Weekend update

Fri - dinner with si & cm. Simply Thai in BWV. Nice. Missed the TUC internight playoffs. Apparently Mandrew won over Peewee - which makes me think that it wasn't full rosters. I heard Ian Brooks played for Mandrew, which would confirm this suspicion.

Sat - Re-visited dayhikes in Algonquin. Not the original plan - DJ & I left my place at 7:30 am, but DJ wanted to check out cottages under $100K - which they aren't many of, and so we went way out of the way in order to find them - like Bancroft out of the way. Going via Huntsville is roughly 290 km; via Bancroft and Whitney 345 km. As it turned out, we started the centennial ridges trail at 3:15 or so and after taking some pictures of the colours from the ridge drove to Track & Tower, where we marched by several busloads of Asian tourists.
- Missed Mexican food with C&M and S&C. Also missed kareoke with J&C and B&D, who I hear are planning on quitting their jobs and travelling the world as of Xmas - cool.

Sunday - book club (read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) by Mark Haddon. Discussion: autism, parenting, technical writing skills. I think the concensus was that we were somewhat impressed by his ability to try and place him (and therefore us) in the mind of an adolescent autist, we weren't ultimately captured by the book. Another interesting point was how the women of the group didn't like the mother at all - abandoning her child, no matter how she was faring, was seen as the cardinal sin of motherhood.
Sunned for a while, then went Queen west gallery browsing with CM. We started at the Drake, and then just wandered. The highlight was the John Oswald installation - instandstillnessence at the Edward Day Gallery. This looked promising, but was rather disappointing. Then hit a driving range with CM, her friend S and the roomie, who has indeed, improved his golf game substantially since June.