I caught up on the Super Bowl ads that people at work said I had to see. I enjoyed some of them (like the flying Bud Light drinker) and didn't like others (like the baby doing an e-Trade and then spitting up food. yuck!), but the Fed Ex pigeon ad remains my personal favorite. I also saw the miracle catch replayed a few times. Okay, confession, I was flipping around a lot because I did not want to see the Patriots win, so that play was one of the things I missed and it was incredible. Okay, enough football, I guess.
Right now, I'm working on a fight scene. Trying to anyway. I always have to chant a mantra while I write them. "You can come back and layer things in. Just get the action down." And that is so hard for me to do because when I read back over what I've written, it just seems flat without the emotional component. That gets me to start tinkering and slows progress and I always have to go back and add the layers in later anyway. You'd think this would get easier, but instead my compelling urge to get it right the first time seems to get worse.
I did find a really cool blade, though, and I'm going to have Logan fighting with it. This was one of those things where I was looking for something else and stumbled across this by accident. After taking one look at it, I went "perfect!" :-)
And finally, In Twilight's Shadow is up for preorder and Barnes & Noble.com. This is the last of big online booksellers to load it.
Showing posts with label football. Show all posts
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Monday, February 04, 2008
Super Bowl Sunday
I vowed not to watch the Super Bowl. I've had trouble jinxing the football teams I'm rooting for in this year's playoffs, and since it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that the Patriots were going to win, I decided I'd spare myself the agony. (I loathe the NE Patriots.) And the ads haven't even been all that good the past few years, so what would be the point in wasting all that time?
Temptation was too much for me. I flipped over to watch the game anyway. I can, without a doubt, say the worst ad during the game was for Sales Genie. If you're going to spend millions of dollars to advertise during the Super Bowl, for heaven's sake, spend some money on the production of the actual ad. And maybe look at hiring a better ad agency. IMO, that was hideous.
Picking the best commercial is a little more difficult. There were a lot of okay ads, which was pretty sad since the Super Bowl used to be like one big reel of Clio nominees (Clios are the Oscars for the advertising industry.) I did, however, find several ads that I thought were fabulous. I loved the homing pigeon ad for Fed Ex and the Wine and Cheese ad for Bud Light. You can check out these ads and the rest of them at MySpace.
And can I just say, OMG! The Giants upset the Patriots! My jinx lifted at the right time. It's not that I like New York, I don't, but it was a matter of the lesser of two evils. And even better, the Patriots lose their "perfect" season. Ha! (Um, sorry NE fans, but I've loathed the Patriots since I started paying attention to football.)
Temptation was too much for me. I flipped over to watch the game anyway. I can, without a doubt, say the worst ad during the game was for Sales Genie. If you're going to spend millions of dollars to advertise during the Super Bowl, for heaven's sake, spend some money on the production of the actual ad. And maybe look at hiring a better ad agency. IMO, that was hideous.
Picking the best commercial is a little more difficult. There were a lot of okay ads, which was pretty sad since the Super Bowl used to be like one big reel of Clio nominees (Clios are the Oscars for the advertising industry.) I did, however, find several ads that I thought were fabulous. I loved the homing pigeon ad for Fed Ex and the Wine and Cheese ad for Bud Light. You can check out these ads and the rest of them at MySpace.
And can I just say, OMG! The Giants upset the Patriots! My jinx lifted at the right time. It's not that I like New York, I don't, but it was a matter of the lesser of two evils. And even better, the Patriots lose their "perfect" season. Ha! (Um, sorry NE fans, but I've loathed the Patriots since I started paying attention to football.)
Monday, January 21, 2008
Mea Culpa Redux
Um, sorry Packer and Charger fans. Yes, it's true. I was rooting for your teams. This football playoff season I've only had 1 team I've wanted to win actually do so. That was back that first week with all the wild card teams playing. I guess this means New England is destined to win the Super Bowl because I can't stand that team or their quarterback. If anyone's doing a pool, you know who to bet on. :-) It's really tough being a jinx--takes all the fun out of watching the games.
It is monumentally cold here still. I think the lowest we went was -31 with the wind chill when I first woke up on Saturday morning, but even now, my toes are cold and I am so not looking forward to going outside. I think they should dome the entire metro area and heat it. :-) It's a long walk from where the peons park at NWA to the door.
Flower report: Looks like I'll have to throw out both poinsettias at some point. The red one has been shedding since before Christmas and it looks like Charlie Brown's Christmas tree. Now the white one it starting to lose leaves, too.
It is monumentally cold here still. I think the lowest we went was -31 with the wind chill when I first woke up on Saturday morning, but even now, my toes are cold and I am so not looking forward to going outside. I think they should dome the entire metro area and heat it. :-) It's a long walk from where the peons park at NWA to the door.
Flower report: Looks like I'll have to throw out both poinsettias at some point. The red one has been shedding since before Christmas and it looks like Charlie Brown's Christmas tree. Now the white one it starting to lose leaves, too.
