Star Wars Episode III

There is one week to go before the release and I have more VIs to get done and out the door. I hope to get everything done. I am making a good dent in everything. I only have a few left and a couple are rejects from what I have done. The rejects were in most cases simple fixes. Some of them only a couple values were lost, but the others would still work fine.

I had plans to go to lunch with Peter today, but the meeting we were going to have at three was moved up to around noon. So we sat in the meeting and I was getting upset because I was not getting answers about when we would be “code complete”. Instead I was told just to work on stuff and we would say when we are done.

Finally after the meeting I was a little upset because I felt like I was not getting answers to my question. I called Peter and we met at REI in Redmond. I got some wool socks, a bleacher chair, and a poncho. Then we went to Red Robin. We were there for about an hour and a half talking about politics and joking around with each other.

When I got back to work Jon pinged me on IM. He wanted to know if I wanted to see Star Wars Episode III. I told him that I did. I picked him up at his house and then we went to get his Excursion from the dealer in Renton. The boys, Jon, and I went to Burger King by the theatre and then to the movie. We were running a little late and we sat down just as the words at the beginning of the movie had finished scrolling.

It was interesting to see the transformation of Anakin to Darth Vader. I thought it was going to be different. I did not know that he had what he thought were good reasons. He had nightmares about his wife dying in labor.

Anakin waking up from a nightmare.

I can understand his fears and why he would think about moving to the dark side. I also saw how he was used and he made to think the Jedi were the bad guys.

Anakin Gone evil.

Later in the movie you could see it in his eyes. He had changed. It was too bad. But it would not be much of a story if he had not gone evil.

After the movie I agreed to stay at Jon’s house. The boys needed someone to watch them in the morning in case they needed something. Jon was only going to be gone an hour or so. The boys would let me sleep and would only wake me up if they needed something.