As of June 25th I was almost a month behind in posting my journal entries on my blog, on newz4u.net and on Facebook. The journal for most days was up to date on my computer, but it was the event reviews that were holding me back. In particular the Shab-e She’r event for May 31st took ages to research and write from my notes.
I cooked the
rhubarb that I’d gotten from the food bank with the contents of a little bag of
sugar that they’d given me a few months before. I forgot about it while it was
cooking and I caught it just as all the water had boiled down, just saving the
sugar from burning.
My bike ride took
me again to Leaside. I took Sutherland east to Millwood where it turns north
and then I took it to Eglinton, then I went east to Laird and south along that.
Laird seems to be the only stretch of Leaside that has any stores, so every
restaurant, specialty service, school, supermarket, plaza and big box store is
stretched along it, mostly on the east side.
I had to pee really
bad as I headed south and didn’t feel comfortable waiting until I got back to
Yonge Street. Most of the restaurants on the west side seemed to be closed, but
a sushi place that I was passing had some people dining at the window. As I got
off my bike to look for a place to lock it I noticed that there wasn’t a single
bike stand anywhere on Laird. I reflected at that point on how I also hadn’t
seen any other cyclists so far throughout my travels around Leaside. The
neighbourhood has the feel of a suburb even though it’s part of Toronto. I
walked into Kintako Sushi and was greeted with smiles until the waitress found
out that I just wanted to use the washroom. She told me, “We not open to public
for washroom.” I responded, “Yeahhhh …?” and hesitated a moment and then a
woman that seemed to be in charge nodded and so the waitress said it was okay.
I went to the washroom but it was lockupied, so since there was no room to wait
in the narrow space in front of the washroom door I went back into the little
restaurant. I noticed that there was only one couple in a booth and that there
were three times as much staff as there were customers. I would have thought
they would be hungry to have customers that would want to eat there considering
how empty the place was. Turn people away that only want at that time to use
the washroom is the potential loss of a future customer. It turned out that it
was a kitchen worker that had been using the washroom. The waitress told me I
could go in because I’m sure she wanted me to finish and leave as soon as
possible. I noticed that there were incense sticks in a little vase on the back
of the toilet. I’d never seen those in a restaurant washroom before.
I ate the rhubarb
that I’d made with some yogourt. It was pretty good. I wonder why they don’t
make rhubarb-flavoured yogourt.
I watched an
episode of Hawaiian Eye from 1961 that co-starred George Takei as a spy posing
as a street urchin in Taipei.
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