Welcome to the all new HRLD report. I hope you like it as much as I do. If not, I'm sure I'll hear about it.

• Site Reconstruction
  

It going along quite nicely, and the new interface is in place. Quite a change from the old snowy wasteland design, but this version is far more expandable. A lot of the links do not work still but I'm working on it.

• Grant Of Arms Requests
  

None were submitted or created this week.

• Custom Lightsabers
  

Chi-Long had his custom GLS made by the Herald himself this week. No others were submitted, created or approved.

The Custom Lightsaber Creation Guide has been updated, including some links on where to find tutorials on how to make lightsaber components in Photoshop.

Nothing interesting this week other than Natalie Portman talking about playing Queen Amidaala in this "much darker" final installment of the series. She's also upset that it's going to end the role she's grown close to playing.

See her actual words here.

"Clone Wars" Cartoon DVD announced

According to the official Star Wars site, "Star Wars: The Clone Wars Volume I" - a DVD containing all the episiodes of seasons 1 and 2 - is going to be released March 23rd. Check out this site for the official info.

Odd But True: Blinded!

3 Day Blinds has the craziest thing... mini-blinds with images from the Star Wars films on them. The image appears when they are closed, of course, and can be ordered in a wide variety of sizes and styles.

Nothing great going on in my life this week. Getting ready for the holiday next week is quite stressful, and trying to get the shopping done so I can just come home and work on DJB stuff never works out how I plan.

I'll get home fully intent on working on DJB stuff, inevitably be forced to leave the house in search of this or that, get back to the house and have to make dinner, then it's up to me to play with the dog or else she goes nuts all night. By the time she's tired I get a message from my friends who want to play BFV or BF1942, and I hate to skip out on all that fun so I'll join in. By the time we're done kicking Nazi or VC butt it's way too late for me to still be up so I go off to bed. Three to Four hours later I get up and get ready for work, just like the day before.

To help solve this problem I've eliminated and moved few tasks from my RL schedule, like holiday shopping. One binge day of searching yielded a decent gift for almost everyone on my list. In my mind, I'm done. I'll let my wife worry about the few that are left.