Life

I've somewhat recovered from my jet lag. It only took about a week or so this time, to mostly normalize my sleep schedule back to its normal 1:00 to 3:30 am sleep time and 6:00 to 9:00 am wake time without an alarm clock, depending on how I feel that night. To me it felt like I recovered really quickly, but also when I finally "snapped out of it" and realized it was fine, I also wondered where the previous week went. I think due to all the post-trip stuff I had to do, and me taking Tuesday to Friday last week off as vacation, the first few days back at home all felt like an extended "final day" or "first day back" with a few sleep breaks in between. I am still often sleepy in the late afternoons and evenings though, and sometimes end up taking a nap, so it's not fully gone yet, but I expect that will disappear over the next week too.

I do still have the urge to go out travelling again, though it's currently only a light urge and tempered by just exhaustion and the counter-urge to vegetate and play plenty of interesting computer games for a while. I talked to my boss about vacation plans to get my vacation hours down though, and I do either have to take another long trip soon or start working in vacation days during the month even when I don't strictly need them. I get 25 vacation days a year, so basically two a month, and I only whittled the ~300ish hours I had down to my soft carry-over cap of 175 hours (7 hours/day x 25 days) at the very end of my vacation, argh. So... maybe once more into the breach, later in the year?

I've been reminiscing and dreaming about my vacation a fair amount in the past week, now that it's over but still recent enough that a lot of the memories are fresh in my head still. The "Calgary" ticket incident over in Haikou and the reckless van driver afterwards. The succulent taste of those "chicken biscuits". The "98 night market" in Guangzhou. Kawasaki Daishi and the Girls Band Cry stuff. Kel's apartment and bathroom woes. Finding abandoned mahjong pieces from other people's drinks. The ride on Zixiang's motorcycle. Going to Sunplaza Park with Allen. Hanging out with Kaiting for an entire afternoon. Being sick in Sapporo and Jiangmen. The snow banks by the side of the road that were taller than people in Sapporo. The chirashi movie posters, especially that Melania one. The cool robot butler in the CitiGO hotel in Shanghai. And so many more sweet, precious, and tender memories.

I ended up not getting the online application done for the passports even though I said last week that I wanted to get that done before the March 31 deadline. The reason for that is that when I looked into the actual application, I saw that I could only apply for a passport renewal online if there were less than 6 months to go on my passport. My passport still has about 11 months left to go, so either I have to wait for it to get closer to its expiry date before applying, or I have to go down in person somewhere to do it. We'll see.

I did get a bunch of things done this last week though. First and foremost, my taxes. Done for the year, woo! The streaming part took the most time to do, but I already do track my (game) expenditures in a spreadsheet and it did prefill a bunch of things from last year into the tax filing software that I use, which is currently Wealthsimple (local). But I have all those numbers archived anyway if I ever want to swap softwares again. I used to use H&R Block as recently as 2023, but got mad at them for withholding the ability to file medical expenses unless one paid for their upgraded tier or something like that even though it didn't affect me much at the time, so I shopped around and have been with WealthSimple since 2024.

Next, our old LotRO kinship forums. I apparently did not blog about this, but I noticed in the late-middle part of last year that the website for my old kinship, which is the specific term for an MMO guild within the Lord of the Rings Online game, was gone. Our kinship forums used to be on a hosting site called GuildLaunch (which is apparently now GamerLaunch (local)), at domh.guildlaunch.com, but once we became inactive, Guildlaunch moved us to glremoved1domh.guildlaunch.com instead (which now apparently cannot be archived by the IA due to "security verification", but it hasn't fundamentally changed since that 2023 snapshot).

Anyway, when I was looking at it in 2025, even the glremoved one was gone, so I emailed GuildLaunch support to ask about it on Sep 05 2025. Silence, no reply. I followed up on Sep 20 2025. Silence, no reply. But I happened to check recently (while on my trip, actually) and realized that for whatever reason, it was back. I don't know if the removal thing was a temporary error, or if they restored it after I asked them to but just never replied to me, but hey, I wasn't going to complain about it.

I had manually archived parts of the forum in spurts back between 2022 and 2024, but had always stalled out just due to sheer boredom since it was so long. This time I finally finished archiving it, using the same very manual process of saving a single page .html of each forum post, as well as a full page screenshot of it. A lot of the attached images were already gone since people mostly used Photobucket (local) back then and that site has since gone down the toilet under new ownership, but the text was more important anyway.

