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January 20, 2022:

GREMLINS

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Well, dear readers, that was weird. Yes, you heard it here, dear readers, that was weird. I went to play some music and no sound issued forth. I looked the sound icon and it had a bar through it, which meant the sound was muted. Only I didn’t mute the sound. Gremlins? The same Gremlins that caused all the lights in the main bathroom to just suddenly turn themselves on? Weird, right? So, I put the sound where it normally is and still nothing. Then I jiggled the USB plug ant then it was fine, even though the plug was firmly in its USB port. Weird, right? Who knows why these things happen? The shadow knows. But I do not know. Oh, well. In any case, I am sitting here like so much fish listening to Andre Kostelanetz do Flower Drum Song, a cover version I really love, in stereophonic conversation. It sounds excellent now that the sound is working. It didn’t sound so good when the sound was not issuing forth from the speakers. It just didn’t. Andre is now doing You Are Beautiful, a lovely song. I love Flower Drum Song’s songs hugely. It is probably my favorite Rodgers and Hammerstein score, and I know that I am alone in that, but such are the way of things. I especially love it when I can HEAR it. If I find these gremlins, they’ll be going directly into the microwave where I shall watch them explode.

Yesterday was a short day due to getting ten hours of lovely, uninterrupted sleep. Once up, I had a lot of e-mails to answer. I was determined to have the afternoon off, but instead I finished the commentary for the Kritzerland show, so that’s done. I also got word that the show is now sold out, so that was nice.

After that, I relaxed but did not listen to music which I wouldn’t have heard anyway. I did shower and I did have a few potato chips with onion dip to tide me over until the dinner meeting at seven-thirty. I proofed two charts for two songs from Nothing in Common.

Then I moseyed on over to the Coral Café for a pre-production meeting on L.A. Now and Then with producers Doug Haverty and Kathleen Delaney. I had a little dinner salad and a BLTA, which either means bacon, lettuce, tomato, avocado or Bruce loves to argue. We talked things that are needed, who’d be doing what, when casting will occur, and budget things. It was a long meeting but a good one and I don’t care who knows it.

After the meeting, I stopped at Gelson’s and got some stuff for turkey sandwiches for today’s meal, then came home. I caught up on forwarding orders and then tried to listen to music with no sound, a lesson in futile futility. But now, glorious music is coming through loud and clear – right now, it’s the delightful Chop Suey.

Today, I’ll be up by eleven-thirty at the latest, I’ll do corrections on the two song charts from Nothing in Common, I’ll hopefully pick up some packages, then I’ll have turkey sandwiches for food, then I can relax until our rehearsal begins, which is at four o’clock. That will last until eight-thirty or thereabouts. Once that’s done, then I can watch, listen, and relax.

Tomorrow I can sleep in, they Robert Yacko and I will be going to see Cindy Williams in her one-woman show in Palm Desert. They’re making arrangements so I can see her afterwards, so that’s nice. Saturday is our stumble-through, then a meal, then I have to relax and rest my voice. Sunday is sound check and then show. Then next week will be the big push to finish writing the project with David Wechter. I also have to print out and proof the new book so I can get it to the official proofers. Here is the biggest fan of my books, re-reading Patrick Bronstein Presents, which he blurbed and loved. The other book in the photograph is Simply, another book he loves.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up by eleven-thirty, do corrections, hopefully pick up packages, eat, relax, have a long rehearsal, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: Have you had gremlins do things that are unexplainable and if so what were they? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, hoping the gremlins go find someone else to gremlin.

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