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Toronto, 2012.07.24

Another perfect summer day, another perfect picnic.

This time we brought together our friends from Japan with some new Toronto friends (one of whom is also from Japan). Once in a while, the weather in Toronto in the summer really does get as good as you picture "summer" when it's November. Warm and sunny with fluffy little cumulus and a gentle breeze.

P.S. Henry David Thoreau said, "Beware any endeavor that requires a new set of clothes". This wedding of my cousin's has now involved me getting a(n overdue) haircut, and I have to get a new shirt and tie because it's "black tie optional" where the "optional" is silent. Dum dum dum dummm! I jest, I jest.

On the way to the picnic I stopped at a liquor store to buy some gluten-free "beer". It was in the old Maple Leaf Gardens building. My first time to enter the thing, and it was beer related. Well, that's fitting I suppose.

rand()m quote

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

—Bertrand Russell