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Well, you've read the notes, the notes danced the anniversary waltz, and now it is time for you to post until the anniversary cows come home - they've been coming home for thirteen years now.
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And the word of the day is: SINISTRAL!
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I am "sinistral" :-) for many things. Unfortunately the word began with negative connotations, as lefties were thought to be from the devil. There evolved the English "sinister" from the Italian "sinistre" Alas, many a child's left hand was tied behind his back by parents attempting to cure the kid of left-handedness (my grandma).
I found haineshisway.com about a year ago, after a chance meeting with the elusive Guy Haines in a parking lot after a play; Haines let slip the existence of this long running blog, and pattered about some guy named Bruce Kimmel who professes to write it. I am mostly a lurker here but enjoy reading haineshisway.
Congratulations on 14 years (5,110 days? don't know with leap years) of blogging, longer than most Broadway show runs. Marchons, marchons!
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Happy Anniversary to Our Very Own HHW that brought us all together!! :D
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Happy anniversary to this here site.
I'd been reading the notes and doing the trivia contest for a while, and one day, BK mentioned there were clues to the trivia contest on the posting board, which I'd never visited before and which I promptly read, and that's how I found the pleasure of posting on the posting board.
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I am approaching 22000 posts. Is that round enough to be a milestone?
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I do believe it is, DR FJL! :)
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It's a birthday.
It's an anniversary.
It's a birthday.
It's a anniversary.
IT'S A BIRTHDAY AND AN ANNIVERSARY!
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~ ~ ~ SAFEST OF TRAVEL VIBES ~ ~ ~ today for DR vixmom and DR the vixter. I hope you enjoy the show and meeting up with DR ChasSmith!
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CONGRATULATIONS to bk on ALL THOSE WORDS. If you printed them all out, it would be a heck of a lot of pages!
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Not only is today the 14th birthday and anniversary of HHW, today is also the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall!
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Good morning, all.
Happy anniversary, bk, and thanks for providing us with this home.
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Congratulations, FJL, on the impending milestone.
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DR Cillaliz, I hadn't thought about her emailing me the pictures. That could work except i would have to try to explain which pictures i wanted.
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OMG I agree with DR Vixmom. I have never climbed on a roof and hope to never do do. I am too afraid of falling.
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Good morning, all.
And the happiest of anniversaries to the elusive Guy Haines and the incredible site we like to call HHW.
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I wish I had the day off to enjoy the festivities!
What I have instead is a day of getting to the theater early to do some things, playing the closing show, and then packing up the keyboard and amp and sh stuff and loading it all into the car for the trip home ... all during which I do look forward to enjoying the presence of a couple of Vixes. And then, once home, I must get me ready to rise at dawn's crack for a quick trip to Ohio!
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Happy Anniversary toHHW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Good morning, all!
Happy Anniversary, BK! I send my congratulations and wishes for another 14 years, may we all last so long!
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Happy anniversary-- to you, to the site, to all of us and all of them for being here!!!
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So, in 2003 I got a phone call from Liz Callaway, who was doing a pops concert gig and trying to organize the charts she had, mostly mine, to determine exactly what needed to be done in setting an orchestra and number of orchestra parts she needed for strings, etc. We met at the Cafe 82 around the corner from my apartment, took a large table, and started inventorying and gossiping.
I had been working with the Packard Humanities Institute since 2001, and I hadn't spoken to BK in a couple of years, although I had received a very biased call from a major player in the disaster that befell BK and the label which shall not be named. My story didn't jive with Liz's report and that gave us much to discuss, including something I did not know since i was still very much a computer moron. At that point I could do email and eBay, and eleven years later, i can still do very little.
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happy anniversary
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What I did not know what that BK had begun a website, HHW, and when my meeting with Liz was over, i got on the Mac and found the site. My memory is that this was around Thanksgiving 2003, because I sent BK an email congratulating him on the site and sending my sympathy and support over the mess and nasty rumors I'd heard.
I told you to fire him!!!
BK sent me back a very wonderful email and asked me if at some point i'd do an interview for the site. I said yes and thought no more about it. Then the questions arrived, and at some point in early 2004, the interview went up online. I lurked for several weeks out of pure ego: I wanted to know what response my interview got. Well, very little, actually, but by then I had come to knw all the current DRs from their posts, and I signed on.
