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Toronto, 2022.07.30

We're in Toronto. We came up with the kids this morning, and "surprised" Ken's friend Liam by showing up with a bunch of pizzas. Curiously, the boy - who did not know we would be in-country - took it all in stride and there was no real reaction. But the kids went their way and we had a great catch-up with the parents after nearly 2.5 years (for me, anyway). It was a really pleasant evening. No mosquitos, a temperature in the upper twenties instead of the mid-upper thirties, and did I mention no mosquitoes. The Boy has ~eighty infected bites on his legs from having spent a day in the park with his girlfriend before we left, it's a real mess. Tokyo is becoming unlivable in the summer.

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