Kind of a weird day today. Knowing that I was heading out of town tonight - for Sydney, much to M's annoyance ;) - didn't seem to motivate me to get my suitcase packed. In fact, I actually really would rather not be going at all - I've enjoyed being at home for the past month and a bit taking care of Cornflake during her convalescence, getting my 2009 vegetable initiatives under way, and most recently learning that Miko and Cornflake had killed one of the (not) Robins that had been doing their annual nesting thing in our porch and spending time with my lovely wife of 16 years - but work calls and the bills have to be paid somehow.
Anyway, we finally got our act together and decided to leave the house early to go for lunch and then watch Star Trek at the IMAX theatre in Fresno before heading to the airport. We dined at Red Robin - America's Gourmet Burger Restaurant, no less - and then headed over to the movie theater only to find that the IMAX showing was sold out and that we'd have to slum it with the general population in the regular theater. Needless to say, M didn't really understand how exciting it was to see the infamous Kobayashi Maru training exercise or recognize some of the subtle ways in which J.J. Abrams and co. deftly avoided potential conflicts with the Star Trek canon by creating an alternate timeline for future movies to traverse. But all that aside, it's a great movie and one that I look forward to seeing in all it's IMAX'd glory when I get back from Sydney next weekend.
The picture was taken last weekend as we were going into watch the Wolverine movie. I'm glad I insisted that M take it as the Star Trek banner has since been replaced by an enormous Transformers thingy - another movie that the kid in me is excited to see. What can I say? I'm a geek.
By the way, that reminds me - checkout the trailer/preview for Precinct 9. Looks to be something a little different (and welcome) in the Sci-Fi genre.
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