Around The New Home

This evening after work, I drove to see our new home. While we don't take possession for another month, I figured I would take a few photos and explore the streets around. When I got there, the sun was getting low in the sky - it was around 5:45.



I captured a few images, and thought about how the next month would bring warmer weather, and bring buds and leaves to the big maple tree in the front yard of the house.



I drove down the road slowly about a hundred yards and parked - looked around and noticed that parking was allowed on the side streets - a rarity in Toronto these days, it seems to me.





The park is wide and rolling, with a playground for kids, and at the front of it a few trees ready for finches and other small birds that seemed to be feasting on seeds, and hopping about on the lodgepole pines.







The birches and the willows and the maples scattered about the green.













Red bursts of buds are emerging in the warmth of the closing days of March, soft new green leaves are just around the corner.











Can't wait until we move in!

It's a GO

We've been on tenterhooks for the past 24+ hours - a hiccup in the mortgage financing seemed to be afoot, but we've found out 10 minutes ago that it's a go.

We'll be moving into the house in about a month.

Mungo says phew. Oh, and Bah.

Mise En Place

• Sun Tzu, The Art of War
  
• A Cook's Tour, Anthony Bourdain
  
• How To Stay Alive In The Woods, Bradford Angier
  
• Topicalizing The Patient’s Action In Psychoanalytic Interaction, Sanna Vehviläinen
  

The four pieces of writing listed above all resonate deeply with me and have something deeply in common, and while walking Monty outside before in my t-shirt and jeans (yes, you read that correctly, it is THAT warm here in Toronto), it occurred to me what that commonality was. The Mise en place.

The mise en place, literally translated from French, means "setting in place." The Culinary Institute of America describes the term as "Everything in place". When cooking, the term is used to describe preparation done before starting the actual cooking process. Included but not limited to flatware, cookware and sauces.

Recipes are reviewed, to check for necessary ingredients and equipment. Ingredients are measured out, washed, chopped and placed in individual bowls. Equipment such as spatulas and blenders are prepared for use, while ovens are preheated. Preparing the mise en place ahead of time allows the chef to cook without having to stop and assemble items, which is desirable in recipes with time constraints. Also refers to the preparation and layouts that are set up and used by line cooks at their stations in a commercial or restaurant kitchen.

The concept of having everything in its place as applied to the work in a kitchen likely became a staple around the time of Auguste Escoffier, who is well known for his development of the brigade system of running a kitchen.

Well, I don't know who Auguste Escoffier was or is, but that is one heck of a name, Monsieur Escoffier. Eh? Would you like a coffee, Monsieur Escoffier? Eh? Coffee?

Sorry - I'm tired and beginning to wonder if I will be able to wander through writing everything I want to regarding this concept. Bear with me please.

In that most wonderful of travelogue/cooking memoir that Anthony Bourdain wrote with such flourish and swearing, he mused about the essential truth or secret behind good cooking. It is the mise en place. If you prepare everything diligently, lovingly and all in the right place and order, you can swoop down and invoke the alchemical gods and bring out from this mix a dish that would result in a 4 star Michelin award (not the tires). It is in the measuring-out, the washing, the chopping, dicing, slicing, placement and preparation of all ingredient, cutlery, foil, plastic wrap and soaked shishkabob sticks, that the magic is prepared - luck favours the prepared as they say - and so preparing the final dish. If you cook a simple dish like a pot roast in this manner, carefully, precisely, you can make the most wonderful and memorable of meals, and never break a sweat.

It has been a while since I read Sun Tzu's The Art of War. This is not the Wesley Snipe movie, which incidentally was okay, if you have had a few beers and have nothing else to watch on TV the evening that Spike TV is showing it. But the most famous of his lessons (Sun Tzu, not Wesley Snipe) describes the deliberate infiltration of the enemy's ranks, the build-up, the preparation, the placement of forces in such an exact and stealthy manner, that upon breaking of dawn, and the rousing of the opponents' first sentries, your forces can clatter their armour, brandish their weapons inches from the necks of all the officers, affect a series of surgical arrests and thus win the war without striking a blow. This is the mise en place. Preparation, and strike.

