Indeedum . . . you should go see the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. My thoughts on the movie?
1. for a sequel, it's pretty darn good. it still had the epic grandeur, I think it's good for all ages, and easy enough to follow without having read the books or seen the first film
2. for a sequel, it blows Star Wars episode II out of the water
3. for a movie where fans dress up, most girls opt for elves, and look like hippy chicks with pointy ears. most dudes went as wizards, so they look like college kids with a cloak ... (shrugs). I counted at least ten folks with the book in the theater...

As I have also been experiencing some "technical difficulties", (on the software end mostly, not the hardware end so much), I can share this bit with ya'll: http://www.moveon.org/technicaldifficulties

Apparetly I've got a leak somewhere in the lines, or the broadcaster has been alternately tuned. Hard to tell what is going on sometimes through all of it.

I noticed something: if you're courting a cold, so much so that you're taking cough syrup that contains dextromethorphine (sp) it'll pretty well turn the contents of your REM cycle into something different, I mean completely different. So much so that you're glad you wake up and are back in reality... It should be incentive enough to keep one eating healthy, exercising, and doing all the life promoting things we have in our lives.