A number of the people I still hang out with in the ZOMG Discord today are from back there, and it's nice saving the logs of where a lot of us formed our initial relationships, bonds forged through tough MMO raids. I regretted not biting the bullet and finishing it until it was seemingly too late last time, especially since a couple of people who had posted on the forums have passed on and are no longer walking this earth. And the chunks that I did do last time meant that there was a little less than half the forum left to do, which also helped. It took me a couple of hours for a couple of days early this week, but now it's all backed up somewhere local, for now, at least.

A third thing I completed this week was my archival spreadsheets for the two late-night Twitch streamers I watch currently, Nomakk and ragesaq. A member of the former community, Belfknightt, had graciously helped me keep track of a bunch of stuff while I was gone, significantly lowering the amount of catchup I had to do when I get back, and I appreciate him very much for that (and while I cannot repay him for his time, I can at least give him a shout out here and a permanent text hover tooltip to preserve a small aspect of him and his kindness for the deep future.) It still was a couple of hours per streamer to extract and keep track of all the data that I do for the both of them, but now I'm all caught up again and that's another backlog weight lifted off of me.

I also emailed my realtor and asked him to get rid of one of the two housing filters that he had set for me to reduce the amount of incoming "noise" in my emails significantly. I am no longer really looking for condo townhouses to buy, just regular houses for the moment, and there's always a full map that I can look at if I want to browse everything including the townhouses anyway, but 90% of new alert emails coming into my mailbox label for houses was from the way too permissive condos filter that he had set, so that's gone now. It's just one of those things that I knew I had to get done but had not actually done for so long. And couldn't do while overseas since I didn't want to pay for Telus roaming to send outgoing text messages anyway.

There's actually a nearby house for sale for 399k, but it's been on the market for 50-odd days now, so it must have come on the market just after I left for my trip. Though it's not out of reach, I'd have to stretch my finances to reach that sale price, but something must be wrong with it for it to be on the market for so long. Or at least I can hear my Dad telling me that. The house isn't in the perfect location either, as it's halfway between our local Safeway and our local Superstore but just far enough from both of them to be not really easily walkable during the depths of winter, especially not for my parents. I won't be going to see it though. I'm still waiting for one in a specific small neighbourhood to open up.

Last week, I emailed Bentley about the sling bag that broke on my trip, first in Haikou and then in Tokyo. They had asked me to send pictures of the front and back of the Clinton tote bag, the tag inside the bag, and a closeup picture of the damaged part, as well as the original receipt. Well, their reply was:

Absolutely, after reviewing your photos we can confirm you will have a replacement

Unfortunately, we no longer have your original luggage model available. However, we took the time to find a similar model for you that you can check here: Tracker Verona Tote Bag – Shop Bentley

Please let us know if you agree with this selection and we will be happy to assist you.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

Hey, that's cool of them! I said it was fine and remarked that I was surprised that they were going to give me a replacement bag, I had no idea that there was even a warranty. They replied:

We’re pleased to inform you that your request has been successfully processed and forwarded to our warehouse team. Your replacement luggage will be shipped shortly and is expected to arrive within 10 days.

We kindly ask that you keep us updated once you receive it.

Please note that our bags come with a 2-year warranty. As your bag was purchased on March 26, 2024, and your request was initiated on March 26, 2026, it falls within the warranty period. We are therefore happy to proceed with sending you the brand new bag we previously showed you.

Thank you again for your patience and cooperation throughout this process.

Best regards,

... ...

I checked my receipt again. My purchase date was Mar 26 2024, timestamped at 20:05:06. And the title of my email correspondence with the customer service agent (who did not leave a name) was "New customer message on March 26, 2026 at 10:29 am". Wow. It literally was 2 years, minus 9 hours and 36 minutes. That's how close it was to the bag being out of warranty (a warranty I never knew about, mind you). Much respect to Bentley (local) and the bag (local) that they're sending. I do agree with one of the reviews, from a visual peek at the page's pictures, that the bag seems a bit narrow. I like how wide my current one is, but as long as it's big enough to hold my thin Surface laptop, that's fine. And if not, only the strap is broken from my old bag so I can probably just unhook the strap from this one and use it on the old one.

The bag itself hasn't arrived though, but probably will by next week.

