Celebrating Spring by Staying Inside

Hope everyone had a good Easter weekend. Alison and I spent a nice couple of days together at her apartment, doing the crossword, eating good food, and playing arcade-style video games from circa 1983 on her laptop.



Burger Time was a running favourite for awhile, then we got hooked on Phoenix. I was starting to get the hang of dealing with those aggressive little pixelated birds and ignoring the nightmarish computer squeals that accompany them, but not really getting anywhere near as good as I remembered being at the game in my youth. I couldn't figure out what was going on, until I accidentally pushed a different button one time and suddenly realized there was a SHIELDS option I'd completely forgotten about! Total game-changer.

Alison's taken Buster the Wonder Cat to see how he likes it at her place, and he seems to be settling in OK now. At first he just curled up in one of her jackets and didn't move for about a day, but when I came over he perked up a bit and is now exploring and generally owning the place.

I was supposed to go for a hike along the coast on Sunday with some friends, but we got a big pile of wet snow in the morning, which is how I ended up spending hours dodging digital bird poop instead. But here's a photo Alison took a few weeks ago when we went for a Sunday walk on Crystal Crescent Beach.


It's a bit springier now than it looks here. But not much.

Hey, I just realized what a direct contradiction of my last entry this entire post is. Hilarious!