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December 9, 2012:

BASKING IN THE GLOW

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Well, dear readers, the birthday day could not have been better or nicer. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, the birthday day could not have been better or nicer. I got up at nine-thirty, read all my birthday wishes here and then at Facebook (overwhelming there – by the end of the evening, over six hundred of ’em and I did read every single one), then I did some errands and whatnot, after which I picked up no packages but did get a very nice royalty check for sales of Album Produced By. I did some banking, played on the computer and refused to do one iota of work. I did a three-mile jog and whilst doing it I got a really funny idea for a season three Outside the Box, and as soon as I got back home, I wrote it down along with a couple of song ideas. Waiting for me when I got home was a Fed Ex envelope with a screener of Skyfall, so I’ll be watching that today.

Then the helper arrived and we moseyed on over to a holiday partay at Mr. Doug Haverty’s home in the Bank of Bur. It was, as always, a warm and festive little do with some very nice folks, including his darling daughter Hartley and his lovely wife Dorothy. Also around, director Susan Morgenstern and director Jules Aaron, Brad Ellis and his ever-lovin’ Eydie, and other nice types. We were there for about two hours, then we moseyed on over to Genghis Cohen for the birthday dinner. There were seven of us – the helper, me, Jenna Rosen and mom Heather, and Sami, Sarah and mom Staitman. I love being with kids and it was a wonderful fun way to spend my birthday evening. Lots o’ laughs. Put me next to kids twelve to fourteen and I simply become their age, so it was wild and wooly and also wooly and wild. The food was, as always, splendidly splendid and we had all the usual things. Jenna hadn’t been there before, nor had the helper, and they went crazy for the food and now want to eat there all the time.

After we ordered, the hostess, who really adores me, came over with presents and a card, telling me a pretty blonde lady had dropped them off for me. That was Jane Noseworthy, who wrote me the sweetest card and got me two cute gifts. And the helper got me a great shirt and a sweater vest, both really sporty. Mom Staitman brought the cake – a red velvet bundt cake that was amazing. Of course, we all smeared frosting on our faces just because we could and there are photographs to prove it.
After that, the helper and I made a brief stop at the Oyster House, a dive bar a few blocks from my house. My former assistant, Mauri Bernstein, was in town for the night and having a get-together with her LA friends (she lives in Vancouver now). So, I said hi, we chatted for a few minutes, and then I came home. I caught up with all the Facebook wishes and just played on the Internet and then it was time to write these here notes, which, in case you haven’t noticed, is what I’ve been doing.

Other than that, I am now waffling about the plot of the new novel – I had a very specific setting in mind, but as I’ve been thinking about it, I began to wonder if I hadn’t been down a similar road already and I also had thought of something interesting that might be a better way to go. I’m still thinking about it, but I’m pretty sure I will, at least for now, abandon my first idea and work on the second. It doesn’t really change much of anything other than the direction of the story and so I’ll now begin making copious notes with this new idea in mind.

So, all in all a wonderful start to my sixty-fifth year. Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I must get a good night’s beauty sleep.

Today, I shall be entering fixes into two sets of liner notes, and I will also be making book notes. I’ll try to do a jog, but other than that, I’m relaxing and enjoying myself. I’ll finish watching Amour, then watch Skyfall. And don’t forget – the new episode of Outside the Box premieres at seven o’clock EST, so please check it out, share it, tell your friends and enemies, and spread the word.

Tomorrow I’ll be in the editing room at eleven and we’ll probably work until two, then our very own Mr. Nick Redman is coming for a visit, and then it’s the LACC alumni Christmas party. I’m sure that will be fun. Three packages will be turned in for approvals, which we’re praying will come in the next week or so – that would give me three releases for December and our first release of the New Year. The rest of the week should just be finalizing song choices for the Kritzerland show, getting everyone their sheet music, and a few meetings and meals and a haircut with Teddy.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, enter fixes, maybe jog, do book notes, eat, watch motion pictures, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers get to make with the topics and we all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland where I shall bask in the glow of my wonderful birthday day.

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