fine PC burgers, and many of the choir brought wonderful salads, dips, sushi, desserts, etc. The weather was a bit cool and cloudy, but everybody had a great time. Yesterday was our first wedding anniversary! In […]
And here’s one last view of the house. It was always an extremely comfortable place, and I’m going to miss it!
Anne and I went to Guelph on Saturday and said goodbye to the old homestead. My parents are moving out to Victoria at the end of the month, so they’re in the process of packing — though the house looked impressively devoid of packing crates when we were there. We took a walk with them […]
Anne and I had a great long weekend in New York to celebrate her birthday. We went to see Der Rosenkavalier at the Met, had a couple of excellent meals, and spent three afternoons in, respectively, the new-ly renovated MOMA, the Metropolitan Museum, and the Guggenheim. And we got to see Paul, Kelly, Neil and […]