Random niceties, like video-workout and watching TV
Nia-TV
Yep. My favourite dance-workout has launched website, where you can among other things view instructed workout routines. (To be honest I haven't really checked out the "other things" yet.) It has a cost, but has two weeks free trial period. I've been meaning to test it all autumn long, but didn't really get round to it until now that my regular classes are on christmas break and my back is jamming from the lack of exercise. So, yesterday I finally decided to give it a try. My first test routine was called "Life", because it sounded vaguely familiar and I thought maybe someone whose classes I go to has had that routine recently. Actually no, but there was one familiar song on the playlist - by one of my fave instructors, who is also a singer-songwriter and I bought her album last year :D To be honest, even though I have rather long nia-history (12 years I think), my first thoughts with the chosen routine were "what kind of holy smoke hippie thing this is?" and I had trouble following some instructions - partly because I couldn't get the video to full screen mode so lower part of it seemed to be cut out (and that might have been my own problem. Unless the video really was shot weird). It wasn't so bad after all, and I think I will have to return to it some day (especially if I want to workout but easy and light - or see if I get something else out of it once the movements get more familiar), but thought I'd test some other routines first. So, today I picked "Wild" that had promising name - and it turned out to be faster, easier to follow and some of the songs (and moves) were familiar from those classes I regularly go to. That was fun and sweaty - I definitely will return to that one, especially if I want enhance blood circulation in my back!
Watching (ordinary) TV
Slowly getting through last season of Bones that I saved already on spring/early summer but haven't really gotten round watching until I had finished second-last season of Pretty Little Liars. I don't think the later seasons of Bones are as amusing as the old ones, but doesn't it feel like being around old friends watching the familiar characters...
Some new thing found was Jack Taylor, shown on the regular British crime show-slot, though this time it's Irish. First episodes seemed to be ridiculously tough Hard-Boiled Detective -genre (that reminded me of Dresden Files, that turkey), though third one dealing with irish sore spots like Magdalene Sisters took several steps towards noir of Hinterland, and was actually interesting. I wouldn't mind it staying more in that direction, though let's see what the other episodes turn out to be.
Gig-blog
Sent Kimi link to my review of the Lord Vicar gig and pics, he thanked and had shared the link on on Lord Vicar's official page almost immediately. Before I left for work in the evening, the visitor-count showed that the page had gotten about 40 hits within just matter of minutes, and today the visitor count is well over 200 O_O
It's moments like this I wonder if I should activate AdSense in my gig blog and start sharing the link every time I post. Then I remember my tendency to writer's block, that I wanted to keep the posting barrier in the blog low and post what I wanted. And the annoying social media drama last year when one gig organiser got annoyed for not only that I had dared to share the link on the event's page but that I had dared to write at all and one drummer got upset for that I had actually liked his playing and said it but not praised it in such way that would have pleased him (or whatever the fuck was the reason - he kept giving me stink-eye every time he saw me for months after that review, and at first thanks to face-blindness I didn't even know who he was, except that he had something against me). Of course it seems funny now, but it really wasn't then, and I don't think I would be able to handle social media drama more often. (Especially if some gig organisers get upset and decide I'm not welcome to their shows anymore, though to be honest more organisers have been just pleased of someone going to their events, taking and sharing pics.)
Yep. My favourite dance-workout has launched website, where you can among other things view instructed workout routines. (To be honest I haven't really checked out the "other things" yet.) It has a cost, but has two weeks free trial period. I've been meaning to test it all autumn long, but didn't really get round to it until now that my regular classes are on christmas break and my back is jamming from the lack of exercise. So, yesterday I finally decided to give it a try. My first test routine was called "Life", because it sounded vaguely familiar and I thought maybe someone whose classes I go to has had that routine recently. Actually no, but there was one familiar song on the playlist - by one of my fave instructors, who is also a singer-songwriter and I bought her album last year :D To be honest, even though I have rather long nia-history (12 years I think), my first thoughts with the chosen routine were "what kind of holy smoke hippie thing this is?" and I had trouble following some instructions - partly because I couldn't get the video to full screen mode so lower part of it seemed to be cut out (and that might have been my own problem. Unless the video really was shot weird). It wasn't so bad after all, and I think I will have to return to it some day (especially if I want to workout but easy and light - or see if I get something else out of it once the movements get more familiar), but thought I'd test some other routines first. So, today I picked "Wild" that had promising name - and it turned out to be faster, easier to follow and some of the songs (and moves) were familiar from those classes I regularly go to. That was fun and sweaty - I definitely will return to that one, especially if I want enhance blood circulation in my back!
Watching (ordinary) TV
Slowly getting through last season of Bones that I saved already on spring/early summer but haven't really gotten round watching until I had finished second-last season of Pretty Little Liars. I don't think the later seasons of Bones are as amusing as the old ones, but doesn't it feel like being around old friends watching the familiar characters...
Some new thing found was Jack Taylor, shown on the regular British crime show-slot, though this time it's Irish. First episodes seemed to be ridiculously tough Hard-Boiled Detective -genre (that reminded me of Dresden Files, that turkey), though third one dealing with irish sore spots like Magdalene Sisters took several steps towards noir of Hinterland, and was actually interesting. I wouldn't mind it staying more in that direction, though let's see what the other episodes turn out to be.
Gig-blog
Sent Kimi link to my review of the Lord Vicar gig and pics, he thanked and had shared the link on on Lord Vicar's official page almost immediately. Before I left for work in the evening, the visitor-count showed that the page had gotten about 40 hits within just matter of minutes, and today the visitor count is well over 200 O_O
It's moments like this I wonder if I should activate AdSense in my gig blog and start sharing the link every time I post. Then I remember my tendency to writer's block, that I wanted to keep the posting barrier in the blog low and post what I wanted. And the annoying social media drama last year when one gig organiser got annoyed for not only that I had dared to share the link on the event's page but that I had dared to write at all and one drummer got upset for that I had actually liked his playing and said it but not praised it in such way that would have pleased him (or whatever the fuck was the reason - he kept giving me stink-eye every time he saw me for months after that review, and at first thanks to face-blindness I didn't even know who he was, except that he had something against me). Of course it seems funny now, but it really wasn't then, and I don't think I would be able to handle social media drama more often. (Especially if some gig organisers get upset and decide I'm not welcome to their shows anymore, though to be honest more organisers have been just pleased of someone going to their events, taking and sharing pics.)