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Well, you've read the notes, the notes had a modicum of juice, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're currently out getting juiced.
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And the word of the day is: BENISON!
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Morning all.
That is all.
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Good morning all! I feel like I didn't sleep at all last night but I did. I'm so tired. Oh well.
Love the photos of baby Harry!
Not much else going on.
Vibes to all!
Have a wonder filled day!
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Good morning, all! Today, I have to clean and tide and get thie apartment ready for the air conditioning service men. They will need to take the AC from its wall seeve, and I need to insure there's plenty of room for this to be accomplished. The service men will show up between noon and five, so I've got things to do,
Last night I was on the phone for two hours with the Man From Philadelphia. Some good things were discussed, and I know what needs to be accomplished at Toyland in rhe next few months.
More coffee, and to work.
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Remember DR CHAS SMITH if you want to join the Hellcats - today you have to wear slacks to school!
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Cute baby pics! And they were all of the same baby....and they were all the same pic....
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Thanks for sharing the event pics DR GINNY.....very nice!
Today the Comcast man is coming here - hopefully he will bring me a new HD cable box. Of course mine has been working fine since I made the call yesterday.
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Good morning, all.
Slacks to school today, got it, DR JRand62. That was a fine motion picture. Some truly great cinema.
And a wonderful compilation of trailers was sent along with it, during which I finally fell asleep, woke up on the couch at 5 a.m., went to bed, and now here I am, sucking up the COFFEE and sneezing like a giraffe. Though I'm not really sure how giraffes sneeze. And they are just allergy sneezes, but there have been more than enough of them already, thank you very much.
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Cute baby pics! And they were all of the same baby....and they were all the same pic....
There can never be too much of little Harry!
So, DR JRand62, has the cast reached funny? When do you open?
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I have to drop off a package to goddaughter Charlotte and stop in a furniture shop. I'm looking for a 3-4 drawer chest, between 30-34 inches tall and about 30 inches wide.
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Good morning, all.
Vibes for all.
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What DR John G said. Ditto.
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hello, goodbye
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And the word of the day is: BENISON!
And The Song Of The Day Is: SABBATH PRAYER
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DR Jose, you recently wished me luck with "The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess." Well, I'm finally carving out a few minutes to listen to it. And the result is mixed, which is better than I can say of either "Newsies" or "End of the Rainbow." I might actually be able to finish this one.
That said, the Disney-fied white bread orchestrations are a horror. It sounds like Up with People or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir should be singing to them. And the chorus does sound a little too polished. Everything is a little too mechanical.
Norm Lewis sounds great, though. I'm not entirely sold on Audra, however. Maybe by the end of the recording.
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Wednesday indeed!
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I have ordered a table, 30 inches wide and 32 inches tall, with two shelves and I've delivered Charlotte's gift to her doorman. It's warm but the humidity is finally under control.
I have to vacuum and tidy up now.
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We open on September 13 DR ELMORE....
I actually got a compliment on a piece of business I devised last night to replace something that wasn't working.....and now and then I do hear some laughter from behind the table.
So I think Funny is at least in sight.
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"Some Laughter From Behind the Table" -- the title of your next book.
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Wednesday morning greetings! Today I'm going to Dayton to join the grantwriters for some training on using the federal census website. Once an info-geek, always an info-geek, I guess!
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Does anything think Alice Ripley should play Queen Ann Romney?
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Good Morning!
I'm up, I'm up... And I played some Ravel last night.
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Is that like checkers?
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"Some Laughter From Behind the Table" -- the title of your next book.
I like it!
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My question for ASK BK DAY...
what is the funniest British farce you have seen onstage......what is the funniest British farce you have read.....
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SEE HOW THEY RUN has many funny lines....but one of my favorites comes from the Bishop of Lax....to a man who is pretending to be married to the Bishop's niece.....
"I thought you had been called to the church - apparently you have been called to the bar!"
Later when all 4 men in the play show up wearing their jackets and collars:
Sergeant: What is this, the crow's nest?
Bishop: Sergeant....arrest.....most of these vicars!
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DR Jose, you recently wished me luck with "The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess." Well, I'm finally carving out a few minutes to listen to it. And the result is mixed, which is better than I can say of either "Newsies" or "End of the Rainbow." I might actually be able to finish this one.
That said, the Disney-fied white bread orchestrations are a horror. It sounds like Up with People or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir should be singing to them. And the chorus does sound a little too polished. Everything is a little too mechanical.
Norm Lewis sounds great, though. I'm not entirely sold on Audra, however. Maybe by the end of the recording.
