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It’s Football Season!!

Life in Motion, Play By Play Series, Writing & Publishing

It’s football season, people!

I love me some football. Here at casa Burton, we love us some college football, and we fly the flag of the Oklahoma Sooners (OU) proudly. We wear the red Sooner jerseys on Saturdays and we don’t miss a game. Just fyi, the Sooners are 3-0 so far for the season.

Since Oklahoma doesn’t have a professional football team, we tend to follow where our Sooners go. So we’ve been following running back Adrian Peterson who now plays for the Minnesota Vikings, and this year Sam Bradford, who was the #1 Draft Pick and is now the starting quarterback for the St. Louis Rams. And yes, I did buy a Bradford jersey to wear on Sundays, even though from the looks of the Rams 0 and 2 start, it’s going to be a long and painful season. (The Vikings are also 0 and 2. I think Favre should have retired).

I have always loved football. I grew up in St Louis, back when the Cardinals played there and not in Arizona like they do now. And when I got married and moved to northern California, my ex husband and I became 49er fans.

Now though, Biker Dude and I are firmly in the camp of the Sooner nation. And the Rams. And to some extent, the Vikings. Yes, my loyalties are odd that way. Bottom line is, I love the game. Which is one of the reasons I wrote this book:
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Really, I just wanted to post the cover to THE PERFECT PLAY again. I know this will make Jane happy.

No, you don’t have to thank me. :giggle:

So…are y’all football lovers? College or pro or both? Name your team if you are. Or do you just not care and prefer to be reading or shopping when the game is on?

Disturbing Behavior

Life in Motion

Biker Dude and I like to go to the casino near our house. Mainly because we’re frequent fliers at this casino, and twice a month they give us free buffet coupons. And hey, we like to eat for free. So when we’re there, we gamble.

We play the slot machines. We’re not heavy gamblers, but obviously we’ve showed up there enough over the past few years to get free buffet coupons. But we’re pretty low key. We’re not rolling in money. We bring the amount of money we’re willing to lose, and when the money’s gone we go home. We play for fun. Sometimes we win, often we don’t.

But here’s the thing. There are some odd freakin’ people who play the slot machines. They have their whole mojo thing going where they have to pet the slot machine, tap it three times, weave their magic hands over it while it’s spinning. Some of them downright beat the living crap out of the poor machine by punching the screen or tapping it so hard they think it’s going to cough up a winner. Half the time I find their antics more enjoyable than watching my own machine. We were there the other night and this older couple was working three machines. (Sometimes people will play two machines at once–greedy bastards). This old guy would punch the spin button then sweep his hand over the screen, roll his palms over the side of the machine like he was making love to the damn thing, then tap the screen again. He didn’t win any more money than I did. The woman stood in front of her machine, tappity tappity tappity-ing the buttons and rocking back and forth. And by tappity, I mean hitting those buttons hard. And then she leaned over and gave advice to her husband on how to handle his two machines. She talked, I’m not kidding, nonstop, to both her machine and her old man. I finally had to move because she drove me batshit crazy.

Here’s the way I do it: Hit the spin button. Did I win? Shit. Hit the spin button. Did I win? Shit. Hit the spin button. Did I win? Yay! Hit the spin button. Did I win? Shit. And so it goes.

Some of these people are very disturbing. What I’d really like to tell them is that all their flailing arms and abuse of the machine isn’t going to generate a winner anymore than me just hitting the spin button. It’s all random. But hey, if their mojo antics make them feel better about putting that 20 bucks into the machine, go for it. It’s part of my evening entertainment anyway :giggle:

Face Time

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I got the new iPhone4 the week it came out. And I have to say I absolutely love it. I’m not a big technology freak, and don’t really care about all the bells and whistles on the new phone. And as far as the antenna fuss that everyone is complaining about…yeah, I’m not having a problem at all.

But the feature on the iPhone 4 that’s rocking my world? Face Time . Face Time is Apple’s new video calling feature, where you can see who you’re talking to on the phone.

Both my kids now live in California, since #1 son packed his family and my granddaughters and moved them back to California last month (sob sob cry cry). And #2 son has lived out there since he graduated from college, which means I only get to see #2 son once a year when he comes out here to visit in the summer (he teaches high school so he usually visits here in the summer). But this year #2 son bought a house so he won’t be coming out here to visit. However, he did buy an iPhone4, and he and I have been playing a lot on Face Time. To be able to see him has been nothing short of majorawesome! He even took me on a tour of his new house via Face Time via the iPhone’s dual camera feature. (Note: I am not a spokeperson for Apple or AT&T. I don’t work for them nor do they give me any money or kickbacks. I just dig the new phone). We’ll talk and look at each other and laugh and it’s like he’s right in the room with me. It’s an amazing thing for a mom who misses her kid.

And my daughter in law’s parents also have the new iPhone, so whenever they’re over at her mom’s house I get to see #1 son and my daughter in law and my grandbabies!

Truly an awesome, Star Trekky kind of invention.

Thanks Apple! :glee: