November 15, 2009

"There were many marble busts....  They had the complete marble quality of all looking alike....  The frescoes were not bad.  Any frescoes were good when they started to peel and flake off."

--A Farewell to Arms

"Take it from me--marriage isn't a word, it's a sentence!"--The Crowd

    Went bowling with the Introverts Meetup group at Danforth Bowl near Coxwell station.  I got three strikes!

    Saw King Vidor's silent classic The Crowd (for the third time) at the Cinematheque.

    Started reading Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.

    The Coro Verdi did the first of two La Traviata dress rehearsals at the Villa Colombo, with a piano in serious need of tuning.

November 13, 2009

 Baked whole wheat bread overnight.

Baked another pumpkin pie in the afternoon. (The rest of the pumpkin went bad--I should have put it in the basement refrigerator!--so I used canned pumpkin instead.)

Dinner was Thai food.

Went to a Games Meetup at Mary's place.  I played Scrabble and Ticket to Ride, and between them sat around for a while waiting for a new game.

November 12, 2009

    Dreamed of being in hiding in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia; looking for anachronistic details to confirm that this was a later re-enactment of the time.

    Went to Deer Park library and borrowed Roald Dahl's Danny, Champion of the World.

    Dinner was roast chicken.

    Went to a new Aspergers Meetup at the Kingsway Starbucks.  There were four people there.

November 11, 2009

    Finished watching I, Claudius.  Really brilliant.

    Went shopping.

    Dinner was curried pork.

    Went to a Games Meetup at 401 Games.  I played Ticket to Ride (the original version with a U.S. map), Agricola and Carcassone.  In my second Agricola game my score rose from 10 to 11 points.

November 10, 2009

    Dreamed of being about to be in a graduation ceremony and realizing I was wearing a turtleneck instead of a suit.

    Met my shrink Dr. Hassan.

    Dinner was salmon.

    At opera rehearsal we did the rest of Pagliacci. (We would have done our Marriage of Figaro chorus but the scores weren't ready.)

November 7, 2009

    Baked rye bread.

    Last night I cut up our pumpkin and today I baked a pie.

    Finally got around to composting the garden.

    Dinner was McDonald's.

    Went to the Karaoke Meetup and sang "Dancing in the Dark" and "The Battle of New Orleans."

November 5, 2009

Supervisor: "It's not our tradition to abandon agents in the field."

Reilly: "But you do, dear boy."

--Reilly:  Ace of Spies

On Livia: "They say a snake bit her and died"--I, Claudius

    Dreamed of putting toothpaste on two toothbrushes; meeting an MP.

    Dinner was roast chicken.

    Saw the first episode of the DVD of I, Claudius (for the second time). (Moira rented it from 2Q Video.) It gets off to a slow start.