And the word of the day is: EMBONPOINT!
DR Matthew - Good news indeed! I hope you and DD Ben have some more successful and happy walks this weekend.
Is Aunt Jo your mom's sister?
I do recommend (and I don't do it that often) that you search out COMPANY on the big screen. I believe Sunday is the last day to see. It's a lot better than the version where the cast played their own instruments a few years back.
DR Ginny - May today be filled with more happy memories and smiles for you and your family.
Wow. That's a crazy law. What if one or more of the offspring can't or doesn't come?
I got a nice early Father's Day present yesterday--I was told I do not need to go to my church gig tomorrow as it is Youth Sunday and the kids are handling all of the music. Pray for the church. ;)
Wishing broken legs to both Druxy and BK today on their readings!
Ditto. Sorry I can't make the one in Austin, DR Druxy.Wishing broken legs to both Druxy and BK today on their readings!
Hope you both sell many books!
Thank you, DR JRand. Despite the circumstances, there is a lot of laughter going on when we're together. My niece has described what we're experiencing as "grief with relief."
I'm glad it's all looking better, Matthew.
Wishing broken legs to both Druxy and BK today on their readings!
Hope you both sell many books!
Good thoughts and vibes to you and yours, DR Ginny! I am very glad that your family are enjoying the getting together part, even if it is for a solemn occasion. No doubt your aunt would want it to be that way.
Thank you, DR JRand. Despite the circumstances, there is a lot of laughter going on when we're together. My niece has described what we're experiencing as "grief with relief."
:)
Everything seems to be going smoothly & quickly which I think makes it easier. Continued good wishes for your family.
And in the when it rains it pours department, I have three (count 'em) prospective new tenants all vying for the house, though I think I'm about to close a deal with a couple and their 16 year old moving up here from Clovis. California. For the second time in this adventure's history, we have people taking the house sight unseen (aside from lots of pictures, and Google Earth.). :)
Is Aunt Jo your mom's sister?
Yes, DR Laura, Aunt Jo was about 10 years younger than my Mom, but if you'd seen them side by side you'd have thought the opposite.
I don't like being a grownup sometimes.
Welcome one guest! How are you and who are you?
Belated Congrats on 25000, TCB!
TOD: Every time I cross the border to Mexico, I marvel at how much better the Mexican food is there than in Texas. My favorite meal would have to have been with a group of friends at a restaurant in Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville, called Mi Pueblito. Spectacular food and margaritas. We started with two different types of sauteed mushrooms, one in white wine, the other with ancho chiles. It was followed by a mixed grill plate with fajitas, chicken, beef ribs that looked like something prehistoric, sausages and who knows what all else. It was meant for four, but the seven of us had a hard time eating most of it. Handmade corn tortillas and guacamole on the side, plus borracho beans. And the margaritas were amazing.
Sad thing, the town has been overrun by drug lords and it's just too dangerous to go back there any more.
I do recommend (and I don't do it that often) that you search out COMPANY on the big screen. I believe Sunday is the last day to see. It's a lot better than the version where the cast played their own instruments a few years back.
When you have members from the New York Philharmonic backing you during a concert version, well... O hope it would be better. ;)
*I actually liked the Esparza/Doyle Company. Alas, I don't think the video of the production did it justice.
**And I believe the DVD for "Company in Concert" will be released just in time for Christmas and Hannukah. ;)
I think that whole Kickstarter thing is a cool idea!
Good afternoon Arnold! Good afternoon, elmore!
TOD: Every time I cross the border to Mexico, I marvel at how much better the Mexican food is there than in Texas. My favorite meal would have to have been with a group of friends at a restaurant in Matamoros, across the border from Brownsville, called Mi Pueblito. Spectacular food and margaritas. We started with two different types of sauteed mushrooms, one in white wine, the other with ancho chiles. It was followed by a mixed grill plate with fajitas, chicken, beef ribs that looked like something prehistoric, sausages and who knows what all else. It was meant for four, but the seven of us had a hard time eating most of it. Handmade corn tortillas and guacamole on the side, plus borracho beans. And the margaritas were amazing.
Sad thing, the town has been overrun by drug lords and it's just too dangerous to go back there any more.
Interesting. I've never liked Tex-Mex. I lik the Sonoran Mexican food the best
I have an unfurnished unaffordable place available.
Is Aunt Jo your mom's sister?
Yes, DR Laura, Aunt Jo was about 10 years younger than my Mom, but if you'd seen them side by side you'd have thought the opposite.
