MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU!

Yes, today is Star Wars fun day.

People, libraries, and so many others have fun by dressing and displaying books and movies of the epic series that spans almost three generations.

I made my first Star Wars fandom trip when I was six months old.  My mother told me that I loved R2D2 and the Jawas.

I revisited this epic moment when they first came out on VHS for the first time.  Then again when I was in college. That was when the remastered editions came out in theater in the mid 90s.

I have come to have a love/hate relationship with Jar Jar Binks from the first of the new trilogy.  My favorite happens to be the third movie where we return to the beginning of the of the original trilogy with the birth of Darth Vader.  And with him, the return of the most awesome of voices, courtsey of James Earl Jones.

I loved BB8.  He was my absolute favorite character next to Rey.

Kylo Ren, on the other hand, has my deepest, darkest thoughts of how to relieve him of life with the most pain possible.



(All pictures from Pixaby)

REFLECTIONS A TO Z 2015 . . . SAME ONLY DIFFERENT . . . AND A BIT OF GEEKING AT THE END

Okay, this is where I gush my little heart out about the awesomeness of surviving and finding new blogs to read.

So . . . I DID IT!  I FINISHED ALL MY POSTS! YAY, ME!!

Ahem, now that is out of my system,  I will tell you all the trials and tribulations that nearly did my A to Z in.

To start off with, I was in way better shape than last year.  I only had to M scheduled when April came about last year.  This year I had up to Q or R (But not N.  Nope, N was being a pest.) scheduled along with Z and Y.  Anyway, I was finishing up my remaining posts when --- WHAM! I got sick --- again.   On Friday the 3rd I came down with some scavy disease that killed me for a week.  Joy!

Cough syrup and fake NyQuil déjà vu time!  With doses of Halls and Vitamin C lozenges.

Last year it happened at the end of the month.  I think it was a similar bug because I ran an almost identical course.

This put me behind my finishing the incomplete posts.  Since I don't have a computer at home anymore (Wah! Want my lappy fixed!), I used my work computer.  The iPad works, but it freezes too much and it is a freaking impossible to put a picture in the blog.

Then, I finally get well and go back to working on my posts when --- WOO HOO! -- the internet goes down all blipping day.  A fiber-optic line had been cut deliberately --OOO! Sabotage! -- and that put the kibosh on any attempt to finish the last three.

So I finally get my V and X post done.  Let's say the X post was done only the day before it was due.

Now, I will totally gush about my awesome people that came back over and over again.

Sara -- She had some fantastic story pieces that had to do with trees.  She was with me all 26 letters!

Natasha -- She wandered the lore of books, movies, and TV to find some of the coolest demons and gods from them.

A Tarkabarka Hölgy -- She delved into Hungarian history for the strangest ways to die on her blog Mopdog and Epics from around the world on her other blog, Multicolored Diary.

Patricia -- She had some gorgeous stories that ranged from dark to funny with awesome words for prompts.

There are others that are noteworthy to mention: Nick Wilford, J. H. Moncrieff, and S. L. Hennessy and probably more that I'm forgetting.

Visit all of them because they all have wonderful A to Z posts and are just cool peeps!

So I thank everyone who visited!




And now the whiny bits.  The only real beef I had was when I could not follow a blog through email.  I don't have google+ or bloglovin' or any of that (nor do I want it).  I really don't mind capcha so that wasn't a problem.  The other big problem was when I went to look for the A to Z posts and they are hidden or nonexistent on a page.  I really don't want to hunt and peck through a bunch of stuff to find it  Other than that, I had a blast finding new and unusual blogs.

Now that is over I have just one more thing to say:

Congratulations on finishing A to Z. See you all next year!