The kids are here so it game time.
Dominion
Author: robertjames1971
I'm wicked tall.
Photo a Day 7/365
I told the cats that I was lucky because I have two hands that allow me to pet them both at the same time.
Movies vs Books
Why am I in such a Tolkien phase right now? It’s probably due to the second season of Rings of Power, but I read The Silmarillion and I am rereading Lord of the Rings and I am watching Rings of Power and I am (finally) watching the Peter Jackson Hobbit movies. I’m about 15 minutes away from finishing the second movie. It is requiring more suspending of disbelief than I am really willing to give. I’m in a weirdly completist mode now and have to get through all three movies (even though it is laughable that Jackson took a 400 page book and adapted it into a nine hour movie).
What’s the point of this post though? The point of this post is a spoiler free comment on Rings of Power season two episode four. I saw the first two Lord of the Rings movies before I read the books. When I was done with everything I was able to look back and consider if the books were better or worse than the movies. I think they are pretty even. There are a couple of things about the movies that I prefer to the books though. First, there is a whole lot less singing in the movies. In Fellowship, especially, people are singing all over the place and it just gets tedious.
The other thing that I like better about the movies eventually became my absolute favorite thing about the movies. Literally the thing I like best. Simply, they left Tom Bombadil out. I mean… The Hobbit was a kids book. Lord of the Rings was not. Somehow it seems that Tolkien must have tried to make Fellowship a little more kid-friendly by throwing this insufferably boring, painful character named Tom Bombadil into the story. In my current re-read of the books I am in the middle of the Tom Bombadil arc right now and I cannot get out of it fast enough. It’s just awful. Jackson left him out of the movies and it makes me love the movies that much more.
I just finished this week’s new episode of Rings of Power. Season two, episode four. Without giving out any spoilers, mostly because the news has been out since we saw a trailer months ago, Tom Bombadil is in the episode.
Why? Why, Amazon Prime Video? Why are you torturing me like this? I will say that he’s nowhere near as awful in the episode as he was in the books, but all the same… why would you do this to me?
2024 50/90 Challenge Day 65/90
Nothing.
My father’s funeral took everything I had. I don’t know if today (day 65) will be different or more of the same.
It Fit Me
This is a photo of my father’s wedding ring. I guess he wanted me to have it.
I tried it on. It fits me.
It’s Over
The funeral is over but we are not home yet.
Robin is probably waiting patiently… or sleeping.
Helpful
Today is going to be a tough day for me.
Fortunately, Mr David Gilmour is here to help.
I’m only a couple of songs in, but so far so amazingly, brilliantly, perfectly good.
2024 50/90 Challenge Day 64/90
I put leads on three songs and then went to my father’s wake. The wake has nothing to do with the 50 songs in 90 days challenge, but it does explain why I didn’t get to anything else.
Home Again
We are back at home after the wake. It was a nice gathering. Lots of family and friends paying respect to my father.
I almost made it through the whole four hours without losing my shit, but just as we were getting ready to leave I had a moment.
I miss my dad.
The funeral is tomorrow morning.
Getting Ready to Go
I’m all dressed up and ready to head out to my father’s wake.
Jen asked how I was doing. I’ll tell you what I told her.
I’m not ready for this.
Inside the Red Head's Head 