June 22, 2001

    Went shopping.

    Dinner was spaghetti.

    The choir dress-rehearsed Nabucco. (Carrie substituted for Sinead.) I must say we sound rather good now.

June 21, 2011

"You're famous!"

"I'm noticed.  There's a difference."

--Treme

    Today the water did get turned off for a few hours.  The water main people are now finished.

    Dinner was KFC.

    Went to a seminar at the Water Company office on Eglinton east of Mt. Pleasant. (They have a Meetup group.)

June 20, 2011

    Yesterday Donald came over for dinner and we had Indian food.

    Stayed up even later than usual following a Huffington Post forum about "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. (One of my posts was "One nation under the Mighty Thor!")

    Dreamed of the 1982 movie 48 Hours; a slapstick movie scene where someone was carrying a load of bees and they escaped into a crowd!

    The water main people arrived today. (Water service hasn't been interrupted yet.)

    Dinner was McDonald's.

    Choir practice was at the Villa Colombo today.  It's Giuseppe's birthday and someone brought a cake!

June 18, 2011

Wotan (explaining Siegmunde and Sieglinde's incestuous love): "Sometimes things happen that have never happened before"--Die Walkure

Brunnhilde (to Wotan): "Who am I if not your will?"--ibid.

"I dated your sister for three months."

"She says you were a total asshole!"

"Yeah, I can see why she'd say that."

--Treme

    Saw the cinemacast of the Met production of Wagner's Die Walkure at the Sheppard Grande.  Another excellent Robert Lepage production:  over four hours long (plus intermissions), but it didn't seem protracted.  As Brunnhilde, Deborah Voight was youthful as a bobby-soxer!

    Dinner was the rest of the fettucine.

June 17, 2011

"Cold beer!"

"Nice to see you too."

--Treme

"I was married to a musician.  Ain't no possible way you're going to make that shit right!"--ibid.

"It's N.P.R.  They get it.  The "N" is for nuance"--ibid.

    Dreamed of a non-existent Brazilian movie titled Cinque Oras. ("Cinco horas" is Portuguese for "five hours," "cinque ore" is the Italian.)

    Dinner was sausage and mash.

    Finally planted the potatoes. (Some of the onion sprouts are already visible!)

    I've started a new Facebook game called Hero City. (It's like Cityville, but with rather kid-sized superheroes.)

    Saw the DVD of the first episode of the New Orleans ensemble series Treme.  Very promising! (It rhymes with the soap brand Camay.)

June 16, 2011

Biff: "I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here, I know that all I've done is to waste my life"--Death of a Salesman

    I was a long time getting to sleep again. (Didn't wake up till about 14:00!)

    Dreamed of doing an acting exercise where I played Stalin on his deathbed; telling my shrink about it.

    The pipe workers were going to come to our house today, but got delayed by a leak in the water main.

    Dinner was fettucine alfredo.

    We couldn't find any seed potatoes, so I'm going to plant regular spuds.

    Went to a Toronto Social Group Meetup at Scallywag's.  We had a Scrabble tournament, with everyone playing three games.  In the first game my first letters included both blanks, so I used up all seven letters and got the 50-point bonus on my first move!  I owned the first game, finished last in the second, and narrowly won the third.

    Wrote a customer review of Stephen E. Ambrose's To America at amazon.com .  I didn't think much of it. [Ambrose let his patriotism cloud his judgement...]

June 15, 2011

    Dreamed of the song "Cockles and Mussels."

    Father and I went to Scotiabank again for more financial business.

    Dinner was chicken curry.

    Went to the Games Meetup at 401 Games for the first time in a while.  I played the U.S. version of Powergrid for the first time, and finished last. (I know what my big mistake was...)