View From the Bushes

I'm going to use this forum to admit that I was 100% wrong and my wife was 100% right; about what I'm not sure, she just told me to say that. Actually it's about re-reading the Harry Potter books -- we were both doing it, and I opined that I thought it would be better to pace oneself such that they finished book five around the time book six came out. She, on the other hand, read them in five days and told me that I would never make it to July. I'm not sure what I said at that point, but clearly whatever it was, it was wrong, 100% wrong, and you can't be more wrong than that (don't let anyone tell you they were 200% wrong or something like that -- they're just idiots.)

Of course the thing I didn't count on, the thing that proved to be my Achilles heel is that I got hooked: I figured it wouldn't happen since I had already read the books, but midway through book four, they got me. I'm not sure if it's the excitement of wondering whether Harry will go with Cho to the Yuletide Ball (I had honestly forgotten how that worked out) or the magic of finally deciding to ignore the huge gaping abyssal plot holes and just read the book, but I'm having a difficult time putting it down now.

That fan-made Star Wars Movie I was mentioned a month or so ago is finally available. I'm sure I'll watch it at some point -- it has to be better than episodes 1 and 2. In other news, did you hear about the cruise ship that got hit by a 70 ft. tall wave? I'm just disappointed that, as far as I can tell, no one has a picture of it...

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross