First Post

This is only a test...if this had been a real entry...

Sometimes it feels life is like that, you know? Really, though, this is just a setup test.

First Post, Take Two

This is only a test...if this had been a real entry...

Presumably, if this had been a real entry, it would have actually appeared when I thought I posted it the first time...

Sitting at work, just setting this up, preparing to do some software testing, and listening with great pleasure to the kick-ass job Schola Cantorum on Hudson did on our Christmas concert. I know, it is not modest; but damn! we are hot!!!

ROFLOL...

Fooled me! Didn't realize the first post had really posted, until I went in through the link again...ah, well...we live and learn (slowly).

Reflections on Finishing LOTR for the Fourth Time

Actually, I just finished them for the fifth time; but I stumbled across this passage from twelve years ago, the last time I embarked on that journey; and the sentiments are still sound...

I'm thinking that I'll use this journal more as a forum for writing that turns out really well (from just about anywhen I find it), as opposed to simply drafting raw online. Just so you know...

Serious Spoiler Warning: I do not pull punches. If you have not read the books, and want to; if you don't know what's coming in the third movie: stop NOW and read this some other time.
( Read my rhapsody on Tolkien... )