In How To Stay Alive In The Woods, by Bradford Angier, that most classic of survival texts, written in a most classic and soothing cadence, he talks about lighting a fire with flint and steel. My experience has shown me the wisdom of his words. Let me explain how I did not prepare and strike years ago. It was January, and it was maybe 14 years ago. I had driven up to Algonquin Park in the depths of winter, and arrived late at a drive-in camping spot on Mew Lake by myself. Darkness had fallen, and all the firewood was buried in a foot of snow. Trying to light a fire, I went through 2 boxes of matches, several firelighting sticks (compressed fiber with paraffin), and a tube of firegel. It was literally my final match that got a pile of Globe and Mail newspapers, half a roll of toilet paper and a firelighting stick to ignite, and get the damp firewood to start afire. I am sure that I could have gotten the fire going with one match had I prepared the newspaper as tinder properly, along with twigs and kindling from the base of the pine trees scattered around the site, building up successively larger pieces of firewood until I had my mise en place - striking one match, the conflagration starting in one slow but steady blaze. This is how I set my last campfire. And it took only two strikes of my ferrocerium rod with my carbon steel knife to set fire to crumbled bark, carefully arranged tinder and kindling and firewood, with a spark of iron.

This relates in turn to a passionate, albeit less attended-to interest of mine - psychoanalytic writings. The paper Topicalizing The Patient’s Action In Psychoanalytic Interaction, by Sanna Vehviläinen is a recent but oft-repeated (at least within the sparse amount of literature I have covered) examination of instances where the psychoanalyst topicalizes the patient’s action in the here-and-now of the psychoanalytic hour - which existential psychoanalytic approaches stress most. Using conversation analysis, Vehviläinen looks into the sequential context and the interactional consequences of such topicalizations - bring them alive within the context of the therapeutic hour. The analyst also does particular preparatory work to create an interactional ‘slot’ for the interpretation and, thus, co-constructs the issue (or puzzle) with the patient within the meeting itself. The analyst problematizes some aspect in the patient’s talk, presenting it as noteworthy and contradictory (this I have seen referred to as 'tagging'). The analyst and patient then engage in psychoanalytic interpretations that follow and provide some clarification these puzzles. They provide explanations that draw on the materials the patient has provided, but add to them something new – something the patient ‘has not been aware of’, thus shepherding and drawing the patient along an unfamiliar but comfortable (i.e. less anxiety-ridden) path. The analyst may carefully bring up how the patient is currently presenting within the therapeutic hour, and focus on this dynamic. The intervention is then concluded (or 'primed') with the element of the patient's behaviour as revealing something of the patient's unconscious (or as Alfred Adler - a fascinating man - liked to put it, the 'unknown part of the goal').

It is 11:00 PM and I know I could probably write for another hour on this concept, and perhaps I will follow up another day. You can likely see by this point how relevant the Mise En Place is to many parts of our lives. But now I must prepare my pillow, and put Monty to bed (Spring is in dreamland currently), and turn off the lights and prepare to dream.

Bah.

Knee Knee Knee

Well it appears that it is actually Monty's other knee's cardinal cruciate ligament that has ruptured, and not actually anything to do with his hip. His X-rays and 2 surgeons confirmed that this was the case. Now he had the same surgery in October of 2005 on his right-knee, so we know what to expect more or less in terms of recovery and the actual surgery. Just wish he didn't have to go through it.



He'll look like this below, and for the first few days he'll need to be supported while he walks out for his business. But within a couple of weeks he should start to recover, and hopefully within 8 - 12 weeks he'll be walking fine.



Poor little guy.



Bah.