DR JohnG - The recording serves the production better than the actual on-stage production. -And it's very "kind" to Norm Lewis who basically gets dwarfed in the theatre by the more operatic male voices sharing the stage with him. Audra was dealing with the beginning of her sinus infection when they were in the recording studio, so... However, it's her whole package - singing and acting - that won(?) me over in the theatre.
As I believe I expressed after I first saw the show, what really pissed me off was the fact that all of the changes and modifications that the artistic team talked about in the press did not seem fully realized, nor did they make the "opera" more "realistic". -I'm sorry, but an Overture is not "realistic".
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Is that like checkers?
Well... Considering I was basically sightreading the piece last night, I guess it could have sounded like checkers.
???
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DR Jose, you recently wished me luck with "The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess." Well, I'm finally carving out a few minutes to listen to it. And the result is mixed, which is better than I can say of either "Newsies" or "End of the Rainbow." I might actually be able to finish this one.
That said, the Disney-fied white bread orchestrations are a horror. It sounds like Up with People or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir should be singing to them. And the chorus does sound a little too polished. Everything is a little too mechanical.
Norm Lewis sounds great, though. I'm not entirely sold on Audra, however. Maybe by the end of the recording.
DR JohnG - The recording serves the production better than the actual on-stage production. -And it's very "kind" to Norm Lewis who basically gets dwarfed in the theatre by the more operatic male voices sharing the stage with him. Audra was dealing with the beginning of her sinus infection when they were in the recording studio, so... However, it's her whole package - singing and acting - that won(?) me over in the theatre.
As I believe I expressed after I first saw the show, what really pissed me off was the fact that all of the changes and modifications that the artistic team talked about in the press did not seem fully realized, nor did they make the "opera" more "realistic". -I'm sorry, but an Overture is not "realistic".
Judging solely from the recording, what they did was to make the show Broadway instead of opera. Not a bad intent to reach audiences that prefer Broadway or find it more accessible. But they also made too much of it "Broadway" with jazz hands built into the orchestrations.
But there are some good moments. I'm enjoying "Oh, Doctor Jesus" particularly, and I did like Bess' scene with Crown.
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So...
I ended up going to my friend's Art Song Jam last night, and it turned out to be quite a nice evening of music-making. Most of the singers were people she had worked with before, but there were also some friends of friends, as well as two "celebrities": Cori Ellison (the former dramaturg with City Opera and one of the early proponents of "Met Titles" at The Met), and WQXR's Naomi Lewin. There was some Brahms, some Debussy, some Ricky Ian Gordon, some Berg(!), some Duparc...
During the middle of Ravel's "Kaddish", my friend, Jennifer, stopped playing the piano, turned to look at me... "Do you know this piece? I keep missing the clef changes." -Well... It's been about 25 years since I've played it... "Why don't you finish playing it then?" ...Um... OK. So I did. Excited and scared.
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!!PAGE TWO!!
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Oh...
One of the singers last night was Risa Renae Harman (http://www.myspace.com/risarenaeharman). One of her sisters was a classmate of mine in college, and her other sister was one of my coaches/teachers. I had always heard about Resa when I was at VCU, but I also seemed to miss her when she back in town visiting her family. It was nice to finally hear her in person last night, and a true pleasure to finally meet her.
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...Afterwards, a couple of us headed back up to midtown for some food and drink at one of the various French bistro-y places around Times Square. It was a gorgeous night, so we sat outside. Of course, I left with a few mosquito bites on my arms. Ugh.
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Hmmmm, JRand62...the only one that comes to mind is BLITHE SPIRT which I have seen on stage as well as performed in (as Dr. Bradford).
I know there have been others, but nothing springs to my brain just now.
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I am so very happy the payday is Friday as I have managed to overspend this month, somehow.
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I read that character actor Steve Franken has passed away. Gosh, loved him on DOBIE GILLIS and, well, a million other shows.
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And...
Good Afternoon!
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And...
I just got invited to see the new play starring to Jake Gyllenhall this afternoon, so...
Laters...
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Congrats to DR JOSE on his surprise debut at Art Jam!
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And...
I just got invited to see the new play starring to Jake Gyllenhall this afternoon, so...
Laters...
We expect a full report and stage door photos.
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Comcast service was most unsatisfactory.....they will have to return tomorrow.
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Thanks for posting that about Steve Franken, MBarnum. I, too, enjoyed his work through the years.
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I have proofed for the second time the EILEEN booklet for the recording. All is good, the orchestra and chorus are listed, and I got to correct some misinformation.
Now I wait for the AC service men.
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I have proofed for the second time the EILEEN booklet for the recording. All is good, the orchestra and chorus are listed, and I got to correct some misinformation.
Now I wait for the AC service men.
Is that available for pre-order?
