Walked over to the Spadina Shoppers PO in the cold grey dank, with gunk on the wheels because melted snow + leaf detritus + mud/ clay from the many many condos a-building on Dupont. But parcel dispatched quickly, though my heart sank when I realized the one guy ahead of me had fifteen or so identical flat parcels to post and was in deep ( Read more... )

Whole entry vanishes when I leave the page to look something up. And I did do 'select all' and 'copy' beforeI eft, but then I went and thoughtlessly copied something else. Oh well. You don't need to hear me moaning about my owie tendons or hangul study ( Read more... )

It seems to me that in classic mysteries of the Agatha Christie sort, the know-it-all who hints darkly that they suspect someone whom of course they will not name, promptly becomes the next victim. Of course one must not murder one's detective, but it would help if someone at least bashed Gideon Fell over the head when he starts doing his 'I know ( Read more... )

It's a pleasant enough life I lead these days‐ squaredle every morning, Questionable Content every (weekday) evening, tiktok videos of sheep herding dogs (from which I learn that 'Come by' tells the dogs to go clockwise and 'Away' means 'go counter-clockwise', which Pratchett failed to inform me in the Tiffany Aching books.) Also Chinese ( Read more... )

My lenses are on backorder and will be in stock Nov 2. Which I should gave figured for myself. That being so, I doubt the backup place will have them either. Pity. That $70 could have bought me a snazzy meal somewhere. However my eyes have adjusted to being mono-ocular faster than expected and a good thing, because the lens eye still wells and ( Read more... )

Two nights of disturbed sleep for no reason I know of. It's very disconcerting for me to wake up to darkness several times. Once yes, but three times? Anyway, last night got me two literary dreams: the first was a Dick Francis novel which sleeping brain thought was one of his real ones, just in technicolour. Details gone so I don't know if it was ( Read more... )

Being late as ever to current trends, and having a resistance to actually watching things, I passed by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's oeuvre, whether novels or anime, after a very brief dip ito both. But a tumblr post about Heaven Official's Blessing led me to believe there was a manhwa about that so I checked out our library system and put holds on the first ( Read more... )

The partial eclipse up here was nothing much. The sun was behind a cloud so no wonder if things looked a tad pale. Even the full eclipse in 2017 didn't do much except leach colour from the world. I was expecting, yanno, a twilight darkness or something like in The Last of the Wine ( Read more... )

The cold is currently blowing in. Farewell, our summer weather. (Didn't use the AC last night, woke up sweaty this morning. Give me a day or two and I know I'll be moaning Cold so cold ohh it's so cold. But thus autumn, always ( Read more... )

I have a bad habit of many years' standing of frittering my autumns and winters away reading mystery series. They aren't always time wasters but frequently are enough so, that I get scratchy about my inability to do anything but read about various Inspectors (Rutledge, Cooper and Fry, Barnaby, Ben Ross, Mitchell and Markby, Campbell and Carter) or ( Read more... )