  Sorry for the previous posting, but it was New Years and I was drunk, and I felt that someone needed to know that. First things first: DJFreq, I love your urlLink page dedicated to (Lt.) . I was busting a gut reading it.
Everyone should go and read that right now. So for New Year's Eve Rose and I decided to see LOTR:ROTK . It was even better the second time. I have to agree with Freq's critique of it: the ridsers from Rohan showing up, and the fear showing in the eyes of the Orcs, was awsome. Moving. Momentous. Braveheart -esque . I found the part when chickie-girl takes off her helmet and states "I am no man!
" to be more than a little on the cheesy side. That's not Jackson's fault, however. The Wraith-General should have been brought down in a battle with Gandalf, like everyone was expecting, not on a mere technicality. But other than that, I really, REALLY enjoyed this film. So, guess what? Anyone who knows my track record with Christmas will know that last year, the flu got me just as we were leaving New York City.
Well, it caught up with me in New Brunswick. Big time. Again, in a mini-van. When I called homew to let them know this, it was too much. I could hear my sister, loving and caring human being that she is, laughing hysterically in the background, while my own mother could barely contain the laughter in her own voice. Not that I blame them. But it got really sad when Rose caught it on Christmas Eve. That hurt, since she missed her father's sermon at midnight mass.
I really feel bad for her. But we got better and had a great trip. I made out like a bandit at FutureShop: a small, cheap digital camera for 60$, 2 DVD's for 35$, and a 160 Gb hard drive for 200$ minus 70 $USD mail in rebate. Yeah, Mike's happy. But right now it's lunch time, so I'll write more later. CYODFS. 