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I have proofed for the second time the EILEEN booklet for the recording. All is good, the orchestra and chorus are listed, and I got to correct some misinformation.
Now I wait for the AC service men.
Is that available for pre-order?
It is indeed. No Amazon cover photo yet, but it's due for release on Oct 1, wit Mary O'Sullivan and Eamonn Mulhall!
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Looking forward to that, as I really don't know any Victor Herbert.
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Happy to say the morning's allergy attack abated without my having to resort to the use of chemical substances.
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I missed Governor Christie's entrance to theconvention last night. The man's a total pig.
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That's pretty funny.
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Steve Franken was also very funny in THE PARTY.
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Mr. Franken was a huge inspiration to me when I was young. Of course I loved him on Dobie Gillis but right at that same time I saw him in Charley's Aunt at the Coronet Theater and he was just so wonderful and funny and I knew that's what I wanted to do - I talk about it in Kritzer Time. He was a very nice man, and last year I saw him in a play at Theatre West.
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I'm up. I cannot seem to sleep through the night, which is what I need to do. Last night between midnight (when I fell asleep) and three I must have been up five times. At three I could not fall back asleep until almost four-thirty and I'm up now - I think there was eight hours in there somewhere. Part of the problem was that it was hot in the house. Usually it's cooled down sufficiently by then - I should have used the air conditioner for a couple of hours before sleep - that I'll do tonight.
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I'm up. I cannot seem to sleep through the night, which is what I need to do. Last night between midnight (when I fell asleep) and three I must have been up five times. At three I could not fall back asleep until almost four-thirty and I'm up now ...
Welcome to my world.
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John G., I have a question for you.
On the cooking shows on hulu.com, I see them often using a grill pan on the stove top. I don't have a gas stove; I have a smooth glasstop electric stove.
Can I use one of those grill pans on that kind of stove, or should I save my money?
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Ask BK:
Do you ever find that juiceless is as juiceless does?
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Whether one should or shouldn't, I totally use my grill pan on my electric stove.
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John G., I have a question for you.
On the cooking shows on hulu.com, I see them often using a grill pan on the stove top. I don't have a gas stove; I have a smooth glasstop electric stove.
Can I use one of those grill pans on that kind of stove, or should I save my money?
I don't know first-hand, so I will defer to the following, made up of comments from people reporting from their experience. I hope this helps.
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/417089
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I have too much to do and don't feel up to doing it today.
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Thanks, John and Ron.
The very last post says something about an IKEA pan that is suitable for glass stovetops, so I will look for that the next time I go to IKEA.
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I have almost always had an electric stove, and I find when I try to cook on gas I couldn't regulate the heat. People who cook with gas say the same thing about electric.
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Perhaps I'll eat soon.
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I have almost always had an electric stove, and I find when I try to cook on gas I couldn't regulate the heat. People who cook with gas say the same thing about electric.
I agree with you on that. I have always had electric, too, except for about 1 year in an apartment. And i hated the oven part of it.
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I have some errands and whatnot to do, as well. I'm cooling down the house right now. And I'm going to try and just keep quiet for most of the day.
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DR LAURA if you buy a pan at IKEA it will come in 15 pieces.
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My exercise thus far today has consisted of digging out the wi-fi dongle so I can update the firmware in the Blu-ray player.
I really do need to do a couple of things outdoors eventually, such as mow the weeds.
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DR LAURA if you buy a pan at IKEA it will come in 15 pieces.
LOL! With little picture instructions.
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DR LAURA if you buy a pan at IKEA it will come in 15 pieces.
LOL! With little picture instructions.
And not so much as a Tack, Bra, or Puss Puss.
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DR LAURA if you buy a pan at IKEA it will come in 15 pieces.
LOL! With little picture instructions.
And lignonberry jam stains.
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Dear John G.,
Why do you refrigerate the chicken uncovered?
"For the chicken:
Mix the salt and pepper together in a small bowl; set aside.
If using chicken breasts (either boneless or bone-in), cut them in half crosswise. Pat the chicken pieces dry with paper towels and place on a baking sheet. Season all over, using all of the salt and pepper mixture. Refrigerate uncovered for at least 6 hours or preferably overnight."
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John G., I have a question for you.
On the cooking shows on hulu.com, I see them often using a grill pan on the stove top. I don't have a gas stove; I have a smooth glasstop electric stove.
Can I use one of those grill pans on that kind of stove, or should I save my money?
I don't know first-hand, so I will defer to the following, made up of comments from people reporting from their experience. I hope this helps.
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/417089
I like the quote from the guy who started his comment off with "I moved in with my wife..."
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Happy to say the morning's allergy attack abated without my having to resort to the use of chemical substances.
