Haines His Way

I shall now be on my way to the production meeting at LACC.  Keep the home fries burning until my returning for which I know you'll be yearning.

OH, I would have! I so loved my first taste of Matzoh Ball Soup!! Yum!

The matzoh ball was good but the brei didn’t look so hot.  If you ever come visit maybe we can persuade Keith to make you some.  I can make it, just his is better.

Hi all, I, too, received my book and sparkling prize today, thank you BK!  We are having our annual office outing tomorrow and it's here in Sioux City. (We have offices in 4 cities around the state and get together in one of them every fall). I got the job of making up a trivia game so we can have a competition for administrative leave.  I sent out a questionnaire and had some great answers. Most of them are too racy to use in the contest, but they made me laugh for several days.

Tonight it's "the dinner" before the outing at Botticelli's I'm looking forward to Chicken Piccata - one of my favs.

Tomorrow we have a little training, a little pizza, a little bowling (where did I put my shoes and my sparkling purple bowling ball???)  and the trivia game.  I'm really glad I don't have to travel this year.  The next closest office is 3 1/2 hours away and the farthest is about 7 hours away.

Bird flu is real and has been around for years - is it any greater threat than it has been in the past few years?Cynical perhaps, but creating any sense of fear and threat in a population is wonderful for government control. (and for shifting our focus!).
Deaths from bird flu in SE Asia over the past few years did not get the same publicity!

I don't think the government needs to do anything to heighten the fears of the medical community and the general population, at least not on the West Coast of the United States.  We are already years overdue for a world-wide pandemic.  Most of us have watched the stories out of Asia for the past few years with interest and with growing fear.  

Many west coast cities (Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco) serve as the gateway between Asia and the rest of the United States, and all of those cities have major Asian populations.  This particular strain of Avian flu (H5N1) began to affect humans in 2003.  Whether or not the pandemic will begin this year or next year is not known, but by the time it does strike, it will already be too late to stop it before millions of people are infected by the disease.

Glad SOMEONE received their book!  Let us know what you think after you've read it, Cillaliz.

Is this a slow news day here at haineshisway.com?  You'd think it was Yom Kippur and that everyone here was/is a Jew.  As a Jew, I'm happy to say I have fasted the entire day.  I'm now starving - perhaps I'll eat some pork.  Perhaps not.

Jose did you MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA or are you thinking of reading it?

Ginny how was your book discussion and do you recommend the book?

Glad SOMEONE received their book!  Let us know what you think after you've read it, Cillaliz.

I guess I'm a chopped matzoh ball.    

My copy of Rewind and my sparkling something-or-other arrived today, too.  I'm glad I have a 3-day weekend coming up to read the book.

Jane - Founding Mothers is somewhat dry reading but the stories are interesting.  I can email you the articles that I sent to our group if you're interested.

Everyone's getting REWIND today except for me!  Curse this weather, curse the mail!

What is the matter with you people?
The correct spelling is "the bird flew."

Sheesh.

DRDanise, "work" is the dirtiest 4-letter word I know!

But I think I could handle filthy "rich"!  

Now I know why I was so incredibly lucky and made it home Monday night-it was all those HHW good vibes.  Thank you.  

I really was incredibly lucky.  Somehow my timing was right and the flights that were booked opened up for me just as I reached the counter.  Spending the night in cold Denver, without my suitcase, would not have been fun.

Danise airport slush is not the snow you want to see.

I'm reallllly hungry, but I cannot eat until this gal comes by to check out my broken blinds in the dining room.  One window's blinds have broken - the threads have come undone and it won't pull up straight anymore, so she's checking to see what kind they are and the size and then she'll go find me a replacement.

Tommy Tune is going to be Dr. Dolittle. He is going to revamp the failed touring production. Directing and starring and choreographer. I am sure he will also have a hand in the rewrites as well.

If I know Tommy Tune he probably thinks it is a sequel to My Fair Lady in which we follow Eliza's father going to Oxford and get his doctorate in philosphy and at the same time learning to become a gentlemen when he joins the house of lords.