This isn’t a particularly flattering picture of me, but I’m a little over 6’2”, weigh a bit more than 220, and am almost exactly two months shy of 65.

On the weekend, I spotted an actual cybertruck near Yonge and Bloor. What’s weird about it to me is that the only thing round on it is the wheels - everything else is triangles or rectangles.

In their last home game, they were ahead 3-1 after seven but went to extra innings and gave up seven runs in the 11th. Let’s just say that the home fans are not happy.

During the offseason, I’ve been replaying old baseball seasons on the MLBM 2017 app on my iPad. Out of curiosity, I started up the Jays’ 1994 season. What would have happened if they had gotten to play a full season?

So far, the results are not pretty: they’ve lost their first 10 home games.

Poilievre is behaving as if he is still president of the Young Tories at the University of Calgary and trying to win a debate instead of someone who might become the leader of our country.

This letter contains 11 references to Justin Trudeau, or 2.2 references per paragraph. We get it already.

Also in the neighbourhood: someone has lovingly repainted the Gelber Brothers ghost sign at Richmond and John. It looks nice, but I liked it better when it was faded.

I love bvildings, but I’ve discovered that I also love svb stations. A sign on the building dates this to 1910.

I laughed out loud when I saw these two signs together. Eglinton and Redpath, Toronto.

(They’re putting up new bus stop signs with the post-Eglinton Crosstown bus routes, even though it will apparently be at least six months before it opens.)

Christmas ad from Simpson’s, 1940.

Best of the season to you all.

This is from the Circle of Young Canada page of the December 22 1928 edition of the Toronto Globe.

Happy December 24th, everybody.

And here’s the Google Street View shot of the area now. There’s so much beach now that there are even trees growing on it.

More beach is a good thing. I’m just astonished by the difference.

I used to live in the eastern Beaches neighbourhood and what astonishes me about the area is how much more actual beach there is now.

Here’s a picture I took in 1998. The water is almost all the way up.

The replay of the Blue Jays 1992 season on MLB Manager 2017 continues. Okay, who put the live skunk in Candy Maldonado’s locker?

During the baseball offseason, I spend far too much time replaying old Blue Jays seasons on my MLB Manager 2017 app. Right now, I’m redoing 1992.

I just learned that Wade Boggs is afraid of kittens.

I have always loved bvildings. This one is on Bay Street.

Someone has been writing positive affirmation graffiti on the sidewalk on Soudan Avenue in Toronto. There’s a whole bunch of them if you look down.

Toronto people who like ghost signs: this sign recently emerged at 746 Broadview. My best guess, after looking in the city directories, is that it is for the Oil Heating and Supply Company Limited, which would date it to the 1950s.

I don’t know what you do during the winter, but I like to recreate Blue Jays baseball seasons using the MLB Manager 2017 app on my iPad.

Recently, I was well into the 1987 season, but then the computer gave Lloyd Moseby a career-ending injury.

I don’t like that universe. I might try 1989 now.