Shari - I'm sorry we couldn't make the party. I would have loved to have been there. I just saw and heard about it too late. Happy New Year!

My lame-ass list for 2001

Literature
1. Dark Life
2. The Case for Mars
3. Life on Mars
4. The Tolkien Companion
5. American Heritage Dictionary
6. DK Essential World Atlas
7. What Color Is Your Aura?
8. Red Mars (reading currently)
9. Various British Tabloids
10. John's Blog

Video
1. Lord of the Rings
2. Memento
3. Final Fantasy
4. The Others (if Sixth Sense never existed)
5. Blue Planet (documentary)
6. Shrek
7. Ass Clowns 2 (just kidding)
7. Rush Hour 2 (Can't believe I'm putting this one, but I have to admit I smiled a lot during it)
8. Dune (TV mini-series) (not a 2001, but that's when I saw it)
9. E.R. (got mixed up with Chris Lea's wife Bridget watching that on a regular basis)
10. The Ninth Gate (saw this one many times for some reason during 2001, I think it was because of the awesome ending)

Music
(Non-existent)

Blogs (didn't put much thought into this... just trying to think of the blogs I read most)
1. Ned
2. Jim S.
3. Sean
4. Liz
5. Heidi
6. Dave
7. Phil
8. Jim A.
9. Sonya
10. Amos
Honorable mention - Di-Havana

For anyone who saw my earlier post about the condo, I'm just going to cancel the reservation because I couldn't get anyone interested with such short notice. I did already get Saturday off from work though, so hopefully I'll be able to party it up in Indy.

John - By the way, I never did any redesigns on the main page. Jim accidently deleted the old drunkenfish and I didn't have a back-up (I'm an idiot), so Jim threw that up so there would at least be something there.

Phil - No offense but, I don't think knowing who owns the elvish rings is going to destroy the story for anyone other than hardcore fans... and they already know. But in your defense, the beginning of the movie spells the story of the rings out, but somehow left out the part about who now owns the elvish rings so.... cheers Peter Jackson... and sorry to all if I overstepped my info on that.

Ahhhhhhh.... I finally got my Lord of the Ring fix. I thought it was great. I'm wondering if others will be disturbed because it ends in mid-story. hmmmmm.... a whole year until the next one. I actually was standing in line to buy two tickets for me and my brother Matt for the eight o'clock showing at 11:30. I said, "Two tickets for Lord of the Rings at 8pm please.... and uh... um... one for the 12:00 one. So I couldn't help myself so what... so I am going to see it twice on the opening day.... so what.... I couldn't help myself.

Some paraphrasing on the rings of power -
At the beginning of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy Sauron possessed the 9 rings of men (worn by the Kings and Princes who became the doomed and enslaved Ringwraiths that could never be released from their ghostly lives) and 3 of 7 dwarvish rings (4 of the dwarvish rings had already been consumed by dragons with their owners). The rings were created by Celebrimbor with the aid of Sauron. Sauron deceived the master elven craftsman Celebrimbor by enchanting his evil spells into the rings. His purpose was to have these rings of power distributed among the greatest of men and dwarves while he secretly forged the one ring to rule them all by his own hand. Celebrimbor also created 3 elvish rings which Sauron never touched or saw. These rings were, The ring of Airs (Vilya) mightiest of the three, which bore a great blue stone originally possessed by Gil-galad, who gave the ring to Elrond at the end of the second age; The ring of Waters (Nenya) with a single hard white stone of great beauty, which was always in the keeping of the Lady Galadriel; and the ring of Fire, borne by Cirdan the Shipwright until the end of the first millennium of the Third Age, when he surrendered the Ring with its great red stone to the wizard Gandalf the Grey. Sauron's one ring was taken from him by force from Sauron's own hand at the end of the Second Age by Isildur son of Elendil. The ring fiercely burned Isildur when he first seized it and abandoned him in his moment of need during an ambush at Gladden Fields, plunging into the bottom of a river bed for two thousand years in wait for it's master Sauron to slowly awaken into strength once more. In the 25th century of the Third age, the ring was stirring because of the growth of power emanating from the Dol Guldur (where it was thought that the leader of the Ringwraiths resided and Greenwood forest was renamed Mirkwood; No one knew that it was actually Sauron himself who resided in that fortress). A simple hobbit fisherman named Deagol found the One Ring and was instantly murdered by his hobbit friend Smeagol (later known as Gollum) who took the ring and hid deep beneath the Misty Mountains with it. The Ring, realizing that Gollum was not fullfilling its purpose hidden deep in the mountains after 500 years, ensnared a passing hobbit traveller named Bilbo Baggins who later passed it on to his nephew in 3001 of the Third age. With Sauron grown powerful in the land of Mordor and he being in constant search for this Ring, the Lord of the Rings Trilogy begins.

Don't mind me, I'm just mucking about in my own muck. Well, I thought that maybe it was selfish to keep the drunkenfish thing going when I don't blog or keep up the site, but now I'm thinking it would be selfish of me to get rid of it. It's going to be ugly for a while because I don't have a pc, but I'll see what I can do everytime I visit JimS. If any of the DFies get motivated and want to design or add anything to a new look, go for it. I just got a full time job yesterday as a vet tech. Very low pay, but I absolutely love the work. Getting over my cat allergies might prove difficult, but we'll see. Wow.... tomorrow is the big day. I can't wait. Someway, somehow, I am going to go to that movie.

Well, I'm moving out of Jimmy's today so I won't have access to a pc. I don't want the drunkenfish to die, but I don't know what to do about it. I'll try to do some redesign by code on my bro's mac. John or Jim, if you want to do anything with the df, let me know. I might just turn the df into my own page and domain, like Jolly Jibber, instead of hosting pages. I just haven't been involved with blog very much lately and thought maybe this is the time to disolve it as we know it. Those on the df can get hosted with blogger if they choose or you can stay on with the df just knowing I'm not going to be too involved except in maybe keeping up my own blogging page which will become the main df page. I'll eventually set up links to everyone I've known from both the df and tanque and hope to keep in touch, but I think this is the end of the drunkenfish as a blog community.

Can't get blogger to talk with the df server, but I'm working on it... Maybe in a month or so, I'll have a finished design here. If your reading this then I'm on my way.