Keeping in touch

Amy and I jumped into our rented horseless carriage on Friday and drove to Brampton in the late afternoon to visit Nana at Peel Memorial Hospital. She seemed a little better than when I had last visited, and seemed to respond to the family photos and movies we showed to her on Amy's laptop. As was the case for all who view our slideshows, she was asleep after about a half hour.

Off to the next Brampton event!



Continuing the trend of recovery after years of work-aholism (Help help! I'm addicted to work-ahol!) and renewing old friendships which had been neglected by me in favour of, uh, let's say 30-hour workdays (?!), I had an excellent evening on Friday catching up with Michelle C. and her husband Scott. Judging by the pictures of their two sons, Amy and I agree that those kids will have a huge fan club of adoring women when they're older. If they're even half as gregarious as M is, they'll be quite the centre of attention wherever they are!

It was great to see M again, although I was sad to have missed so many developments in the intervening time. I'll be making a point to keep in touch!

Happy, but old

I'm happy that we've got a sizeable contingent of friends from university living in town, 3 of whom are literally a stone's throw away. (Assuming I could throw well.)

It also makes me feel happy to see the evidence of existence of really old friends I haven't seen in a millenia. It makes me wonder, though, how old I would look to them now. I'll ask next week when Amy and I visit my high school best friend Michelle and her family back in Brampton. The cumulative indignities of time are less evident in me to the folks I see regularly (or at least every few years), but it'd be many years all at once for those who I haven't seen since my teen years.

I'm still wrapping my mind around two things I've learned recently:
1. The new Michelle Callender paradigm: Mother of two!
2. The mischievous urchin Sarah Fox: professional bass guitarist!

Upon further investigation, both Ryan and Dane from B-town have gone on to careers in music. *sigh* D'ya see, 17-year old me! It IS possible to do music for a living... You don't have to do Physics and Math if you don't really enjoy it. Ah well...

It'll be even more fun to see folks in yet another 15 years! Woo, Time!! At what point will I be required to sport a pipe?

Current music: Anoushka Shankar - Sinister Grains

4am - the ugliest part of the day

Early day today. Got to sleep at 11:30pm last night and up to start work at 4am. Changes a-plenty in the systems and I needed to do even more code changes and watch it deal with different data scenarios with the state of the databases specifically at that time of day.

Five hours sleep and a 4am wake up time leaves me in a foul mood. Wanted to kill Django, as the little sh*t kept interrupting me as I began the extreme crunch time between 6am-8am. I kept shooing him, and he returning and clawing at me until I had had it and shut him in the bathroom for that 2hr span. (Apparently he thought this was "outside the box" thinking and reciprocated later outside his box for A). Cat didn't know how close he was to being an ex-cat.

Ate good Ethiopian food for lunch with Dave L, Dave V, and Vanessa and Ed. Nice long lunch, over 1.5 hrs, then back for meetings and work until I finished my labours after 5:30pm. Very happy to get out early!