A2K time zones: What's the time where you are & what are you up to?

Nah....it's just they're too polite to be a REAL country.

Except for weeeeee Bethie.

There's also Tai & dj & Ceili & intrepid & Mackenzie& JoeBlow & Mame & ....... (who have I missed?)
Lovely folk, all!

Greetings Deb and msolga! We Canucks are of course too good to be true

It's 7:03 am here in Central Ontario and we're heading down to breakfast soon. Must have coffee .

8:27 a.m.

waiting for Set to be ready for our trip to visit hamburgboy (who msO seems to have left off of her list)

Wish him a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from me, ehBeth.

You're right, ehBeth!
And I was just talking to him on this thread a few hours before!
Apologies, hamburger .... I just can't seem to get Canada right today.
<sigh>

12:40 am, Tuesday 27th December, Melbourne:

The idiots who have been letting off (very loud!) crackers for what feels like hours have finally stopped.
Thank heavens!
My poor cat has finally emerged from her hidey-hole behind the couch ...
And I am just about to head off to bed & continue reading the book I've been devouring for most of the afternoon.


Enjoy your visit with hamburger, ehBeth!
Please say hello from me, too!

What book, Ms O?

I am joyfullyndevouring Kate Grenville's The Lieutenant.

Have fun!!!

7.25am. Tuesday 27 December. Back home in good old Adelaide after the Christmas festivities. After X-mas sales are on so may sniff around for a bargain.

monday 26 - 5 pm in eastern ontario
ehbeth , john , bailey and cleo have just left for toronto

sad to see that cleo is almost blind - and she is beginning to loose weight too - but she still responds to voice and loves a good belly rub - a lovely old lady .

3:20 pm here in sunny San Diego

Just got home from the office where I spent a few hours - everyone is off today so it was nice and quiet to do some year end paperwork. It's still nice outside so I guess Lilly will get a long walk this afternoon....

It's a coolish 54 degrees around here without any clouds in the sky; a nice sunny winter day.

7:42 p.m. in Toronto

back from an afternoon with hamburgboy in Kingston. A little over a three and a half hour trip there, less than three hours coming back ( no highway stops as the dogs snoozed all the way back).

Just back from a caravan ( two car) trip with family up to St Helena for a long afternoon lunch. A bit of traffic on the way back, but a very pleasant day. The new grandson (3+ months) cries vigorously and promptly to signal key bodily functions (eating, shitting and sleeping), but is otherwise alert & tranquil. It is fascinating watching them develop at that age (I wasn't so alert to it when mine were new).

I hope all the Aussies Canucks, San Diegans and others here had a most happy Christmas holiday. Best wishes to all.

8:22PM in the SF Bay area. We started the day at 2AM in Boston, MA.... Man and dog lounged most of the day on the couch after we landed in a thick fog bank at SFO...I worked on school stuff...eyes are so tired, they're stinging. Boring TV...wasting away a day.

and then I recalled Neko - who lives in between the house I grew up in and where hamburgboy lives now (it's only a few minutes drive from one to the other)

I have a feeling more Canajuns will come to mind (there's also blatham, Canajun but currently living in the U.S.).

Then there's Panzade, American - but with a significant Canajun representation to his family.

oh oh Brenda Lynn and MAB who post occasionally

....

Neko is Canadian.

Just thought of Chumly, too ....

Bet there'll be more yet!

3:40 pm, Tuesday 27th December, Melbourne:

Feeling very slow today, for some unknown reason ....
Not getting much done at all ....
Oh well, it's not painful or unpleasant, or anything like that ... I just feel rather slug-like today, that's all.

About to wash dishes & take a walk to the shops for some essentials (like tea).
The rain has stopped, the sun is out, the sky is blue ....
I've just indulged in a slice of home-made plum pudding.
Things could be worse.

Highways to a War, written by Christopher J Koch, Deb ...
(He also wrote The Year of Living Dangerously. Great book!

Highways is not so much about the war in Vietnam & Cambodia, or just a "war book" .... much more to it than that. I'm engrossed. About 1/2 way through now.

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/30/opinion/30iht-edbook.t.html

How's the Kate Grenville going?

Believe it or not, I've been SLEEPING most of the day!

Got into that zone I sometimes do when I begin to relax.

Gotta get moving soon...going out tonight.

Did go for a long walk last night....longer than I realized for this early in my getting back to exercise regime.

Reyn!

Well, it's 9:52 p.m. here. I'm doing nothing but relaxing. Have to gear up to read a good and rather horrifying book an a2ker sent me, re an extended family in the Bronx in (so far) the eighties, which I lived in myself for a moment in life in 1950, albeit in a good building. A childhood friend told me years later our area had turned (I forget her words, but very troubled, though I highly doubt as troubled as some areas. That was her take five years after my family moved to Chicago and then to LA and her family visited in LA). I keep reading it because I keep learning, and I already knew bunches of stuff.

I'm on only page 97, and I feel like it has taken me years. I'm a fast reader and somewhat fast forgetter, especially re data, except sometimes. Images hang in.
The story so far reminds me of a Richard Price novel, but this book is non-fiction.

Random Family, by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc.
http://www.amazon.com/Random-Family-Drugs-Trouble-Coming/dp/0743254430/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1324961932&sr=1-1