This Nerd's Life: Babysitting

There will be no new Nerdy Top Ten today.  I had a long day babysitting my niece and am just too warn out to come up with anything interesting/witty/wise/funny/entertaining.  How is this different than every other week you ask?  I don't know, but I will contemplate that in the meanwhile.

I will be back Wednesday with an all new New Comic Day.  

Until then, stay nerdy my friends...

Nerd Is The New Cool, signing off.

Sick Day

There is no new New Comic Day today.  We will be back again next week.  In the meantime, be sure to come back Friday the Reader Copies and follow us on twitter @nerdisnewcool for quickies, links, and This Nerd's Life Dailies.  

This Nerd's Life vs. Nerdy Top Tens

So, I have three Nerdy Top Tens at various stages of completeness setting on my flashdrive all refusing to right themselves.  The more completed one - entries 1-8 completed but no 9 and 10 - I decided against doing at this time as I've spend far to much time on board games (and card games and dice games) on the blog already.  The second - which suffers the same board game stigma of the first - is comprised of a list of 10 but has no fluff text yet.  The third and final Top Ten, which focuses on comics - which I haven't abused anywhere near as much as that other subject above - is little more than a concept and some likely entries at this point.

And as much as I would rather do a Top Ten today - especially in the wake of not doing one last week - I feel today is going to be another This Nerd's Life.  Unfortunately, I had a pretty run of the mill boring week. I went by the comic shop on Wednesday and bought the first issue of the new Astro City series (see my review below).  I worked on a short story I hope to get published soon.  It's called "The Flush" and concerns a fellow with a unique view of his own story, an unimportant field of daisies, and a toilet with an extra handle.  I'll keep y'all informed about any developments concerning that or any other story I get published.

That's about all the excitement for the week, the rest was the usual daily grind.  This weekend, I did get the chance to pull some boxes out of my parents storage shed and find some of my old junk - including my action figures (Star Wars, TMNT, Dick Tracy, Star Trek, Aliens vs. Predator, etc.), as well as some other cool stuff.  But that is a large part of what put me behind on getting a Top Ten ready for today - true I write them on Sunday, but I usually have at least something ready before hand (I'm trying to get a stockpile ready for weeks I'm under the weather or busy but haven't yet).

But what do you, dear reader, prefer?  How do you like my various blog titles?  Do you prefer Nerdy Top Tens or would you rather I do more This Nerd's Life entries?  How about my other newer series: New Comic Day, The Five Dollar Bin, and the upcoming Reader Copies?

Reply in the comments below or hit me up on twitter @nerdisnewcool.

Until next time, Nerd is the New Cool signing off

This Nerd's Life: Independence Day Weekend

Nerd Is New Cool here,

Those of you who regularly follow my blog will already have seen that we didn't have our premiere of the new Reader Copies this last Friday, nor our we going to be posting an installment of Nerdy Top Ten today, both are due to the busy schedule my wife and I had over the long holiday weekend.

We were babysitting my sister-in-law's Aussie Shepard mix, which we hauled along with our 2 lb. Chihuahua to my parent's house Wednesday.

I spent most of Thursday morning slaving over a hot grill to produce some awesome fall of the bone ribs, which got finished about 3 hours early so they were nice and cold and no longer fall of the bone by the time we ate - nor were they very popular and we still had a ton left over after dinner - I have now eaten them for at least four meals.

Thursday evening we had games with my parents and cousin Lizard: Mexican Train Dominoes, Smart Ass, Dixit, Buzz Word, and Pandemic: On The Brink (Bio-Terrorist Challenge).

We were going to come back Thursday night with plenty of time for me to do my back issue review for Friday, but one of my mom's cousins was in town and the extended family was doing a dinner Friday, so we ended up staying an extra night.

We ended up not getting in until late on Friday and I said forget it.   I figured Reader Copies could wait until next time rather than having a rushed first issue.

So yesterday we spend all day at my sister-in-law's running a yard sale which totally bombed.

On the bright side, after the yard sale was over, we hit up another yard sale and I picked up a couple of books including a Signet Classics edition of The Jungle Books from the sixties and a 1966 edition of Snoopy and the Red Baron.

