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the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2012.04.11

I was woken in the wee hours by the sound of the phone being off the hook.

I blundered out to the living room and found that indeed the handset was off its cradle. Try as I might, I couldn't find a reason for this. Eventually I could only conclude that it had been off the hook for quite some time and that the phone company had for some reason renewed the beeping warning.

It was either that or a ghost. ;^P

Either way, I had a hell of a time getting back to sleep after such a jolting, puzzling, and annoying interruption.

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