An Afternoon's Outing

[rfmcdonald]

I joined Steven Garrity, Will Pate, and other Island bloggers at Interlude (across from the fire station on Kent Street) at 1 o'clock for the monthly Island bloggers meeting. Interlude is a Chinese-style café much like the Formosa Tea House, but I don't think it's derivative; there's a lot of similar tea houses in Toronto, the proliferation here being only a matter of catching up. The food and drink was good, although there was noise from Interlude's blender and street repairs (which should be done in May, but anyway). The discussion was good--CityFilter Charlottetown, a community weblog, was the subject of discussion, as was the immense expenses of Virtual Charlottetown (quadruple one blogger's high-end estimate at 400 thousand dollars).

The meeting broke at a quarter after2. I went to Cows for ice cream (praline and cream, if you're interested) and then strolled over to Government House. I didn't catch Jen, but I did enjoy the festivities--every Thursday from 2 to 4, there's apparently a leveeput on. Chatted briefly with Dirk Druett.

Now, I'm at Timothy's. Reading Edward Behr's The Last Emperor, basis of Bertolucci's film of the same name, about the life of the Qing scion Pu Yi. Fascinating, if depressing.

I plan to partake in some Pride events, going to Mexico Lindo with Steve and his boyfriend. Hopefully it should be fun.