Hey, look!

A whole week went by and I didn't really notice. Hm.

Nothing got done this week. Well, not much. I was sick, the playoffs are on, and my garden needed some serious attention. Plus, I picked up and re-read Veronica Roth's Divergent, since the sequel comes out this week.

Hopefully this week will be more productive. I'm feeling better, the playoffs are in round two (meaning less games...) and it's supposed to rain all week, so no gardening.

Happy writing out there!

There are some things money can't buy...

Party with friends and delicious snacks Friday night: $250
Camping Saturday & Sunday, three hours northwest of Calgary, in the mountains: $125
Some baseball and ice cream with friends Sunday afternoon: $5
Drinks in the backyard gazebo afterwards: $35
Watching L.A. take round one against the Canucks Sunday night: Priceless.

Haha... it was great though. The whole weekend was excellent, actually, even if it did leave me exhausted. No time for writing, of course, but should be back at it tomorrow...

And now I'll leave you with a photo I snapped Sunday morning, from our campsite at dawn:

Today's Muse

Real life is calling, but this afternoon I'm going to fit in a few hours of writing. Maybe even a few more this evening, if the house isn't overrun with guys watching the NHL All-Star game...

The chapters I'm working on need some action, some intensity of emotion, so here's a sample of what I'm turning up on the headphones today:

And this:

I saw Into Eternity play in Edmonton last year, just before Stu joined Iced Earth. Man, I love that vocal range! It's the intensity of the music though that makes this one of my favourite bands to write to. Not every scene is right for this, of course, but for action? Awesome.

As an added bonus, I'm going to see Stu sing again in a couple of weeks when Iced Earth plays Edmonton! Any one else here headed up to that show? Or seeing them somewhere else?

Epic Fail: Vancouver

I only have two things to say about the riot in Vancouver on Wednesday. First, the simple truth that Hockey + Beer = Canadian. It got ugly and embarrassing, but the reality is that most of us are more passionate about hockey than politics, religion or the environment. Add in more than a little beer and a few bad apples...

The second thing is this:

And if you don't get it, if you missed the YouTube video this parodies... consider yourself lucky. It was like the most epic fail of all time.

Which reminds me. I forgot to post this during our near-miss rapture in May, because my birthday was the next day and I was beginning to worry I wouldn't get to see my [deleted to obscure my age]th year. Well, not really. Raptures aren't my thing. They also fall into the #epicfail category:

"And lo, it came to pass that Macho Man Randy Savage did prevent the impending rapture. Amen."

On that note... I'm out. I hope your weekend, wherever you are, is epic!

Winnipeg Jets?!?!

Ha, bloody brilliant! It's official - Winnipeg has an NHL hockey team once again! Not that I live close enough to go see any games there anymore... but exciting nonetheless. I was devastated when the Jets left. Especially since I was too young to have really appreciated them like I should have... I think I was ten or something. Heh.

Also very excited to find out that Rammstein is planning another North American tour for next year, after their success with the last tour. I'm totally going to go see them again. The concert in Edmonton a couple weeks ago was probably the best stage show I've ever seen, and definitely one of my top five concerts of all time. Ticket prices weren't even that bad.

You may also notice that I've added a countdown widget for Lisa Desrochers' ORIGINAL SIN, the next book in her Personal Demons series. It's there partly for a contest on her blog to win an ARC copy. I would pretty much kill a man for that (maybe...) so adding a countdown was no problem. Also, I keep a nice little file on my MacBook dedicated to counting down for book releases, and this kinda just falls in line with that. Maybe I should go check and see if the Canadian release date is earlier. Sometimes it is. Love that.

Other than that... I didn't get much re-writing done last night, but I made up for it tonight. Resolved a few minor problems and fixed up a few bigger issues, and I feel good about all of them. Good way to end the night.