It's official: I'm going to Honduras. Specifically, I'm going to this school. It's near the border to Guatemala so we'll fly into Guatemala City and then visit Antigua for a few days before bussing to Copán.

I'm fortunate to have some extremely impressive co-workers right now who are helping me with my language skills. In fact, now that I think about it, almost everyone in my office is either tri- or quad-lingual. Our new receptionist Claire happens to be a teacher for the Government's official French training courses so she's been having little conversations with me every time I walk by and has been giving me some vocab and grammar lessons. I've also got Ewa, the previous receptionist, speaking Spanish to me. I'm starting to get the two languages mixed up a bit but at the same time it's interesting to see how many of the words have common roots.

On the financial front I've made a new purchase: TORO Venture Inc., a U.S. small-cap oil exploration company. It's quite a departure from my other Canadian blue-chips with their high dividend payouts. We'll see if this risky manoeuvre pays off!

Tennis lessons have been going well. They're twice a week and consist of a variety of drills and activities designed to focus on a specific aspect of my game like serving, ground strokes, doubles strategy, etc. I've purchased a new Wilson K-Four racket so Roger Federer better watch his back.

I've recently registered watchmeprogram.com where I plan to create a site that programmers can use to schedule or join in on pair programming sessions. Recordings (screencasts) of the sessions will be made available on the website afterwards and may be automatically tied to a source code repository or project management system. The sessions could cover a single feature or module of a project or they might belong to a series which follows the progression of a project over time. You'll be able to rank the recordings based on their instructional value and level of understanding required. I came up with the idea in the shower a few days ago after reading this article earlier in the day.