> 6) "Lord of the Rings" comes out here on the 19th, which I believe is concurrent with the US release. This is very fortunate for Peter Jackson, as I seem to recall vowing to hunt him to the ends of the earth, rip his head off and make him eat it if the movie was released in NZ four months after the rest of the world, as normally happens. Perhaps he heard about this.

Heh. It would be kind of a slap in the face to release it in NZ a long time after the US release, since they filmed the darn thing there. I think I'll have to put a trip to NZ on my life's 'to do' list, if only because so much cool fantasy stuff is filmed there.

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> 7) I have two entire pages of Recent Messages, a month of Sluggy Freelance and a month of Planet Earth And Other Tourist Traps to catch up on. GAH. It'll be very enjoyable, of course, but it's annoying at the same time.

I know what you mean. There's never the right amount of new material on the web. I think a law needs to be passed that the sites that I visit shall at all times have a certain size cache of new stuff to view to be refilled by the next time I visit them, be it in 5 days or 5 minutes. But I'm sure some small minded idiot in Congress or something will kill the idea with some lousy technicality. Jerk.
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> I'm glad to be back.
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> Brunnen-"hard to get rid of"G

Bal"I'm only hard to get rid of if you haven't updated your anti-virus software"anthalus