I write this sitting on my balcony, looking out over my backyard (the grass is coming in nicely), Terry Fox (busy), and the vast swathe of undeveloped greenery beyond (source of my allergic reactions, I have no doubt). It's pleasantly sunny but only about 17 degrees, warm but certainly not uncomfortably so. This cervesa-style beer is going down quite nicely.
The air is filled with drifting white bits of fluff, of unknown origin or providence. My general tendency to allergically react to just about anything relating to terrestrial flora reproductive cycles makes me suspicious of it, and adds an element of unthinking malice to what would otherwise be a picturesque, dare I say it, Norman Rockwell-esque moment.
This laptop has a tendency to decide that the placement of your hands indicates a desire to manipulate the trackpad, causing my cursor to suddenly jump up three paragraphs mid-sentence. I find this disconcerting.
What else is going on?
Jack came by today for a few games of Warhammer. I'll write about that on the pertinent blog, but suffice it to say that a good time was had.
The Governor General, not someone who by the nature of her background or present circumstances is generally likely to elicit much approval from this quarter, went up several notches in my estimation when she participated in an Inuit seal hunt activity and ate raw seal heart, much to the sniffing disapproval of several functionaries highly placed in the ossifying socialist edifice which is the European Union. Because (Danish porpoise hunts) they would never (Spanish bullfighting) endorse such barbarism (everything the Belgians did in Africa ever).
A pox on all their houses, the hypocritical pasty-faced cowardly bastards. See if we save you from the Germans next time around.
I suspect this fluffy stuff is dandelion-related. I now dislike it for more than one reason.
We are going to the drive-in tonight, to watch Monsters & Aliens and then Star Trek (second time for me, first for the wife). I am looking forward to it. It's such a good time, and inexpensive to boot, that I'm a little surprised it's not a more popular activity. My suspicion is that people just don't know about it, based on the reactions I tend to get when I tell people that's what I'm doing.
The laptop-trackpad-cursor-bounce has added an e to Event in my title. I think I'll leave it there.
2 comments:
There's a drive-in in Ottawa now?? I thought it closed down. where & when..? I love drive-ins... I went to my first in k-town.
The drive-in is in Smith's Falls, so it's a bit of a drive, but worth it I think. I'll have to look up the website for full details.
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