Have any of you had yerba mate tea? The kind that you put into a gourd and drink through a bombilla? The stuff looks like something they'd be drinking in the Star Wars cantina. I'm considering it as a replacement for my morning coffee.

Hey, did you hear there's a new Lord of the Rings movie out? Saw it last night. Not bad at all, save for the stairboarding and constant yammering about "the women and children"[must... resist... urge to rant] bits.

I've been resisting the purchase of a cell phone for several years now. Last week I finally caved. Picked up a sidekick, although in all honesty I'll mostly be using it for internet access, you know, for the important things. Like last night at the Hard Rock, where I was able to answer the burning question of who it was that sang The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead(it was XTC).