I'd like to start this entry by thanking the sudden flood of people who emailed me asking if they could be part of the preview group for By Design. I am only going to be sending out five copies for preview, but I greatly appreciate the show of support from the other eighteen of you. As far as those preview copies that were supposed to go out by today, well, the last minute rewrite fairy struck unexpectedly over the last two days. I will have your preview copies out to you all by Friday, I swear. Hey, when it comes to an idea or five that actually improve the story, you just gotta do what you gotta do.
For today's post, I thought I'd share several of the random things that have run through my head over the course of the last several days or so. Hopefully not everyone feels the immediate need to don a "Gallagher Splash Zone"-esque tarp the second they read that last line.
1) Why is it that success in this world and near hubritic levels of egotism seem to run hand in hand?
2) There's a great line in the beginning of the movie Tombstone where a man tells Wyatt Earp that he's never met a rich man that didn't have a guilty conscience. Wyatt tells him he's already got the guilty conscience. You know if that's all it takes . . .
3) Overheard on Facebook: "Money can't buy happiness but it sure is easier to be miserable in a king sized bed than a cardboard box."
4) Why is it that most people who play Words With Friends tend to max out at three or four letter words? I played the word 'verbose' and the person I was playing with quit on me.
5) Apparently the new definition of 'literate' is 'shoved too many books up their ass as a kid.' I actually heard this in the grocery store as some charming individual lamented not being considered for a supervisors job and speculated that the person who was hired for the position got it because they read too much. I gleefully fart consonants in your general direction sir.
6) Kids really do echo nearly everything that is said to them in some form or another. It all comes out at some point, whether its verbally, emotionally, or via mimicry. It's no wonder I fight off the urge to introduce some parents to the business end of a two by four on occasion...
7) There is a simple way to find anything I've lost in my house: ask my wife. I searched for a missing jar of Nutella for over a week, nearly to the point of distraction, to absolutely no avail. Not only did she know exactly where in the cabinet it was hiding but had seen it there on several occasions. It's probably going to annoy her eventually but from now on the first words out of my mouth when I lose something will be "Honey have you seen..."
8) Has anyone else noticed that Drew Carey (The Price is Right) has lost so much weight that he went from looking like the creature that ate Bob Barker to the kid Bob Barker beat up for his lunch money?
9) TV is about to mess up once again. The networks et al seem to do this to me about once every four or five years or so and I stop watching TV for a while because of it. I get in a pattern where I have two or three shows I actually like to watch then some genius development exec gets on a hot streak and suddenly I'm up to five or six. They truck on along for four or five seasons (or more) then they start to disappear. House ended this year. Bones has a season left. Thank God they renewed Castle, although they could have wrapped it perfectly at the end of last season if they wanted to do so. They cancelled The Finder after a half season, but then again that's what happens when you make an actually intelligent show anymore. Maybe the cable networks have it right. Maybe ten or thirteen episode seasons are all we can really handle anymore. Who knows, maybe all I really need to do is just go outside more anyway.
10) I've been on a number of job interviews lately. I keep hearing the word 'overqualified.' The situation reminds me of The Princess Bride and the word 'inconceivable.' I don't think 'overqualified' means exactly what a lot of these folks think it does. I'm just sayin...
11) As tools for procrastination go, blogs are truly a work of art.
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