Bored already
So I've been in Iraq for about three or four days (they all run together) and I'm not settled in yet because I'm not at the base I'm supposed to be at but I'm bored already so here I am.
I'd love to update wordpress to the latest version but I'm stuck in a computer lab and not only am I not supposed to download files to the hard drive (like a new version of WordPress) but I don't think it has an ftp program either. Lame.
I finally finished Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson. I've been reading it since February. I've been reading it since I gave up on Atlas Shrugged. I guess that horrid book sucked my will to read right out of me. I brought A Feast for Crows with me and I picked up three more books at the air terminal in Fort Campbell before we took off so I've got plenty more to read. Still, it'd be nice if I could get the next Malazan book sooner than later. The Malazan series is in it's eighth book and finishes with the tenth so it is nice to know there's an end in sight and I could finish this series before losing interest.
Do you want to know what's awful? I want to read the Lord of the Rings books. Possibly all of them. I loved the movies but I've kind of shunned the books as being a retread of everything I've already read in D&D sources. Is it bad that I hold the shameful imitation in higher regards than the source it came from? They can wait though. In an interesting turnabout, the Malazan series is written in a world that was created by the author for his Dungeons & Dragons game and is far more interesting than both the D&D sources and Lord of the Rings.
September 28th, 2007 - 01:59
I fixed your underline codes (you were doing html in the visual editor) and for some reason the entry with the car pictures was stretching out the screen so I put them behind a cut. What the hell would you do without me?
September 28th, 2007 - 05:24
I’d look like a moran and then I’d be exposed. Have I ever mentioned that you’re the awesomest?
September 28th, 2007 - 15:49
Still waiting on that plaque.
September 30th, 2007 - 19:25
I once made an go at reading Atlas Shrugged. I think I read ten pages of it and it hasn’t moved on my bookshelf since. It was so boring. When I used to work at Waldenbooks I was talking to a old lady about science fiction books, and she asked me if I ever read the LOTR trilogy. When I told her no she slapped me on the hand kinda hard. But I still haven’t read them. From what I hear the first half of Fellowship will bore you to tears, so prepare yourself for that.
October 1st, 2007 - 03:44
Sorry you’re bored, but that’s not an altogether bad thing for your situation. The others will be joining you soon, and when you hear some of what they’ve had to put up with, you may appreciate the temporary boredom. Oh, and I never read Lord of the Rings either. And, I never saw the movies because I thought I should read the books first. I’m a loser.