Dreamed of recalling Father saying he didn't care for Steve McQueen (which he really did say).
Dinner was spaghetti.
Saw the cinemacast of Franco Zeffirelli's Met production of Puccini's opera Turandot at the Sheppard Grande with the Classical Music Meetup group. The first two acts are pretty good, but it gets masochistic in the third. ("Pain is sweetness to me...")
"He skeeves people off, like midgets"--Weeds
Dreamed of trying to remember what town I was born in. (It was Sackville, N.B.)
Dinner was salmon.
Saw the DVD of Rod Serling's 1957 TV play The Comedian. Mickey Rooney was disturbingly well-cast as the eponymous loud-mouthed bully!
Dreamed of driving from Halifax to my hometown Sackville, N.B.; wondering whether I'd get to see any of the August movies being shown at the Projection Booth. [I didn't.]
Dinner was churrasco chicken.
Saw Joe Johnson's Captain America: The First Avenger at the Yonge & Eglinton. (I was going to see the last Harry Potter movie, but the TTC was slower than I expected.) It was a pretty good little-boy adventure. They were showing it in 3-D, but my Scene card had enough points for a free admission anyway.
In The Huffington Post I commented (paraphrasing Churchill on Neville Chamberlain) that Obama had the choice of bankruptcy or dishonour: he chose dishonour, and he'll get bankruptcy.
Dreamed of seeing the first part of Monty Python and the Holy Grail in a library in a Moncton shopping centre; trying to remember what movies were released in May and June, 1980.
Had lunch with the Mad About Movies Meetup group at Spin. (I ate fresh fruit crepes.) Afterward we walked through Mount Pleasant Cemetery, where I spotted journalist Norman DePoe's grave.
Dinner was the rest of the corn on the cob. (This time I poured cold water on it before eating, and didn't burn my mouth.)
Started two new cities in my computer games: Heathead in Kingdoms of Camelot, and Strathdunum (Celtic for "fort in the valley") in Glory of Rome.
Homer: "I don't have the discipline to be a hippie!"--The Simpsons
Had dinner at the Golden Thai restaurant with the Aspergers Meetup group. I ate special fried rice and cashew chicken. Bea tells me that the St. Michael's Hospital, where my examination will be next month, has good haematologists. (She used to work in hospital administration.)
Finally sprang for new cities in the computer games Glory of Rome and Kingdoms of Camelot. (I've also started a new Facebook game called Millionaire Boss.)
John Slattery (who plays Roger Sterling on Mad Men) is six months younger than me!
Baked raisin bread.
Dinner was frozen pizza.
Saw a La Scala production of Verdi's Nabucco in an open-air screening at the Italian Consulate, with the Classical Music Meetup group.
Homer: "When was the last time Barbra Streisand cleaned your garage?"--The Simpsons
Dreamed of trying to drive a car [I've never learned]; filling a washing machine; the 1980s CBC comedy series Seeing Things (which I never watched).
Went shopping. (We replenished the ice.)
Dinner was corn on the cob (which I bought at Whittamore Farm yesterday). I think I burnt my mouth!
I was going to go on an Art Walk Meetup, but I wasn't quite up to it.
