Perils of a Substitute Acolyte

There's an election coming in Toronto, and the swords and battle axes are out. The winner gets to be vilified by everyone else for everything that goes wrong. The loser gets to have a life.

I've been celebrating the holiday weekend by cleaning out my cat's drinking fountain. If you don't clean out the fountain from time to time, something will crawl out of it in the middle of the  night and eat your cat. I've tried to warn him about this, but he still refuses to clean it himself.

Speaking of chocolate,  I purchased some of these Leonidas chocolates for company and...erm...you should always try to make purchasing chocolate the very last thing you do so there's no time to sample it...

Finally, I'm intrigued by a new book which was reviewed in the TLS, entitled The Evolution of Childhood, by Melvin Konner. The book surveys human childhood from many perspectives, --genetic, hormonal, neurological, and from social and cultural perspectives.
The reviewer, Michele Pridmore-Brown,  says Konner may be the only scholar who is as comfortable discussing cultural change as he is the biochemical and statistical correlates of behavior.

Here is a picture of a steam engine in winter.

Anchors aweigh!