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i wrote an email to bk asking what he was doing an he told me what was up an voila! I am here. Although I really have a lot more posting than it says. When there was a change over to a different server our counts were reset and avatars got small.
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So, I am up and on my second cuppa coffee.
I slept around 10 hurs last night, and my nose is stopped up but i feel rather good. I have to clean the apartment and listen to a composition by the son of a friend and five my thoughts on ot. Then I will listen to "The World Goes Round" with the vocal score. I'm looking frward to that.
And that's my day.
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Happy Anniversary, BK! And congratulations!
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And the word of the day is: SINISTRAL!
And The Song Of The Day Is: THIRD FINGER LEFT HAND
Happy Happy Anniversary To HAINESHISWAY! Have A Great Day And A Very Happy Future !
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Happiest of Anniversaries to HHW and MR BK.
And thanks for having this wonderful and SANE place for intercourse on the inner web.
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My tale is a simple one:
I was born (at a very young age), I got active on Home Theater Forum just for the fun of it and for learning a few things, and since I knew BK from there I started coming over here and reading the blog on a semi-regular basis. That would have been in 2011, and by early 2012 I had gotten fairly hooked and I realized it was silly not to just register and take part in the fun, seeing as how the topics of the day had been running along the lines of the Mahler Sixth and favorite delis. I mean, who could resist that? Right? It just happened that all the new registrations were being picked up as spam and I had to get me some divine intervention from BK to get mine through. But we got it worked out, and after a few months of my being active here, BK came to NYC for a book reading and signing at Drama Book Shop (for "Album Produced By..."), and that was my chance to finally meet the likes of BK and DRs Elmore, Ben, FJL, E&T Julie, and whoever in the HELL else I'm forgetting at the moment. It was an exceptionally memorable day as memorable days go. The event at the book shop was great all around, and attended by the likes of Peter Filichia and composer Dana Kaproff other fine people, and by the time I'd supped afterward with this rowdy gang of ruffians, I was feeling right at home. And you've been stuck with me ever since. The End.
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I came here on October 22, 2003, and began as Jrand53.
I was internet buddies with former DR JMK because of our shared interest in Miss Frances Farmer. He started asking me questions about Broadway shows and then told me about the trivia contest at HHW.
I had purchased several BK produced CD's, and I had even begun to look for them at various retail establishments.....my favorites were the SUPERMAN music/cues CD, NOT OF THIS EARTH the music of Ronald Stein - including Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, the Unsung series, and ULTIMATE TITANIC.....
I read the board for a day or so, and then signed on. I brought DR MBARNUM here a few years later, but he is AWOL right now.
I have met a few DR's over the years and it is always DEE-lightful to see them. After talking here, it is like we are old friends.....DR GINNY & DH RICHARD & ROB, DR RODZINSKI, and DR JOSE....
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I got on the inner web in October of 1998, so I was only around for 5 years before discovering HHW - the most popular site on the inner webs.
I also got to meet MR BK and DR CHARLESPOGUE when they came to Indiana to see MR BK's musical THE BRAIN FROM PLANET X....and most enjoyable evening.
This is MR BK at Shapiro's Deli where he met some Indiana Jews.
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Happy Anniversary, BK!
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The pure white short-haired cat that walks around the neighborhood must have been celebrating Halloween.
When he came yesterday, he looked like this.
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Happy anniversary, BK!
TOD: As you all know, I haven't been the most regular person on this board by any stretch of the imagination, although I've been doing better lately. I guess it was about five years ago when my workplace censored all entertainment-related web sites from company computers, and my haineshisway world came crashing down. (I also can't order my pantyhose from onehainesplace.com because the censoring software thinks photos of women in cotton underpants is porn. If only Benjamin Kritzer knew!)
But I still have many great memories. I think one of my favorites days here was when we all posted our favorites jokes all day long (during my pre-censorship days). And my other favorite day was when we talked about all the sit-coms we could think of where they aired a special series finale episode. Someone told me to go to Youtube and check out the season finale of "Newhart" because it was indeed very special - I took that advice, and it was indeed very special and funny. I probably would never have seen it otherwise. And it wasn't even the TOD - us readers stumbled upon that topic and just made it up ourselves!
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Good afternoon!