Today involved a couple hours of housework, some time in the pool, and my wife and I lounging around watching the 2010 British Sci-Fi/Horror film Monsters (expect an appearance in an upcoming issue of The Five Dollar Bin) and the first two episodes of the 1943 serial Batman.

Anyway, back to the regular schedule next week.  In the meantime, stay nerdy my friends.

My American fans can let me know what they did for the Fourth in the comments below or on twitter @nerdisnewcool.  My non-US fan are as always welcome to join the conversation as well.

Nerd Is the New Cool signing off.

Also, congrats to Chad and Angie on the hundredth episode of Screen Team Sunday.  Love your work guys.  Watch the vid below, and get them a like and subscribe on their YouTube channel.

Nerd Is The New Cool Is Currently On Hiatus, We Will Return In Late December

Hiatus Til After Thanksgiving

Due to the Holidays, Nerd Is The New Cool, will not be posting only sporadically for the rest of 2012.  Our next post will be our Countdown to Christmas Special, sometime between Black Friday and Sunday the 25. See you then and have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

This Nerd's Life

So, since last time I've done a few things...

Firstly, I bought an Xbox 360 and am on Xbox Live, both for the first time.  As I've said before, see our award winning blog entry Summer of the Nerd, I'm not a big (video) gamer.  So this is kinda a deal...something of a Real World Quest to add on some XP to up my Nerd Level.  

Secondly, I'm almost finished reading The Cases That Haunt Us by former FBI profiler John Douglas.  It's an interesting read, I especially enjoyed the sections on Jack the Ripper and the Zodiac.  If I don't get to lazy, I'll post a review on Good Reads and post a link in an upcoming blog.  But I'll probably get to lazy.  

Nextly, I started reading Game of Thrones.  Hopefully, this will get Katie Wilson to stop telling me over and over and over how great it is...hold on my wife is saying something...what?  No way... I am not an idiot...sorry for the interruption, my wife was trying to tell me Katie isn't talking to me directly in her blog, but it's prerecorded and everyone can see it...silly wife.  You know what I'm talking about don't you, person I'm writing this directly to... Anyway, Game of Thrones, I'm 225 pages in and it's pretty good so far.  Still haven't got to episode 3 of the HBO show yet, but, you know, eventually.  It's awesome and all, so...I'm just really worried about how my wife will react when...NO SPOILERS!...'cause she's crazy in the head...

Thenly (WTF's with all the "-ly" endings, Nerd?  You were an English major for crying out loud.  Knock it off...), my dad bought Last Night on Earth the Zombie board game...he took it home with him though...butt-head. 

Alsoly, Shadowman 1 came out it's awesome...go check it out...

Finally (I said knock off the "-ly" bullstuff...oh wait, that one's right, never mind ..), I went to Diwali Night: great show (singing, dancing, comedy), great food, and a great job by everyone involved.  Congrats to the Oklahoma State University Indian Student Association for putting together a great program.  Especially, to my kids - past and present who participated - who were part of this event.  You know who you are and I am very proud of all of you.   

And now back to our regularly scheduled Top Ten, already not in progress...

I was going to do a Top Ten Characters I want to see in the Justice League Movie, but that is a little more in-depth than I want to go tonight so will added to the "but that's another" blog list.  So this week, we're doing the whole no top ten thing this week.  

And I wanna hear from you...what have you been up to this last week?  Why didn't you write my blog?  Who do you think Jack the Ripper really was?  Why is a raven like a writing desk?  Should more words end in "-ly?"  Leave a comment below or hit up my twitter page @nerdisnewcool.

Nerd is the New Cool, signing off
  

P.S.ly, if Katie Wilson is reading this, you don't need a restraining order, I'm not actually crazy...but I understand if you get one.  

Under the Weather

Sorry, nerds and geekgirls, but I'm not feeling the greatest tonight - too much partying this weekend.  I have my next post "Top Ten Favorite YouTube Videos" about half written and I expect to post it tomorrow.  See you then.

Nerd is the New Cool, signing off.

Next Post on Wednesday

With just three days left in our Countdown to Halloween, I am postponing this weeks blog entry until Wednesday, October 31.

No Blog This Week Due to Inclement Life