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Saturday was a super moon, which I didn't know -- but on Friday night I went biking along the riverside path, eventually ending up in the Lachine Rapids migratory bird sanctuary a half-hour's ride away. The moon was very large and very bright; in iPhone photos it looks like a spotlight on the water.

The last time I went biking, the Saturday ( Read more... )

My grandmother passed away Thursday night. We learnt she had terminal cancer in January, which is a story in and of itself, and after that her decline was shockingly rapid. Insofar as I can reconstruct the timeline, I was halfway through an 8-hour session of straight whiskey drinking and hashing out of emotional topics with an old friend (including ( Read more... )

I got a promotion, or rather I got a somewhat different job at the same company. So I am currently wrapping the one up while trying to get a head start on the other (this involves meetings. Lots and lots of meetings. It's a boss-level job, though I am not specifically the boss of anyone ( Read more... )

It is pneumonia. XD; A very small pneumonia, I am told! Barely a bronchitis really! I have been put on Biaxin for five days and it has not made me sick, so that is already a plus.

I have figured out how to add the footer on a crosspost! Go me! /rollsalot (Original post is here: ( Read more... )

Burning Man after-party Saturday night was unexpectedly awesome. (That is, I figured it would be pretty awesome, but it was psychologically difficult to drag myself there -- and once I was there, it was even more awesome than I expected. I went with spiced Barbancourt and frozen passion fruit pulp, returned with Ypioca Silver and an ale from ( Read more... )

Subdee came up to Montreal for a few days! Sunday evening through Wednesday morning. We went to see The Avengers again on Monday night. XD;

Was woken up at 5AM on Tuesday morning by extremely loud thunder and lightning. Got up, checked the windows, went back to bed and dreamt fuzzily of Thor getting angry and bashing things. It looked over by the ( Read more... )

1) ( Interviewed Olympic divers at the FINA Canada Cup Grand Prix, for the radio station. )

Found my membership card and everything! This is a feat, okay. And went to the bank and paid all the bills and stuff, because it has thawed again and I can get around in Crocs. Took out the last Lymond book so I can finally finish it, A Moveable Feast for sororial unit because she wanted early 20th century and Hemingway and AMF is the only ( Read more... )

Came home from Igloofest in the small hours of Saturday, emptied out the pockets of my coat, dropped a twoonie coin on the floor, lunged to grab it before it rolled under the oven, and somehow slipped and totally destroyed my left little toe. ( Cut for gory details. )

My grandfather passed away yesterday morning (the evening of the 21st, Shanghai time ( Read more... )