I've joined the Meaningful Connections Meetup, a social group for people over 60. We met online the week before last, then on Saturday we convened in person at Jack Astor's near the Scarborough Town Centre. (Bruce was driving there from the west, so he was nice enough to pick me up and spare me a long TTC trip.) I was afraid there'd be way more women than men, but so far we've had a good balance. I like our ethnic diversity: Earle the organizer is from St. Kitts-Nevis (he quipped that he's from Mars!), and there are a German and a Greek too. Bruce is 80, but definitely looks younger.
The St. Clair Avenue streetcars are finally running again! But it'll be a few more months before they finish the St. Clair West station renovations so we still have to get off to access the subway.
I just read a history of the Weimar Republic for July's History Meetup. I'm also rereading Balzac's Pere Goriot for the French Culture Meetup. (We watched Godard's Breathless the other week.) In the Reading Out Loud Meetup we read Alice Munro's "Day of the Butterfly" and Margaret Atwood's "My Evil Mother" in the English week, and Charles Perrault's "Sleeping Beauty" the French week. We would have read "Beauty and the Beast" too, but didn't have time.
It took me weeks to get past Level 2243 in Candy Crush Saga! But persistence ultimately won the day...
Voted NDP in the St. Paul's by-election yesterday. (I've volunteered for the NDP in the past, but this time I didn't have so much energy.) The ballot paper was really long because an organization arranged for about eighty people to register as candidates in a protest against our "first past the post" electoral system! The Conservative edged out the Liberal for the first time in 30 years, as if I care...
Last week I downloaded the Too Good to Go app so we can order cheap surprise packages of unsold food from neighbourhood eateries! (We have to use our cellphone instead of a desktop.) So far I've bought some baked goods from Tim Horton's and Daisy's.
I'm pleased that Julian Assange is finally free!
