Tonight we got to watch the new Harry Potter movie at our local theater which also happens to serve a full food and drink menu. That makes it more expensive to go out, but also more enjoyable. We got there an hour early to ensure decent seats. It wasn’t necessary as people were either scared off by the rain earlier or something and it wasn’t overly crowded. But we got good seats, so it’s all good. I wish they played fun B (or C or D) movies, like Alamo, and served Butterbeer, but they did play music so it wasn’t totally boring.
As for the movie, I think they did a good job condensing a lot of stuff into 2 1/2 hours. I feel like I need to go read the book again to see just how different it was, but it got a lot of the important stuff. It was definitely funny and cute, but I realized something odd. I felt like I had already seen this movie, and I realized my imagination is actually stronger than I thought! We listen to the audiobooks fairly frequently, and through that process I had created visuals to go along with the book using the actual actors and how Hogwart’s looks in the previous movies. Maybe not every scene, but enough that I felt a little confused at times. It’s almost like, I experienced it twice and was trying to reconcile the two experiences of the same event. Actually, part of my brain is still arguing, convinced that my imagined version is something I watched, though I know this isn’t the case. Very odd and confusing, but probably quite good for my brain. It will allow it to open up to more possibilities.
Carrie did pretty well. She got to order a lynchberg lemonade, which is a drink that is apparently a specialty back in Kentucky. This was the best she’s ever had, which is a big deal for her. I’m just glad because the drink alone was $6.50! It helped keep her a little more calm, which helps keep the seizures away. She’s not 100% stable, and was fighting enough that when we left the theater she had a glitch and now doesn’t remember that we went to the movie. :-( She’ll remember in a few hours probably. She did have a grand mal after we were home, but it was pretty short. She should be fine tomorrow assuming she gets some sleep. Considering she’s asleep right now on the couch (best I can tell) it should be possible.
Now if I could just get her computer to fix itself, we’d be fine. She got a weird message about a virus, which I don’t think was a virus, then it shut down and she gets this error about Hal.dll missing. I’ve tried a ton of troubleshooting steps and they all fail. Right now I’m trying a fresh install, but it’s going incredibly slow, to the point that it may take more than a day for it to partition this 160 gig hard drive. That’s assuming it completes. Every time I try to use chkdsk it seems to stall out at 4%, and an early scan pointed to the actual board and not the hard drive. So I have no idea what happened. I read something that said this error can come from IE 8, which might have installed on her computer accidentally. If so, then I’m beyond pissed at microsoft for killing her laptop. I guess we’ll see what happens. I don’t want to have to buy yet another hard drive. I’m definitely not buying an HP laptop again. It’s crashed twice now in 3 years, which isn’t a good track record. My Dell desktop hasn’t been reinstalled at all, best I can remember. If I did, it was many years ago, and I’ve had this for 5 years. This is why I hate buying fancy electronics…you never know how well they’ll work until you have them for a while. Oh well.
