Strange, fractious weather in Toronto at the moment — warm, smoggy, with a dull ugly sky, rain overnight and, yesterday, a short thunderstorm during the day. We stayed inside on Sunday in consequence and played the Civilization board game, which is fun though somewhat random when there are only two players. I’m hoping to have friends around next week for a 3- or 4-person game.<\/p>\n
Work is busy intermittently — several part-time tasks on the go at the moment, which aren’t quite adding up to fulltime business right now but will probably result in overtime in a week or so. For now, I’m enjoying leaving work on time and meeting Anne three times a week at our club, where we work out together — very companionable, and as hardly anyone else uses the facility it’s very nice indeed. Though today I won’t be joining Anne on the weight machines — instead I’m meeting Sean Morley for a game of squash.<\/p>\n
Today I picked up a whole lot of pictures back from the disposable cameras at the wedding reception. There are some quite good ones… I’ll try and post them later this evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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