True Blood

Haven't posted in a week or so.  I'll get around to that.  Hope everyone is doing well (or at least reasonably okay).  Posting will come later.  For now, copy pasting Roush's review of the new HBO series  True Blood .  (I admit to once having tried to read one of the books and being unable to make it through.  I didn't particularly like it.  But the HBO ads and clips have looked somewhat intriguing -- even if I wanted to smack the producer around for saying that it's a 'new' take on vampires because it used dark comedy.  Uh... yeah.  New.  He even admitted to never having watched BtVS or AtS. So hey, FYI producer-- not. so new!     

Still, I'm willing to give the series a try even if I was less than thrilled with the only book in the series that I tried to read.

True Blood Series premiere: Sunday, 9/7, 9/8c, HBO

In a Louisiana backwater, someone’s killing women who are getting it on with vampires—a minority now living openly after the invention of a synthetic-blood drink, but facing persecution (think gay allegory). Graphically sexy and scary, and often wildly funny, True Blood, from Six Feet Under’s Alan Ball, turns Charlaine Harris’ rollicking mystery novels into a broadly entertaining, deliciously twisted slice of modern Southern Gothic. Anna Paquin leads a colorfully eccentric ensemble as a telepathic waitress taking girlish delight in her instant attraction to a soulful vamp (Stephen Moyer) whose mind is blissfully closed to her. My score (0–10): 9

True Blood

Haven't posted in a week or so.  I'll get around to that.  Hope everyone is doing well (or at least reasonably okay).  Posting will come later.  For now, copy pasting Roush's review of the new HBO series  True Blood .  (I admit to once having tried to read one of the books and being unable to make it through.  I didn't particularly like it.  But the HBO ads and clips have looked somewhat intriguing -- even if I wanted to smack the producer around for saying that it's a 'new' take on vampires because it used dark comedy.  Uh... yeah.  New.  He even admitted to never having watched BtVS or AtS. So hey, FYI producer-- not. so new!     

Still, I'm willing to give the series a try even if I was less than thrilled with the only book in the series that I tried to read.

True Blood Series premiere: Sunday, 9/7, 9/8c, HBO

In a Louisiana backwater, someone’s killing women who are getting it on with vampires—a minority now living openly after the invention of a synthetic-blood drink, but facing persecution (think gay allegory). Graphically sexy and scary, and often wildly funny, True Blood, from Six Feet Under’s Alan Ball, turns Charlaine Harris’ rollicking mystery novels into a broadly entertaining, deliciously twisted slice of modern Southern Gothic. Anna Paquin leads a colorfully eccentric ensemble as a telepathic waitress taking girlish delight in her instant attraction to a soulful vamp (Stephen Moyer) whose mind is blissfully closed to her. My score (0–10): 9

True Blood

Haven't posted in a week or so.  I'll get around to that.  Hope everyone is doing well (or at least reasonably okay).  Posting will come later.  For now, copy pasting Roush's review of the new HBO series  True Blood .  (I admit to once having tried to read one of the books and being unable to make it through.  I didn't particularly like it.  But the HBO ads and clips have looked somewhat intriguing -- even if I wanted to smack the producer around for saying that it's a 'new' take on vampires because it used dark comedy.  Uh... yeah.  New.  He even admitted to never having watched BtVS or AtS. So hey, FYI producer-- not. so new!     

Still, I'm willing to give the series a try even if I was less than thrilled with the only book in the series that I tried to read.

True Blood Series premiere: Sunday, 9/7, 9/8c, HBO

In a Louisiana backwater, someone’s killing women who are getting it on with vampires—a minority now living openly after the invention of a synthetic-blood drink, but facing persecution (think gay allegory). Graphically sexy and scary, and often wildly funny, True Blood, from Six Feet Under’s Alan Ball, turns Charlaine Harris’ rollicking mystery novels into a broadly entertaining, deliciously twisted slice of modern Southern Gothic. Anna Paquin leads a colorfully eccentric ensemble as a telepathic waitress taking girlish delight in her instant attraction to a soulful vamp (Stephen Moyer) whose mind is blissfully closed to her. My score (0–10): 9

Wanna Screw Things Up? Schedule a Vacation

Okay, so Labor Day is coming up (Go Bama beat Clemson! Yeah, yeah, it may be a big hope, but GO FOR IT anyway!). Er... I digress. Anyway, so Labor Day is coming up and for the first time in what feels like forever Bama didn't schedule a home game for the season opener and that allowed me to schedule a vacation to the beach on Labor Day! Except...

Except...

Have you looked at the weather map?

Didn't complain about Hurricane tropical storm Faye because we needed the rain. After the hellacious drought last year, we can't complain about a relatively mild tropical storm rain out over us (Florida can complain. They flooded. We just got several days of steady rain and we haven't had that in a while). But now, we have Hurricane Gustav coming in. And I know with its projected path being to New Orleans I cannot be shallow and complain about it screwing up my vacation. It's also possible that it'll hit Alabama or will hit the panhandle where I'm going. But, I'm not happy about the forthcoming hurricane.

