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kathleen_dailey) wrote2024-03-15 07:25 pm
kathleen_dailey) wrote2024-03-15 07:25 pm
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Five things, one post
1. Friday was mostly consumed with medical claptrap--following up on follow-ups; booking blood-lab appointments (what an unfunny joke--never once has an appointment at the nearest lab happened within an hour of the booked time); and waiting on hold for ages after futilely trying to interpret the contradictory and outdated boilerplate instructions in the spouse's Wheel-Trans package and on the TTC website. TTC bureaucrats, please hire an editor!
2. Our condo board has undertaken a massive renovation of the building's public spaces and common elements. Any day now, we'll be getting new entry doors to our unit, replacing the original burl-elm versions. Some of the residents are keeping the old doors and converting them to dining or office tables; they're real wood and attractively unusual in their colour and pattern. Even though the renovations are accounted for in the 2024 budget, I know from sad experience how renos invariably proceed, and I foresee a special assessment in my future.
3. In other condo news, the unit next to ours has been sold. This is a big deal because there's not much turnover in our building (a unit changes hands every two or three years). Each floor has seven units, and our floor is a tight-knit micro-community of very diverse and very compatible humans and animals. So we're all hoping for more of the same with our new neighbours.
4. If some of the AO3 tags describing Spock and his personality traits, childhood development, mental and emotional stability, and interpersonal relationships had been available to the psychological screening department of Starfleet Academy, I'm pretty sure that he never would have gotten as far as an interview for the cadet training program, much less risen to become "the best first officer in the fleet."
5. In this week's Rob Fordesque episode of LOT: CI, the investigative reporter was said to work for Toronto Life, which IRL hasn't raked a microgram of serious muck since before David Miller was mayor. The disclaimer card at the beginning of the ep said, in part, "No identification [sic] of any actual person is inferred [sic] or intended." Showrunners, follow my advice to the TTC in item 1 above and hire an editor! Otherwise, the story was forgettable and the performances anemic. The two leads have zero presence and less chemistry, although the IT guy has a tiny (really tiny) bit of promise.
2. Our condo board has undertaken a massive renovation of the building's public spaces and common elements. Any day now, we'll be getting new entry doors to our unit, replacing the original burl-elm versions. Some of the residents are keeping the old doors and converting them to dining or office tables; they're real wood and attractively unusual in their colour and pattern. Even though the renovations are accounted for in the 2024 budget, I know from sad experience how renos invariably proceed, and I foresee a special assessment in my future.
3. In other condo news, the unit next to ours has been sold. This is a big deal because there's not much turnover in our building (a unit changes hands every two or three years). Each floor has seven units, and our floor is a tight-knit micro-community of very diverse and very compatible humans and animals. So we're all hoping for more of the same with our new neighbours.
4. If some of the AO3 tags describing Spock and his personality traits, childhood development, mental and emotional stability, and interpersonal relationships had been available to the psychological screening department of Starfleet Academy, I'm pretty sure that he never would have gotten as far as an interview for the cadet training program, much less risen to become "the best first officer in the fleet."
5. In this week's Rob Fordesque episode of LOT: CI, the investigative reporter was said to work for Toronto Life, which IRL hasn't raked a microgram of serious muck since before David Miller was mayor. The disclaimer card at the beginning of the ep said, in part, "No identification [sic] of any actual person is inferred [sic] or intended." Showrunners, follow my advice to the TTC in item 1 above and hire an editor! Otherwise, the story was forgettable and the performances anemic. The two leads have zero presence and less chemistry, although the IT guy has a tiny (really tiny) bit of promise.