:)
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DR Jose, you recently wished me luck with "The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess." Well, I'm finally carving out a few minutes to listen to it. And the result is mixed, which is better than I can say of either "Newsies" or "End of the Rainbow." I might actually be able to finish this one.
That said, the Disney-fied white bread orchestrations are a horror. It sounds like Up with People or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir should be singing to them. And the chorus does sound a little too polished. Everything is a little too mechanical.
Norm Lewis sounds great, though. I'm not entirely sold on Audra, however. Maybe by the end of the recording.
DR JohnG - The recording serves the production better than the actual on-stage production. -And it's very "kind" to Norm Lewis who basically gets dwarfed in the theatre by the more operatic male voices sharing the stage with him. Audra was dealing with the beginning of her sinus infection when they were in the recording studio, so... However, it's her whole package - singing and acting - that won(?) me over in the theatre.
As I believe I expressed after I first saw the show, what really pissed me off was the fact that all of the changes and modifications that the artistic team talked about in the press did not seem fully realized, nor did they make the "opera" more "realistic". -I'm sorry, but an Overture is not "realistic".
I saw "The Gershwin's Porgy and Bess" mentioned here this morning, and I realized that I hadn't listened to it yet. So, I loaded it on my iPod and listened to it to and from work (still not done). But I can say this...
Not knowing the original well (but enough to comment), it's like I said about Les Miserables, most of the ensemble voices and especially the solo's, don't fit in the style of the piece and it's jarring to the trained ear to hear these lines sung in a "pop" style. When the ensemble sings, it's fine, but I'm not hearing the timbre of voices that I'm used to hearing on a piece such as this. (and Les Mis is my point) Not know the original orchestrations like others do, I can't comment on them as I know there is much controversy over them, but I can say they sound small and a bit to "electrified" for a such a piece as this. Audra is great, maybe the only real good sounding person on the recording that fits the piece well, and I guess Norm Lewis is, also, to an extent. But there are some that need to go back to Hairspray or Memphis or something.
That was really racist of me, and I'm sorry if I offended anyone.
Overall, I believe that a piece like this should be saved for our Opera companies for it to be performed as it was meant to be.
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Mr. Franken was a huge inspiration to me when I was young. Of course I loved him on Dobie Gillis but right at that same time I saw him in Charley's Aunt at the Coronet Theater and he was just so wonderful and funny and I knew that's what I wanted to do - I talk about it in Kritzer Time. He was a very nice man, and last year I saw him in a play at Theatre West.
This is a wonderful tribute to him.
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I'm up. I cannot seem to sleep through the night, which is what I need to do. Last night between midnight (when I fell asleep) and three I must have been up five times. At three I could not fall back asleep until almost four-thirty and I'm up now ...
Welcome to my world.
And mine. Last night I was so exhausted I slept until 6:15. I had to get up at 6:30 making it a good time to wake up. Falling asleep last night while, of course, reading my Nook fell & poked me in the eye. Usually it "only" hits my nose.
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Whether one should or shouldn't, I totally use my grill pan on my electric stove.
I had no idea it made a difference.
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DR LAURA if you buy a pan at IKEA it will come in 15 pieces.
;D
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I came home today and was pleasantly surprised to see the beginning of the wall that will line our driveway.
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I just read the following headline in my local paper:
Illness causes Diana Krall to cancel Britt concert
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And now....rehearsal.
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I am being careful not to walk out into thin air. Keith is tall enough to step down without proper steps.
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Dear John G.,
Why do you refrigerate the chicken uncovered?
"For the chicken:
Mix the salt and pepper together in a small bowl; set aside.
If using chicken breasts (either boneless or bone-in), cut them in half crosswise. Pat the chicken pieces dry with paper towels and place on a baking sheet. Season all over, using all of the salt and pepper mixture. Refrigerate uncovered for at least 6 hours or preferably overnight."
I'm guessing that they want it to dry out more, which will occur because the salt will draw out moisture without leaving the bird dry once it is cooked. Wrap it up and the moisture won't have any place to go.
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The wall along the driveway is out of the same basalt stone as this one.
We removed and trimmed tons of trees and bushes opening up the view. I'm sorry the photo is somewhat blurry.
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The wall along the driveway is out of the same basalt stone as this one.
We removed and trimmed tons of trees and bushes opening up the view. I'm sorry the photo is somewhat blurry.
(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/524546_4363129403834_322291888_n.jpg)
What is the prognosticated completion date?
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4:53pm and there's been no sign of the air conditioning guys. I am not amused,
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This is getting ridiculous; now they are coming on Friday between 11am and 4pm.