And just to PROVE that if you want to screw things up, schedule a vacation, there's my current project at work. We finished the plans and sent them to state for review with the thought that we'd have a few weeks to clean up the drawings while they were being reviewed with additional time to address the state review comments before we had to release the plans for bids. So, I and my partner at work, Peter, both scheduled vacations around this break and Labor Day weekend. So, what do you think arrived yesterday? Approval from state! And no requested revisions. Great, so now we grovel to engineers "Pleeeeeease, send final drawings like... now" as we rush to add the details we left out because they weren't needed for state review and now we have to release the set to Friday! Guh! It was 7:30 before I left work tonight.

::grumble, grumble:: Shouldn't have scheduled a vacation.

And I wish there were ways to wish a hurricane out of existence.

In other news, I went to check on the construction of my sister's house last Friday and ended up skidding and falling. And for those unfamiliar with Alabama red clay, when it's packed hard and bone dry as it has been this morning (this was before the rain from Faye)... well, falling on it (and gravel!) is like falling onto red brick! I have a huge ass bruise on my... er... ass. And a sore hip, and tail bone. Ouch!

Wanna Screw Things Up? Schedule a Vacation

Okay, so Labor Day is coming up (Go Bama beat Clemson! Yeah, yeah, it may be a big hope, but GO FOR IT anyway!). Er... I digress. Anyway, so Labor Day is coming up and for the first time in what feels like forever Bama didn't schedule a home game for the season opener and that allowed me to schedule a vacation to the beach on Labor Day! Except...

Except...

Have you looked at the weather map?

Didn't complain about Hurricane tropical storm Faye because we needed the rain. After the hellacious drought last year, we can't complain about a relatively mild tropical storm rain out over us (Florida can complain. They flooded. We just got several days of steady rain and we haven't had that in a while). But now, we have Hurricane Gustav coming in. And I know with its projected path being to New Orleans I cannot be shallow and complain about it screwing up my vacation. It's also possible that it'll hit Alabama or will hit the panhandle where I'm going. But, I'm not happy about the forthcoming hurricane.

And just to PROVE that if you want to screw things up, schedule a vacation, there's my current project at work. We finished the plans and sent them to state for review with the thought that we'd have a few weeks to clean up the drawings while they were being reviewed with additional time to address the state review comments before we had to release the plans for bids. So, I and my partner at work, Peter, both scheduled vacations around this break and Labor Day weekend. So, what do you think arrived yesterday? Approval from state! And no requested revisions. Great, so now we grovel to engineers "Pleeeeeease, send final drawings like... now" as we rush to add the details we left out because they weren't needed for state review and now we have to release the set to Friday! Guh! It was 7:30 before I left work tonight.

::grumble, grumble:: Shouldn't have scheduled a vacation.

And I wish there were ways to wish a hurricane out of existence.

In other news, I went to check on the construction of my sister's house last Friday and ended up skidding and falling. And for those unfamiliar with Alabama red clay, when it's packed hard and bone dry as it has been this morning (this was before the rain from Faye)... well, falling on it (and gravel!) is like falling onto red brick! I have a huge ass bruise on my... er... ass. And a sore hip, and tail bone. Ouch!

Wanna Screw Things Up? Schedule a Vacation

Okay, so Labor Day is coming up (Go Bama beat Clemson! Yeah, yeah, it may be a big hope, but GO FOR IT anyway!). Er... I digress. Anyway, so Labor Day is coming up and for the first time in what feels like forever Bama didn't schedule a home game for the season opener and that allowed me to schedule a vacation to the beach on Labor Day! Except...

Except...

Have you looked at the weather map?

Didn't complain about Hurricane tropical storm Faye because we needed the rain. After the hellacious drought last year, we can't complain about a relatively mild tropical storm rain out over us (Florida can complain. They flooded. We just got several days of steady rain and we haven't had that in a while). But now, we have Hurricane Gustav coming in. And I know with its projected path being to New Orleans I cannot be shallow and complain about it screwing up my vacation. It's also possible that it'll hit Alabama or will hit the panhandle where I'm going. But, I'm not happy about the forthcoming hurricane.

And just to PROVE that if you want to screw things up, schedule a vacation, there's my current project at work. We finished the plans and sent them to state for review with the thought that we'd have a few weeks to clean up the drawings while they were being reviewed with additional time to address the state review comments before we had to release the plans for bids. So, I and my partner at work, Peter, both scheduled vacations around this break and Labor Day weekend. So, what do you think arrived yesterday? Approval from state! And no requested revisions. Great, so now we grovel to engineers "Pleeeeeease, send final drawings like... now" as we rush to add the details we left out because they weren't needed for state review and now we have to release the set to Friday! Guh! It was 7:30 before I left work tonight.

::grumble, grumble:: Shouldn't have scheduled a vacation.

And I wish there were ways to wish a hurricane out of existence.

In other news, I went to check on the construction of my sister's house last Friday and ended up skidding and falling. And for those unfamiliar with Alabama red clay, when it's packed hard and bone dry as it has been this morning (this was before the rain from Faye)... well, falling on it (and gravel!) is like falling onto red brick! I have a huge ass bruise on my... er... ass. And a sore hip, and tail bone. Ouch!