Friday, December 14, 2007
| Not too much to blog about today. Still battling with jetlag, went to bed at 1 and woke up at 6 (weird). Mom and Emily went hill climbing about 8, but I wasn't up for it, so I continued to watch cricket. Addicted and clueless. 10a.m. rolled around and I took another long nap, waking up at 4:30 to watch more tv. NHL is really big over here for some reason. We watched Are You Smarter than a 10 Year Old rather than Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader because the school system is different over here. Little differences like that tickle my fancy for some reason, maybe I should have gone into sociology, haha! They have a channel devoted to people playing games, not like G4 where they review games, but actually watching people play games. Mario Strikers was the game today, complete with real time commentary...I guess there really is a market for anything! The advertisements in Ireland are pretty risque, most of which wouldn't be seen in the states. Also, a bunch of them break the mold and don't seem to have much to do with whatever product they are selling. Case in point, this Cadbury ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnzFRV1LwIo How does that sell chocolate? I don't even know but that is why marketing is so fascinating. This ad apparently boosted Cadbury sales by 6%. Incredible. Tomorrow Gregg flies in for two weeks. We'll have the whole family for Christmas again! That hasn't happened in a few years due to Gregg being in the Navy. If he handles jetlag better than I do we will probably go into town, so that will be fun. If not we'll have another quiet day in the apartment, but Sunday we have big tour plans. Plenty to talk about then! |
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