The next couple weeks will be busy for me at work, since it's now my turn to cover from our queue monitor, who will be away for a couple of weeks. I also have a couple of meetings that I have to go in for, starting with a team meeting on Friday. One of the good meetings, but it still is a long meeting that takes up most of the day. I'm in the middle of Easter weekend right now though, and we get both this last Friday and this next Monday off for free, so that's nice.

On Thursday, I went down to Mill Woods for an appointment with an ophthalmologist's office. Not with the actual doctor, they just wanted to do initial tests after my referral there from my regular optician. I'll know in a couple of weeks what they think of my eyes. Glaucoma runs in my family, particularly with my Dad, and I've been told I have high pressure and some signs in my left eye too, but we'll see (literally). My left eye gave me some trouble for a couple of days last week, around when I was going to my parents' house and then the weekend after that, and that contributed to a headache that I had early last week. It was feeling "lazy" and a lot more blurred than my right eye. I do need to go get new glasses at some point too with the prescription that I got last year, but I was waiting for the eye doctor for this, so I'll see what they say after my next appointment in a couple of weeks.

The office in question is very close to the Mill Woods library though, which I haven't ever stepped into since they renovated and moved to their new location back in 2015 (local), since I moved away from Mill Woods in 2011. The place is a standalone building now, and that allows them to have some really nice scenic views from inside the library.

But I know libraries are good for ephemera, so I went there and collected a bunch of neat ephemera to scan. They'll be here. Someday.

There's some cool stuff in there and some not so cool ones. The ones in the bottom right are just QR codes so I don't think they're really useful. The bus guides up top are already online, but the online ones are laid out a little different, I'm not sure how well our bus guide editions get saved and archived though and I'll have to look that up at some point. The multipage booklets on the left I will have to look online to see if digital versions of them already exist or not. That'd save me time if so, those can be a pain to scan. The art postcards (they have blurbs about the art on the back!) and calendar and the indigenous history month things in the center are the type of ephemera I like finding and scanning the most though. And I'm not sure I was supposed to take the staff talking points thing in the top right, but it was in a public rack, so fair game right? I run pictures of the racks by Gemini too to get its opinion on what to take, and Gemini was rather excited about that one in particular.

I also wanted to chronicle some other things that the library has as of the date of my visit, which was Apr 02 2026. Here's the community notice board and the ephemeral notices that were on it that afternoon, which I of course couldn't take but can at least capture:

And here's a prompt board, like they have at the U of A's libraries. This one is a lot less filled in though. Or maybe it's new.

They had a computer loaded with creative software for people to use. Of note, Godot was installed but not Unity or Unreal. But also Adobe Creative Cloud is here. Bleh. Even though Adobe options like DaVinci and Krita are here too.

There's a computer set up for 3D printing (but apparently I didn't capture the actual 3D printer) and one for vinyl cutting too, which I am unfamiliar with.

One set up for Nintendo Switch with a few select games.

And even an arcade machine! In a library! The little kids really liked this one and it took a while before I could get a photo without any little wandering gremlins attached to it.

After I was done pillaging the library, I went over to the nearby mall that was across the road, Mill Woods Town Centre. and had lunch there at the Bernardo Diner that I've been to two times before.

But look, they had a new dish that I had not seen before -- noodles! Rice plus two dishes is $14 here, but apparently noodles + 2 dishes is $20 because they count that as a full "side dish" item rather than a "base" dish like rice, which is silly in my opinion, but whatever.

I decided to bite the bullet and have some anyway, together with the minced pork in the bottom right corner and some fish that was to the left and up of the picture edge, in a little oven thing. It was pretty nice, but not really $20 nice.

I settled down to eat at a table in the food court there, reminiscing of a time when Mom would bring us siblings here after a day in the mall and in the (at the time) attached library, and we'd have lunch here as a family unit minus Dad, who was working. But then a woman came by when I was munching and went table to table, including my own table, asking for someone to buy her something to eat. Having just already spent $20 on a meal and feeling guilty about spending that amount of money, I couldn't tack on something else to that, but she didn't press the issue and actually moved on after I hesitated with an uhm and before I outright said no. Eventually a little old lady seated at another table gave her some cash I think. The noodles tasted a little bit worse with guilt as a seasoning.

