Brother Andrew and SIL No 1 are taking me out for dinner at a fish place on my birthday, which is the day after tomorrow. But apart from that I’m all business this week.

Today I dealt with the bank and Bell Canada, which is the better (for me, at least) internet provider here. I also tried to straighten out my account with the company that manages the bus pass system for OC Transpo, the local public transit outfit, but failed because I could not persuade their website to cooperate with my iPad, even via Chrome instead of Apple’s native Safari browser.

So I gave up, having had enough bureaucracy for one day.