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Happy Easter! ✝️

Just set up a Meshtastic node for my area. Interesting to participate in it.

Seriously thinking about selling my electric guitar, which I don’t play often, and buying a new acoustic/electric, which I think I will use much more.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! ☘️

Trying out the beta for Gander social.

Merry Christmas! 🎄

Cameron Winter, Love Takes Miles

Guess I am a little late to it, but I just discovered Geese. Wow! Instant fan.

My knees are killing me today. 😣

My banjo was finally delivered! 🪕

Cool new Beaches tune! youtu.be/2c95er9Ja…

Blue Jays win the pennant!

Gander, the new Canadian social network!

I am antifa. Hard to believe that that is a controversial statement anywhere in this upside-down world, but here we are.

Watching fellow Rush fans respond with such joy to the announcement of the new tour had been fun.

Just bought a banjo. 🪕 First time owning a banjo, but I have wanted to learn for a long time.

🇨🇦 Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦

GTA RP on Unscripted Public has been a lot of fun. 👍

2025 WNBA Draft tonight!!! 🏀🏀🏀

This Ontario election will mark the first time I voted by mail. It was a very easy process, and I will vote by mail for all of the future elections that I participate in.

Bob Dylan concert I attended in 1996 at the Concert Hall in Toronto. Cool to find it online after all these years. youtube.com/watch

Happy New Year! 🥳

I made it to Christmas dinner with my family for the first time since before the pandemic in 2020. It was a special Christmas.

Merry Christmas! 🎄

Caitlin Clark is amazing. I haven’t been this excited about a basketball player since Larry Bird in 1984.

PWHL & WNBA has got me back in touch with being a sports fan again.

🍁🍁 Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁🍁

Warzone tonight.

Creaky knees are aching.

Power outages all over west Toronto due to flooding.

First solo win of the new Fortnite season. Ugly umbrella.

I have to wear a heart monitor for two weeks. Nothing much more to say about that.

Just received this in the mail today.

Listening to the new Vampire Weekend album Only God Was Above Us. So good. Makes me happy.

Home from a two-week hospital stay. Missed my cat a lot. Grateful to be home.

2024 has been challenging so far.

Merry Christmas!

Played the new season of Fortnite last night and got the first two squad wins of the chapter. Fun.

Home from the hospital.

In hospital again for a viral lung infection. Stuck in emergency for a couple of days. I’m lucky to be up in the ward now.

Mr. Noodles for lunch always feels like design school again.

Out at Gabby’s with my Dad for lunch. Nice getting outside in the proximity of grass.

Yesterday was the first day of the new Fortnite season (4:4). Had a great time with the team tackling the new POIs. And our last game of the night we got our first squad win of the season.

I have started streaming on Twitch. I mostly play Fortnite & Rocket League. You can find me there most evenings beginning at 9:30 if you’re at all interested in watching. m.twitch.tv/sopwith04…

The tattoo I got last fall. 1041.

Sleep has been elusive the past few days.

Arno Pro is such a great typeface. I use it in most of my book typesetting. Love it.

Rewatching Schitt’s Creek again with a friend who hasn’t seen it yet. So fun to share it with her.

Rocket League is super fun.

🇨🇦 Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦

Survived another hernia surgery. On the mend. Things are going well enough.

Started playing Fortnite with my cousin and a couple of his online buddies. The zero build mode is super fun with a team that you know and can chat with while playing.

Setting up new MacBook Pro.

Back home from the hospital. Working on a book and listening to Broken Social Scene B-Sides Old Dead Young.

Hopefully home from St. Michael’s Hospital today. 18 days in seems enough to me. I miss Luna!

At Future Bakery for the first time in forever.

Audiobooks have become my main form of entertainment. Luckily the Toronto Public Library has a great selection that are freely accessible.

Yesterday was the third anniversary of my sister Joanna’s passing. I still miss her so much. Don’t think that will ever go away.

Listening to Oh Mercy this morning. I still remember going to the record store in the fall of 1989 excited to get the new Dylan album. Playing it for the first time in my room and loving it. I still have that record too.

Listening to John Denver while typesetting this afternoon.

Absolutely dismayed by this European Super League business. I have been supporting Liverpool FC since the mid ‘90s, but this move has me seriously questioning whether I can continue to support them.

Feeling much better this morning. Even was able to get some sleep. Now able to get back to working on some design projects.

Insomnia and migraines. Quite the duo.

I still have my app.net app on my phone…. I don’t know why but am loathe to delete it. I think I just like looking at the radio tower every now and then.

Worked on a couple of cover mock-ups today. I don’t do cover design much any more, but was able to get one pretty good design together. Of course that usually means they will pick the other design, which I don’t like as much.

Did a lot of digital tidying yesterday. Still more to do. I have somehow ended up with several email addresses for various reasons and I am going to cut that down. Hopefully.

I am about to purge (again) all of my social media accounts, for good this time. The only exception to this will be my micro.blog. I have never been comfortable with social media but it seemed necessary to participate in modern life. I don’t believe it is necessary any longer.

About to watch Gorillaz Song Machine Live.

[I Am the Antichrist to You] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaFnOnxPMBk)

IV sites. 2020/09.

[When the party’s over.] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3AXhL3xy1I)

Oh, you got to meet me by the knuckles of the skinnybone tree.

Taking two of my nieces to their first-ever concert tonight. Melanie Martinez. Hadn’t heard of her before but I really like her music. Will be fun.

Listened to Mama Said by Lenny Kravitz yesterday. Great album I haven’t listened to in a long time.

August and Everything After this afternoon while typesetting.

I just purchased my first ever Windows PC. It’s a bit of a shock after 27 years of using Apple computers. I honestly never thought this day would come, but here we are. I will partition the HD so I can use Linux as my main OS, while keeping Windows alive to use Adobe. Shocked.

Rereading Generation X after 27 years. Mostly spurred on by the nostalgia of it. But also curious how it reads now.

Trip to Parry Sound today to go on an afternoon cruise around the islands of Georgian Bay. And I got a new hat.

It’s been a long, hard year. Already a year. Miss you, Joanna. <3

Liverpool Football Club. Champions of Europe! #6

The National, ‘You Had Your Soul With You.’

Liverpool Football Club. YNWA

Broken Social Scene at the Danforth Music Hall tonight!

Frightened Rabbit, “I Wish I Was Sober”

Pacey Lane, 2002–2018: We put down Pacey yesterday, Joanna’s dog. She was 16+ years old and had a good long life, but it was her time. I went over to spend the afternoon with her. It was beautiful out yesterday; a warm and sunny fall day. I took her for a final walk after lunch. We went down the alley and around the …