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DR Ron I'm not really sure. We have company coming to stay around Sept. 22nd and expect to be far enough along they won't be inconvenienced much.
I think the demolition crew is completely done, a fact I need to confirm with Keith. There will be more tree trimming & removal. Once the hardscape is completed we might wait until we have rain to soften the ground before we plant anything.
I'm hoping everything will be completed by the end of September.
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This is getting ridiculous; now they are coming on Friday between 11am and 4pm.
::)
VIBES THEY WILL BE THERE BY FRIDAY AND GET THE AC FIXED WITHOUT MORE DELAYS!!!!
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Laura, is that recipe for a roast chicken? They might want that to get the skin as crispy as possible. Since that is the best part, after all.
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A long afternoon.
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FOUR!
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This is getting ridiculous; now they are coming on Friday between 11am and 4pm.
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VIBES THEY WILL BE THERE BY FRIDAY AND GET THE AC FIXED WITHOUT MORE DELAYS!!!!
Thanks, Nursie! This is wearing me out.
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DR ChasSmith, thank you for your package! It arrived about an hour ago.
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That thing still working, DR Elmore? Supposed to get pretty hot again this weekend.
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DR ChasSmith, thank you for your package! It arrived about an hour ago.
Oh, good. Let me know if any problems with any of it!
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This is getting ridiculous; now they are coming on Friday between 11am and 4pm.
::)
VIBES THEY WILL BE THERE BY FRIDAY AND GET THE AC FIXED WITHOUT MORE DELAYS!!!!
Thanks, Nursie! This is wearing me out.
I'm sure. It has gone on way too long.
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DR ChasSmith, thank you for your package! It arrived about an hour ago.
Oh, good. Let me know if any problems with any of it!
I'm hoping to watch mine this weekend, too, but everything I reserved from the library has come in and I only have a week to watch those in. Even if I'd rather be hearing Magnolia strumming on the levee.
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That's so beautiful, Jane. But I'm glad sometimes I only have a couple of trees. They are expensive to have pruned!
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It is a grilled chicken, DR John.
http://www.chow.com/recipes/30453-grilled-chicken-with-nectarine-barbecue-sauce
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DR Jane, you have a pond...and it ain't a concrete one!
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Which reminds me, my little neice Taylor pleaded with me the other week to get her seasons 3 and 4 of THE BRADY BUNCH and season 3 of GILLIGAN'S ISLAND.
I am so proud!
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That's so beautiful, Jane. But I'm glad sometimes I only have a couple of trees. They are expensive to have pruned!
With luck we won't have to do this again.
I wish we had removed trees years ago.
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DR Jane, you have a pond...and it ain't a concrete one!
No concrete. We put this pond in when we moved here. There had been an ugly above ground pool there. The pond is much larger than the pool was & makes a better break for fires.
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Do you have fish?
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I found this rather amusing:
‘Missing’ woman unknowingly joins search for herself
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/missing-woman-unknowingly-joins-search-herself-165249353.html
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I have too much to do and don't feel up to doing it today.
I have that feeling most days ;D
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So much for staying off the phone and resting. I have been in computer hell all day. It started at some point before I left for an omelet at noon. I thought it was the trackpad spazzing out, because it had taken on a complete life of its own - it would open windows and sites and documents without me clicking, I'd try writing an e-mail and it would highlight and delete the text - just crazy stuff, and my dropbox folder was like in an endless loop of messaging me deleting and adding the same crap over and over again. I called Apple but while I was talking to them I just clicked the trackpad a bunch of times and that seemed to fix it.
Then I came home and it was worse. I called Apple again and we did the troubleshooting things and she suggested I take the trackpad in to the Apple Store. Since I could barely use it without creating utter havoc on my desktop I disconnected it and enabled my old magic mouse. And that did the same thing, which meant it wasn't either device but the computer itself. We did some further stuff and then she told me we'd have to do a complete operating system reinstall. That made me very nervous so I asked for a senior tech. She walked me through various things but nothing helped so we are doing the reinstall now. She assured me everything would be exactly they same when it completes - all my saved stuff, passwords, etc. The problem is it takes ninety minutes or more and she's leaving at four-thirty. She said there's a chance it could complete sooner and the hope is that everything will work, at which point I'm going to install Mountain Lion, the new operating system. She gave my number to the fellow next to her, just in case she leaves before it's done and she said he'd call me.
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Oy!
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MEGA VIBES YOU DON'T LOSE ANYTHING AND THE PROBLEM WILL BE FIXED!!!!
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Yes, please send your strongest most excellent vibes and xylophones that all will be working exactly as it should when the reinstall is complete.
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Well, the GOP candidates asked for this one and they got it! In spades.
