John's rebuilding our furnace and adding heat pumps and stuff so for a couple of weeks we'll have no heat except from electric heaters. At least the cold weather hasn't arrived yet!
On Saturday I had lunch (spaghetti) at Terroni's with a stitch.com group. But I had a hard time finding the place--I was looking for the street address, which wasn't posted out front--and was half an hour late. Afterward I passed by Toronto's No Kings protest near the U.S. embassy. (There was an evangelist with a megaphone nearby!)
Finished reading Ann Patchett's novel The Dutch House for my book club. It's a great book, with an unconventional narrative approach that resembles a first-draft memoir before it's been edited... I gave the book to Moira, and she likes it too. (Now I'm reading Lindsey Hughes' biography of Peter the Great for my History Meetup.)
Yesterday John P. and I were going to visit the Royal Ontario Museum and see the exhibit of Flemish artifacts. But he told me to meet him "under the dome" at the entrance, and I somehow thought he meant the dome that used to be the McLaughlin Planetarium! (I haven't been thinking straight lately.) Oh well, we'll go on Friday.
Today I went to Bay Street Video to rent A Royal Affair for my Friday night watch party, but they only had it in incompatible Blu-Ray format! So I rented Lawrence Kasdan's 1985 western Silverado instead, which I've never seen. (Back at the time I was put off by its ad line "Get ready for the ride of your life": I don't care for these oversell lines that presume my inattentiveness.)
I've started watching a PBS documentary series about Lincoln and his wife. It's quite good.
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