I miss my CBC

Is it just me, or is this lockout going on forever? I miss my CBC Radio One! I guess CBC Management will get down to brass tacks as we get closer to Hockey Night in Canada season. That’s so sad, the paramountcy of hockey. Sure I’m Canadian. But I’m one of those left-wing CBC loving Canadians, not one of those hockey-loving Toronto Sun reading Canadians.

I want my CBC Radio One back.

a wanderin’

Dearest mother,

Why is it that you try to smoke in your room when the smoking lounge is right across the hall? You know they’ll kick you out of the home. You’ve already been warned. Maybe that’s why you just picked up last night and left without telling anyone?

Why didn’t you use the sign out sheet? You’ve used them when you and I went out last time I visited. It’s really easy to just put down when you left and where you’re going. Not a big deal, is it? You’re still totally free to go, just tell someone where.

The administrator called me at 7:30 this morning, asking if I’d know where you got to. But, luckily, I have no idea what goes on in your head. Maybe you’re on a bus heading to the Soo, maybe you took a taxi to a motel where you plan to live out your days with freedom to smoke in your room. Who knows?

But I think you’re pretty much screwing yourself out of a place to live. You can’t live in a motel forever -it costs more than the retirement home and meals are not included. You can’t get an apartment in Barrie, because you lit a fire in your last one. You’re not going to find a more convenient retirement home for yourself. Simcoe Terrace has an indoor smoking lounge right across the hall from your room! No other retirement home in Barrie has that, that I know of. So, that leaves skanky group homes like Windermere House. Or the street. (you’ll notice my place is not on your list of options)

I don’t know why you never stabilized this time. You left the hospital and, to me and lil’ sis anyway, it was clear that there was something very not right. Maybe it isn’t psychiatric anymore. Maybe you’re enjoying some sort of dementia? Maybe a brain tumour!

Well, here’s hoping!

Sept 7

Hey – Dad would have turned 69 today.

PEI

My sister is in PEI on holiday. She sounds a lot less stressed on the phone. Of course, that’s based on the messages she leaves on my cell phone. Seems I haven’t picked up the phone in time the last two times she called.

PEI sounds like it would be a nice place to visit – but not necessarily my sister’s kind of place. Anne of Green Gables, sandy beaches, seafood, potatoes… actually, I’m pretty sure my sis likes potatoes. Who doesn’t like potatoes?

Mmmmm potatoes.

tomorrow, tomorrow

I turn 40 tomorrow.