July 30, 2011

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!

July 29, 2011

    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.

July 28, 2011

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.

July 27, 2011

Marge: "Nelson Muntz is a troubled, lonely, sad little boy.  He needs to be isolated from everyone!"--The Simpsons

    Dreamed of the British sitcom Steptoe and Son (the basis for Sanford and Son).

    We went out to Whittamore Farm in the morning and picked raspberries, along with peas and beans.

    Went back to bed and dreamed of dolls of Bonnie and Clyde.

    Saw a DVD of classroom films with a safety theme, including the Sid Davis classic Live and Learn.

    Donald had dinner with us at Red Lobster.

July 26, 2011

Lisa: "I know it's true!  I read it on a restaurant placemat"--The Simpsons

    Puitak and Gordon came over and brought lunch.

    Drove down to the lakeshore with the parents. (I don't usually accompany them.)

    Dinner was the rest of the Chinese food.

July 25, 2001

"What kind of dame marries a hood?"

"All kinds."

--The Narrow Margin

"You make me sick to my stomach!"

"Well, not in my sink."

--ibid.

    I feel like I'm getting a cold.

    Dinner was the rest of the fettucine.

    Saw the DVD of Richard Fleischer's train thriller The Narrow Margin.  That was quite a twist! (They should have taken a plane.)

July 24, 2001

On Musetta: "She's well-dressed."

"Angels are naked."

--La Boheme

    Went to a Classical Music Meetup at a fancy townhouse on Sheppard Avenue. (I took the bus east from Downsview station.) We saw a Blu-Ray DVD of a production of Puccini's La Boheme by Madrid's Teatro Real, and had a big-screen set to see it on!  Laura Giordano was a gorgeous Musetta!

    Dinner was lobster rolls.

    Went to bed early.

    Dreamed of finding an underground civilization with a lower level of development and causing a civil war there; checking different TV channels around midnight Saturday; Dvorak's "Songs My Mother Taught Me"; Moira learning the Armenian language. [She knows German and Russian.]