I was watching a bit of the Golden Globe Awards. Jim Carrey won best actor in a comedy or musical for Man on the Moon and he had a good speech. Then there was another award where the winner wasn't at the show. And it gets me to thinking that there are an awful lot of award shows. The Golden Globes, Academy Awards, People's Choice, MTV Awards, and lots of others. For movies, music, television, plays, specific music, fan voted awards, magazine/network hosted awards, etc. People can't show up for all those award shows. Some of them tell you that you've won an award so that you know that if you show up you'll get something, but that seems to be cheating...

I went to sleep really late, which I tend to do on the weekends, so I missed the Jacksonville-Tennesse game. Tennessee won though, which I'm happy with. Then I did see the Tamba Bay-St Louis game, which was very good. Very defensive game wherein Tampa Bay was able to control the tempo throughout the game. They did lose, but were in it all the way to the end. Opportune turnovers, playing for field position, trying not to make the big mistakes, very tense throughout. Tampa Bay had to play a perfect game, and they finally made a couple of mistakes that allowed St Louis to gain the lead and eventually win. Tennessee and St Louis in the Super Bowl should be quite interesting...

Watched the two new half-hour action shows that replaced Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. The first show is Cleopatra 2525, set 500 years in the future, when machines have taken over the surface of the planet. Humanity lives underground, fighting the machines. The show focuses on three heroines, who battle the machines. Cleopatra herself is an actress from 2001, who was cryogenically frozen after a surgical mishap. So it's probably going to be one of those 20th century culture and thinking is just what the humans need to win sort of show.

The other half of the hour is Jack of All Trades, starring Bruce Campbell as a secret agent for the US government in 1801. He's sent to a small island in the Carribean Sea to thwart the plans of the French Emperor Napolen, who controls the island. Jack decides to take on the persona of the Daring Dragoon (?), a local heroic figure. He's assisted, or actually is assigned to work under, a female British secret agent. The show has a much more comedic tone than the previous one.

Just based on watching them for one week, it looks like each show is a self- contained story, something I didn't think could be done in a half-hour format. I thought that they'd have to be serials, like the old Flash Gordon or cowboy westerns. But they work out, with the plot being rather focused. No subplots to take up screen time. They're both ok, although I think chances are that at best only one will do well enough to warrant an expansion to the full hour time-slot, if they decide to do that...

I got so much work done yesterday, and yet haven't done anything today. I even saw a movie, got my mail, went to the grocery store, and was still focused and got the things done I needed to do. Got the client-side working with sample data, naturally I couldn't test the communication with the server side. It did take me until 05:00 to finish, but I did finish. And yet today I've been caught up watching tv, catching up on my journal, relaxing a bit.

It's one thing to tell yourself that you should put in all this work to finish a project. It's another thing to actually do it. At least me, I tend to burn out. Dave did give me until the end of the month to finish, but I do need to finish everything I can do in the next day or two, since there is quite a bit more to go to actually get my stuff into the Release Process...

I'm watching Virus on cable. Another scifi horror movie with Jamie Lee Curtis and William Baldwin. William Baldwin is so much better than the other Baldwin brothers. Alec is ok, but he can be a bit wooden and too series at times. Stephen plays the rogues and humorous characters best. William is the best with normal people, more believable in those roles. Adam I don't remember much, although he's done a lot of movies. William has the fewest movie credits...