I also did a walkthrough of the mall before and after lunch. Some notable points of interest that I wanted to capture here include:

Gacha machines! Southgate Centre, the mall by my apartment, used to have a couple of small gacha machines in the small indoor corridor between Safeway and the anchor store space that used to be next to it -- I think it was Zellers that last owned that space -- before that space got broken up and divided amongst a few different smaller stores and the corridor was boarded up. I don't think any gacha machines now exist in Southgate, although it's not impossible that I'm not remembering a couple up in the Korean store on the second level or something.

Anyway, Mill Woods Town Centre apparently has eight large Beaver-branded capsule machines run by an outfit named Krazy Town (local):

And on one of the sides of the machines was a temporary sign:

I don't know... the gacha machines pretty much looked like they were meant to be there permanently, and nothing nearby seemed to be under renovation, but who knows.

Moving on, there was this Revolver store, which I've previously been to, but did not take a picture of at that time. As mentioned in that post, I still wish Southgate had a store like this.

There was an Ilahui store in this mall too, a very small one stocked with plushies, but it was notable because there was a delivery robot, similar to a Bellabot but not quite one, stocked up with a couple of plushies on the payload trays on its back, circling round and round the tables in the middle of the shop. So much so I could see the marks on the floor that it had rolled over countless times before. Or was it using those marks as a guide and following them?

It's no butler robot, but possibly a distant relative at least. (It's apparently a Pudu KettyBot Pro (local) insofar as I can tell.)

Lastly, there was this uh, grey market recruitment desk set up on an island in the middle of a corridor that was trying to recruit people to go work in Australia under some sort of alleged PR Visa program. It seemed more than a little fishy to me, but it shares the same island as the mall's security desk, located on the other side of the panel behind the two men down below in the picture, so it can't be that bad, right? On the other hand, this side of the island was manned, while the security desk side was totally abandoned, which I guess symbolically shows the current state of this poor mall.

I'm not really on their target demographic I don't think, so they didn't blink an eye or try to chat me up as I approached to take a business card, and then backed up to take a picture of the desk, a white lie about an interested relative remaining unuttered on the tip of my tongue.

Something here actually caught my interest though, specifically the two pieces of ephemera that I picked up from here. On the left side of the desk from the point of view of where I took that photo, you can see the first piece being the business card in the card holder in front of the left man. The second, a flyer, was located behind the block on the left, not that sheet of paper sticking out behind it, but part of a stack on the counter next to that sheet. It was still well within reach of that man on the left though. So it belonged to them but was just far enough away to pretend that it was there incidentally.

The reason I painstakingly described all that is because this was what the flyer (and business card) looked like:

I was completely confused. Why was there an ad for a completely different business here on the Dynamic Immigration & Recruitment desk? And that Secord Medical Clinic was nowhere near to Mill Woods Town Centre itself -- it was actually really close to my apartment, about 45 minutes away from the mall by public transit.

The ad itself pairs that Australian flag with massive metaphorical red flags that I won't get into here, but I ran the bit about the clinic by Gemini itself, looking for context, and we chewed on several possible options here, just out of professional curiosity.

Theory 1. Australia requires an Immigration Medical Examination (IME) (local) for all permanent resident visa applications, so this is part of a pipeline to hook people in, then immediately send them to a partnered clinic for the test, especially since that Secord brochure mentions driver's medicals. However, Secord is not on the list of approved panel physicans (local) for Australia, so that doesn't work.

Theory 2. Well, that Dynamic Immigration company supposedly mostly deals with incoming migrants (local), so maybe the partnered clinic deals with incoming IMEs instead? However, Secord's not on the list of approved panel physicians (local) for Canada either, so that doesn't work either.

Theory 3. The reality is probably far more mundane. That Mill Woods Town Centre desk is actually their only physical place of operation (local) locally, so incoming migrants probably get sent here, and directed to their partnered clinic to get their regular checkups done. They likely get a kickback from Secord of some kind too.

Oh well. At least due to that little poking around, I ended up archiving their entire website (parts of it were not on the IA) and learning about IMEs. The website is badly written with tons of typoes and stuff, but the whole concept is kind of interesting to peek at.

Moving on, I also visited Southgate Mall a couple of times this week, and have a couple of extra ephemeral things to log. The first is the Easter Bunny in the central plaza area. A children's meet and greet event mostly, just like Santa during the Christmas period. I wonder if the same guy plays both mascots.

