Opposable Thumbs

Some of you may know what tomorrow is. Of course, the perfectly pedantic among would insists that what's special about tomorrow is actually special about Wednesday, but midnight is still tomorrow as far as I'm concerned. For the uninitiated, tomorrow at midnight is the release of the final installment of Peter Jackson's take on JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Some theaters are having an all day event that involves showings of the extended versions of The Fellowship of the Rings and The Two Towers followed by the premiere of The Return of the King. Talk about a marathon screening. Anyway, tickets for those showing sold out pretty much as the second they went on sale. So we decided to have our own screening at our house. Thankfully we already have a pretty killer TV to watch it on and the sound system ain't too bad either. Best of all, we don't have to pay movie theater prices for our food. In fact, we're making tacos. Try getting that at just any old theater. You see tomorrow is also a very important anniversary for Nicole and I. It's one year ago (and a day -- the Two Towers premiered on the 18th last year) that we really met for the first time. We had encountered each other before, but the first real conversation where we got to know each other was at the Two Towers screening last year. So it's something of a party for us. I'm leaving work early to begin the viewing. We're planning on starting the movies around 2. If any of you have the day off and feel like stopping by, give us a call. We've got plenty of fixin's for the tacos. By the way, Nicole, if you're reading this, I love you more than ever. Every day is better than the last.