Well, dear readers, I am sitting here like so much tired fish, listening to the penultimate album in the Ormandy in Minneapolis little box – a Mozart program. The final disc is the Bruckner seventh symphony – I think that will be fascinating. I don’t know why I think it will be fascinating but there you are. The glasses adventure continues, which I find fascinating. I don’t know why I find it fascinating but there you are. And why are you always THERE. Why aren’t you sometimes HERE. I find THAT fascinating. Perhaps I should start singing the song Fascination, made popular with the populace by Jane Morgan. We had the record in our very own house when it came out in 1957, competing with a Dinah Shore version. I was fascinated by Fascination which is fascinating as I don’t even like the song all that much. It’s an old song – I mean OLD, as in 1905 but it didn’t get its American lyrics until around 1956. Why the HELL am I talking about Fascination when I don’t even like it all that much? Fascinating. Brucker’s on in surprisingly crisp monophonic sound. I did try to watch a motion picture last night, The Zone of Interest, but I dozed off one minute into the film and so I shut it off and will save it for a rainy day. Wait a minute. Wait a damn minute. Wasn’t I talking about the glasses adventure? Then I got sidetracked and waylaid talking about fascinating things. I finally got a call and was told the earlies I’ll have them is on Monday, but it could be Tuesday. Because of redoing the prism lens, I’m told they’re having trouble getting it to fit in the frames. I don’t know what any of that means, but they’re trying to solve the problem and hopefully they will. She was very apologetic about it. Earlier, I’d only gotten about five hours of sleep, due to a rough night in Jericho. Once up, I answered e-mails, had a couple of telephonic conversations and ordered the Eyetalian chopped salad I like from CPK. That was excellent. I had a pudding cup afterwards. Then I watched some Tube of You videos, a few scammer things like sim card swaps, a very scary thing that will hopefully never happen to any of us. Then I had another telephonic conversation and another after that. That was pretty much the day and evening in a nutshell. What the day and evening was doing in a nutshell I have no idea. Once upon a time, nuts were in nutshells, myself included.
Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, I’m praying really hard for a modern major miracle, at one-thirty I’ll mosey on over to Catalina Bar and Grill to finalize our details and I’ll try to get out of there by two-thirty and back on the freeway before the traffic. The other alternative is to take Nichols Canyon but it’s a little twisty for my taste. I may stop at Subway and get a sandwich of some sort and whilst there I’ll check and see what’s what at the mail place, then I’ll come right home. I’m going to need gas in the motor car sometime next week – it’s been over a month since I filled it up, so that’s pretty good. Once home, I’ll do whatever needs doing, then I can watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow, I may try to see a matinee at four – that way I wouldn’t be driving at night, which I just don’t want to do. Sunday, I was supposed to see a show but it’s at night and in Santa Monica, so no way that’s happening. Then next week I’ll hopefully get my glasses and that will be helpful and I’m hoping they fixed the problem. I have some meetings and meals, too.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up when I’m up, pray for a modern major miracle, I’ll visit Catalina Bar and Grill, maybe get food at Subway or somewhere else on the way home (Popeye’s might be fun), check the mail place, then come home, eat, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of interest: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/Blu and Ray/streaming player? I’ll start – finishing the little Ormandy box, then I have a lot of stuff I’ve been grabbing from YouTube to listen to, including that very first recording of the Rachmaninoff second symphony. Streaming, The Zone of Interest. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, where I shall be fascinated by fascination dreams that will include the song Fascination.