And it's funny!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtzqvqzBdUQ&feature=youtu.be
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Good Evening!
I just finished a bowl of grits with chunks of ham and cheese stirred into it. Yum!
I'm supposed to meet some friends later for a late dinner, so I wanted/needed something to tide me over. However, I'm seriously considering just getting another serving of grits and calling it a night.
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Yes, please send your strongest most excellent vibes and xylophones that all will be working exactly as it should when the reinstall is complete.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Most Excellent Vibes & Xylophones for BK! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Yes, please send your strongest most excellent vibes and xylophones that all will be working exactly as it should when the reinstall is complete.
~~~~~MOUNTAIN LION INSTALLATION VIBES TO YOU~~~~~
*bk - There are some new things in Mountain Lion that may take a little bit of time to get used to. Just warning you now. You may want to consult the Mountain Lion primer on MacWorld.com, and/or ask the tech a lot of questions.
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VIBES and XYLOPHONES and a Baja MARIMBA or two for a perfect reinstall!
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As for IF THERE IS I HAVEN'T FOUND IT YET...
It's a play.
All four actors give very committed performances.
It runs about an hour and 45 minutes without intermission.
Jake Gyllenhaal is quite good in his Broadway stage debut. His English - Yorkshire? - is pretty spot on and very consistent.
It's still in previews.
I'm sort of interested to see it again after it tightens up. Hopefully.
Today's audience was comprised mainly of subscribers. Most of those subscribers were senior citizens. The play is definitely not geared toward that demographic... As was demonstrated by the amount of candy-wrapper wrinkling, chewing gum blister pack-punching, and semi-rhetorical questions being asked aloud throughout the play. Ah well... :-\
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It is a grilled chicken, DR John.
http://www.chow.com/recipes/30453-grilled-chicken-with-nectarine-barbecue-sauce
DR Laura - Yep, uncovering the chicken helps to insure non-flabby skin.
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This is getting ridiculous; now they are coming on Friday between 11am and 4pm.
UGH! Thankfully, the current weather pattern has been quite nice. Hopefully, all will be fixed before the next heat wave kicks in.
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Congrats to DR JOSE on his surprise debut at Art Jam!
Thank You, DR JRand.
Since I was sitting in the front row - I needed to be close to the piano just in case Jennifer needed a page turner or someone else to play - I took a bunch of pics with my iPhone. And then Instagram'd them. Here's the link to the album on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151330860149505.510765.570954504&type=1&l=766c3d0e9c
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And, yes, today's weather in the City of New York is splendiferous!!
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Thanks, John and Ron.
The very last post says something about an IKEA pan that is suitable for glass stovetops, so I will look for that the next time I go to IKEA.
The key for using grill pans on a glass-top stove is to find one with as flat a bottom as possible, and one that won't warp. You could use a cast iron one, but you'd have to be very careful not to move it while cooking so you don't scratch the stovetop.
Calphalon makes nice grill pans in various shapes and sizes (square, round, rectangular, double-burner). Just make sure you get a Calphalon piece made in the USA - "Made in Ohio". They have some of their line made in China, and those pieces are noticeably thinner, lighter and not as "efficient".
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!!!!!PAGE FIVE!!!!!
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And now...
I think I'm going to take a nice walk up and through Central Park.
Laters...
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Thank you, Jose.
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I got excited because it finished doing what it was doing, only to restart and begin a second install on the hard drive - that's going to take another thirty minutes, unless it completes faster as part one did - part one originally said over ninety minutes and it did it in less than an hour, so here's hoping.
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Good morning, all.
Slacks to school today, got it, DR JRand62. That was a fine motion picture. Some truly great cinema.
And a wonderful compilation of trailers was sent along with it, during which I finally fell asleep, woke up on the couch at 5 a.m., went to bed, and now here I am, sucking up the COFFEE and sneezing like a giraffe. Though I'm not really sure how giraffes sneeze. And they are just allergy sneezes, but there have been more than enough of them already, thank you very much.
The bad thing for a giraffe is a sore throat.
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Does anything think Alice Ripley should play Queen Ann Romney?
What? And have Alice banished from America?
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Still fifteen minutes to go - excruciating. Keep sending excellent vibes and xylophones for a successful and non-problematic reinstall.
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...Afterwards, a couple of us headed back up to midtown for some food and drink at one of the various French bistro-y places around Times Square. It was a gorgeous night, so we sat outside. Of course, I left with a few mosquito bites on my arms. Ugh.
Not a good idea this year, Jose, with the amount of West Nile Virus being spread by those buggers.
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Hmmmm, JRand62...the only one that comes to mind is BLITHE SPIRT which I have seen on stage as well as performed in (as Dr. Bradford).