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Well, I found HHW through BK's link on allthatchat, as I recall. I sent BK an email asking if he thought he would be producing another CD for Brent. He replied that there were no plans at that time and also commented on my email address. You see, I had web-tv and Bruce mentioned that he had had it too.
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So I lurked for quite a while and finally jointed the "merry troupe ," to quote Bruce, at the end of 2009.
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DR Ginny --- to answer your question: tonight I'm at the Hilton Garden Inn on 8th Ave. not sure about tomorrow.
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Last night I saw Les Miserables. Of course I'd seen it before - I'd guess 3 times. I wanted to see Ramin Karimloo as Jean Valjean and he didn't disappoint. The show is exhausting, I have to say, but I'm glad I saw it.
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I went to the stage door. Just about all if the actors came out and signed. Mr. Karimloo was very accommodating regarding photos and even offered to take our "selfie" when he saw I was struggling.
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I'm enjoying the pretty train ride along the Hudson River on my way to see BB at "Helsinki Hudson' in, strangely enough, Hudson, NY.
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Happy Anniversary from me too, BK! Thanks for providing this great site and giving me the opportunity to meet so many terrific people!
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Regarding the word of the day -- my mother was left-handed but was forced to write with her right hand by her (nun) teacher. I will say she had beautiful handwriting, though
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I haven't tidied the apartment yet, but i have followed the score with the recording of "The World Goes Round." This was my second listen, which was right after I received it, so it was like hearing it completely fresh, and I enjoyed it very much. Brent sounds really good on this; I think he's miscast on the JAY "One Touch of Venus"; he sounds too sophisticated and worldly for the naïve leading man and too much like Ron Raines. I only know Christianne, but I liked all three of the ladies, and Jason can do no wrong in my book.
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So, time to tidy, and then I have to seriously study this student's music. He's sent me an mp3 file of his co,puter [;aying it, and I like a lot of what I've heard.
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I went to the stage door. Just about all if the actors came out and signed. Mr. Karimloo was very accommodating regarding photos and even offered to take our "selfie" when he saw I was struggling.
A terrific New York story, KevinH! You should send it in to the NY Times Metropolitan Diary.
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I went to the stage door. Just about all if the actors came out and signed. Mr. Karimloo was very accommodating regarding photos and even offered to take our "selfie" when he saw I was struggling.
A terrific New York story, KevinH! You should send it in to the NY Times Metropolitan Diary.
Thanks, FJL!
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I'm up, I'm up. I was up at five-thirty for two hours, so I got about six hours in all.
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I always love reading these stories.
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That is quite a cat costume, DR Jrand64!!! :)
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I honestly can't remember how or when I found the site. I think I somehow figured out who the author of the original "One From Column A" was, and found my way here. I was then gone for a while, but am very happy to be back in the fold. I do miss some of the more stalwart members who have either passed on or are no longer here. It is a wonderful community and a real family of great folks. Thanks, bk!!!!
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Sunday afternoon greetings! We have returned from Rob and Mary Linda's church where Fr. Richard delivered the sermon. This has been planned for several weeks, but was very much in doubt on Thursday. By Friday evening, when he'd had a few doses of Prednisone, he assured them that he'd be there today. His progress has been remarkable and our New York trip is no longer in question because of his knee. Pray that NOTHING else threatens it!
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His progress has been remarkable and our New York trip is no longer in question because of his knee.
Fantastic news, DR Ginny!!! :)
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The Butchart Gardens, British Columbia:
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Happy 13th Birthday to HHW!
In 2004, I was in New York for a work-related meeting and went a few days early for a little vacation that included spending time with a long-time friend from the town where I now live. He told me he was "juggling 2 women" because his friend Jane was also in town that week and I assumed she was someone he'd worked with somewhere along the line. He also told me about this Internet site where he'd been spending a lot of time, so I peeked in and lurked until someone named JRand posted a trivia question/picture to which I knew the answer. Registered, answered the question (correctly), and have been here almost every day since October of 2004.
It didn't take long to figure out that:
1) Our longtime friend is known here as DR Elmore,
2) My meetings were held at the workplace of DR Ben, and
3) "Jane" was our very own DR Jane who I met in person a year later.
Fortunately, my workplace did not block such sites and HHW helped me through many stressful workdays during the last several years of my career as a librarian. And it was a great place to convalesce following foot surgery (with complications) in 2008 and my heart attack in 2010.
