Money evaporated on me. I knew I shouldn't have paid gas bill while bored at the airport. Had to fish some money out of bonds, that may get here by Friday - if not. I have a few books to read.
How was your first Pride in Toronto? Well I read and watch Justified, how was yours. At lest I'll have a pile of cash when I get back.
The bike is fixed, less than I thought, so I added a new rear tire onto the bill (payday is next week).
Robert and I are staying with Randy, he only goes by the name Lana.
Lana weighs about 120 soaking wet. The pictures shows her throne, she sits there all day long and smokes and may imbibe one or two cocktails. This is well known in the community, so I am not speaking out of school. Lana graciously allowed us to stay with her for the 10 days we are here. She lives 1/2 block away from all the bars on Church St. a guy could crawl home. Last night I saw a guy doing the 'Pinball' stumble along until you bump into something. It was great....all bruised up the next day though. Not me though.
The last drunk for me was Tuesday Night at Zippers. There was an event for a person named Steve Roseland. He died a couple of years ago and there was a benefit. I am not sure where the money was going, but it did well.
Robert (Thelma) was there, the Empress of Toronto, Michelle and some other people. I got some video and one singer Cherry Chesterfield. she is really good, she can sing and play sax. I spoke with her and asked her if she had any CD's, she said it was complicated. I guess it is the whole manager thing. She survives off music though. Someone said they saw her singing in a bar in Mexico.
During the day on Tuesday we, Robert and I, installed an air conditioner at Bobby's place, set up a LAN and then went back and installed a new toilet at Lana's. The other one was too low for her and she has not muscle strength, so it was hard to get up off it. She loves this new one.
We have some Lana Rules to follow, 1) Don't slam the door and 2) Don't let the cat out. These rules were repeated numerous times over the first two days. We recite them every time we leave the apartment. Lana just smiles, normally she is pickled by the time the routine starts. I got my own key yesterday as so she could get her beauty sleep uninterrupted. She only leaves the apartment once every couple of days.
I woke up on Wednesday with a hangover, it was beautiful outside. i decided to go for a walk. I had to get some pieces for the LAN a switch to split the output from the cable modem to two computers.
I thought this would be an easy piece to get. How wrong I was. In Toronto everything is wireless, or so the vendors seem to think. I had to venture past the Yonge Street stores, they get a glazed look in their eyes when you try to tell them what you want. And then they make shit up, like use the USB cable out of your cable modem and plug it into the computer, to get a network. This was said sincerely, I kid you not.
I wound up walking a long ways, I started off from Church and headed West down Wellesley to Queen's Park.
At Queen's Park I still headed West, and wound up in the University of Toronto's campus where The Soldier's Tower is. I thought it was a church, but it's not.
Inside the Tower is has the list of names of members of the armed forces who died in the First and Second World Wars.
I headed West from there to Spadina. I wanted to get to Kensington Market, iPhone showing the way.
After going past the many residences of the UofT I finally got to the business portion of Spadina.
I was looking to buy another wallet. My regular one is full of crap, I just wanted one to put my bank card in, some ID and money. You'd think that in these stores that overflowed with stuff they'd have wallets. You'd be wrong. They have TONS of iPhone covers, but no wallets.
I didn't see any computer stores either. I headed East on Dundas headed towards Eaton's Centre.
This is an Airmen's memorial in the median on University.
At a grocery store I was thirsty so I went in to buy a small juice. There was only two litre sizes. I bought some cranberry juice and a hunk of watermelon. This screwed up my plan to walk to Eaton's Centre. I now needed a place to park my ass and eat. So I headed South.
I came up on Rob Ford's house from the back. The city hall is a good building to use the fisheye on. 
This one came out surprisingly well, usually the fisheye doesn't do well on a panorama, but it worked this time. It is more suited for the shot above.
I took some pictures of Nathan Philips Square before I sat down to get some shade and drink some much needed liquid.
There was a jazz festival going on in the Square, see all the tents to the Right. It was in the heat of the day and kind of disjointed. It appeared every time a band would start to play there'd be sirens. Come to think of it, there are a lot more sirens in Toronto. Bobby told me that Emergency Services use Church Street as Yonge Street is usually a mess, but that is just where we are staying. I know on my mega walks I have seen lots of emergency vehicles on the way to a job.
Walked past the Art Gallery of Ontario, it was an impressive building. The Alberta one has more style though
I finished up my watermelon, man that was good! I headed East to Yonge Street and then North, I knew I had to be more diligent in my computer parts shopping. I went to the web, it told me about a store on Carlton.
While walking up Yonge I saw this nice building with a really old an tired Republic of Ireland flag. I am not sure what the building is, but it looks like it is a state of decay. There were dead pigeons around the columns. A 'No Peeing' sign and it looked like no one had been in there in years.
Maybe it is a secret society.
I took some flower pictures, they are good subjects as they don't move.
I got to the computer shop on Carlton and the guy was out. the store is at the back of a convenience store. The lady in the front was no help at all. The Yellow Pages review of the place was terrible, I think that it lives up to it's rating.
Today Bobby and I headed off on a walk to go to the real computer stores on College at Spadina. They gave us incredulous looks - people still use cables to connect computers to modems? There were two stores next to each other, but had never heard of the concept. I told them I'd get the parts in Alberta and send them to Bobby. Best Buy was our last hope. They only had a really expensive one, while I was there I got the number off it and looked online. I found some refurbished ones for cheap, free shipping if you have it shipped to the store. I went with Bobby to the front to order one - $12.99.
Well supper time, headed to Subway I think.
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