Weep for you must scroll: 2019 'Nice Life-y Things' Post

[tetsab]

OMG. Excepting an IRL digression into discussing the attractiveness of Shannon Hemmett relative to Bowie and Annie Lennox basically all I've been doing since my last post is trying to scroll FB events back to January 2019 to do the next missing installment of the Nice Life-y Posts. I think this experience has pretty much sealed that I'll have to do whatever it is I'm going to do for 2020 and 2021 if not tonight then at least this weekend as I can't afford to sit there for another 30 minutes in a future day scrolling a mouse wheel. o_O

Drinking: gin and citrus.

January

• 01st: Presumably cleaning up after the NYE dinner and games with my Mum and sister


• 05th: Off to Oshawa to play board games with my Official Best Friend from high school


• 21st: I mysteriously start some sort of 'course' (calendar just says 'Start Course'[!])


• 24th: Annual fundraising 'not-a-gala' for the org I work for (wear free cowboy hat; drink free booze; eat good food)


• 30th: East End Cyclists meeting

February

• 04th: Off to Alberta for a week for annual work retreat (most folks would not find such a thing 'nice' but lucky for me it was not un-nice)


• 23rd: 'Metropolis'... did I watch 'Metropolis' on this date? Who can really tell? I've seen 'Metropolis' just in the past few years, though, so it may well have been on this day[!]

March

• 01st: Bowie celebration. A surprise but very welcome attendance after tix intended for someone else fell through (very happy to have been on the Mike Garson side of the stage).


• 05th: Friends of Oakridge Park meeting (Oakridge being my neighbourhood)


• 11th: Nerd remote meeting ('Using Systems Models for Decision-Making')


• 16th: Off to socialize in Guelph


• 19th: Friends of Oakridge Park again... 'cause April would be our big hoorah


• 28th: Danforth Loves Bikes campaign meeting


• 30th: The good ole music quiz with my sister and Mum in Pickering

April

• 01st: Bells on Danforth (group ride) planning meeting


• 02nd: Zeal & Ardour at the Danforth Music Hall


• 06th: Toronto Neighbourhood Summit (a day of nerding in City Hall)


• 09th: Friends of Oakridge Park (the "our Councillor sucks" debrief edition)


• 11th: Presenting with 'Women in Tech'


• 13th: Oakridge Park Arts Market


• 16th: Seems I signed up for a multi-week 8:15am yoga class, which doesn't seem nice but there ya go


• 18th: DIY drop-in bike repair


• 23rd: Toronto East Cyclists again


• 24th: Bells on Danforth again


• 26th: ACTORS with Bootblacks & Mary (all great but Mary needs a more Google-able name). :)


• 27th: Friends of Oakridge Park EcoDay (AKA 3rd thing we were working toward that year) / music quiz again


• 29th: Bells on Danforth x3

May

• 03rd: Off to Boston with evening_tsar for Convergence 13 organized in part by silentq!


• 08th: Danforth campaign meeting (whether you love or hate the bike lanes on Danforth this was me helping to manifest them...)


• 10th: ... this doesn't sound 'nice' but whatever the heck 'Scarborough vulnerable road users' at 8am is o_O


• 11th: Eileen McGann via Acoustic Harvest (took home a song book which lives on my piano to this day)


• 13th: Bells on Danforth x4


• 14th: sabotabby's Birthday Party (wonder if I could fish out a pic of my costume...)


• 21st: Danforth campaign x2


• 22nd: Wheels on the Danforth (local festival) planning meeting


• 23rd: sabotabby's students show-off spiffy... art


• 24th: Talk at the reference library about the algorithms Uber uses


• 25th: Gonna guess 'Beethoven Mass in C' was thanks to evening_tsar as a member of the Bach Elgar Choir


• 27th: Futuristic Science Fiction Films talk at the library again


• 28th: Governing Cities in the 21st Century event


• 29th: CRM developers meeting

June

• 01st: Toronto Area Boardgaming Society day o' boardgames


• 06th: (and 7th)... questionably nice but also not bad, flyering for the Bells event on the Bloor viaduct


• 09th: Live music in the local park


• 10th: Bells on Danforth x5


• 11th: Friends of Oakridge again


• 12th: Wheels on Danforth again


• 13th: CRM UX meeting


• 15th: Bells on Danforth event


• 18th: Post-event Bells meeting


• 19th: Eglinton campaign meeting


• 22nd: Solstice Party


• 25th: Golden Mile development meeting


• 28th: Dinner and 'Come from Away' for my Mum's birthday


• 29th: Music quiz


• 30th: "It's a stat holiday tomorrow" Prophecy event

July

• 05th: Can guess the enigmatic 'Appleby' in my calender has something to do with evening_tsar since he lives out that way but god knows what. :)


• 12th: Stormcrow Manner (NaDruWriNi rules say I can't fix that kinda charming error. Ha.)


