From the “Weekend Review” dept.

Another weekend has come and gone—they are never long enough.

Jen was visiting again from Vancouver. As always, I ended up spending a lot of time with her. We finally went to “the Groto on Main”, an Italian Restaurant on Unionville Mainstreet that we’ve been interested in going to. We’ve attempted on previous occasions to have dinner there, but we always arrive too late.

It was pretty busy. The food was good, although Jen’s risotto was inconsistent in it’s hardness (oh where, oh where can I find a place with good risotto?!), my dishes were quite good. It’s obvious that the restaurant puts a lot of effort to do things the “right way”.

The weakest thing I ordered was the “Caesar Salad”.

One dish that I really wished I had tried was the Tomato and Boccicini Cheese salad. It looked excellent. It’s also one of the few restaurants I’ve tried that serves Carpacio (raw, cured beef).

Overall, a fine eating experience.

Saturday, Jen and I went shopping for a pair of Snow Boarding boots. Jen has recently taken the sport up while in Vancouver and was sick of wearing rental boots. It had started heiling rather hard when we left her house, so we decided to go to a local near-by mall, rather than heading down to the Sportmart.

Unfortunately, Jen didn’t do any research, so our search was in vain.

It was snowing when we got back to my house.

We ended up having dinner with Jen’s family and then heading downtown to a house-warming party in HighPark. Alex, Jen’s co-worker, moved into this great apartment with her girlfriend. Met a lot of his friends (all engineers), a man from Paris France ( a boyfriend of one of Alex’s peers, Melissa—He dropped everything in Paris and moved to Canada to be with her—Romance still lives).

Great people, interesting conversation. It’s a shame that we had taken the TTC and had to head back early.

In hindsight, taking public transit was a wise decision, about 20 cm of wet snow had fallen throughout the evening. While driving back to Jen’s house, we saw a near accident. A silver SUV nearly fish-tailed into the passenger side of a small white sedan. CRAZY!

Poor Cristine

I only found out this weekend that Cristine got into a car accident. I’m glad she’s fine, and I hope her nagging back and neck pain disappears soon. I called her soon after I found out, and got th gory details.

We should all give her some support. Such things are normally rather traumatic (although I must say, Cris is handling it very well), and when compounded by such headaches as physical trauma, insurance auditors, repairmen, etc. Well, you get the picture.

The New Page

I didn’t get as much done as I would have liked, but I did manage to get my Cascading Style Sheet to Validate using the W3C Validator. So I am making progress. Getting my webpage template to validate has been a different story, but I plan to release even if it doesn’t validate—I’ll figure out the problems later. I figure that It’s better to have 90% of a page up and running, rather than 99% two months later…

Cheers,

Tai