Bank Street really is a big mess

With Ottawacker Jr, safely dispatched to school, I was on call to drive Mrs. Ottawacker to her brother’s house in Kanata, so that she could be driven from there to Sundridge, where the Mother’s Day weekend could be spent scrubbing and cleaning the parental dwelling in light of a future sale. As is often the case with a certain branch of the family, the absolute urgency to be there at 9 a.m. so they could make good time, did not translate into a 9 a.m. departure. Indeed, I was home and showered, breakfasted and coiffed before the text arrived to tell me they were “just leaving”: it was 10:30. Honestly, you’d think we would have learned by now.
 
Much of the day disappeared, as it is wont to do, up its own behind. I cleaned a little, got some laundry done, communicated with various people in various places, and generally did very little of interest until Ottawacker Jr. returned home from school at around 4. His reintegration into the Ontario education system having gone well, he seemed in much better spirits and demanded feeding. Having just the previous hour returned from a trip to the LCBO (Laphroaig on sale for a mere $90 – can’t sniff at that, even if I am not really drinking at the moment) and Farm Boy, I offered him either the “Friday Night Special – with a Twist”, pork dumplings, or steak. He chose the Friday Night Special, but made the mistake of not asking what the twist was. The twist was that he had to make the salad that went with it. So, he did – without complaining, and very good it was too.
 
Bank Street is a real mess at the moment, which meant I had to walk to Farm Boy (I know, right?) At one stage, the traffic started moving – and people were so shocked they didn’t know what to do. I’m all for urban densification, but does Everywhere have to be Modernised at the Same Time? In the evening, we watched The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which might be the worst film I have ever seen.
 
Saw on the late-night news that there has been an exponential rise in asthma issues because of global warming/climate change. Apparently, the carbon dioxide levels are “supercharging” the pollen counts. That explains that, then.