Swim workout, April 20

Approximate workout in 25-yard pool:

• warm-up: ((50 breast stroke + 50 crawl) x 2 = 200
• front crawl (”freestyle”) with pull-buoy, 50 x 3 = 150
• freestyle with hand paddles & pull-buoy, 50 x 2 = 100
• freestyle with hand paddles, 50
• freestyle, 50 x 3= 150
• freestyle with hand paddles, 50

Total, 700 yards (630 m)
Worked on stroke timing with breathing.

Transit strike is narrowly averted

The Toronto Transit Commission and the city went down to the wire and then some with a 4:00 p.m. deadline. At 6:00 p.m. they announced a tentative deal. Basically, it gives the transit union what they asked for: transit strike is narrowly averted.

The cat came back

Marlowe re-appeared after about 36 hours. She showed up in the back yard with a young rat to toss around. In a few minutes she settled down and ate it.

I brought her in when the phone rang in the house and gave her some food with medicine in it. She wasn’t very interested. I let her out again.

In the evening she came back and I gave her a pill, then fed her a big bowl of food with medicine in it. I kept her in for a while, but when she got restless I let her out.

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Smog alert ended, April 20

The Smog Advisory has been TERMINATED by the Ontario Ministry of the
Environment for the following forecast regions:

Termination Date: Sunday April 20, 2008 at 10:40 AM

Barrie - Orillia - Midland
Belleville - Quinte - Northumberland
Brockville - Leeds and Grenville
City of Hamilton
City of Toronto
Cornwall - Morrisburg
Dufferin - Innisfil
Dunnville - Caledonia - Haldimand
Elgin
Halton - Peel
Huron - Perth
Kingston - Prince Edward
London - Middlesex
Niagara
Oxford - Brant
Parry Sound - Muskoka - Huntsville
Peterborough - Kawartha Lakes
Simcoe - Delhi - Norfolk
Waterloo - Wellington
York - Durham

For more details visit the Air Quality Ontario website at:
www.airqualityontario.com