I cherish the virtual and in-person friendships that have developed over my 10 years here.
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Musical director will be here in a minute, and then I just relax until dinner, unless I get industrious or something.
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I think the answer to the question that DR GINNY knew was:
Nancy Dickerson.
Glad to hear that the NYC trip is a go!!!
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Here is my new iPhone case.....gold brushed aluminum and gorilla glass on the front.
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Page Three iPhone Dance.
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That's way MORE than life size.
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I'm back on a break from this orchestration tutorial. I'm having fun, but I have no idea if Joe in England is enjoying my revising him. His composition is really quite nice, and it shows the influences this 17 year-old has been listening to. There's a bit of Shostakovich and some Gustav Holst although, for a British kid, I'm not hearing Benjamin Britten.
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I think the answer to the question that DR GINNY knew was:
Nancy Dickerson.
Glad to hear that the NYC trip is a go!!!
Yes, that was it!
I'm greatly relieved about the trip - just waiting for check-in instructions for our apartment.
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I think the answer to the question that DR GINNY knew was:
Nancy Dickerson.
Glad to hear that the NYC trip is a go!!!
Yes, that was it!
I'm greatly relieved about the trip - just waiting for check-in instructions for our apartment.
Great news that the trip is on!
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Thanks, DR FJL! I just hope we don't have to sleep on DR Elmore's fire escape...
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Page three? Really?
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We're havin' an anniversary so let's get this show on the road, baby.
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Where IS everybody?
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Congratulations to BK for the years of writing your daily blog without interuption!!
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Happy Anniversary to all of the regulars (and a few irregulars) at HHW!
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Oh, HI, DR TCB!
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Oh, HI, DR TCB!
Hi Ginny! It was that two point conversion attempt yesterday that I thought was stupid.
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I am approaching 22000 posts. Is that round enough to be a milestone?
Oh Hell, you can even have a kidney stone!
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Oh, HI, DR TCB!
Hi Ginny! It was that two point conversion attempt yesterday that I thought was stupid.
Yeah, I did, too, but I'm glad it didn't go into overtime. I had just enough time planned between that game and MSU/OSU prepare and eat our taco dinner with the kids. OT would have messed up my plans.
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FJL, thank you for the kind words about SCROOGE the other day. I finally caught up on past posts.
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Sunday afternoon greetings! We have returned from Rob and Mary Linda's church where Fr. Richard delivered the sermon. This has been planned for several weeks, but was very much in doubt on Thursday. By Friday evening, when he'd had a few doses of Prednisone, he assured them that he'd be there today. His progress has been remarkable and our New York trip is no longer in question because of his knee. Pray that NOTHING else threatens it!
Excellent news and Continued Vibes traveling to NY won't be a problem!
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Happy 13th Birthday to HHW!
In 2004, I was in New York for a work-related meeting and went a few days early for a little vacation that included spending time with a long-time friend from the town where I now live. He told me he was "juggling 2 women" because his friend Jane was also in town that week and I assumed she was someone he'd worked with somewhere along the line. He also told me about this Internet site where he'd been spending a lot of time, so I peeked in and lurked until someone named JRand posted a trivia question/picture to which I knew the answer. Registered, answered the question (correctly), and have been here almost every day since October of 2004.
It didn't take long to figure out that:
1) Our longtime friend is known here as DR Elmore,
2) My meetings were held at the workplace of DR Ben, and
3) "Jane" was our very own DR Jane who I met in person a year later.
Fortunately, my workplace did not block such sites and HHW helped me through many stressful workdays during the last several years of my career as a librarian. And it was a great place to convalesce following foot surgery (with complications) in 2008 and my heart attack in 2010.
I cherish the virtual and in-person friendships that have developed over my 10 years here.
I always think how many times I almost said to DR elmore "invite your friend along". I was selfish though as it was my first time meeting him and wanted him to myself. Of course I had no idea forming a friendship with Ginny was in my future.
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Here is my new iPhone case.....gold brushed aluminum and gorilla glass on the front.
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That should be easy to recognize as your iPhone ;)
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CONGRATULATIONS to bk on ALL THOSE WORDS. If you printed them all out, it would be a heck of a lot of pages!
And if you laid all those words out in one long line, how many times would they go around the world?
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Interesting! I wonder why NBC decided to show PETER PAN on a Thursday evening?
