I guess I haven’t reported on the goings-on of the past few days. Last night Mary and I met up with Rob and Carrie for dinner. We tried out Fire & Ice in Markham at their suggestion, an interesting dinner concept that I quite liked. You pick a “protein” and a rice, then proceed to a vegetable bar and load your plate up high with all the veggies you want. Pass that to the “Volcano Chef” with your choice of sauce and they proceed to turn your rough beginnings into a tasty end. Salad bar is included to munch on while you wait. I rather enjoyed it – perhaps a few healthier and more interesting sauces would be helpful, but by and large it was a good dinner.
This weekend was “Social Wars 2”, the second gathering of men for the purposes of doing whatever the heck we wanted to do. Saturday was launched with breakfast at Cora’s and then a nine holes of golf at the poorly kept-up Eaglequest Golf at Highways 50 and 7. Sadly, we weren’t expecting the heat and sun we got, and it appeared that most of us suffered some form of burn and/or sunstroke. We retired back to my place to relax and load up on liquids while introducting Joesepi (Junior) to ‘Monty Python & The Holy Grail’. Once we were rested and ready we headed out to meet Mark after work in North York at Montana’s, then headed to LaserQuest for the first time since Rob’s bachelor party. I love LQ but man did I have a migraine from the sun earlier, and thus decided to find a corner of the maze and not move, shooting whatever came in my path. That little strategy earned me my highest score ever, and for the first time in about 16 years, I beat Rob. But at least he moved, so it was a shallow victory.
BTW, I got to practice my evil-reality-contestant persona to great success. Whenever one of my group of friends would stumble into my corner I’d offer to pair up and attack all oncomers alongside them. When they’d agree and run off down the hall, I’d shoot them in the back. Good times.