Well, dear readers, for the sixth time today I am cooling down the house. Here’s the routine: I get it nice and cool – when the air conditioning is working as it should, it gets very chilly in her while it’s cooling down. I get the temperature down to 72 and then turn it off. That usually takes about ninety minutes. Thirty minutes after I turn it off, the temperature has gone right back to where it was. Go know. I’m not sure what’s blowing now is optimal, but we’ll see how it is in ten minutes. Meanwhile, I am listening to Mantovani do motion picture themes, which is always enjoyable. Earlier, I did watch a motion picture I’d never heard of entitled The Company You Keep, un film de Robert Redford, starring Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Richard Jenkins, Brendan Gleeson, and Julie Christie, with several other recognizable actors. It begins as a kind of thriller, then settles down into a slowly paced movie with a lot of plot strands. The actors are all well cast save for the film’s biggest problem, which, for me, is Mr. LaBeouf, who I think is not interesting as well as an unappealing screen presence. The other major off-putting major thing is a really terrible score, which does absolutely nothing to help the film. Too many characters are left hanging and in the end it just doesn’t quite know what it wants to be. Redford’s direction is okay. The “reported” budget was two million dollars, but I’m pretty sure it had to be more than that. The movie was a bomb in the US but purportedly did a bit better overseas. It was fun to see Ms. Christie on the screen. It came out in 2013. Prior to that, I was up at eight and out the door at eight-fifty. I met Robert Yacko for a nice breakfast, and I hadn’t seen him since the Kritzerland show, so it was fun to catch up. After that, I stopped at the Von’s in the same strip mall and got English muffins and cherry jam. Then I went to the antique mall and killed forty minutes there, just looking at things. Nothing of interest for me personally, but I do enjoy seeing what people charge for oddities. I think if I had a little booth there, my stuff would sell instantly. I have no idea what space costs there or if they even have any available. After that, I came home, answered e-mails, did some work on the computer, did more organizing, had some telephonic conversations, cooled down the home environment repeatedly, and watched a few irritating YouTube videos, and then ordered some chicken tenders from My Fish Stop. What arrived twenty minutes later were not chicken tenders but fried mozzarella sticks, which is not really my cuppa. That kind of auto-substitution is not acceptable under any circumstances. They should have either cancelled the order or called DoorDash so they could call me. I ate a couple but mostly everything went directly into the trash. I got a partial refund. Instead, I made myself an English muffin with cherry jam and that was excellent. Then I watched the movie, and here we are.
Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, I’ll do whatever needs doing, I’ll see if anything’s at the mail place, I’ll eat something light but fun, I’ll hope for some modern major miracles, we have to figure out our rehearsal schedule for the Kritzerland show, which with this many people will be VERY tricky, I’ll have some telephonic conversations, and then at some point I’ll watch, listen, and relax.
The rest of the week is more of the same and I’m not sure what’s happening on the weekend.
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, do whatever needs doing, check with the mail place, eat, hope for modern major miracles, begin figuring out the rehearsal schedule, have some telephonic conversations, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Ask BK Day, the day in which you get to ask me or any dear reader any old question you like and we get to give any old answer we like. So, let’s have loads of lovely questions and loads of lovely answers and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, hoping our heat wave abates soon so I don’t have to run hot and cold.