I've long got over my early-20s visceral reaction to cigarettes and smoke. There was a time when I would get in someone's face about, say, smoking near food. At a certain point, I just stopped caring about giving people a hard time about it, probably because there are all kinds of other pollutions that people are subjecting each other to all the ( Read more... )

I really have mixed feelings about the Olympic Village/Millenium Waterfront set of condos which are really not that far from where I live ( Read more... )

One downside to the bus strike this winter which I may have mentioned is that I had to use my bicycle a couple of times in midwinter but I don't really have "room" to clean it off after it gets snow/salt on it. (I live on the 3rd floor, no garage or space to clean it in, especially in -20 weather.) Now I'm really regretting it, because the chain ( Read more... )

So, I guess it's the end of an era, somebody kicked in the crankset on the side of my longtime black Norco bicycle that I bought at a yard sale on Belmont ave. a few years ago. I managed to bike home but the gears are bent out of shape in a way that tortures the chian ( Read more... )

The weather is turning nice soon, I plan to start biking. I'm going to try to tighten the brakes on my bike in the next hour before going to work, but I'm also thinking of buying a new bike this spring. (I've had the same one for a few years, I bought it for $40 at a yardsale, it's not very fast and it's slowly crumbling ( Read more... )

I went around town à vélo after getting off work early yesterday.. I know I saw a lot of humorous things, but I can only remember two of them:
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Jesus, I saw the worst road rage of my life tonight outside of my favorite Indian takeout place in HintonburgI was about to get on my bike in front of the takeout place when I looked up at the intersection and saw an SUV pull backwards towards the car behind it waiting at the red light. The car honked in terror and there was all kinds of yelling, ( Read more... )

I ran out of oats for my porridge and I was searching up and down the aisles in the Vanier supermarket for a bag of them. Oats are seemingly of little interest to most people because I find that those large grocery store only carry a few bags at a time while having infinite variety of instant (ie useless) oats. Finally I settled for a $4 bag of " ( Read more... )

Hey, I guess whenever I hear fireworks I have a Pavlovian urge to post a retrospective on livejournal. Or, maybe national holidays just make me pensive with a single tear in my eye ( Read more... )

I was a maniac yesterday and ended up paying $19 for four slices of gourmet pizza :( I.. I just have such a weakness for the romance of the Mediterranean, for swarthy men standing disappointed and customerless in their large restaurants, for wood ovens, for treating myself for things I don't know how to make. God.. it was so good, even though I ( Read more... )