I know there have been others, but nothing springs to my brain just now.
MBarnum, I had no idea you were a thesbian.
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And...
I just got invited to see the new play starring to Jake Gyllenhall this afternoon, so...
Laters...
We expect a full report and stage door photos.
I would prefer dressing room photos.
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(http://i597.photobucket.com/albums/tt56/elmore3003/GvnChristie.jpg)
I missed Governor Christie's entrance to theconvention last night. The man's a total pig.
I love that!
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The progress bar showed eight minutes to go then suddenly jumped back to before the halfway point and now shows twenty minutes! I HATE THIS STUFF
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Well, it would take a very good presenter to make the federal census website interesting and the statistician who spoke today was NOT. His first mistake, for me, was not having enough handouts and it was downhill from there. As someone who spent her entire professional life teaching people how to use information resources, I was extremely disappointed.
That's 4 hours of my life I'd like to have back.
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Computer vibes for BK!
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I hate those lying progress bars.
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Yes, please send your strongest most excellent vibes and xylophones that all will be working exactly as it should when the reinstall is complete.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Most Excellent Vibes & Xylophones for BK! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Ditto!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Vibes for the BK computer!
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Yes, please send your strongest most excellent vibes and xylophones that all will be working exactly as it should when the reinstall is complete.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Most Excellent Vibes & Xylophones for BK! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Ditto!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~And again!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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the reinstall - not successful - doing the same thing and it's getting worse. I'm on the phone with another senior tech who is as baffled as I. We went into "safe" mode and it still did it - just highlights things all by itself, opens documents, moves things around - we couldn't even do what he needed me to do to try and troubleshoot - he's getting a specialist involved right now because something is rotten in the state of Denmark and we have to fix it - there is no way I would even open a word document because I'd be petrified it would just highlight and delete everything. The computer did do a successful backup to Time Machine at one and there's been no new work since then, so I believe we're safe no matter what.
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It sure feels like it's a trackpad or mouse or bluetooth thing, but then again it's doing crap when I'm not even touching the damn trackpad. But the point is we did a complete reinstall of the operating system so how can anything be wrong now? Very very frustrating. This thing isn't eight months old
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The other thing I found irritating today was that we were in a laptop lab populated by PCs :P
I did have my MacBook with me and I was tempted to use it instead, but decided that would be rude and the presentation wasn't worth draining my battery.
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Larry, good luck with the AC install.
We will be on Long Island on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We will leave around 11am and I'll go from AC train to AC car to AC house.
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Watching the first hour of "Die Nibelungen," the five-hour Fritz Lang silent. The music is not Wagner, but for having been made in 1924, it's spectacular in so many ways. And th Brunhilde is on scary looking creature.
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CONTINUED VIBES FOR BRUCE!
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Bruce, hope your computer troubles work themselves out.
Not to be snarky, but the acolytes at Apple can't make a perfect computer. Things go wrong with all computers, PCs and Apples and I feel a bit of Schadenfreude when I hear about problems with Apples because they are touted as perfect machines. They are pieces of electronic equipment. They are not perfect. I wouldn't be so snarky if Apple Acolytes (Please believe me when I say that I'm not including the lovely people who post here. You don't behave in that manner) weren't so supercilious and disdainful of those of us who use PCs. Just let me use my freakin' PC and you use your Apple and leave it alone!
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DR Ginny I'm sorry your day was such a waste of your time & annoyed you so much.
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CONTINUED VIBES FOR BRUCE!
A double dose.
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I have that "Nibelungen" on a laserdisc set which, I found out after acquiring it, is not the complete version. Nevertheless, I should watch it sometime...something I've never quite gotten around to doing.
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The Eileen cover is on Amazon now.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51i86m7hiGL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
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Six!
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DR Ginny I'm sorry your day was such a waste of your time & annoyed you so much.
Thank you, DR Jane - definitely "first world" problems that I shouldn't be complaining about when so many others have REAL problems...
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It is still ok to be annoyed by it.
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I am, with trepidation but hope, posting from the main computer. Just prior to everything completely spazzing out, he'd had me move the "caches" folder to the trash. He was trying to move some other stuff, but I couldn't do it because of the spazzing. So he had me immediately shut down, then consulted his experts, then had me restart normally and do a "capture data" which gives the techs there all the info they need to troubleshoot. We had to re-update some stuff because doing the reinstall didn't do the latest batch of updates, including Safari. So, all that got done, but happily none of the spazzing crap was happening. We slowly began opening stuff like iTunes and iCal and Safari and twenty minutes later thing were still fine with no evidence of spazzing out. So, even though it would surprise him, he began to feel that the caches folder that we trashed may have been the problem. We'll know tomorrow after they look at the data capture - if they come back and say there was something corrupted or weird in that folder then we know.
