Went for my monthly visit to Sushi on Bloor with a well-stuffed wallet (my utility account's bank is on the way there) and had some of their huge sushi. Also watched the two Asian guys across from me eating tempura to see how they manage their chopsticks in case there's a trick to it I might learn,  but no. My fingers just don't do that anymore. But the wine they have is B&G's Partager, an old faithful. So went to the LCBO down Bathurst and got a litre and a half of that for future tippling.

Was standing outside the Price Wars quasi-dollar store looking at the rayon trousers and concluding that no, I can't fit a Chinese XL because I have no waist, when someone spoke my name. It was my Ethiopian co-worker from long ago, I think on the way to pick her son up from his kindergarten after-school. I'd forgotten that we have 'all-day' kindergarten now so the 4 and 5 year olds no longer attend daycare. So we caught up on recent events. A. said she'd thought of dropping by my place now that she comes to my 'hood regularly, but of course once she gets her kid back from his hockey/ soccer/ exhaust the kiddies pastime, all he wants to do is go home. When I said, apropos of my arthritic elbows, I was probably going to get a cleaning service in to deal with stuff that's beyond me, she was all ready to come and houseclean for me: which I hope she doesn't mean but suspect she does. Must see that I have a kettle and clean cups so I can offer her tea and a chat instead, since I can't offer her wine.

But I may well blow some of my refund on the cleaners since it's looking unlikely that I can blow it on an upright walker. The firm whose number I have will service walkers but not assemble them. They're supposed to call me back sometime with a place near me to buy from but I doubt that place exists.

Then went by the library to pick up holds: the two most recent Vlad Taltoses which will hold me nicely for a while except that for some reason I made my hold on Wilson's Odyssey active and that came thumping in too. Oh dear, oh dear.