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Bones – A very good episode tonight. Booth and Bones in Las Vegas. They investigated an underground fighting ring. Bones was extremely lucky in Vegas and Booth is a recovering gambler. It made for some interesting situations. Bones counting cards and not realizing that that was a bad thing. Booth ending up in the fighting ring. Seeing David Boreanaz in his Vegas high roller garb was a riot. The persona of Roxanne. The punch from Zach, priceless. Bones – Drew is right, this was a great episode. While I really hate fighting and was pretty grossed out by those scenes, it was good to see David Boreanaz in a physical role (and the undershirt!) again. I was pretty impressed with Brennan’s (Bones) acting abilities – not bad for an anthropologist! Lost – What a cliffhanger. February 7, 2007 starts the next set of episodes and there will be 16 back to back with no repeats in between. Nathan Fillion guest starring as Kate’s husband. Is it me or does he end up drugged by a beautiful woman i...

Photo-A-Day #579 11/08/06 So this is my display at the Staff Art show. It is not exactly set up the way I wanted it to be, and they stuck some photos below the pictures. So the strip below my pictures is some random shots of last year’s show. Today I was working on the Marketing Day video and I spoofed myself for an into PSA. Myself and the other director/cameraman/editor made a PSA like the ones before a movie. No smoking, no talking, no cell phones. But we start the video with me looking at the photos and then Ken comes up and says, hey what are you looking at. I say, oh just some guy who has way too much time on his hands. If you can’t laugh at yourself then who can you laugh at.

Photo-A-Day #578 11/07/06 Today is election day. Did you go and vote? The signs in the picture and thoughts expressed are those of the sign waves and not necessarily those of me. Ask anyone I don’t talk politics. I absolutely can’t stand discussing it. Busy day today. I gave a demo to a site from Spain. I was one of two non Spanish Speakers in the room. I thought that maybe I could show them some of my Spanish Vocab projects from High School but then thought better of that. Besides Rondi still has my only copy of the best Spanish Vocab video ever. I do have to say that was the best part about the Spanish classes, making up weird skits with Scott and Andy. We used fireworks, shaving cream and a tea kettle of water. We had aliens, a hotel and a shoe store. Yep, we ran the gamut.

Standoff – I like this show a lot. I like the dynamic between the two main characters and it has Gina Torres (Zoe from Firefly and Serenity) in the cast. Ron Livingston plays Matt Flannery, one of the top crisis negotiators in LA. Rosemarie DeWitt plays Emily Lehman, Livingston’s love interest as well as his partner. The two are the people who are called in when a hostage situation is happening. They are a great team. Matt really connects with the people he is negotiating with while Emily is so quick and smart and she does a lot of the behind the scenes theorizing to back Matt up. The team also includes Frank, head of a SWAT team, Lia computer expert, Duff member of the swat team and Cheryl the Supervisor Special Agent in Charge. Matt and Cheryl used to be partners, I think maybe more at one time. So in addition to negotiating with kidnappers, extremists and snipers these folks have to negotiate with their own relationships. I heard a complaint that the negotiation got wrapped up on o...

Photo-A-Day #577 11/06/06 I got asked today, “Drew do you ever run out of things to put on the blog?”. I mean I have been keeping this blog updated for almost 3 years now and have said many things. I’ve taken many pictures. Sometimes I have a hard time coming up with something to say each day but when I start typing I just let my stream of consciousness flow. That really drives Allison crazy because she goes back through and fixed the grammatical errors and spelling errors I make. I use spell check but sometimes I fat-finger a word and it gets through. My mom has been cleaning out one of the rooms in the house and she found this. This is one of my first piggy banks. Doesn’t it look like he has a Beatles haircut. He is also shiny from the flash. I love this pig, he has personality. And he probably has about 8 bucks in him at the moment. So yes sometimes I have a hard time writing about things and some days I come home to find a shiny pig full of coins.

How I Met Your Mother – Marshall and Lily back together, great stuff. I loved the Swarly joke. That was great getting the better of Barney. He got so upset, that was so funny. The flashbacks of the ‘crazy eyes’ girlfriends was great. How I Met Your Mother – I was jumping up and down in my chair over Lily and Marshall. I love them together. And Swarly was just hysterical! The Class – I like the relationship between Ethan and Kat. Richie and Lina is strange. Is Sarah Gilbert his wife, his girlfriend? Who is she? What is up with Duncan and the bar skank? Poor form, Duncan. The Class – I love Ethan & Kat’s friendship. She’s really loosening him up. I’m really sad that Richie is very obviously cheating on someone, because I love his character and his relationship with Lina. The relationship between Nicole and Duncan is great, I’m glad that she is remaining true to her marriage despite her one infidelity in the pilot. Heroes – The show is getting better and better, letting Matt hav...

Photo-A-Day #576 11/05/06 Today Allison and I went to visit Derek and Michelle and baby Nicholas. Nicholas is so cute and he is getting bigger every day. He is such a cute little baby and such a good disposition. Allison got together some shepherd’s pie and some American chop suey to bring over. The fridge and freezer are now completely full. Neil and Andrea, Mike and Anna and their son Matthew, and Matt and Beth were there too. Neil, Allison and Beth took turns holding Nicholas. I think next visit I will get my chance. Which of course is fine with me, Nicholas is too new and I wouldn’t want to be the first one to get a scratch on him. Derek and Michelle are adjusting to parenthood very well and little Coco (their dog) is also adjusting well. She is very protective of the baby too. It is very cute. It was fun to go over and visit for a little while today. Here are a few pictures from the day.   Derek displays Nicholas’ traveling clothes ‘Uncle’ Neil is great with the baby ‘Aunt’ An...