House and Backyard

Today we bought a house and now we don't have to worry about moving out of this condominium that we sold, and having nowhere convenient to go.

We are relieved. Mrs. Mungo has never lived in a house. She is happy. I have drawn an elegant sketch of the house and backyard on a pair of Post-It notes - click to see a larger image with more details (as if you didn't know to do that already):



Monty has been told he will now have some grass and a backyard, where we will build his doghouse. He is going to the vet for a surgeon's consult tomorrow afternoon, so he is somewhat distracted and can't appreciate the good news yet.

Mungo says bah.

Tension Over Iran Ratchets Up

I wonder if this will be a trigger, or if this will all blow over in a few days:

Debka file reports:


Charles de Gaulle Aircraft Carrier

Iranian warship seizes 15 British seamen inspecting merchant ship for terrorists and arms in divided Shatt al Arab waterway

London is demanding the immediate release of the British sailors and marines and has summoned the Iranian ambassador to the foreign office. The Ministry of Defense claims Iranian vessels seized the British seamen on the Iraqi side of the waterway while they were searching merchant vessels for smuggled arms and terrorists in the Siban area near the al-Faw peninsula. An Iranian naval vessel then pulled alongside and detained them.

The Shatt al-Arb which flows into the Persian Gulf is divided between Iran and Iraq. DEBKAfile reported exclusively Thursday that the French nuclear carrier Charles de Gaulle and its task force had rendezvoused with the USS John C. Stennis in the Arabian Sea Wednesday for joint missions in the global war on terror.

The next day, Iran launched a new naval war game in the Persian Gulf. Just before the British sailors were seized, UK commanders in Basra accused Iran of being behind 90% of the violence in S. Iraq and paying out $250 to anyone willing to attack British troops.

Amid rising tensions in the strategic Gulf waters, DEBKAfile’s military sources disclose the American-French rendezvous was timed to coincide with the UN Security Council session Wednesday to debate expanded sanctions against Iran for continuing its banned uranium enrichment program.

The Iranians were bowled over by the appearance of the Charles de Gaulle opposite their southern coast, having assumed that Paris took issue with Washington’s tough stand on their nuclear activities and was seeking improved relations with Tehran.

However, Western military circles explain that the French president Jacques Chirac decided before he leaves office in May to repair the bad impression he left in early February when he urged the world - and Israel in particular - to learn to live with “an Iranian nuclear bomb or two.”

Rafale fighter-bombers on the French carrier’s decks will fly missions over Afghanistan alongside US warplanes.

Its arrival raises to four the number of Western aircraft carriers cruising within striking distance of Iran, including the USS Eisenhower and USS Boxer.

The Charles de Gaulle is accompanied by French Task Force 473, which consists of five warships: the FNS Cassard guided missile destroyer, the FNS Tourville anti-submarine frigate, the FNS Dupleix destroyer adapted for escorting oil tankers and the FNS Marne, a command and supply vessel. Captain of the French task force is Rear Adm. Xavier Magne. Commander of the American flotilla is Rear Adm. Kevin Quinn.

Orange Juice

I am having some orange juice in the darkness of the warm spring evening. Well, actually, it is room temperature in the darkened apartment, but I am pretending that I am sitting on a log beside a campfire, next to a quiet lake somewhere in Northern Ontario. That's where I'd like to be. I came across a web page telling stories of various canoe expeditions around Canada. Reading them made me want to be canoeing, and fishing, and setting up camp somewhere in the boreal forest, somewhere in the bush away from computers and telecommunications, e-mails and documentation.



Growing up, I drank prodigious amounts of orange juice - my preference was for the pulp-free form of the nectar. My friend Robin's father told me quite soberly one evening back in high school days that the pulp in orange juice was added by the manufacturer after squeezing the oranges, and that it is derived from felled trees - purified, food-grade powdered cellulose. I believed him. I think I still believe him now.