• 18th: Flight to LA to help look after my aunt who was coming home from hip surgery on the 8th

August

• 06th: Flight straight from LA to Alberta for a 'team retreat' (where luckily I like my 'team')


• 12th: Danforth campaign x3


• 13th: Sister's birthday


• 17th: Wheels on Danforth festival in the day and ACTORS / Traitrs / Mary (again) in the evening


• 21st: Danforth Ice Cream Ride (visit spots on the Danforth for ice cream / treats)


• 24th: Volunteer with 8 80 cities Danforth complete street pop-up


• 25th: Surprise tickets to FanExpo to see Peter Capaldi speak after 'best friend from high school' drops out


• 28th: Eglinton campaign x2

September

• 10th: All the volunteering pays off with a 'recognition tea' from the local Councillor


• 11th: More library talks ('Does Automation Threaten Democracy?')


• 14th: A veritable festival of stuff with... Danforth Arts / Retro Cruise around the harbour (dancing to Fad Gadget around the Toronto Islands is now a fond memory) / Moon Merge w/ Laurie Brown / & UofT telescope-fest


• 16th: Danforth campaign x4


• 17th: More library talks... 'Public Life in TO'


• 18th: Cockatoo


• 21st: Another festival! ... Kite-fest / Mabon variety day / Spellbound


• 27th: Wondrous good cemetery walk 'n' talk in the Necropolis


• 28th: Music quiz #[uncountable]


• 30th: Library talk again... 'ULI Toronto: Vancouverism: In Conversation with Larry Beasley'

October

• 07th: Legendary Pink Dots


• 09th: Volunteering with a career fair in my expertise area (but more interestingly getting in the Masonic Temple / ex-MTV studios to do so)


• 11th: Chameleons(Vox) at Lee's Palace


• 12th: Musssssic quiiiiiizzzz


• 13th: Prophecy Boy Harsher afterparty


• 19th: Bike the Humber River trail


• 21st: See friend impressively play guitar at the Tranzac


• 22nd: Vietnamese food with my old boss


• 28th: Off to AB for work again. For sure not fun this time other than the 'ET ride' I did on Halloween with an ex-coworker

November

• 02nd: NaDruWriNi ;P


• 05th: Looks like I signed up for some 9am 10 weeks of yoga this time o_O


• 07th: Pro bono work in my area / Danforth study meeting after


• 15th: First go at 5-pin bowling with the Neon Riders


• 16th: Bach to the Elgar choir again with evening_tsar for the 'Brahms Requium'


• 18th: Xymox with The Bellwether Syndicate and Rosegarden Funeral Party at Lee's


• 29th: Local tree lighting


• 30th: Back to Guelph again for US Thanksgiving in Canuckistan

December

• 02th: Aquarium visit with evening_tsar 'cause he had expiring tickets


• 10th: Ethiopian food with a mysterious someone followed by pub with bike folks


• 11th: CRM user group party


• 12th: Office party (fun 'cause it was bocci and not an office party)


• 13th: Kirsti in from the west coast at a pub with hidashara / Prophecy again


• 14th: hidashara 40th birthday party


• 16th: CycleTO social


• 20th: Eglinton campaign


• 21st: 'Seasonal party' in the home of evening_tsar and his roommate


• 23rd: Off to Pickering for Xmas stuff


• 27th: Back to TO to meet Chris (visiting from BC) at a pub


• 31st: Some kinda sedate NYE at home(?) ... 'cause there ain't nothing in my calendar!

... at some point, after I'd built out a skeleton for every month I both accidentally posted said skeleton with a shortcut key and started my 2nd gin & citrus. Bless the sodding time change for once for giving me back a bit of how damn long it takes to do this thing. :)