August 26, 2011

    Dreamed of composing a painting of Spartacus describing Mount Everest to a group of slaves.

    Baked whole wheat bread.

    Went to Beguiling in Mirvish Village and bought some comic strip reprints, including the first years of Rip Kirby (the coolest guy in the world when I was 11 or 12!).

    Dinner was spaghetti.

August 25, 2011

    Went shopping.

    Dinner was salmon.

    Went on a Queen Street art walk and visited a couple of galleries and a boutique called Art 47.

    Got my new iron pills at Shoppers Drug Mart.

August 24, 2011

    I was going to meet the Asperger's group for lunch at Chipotle, but I couldn't find them.

    John and Kathrine brought dinner over.  Once again, I sneaked out to KFC afterward.

    Posted a YouTube clip of Danny Kaye singing "Inchworm" in Hans Christian Andersen, on the Asperger group's Facebook page. (The song reminds me of Asperger's Syndrome.)

August 23, 2011

    Yesterday I went to a welfare office near Yonge & Eglinton and they gave me a phone number to call to start the process of getting onto Ontario Disability Support Payments. [I have Asperger's Syndrome.]

    Today I had my appointment with Dr. Scholzberg, the haematologist at St. Michael's Hospital. (I was late, but still ended up cooling my heels for a while.) She prescribed a new kind of iron pill for me.

    Dinner was roast pork. (Moira baked a pie with some of the apples we picked last week.)

August 21, 2011

    Went to a Classical Music Meetup event:  a chamber music concert at Mount Pleasant Cemetery.  The group performed string quartets by Mozart and Dvorak.  The weather started out fine, but during the intermission we hurried from the outdoor marquee to an indoor chapel, and barely escaped a downpour complete with thunder!

    The rain largely ended before the concert did, so we made a pilgrimage to pianist Glenn Gould's grave. (The cemetery people drove us there in a couple of CNE-like minibuses.) We saw a deer in a wooded area!  I'd borrowed an illustrated guide to the place from the library, but didn't get around to doing much exploring.

    Dinner was African stew.

    In the Kingdoms of Camelot computer game, the leader of our alliance has set up a city for collecting resources, so I've started sending my huge reserves there.

August 20, 2011

    Dreamed of living with some horrid people and having to move out.

    Went to a Games Meetup in High Park. (I met Evgenia and a friend there and they joined us for some of the games.) I played Apples to Apples, and two new games called That's Life and Show Manager.

    Dinner was the rest of the corn.

    I've started the Frontierville spinoff computer game Pioneer Trail.  Still not sure whether I'll persist with it...

    Saw a DVD documentary about 20th Century Fox movies. (None of Joan Collins' early roles.)

August 19, 2011

    Today we did go to Orchard Home Farm, but the Gravenstein apples won't be ripe for another ten days.  We did get some Ginger Golds.

    Baked white bread.

    Dinner was corn on the cob, which we bought at Gillespie's near Orchard Home Farm.  Sweet!

    Went to another classroom films show at the Trash Palace.  I bought my ticket through a Meetup group. (The place was sold out!)