Q: How do you tell the difference between a walrus and an orange?
A: Put your arms around it and squeeze. If you don't get orange juice, it's a walrus.


I tried to fell a cedar tree last time I went on a solo canoeing trip - it had blown halfway-down in a great storm in mid 2006 and was threatening to careen dangerously down in the middle of the camp site, across my head. I had a little hatchet and no saw and it took me ages to finally hack it down - twisted by the wind, it was hung up in another cedar and so made it most inconvenient for me to end its shattered life. I had to scramble half-way up a granite rock-face to even get close enough to the tortured bend in the trunk and so I was posed rather precariously and sweatily and thus all the wood chips and dust took turns playing "Fall In Mungo's Eye Balls" and "Clog Up Mungo's Nostrils".



Now that I have a nice Gransfors Bruks small forest axe and a nice buck saw, I am prepared to lay waste to any offending trees that might lean my way. The saw will also provide me with ample opportunity to gather saw dust with which I can thicken my evening orange juice (although I found that the cedar was particularly fragrant and somewhat resinous and perhaps not suited to my needs), as I sit on a log beside a campfire, next to a quiet lake somewhere in Northern Ontario, as a nice fat lake trout sizzles in the smoke, waves lap at the beach stones, and I enjoy my orange juice.

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What A Week at Work and at Home

We have sold the condominium - the offer was firmed up Saturday and that is that! We have until May 1st to either locate a new home or to carefully review the camping equipment I have now and see if we need to get another Thermarest self-inflating camping mattress for the tent. So this past weekend we spent hours and hours and hours looking at homes in Oakville and in Toronto. This is a photograph of our condo that I took last summer. Ours is the one with the balcony facing the lake.



My first week at my new job was really good. I have been catching up with old colleagues and learning about the projects that are happening - my role is to provide control and prioritization over projects, and to facilitate communication amongst the various (multitude) groups, stakeholders and divisions. We are in a new renovated space at head office, I have a computer which is faster than Superman, and all I am hoping for is that the free coffee machine we had upstairs is moved down to our new space.



What a week. A good week.

My New Job, Dwellings, Caput Ossis Femoris

My new job is great - I am managing a portfolio of projects which involve everything from infrastructure to digital media to web sites and more. It is sort of surreal being back at this company, I was here 6 years ago and due to department changes, corporate ownership swaps and finally the dissolution of the division I was in, I ended up being laid off and looking for new adventures. But now I am back and enjoying it muchly.

We are waiting to hear back by end of day today whether or not the potential buyers will accept the status documents and finally say "Yay or Nay" about buying our place. And this weekend we're looking at houses in Oakville and Toronto again.

Monty has been limpy for the past year, and we assumed it was due to his right knee operation's side effects/recovery - he had his cruciate ligaments replaced with plastic and metal because he'd blown out his knee. Well, it seems that perhaps his knee problems actually originated with the significant hip dysplasia most apparent in his left hip, and that he was favouring this side, and putting extra strain on his knee.

Over the past couple of months I have had him at the vet's, picking up NSAID anti-inflammatory medications and pain-relievers for him, and been carrying him out and in from his pee and poop and sniff trips outside the building. I have not taken him for walks at Cherry Beach etc... and this has been really disappointing for us all - Monty too I think, as he will stare longingly across the road, wanting to go the park.

So on Monday morning I am driving him to the vet's, and he is going to have an X-Ray done on his hip - fully sedated and all. Based on the vet's recommendation, and subsequently a surgeon's recommendation, Monty will have the caput of his left femur excised, and he will then be able to recover - at least that's what the vet told me yesterday.

In the normal anatomy of the hip joint, the femur is connected to the pelvis at the hip joint. The almost spherical end of the femur (the caput, or caput ossis femoris for those who dig anatomy) fits into the socket of the hip joint (the acetabulum), to form a smooth joint with a wide range of leg movement, and the force of movement and walking is buffered by the joint itself, a mold made partly of cartilage into which the caput neatly fits.