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Thanks, DR FJL! I just hope we don't have to sleep on DR Elmore's fire escape...
I borrowed the air mattress DR MBarnum had used when he slept on the fire escape. The day Michael returned home I had a friend from PA join me in my hotel room. I let her take the bed and I slept on the mattress.
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That is really dumb!
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Just been watching motion pictures and relaxing. Dozed off for about forty minutes, too. Hopefully, dinner soon.
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i wrote an email to bk asking what he was doing an he told me what was up an voila! I am here. Although I really have a lot more posting than it says. When there was a change over to a different server our counts were reset and avatars got small.
My avatars did not get small, our pictures got small!
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Happiest of Anniversaries to HHW and MR BK.
And thanks for having this wonderful and SANE place for intercourse on the inner web.
We can do that here?
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A determined person can do it anywhere DR TCB.
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From DR George:
Essentially, after you die, instead of getting buried, you can be cremated and have your ashes made into diamonds! It is a pretty interesting concept...expensive, I'm sure, but interesting
Interesting concept.
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The Butchart Gardens, British Columbia:
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Victoria, British Columbia They are beautiful!
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So hungry. Hopefully soon.
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I found HHW on a whim. I had suggested not so occasional, DR Penny O look Bruce up next time she was in LA. One day she called asking for his phone number. I passed along his home number and said I would try and find his new work number. Penny said not to bother. There was that whim so I did something I didn't do very often back then, I searched the internet.
I found a reference to Bruce and his new blog. Opening the blog, that day of all days, Bruce mentioned my classmate/friend since 4th grade and I had to respond. Had he not mentioned her that day I probably would have moved on because I didn't enjoy using the computer very much.
I blame this blog on the need for my own computer and my addiction to the internet ;)
I also blame it on all the wonderful friends I have made here.
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Apparently, dinner not until six-thirty or seven. Hope I can hold out that long.
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I am enjoying the photos DR Vixmom.
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Welcome back, DR Vixmom - looks like you had a great time!
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it was wonderful!
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Congratulations BK and thank you for this here site!
Today's trip would never have happened if I had not met DR Chas on this lovely site
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DR Chas is looking rather dapper this evening.
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'night
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I am not now sure of what year I joined but I am guessing it was about 10 years ago ... I was sitting on hold at my office and bored I googled my own name... it let me to a post on this site, my friend, former DR WFO , had told a story and mentioned my full name in his story
I read a few days of pages was intrigued, joined and have been here ever since
I have met wonderful friends here. When I was tested for and ultimately diagnosed and treated for cancer HHW and all you wonderful friends were my support group, my sounding board, my shoulder to cry on and my reason to laugh
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DR Chas is looking rather dapper this evening.
Dr Chas looked especially handsome tonight! (and that boy can PLAY the pianny)
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The show was wonderful and the cast received a well deserved standing ovation at the end of the show
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The audience was with them the whole way ... there were a few intense moments hen you could feel the entire audience holding its collective breaths........... you could have heard a pin drop
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DR Chas is looking rather dapper this evening.
DR Chas is looking like he should have straightened his tie! Good lord!
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Vixmom, how was the restaurant? I haven't had a moment to try it yet.
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We decided to play the OBC of Ragtime on our way to the show -- it took exactly the length of the cast recording to get from church to the theatre
one funny coincidence (which we could not have planned if we tried) as we drove up US 95 North as we approached the exit for Mamaroneck the train conductor on the recording shouted "Next stop Mamaroneck!"
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DR Chas is looking rather dapper this evening.
DR Chas is looking like he should have straightened his tie! Good lord!
you looked perfect! I was standing crooked!
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Lovely photos, vixmom!!!!
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Congrats on a great show, Chas!!
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Where's page 5?
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Thanks for the pictures of your day and mini-HHW reunion, DR Ginny!
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Almost!
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Oops, I meant: We're here!
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Vixmom, how was the restaurant? I haven't had a moment to try it yet.
it was very nice! The Vixter had meatloaf with mashed potatoes and green beans from the main menu
I ordered off the brunch menu and had the steak and eggs. The steak was delicious, perfectly cooked and served with a wonderful demiglace, I requested the eggs poached with hollandaise sauce and they were likewise perfectly cooked and came with buttery homefries
We both enjoyed our meals
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I was standing crooked!