Monday, January 14, 2008
My Bad
I think I owe a formal apology to football fans across the country. I'm sorry I rooted for your team. Yep, it's true--every team I wanted to win over the weekend lost. I'm normally not a fan of Indianapolis, but I dislike San Diego even more and I figured the defending Super Bowl champs would win. They didn't.
Then there was the Dallas/NY Giants match up. Every one of the football experts on the FOX pregame show picked Dallas. I figured I'd be one for four. Nope. The Giants won. If anyone wants to make some money in Vegas next weekend, I'll be rooting for San Diego and Green Bay. (With apologies in advance to fans of those two teams.)
I was writing while the games were on--it's still like pulling teeth, but I'm hoping the more I get my butt in the chair, the easier it will come. To that end, I signed up for my chapter's Book In a Week. Publicly admitting my progress or lack thereof will hopefully keep me in my seat and keep me going.
The chapter meeting on Saturday was full, loaded with people and that was good to see! 2008 is a one year in numerology (2+0+0+8 =10 1+0=1) and that signifies new beginnings. That sounds positive, yes?
Then there was the Dallas/NY Giants match up. Every one of the football experts on the FOX pregame show picked Dallas. I figured I'd be one for four. Nope. The Giants won. If anyone wants to make some money in Vegas next weekend, I'll be rooting for San Diego and Green Bay. (With apologies in advance to fans of those two teams.)
I was writing while the games were on--it's still like pulling teeth, but I'm hoping the more I get my butt in the chair, the easier it will come. To that end, I signed up for my chapter's Book In a Week. Publicly admitting my progress or lack thereof will hopefully keep me in my seat and keep me going.
The chapter meeting on Saturday was full, loaded with people and that was good to see! 2008 is a one year in numerology (2+0+0+8 =10 1+0=1) and that signifies new beginnings. That sounds positive, yes?
Monday, February 05, 2007
The Good, Bad and Ugly
I watched the Super Bowl yesterday, and as I've done 99% of the time throughout the football playoff season, I was rooting for the losing team. I'd even downloaded the Super Bowl Shuffle video done by the 1985 Bears team to prepare for the big game. :-) It started out so well, but went downhill before long. Sigh. At least the commercials were good this year. The last few years, I felt they were pretty lame, but not this time. Yea!
The one I liked that I remember the best is the moon office when the Fed Ex space ship came to make deliveries and pick ups. I also liked a lot of the Coke commercials. My favorite of those was when the animated guy walks around doing nice things for people and the message was something along the lines of a little love going a long way.
My least favorite commercials? I hated that one for Sales Genie or whatever it was. It embodied everything I dislike about advertising. I also didn't like the Go Daddy commercials. I was more interested in the $1.95 domain names than I was in dancing girls in the Marketing Department, so I don't know why they had to put them in except for the sex factor. It was unnecessary IMO. BTW, I checked out their site for the $1.95 domain names and the cheapest I found was $8.95 plus $.50 ICANN fee. I have a site that charges the same price without the added fee, so I'll be sticking with them.
The other thing I noticed this year that I don't remember hearing in years past was that the Super Bowl commercials are available online to replay. CBS mentioned having it on their website during the game, and when I logged into MySpace, they had them available too. Cool!
Last night, when I went to bed, I was laying there and had a story show up with characters. I already know it's one I'll never write--the heroine was a princess and the hero an army officer in her country who was protecting her without her knowledge--but it was interesting to have a "bedtime story." :-) That hasn't happened in a while, where characters I'm not working with, and likely will never work with, just show up and play their story out for me. I enjoyed it, and really, what could be better to fall asleep to than a princess and a handsome, honorable, protective officer?
The one I liked that I remember the best is the moon office when the Fed Ex space ship came to make deliveries and pick ups. I also liked a lot of the Coke commercials. My favorite of those was when the animated guy walks around doing nice things for people and the message was something along the lines of a little love going a long way.
My least favorite commercials? I hated that one for Sales Genie or whatever it was. It embodied everything I dislike about advertising. I also didn't like the Go Daddy commercials. I was more interested in the $1.95 domain names than I was in dancing girls in the Marketing Department, so I don't know why they had to put them in except for the sex factor. It was unnecessary IMO. BTW, I checked out their site for the $1.95 domain names and the cheapest I found was $8.95 plus $.50 ICANN fee. I have a site that charges the same price without the added fee, so I'll be sticking with them.
The other thing I noticed this year that I don't remember hearing in years past was that the Super Bowl commercials are available online to replay. CBS mentioned having it on their website during the game, and when I logged into MySpace, they had them available too. Cool!
Last night, when I went to bed, I was laying there and had a story show up with characters. I already know it's one I'll never write--the heroine was a princess and the hero an army officer in her country who was protecting her without her knowledge--but it was interesting to have a "bedtime story." :-) That hasn't happened in a while, where characters I'm not working with, and likely will never work with, just show up and play their story out for me. I enjoyed it, and really, what could be better to fall asleep to than a princess and a handsome, honorable, protective officer?
