Oh my goodness how much it has rained. Flooding-type weather here, hail in some places. Thank goodness nothing’s flooded around my place yet, but some of the low roads have standing water and the highways were a mess last night. I hate to say it but St. Louis drivers on the whole are pretty bad. Now, you can’t lump me in with the whole because I’m a very good driver (almost always 😉 ) and I’ve never had (read: caused) an accident, but gosh, the people in my town can’t drive if there’s severe weather. When my car was hit (about a year ago, I guess) it was only slightly rainy and the lady sure had the choice of going up on the curb or hitting my car…sheesh. Go slow, turn on your lights, and don’t tailgate like the stupid van behind me this morning.
And so I have finally seen Return of the King on DVD, which makes me happy…however, it’s also the first dvd that I’ve ever bought or rented that is defective. Nearly all of chapter 28, the Siege of Gondor, flickers, breaks up, and just plain stops until there’s only five or so minutes left to the chapter. *yes it’s a long one* The rest of the movie plays fine. So I’ll have to exchange that today. blah. Somehow I managed to buy two copies of the Hidalgo soundtrack, so while I’m at it I’ll return the duplicate…and return the cd-only version of the new Hanson album because I found the cd-dvd version at fye. Yay returns! (heavy sarcasm there)
Some subtle improvements could have made Troy a much better movie…

From the end credits of the Return of the King:

Me mahara tonu taatou nga Uri-aapakura noo tuaanuku nei, noo te waaotuu te tu kekehua ana o ngaa Eldarin kua hohouu mai i te Uru-moana.
�Let us dedicate our memories to the spirits of the Eldar who came to us from the Ocean that lies to the West.�

(Courtesy of TORn.)
I missed Sir Ian McKellan’s birthday yesterday. Happy belated 65th, Gandalf!
I want a Legolas t-shirt! I don’t know when I would ever wear it, but it would be so nice to be able to see him all day 😉 I love my elf.
Stop raining! At this rate we’ll never play a softball game…