The election

    I'm kinda depressed about Canada's election last week.  We're moving into an American-style two-party system where people vote for one party to defeat the other!  I can understand people voting Liberal instead of NDP to defeat the Conservatives:  they're rejecting Conservative policies.  But what gets to me is people voting Conservative instead of NDP to defeat the Liberals. (They're just rejecting the party.) The result was that the NDP lost more seats to the Conservatives than to the Liberals.  The House of Commons badly needs proportional representation.

    With the election canvassing over with, I've finally started digging in the garden. (It's been a cool spring anyway.)

    With the anime One Piece back after a six-month hiatus, I've subscribed to crunchyroll.com to follow it again.  Just saw an 80-minute recap of the Egghead arc so far, but it conked out every five minutes and I had to restart it!  Oh well, each regular episode will only have four interruptions...

    I've started reading Eckhart Frahm's Assyria:  The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire for my History Meetup.  Over a millennium it evolved from a commercial city-state to an absolutist kingdom to a true empire...

    We've been watching Martin Scorcese's documentary about American movies on Kanopy.  But we could only find the first part of his show about Italian movies, on YouTube.

    I'm getting close to Level 3000 in Candy Crush Saga!