It's the scotch I tell you.
Do any DRs have any questions for BK's close personal friend Nick Redman, whom I will be interviewing tomorrow?
The signing was really fun - maybe my fave of all of them. We had about twenty-five people, including some folks I didn't know at all. I read a bit, I answered questions, we had CAKE, I signed (we not only sold the new book, but also the first book in the series and a Benjamin Kritzer even). Of the folks I knew, in attendance were cousin Dee Dee (sans her ever-lovin' Alan, whose back was bothering him - when my back bothers me I tell it to go take a hike and bother someone else), The Singer and her mother, the thirteen-year-old and her folks, dear reader Sam, looking very svelte, Adriana's biggest fan, Miranda, her parents and her friend. someone I went to high school with, film score aficionados Neil Bulk (he's done some work for Kritzerland) and Henry Stanny, our very own Doug Haverty, Illona Simon-Mueller and her ever-lovin' Steven, and our very own Amy and Mark. I'm sure I'm forgetting someone, and then there were the folks I didn't know at all.
Thanks, DR Jane. My aunt was quite bitter about her ex and for close to 30 years our only contact with him was through my cousins. I missed him terribly.
DR Ginny I'm very pleased the day went well, also that you heard from your aunt's ex. My sister's ex was at both my father's funeral and at my sister's. When we do family activities with my brother we always invite his ex.
Bruce, if I can make the trip to L.A. I will be staying with my brother & not in the valley. The valley friend will have gone to San Clemente to set up for the bridal shower which leaves me without a way to get there unless I skip LA & fly in and out of John Wayne.
Craig went to the library for me and picked up four books I had on hold. Of course the first one I want to read is the heaviest, by far, to hold. I think I shall begin with the little book before reading the big one.
Perhaps I missed a response, if so, sorry, but could a Smartphone maven lend some assistance (actually to DW Wife Betsy): is there an easy way to change your Gmail password on an Android phone? You would think so, but Googling this provides only very convoluted ways to do it. With Android phones (which come pre-equipped with a Gmail app), you enter your User ID and password the first time you turn the phone on, and then you're stuck with it. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to change your password, and if you just do it online on your computer, your phone stops getting emails.
It is 106 here in Austin.
:(
That is hotter than in Phoenix.
Haven't had any Kickstarter pledges since this morning. I hope we haven't stalled, although I know a few people who are doing it this week.
I really have no interest in the Casey Anthony trial but for some reason I'm watching the recap. I know Cheney Mason, one of Casey's lawyers.
DR Jose, I'll be curious to hear what you think of A Time To Kill
The signing was really fun - maybe my fave of all of them. We had about twenty-five people, including some folks I didn't know at all. I read a bit, I answered questions, we had CAKE, I signed (we not only sold the new book, but also the first book in the series and a Benjamin Kritzer even). Of the folks I knew, in attendance were cousin Dee Dee (sans her ever-lovin' Alan, whose back was bothering him - when my back bothers me I tell it to go take a hike and bother someone else), The Singer and her mother, the thirteen-year-old and her folks, dear reader Sam, looking very svelte, Adriana's biggest fan, Miranda, her parents and her friend. someone I went to high school with, film score aficionados Neil Bulk (he's done some work for Kritzerland) and Henry Stanny, our very own Doug Haverty, Illona Simon-Mueller and her ever-lovin' Steven, and our very own Amy and Mark. I'm sure I'm forgetting someone, and then there were the folks I didn't know at all.
Tomorrow is my sister's 64th birthday. I will call her at about 9:30 in the morning and sing Happy Birthday to her, and that will be that. of course, it is also my sister and her husband's anniversary, and it is Father's Day. My sister doesn't know that next Wednesday I am leaving work early to join her and friends for a birthday lunch.
DR Matthew - Nice mini-opera. -Is DD Ben a Tenor, Baritone or Bass? ;)
DR Druxy - Congrats on your reading!
DR Matthew - Nice mini-opera. -Is DD Ben a Tenor, Baritone or Bass? ;)
Well, for the time being he's the tenor. But in a month or two, probably the soprano.
"Doogie Houser, MD" is on channel 121. I've never actually seen this show. Neil Patrick Harris is VERY young!
bk - Congrats on your reading too! -Did you serve the usual Parisian Cake?
"Doogie Houser, MD" is on channel 121. I've never actually seen this show. Neil Patrick Harris is VERY young!
very