Moderation in all things

Well, this weekend ended up being moderately balanced.

On the downside, I blew most of Saturday working on income tax forms, and yet completed a mere 50% of my tax workload for 2008. We have two full-length income tax returns here in Québec – one for the federal government and one for the province – and I got my tallying, document-hunting, and receipt-copying done for both, and filled out the federal forms. That would be more than half the battle, except that the province doesn't allow a single return for a household, so Bonnie and I must complete separate returns . . . and I'm the designated accountant chez nous. Another Saturday of fun awaits next weekend.

On the upside, we escaped on Saturday night to have dinner at M. and Y.'s place. Y. is a good cook, so it was a pleasant meal. And then today, M. and I went to see Watchmen. I know that movie adaptations are love-'em-or-hate-'em things about which fans tend to be religious. Speaking as someone who read the graphic novel numerous times the year it was released, I liked it. This is a movie that I'll probably watch again and buy on DVD. It isn't the comic represented panel-for-panel, but I think it's the best that we could have hoped for, given the differences in the media.