The second is this cozy little tiny yard display by Dreamyardz (local). The little garden with the fake tree and the wood chips has always been there, but the deck, the chairs, and the fake brazier are new.

Neat. Even closer to home, I tried a couple of new foods this week. The first lot being a bunch of stuff that I ended up buying after consulting Gemini on some healthy snacks to try.

I warned it that I was considered pre-diabetic at some point in the past (and I haven't gone in for a checkup in forever, apparently) and asked it for some healthy choices around there. I vetoed some choices like yogurt and hard cheese and ended up with that above list in the end.  I'd never eaten any hummus before, or chickpea snacks, or those Mary's Organic Super Seed crackers by a brand called Mary's Gone Crackers (love the name), which it called a fantastic vehicle for the hummus or peanut butter. They're pricey though. But actually really good. That being said, I don't know that I'd consider those crackers fundamentally different enough to qualify for the "something new" portion of the new year's resolution to eat new stuff, but the roasted chickpeas, which were okay but dry, and the hummus, which I liked, would count.

The Adams Peanut Butter was interesting, and it suggested that as a topping for both my Mary's crackers as well as a pile of Christie Premium Plus saltine crackers that I still had from the last time that I was deathly ill. This is not highly-processed peanut butter, which is terribly unhealthy, but natural peanut butter, with the only ingredients being peanuts, and (optionally, but yes in this case) salt. I was also warned that this means that naturally speaking, the oil separates from the butter in the jar itself and this is expected, and when I got home I'd have to open it, stir the oil and the peanut butter together.

That was interesting, so I bought all that, went home, and tried to stir it together with a spoon. Splash! (Some) oil on counter. It was so viscous. And after all that, the oil still wasn't stirred properly. After that, I consulted Gemini on how I was supposed to mix it properly and the darned bot was like (paraphrased) "Oh... you fell prey to a classic noob trap. What you were *acktually* supposed to do was to first turn it over before opening it, to let the oil "rise" upwards towards the bottom of the jar as much as you can, and let that sit for a while. Then, open the jar for the first time and use a chopstick to poke a dozen holes into the butter to act as channels for the oil to go down into. Then, stir with chopstick until it's all mixed." Geez, thanks for letting me know beforehand! Still, it indicated that now that I had opened it already, turning it upside down was not an option, but I could still use the chopstick and hole methodology to get it more or less mixed, and I tried it, and it actually worked. Look at me adulting here with the help of an environmental disaster.

I also bought something off the Safeway half-off shelves for the end of the week. These were Jomara dates with roasted almonds:

These were weird. They weren't awful but they were bland and I did not like them. It was also annoying that each one was oddly shaped and lodged in a slot that was a bit too small for it, so digging each one out required the use of fingernails. That was annoying too. Still would have been worth it if it tasted good, but I did not think that it did.

I'll have to venture further afield than Safeway next week, firstly probably to the Italian Centre nearby to get some olive oil since my last bottle from August 2025 is now empty. That is due to a healthy dose of ham and eggs cooked in olive oil nearly every day. And secondly to T&T Supermarket, so I can get kimchi, some nicer instant noodles than the nonsense at Safeway, miso paste, and a couple other things that I'm out of. I'll probably snag some "new food" to try from one of those two places, if not both.

As can be seen from bits and pieces of the above blog entry, I'm still using Gemini for certain things, and I doubt that will go away fully. It's been helpful in bouncing ideas off of and planning things, as well as catching up in areas of general knowledge that either I've always sorely lacked, or that are very specific and contextual to something that I wouldn't know the right question to ask Google about. Also, we just got access to Gemini Pro at work on Friday this week as well, as part of a controlled but more general rollout to staff, as our University is a "Google shop" (i.e. slang for a mostly-Google ecosystem). I think we're going to be involved in the support chain for it somehow, although it might not be anything more than providing access to it via organizational units. Not sure yet.

But there's also been a sizable Microsoft fan contingent over the past year or so that has wanted to migrate us all to a Microsoft shop, which would be awful as Microslop, as they're known as nowadays, has a terrible AI agent (Copilot) and terrible cloud collaboration tools (Microsoft Teams) outside of how sloppy Microsoft Windows has been since Windows 11 was released, even before the advent of AI coding that has made it worse. I personally found the timing interesting since I had just finished orchestrating a trip where I used Gemini fairly heavily, and thus am familiar with a bunch of its quirks and restrictions and capabilities, and that now that we're releasing Gemini Pro to our clients on campus, that's probably going to lock them in and make it much, much harder for the University to ever swap away from Google, for better or worse.

