Ash Wednesday

 I went to the 9:00 AM Mass.

I had to leave early.

Tuesday 7:26 AM: Fat Tuesday

 Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday so I have to make plans for Lent.  What will I give up?  Booze and junk food to start,  I will, as the previous entry says, stop posting quote videos.  I will probably stop uploading videos altogether for 40 days.  I will not post anything on X, Facebook, WeChat and Rednote.  I will also visit these apps as little as possible.  I will stop using AI to make silly videos.  I will ignore politics as much as is practical. But, I am not sure about this blog.  Perhaps, it will just be a spiritual journal.  I hope to be in communion with the Catholic Church in 40 days.

40 days

 

Hockey hockey game!

 Tony is in this photo.

I’m in this photo with my CNY hoodie.

Warmup.

Swag!

Game on!

The Wheat Kings won 3-2.

Chinese New Year outside my bedroom window

 

Keeping myself occupied.

 

In the photo above, you can see one of my rosary beads, my todo list and my quote video notebook.

I will be closing my off quote video notebook through Lent.  I will suspend this vanity project, but not before making a video announcing this which is the next item on my todo list!

Monday 7:59 AM: A respite

 It’s a bit of a holiday for me today.  Only one class and I’ll watch a Wheat Kings game this afternoon.

But the remaining days will be busy. And there will be a winter storm coming.

新年快乐！

 

My wife’s Chinese New Year Dinner

 Tony, I and my wife are separated for Spring Festival this year.  Tony & I were supposed to go to a CNY dinner last evening but my neighbors had to postpone it on account of having caught bad colds.  When we can do the dinner is very up in the air because I’m so busy. I had made myself free for last night’s dinner,

I can only now watch the video above and see what I have missed. A nice little detail in the video is the sound of fireworks going off in the surrounding environs.

National Flag Day

 On X, formerly Twitter, I learned it was national flag day in Canada. That’s subject for a rant.  When I asked my son to compare the current Canadian flag with this one:

He said the one above was far more attractive.  I agree.  It has more detail.  It was the flag for which Canadian soldiers died in WW1, WW2, and the Korean War.  It was also the flag of the country to which my parents immigrated.

The current flag is really a liberal party of Canada tag and thus reminds me another national flag of a another one party state:

Furthermore, the current flag has dead shrubbery as a national symbol, and looks so 1970s..

For sure, the current flag stands out, but these days when the elite of this country are a total embarrassment, I prefer the detailed and subtle elegance of the Red Ensign.