My exciting spring break plans

Spring forecast? More winter

...climatologist David Phillips is forecasting that the next 30 days will be colder than normal in the Toronto area. "People are tired of winter and it's wearing them down," said the senior climatologist with Environment Canada...

At this time of year, we should be seeing daytime highs of 6C, but "we'll be lucky to get above freezing," he said. Phillips expects the first month of spring to be colder than normal across the country.

Incredibly, this was not the most exciting article in the Toronto Star today -- that title goes to the heartbreaking "Police Shoot Runaway Cow". (Nut graf: "Two of the animals ended up in the backyard of a home where they calmly munched on shrubs and bushes." Story of my life.)

But yeah, that's what I'm doing over "spring" break. Expect little more than radio silence until we're back in 10 days -- although I will be employing the latest and greatest in Canadian telecommunications, which I gather have progressed these recent decades. Hope everyone has a good break, and feel free to share your equally exciting plans in comments.

P.S. Here is some video Kyle took of yesterday's antiwar rally, which was lent a certain dramatic quality by the rain and misery everywhere. I also expect our old friend the guy by the door, who took copious photographs, will post some shortly.

P.P.S. Congratulations to all the freshmen who were granted admission to Mather University today -- including Dem Apples' own Will Weingarten, now a made man. And my condolences to all of you who were assigned to other, inferior houses.