Yesterday I had my first barber appointment since December. But on the way to downtown Oakville I first had to stop at the GO Station to buy another Presto card. My previous Presto card had cracked on Wednesday so I had to buy another one from the machine. Problem was that when I registered the card yesterday morning, I couldn’t transfer the balance, since you can only transfer a balance from a pre-existing card to an unregistered card. This I found out yesterday morning on the phone from a customer service person at Presto. So I had to buy another card with only a few dollars on it, not register it, so that later this morning I’ll call customer service again and have the balances from both my registered Presto cards (one functional and one non-functional) and transfer them to the unregistered card I purchased yesterday. Such are the vagaries of paying for train rides in 2022.

I arrived early in downtown Oakville for my appointment and decided to go to my favorite espresso joint on Lakeshore and sit for a few minutes. The espresso was beautifully made, and 10 minutes passed agreeably before I headed to my appointment, where my barber and I discussed vintage hairstyles, Netflix, travelling, and where to find the best pizza in Oakville.

One of the challenges of being a blogger is finding something to post every day. The vast majority of blogs end up in a kind of limbo because the initial drive to write memorable articles waxes and wanes over time. CJ Chilvers posted a list of ways to post something every day that I’m going to find useful over the coming months. Long-form articles don’t always get written every day, and it’s the ephemeral posts that often bring readers to blogs: the cool links, the offhand remarks. Most of all, curation.