weekend etc

The weekend was an interesting one... The big news in Toronto was, of course, the G20, and the associated protests/anarchy/police presence associated with it. I was down on Queen Street on Saturday afternoon, taking advantage of some sales at record stores... when a bunch of cops on bikes started yelling at people to turn around and leave the area (I was just west of Spadina at that point). Anyway - I went home and listened to the news as some misguided blackbloc'd people vandalized this town.

I don't have too much to say about the whole thing, other than that hatred and violence seem more like problems and less like solutions. Also, all the protests (peaceful and not) seem to me to be highly ineffective ways of promoting a cause.

I also did some painting on the weekend (see above)... and hung out with some people after church on Sunday...

Also - last Thursday night was the last night of my sculpture class... I don't have any good pictures of my coffee cup carving, so here is a crappy pic instead. I am super happy with how it turned out...

weekend

We went for a lot of walks on the weekend - despite the weather not being all that great.

On Saturday morning we walked to the Peak Gallery to see my carving teacher's show. We ended up talking to the owner of the gallery for about an hour, which was cool. We also met his dog, Max.

That afternoon I went for a walk in the Annex. I randomly stopped in at Sonic Boom just in time for an in-store performance by Robyn Hitchcock. I don't really know his music at all, but it was pretty cool to see him play a few songs. The crowd was mostly older music-nerd types, although Julie Doiron was there too...

On Sunday morning I walked through the street festival in the Annex. That afternoon we tore down the wall that was partially enclosing the porch on the house. It went pretty smoothly, and the porch is now way more open and slightly less ugly.

That evening I went to church, and then afterwards we had dinner and went for one more walk...

weekend

On Friday I left work a little early in order to get my driver's licence renewed. Leah met me at the licence place, and on the way home we saw a crazy bicycle/car accident. Luckily everyone seemed OK - but it was pretty nuts - the driver was doing a U-turn in the middle of College, and basically just pulled in front of a courier. Somehow (it happened behind us, so we didn't actually see it happen) the bike ended up in front of the car, while the biker was on the ground behind the car...

That night we went to see Basia Bulat/Julie Doiron/Wilderness of Manitoba.

The rest of the weekend was pretty low key - with some laundry and groceries, and going out for coffee...

After church we went out for dinner with the Woods and Emily & Colin...