1987

The West Edmonton Mall is a huge mall built by 5 Iranian brothers called the Ghermazians.

The mall consists of 5 interconnected pods. One pod has a skating rink in the middle.

Saturday

Friday

Thursday

I was wrong :)

Wednesday

I predict that Canada will lose to Russia in the hockey game starting in an hour.

Tuesday

I skated here a lifetime ago ...

Monday

Canada lost to the U.S. in hockey yesterday :|

Snow today - and snow is forecast all week.
Traffic is very slow.

I went to the mall and bought some blank DVDs.
Then I got some lemon chicken from the Chinese store for lunch :)

I will be watching the Canada-U.S. hockey game on TV.

The Insho Domoto Museum of Fine Arts

This is a place that I saw accidentally when I was walking around Kyoto looking for Ryoanji. Insho Domoto was a Japanese artist in the 1920's and he studied both Japanese art and Western art in Paris. This building was originally his house, and now it is a museum to his art.

Saturday

I've been feeling tired lately.

T.G.I.F.

The temperature is still below zero all the time.

Today the subway stopped halfway home because the doors wouldn't close, so after a half-hour delay, we all had to get off and wait for another train. The subway was older than me; I remember those vinyl benches from when I was a kid. Thanks to the wonderful T.T.C. (Toronto Transit Commission) again.

Yesterday the subway was stopped for 45 minutes, but we didn't know why because the P.A. system is always unintelligible.

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Here's some more slides from Fort McMurray, Alberta 1987.
It has more oil than Saudi Arabia.

wednesday
more snow in Toronto

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more slides of Fort McMurray Alberta

Tuesday

It's snowing.

雪がふっています。

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Here's some more slides of Fort McMurray, Alberta in 1987.
The building is the oil museum.

Monday is a holiday.
It is "President's Day" in the States.
It is "Family Day" in Ontario. That's a new holiday declared by the Ontario government.

Every day is a holiday when you're not working :|

KD

Vancouver 2010

Sunday - Happy Chinese New Year - Happy Valentine's Day

Saturday I went to MacDonald's and am watching the Olympic opening ceremonies on tape.

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AVERAGE TEMPERATURE IN TORONTO

Min Max

Jan -9 -1
Feb -9 -1
March -5 3
April 1 10
May 7 17
June 12 23
July 15 26
Aug 14 25
Sept 11 21
Oct 4 13
Nov -1 6
Dec -6 1

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/city_guides/results.shtml?tt=TT000900

maps

Self-serve gas is 95.4 cents per litre today.

... It's -2 degrees today at the Giraffe building :)

Here's an old slide of a fountain.

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I'm feeling tired today.

The Winter Olympics start in Vancouver Friday.

It's the first big snow of this year today. Driving was slow today.