I've finally done something I've been promising myself for a while now - went out and got all six Star Wars movies on DVD. Being a bear of very short attention span I don't really watch a lot of movies. Shit, it took me nearly three months to get all the way through the first Lord of the Rings movie. I tried all three at once with a big bottle of Absolut vodka, pretty much blithered my way through about six hours of it and slipped into a coma.
Star Wars though changed my life way back when. I was EXACTLY the right age to be captured by it and spent years afterwards trying to get the same high hitting up every piece of sci-fi crap that came along (anybody remember Gil Gerrard as Buck Rogers?) before coming to the realisation that science fiction was much better taken in book form where my imagination could be in charge and not whored out by every disco loving movie producer and a bunch of skanky aliens (apart from Alien itself, but that's always been more of a horror movie to me).
My life's goal has (and always will be) command of my own star destroyer with a hold full of TIE fighters and Tiger I's to smash the bolshevik rabble. Hang on, that's another goal. Never mind.
Merry whatever you celebrate all - here's to another fantastic year.

... use the forks Luke ...