On the streetcar platform in St. Clair West station, there is a pillar which obviously used to have a sign on it, but there are now only the four bolts that used to hold the sign, with a couple of broken sign-bits hanging from two of them. No way of knowing what sort of sign it may have been.

Since the Lynxcub was cranky and out of sorts, I decided ( Read more... )

1. Oddly Specific

"Muime, I think Spiral Bear is hurt." (Spiral Bear is a stuffed animal given to him by my friend Monique when he was a baby)

"Really? What's wrong with her?"

"She fell off her bike and did a face-plant on the pavement."

2. Unexpected Bedtime Hazards

Just when I almost had him asleep, he suddenly sat up and tried to get out of bed. " ( Read more... )

When I was walking Kiska today, a very friendly, off-leash Siberian husky came bounding up to us in a nearby park and introduced himself to Kiska, nuzzled me to get petted, then wandered off.

I glanced around to see where his owner was - you don't see too many off-leash dogs in that park in the daytime. And I realized I couldn't see anyone around ( Read more... )

Actual conversation from earlier this evening ( Read more... )

The new(-ish) Bulk Barn store at Yonge and Carlton is DANGEROUS. I went in there yesterday thinking I'd just check it out, maybe get one or two things I'm out of. Walked out with 19 different things, having spent about 6x as much money as I'd intended to. Too much awesomeness in one place ( Read more... )

Me: What would you like to have in your bath with you, honey ( Read more... )

The Lynxcub had a big meltdown in a shoe store today, variously screaming "NO NO NO NO!" and that he hated shoes and hated trying things on (he only had to try on exactly one pair, so it's not like I had him doing it for hours), screaming that he would only try on size 4 and no other size (he takes size 4T in clothing, but size 8 in shoes - but he ( Read more... )

Scene: walking the Lynxcub home, along the edge of Withrow Park.

Lynxcub: Muime, when we get there, would you like to come in for a while, for some science? (he says this the way other people might invite you to come in for some coffee)

Me: I'm sorry, honey - we're already going back a lot later than I'd originally expected, so I really need to get ( Read more... )

Today I went with my dad to see a live HD broadcast of the NY Metropolitan Opera Company doing Götterdämmerung (the final installment of Wagner's Ring Cycle) in a movie theatre - that is, it was being performed live in NYC and simultaneously broadcast into various theatres in other cities, so it was kind of like seeing it live at one remove ( Read more... )

So... Got my computer back yesterday. The technician had run a whole slate of diagnostic tests on it over the weekend, all of which it apparently passed with flying colours, had restarted it something like 30 times with no evidence of any trouble, and nary a crash the entire time ( Read more... )