Like a broken record

Record high of 73F yesterday. It's already that temperature today and it's not quite mid-afternoon (we usually hit our high around 3:30 or 4 o'clock). Unfortunately, that means yard work. Thankfully I left a tank top down here, 'cause all I brought with me was long-sleeved stuff. It's almost warm enough for shorts--they wouldn't go amiss at the moment.

Of course, there's a cold front about to come through, and tomorrow we get regular January temperatures--40s for highs, 20s for lows. Sigh.

Gonna make the most of it and go read yet more Silmarillion outside.

Fiddle-dee-dee, fiddle-dee-dah

If anyone else is a fan of the Rohan theme from TTT and ROTK (the violin-sounding thing), there's a great site here all about the instrument used to make that sound, which is a Norwegian hardanger fiddle (essentially a prettily-decorated violin with sympathetic strings under the main ones--kind of like the love child of a violin and a sitar). under "music samples," they have a whole bunch of mp3s. I particularly like "Gooseberry" and "Ola Janson's Waltz."

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Was intrigued recently by discussion of LOTR references in Babylon 5, and after a quick search, I found this set of essays. They're quite interesting, if rather, uh, scarily detailed and involving lots linguistic analysis of Quenya/Sindarin and Minbari. I never really got into B5, but maybe I'll give it another go...and start fromt he beginning this time, instead of first-run season 3... ;)

*SNERK*

Apologies for the spamming, but you must see this.

*falls out of chair again, cackling all the way down*