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Nov. 16th, 2001 12:20 amWednesday I bought my tickets for the first show of Harry Potter. There's 5 of us going. :) So I'm taking 4 hours of leave in the middle of the day. I need some escapism! I'll be working on the work website all weekend. ::sigh:: At least I'm not stressin' about it.
Mostly, I'm indifferent. To be stressed, I'd have to care...
On the bright side, the work I'm doin' on the website is laying the groundwork for stuff I want to do to my own site. I'm getting into CSS in a serious way. Here at work, everything is stuffed into tables for layout. My goal is a table-less layout for my webpage.
Tonight I'm stressing, tho'. Working on two different people's machines and I have an analysis to write. I started a SMALL part of the analysis. I'm just hoping I can knock it out tomorrow before the movie!
I couldn't be working on two more different machines, one a 1.4 gigahertz Athlon in a sublime server case, the other a 333 megahertz first gen Celeron system shoehorned into a tight little mini-tower. Both machines fought back in totally different ways; the Athlon refused to boot WinBlows 98; the Celeron components literally wouldn't physically fit into the case it was slated to go in. Finally, not too long ago, the Athlon (after a BIOS update and a chipset driver update, and a Windows 98 update and updates to every major driver running on the !@##$*& machine) is finally running sweetly. The fellow who owns the machine was just relieved it wasn't the CPU or the mobo being fried! The Celeron is now completely installed. It ain't pretty inside. The hard drives in the HD bay clear the Slot 1-style CPU by a mere whisper, but a miss is as good as a mile, in this case!
So now I've got 8 topics to analyze. I've done 2 so far and my brain is too tired to tackle much more. Angelbunny is moping because I've paid him no attention all night. And I don't want to fall asleep during the movie!
It's odd, I'm looking forward to both Harry Potter and LOTR, but in a way, I'm more anxious for Harry... Mostly because I know however wonderful LOTR may turn out, and however wonderful the pictures and previews may look, it will never match what is in my head. At no point did Liv Tyler EVER cross my mind when we used to play "Cast the movie" for LOTR. I hear they've made her a warrior princess type. It's too big, too revered. It might be the most wonderful movie, but mostly I'm fearful.
Harry, on the other hand... When I saw the pictures of Diagon Alley, my heart leapt, and I thought immediately, "That's IT. EXACTLY as I pictured it!" The cast (aside from the children) are almost exactly as I pegged it in the aforementioned "Cast the movie" game. I always said Alan Rickman for Snapes, especially after seeing him as the angel Megatron in "Dogma," and Maggie Smith for Professor McGonagall was an absolute no-brainer. John Cleese as Nearly Headless Nick is just plain inspired. I was heartbroken when I heard Hugh Grant pulled out as Gilderoy Lockhart in the second movie--he would have been PERFECT. It's hard to picture Kenneth Brannagh in the same role.
I think Harry Potter will be THE crossover movie. As many adults want to see it as children. There's a reason all 4 books were on the NY Time's bestseller's list at one time!
Mostly, I'm indifferent. To be stressed, I'd have to care...
On the bright side, the work I'm doin' on the website is laying the groundwork for stuff I want to do to my own site. I'm getting into CSS in a serious way. Here at work, everything is stuffed into tables for layout. My goal is a table-less layout for my webpage.
Tonight I'm stressing, tho'. Working on two different people's machines and I have an analysis to write. I started a SMALL part of the analysis. I'm just hoping I can knock it out tomorrow before the movie!
I couldn't be working on two more different machines, one a 1.4 gigahertz Athlon in a sublime server case, the other a 333 megahertz first gen Celeron system shoehorned into a tight little mini-tower. Both machines fought back in totally different ways; the Athlon refused to boot WinBlows 98; the Celeron components literally wouldn't physically fit into the case it was slated to go in. Finally, not too long ago, the Athlon (after a BIOS update and a chipset driver update, and a Windows 98 update and updates to every major driver running on the !@##$*& machine) is finally running sweetly. The fellow who owns the machine was just relieved it wasn't the CPU or the mobo being fried! The Celeron is now completely installed. It ain't pretty inside. The hard drives in the HD bay clear the Slot 1-style CPU by a mere whisper, but a miss is as good as a mile, in this case!
So now I've got 8 topics to analyze. I've done 2 so far and my brain is too tired to tackle much more. Angelbunny is moping because I've paid him no attention all night. And I don't want to fall asleep during the movie!
It's odd, I'm looking forward to both Harry Potter and LOTR, but in a way, I'm more anxious for Harry... Mostly because I know however wonderful LOTR may turn out, and however wonderful the pictures and previews may look, it will never match what is in my head. At no point did Liv Tyler EVER cross my mind when we used to play "Cast the movie" for LOTR. I hear they've made her a warrior princess type. It's too big, too revered. It might be the most wonderful movie, but mostly I'm fearful.
Harry, on the other hand... When I saw the pictures of Diagon Alley, my heart leapt, and I thought immediately, "That's IT. EXACTLY as I pictured it!" The cast (aside from the children) are almost exactly as I pegged it in the aforementioned "Cast the movie" game. I always said Alan Rickman for Snapes, especially after seeing him as the angel Megatron in "Dogma," and Maggie Smith for Professor McGonagall was an absolute no-brainer. John Cleese as Nearly Headless Nick is just plain inspired. I was heartbroken when I heard Hugh Grant pulled out as Gilderoy Lockhart in the second movie--he would have been PERFECT. It's hard to picture Kenneth Brannagh in the same role.
I think Harry Potter will be THE crossover movie. As many adults want to see it as children. There's a reason all 4 books were on the NY Time's bestseller's list at one time!
