Anne and I are looking forward to a great long weekend in New York this coming weekend. We're going to be staying in Brooklyn with Paul & Kelly (& Jamie) on Friday and Saturday nights, but will move to a hotel downtown for Sunday night. On Sunday we're going to my cousin's place for dinner with the American Leslie clan. It will be great to see them all again! Other than that, it's Anne's first trip to New York so the trip agenda will mostly be hers. We'll probably spend quite a bit of time going around the museums and doing touristy stuff... and maybe some time shopping for shoes! ;-)

Last weekend was the big music extravaganza. On Friday Exultate closed the 2002-03 season with a great performance of Rachmaninoff's All Night Vigil. (It didn't actually last that long.) There was a bit of a panic a couple of weeks ago when we found out that the original location, St. Patrick's, was unavailable due to an astonishingly inconsiderately planned renovation. Kelly, Michael, John and others made miracles happen and got us relocated to St. Andrew's (next to Roy Thomson Hall), which turned out to be a much better venue for the choir anyway. We'll never go back to St. Patrick's again...

On Sunday both our sets of parents came in for the performance of the Monteverdi Vespers by the joint choirs of Christ Church Deer Park and Calvin Presbyterian. Both the performance, and the subsequent meeting of the parents, went very well... Tick one more (important) box off the relationship progress list! :-)

Finally, on the work front it's a busy week with our build and unit test scheduled to wrap up on Friday. Tim's out of town for the week due to illness in the family, so Sonia and I are left to shephard the mad dash for the finish line. There's a palpable feeling of concentrated stress in the office, though we took time out today to take our two departing team members, Ron and Marcy, out for lunch. We travelled underground to get there -- it's really bloody cold in Toronto at the moment, which is Very Poor Indeed.
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