Did everybody have a good weekend? Saturday was spent roaming Toronto with Alex as we began work on our coming health empire. He’s written a “smart carb” book detailing his significant weight loss, and he’s sourced me out to help him with the food side of things. I’ve written a recipe book to go alongside it, and we’ll be filming some brief “in kitchen” videos as well. Should be a fun project if we get it off the ground. Lunch was Volo, one of my favourite restaurants in the city. I stuck with my old standby – Puttanesca – but visitors to Volo know the beer is their story. I was lucky to get the last sample of Dieu du Ciel’s Rigor Mortis, and it was exceptional. Followed it up with a Grand River Jubilation Spice Ale, also quite nice. From there we were off to see Sanderson Dear spin at the Sublime Cafe, home of amazing espresso, latte art, and really grouchy staff. Sunday, however, post-church was spent at home with a headache and absolutely nothing to do. I even watched Dark Rising, a cheesy movie starring TNA wrestler Christian Cage and the super hot Brigitte Kingsley. I’m probably one of very few who know Kingsley, having been a fan since her days as “Suki Diefenbaker” on a goofy Canadian video game show called Game Nation. It was just as good as you think it is.
I was drawn in by a quote I read this weekend from an agnostic astronomer and physicist named Robert Jastrow, former NASA chairman and professor at some prestigious universities. In a book called The Creation Hypothesis Jastrow is quoted: “Astronomers now find they have painted themselves into a corner because they have proven, by their own methods, that the world began abruptly in an act of creation to which you can trace the seeds of every star, every planet, every living thing in this cosmos and on the earth. And they have found that all this happened as a product of forces they cannot hope to discover.