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Posted on 12/11/2005 8:37:40 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Hey, I forgot to ask: did you mail the bills? What with the new year and all it'd be fine even if they were postmarked tomorrow, I don't know if the mail even ran today.
I guess it wouldn't have run today, today being Sunday, but whatever.
It's done - mailed them yesterday.
Evenin' folkses... gonna hit the couch I think...
Well folks. Almost midnight here, so I'm gonna hit the hay.
See you all tomorrow!
Rosie - good luck with Mr. Beepy. :-/
Nighty night!
G'nite, Ramius. :-D
G'nite Rutheeee! :-)
Good night!
Well...it's approaching the hour when folks are SUPPOSED to shut up, and it's still going. Hopefully he's just pushing the limitations, and that's all.
On the small screen (my Kawasaki DVD player at work), I watched "Ringers", narrated by Dom Monaghan. It's about Tolkien fandom before and after the movies.
A lot of it was embarrassing, with a look at the cartoon versions, the hippies' adoption of LOTR, and Leonard Nimoy's "Bilbo Baggins" music video. Not to mention the geeks and fangirls. There was some interesting stuff about the legal hassle of the American paperback, and early script attempts at a movie (or cartoon).
There was a tiny bit of serious discussion, but one aspect was totally ignored: Tolkien's combat experience in World War One as a butterbar. It took a while for the four hobbits that got caught up in the war outside the Shire to realize that being cold, wet, scared, and hungry was still worth it, as long as the Shire survives.
The hippies saw dope, the greenies saw bucolic paradise, and the fans saw (??). Never mentioned was what people with military experience saw. I first read LOTR while in Basic. A buddy, while cruising the Mekong on a PBR. Others here have brought a non-dope, non-green, non-geek background with them while reading the book.
It was interesting (and sometimes embarrasing) to watch the documentary, but it seemed to miss a large part of the equation as to why LOTR was voted the most important novel of the 20th century.
The grass fires on Thursday in Arlington were just south of my mom. Arlington is between Dallas and Fort Worth. Extremely suburban. Matter of fact, we saw two of them on our way to go shopping at the mall. We were driving up to the bridge over I-30 on Cooper in north Arlington, and we were surprised to see and smell all the smoke and fire. There were three fire engines trying to put out the blaze. About 4 hours later, there were more fires on the south side of town on I-20.
2J is ~probably~ ok where the fires are concerned though, I have not heard anything on fires anywhere near Tulsa. So far, they have all been south and west of her (closer to me actually). We are under a burn ban and a firewatch. Heh, tailgaiting at the Cowboy game was suffed by the burn ban, LOL!
My mother went out to Bluffdale today to check out her land. Bluffdale is 10 miles east of Stephenville (Tarleton State University) - about an hour's drive southwest of Fort Worth. We were worried about her when we couldn't get in touch with her. She finally called us back about 4 o'clock. She was on her way home.
Bittygirl is jamming to bagpipes!
That is exactly what I did Christmas 1996. We left for Disney World on the 26th, and stayed there until Jan 1st. NewYear's at DW is vey spectacular. (It's also WARM)
hehehe.
The whole rest of the year? that is not physicaly possible.
'night hobbits.
night!
A heavy thumping bass line, cranked up high makes me physically ILL! Honestly, I hate it when a car pulls up next to me with that thumping going on! It just turns my stomach.
We've had several friends who've taken their families to Disneyworld for Christmas. They really enjoyed it! They said there were more foreigners than Americans, but that wasn't a problem, and that Disney did it up big for Christmas.
Morning Winmag, when can we be expecting a 'range report'? The rifle looks very good, I would bet that there aren't all that many of that configuration still around. Kudos for bringing the pieces together and sharing the process with us.
Hadn't heard of the movie, thanks for the review. The hippie aspect was the one most prevalent when I read it in the 60's; I never subscribed to that theory as is it was evident to me right from the start that these books were different; it was an epic story of good and evil set with a mythology that had to be studied, one reading was certainly not sufficient in my case.
with pleasure...
do yuh want it tuh be quick, or slow so yuh have time tuh repent?...
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