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I am sure my coworkers are secretly rejoicing

That's certainly good news!

Quote from: elmore3003 on Today at 06:18:10 AM

Quote from: vixmom on Today at 05:21:13 AM

I had enchiladas once, at a HHW gathering. They were good, as I recall, but I never had the urge to revisit the experience.

That was after we saw Desperate Measures! It was quite a crowd.

That's right!

Let's see, Elmore, Richard, Ginny, Me, weren't John G and Freddie with us too?

Or am.i getting my events scrambled?

Could that group have been when we saw Larry's show, City Center Encores' restoration of Cole Porter's The New Yorkers, which would have been March 2017.

I wasn't part of the group seeing Desperate Measures. 

I am sure my coworkers are secretly rejoicing

They're passing around notes:  "Find out what brand she was drinking and send her a whole case of it."

I am sure my coworkers are secretly rejoicing

I have been silent as the grave today

I'm feeling much better. Still an heaviness in my chest, but if I don't speak, i dont cough.

Quote from: vixmom on Today at 05:27:12 AM

There used to be a Mexican restaurant not far from here, part of a chain, I believe, called El Torito that had wonderful steak and chicken fajitas.  But they went out of business about 35 years ago and the restaurant became an Olive Garden .

That's an interesting tidbit to me, because I knew El Torito in California. It was kind of a staple there among friends and/or co-workers, but I can't remember for the life of me where it was located. When I moved down to Redondo Beach there was one at the Pier, and it's still there, but I must have known one somewhere around Beverly Hills or maybe Marina del Rey. I see there's one at the Marina now, but it's not in a location that rings a bell.

Anyhoo...I'd always figured it was only a Southern California chain, and maybe it mostly was, but when I moved east in 1989, what did I find right here in Danbury but an El Torito? It was just like the CA ones, and a nice comfortable place, and I was sad when it and its neighbors got completely razed for a business park. And now it is revealed that vixmom had one in Lawn Guyland as well. I wonder how those east coast ones came about, and why they completely disappeared.

It's not that El Torito is a primo Mexican restaurant, by any means. It's probably quite average as those things go, but I'm going on 30-year-old memories. It apparently is thriving in California as we speak, with some 69 locations.

I think the first one i ever visited was in California when I visited my cousin , probably about 40 years ago.  It was on the water , she lived in Newport Beach but I don't know if that's where the restaurant was.

The one on LI was in Massapequa

Quote from: vixmom on Today at 05:21:13 AM

I had enchiladas once, at a HHW gathering. They were good, as I recall, but I never had the urge to revisit the experience.

That was after we saw Desperate Measures! It was quite a crowd.

That's right!

Let's see, Elmore, Richard, Ginny, Me, weren't John G and Freddie with us too?

Or am.i getting my events scrambled?

Quote from: Ginny on Today at 09:14:11 AM

Glad to hear your morning went so smoothly, DR Elmore 😘

And I'm glad to hear you and Richard are feeling better!

Thank you!  We still sound kind of like Darth Vader, but we’re getting there.

I find it so ironic that Trump's lawyers keep harping on what a liar Michael Cohen is when they are working for a man who never tells the truth.