that was the sunday that was (the superbowl)

So, a very good actual game yesterday, enhanced by my not giving an emotional damn about either team, so I could just sit back and enjoy it. Seeing Roethlisberge get hit did wonders for everyones' mood, no matter who you were rooting for. (it's wrong, it's bad karma, but still... so satisfying) The half-time show... well, there was lots to mock, let's say that.

Commercials: VW wins teh Internets for both mini-Darth and the racing beetle, which was just Damned Brilliant. The Kia commercial was cute, the Audi "prison break" ad deserves its own spin-off show ("Soap" meets "Fawlty Towers" meets Martha Stewart), and Go Daddy was actually clever and self-mocking for half a second before reverting to type. The Doritos commercials were Just Wrong, and really, let's not talk about Groupon, or HomeAway.

Oh: Dear Sealy - that would have been a great-for-the-ages commercial if you'd had a single gay/lesbian couple in your "everyperson" roundup. Seriously.

Movie trailers: "Cowboys and Aliens" once again looks to be the most fun you can have with buttered popcorn, "Captain America" may be fun, and "Thor" didn't do anything for me but some other folk had geekgasms so to each their own...

Food: We had a lot of it, all yummy. Most of it was devoured. I managed to save some of my chili (nom) for later this week, mainly I suspect because Bill & Beth were home sick. :-(

And now it is Monday. Work to do. Renovations to liveblog....

Renovations, Day 4 (resumption)

And the buzzer rang at 9:14, and the cats departed for Places Other, not even waiting to see who was coming up the stairs....

(actually, that's not entirely true: I can hear them fizzing about under the coffee table, even if I don't expect to see them again until 4pm)


Once more, dear friends...
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11:00: and lo, the plastering has begun!

11:14 between trolls, good arguments, and other distractions, I have not yet actually gotten to the revisions scheduled for the day. Dear Internets, I am shutting you down for a while.