When I picture the rhythm of the year I tend to picture Not Bloody Much in the cold months and a fair bit more for the rest. This is because I hate the cold and am generally inclined to hibernate. Once again, the value of doing these lists is that I can actually scroll through them and see that, really, this is just a picture in my head and not actually reality, but, in 2024...
January
January
- 25th: Queer Trivia (remote)
- 27th: Hammer Baroque
- 30th: Takeout Thai dinner for bday with family
- 10th: Hammer Baroque / Board game cafe
- 12th: [Birth of a heap of surprise rats from the new surprise rat I was looking after]
- 29th: Aladdin [with best friend from highschool who'd picked up a season's theatre pass; not recommended]
- 09th: Bach Elgar choir does Handel
- 16th: Daytrip to Parry Sound to drop off all the surprise rats at a rescue [where they were happily all adopted within a month]
- 07th: Royal Ontario Museum
- 08th: Daytrip to Niagara Falls for the total eclipse [mostly marred by clouds but still an interesting experience]
- 15th: Toronto East Cyclists (remote)
- 20th: Embroidery workshop
- 22nd: Bevel Suncatcher workshop
- 23rd: Civic hacknight (remote)
- 04th: Jesus Christ Superstar [with season pass friend; this was a well done production but I've sure see ones that weren't]
- 09th: Kronos Quartet with half of Team Does Stuff
- 11th: Bach Elgar Space Journey reprise
- 16th: Hadestown [surprise, surprise, with season pass friend; recommended]
- 25th: Doors Open Toronto
- 27th: The Damned with
evening_tsar as bday gift
- 01st: Dance 'til Dusk [AKA goth night but from 3-7]
- 08th: Retirement party for best friend from high school's father [again... 'cause when he 'retired' last year he kept doing things on contract]
- 10th: Oakridge neighbourhood street plans
- 13th: Murdoch Mysteries escape room with a heap of family for Mum's bday
- 17th: Toronto East Cyclists (remote)
- 21st: Drive to Ohio for celebration of life for 'aunt' [Dad's cousin we always called aunt]
- 22nd: Celebration of Life for aunt; home the next day
- 29th: Mandarin dinner for Mum's bday / goodbye dinner for some heap of the family
- 02nd: Danforth-Kingston for All (remote)
- 05th: Kintsugi workshop
- 06th: Dinner with Mum
- 09th: Nonprofit SF user group (remote)
- 14th: Art Gallery of Ontario
- 15th: Toronto East Cyclists (remote)
- 19th: Day off where I probably did nothing interesting
- 20th: Xmas in July [looked back and saw this kicked off in 2022]
- 21st: West End Riverboat band in a local park
- 27th: Hamilton Glowride with
evening_tsar - 31st: Nonprofit SF user group (remote)
- 01st: Memorial for
evening_tsar's gran [who made it to 99!] - 02nd: Half day off work for extra long weekend
- 03rd: Brunch with some a.g. folks at Sneaky Dees
- 10th: Visit from aunt from California
- 19th: Toronto East Cyclists (remote)
- 25th: Rush Day at Henderson Brewing with
evening_tsar - 26th: Start of two weeks off
- 27th: Trip to New York for Murder of Crows
- 28th: Natural History Museum and New York Public library
- 29th: Museum of Moving Images / Opening party with The Hunt at TV Eye
- 30th: [Outing break to recover from blisters] / Crows Night 1
- 31st: Central Park / Guggenheim / Crows Night 2
- 01st: Trip back home / Shakespeare in the Park: Hamlet
- 02nd: Rest of a week off futzing with the house
- 12th: Dinner with cousin and husband in town
- 22nd: Annual picnic on the island
- 26th: Dinner with cousin and husband leaving town
- 27th: Day off dealing with termite treatment company
- 28th: Wedding on the outskirts of Guelph
- 29th: Traipse around Kensington with back in town Swedish friend
- 30th: Eglinton Working Group (remote)
- 09th: Jesus & Mary Chain and the Psychedelic Furs
- 11th: Bonus day off
- 15th: End of day off for extra long Thanksgiving weekend
- 25th: Halloween at Stormcrow Manor
- 01st: Pumpkin Parade
- 02nd: Art Gallery of Hamilton
- 03rd: "NaDruWriNi"
- 18th: Toronto East Cyclists (remote)
- 21st: Golden Mile Study (remote)
- 30th: Boardgame cafe
- 06th: Family visit
- 14th: Winter social
- 19th: Family visit
- 21st: Dinner with Mum / karaoke
- 26th: Boxing Day with best friend's mother