March Madness Ahoy

[puppetmaker]

March is a crazy month anyway. Both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere are figuring out if it is going to get warmer or stay cold. We have fluctuating temperatures that can been spring-like one day and down right freezing the next. Yesterday it rained off and on most of the day. This morning it was much colder.

Then there is college basketball and their form of March Madness. Right now all the sports pundits are trying to figure out which college team goes in which bracket for the big dance. And, given the large number of variants, who will win the whole thing. Personally I am getting tired of “Cinderella Story” and “getting their bubble burst”. I think that the system in inherently flawed as to who is in and who is out.

Then there is Twitter, which has been official called passé by the younger generation since it was a topic in Doonesberry with Roland and it was on the Daily Show about senators and congressmen who were twittering during Obama’s joint session chat. I have been trying to explain to Peter what Twitter is and what it does and I find myself at a loss. So what is Twitter and what is the attraction and how does it work? I do want to know.

We also have St. Patrick's Day which has turned into a large bonus day for the liquor companies.

March for me is a lot of travel for me and my family. It is a crazy month of who is where when. This weekend we are going more than one direction since Ariel is meeting up with her buddies in New York City and Caroline is going to her cousin’s birthday party. Next weekend is LunaCon for which I have a few things I need to do. And we have something the weekend after that as well. Then we have I-Con in its new location (well that is really April).

So I am taking a moment today to breath and get my mind back into the game. I am also finishing up a coat for one of Caroline’s stuffed Chihuahuas.

I am grateful for time to take a short break.

Comments

[norda.livejournal.com]

I had lost interest in college basketball a few years ago when I no longer had siblings or friends' kids attending college.

The wheel of time has turned again, however, and now my nephew and nieces are entering college, so I'm interested again.

As for Twitter... this is an explanation I gave to my friend Robert Weaver, who writes lovely long essays...

I *do* Twitter, but I dump the tweets into a different LiveJournal than this one, so that I have them for my own past reference and don't drive other people crazy with them.

I *read* other people's Twitters for networking purposes... many of the folks I have on my feed are comics pros, authors and other creative types. I've heard news on Twitter that broke before the Associated Press had it.

The Twitters I *write* are small random thoughts that don't quite make up a complete LiveJournal entry. These days, I seldom Twitter unless I'm doing a lengthy data entry project, yet I'm still getting Mike's Comics customers and freelance editing assignments because I am on Twitter.

I have Twitter accounts for me, for Mike's Comics, and for the Blake's 7 Audio Adventures.

[readinggeek451]

Are you in the Lunacon art show this year?

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

Then there is college basketball and their form of March Madness. Right now all the sports pundits are trying to figure out which college team goes in which bracket for the big dance. And, given the large number of variants, who will win the whole thing. Personally I am getting tired of “Cinderella Story” and “getting their bubble burst”. I think that the system in inherently flawed as to who is in and who is out.

I know, but I love the story of this time in sports. I'm probably going to put up a bracket online for fun that everyone can participate in for bragging rights.

Should be fun.