i took rohan to the doctor today for his two and half year wellnes check-up today. it cost 61 dollars to find out what i assumed: he's alive and well and doing fine. i really need to get us some health insurance. our last policy sucked balls. rohan wasn't covered for anything until he was nineteen. isn't that lovely? like i said, it was a really good policy.

i've begun work on a huge geneology table based on the works of j.r.r. tolkien concerning middle earth. the ones that were included in the lord of the rings and the silmarillion are just way too consise. i'm trying to get emily to read the silmarillion and i know this would be a great reference material, rather than flip back and forth between several books and whatever tolkien encyclopedias i have around trying to remember who came from who and what family they were from, etc., etc., etc. however, the possibility of her actually reading the silmarillion is not very good. she reads hundreds of books every year, and although she read the lord of the rings several years ago, i don't think she's up to reading this book. so maybe someone else could put this table to use after i'm finished with it. it's also another reason not to really start on our tax stuff. :)

oh yeah, we did watch mean machine the other night. i highly recommend it, it's a lot of fun.