Today, July 31st is Harry Potter's (and his author J.K. Rowling's) birthday. I have a question about Harry's real age. Now, I know, in the last chapter of the last book we learn that Harry is married with kids. And we don't know how old he is. But in the 7th book we also fins out that is birthday is 7-31-1980. That would make him older than Nik and turning 28 today. So does that mean that the last chapter (with the kids) puts him at 27? Or does that last chapter take place some time in the future and we have no way of knowing when exactly in Harry's life he sends his oldest off to school. I guess if he was going to have an 11 year old, he would have to have had "relations" with Ginny right after high school. Not so far fetched, but still not very probable.
I don't know why this is bugging me. We were never really given a time frame for the books. They could have taken place in the 70's for all we know. I guess because everything seemed modern enough, it was reasonable to assume they were taking place now. So in 2007 when I found out that Harry was born in 1980, it threw off my whole perspective of him. I was going in circles trying to figure out how old he was supposed to be at the end.
Thank you J.K. Rowling, for giving me something to think about. I am going to take some Advil now.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008
One Word
You only get one word per answer... no explanations, either. Enjoy!
1. Where is your cell phone? .................... desk
2. Your significant other?....................... work
3. Your hair?.................................... weird
4. Your mother? ................................. awesome
5. Your father?.................................. reliable
6. Your favorite thing?.......................... sleep
7. Your dream last night?........................ dirty
8. Your favorite drink........................... Lemonade
9. Your dream/goal?.............................. President
10. The room you're in?.......................... padded
11. Your ex?..................................... prison
12. Your fear?................................... uncovered
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years........... sane
14. Where were you last night?................... sequence
15. What you're not?............................. male
16. Muffins...................................... gone
17. One of your wish list items?................. Sniper
18. Where you grew up?........................... Utah
20. What are you wearing?........................ pants
21. Your TV?..................................... abusive
22. Your pets?................................... controling
23. Your computer? .............................. portable
24. Your life?................................... boring
25. Your mood?................................... sleepy
26. Missing someone?............................. purposely
27. Your car?.................................... silver
28. Something you're not wearing?................ underwear
29. Favorite Store?.............................. discount
30. Your summer?................................. sweaty
31. Your favorite color?......................... green
32. Last time you laughed........................ Nik
33. Last time you cried?......................... Nik
1. Where is your cell phone? .................... desk
2. Your significant other?....................... work
3. Your hair?.................................... weird
4. Your mother? ................................. awesome
5. Your father?.................................. reliable
6. Your favorite thing?.......................... sleep
7. Your dream last night?........................ dirty
8. Your favorite drink........................... Lemonade
9. Your dream/goal?.............................. President
10. The room you're in?.......................... padded
11. Your ex?..................................... prison
12. Your fear?................................... uncovered
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years........... sane
14. Where were you last night?................... sequence
15. What you're not?............................. male
16. Muffins...................................... gone
17. One of your wish list items?................. Sniper
18. Where you grew up?........................... Utah
20. What are you wearing?........................ pants
21. Your TV?..................................... abusive
22. Your pets?................................... controling
23. Your computer? .............................. portable
24. Your life?................................... boring
25. Your mood?................................... sleepy
26. Missing someone?............................. purposely
27. Your car?.................................... silver
28. Something you're not wearing?................ underwear
29. Favorite Store?.............................. discount
30. Your summer?................................. sweaty
31. Your favorite color?......................... green
32. Last time you laughed........................ Nik
33. Last time you cried?......................... Nik
Monday, July 21, 2008
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
My microphone has ED
Warning, I feel a PG-13 post coming on, viewer discretion is advised.
Yesterday, after weeks, months, possibly years, of keeping it up (and very satisfactorily, if I do say so my self) my mic in drive-through just couldn't do it any more. He gave up and collapsed. Luckily we were right at the end, so there was no big loss, but it was still disappointing. He just laid there. All sad and limp. And he sill worked, I just had to hold his head up if I want to use him. We have been pretty slow, so I don't know why he chose now to quit on me, but oh well, I guess I will just have to get a new one.
Ok, that is about as dirty as I can get right now. Here is the real story:
Yesterday my console mic that I use in drive up broke. He still sufficiently amplified my voice, but he could not hold himself up like he used to.
He looks like the picture above, but with more colorful so-called buttons. He is on a bendable, pose able neck and the mic part (head) reminds me of HAL from 2001, minus the evil red light. We get along pretty good, except that I had to keep my hand wrapped around the head in order for the people to hear me.
Well, the Doctor came today and spent his sweet time fixing my Mic. Which was fine with me, it got me out of some work. I got to read Eleven On Top. The Doctor gave Mic a new neck and adjusted the volume and now everything is better! Yay! Three cheers for the the Doctor! No more speaking into my hand, perfecting my Darth Vader impression.
We are back to frolicking in the fields of drive-through. All is well.
Yesterday, after weeks, months, possibly years, of keeping it up (and very satisfactorily, if I do say so my self) my mic in drive-through just couldn't do it any more. He gave up and collapsed. Luckily we were right at the end, so there was no big loss, but it was still disappointing. He just laid there. All sad and limp. And he sill worked, I just had to hold his head up if I want to use him. We have been pretty slow, so I don't know why he chose now to quit on me, but oh well, I guess I will just have to get a new one.
Ok, that is about as dirty as I can get right now. Here is the real story:
Yesterday my console mic that I use in drive up broke. He still sufficiently amplified my voice, but he could not hold himself up like he used to.
He looks like the picture above, but with more colorful so-called buttons. He is on a bendable, pose able neck and the mic part (head) reminds me of HAL from 2001, minus the evil red light. We get along pretty good, except that I had to keep my hand wrapped around the head in order for the people to hear me.
Well, the Doctor came today and spent his sweet time fixing my Mic. Which was fine with me, it got me out of some work. I got to read Eleven On Top. The Doctor gave Mic a new neck and adjusted the volume and now everything is better! Yay! Three cheers for the the Doctor! No more speaking into my hand, perfecting my Darth Vader impression.
We are back to frolicking in the fields of drive-through. All is well.
Monday, July 14, 2008
Memory
1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!
2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments.
2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments.
Monday, July 07, 2008
Thursday, July 03, 2008
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