On Tuesday afternoon after a doctor's appointment Sofi and I signed up at the YMCA for a month-long trial membership. I'm happy to report that so far it's going pretty well. I like the facility and have no major problems to report so far, other than the fact that I have only gone once, because, as usual, I totally overdid it my first time out and severely injured myself. Once I can move my arms I will go again.

Tuesday night Sofi and I watched Man on Fire, which was a good movie and for me a very scary one, because I have been to Mexico many times and being kidnapped (especially if you are white) is a very real everyday possibility in the big cities there.

On Wednesday night Sofi and I dressed up nice and joined Mike and Jenn at the Saskatchewan Liberal Association's annual Leader's dinner. It was at the Hotel Sask., so it was a pretty classy affair. The guest speaker was Ralph Goodale, who is an absolutely amazing speaker. The food wasn't that great, but otherwise we had a good time. Thank you to Mike for getting us tickets, it was very much appreciated!

The next morning it was back to the Hotel Sask. for an IBM Rational seminar called Requirements Across The Software Development Lifecycle. It was pretty good but most of it was old-hat since I already use their products and know most of the theory. It was an early morning for me like most of this week, because I spent most nights this past week up super late working on a client proposal for work. I am happy to report that it is finished!

This morning we hit the road shortly after noon and went to the Cathedral Village Arts Festival for a few hours. I had never been there before and was pleasantly surprised by the number of vendors and such there. I ran into Garnet Hanna and got to chat with him for a bit. Even though the weather wasn't that great, all in all it was a nice way to spend an afternoon:

This afternoon Sofi and I finally went to see Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith! I am still at a loss to describe my feelings about this movie. It was pretty much entirely spaceship, lightsaber, death, death, lightsaber, spaceship, death, death, murdering children, lightsaber, spaceship, death, death, lightsaber, which meant it was wall-to-wall action (more than I've ever seen in a movie!). The one thing I do know is that after the movie I felt incredibly sad. I am not sure if it is because the movie deals with sad stuff or I am just sad that this was the last of these movies. I think Anakin Skywalker and my childhood both died today.

This week I'm hopefully going to Blair's grad on Wednesday afternoon and then helping Mike move on Thursday night. Darcy never ended up coming to Regina this weekend, but he says he'll be coming next weekend, so watch out for that. Next weekend is also Mosaic, which I'm hoping to catch this year. We'll see!