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Tanya and I have decided to spend the May 2-4 long weekend packing (2-4 not pictured!). We are in the new house in one week and are getting very excited. The boxes have provided an excellent vantage point for the cats – something they really aren’t used to since we are currently in a basement apartment. We drove to the new house today to check it out – our garage doors were on, our granite countertops were in and our cupboards were installed! Our Pre-Delivery Inspection is on Wednesday.

Anyways, back to drinking. … er … I mean packing!

Star Trek is back with the new movie that opened this weekend.  Taking the original Star Trek characters this new film erases and re-writes their back story setting the stage for a number of Star Trek films to come over the next few  years.  The film had me crying in the first 10 minutes and cheering at the end.  Ryan declared it was probably the best action film he had ever seen.  The film student in me couldn’t help but notice the great contrasts 0f the film – the black infinite space was often broken by a blinding white light that consumed the screen.  The action scenes, jam-packed with noise and movement, were often contrasted with opera music, silence, or just breathing.  Aside from the esthetics, the film played on my favorite sci-fi theme: time-space confusion.  This theme became more prominent in the Voyager TV series and is indicative of globalization and the current technological revolution.  We saw the film on the IMAX and both agreed that that is really the only reason to go to the theatre these days.