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