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I've added a new entry to my blog, "Toe in the Water"  : "A Cheerful Thought" It's the second of May. This is a placeholder in case I don't think of anything else to say. |
| I've added a new entry to my blog, "Toe in the Water" : "Andrea Again!" One more from the fount of all wisdom. |
| I've added a new entry to my blog, "Toe in the Water" : "Cheese" Well, it's a thought, isn't it? |
| You know even if I leave a cheesy comment, it counts. But I would never be that kind of Meunster. I'll be Gouda. |
Reply| I've added a new entry to my blog, "Toe in the Water" : "After the Game is Over" Ooh, it's two-for-the-price-of-one day! |
| I've added a new entry to my blog, "Toe in the Water" : "Santa and All That" File under non-seasonal thoughts. |
| I've added a new entry to my blog, "Toe in the Water" : "An Andrea-ism" When in doubt, find an Andrea-ism. |
We're almost done! I believe in you!  You can do this! Yes, I'm getting points for encouraging "the enemy"?    |
| Unimportant Announcement I've just completed part of a task that I bumped into during my trudge through Game of Thrones. This was to review five items set as the Mystery genre. Not too difficult and I've been meaning to have a look at what people produce for it because I'd like to have a go myself. And it's quite possible that I learned a lot. Now we come to the second part of the task. I'm supposed to "share my enjoyment" by posting on the Newsfeed. And my first question is, "Share what?" The obvious answer is my enjoyment of the Mystery reviews. Well, I've already done that in the first paragraph. But then it says, "Let WDC know how you feel about the game." Did they mean that that's what I'm supposed to be enjoying and so sharing? Or is the first bit totally separate and I can choose how I inform the membership of my feelings regarding GoT? Natural inclination would be to write my feelings on that score in a blog post and so not annoy everyone in sight. But the two questions seem so entwined that I might as well continue, now that I've started here anyway. The whole incident is demonstrative of my feelings regarding GoT. It's too complicated and insufficiently explained in design and questions. Very pretty, I grant you, but sparse in accurate and definite instructions. Having said which, it is very flexible in that much depends on what you make of it. There is a lot of choice (I didn't have to do the task in point after all - but it's good for the team). I started out determined to use the thing to increase my short story production. And, for a while, I did. But there are other things that earn the team more and I realised that I should be doing more in that line. And that's why I'm doing these reviews till they come out of my ears, annoy you with Newsfeed posts, and generally make a nuisance of myself. So, in summary, GoT is a curate's egg. Meaning it's a mixture. And that's all I'm saying. |
| Beholden  - Actually, I did take the time to google the expression and its origins and found this: The phrase comes from a cartoon in the British magazine Punch in 1895, in which a nervous young curate (= priest) is having breakfast with a bishop. The bishop says 'I'm afraid you've got a bad egg there' and the curate, not wanting to upset the bishop, replies, 'Oh no, my Lord! … Parts of it are excellent! It made me laugh... |
| I've added a new entry to my blog, "Toe in the Water" : "Tomorrow Today" I've been thinking again. Sorry. |
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