February 02, 2003
Crocker, China, Tired, Neighbour and Many Visitors
Posted by jservice at February 02, 2003 09:57 PM
- At choir practice we sight-read a new piece by an Emily Crocker. Of course there were the usual Betty Crocker (she of cake mix fame) jokes. Our director came up with the best one. "Emily" must be one of the many Crocker children since the mother's motto was "moist and easy."
- We took back the china cabinet contents to my wife's brother's condo now that the new carpets are laid and the furniture is back in place. We also gave them a hand by washing all that china and glassware — something that looks like it hasn't been done for many years. My brother-in-law showed us a picture of a friend who would be coming over next week and I'm pretty sure I see this guy every day, waiting for the same GO train home as I do. I knew he was hard of hearing when I had heard him speak to the ticket guy. Small world!
- Yesterday was mild, up to 4°C. In typically Canadian fashion we saw kids out in T-shirts. I went for a run with just my Nike running shirt and a fleece sweat shirt. Today (Ground Hog Day), it was a bit cooler so I added another layer. Today was also a tired day. You know the kind: you feel like you could have slept another hour or two, you're yawning all the time, and you lie down to do your crunch exercises and feel that you should take a nap right there on the floor.
- We had the neighbour over for supper yesterday evening. Her house is warm again with a brand-new $3,000 furnace as the repairman had condemned the old one because of a cracked heat exchanger. She sighed and said "I guess the new hardwood floors will have to wait a year". She just had her rugs cleaned because one of the cats had done its business everywhere. She had wondered why until she discovered the cat's bottle of twice daily anti-constipation medecine was almost gone. Apparently the friends looking after the place had mis-read the dosage: instead of 0.35 ml they gave 3.5 ml — ten times the dosage. Besides crapping and peeing everywhere, that poor cat must have had really bad cramps, too. One silver lining of the house being so cold when she came back from her trip is that the smell wasn't as bad as it became once the heat was on again.
- I have started the last semester of Grade 13 with my younger son. Last night it was reviewing logarithms and finding line equations given the slope or intersecting points. Later we'll start calculus. I can hardly wait. I'll have to give my rusty brain a shake or two.
- Lastly, according to my web server logs and the AWStats software, I had 1492 "unique" vistors and 18862 "hits" in Janary. Way to go Internet.
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