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opa's vengeance is complete

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2013.09.07

Opa and Oma presented the kids with some gifts last night. A small pull-toy dog that runs on wheels for The Girl, and a recorder for The Boy. The dog makes a small barking sound as it rolls, and The Girl's taken to imitating this. So now we've got the atonal sing-song sounds of a recorder, and the barking sounds and The Girl's accompanying "how-how-how" sounds to fill our days. This after Opa confessed to Mari that he used to take the "noise makers" out of the toys people gave us.

It's a noisy home, but nice.

rand()m quote

On the endless saga of Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto; "It shouldn't have had to come to this. I'm so tired of getting up every morning and wondering, 'What will it be today?' I'm so tired of giving the benefit of the doubt again and again, only to be let down again and again.... Somewhere a responsible adult has to appear, draw a bright moral line, tell the truth and say unequivocally what won't be tolerated. Somebody has to do the right thing."

—Denzil Minnan-Wong