Hobbit


To which race of Middle Earth do you belong?
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Makes sense to me. Every time I watch those movies, Hobbiton always strikes me as the most beautiful of all the settings by far. Last night Jenn and I watched the featurette about how Hobbiton was built, and I thought that it would have been awesome if they'd actually made all the buildings real and turned it into a hotel after. I don't have any inclination to travel really, but I would be ecstatic to stay in Hobbiton for a week.

Saw the doctor today, he gave me the choice between two sleeping pills. The first I would take only on nights before I work just to knock me out, and when I didn't work the next day I would just sleep naturally. The second I would take every night for a week to normalize my sleep schedule, and then wean myself off of them. I asked if regular exercise would help, and he said not so much, especially if I were to exercise in the evenings I would be too wound up to sleep. I chose the second option for my prescription, and the doctor said the risk of psychological addiction was lower with that option anyway, which was comforting. I got the prescription filled at Save-On-Foods while I did my grocery shop, and in the pharmacy I saw the Greens+ vitamins I used to take. I remembered that I felt more energetic and alert when I was taking them regularly, so I picked up a bottle, and hopefully those plus the pills will get me back to my old awake at work self.

As an aside, check out this balrog. Or, if you prefer slightly less demonic things, a smurf house.

Jenn and I recieved two DVD sets for our wedding. One was Star Trek TNG, another was the LOTR extended box set. I've noticed that klingons and dwarves have similar fashion sense in terms of scale mail and long curly hair styles. This makes me wonder, do dwarven women have a fashion sense similar to klingon women, with the fishnet sleeves and leggings, and cleavage exposing armour?

So last sunday Jenn and I watched the entire extended widescreen Lord of the Rings trilogy. We started at 5pm, and ended around 8am. It would have taken less time if we had watched it the whole way through without interruption, but we paced ourselves by stopping to eat dinner (meatball stroganoff, made in our new slow cooker, and it was incredible), walking up to Timmy Ho's for coffee, that kind of thing. Now, after that and the Mr. Bean marathon for my batchelor party, I am approximately turned off of marathons for a while. Although doing the Star Wars marathon around episode 3 might intrigue me enough to be involved in that.

Also, I've been having trouble with Jedi Knight 2. I wasn't able to change the action that the joystick on my game pad controls, which I should be able to do, so I emailed tech support, and they gave me some solutions that didn't work. I had a similar problem last summer with Taz: Wanted for the Xbox, and like last time, the solution was that the manual was missing some key information. In this instance, you can't reassign the joystick's function directly for some reason, you have to set the x and y axis to work as buttons in the preferences, and then reassign the funcions of the arrow keys on the keyboard, and then the joystick will do whatever the arrow keys are supposed to do. This is not intuitive in my opinion. The really annoying thing is that my dual Joystick controller doesn't work with Jedi Knight 2 in analog mode, which makes it difficult to do small movements. This is aggravated by the fact that the original Jedi Knight didn't have this problem, and worked beautifully with my dual joystick controller, despite the fact that dual joystick controllers didn't exist then. Not to mention the fact that this game undoubtedly works in analog mode with a dual joystick controller if you play it on the Xbox or PS2. I miss my Xbox again, but I have other things to spend money on. Like the Episode 3 collection of Lego sets, which only costs CDN$400, including a 10% discount for buying it all at once. I think I'll wait for Lego's next "free shipping on orders over X" deal.