Sliding Towards Byzantium?

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Flea boy! Flea!

This weekend's shaping up to be an interesting one. Should be a lot of fun, too.

Friday night, I'm a-going' tobogannin'! God it's been yearsólike, 20 at leastósince I've slid down a snowy/icy hill on a long piece of wood. Pure insanity! But oh such a part of a Canadian childhood. It'll be fun to relive a little of that wild pleasure.

It's snowed a lot here since Christmas and it's been frightfully cold (tonight is actually the coldest night of the year), so the conditions are good. There's a park off Broadview near Danforth, not too far from where I live, with a nice sloping hill that's been a big sliding mecca for the past few weeks. It's actually the west side of the Don Valley, I suppose. It also affords a beautiful panoramic view of downtown Toronto, which is really nice at night, with the moon and the CN Tower and all the lights of the office towers.

And then on Saturday afternoon, I'm going to a flea circus! Yep, that's right. A real old-fashioned flea circus. More info here.

Should be a blast!