Before I start, Merry Xmas to all and hope everyone is safe …
It’s Christmas morning and I’m watching it snow. We’re supposed to get up to a foot today and the way that it’s coming down, I believe it. We haven’t had a “white Christmas” in quite a long time and today’s concern is keeping my mom from walking on the front walk (currently covered in six inches of snow), and finding time to dig us out before I have to work tonight.
I’m watching the rest of “Lord of the Rings” on DVD. I didn’t get the collector’s edition yet. I’m sure I’ll get it some time just to hear the director’s commentary, since I’m a sucker for director’s commentaries. I appreciate the movie more now that I can watch it at my own pace. I know, I was called a wimp for not making it through the 2nd movie without having to go to the bathroom, but dang it, these are a lot of movies and they just go too long for one setting.
I also appreciate it more after watching the 2nd movie. The 2nd movie was more relaxed and less alien than the first. Plus one of the distractions I faced in the first was that the guy who went bad and tried to kill Frodo for the ring (then redeemed himself in the end) was the spitting image of the father on the FOX comedy “Grounded for Life” so part of the movie in the theatre was spoiled going “hey, where’s that hot wife of his from the TV series — yowza!” Well, not really, but it was kinda of distracting (much like Annikin Skywalker and his whining were dead ringers for Harry Osbourne and his whining in Spider-Man).
I guess I never was much of a Tolkin fan. Sure I play online “fantasy” role playing games and I’ve always played D&D games, but I’m not really big into it. I can’t tell you all the names and I can’t tell you all the background of all of these characters because I just never found them interesting enough to read the books.
I can see that a lot of people are. I tried to research some plot points that were bugging me and found that these works have been researched and cataloged almost as much as the bible has. To me, that’s carrying things a bit to far, but hey, that’s me. I’m easily distracted and I have the attention span of a newt.
Two big tidbits of news:
Well, as you read above, I went to see “The Two Towers” this weekend. So I hooked up with Evil James. I also almost killed his father:
Briefly. His dad needs a walker to get around. We went to pick up his dad and his sister in my station wagon. His dad got in the back seat. We get to the theatre and I drop them off in the fire lane but his dad gets his foot stuck behind my seat. I have the emergency break on and I move my seat forward so he can get his foot out and the car lurches forward half a foot and catches his other foot with the tire. He was okay, but Evil James has pledged to beat up my father at an undisclosed time and location.
The other big news is that I broke my toe. No, not the same one I killed last year (which I rekilled in Canada). This time it’s the middle toe on my left foot. I have no clue how I did it. I’m limping around in pain. At the same time Laura’s convinced that I’m like the bad guy in “Unbreakable,” and I have brittle bone disease or something. I don’t. I’m just a dumbass. I probably dropped a piece of wood on it the other day when I was hauling wood.
The only other news I have is that I’ve been alternating time between Grand Theft Auto 3 and The Sims Unleashed lately. I feel like a hypocrite for buying GTA 3 back on my vacation, but I was at a pretty low point and felt I had lost everything in my life and said “what the hell” and bought it. I had said a lot of things about the game without actually playing it and probably should have thought about it more before saying them.
I hadn’t really played it until recently. After playing it, I take back some of the horrible things I’ve said about it. Yes, you can do horrible and awful things with it and it’s a game that is NOT for children, however, it’s not a required part of the game. The game is open ended enough that you can do it without a lot of the horrible things with it, but it’s your choice.
Me? I tend to play 15-20 minutes at a time and I’m on a quest to find all the hidden packages. Sometimes I load up my MP3s and just drive around trying to do the unique jumps. Playing it old school “Dukes of Hazard” style. It’s just bite sized enough to keep me without me losing focus, and in the end, while it’s still a horrible game at times — it’s mainly for what you *can* do with it then what you’re required to do.
Wrapping up here with the news that more strips are coming soon. I just have to make it through the 2 weeks of college football bowl games. Someone help me. Please.
Have a safe and happy Xmas,
k9