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The partial eclipse up here was nothing much. The sun was behind a cloud so no wonder if things looked a tad pale. Even the full eclipse in 2017 didn't do much except leach colour from the world. I was expecting, yanno, a twilight darkness or something like in The Last of the Wine.
The thing that makes Marcus Corvinus so readable, one of the things, is the dramatis personae at the start. I'm trying to read a Gervase Fen and cannot, cannot, keep the five or six white-bread-named male characters (all introduced in the first chapter) separate. One of them's a Nigel, which ought to help, but there's a Nicholas as well, and a Robert and a Richard and a Donald. Granted it's not as bad as American Jim and Bob and Jack and Matt and Tom, but it's still not easy.
Walking to Bathurst and back gets me over a thousand steps, meaning it really is farther than to my old coffee shop out west, which comes in at about 800. Walking down to Bloor and then to my usual Japanese restaurant gets me close to 2000, and that I regard as an ordinary walk. Of course today was an achy all over day, especially my ankle in its brace, so it wasn't by any means a *fun* ordinary walk. I do wonder who are these people who get 10,000 a day. Maybe they take three hour walks? The app wants me to believe I only walked 35 minutes all told which seems unlikely. It takes me 30 minutes just to get to Bathurst.
Also this is the second Korean/ Japanese restaurant to introduce spoons for drinking one's miso soup. I have no idea why, after all these years. I know Korean etiquette is against picking up your bowls to eat, but miso shiro is Japanese and you always drink from the bowl. Frankly I hate using a spoon for soup: there's always spillage and of course western etiquette is not to tuck your napkin in at the neck so of course your top gets stained.
The thing that makes Marcus Corvinus so readable, one of the things, is the dramatis personae at the start. I'm trying to read a Gervase Fen and cannot, cannot, keep the five or six white-bread-named male characters (all introduced in the first chapter) separate. One of them's a Nigel, which ought to help, but there's a Nicholas as well, and a Robert and a Richard and a Donald. Granted it's not as bad as American Jim and Bob and Jack and Matt and Tom, but it's still not easy.
Walking to Bathurst and back gets me over a thousand steps, meaning it really is farther than to my old coffee shop out west, which comes in at about 800. Walking down to Bloor and then to my usual Japanese restaurant gets me close to 2000, and that I regard as an ordinary walk. Of course today was an achy all over day, especially my ankle in its brace, so it wasn't by any means a *fun* ordinary walk. I do wonder who are these people who get 10,000 a day. Maybe they take three hour walks? The app wants me to believe I only walked 35 minutes all told which seems unlikely. It takes me 30 minutes just to get to Bathurst.
Also this is the second Korean/ Japanese restaurant to introduce spoons for drinking one's miso soup. I have no idea why, after all these years. I know Korean etiquette is against picking up your bowls to eat, but miso shiro is Japanese and you always drink from the bowl. Frankly I hate using a spoon for soup: there's always spillage and of course western etiquette is not to tuck your napkin in at the neck so of course your top gets stained.