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I haven't weighed myself since but the mirror shows that I am about halfway there. So I guess I'll reach my goal in a few months, before the end of the year. I think I can keep it up.

GRRM wrote a blog post 9/4/2024 complaining about the quality of HOD S2 and deleted it: Beware the Butterflies | Not a Blog (archive.org)

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I haven't watched the new season yet but I saw the scene where Halbrand changes into Annatar. I also saw the Sauron as venom thing- I definitely was not expecting to see anything like that- in my mind Sauron was more like a spirit entity rather than a physical substance. The scene with Sauron and the heavens is pretty interesting to me- on closer inspection Annatar is almost like a holy Christ-like figure to Celebrimbor, the whole scene has a biblical aura to it. Also besides the makeover Annatar is shrouded in darkness while beneath the heavens, indicating who he really is. Interestingly, Charlie's test for the Sauron role was him reciting Satan from Paradise Lost & Richard III. Literally I talked about Paradise lost earlier so I suppose the showrunners (as well as Tolkein) were influenced by it.

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+ after the bread is done, keep warm in oven for 15 minutes or so to allow the crust to harden. The texture inside the bread will improve even further.

Labor day BBQ (corn, chicken, steak, fish, sausages, salad) & had steak dinner two days in a row.. No ribs this year.

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I agree that it's sad that GRRM failed to finish Winds & Spring- otherwise the GOT show may have ended up being great, and ended well. Then all the spin-offs would have a stronger foundation to work off of. My personal reading of GRRM's work indicated to me that he was losing his grip by Feast & Dance (books 4 and 5). The first 3 are masterpieces that are responsible for the success of GOT but he seems to have run out of great ideas by Feast and was starting to repeat himself frequently. The spin-offs and extended universe are simply nowhere as great as the first 3 books and the first couple seasons of the show. They're derivative. GRRM's decision to not finish the books is quite bizarre to the point where he is looking like a conman. It's almost as if he was to finish the series, it would reveal his true cards (a bad hand), jeopardize his shows (or interest in it) or something. If HOD declines in S3 and the other GOT spin-off projects don't perform his mega franchise would end up in a sad state. The books definitely do not need decades to write; Sapkowski in the same period wrote and published 2 witcher books, and 3 acclaimed books of historical fiction. He wrote the last book in 2 years. GRRM also does not appear to show any signs of dementia either.

There is another shoot with just Natalie & Rachel but it hasn't materialized yet.

yes- she might be better looking with this hair? Her performance in ROP is jarring. She has an elegant face and a nice accent but comes across as cringe due to the scriptwriters & direction, mainly.

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