The only thing wrong right now is my dropbox folder is not in the menu bar up top, but I'm leaving it that way and should I need to go there I'll do so as a log-in - because in the back of my head, dropbox was spazzing out, too, and he had me undo its automatic launch, and since then we've been fine.
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VIBES it stays despazzed.
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The Eileen cover is on Amazon now.
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51i86m7hiGL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
I sent New World Records an email about it today.
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I have almost always had an electric stove, and I find when I try to cook on gas I couldn't regulate the heat. People who cook with gas say the same thing about electric.
I have electric and don't have a problem cooking (if you call heating up canned soup and spaghetti sauce or boiling water cooking).
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Continued computer vibes for BK!
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TCB makes me laugh!
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The more I think about it, the more I think Dropbox may have been the culprit - that something got corrupted and caused the whole computer to spazz out. We'll know more tomorrow, but I sent an e-mail to the tech guy and told him.
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Vibes to BK's computer!
Vibes that all of us get a good nights sleep tonight!
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I also can't believe that DR Elmore is still dealing with AC problems! A pox on whoever is holding up your comfort with cool air!
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Looking forward to a good night's sleep myself. With windows open! Should be ideal tonight.
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Vibes to BK's computer!
Vibes that all of us get a good nights sleep tonight!
DITTO AND DITTO!
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tired
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I had a good laugh at work today. I had to do some letters. There is a "sample" letter folder that baby girl set up and I am always careful to choose one she set up so I won't get into problems with She Who Must Be Obeyed. All I did was change the name, date, position title and the amount offered. When I took the letters to SWMBO she had a fit saying the letter was wrong and she had "never" seen the letter written that way.
I told her I had used the sample letter set up by baby girl (I used her name). I was told that was impossible because she would not have approved it before. We were by baby girl's computer and to make it better, she pulled up the sample letters--not me. Well, Lo and Behold, there was the sample letter I used with baby girls initials at the bottom.
Of course I let her know I could CHANGE the letter to whatever she wanted and she moved one sentence down to a different paragraph. I guess she had to change something after the fuss she kicked up.
This is what I deal with on a daily basis. Whatever I do isn't good enough. If baby girl does it, it's fine or just a pat on the back of the hand.
That's why I don't want to go to work anymore.
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Speaking of sleep, it is after ten so I'd better go hit the hay.
I forgot that I wanted to tell you all that when I came home from work tonight there was 3 sheriffs cars parked across the street. I have no idea what was going on but they were there for a good half hour and I have no idea how long they were there before hand.
Of course our local news is so into the RNC, anything else is overlooked.
'Night all! Sweet Dreams!
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DR Danise I'm glad you had a bit of satisfaction today. :)
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'night
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Tonight's low is to be even better than I'd thought: 50!
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Tonight's low is to be even better than I'd thought: 50!
Here, too, DR ChasSmith - we're using nature's air conditioning for the second night in a row!
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My father just phoned - seems a certain site seems to have decided not to allow my 84-year-old mom to have an account. They must be afraid she'll overwhelm the board with Jan McArt and Burt Reynolds Dinner theater reminiscences.
In my mom's case, it's a real desire to be part of the community on the chat board, since I can;t be there, especially because we and people we (and they) know and care about do come up from time to time.
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After an hour of "Siegfried," I watched a wonderful movie called "Oranges and Sunshine" about the woman who uncovered how the British government robbed 130,000 mothers of their children and deported them to Australia.
And that's all she wrote. Good night, all.
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Hmmmm, JRand62...the only one that comes to mind is BLITHE SPIRT which I have seen on stage as well as performed in (as Dr. Bradford).
I know there have been others, but nothing springs to my brain just now.
MBarnum, I had no idea you were a thesbian.
Neither did the audience.
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Good Evening!
So...
As I was leaving the Lincoln Center Atrium earlier, I stopped by their half-price window just to see what kind of seats they had for WAR HORSE. Well...
"I have one seat, ninth row, center."
So... I took it!
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...I think I started crying as soon as "Joey" materialized.
...And I cried again during the closing sequence.
Still such a beautiful and powerful show.
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CRANBERRIES!!!
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UNDERPANTS!!!
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One Grecian Urn...
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Two Grecian Urns...
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PAGE SEVEN!!!!!!!
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...And a fountain...
Trickle...
Trickle...
Trickle...
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And on that note - a low D-flat...
Goodnight.
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Finished with my viewing and am truly glad this day is almost done. No problems since deleting the caches folder and taking Dropbox off the desktop.