In a hip suffering from dysplasia, two things are commonly abnormal. First, the caput is not deeply and tightly held by the acetabulum. Instead of being a snug fit, it is a loose fit, or a partial fit. Secondly, the caput or acetabulum are not smooth and round, but are misshapen, causing abnormal wear and tear or friction within the joint as it moves.

The body reacts to this in several ways. First, the joint itself is continually repairing itself and laying down new cartilage. However cartilage repair is a relatively slow process (the most rapid bodily repairs are often in systems with a blood flow, which cartilage lacks).

So the joint may suffer degradation due to the abnormal wear and tear, or may not support the body weight as intended. The joint becomes inflamed and a cycle of cartilage damage, inflammation and pain commences. This is a self-fueling process, in that the more the joint becomes damaged, the less able it is to resist further damage. The inflammation causes further damage. The bones of the joint may also develop osteoarthritis, visible on an X-ray as small outcrops of bone, which further degrade the joint.

The underlying deformity of the joint may get worse over time, or may remain static. A dog may have good X-rays and yet be in pain, or may have very poor X-rays and apparently almost no problems. The hip condition is only one factor to determine the extent to which dysplasia is causing pain or affecting the quality of life. In mild to moderate dysplasia it is often the secondary effects of abnormal wear and tear or arthritis, rather than dysplasia itself, which is the direct causes of visible problems.

Monty's vet is currently recommending femoral head excision. In this operation the ball portion of the hip is removed. Because arthritis develops from the ball rubbing abnormally in the socket, removing 1/2 the hip joint, and thus the bone to bone contact, relieves the pain. Once the ball is removed, a piece of muscle or joint tissue is placed between the thigh bone (femora) and the socket. This causes scar tissue to form which in turn supports the leg.

Not sure when the surgery will happen, we'll have to schedule it for the best time, but out of it all, hopefully this will allow him to return to the playful, mobile beagle who liked to go camping...


Playing with Kibble.



Playing with Garfield.

GANNT Seem To Sell The Condo.

Well, tomorrow I start my new job, but in a way it will be my old job. I will managing projects and products and creating PERT diagrams and GANTT charts and WBS diagrams and levelling resources and balancing the project triangle of scope/time/resources. And I will have cafeteria food occasionally and marvel at things.







We got a tepid, anaemic, and flavourless offer on the condo yesterday and signed-it back to them - i.e. told them to put it in their pipe and smoke it. Oh this selling business is not easy - we want multiple offers and a bidding war, and people handing us aluminum suitcases packed with neatly stacked hundred dollar bills. It has been on the market for 7 days, so I suppose patience is a virtue on which to meditate.

Jimi Hendrix Filled My Ears

I spent a lot of time in my youth and 20s and 30s listening to Jimi Hendrix. I wish I could spend more time listening to his music.

Musical Evening

Talking Heads - Slippery People



It is Friday night and all the lights in the house are out. Spring is listening to her music on her iPod and I am listening to mine on the computer. My god I have a lot of music in the form of MP3s. Monty is laying around on his bed here in the office. With the temperature warming, I am hoping we'll have lots of activity on the condo showings this weekend.

Pink Floyd - Whats... Uh The Deal



But enough of that. I have a beer. It is cold. I chatted with Matt earlier, we were looking at a reunion website for our high school. In May of 2008 there are going to be events. We will likely go. I am going to pretend that I am a successful neurosurgeon, and Matt might too. The story will go that it was a coincidence that we both ended up being world-renowned neurosurgeons.

Rage Against the Machine - Sleep Now In The Fire



We will also be Sanskrit scholars - again, completely coincidental. I wish I could fly Spring to Istanbul so she could meet up with her old school chums. In time. Everything in time if you are patient enough.

