I survived but Winter is still coming.
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uberreinigerThe three day no sales tax sale is over and I finally got a day off. Probably did too much WoW today but I don't care. I needed to blow off some steam and get some new imaginary weapons and armor. The weekend sale wasn't as bad as I feared it would be. In long stretches it was downright boring. My job is either aggravating or boring. There are no other feelings it produces and that's not good.
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ravenbrenna M. and I got to watch Game of Thrones finally and I must say... OMG that show is amazing. I didn't think I could be impressed having read the book and knowing what happens but I was. Such a well-made show. It kept seeming like they were going to leave important or just plain cool details out but then at the last moment they'd deliver it and it was that much cooler for the way they did it. There was only one thing they left out of the book that bothered me and that's them leaving out the way Jon Snow had to basically arrange for Sam Tarly to pass training and be accepted as a member of the Night Watch. It was such a cool scene in the book, especially with how happy it made Sam. It's not really vital to the story and I can see why they skipped it. But it was kind of odd that one minute they're moaning about how bad Sam is and he can't do anything right and the next he's just graduating along with everyone else, no questions asked.
Also, they seem to have created the character of a prostitute who is nowhere in the book for the sole purpose of the evil male characters having someone to speak their evil plans to. Aside from furthering the unfortunate stereotype that only violent, murderous people pay for sex, however, it actually works okay. Ros comes off as an actual character with her own plans and opinions and not just a sounding board for whatever bad guy is monologueing at the time. Seriously though, if anybody remembers her from the book please tell me.
The bad part of working so much this weekend is that it's left me no time to work on writing bass lines for the original material I'm supposed to be working on for the band. I'm afraid this week's rehearsal might not be as productive as we want. I hope it doesn't set us back too far since the girls are chomping at the bit to start booking gigs. And I admit, I'm excited by the prospect too.
That's the brief rundown of the last few days. Trying not to be as sluggish about updating but we all know how that goes.
In other news, thanks to some awesome help from
ravenbrenna M. and I got to watch Game of Thrones finally and I must say... OMG that show is amazing. I didn't think I could be impressed having read the book and knowing what happens but I was. Such a well-made show. It kept seeming like they were going to leave important or just plain cool details out but then at the last moment they'd deliver it and it was that much cooler for the way they did it. There was only one thing they left out of the book that bothered me and that's them leaving out the way Jon Snow had to basically arrange for Sam Tarly to pass training and be accepted as a member of the Night Watch. It was such a cool scene in the book, especially with how happy it made Sam. It's not really vital to the story and I can see why they skipped it. But it was kind of odd that one minute they're moaning about how bad Sam is and he can't do anything right and the next he's just graduating along with everyone else, no questions asked.Also, they seem to have created the character of a prostitute who is nowhere in the book for the sole purpose of the evil male characters having someone to speak their evil plans to. Aside from furthering the unfortunate stereotype that only violent, murderous people pay for sex, however, it actually works okay. Ros comes off as an actual character with her own plans and opinions and not just a sounding board for whatever bad guy is monologueing at the time. Seriously though, if anybody remembers her from the book please tell me.
The bad part of working so much this weekend is that it's left me no time to work on writing bass lines for the original material I'm supposed to be working on for the band. I'm afraid this week's rehearsal might not be as productive as we want. I hope it doesn't set us back too far since the girls are chomping at the bit to start booking gigs. And I admit, I'm excited by the prospect too.
That's the brief rundown of the last few days. Trying not to be as sluggish about updating but we all know how that goes.
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Date: 2011-08-11 10:02 pm (UTC)And n'awwww John Snow! I was wondering myself how Sam passed but then I saw that they gave him crappy work and figured they kept him because they needed SOMEONE to do it. lol
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Date: 2011-08-11 11:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-12 02:13 am (UTC)