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2022-03-23 19:17Heh, so soon after checking in Saturday, I got a text that my laptop battery was finally at the store. One day earlier and I could have walked over, but now I was 12 km away. Sigh. Took transit over, about an hour, bus-train-walk. But yay, I have a proper laptop again! Had the store clean out the charge ports of my phones too, one probably needed it. Transit masking is meh now that the mandates are gone, maybe majority are but a large minority not.
Life since then, quiet. I haven't tried leaving the region, but I've poked around. Including on Google Street View, to see if it was even worth exploring in some directions. The highlight has been yesterday finding Minoru Park, the northern half of which has big ponds with lots of different plants around them, plus many geese and bunnies. Very very unafraid bunnies. It's a pretty good spot for forest bathing and biophilia. And I'm lucky: signs say it'll be closed for a year for construction, from "Spring 2022", but apparently not quite yet. I plan to exploit it as much as I can, including going back today (great weather, until the wind picked up) and just wallowing in tree-ness.
There's also a large river not far away, only been once.
T&T has a sign requesting customers to keep wearing masks, despite the provincial retreat, though I saw a naked nose enter as I left. It also has discounted hot food after 6 at least, so I'm enjoying nice dim sum and a huge platter of sushi.
Life since then, quiet. I haven't tried leaving the region, but I've poked around. Including on Google Street View, to see if it was even worth exploring in some directions. The highlight has been yesterday finding Minoru Park, the northern half of which has big ponds with lots of different plants around them, plus many geese and bunnies. Very very unafraid bunnies. It's a pretty good spot for forest bathing and biophilia. And I'm lucky: signs say it'll be closed for a year for construction, from "Spring 2022", but apparently not quite yet. I plan to exploit it as much as I can, including going back today (great weather, until the wind picked up) and just wallowing in tree-ness.
There's also a large river not far away, only been once.
T&T has a sign requesting customers to keep wearing masks, despite the provincial retreat, though I saw a naked nose enter as I left. It also has discounted hot food after 6 at least, so I'm enjoying nice dim sum and a huge platter of sushi.