Black Sabbath- Electric Funeral



I have started using Google Reader (thanks Matt) and finally I can understand the point of RSS. Some sites publish their content in an XML feed, basically a structured text file, that contains the content of - say - a news story, along with title, author, and other information.



It looks rather convoluted, but translated properly it comes out nicely formatted. And, being a structured text file, it can be easily sent over the WWW without encumbrances of imagery, and site-specific formatting.

Vaughn Brothers - Tick Tock



I have subscribed to numerous sites (just click on an xml link and you're subscribed) - several blogs, news sites, technology stories, etc... and so all I need to do is click on the Google Reader web site, and then scroll through all the new stories/postings that have occurred recently. No more clicking through a multitude of sites to see what's new - just go to Google Reader and it will tell you.

Rush - Lakeside Park



I wish some sites that don't have RSS feeds did have them. Drudge Report would be awesome to have this. So would Debka File, and lots of others I visit daily. If you haven't seen or tried it out, go there NOW.

Leonard Cohen - So Long Marianne



From our Condo library, I picked up The Toronto Star Outdoor Garden Book - The Art, Craft, Science & Delight of Gardening in Southern Ontario. If we are going to buy a house with a back garden, I want to know about how to make the garden look nice. I intend on planting a vegetable garden too.

King Crimson - Discipline



I will not grow marijuana, opium poppies or coca bushes. I will grow potatoes, carrots and peas. I will also grow donuts, as I am partial to honey-dip donuts. I shall also grow curried chicken rotis.

Grateful Dead - Scarlet Begonias

Eggs and Jobs and Homes

I had a Cadbury Creme Egg for lunch today. Eggs are healthy and make up a balanced diet and I am drinking a Coke with it too. Coke contains some Natural Flavours, according to the label, and natural is healthy. I am trying to eat a healthy diet. I am succeeding in this endeavor.



I am leaving a job and starting a new job soon. I am leaving our house and starting in a new house soon. Change is healthy. I try to live my life in a healthy manner. I am succeeding in this endeavor.

Sunday Morning and a Dog House

It is Sunday morning, I am watching Meet the Press and yawning and drinking orange juice. I am so glad it is Sunday. I am too sleepy to write anything much of interest.

We had an open house yesterday, and at least 8 real estate agents and their clients visited. We were off and away looking at houses, Monty was staying over at a friend's house chewing on toys and sleeping. While all the houses looked a bit bleak on the outside, with snow and ice and such all about, the insides made us dream and smile. We think we found one we want, but of course we have to sell the condo first. Time will pass, things will happen. It always does, they always do.



One project I intend to make when we get a house is a dog house for Monty. It will sit in the backyard and it will look like this sketch I just made:



Oh what a week I have ahead of me - I will post more information as I don't want to reveal all. But suffice it to say, I am relieved and resolute.



Sunday Morning by The Velvet Underground

Sunday morning, praise the dawning
It's just a restless feeling by my side
Early dawning, Sunday morning
It's just the wasted years so close behind

Watch out, the world's behind you
There's always someone around you who will call
It's nothing at all

Sunday morning and I'm falling
I've got a feeling I don't want to know
Early dawning, Sunday morning
It's all the streets you crossed, not so long ago

Watch out, the worlds behind you
Theres always someone around you who will call
Its nothing at all

Watch out, the world's behind you
There's always someone around you who will call
It's nothing at all

Sunday morning
Sunday morning
Sunday morning

Job, Jazz, Chocolate and Beer

So at the moment I am breathlessly waiting to hear back from a contact who wants to employ me. We talked yesterday and she told me I'd be able to come in today and sign some papers. Oh the anticipation.



I am listening to Miles Davis and John Coltrane to relax my soul. It is working somewhat...



Tonight we are showing our condo to a business person who is only in Toronto for the day. Must tidy bathroom and kitchen a bit. Tomorrow is the open house. All this change is pretty stressful, but we're both pulling through. Chocolate helps Spring. Beer this weekend should help me!





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