Dreamed of the song "Let's Hear It for the Boy"; hiking west through the mountains to a town in Washington state; a wife-swapping rogue who became the special agent of General Halftrack in the comic strip Beetle Bailey, telling him which officers to purge from his unit; the song "Ferry 'Cross the Mersey."
Dinner was Indian food. (I wish we'd have it once when John isn't around, so we could get more meat dishes.)
Homer: "Space aliens! Don't eat me, I have a wife and children! Eat them!"
--The Simpsons
Dreamed of the TV version of Brideshead Revisited (its stars Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews are in the last episodes of The Pallisers); wondering why the Monkees were in it (they weren't); the song Streets of Laredo (I just saw Bang the Drum Slowly, in which they were singing it); comic strip antihero Mike Nomad.
Dinner was KFC.
Another lazy day. I got out of bed around 14:00 and didn't do much of anything.
Finished The Pallisers. My favourite episodes were the ones involving Phineas Finn.
Dreamed of the Expo '67 song "Ca-Na-Da!"; visiting Norway; mowing the back yard of our old home in Sackville, N.B., into nighttime.
I still don't have much energy.
Went to a Games Meetup at the Ryerson Pod, where I played Dominion, Settlers of Catan and Carcassone. (It was my first time playing Dominion, but I managed second place!)
Dinner was curried pork.
Saw a DVD of a 1958 production of Ibsen's The Master Builder.
--Bang the Drum Slowly
"'Nothing to speak of' has a way of turning into something that has to be spoken of, and very painfully"--The Pallisers
Dreamed of a memoir by a non-existent Holocaust survivor from Greece; the early 19th-century English practice of burning hay ricks as a political protest, which was punished by hanging.
Dinner was fish and chips. (The parents went out and bought a ton of strawberries, so we had strawberry shortcake too.)
I was going to go out to the reopene Carlton cinema and try to catch one of the free movies, but I didn't feel up to it.
Saw the DVD of Bang the Drum Slowly, with Robert de Niro as a dying baseball player. Some good dialogue, though I recall preferring the TV play version.
Dreamed of arriving at a Vancouver hotel; a new Harry Potter mystery that everyone was reading.
Went shopping.
Dinner was roast chicken.
Since I upgraded my browser to Safari 5, it's become really erratic! (Hope they update it soon...)
Dreamed of the cartoon series Daria (which I've only seen once); reflecting on the song Do They Know It's Christmas? and considering that most Ethiopian Christians are in the Coptic church which still uses the Julian calendar, so Christmas would come a couple of weeks later for them.
The sun room is now painted blue.
Dinner was curried shrimp. (This time, Mother was the one too sick to eat.)
"You don't trust me a yard, do you, Wharton?"
"Not a millimetre, Lopes!"
--The Pallisers
Dreamed of mixing different flavours of pudding.
Went to a Games Meetup at the Yellow Griffin.
My first game was Smallworld, where my races were mounted skeletons, berserk humans and wealthy amazons. The second was Ticket to Ride, where I smoked 'em with 129 points!
John came over for dinner, which was pork roast.
