Please stop ruining my childhood, George Lucas.

First, you killed Stars Wars with The Phantom Meance and the Greedo-shoots-first re-edit. Then you pooped on Indiana Jones with The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and its monkeys, shrugging gophers and unfathomably employed Shia Lebeouf. Now you've decided to poop on Indy again?

Fifth Indian Jones movie planned

Filling out forms, standing in line

Well, I'm back from southern Ontario. All in all, it was a good trip. The conference was really good; my paper seemed to be well recieved by the small audience. Made some good connections and met some interesting people.

I was particularly glad to be able to see my very first best friend and his family. I first met Dave Row when I was under 4 and we basically grew up together. We went to Beavers, Cubs and Scouts togther. We played baseball; we did EVERYTHING together. He lived down the street from my parents and I probably spent as much time at his place as I did at home. When he moved away in Grade 7 we only saw each other occasionaly, but he did come to my wedding in 1997.

Dave lives in Ottawa now and I got to meet his wife, Alison, and their brand new baby daughter, Kate. Dave's mom was also there. I don't think I'd seen her since I was a kid. We dined on lobster, remenisced and I left knowing that if Dave and I were in the same city, we'd still be the best of friends.