Clear-cut December: dry light, sharp corners, clouds that run ahead of the wind-- and what a wind, aided by the new wind tunnel at Bathurst and Bloor. Thank you for nothing, Mr. Mirvish. But my views on the unholy marriage between climate change and developers' slavering over thirty/ forty/ fifty storey condominiums is well known.

Days like today say 'late 1980s' to me. What the defining moment was has vanished, though I have a fleeting memory of a coffeeshop on Bloor, one of the first in my 'hood to serve café au lait. Which seems all wrong: there must gave been other places, Second Cup started in 1975 though for all I know they didn't serve espresso drinks until much later. You wanted Italian coffee types, you had to go down to College St.'s Italiaville. (Come to that, the most popular Annex restaurant in the mid-80s was one that served pasta! Such a departure! because if you wanted ritzy Italian ie not spaghetti and meatballs in tomato sauce, you also had to go down to College St. Everything else up here was eastern European meat, meat, and for a change, meat; or greasy spoon diner standards. Though I could go for a hot turkey sandwich with mashed potatoes, if that were findable anywhere.)

Well, now it's Korean Japanese, and that's what I had, though my regular waitstaff weren't on today. Still, I got out and walked, so yay for me. I'm still sleeping ten or eleven hours a night in the wake of last Monday's booster, but my arm has finally stopped aching. So maybe I might be up before 11 tomorrow.