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Going High-Speed
I love my cable internet. OMG, it's amazing! After more than a week, I still can't believe it, but I've already reached a point when I have to use the dial up, that it seems ungodly slow. Since I want all my email on the laptop, and since I'm not networked, that means I'm facing this every day.
One of the coolest things about the high speed is how much time it cuts off for me in the morning. I have a set of sites I visit while I have coffee and it now takes me 5-10 minutes less than it did on dial up and I've added about half a dozen sites to my morning rounds. :-)
What I don't like? It's on my desktop computer. That poor thing is so old, it churns as it tries to keep up with the connection. But I saw Windows Vista was released and as soon as Service Pack 1 comes out to fix the problems in the initial release, I'm getting a new computer and getting networked so I can have high-speed when I use my laptop too.
I've said this before, I'll probably have a stroke when I get the cable bill, but right now I'm loving this. Do you know that I even found the Super Bowl Shuffle video from the 1985 Bears and was able to play it? I'm ready for the big game now. :-)
One of the coolest things about the high speed is how much time it cuts off for me in the morning. I have a set of sites I visit while I have coffee and it now takes me 5-10 minutes less than it did on dial up and I've added about half a dozen sites to my morning rounds. :-)
What I don't like? It's on my desktop computer. That poor thing is so old, it churns as it tries to keep up with the connection. But I saw Windows Vista was released and as soon as Service Pack 1 comes out to fix the problems in the initial release, I'm getting a new computer and getting networked so I can have high-speed when I use my laptop too.
I've said this before, I'll probably have a stroke when I get the cable bill, but right now I'm loving this. Do you know that I even found the Super Bowl Shuffle video from the 1985 Bears and was able to play it? I'm ready for the big game now. :-)
Monday, January 15, 2007
Winter Lament
It snowed last night. It's still snowing. The winds are supposed to be in the 20-30 mph range. I hate Minnesota.
I think I'll leave it here, although I could go on much longer. I keep trying to tell myself to cheer up, that at least it isn't freezing rain. It's not working. With freezing rain, I'd just take vacation days from work until the roads were clear. With 5 inches of snow, I have to drive to the EDJ.
I saw who won the playoff games this weekend and I have to say, your odds were better if I didn't like your team. :-/ The AFC match up is between two teams that I hate, so it'll be a lesser of two evils thing, and out of the NFC, one team I wanted to see win actually did. New Orleans--and they almost didn't win from what I heard on the recap. Anyway, my relatives in Chicago will be appalled that I was rooting against their beloved Bears, but I was. :-) Instead of giving me grief about that, they should probably thank me.
Anyway, if you discount the snow, it was a pretty nice weekend. My chapter meeting was a lot of fun and I received my Rising Star Award. My hero finally revealed valuable background information about himself, something he had been keeping secret from me. I saw a cable modem in the paper and it listed my ISP as one of the valid activation partners to get the rebates! That was part of what had me dragging my feet, I didn't want to change email addresses, but I didn't think it would be one of the places I could activate at the store. It was nice to find out I was wrong. Of course, I still have to get myself to the store, get the modem, manage to hook it up myself--which I can probably do if the instructions are halfway decent--and hope my computer doesn't move so slowly, it goes backward in time. I really need a new desktop unit.
I have to get going early today. Extra drive time in and all that. Sigh.
I think I'll leave it here, although I could go on much longer. I keep trying to tell myself to cheer up, that at least it isn't freezing rain. It's not working. With freezing rain, I'd just take vacation days from work until the roads were clear. With 5 inches of snow, I have to drive to the EDJ.
I saw who won the playoff games this weekend and I have to say, your odds were better if I didn't like your team. :-/ The AFC match up is between two teams that I hate, so it'll be a lesser of two evils thing, and out of the NFC, one team I wanted to see win actually did. New Orleans--and they almost didn't win from what I heard on the recap. Anyway, my relatives in Chicago will be appalled that I was rooting against their beloved Bears, but I was. :-) Instead of giving me grief about that, they should probably thank me.
Anyway, if you discount the snow, it was a pretty nice weekend. My chapter meeting was a lot of fun and I received my Rising Star Award. My hero finally revealed valuable background information about himself, something he had been keeping secret from me. I saw a cable modem in the paper and it listed my ISP as one of the valid activation partners to get the rebates! That was part of what had me dragging my feet, I didn't want to change email addresses, but I didn't think it would be one of the places I could activate at the store. It was nice to find out I was wrong. Of course, I still have to get myself to the store, get the modem, manage to hook it up myself--which I can probably do if the instructions are halfway decent--and hope my computer doesn't move so slowly, it goes backward in time. I really need a new desktop unit.
I have to get going early today. Extra drive time in and all that. Sigh.
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