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Anyone who’s known me for 5 seconds can guess that I’m not a sports fan.  Seriously? I could give a rat’s…. tail.

But my husband asked if I wanted to go to the Hershey Bears VS Wilkesbarre-Scranton Penguins game, and thinking of research for my novel, I agreed. And to be honest, I really didn’t get into it, but mostly because my brain kept wandering off into what my MC would be thinking as she watched the game.

But there were some amusing moments during the game.

I’m not sure what it is with sports having stupid things during the intermissions, but they had some people come out wearing sumo wrestler outfits to hit some pucks into the net. I don’t know what they won, but the other sumo ended up flat on his back on the ice and couldn’t get up without help. Which I thought was funny.

The cool thing is, there was a fist fight in the first 2 minutes of the game. I thought that was awesome, but I was so busy taking pix of the fight, that I forgot to pull out my Flip and video it. I spent the rest of the game clutching my digital camera in one hand, and my Flip in the other waiting for another fight. It never came. This made me sad. Which annoyed my companions because I spent the rest of the game and the 45 minute ride home complaining about the lack of fights.

And for you sports nuts- that’s Cocoa posing with the Stanley Cup. I’m assuming that’s something important or special? My husband made me take the picture.

The Hershey Bears seem to be a pretty decent team, and won 3-2. On the other hand, they managed to not only miss a penalty shot, but took two shots at an unguarded net- and missed both.

The Penguins, however, seem to prefer slamming people into walls and sliding across the ice on their stomachs instead of their skates to actually making shots. Does this make them a bad team? Not necessarily. They may just have different goals than every other hockey team in the known world. I’m just sayin’.

My lovely husband bought me collections 2 and 4 of the James Bond collections. You see, A- the MC in the novel I’m writing, is a James Bond fan. And I’ve never seen any James Bond movies- until I eventually caught From Russia With Love on On Demand.

Surprisingly- I liked it! Cheesy, yes, but fun and funny.

So, Hubs bought the last two collections left at Barnes and Noble’s for me. And we were all excited because several of the movies that he liked were listed on the back.

Well, guess what? I decided to watch GoldFinger tonight. Ripped off the plastic, and pulled out the DVDs.

And it was a totally different set.

Here I found that the correct DVDs are listed on the bottom of the box, but what was listed on the back is stuck on with that tacky gluey stuff. Either an advertisement, or someone accidentally pasted on the wrong listing.

On the upside, the collection actually has Thunderball, and someone on Twitter told me that’s one of the best ones.

I’m about 20 minutes into Dr. No right now. And I so want to get my hands on the books…