I said I was gonna blog after each session yesterday afternoon, but didn't. Turning the laptop on and off each time... nah, didn't want to.

I planned on doing it from the hotel. However, I was not planning on my hotel having no internet all night. So, no update for yesterday. Now for today...

A bunch of good talks, but as usual the more interesting (and fun) conversations take place out of the rooms. Over lunch, sat with a bunch of people including Dave Laribee, James Kovacs, Oren Eini, Peter Ritchie and Scott Bellware. There were some interesting talks there, with Scott and another individual (whose names eludes me) talking about an upcoming Agile conference in Vancouver in the fall. There was also a pre-recorded video interview from Dave with the aforementioned name-I-cannot-remember which was kind of cool (Dave's phone automatically streamed video up).

After that, went to Oren's session on Zero Friction Development. Was really good. But then the day went to the REALLY fun...

D'Arcy managed to get 4 tickets to The Hour. So, Henry, D'Arcy, Donald and I headed to the show. Tonight's guest was Sam Roberts. (There was also an interview with Ivan Reitman, but it was pre-recorded.) After the show was done, the Q and A with George S was just going on - he took the time to answer everyone's questions! It went on for like an hour after the show ended. It was still going on, but alas, we had to leave - we needed dinner before our evening entertainment. So, we met Rod Paddock and Dave Woods for dinner. The meal was quick, but good.

So, after dinner, Henry and Donald parted ways with us and the remaining 4 of us went to see Evil Dead: The Musical. Yes, you read that right. A group of Toronto playwrights took the movie trilogy (well, mostly the first 2 with many quotes from Army of Darkness) and turned it into a musical with such classics as "What the ^&*% was that?". We sat in the 3rd row. The first 2 rows were more or less right on stage and were arranged like seats on a bar. We were in the first tabled area right behind it. Those first 2 rows are called the "Splatter Section", and after act 2 began we know why. During intermission, theatre staff handed out ponchos to the first 2 rows. They offered them to us, but we were mostly safe they said, although some splatter may hit us. That phrase was about 75% true for us. I was fine, Dave was fine, Rod was fine, D'Arcy was not. You know it's bad when you have a homeless guy come up to you and ask you if you're OK, a random street vendor ask what caused it (and his specific question was just WRONG), and a cop really look at us funny as he was watching traffic. We stopped in at Fran's for food (our local diner hangout) and had the same waiter as last night. He just looked at us like we were crazy, but that's what happens when one person in your party looks like he just domated a kidney in a back alley somewhere and his stitches ripped open.

Overall, a really good night. And perhaps heading back to it AGAIN on Friday with Rod and a few others. Should be interesting...