In addition to all that though, I've used it for a couple of things related to my archiving work over the past week. It pointed out that I didn't have a good naming format on the Internet Archive, and insufficient metadata as well, especially around the Description and Tags fields. I agreed with it, so a chunk of the week was spent hashing out a new item name method that I'm going to try for now, as well as chatbot-generated (and then human-polished) descriptions based on the scan itself and what I told it about an item, and some new tags for some of my uploads. It made it clear that my Description field should really have a paragraph with the description of the item and a paragraph for the provenance, i.e. the backstory of the actual item and where/how I acquired it. I agreed.

It's probably not something I will or even can "fix" all at once though, I did amend 10 of the 279 that I have uploaded so far, and will slowly poke at the remainder, but I do also need to press forward and scan a variety of things to stress test the new systems. I also created a master spreadsheet to keep track of all my ephemera, something that I somehow lacked after all this time. (I did have a very basic OneNote table for it but that is not a good medium for that sort of stuff at all.)

Gemini also helped me resolve one really annoying aspect of my blog this week, which was that I take a lot of screenshots of entire webpages when making my blog posts, using them as archival snapshots of the page at that time and putting them in the (local) links after many external URLs. There's almost two dozen on this blog post itself! But if they're over a certain size (either file size or image length, I think), WordPress's multi-file upload system errors out when I try to upload them, and to actually get them onto the server I usually turn to the older, single file uploader, and upload the document that way, which then causes a critical site error after each upload but does get the image uploaded. Not ideal.

I had known from prior research that this was due to one of the WordPress built-in post-processing apps that was trying to generate preview thumbnail copies of those images, the "scaled" ones that can be seen in all the thumbnails above, but I had no idea how to stop that. It took a bit of guidance and a couple of tries, but Gemini did manage to offer a code snippet that completely fixes the issue for me, since I never used scaled versions of the website screenshots that I upload, and they're all named a certain convention that sets them apart from other files that I upload to the blog. So one regex and bypass code later and now WordPress doesn't even look at those files anymore. So now I can use the multi-file uploader for everything, even the large website snapshots, without any errors!

This also had a positive cascading effect on another aspect of my blog, which was that in order to solve the above issue, I had resorted to using .jpg screenshot captures in some cases for them to shrink the file size, even though that does introduce a bit of data loss and artifacting here and there. Without this restriction though, I amended my workflows, changing both the tools that I use for screenshotting websites so that they only generate PNGs. So ShareX had a "Use JPEG as image format if image size is bigger than the specified size" setting that got toggled off, and Firefox, which I often use the full-page Screenshot button for, had a hidden automatic setting to create JPEGs instead of PNGs after a certain size that I turned off by adding a screenshots.pngToJpegCutoff value of 50,000,000 in about:config.

Bouncing ideas off of Gemini has also highlighted a couple of other stylistic problems with my blog that I really don't want to talk about right now but have to fix at some point. Ugh. Fine. One of them is that my Steam links traditionally have not had (local) links by them, but I'm going to start doing that now and also going to have to go through the published posts and fix all of those at some point, too. And also using the long URLs for a game store page instead of a truncated one. There's a lot of "A or B" style options that I'm very glad to have someone to bounce questions off of to get their opinion, based on what others over the ages have done, though.

Over the next week, probably right after finishing the blog really, I'm also going to start to experiment with using another scanning program like VueScan to see if it's a viable option for me to move to. The reason is that Gemini also convinced me that I should be scanning the master copies of things I have in PNG files and saving those for the most part. I do currently have 100 GB of TIF files of things like family photos and yearbooks, but a lot of other stuff, like three years worth of now-discarded mailbox flyer ads, were just saved in JPG format. I think that going forward, I should just bite the bullet and do PNG for everything though. (Edit: I walked this back the very next week.)

While I take several days to muse all that, here's a picture of some fog from Fri, Apr 03 2026 at 8:37 am. Remember that phone cameras often give a "clearer" picture than what the naked eye can actually see.

Good lord, who stole the LRT line behind Southgate Centre?!