The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads!

[HairOfTheDog]

Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!

Journey to the Cross-roads
The Two Towers Edition

Come on! Come in! -if you would like to have some seedcakes and a pint and relax a while. (If it is a special occasion, we still have a few bottles of the old wineyards left!)

Our first thread ( New Zealander builds Hobbit hole ) reached 4,100 posts, and we thought that was big. Our second thread (The New Hobbit Hole ) held us for over 48,000 posts, and we loved it dearly. We talked about moving to a new thread for the last 38,000 posts, but we are really slow to muster! Finally, the time has come. Tomorrow (at 12:01 am, to be precise!) The Two Towers comes out, and we start a new chapter.

[Sam Cree]

Yeah, 2 nights in a row of around 10 below 0 fahrenheit. The down vests folks wear up here must have more stuff in them or something than mine does. I notice that in these temperatures, you never see anyone "sauntering" outside, they are all moving pretty quick.

I am now very sure that during the ice ages, some kind of very warm pants were most likely in existence.

Did Rosie say it was even alot colder in Vermont?

[Sam Cree]

"Hearing about 10 below makes me feel a bit homesick, though"

Yeah, I am always missing the cooler temperatures of the Virginia winters that I grew up in. Doesn't seem like much after this, though, even though it routinely gets in the 20's there.

[ecurbh]

I watched a little bit of Music Man. I don't know if its because I am so used to the original, but I just couldn't take it. It didn't feel right.

Simpsons always takes priority on Sunday night anyway. And did you know The Simpsons has tied Ozzie and Harriet as the longest-running sitcom at 14 seasons? Woohoo! It will take the lead next season.

[HairOfTheDog]

NEW Amazing High Rez TTT Images!
2/16/03, 11:00 pm EST - Xoanon

Once again the lovely Ms. Marea sends along these 4 great images for you to oogle over and enjoy! Take a gander at an Uruk Hai sentry looking over Mordor, a wonderful shot of Helms Deep surrounded by the enemy, Isenguard flooded and broken, and Gandalf's charge down the steep slopes near Helms Deep!

[Uruk Small] - [Uruk Large]
[Helms Deep Small] - [Helms Deep Large]
[Isenguard Small] - [Isenguard LArge]
[Charge! Small] - [Charge! Large]

[HairOfTheDog]

regarding The Music Man.... I couldn't get into it either. The intro bit with all the passengers on the train didn't have the same cadence that I loved.

[ecurbh]

I've always had a soft spot for The Music Man. Maybe it's the bit about "76 Trombones", LOL.

[HairOfTheDog]

It probably is the trombones that getcha...

[ecurbh]

It probably is the trombones that getcha...

Well, after all, it is God's instrument. ;-)

[HairOfTheDog]

I had no idea God played the trombone!

There is so much I don't know....

[ecurbh]

I had no idea God played the trombone!

Zechariah 9:14 "The Sovereign Lord will sound the trombone"

Matthew 24:31 "And he will send his angels with a loud trombone call"

I Thessalonians 4:16 "For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trombone call of God"

[2Jedismom]

Well, the hard part is over and I've gotten all my important items in emails coming in as I type. Consists of 18 emails with anywhere from 1-20 attachments (some are jpg or txt).

I'll let it load throughout the night. I've been working on it for almost 5 hours.

Now what does one do with a 1995 Packard Bell?

[ecurbh]

And I thought I was the only one up this late!

[2Jedismom]

I shouldn't be, but I got a wild hair to get my old sounds off my old computer. It's just been sitting out in the shop, slowly falling apart and I finally just sat down and emailed all my stuff to myself!

You should hear some of these sounds! Matthew singing when he was 2 years old!

[2Jedismom]

And Joshua laughing when he was 9 months old. Would have been a shame to loose those sounds!

It came out to just under 10MB total...not too bad but took forever on the 14.4 modem.

[ecurbh]

I know what you mean about saving those recordings. I have an audio tape of my grandmother, who died 15 years ago, reading stories and poems. I recorded it to CD and made copies for the rest of the family.

I am also scanning and archiving all our old family photos. That's a much longer process though. Only been at it 3 years so far, lol.

[2Jedismom]

Funny thing is, when I was using this old computer, I never stored any pictures on it...I used Photopoint, remember them? I had all my photos there...almost 400 of them. Then I got the mac, which was a good thing because it was a 56K and when Photopoint got ready to shut down, I was able to download all my photos to my mac harddrive. Took forever but can you imagine with a 14.4? Now I have my PC and not too long ago, I took all those photos off my mac by emailing them to myself (no floppy even on the Imac). Then I burned them onto disks. That's what I'll do with all this data.

[Overtaxed]

My CD-Rom is broken and my "A" Drive doesn't work...so I am having to email each file to myself...takes a lot of time. Any other suggestions?

I've got an A drive from my old PB Legend 105CD that I can send you. :)

[Overtaxed]

It probably is the trombones that getcha...

Well, after all, it is God's instrument. ;-)

No. God's instrument is the whistle. :)

Good Morning, everyone!

[Overtaxed]

Work is closed today!

[ksen]

Zechariah 9:14 "The Sovereign Lord will sound the trombone"

Matthew 24:31 "And he will send his angels with a loud trombone call"

I Thessalonians 4:16 "For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trombone call of God"

Must be from one of those new-fangled translations....