Dinner in Little Italy

Went out to dinner with my mom and George Mateyo, Chairman of Carnegie Capital Asset Management Company [1]. George apparently handles my mom's financial affairs and had been kind enough to take a look at my resume and
provide some advice as I was planning to move back to Cleveland from Japan. So we thought it would be nice to take him out to dinner, and I actually got a chance to meet him for the first time. Great guy. Funny, intelligent, direct.

We had dinner at La Dolce Vita [2], which was the first time for me since elementary school (we used to have pizza there when we picked up my brother from his piano lessons at the Cleveland Institute of Music). Of course there is live opera/singing. They announced that the soprano that sings there is having her debut at Carnegie Hall [3] in February-iirc. I am not a huge opera fan, but it was a nice experience.

The atmosphere of Little Italy is great, even though it was real cold tonight. Although we had no problems I get the feeling that parking in Little Italy is a nightmare. Looking forward to spending more time there when it warms up some...when's that? May?

Slowly but surely getting back into the swing of things....