I do that all the time! :)
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The weather predictions for tomorrow are all over the map; snow predicted anywhere from 6 to 16 inches.
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Apparently they are naming the winter storms now, like they do the hurricanes.
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Vixmom, how was the restaurant? I haven't had a moment to try it yet.
it was very nice! The Vixter had meatloaf with mashed potatoes and green beans from the main menu
I ordered off the brunch menu and had the steak and eggs. The steak was delicious, perfectly cooked and served with a wonderful demiglace, I requested the eggs poached with hollandaise sauce and they were likewise perfectly cooked and came with buttery homefries
We both enjoyed our meals
That all sounds excellent. I'll get back there soon, just to EAT.
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Didn't they start naming the storms a year or two ago? (I HATE IT.)
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OMG I agree with DR Vixmom. I have never climbed on a roof and hope to never do do. I am too afraid of falling.
It's a flat roof, you'd pretty much have to jump to fall. I have been on slated roofs, but not the one on this house because I have a slate roof and if you walk on a slate roof the slate will break
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Happy Anniversary to HHW!!!
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I will post more in a little while I have a cat in my lap and can't type very well
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Vixmom, how was the restaurant? I haven't had a moment to try it yet.
it was very nice! The Vixter had meatloaf with mashed potatoes and green beans from the main menu
I ordered off the brunch menu and had the steak and eggs. The steak was delicious, perfectly cooked and served with a wonderful demiglace, I requested the eggs poached with hollandaise sauce and they were likewise perfectly cooked and came with buttery homefries
We both enjoyed our meals
That all sounds excellent. I'll get back there soon, just to EAT.
there was also this really interesting place across the street we wandered around a little to look (could have looked for hours!) but there was nothing on the menu to the Vixter's liking
(http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff302/HHWgroup/november2014625_zps74ee0ba0.jpg) (http://s238.photobucket.com/user/HHWgroup/media/november2014625_zps74ee0ba0.jpg.html)
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We have received the check-in info for our apartment, so DR Elmore's fire escape is available!
'night!
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Ok, first of all, I found this site in about 2005. I was working on the computer...maybe on my photography and listening to the Lost in Boston that my friend Rupert is on. After his song..there was this guy singing "I Love Fish" I couldn't figure it out. I actually thought that my radio had turned itself on or something. It wasn't listed on the CD case, so I emailed Rupert and he said "That's Bruce Kimmel and it's called an Easter Egg"
After getting that straightened out, I did a search for Bruce Kimmel and found this site. I began posting shortly after finding it. Not too long after that I went to a seminar in Portland where I met George, Jane and her DH Keith, and the JMK family. I realized that this was a great group and was quick to decide to go NYC to meet more of the HHW family. I also made it to LA and met up with our own BK. I'm hoping this new cat sitter may work out so I can see people once again
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Sounds like a great day Vixmom!
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It's been great to have my HHW family who is always here when I'm concerned about this or that.
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I would have been here earlier, but I was being productive.
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First I went to the office and got the project done I wanted to get done. It is now sitting in an express mail envelope and will go to the post office in the morning
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Then, I came home and ate pie (I got a whole pumpkin pie yesterday there isn't a lot left)
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Then I went out and put plastic up over the window and door of my laundry room and the kitchen and powder room windows. It's clear, you can see through it, but it's the north side of the house and makes a huge difference in the temperature in the house
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Oh, before I went outside, I did all the prep work and started a vegetable beef soup. When I came in 2 hours later it was just right. Yummy!
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Let's see, then I did the laundry
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Oh, and I took the screens off of the front and back doors and put in the storm windows
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I cleaned out the leaves from the drain from the lower patio
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I trimmed the bushes in front of the house
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I refilled the bird feeder
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Ummm, I think that's about all I did
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Now I'm listening to the news. There is a weekend news caster who is really whiny about the weather...."oh, it's going to be cold, I hate it, I'm going to blame the weather man" I'd watch a different channel but there isn't another doing the news right now.
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I did a lot of driving
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and clapping
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and some crying
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I think we're going to have about 1/2 inch of snow and it won't start until about 5:00 PM tomorrow. I'm fine with that. I haven't gotten the leaves taken care of, but I can still hire someone to do that. I really needed to get the plastic on those windows today. I didn't do the stretch kind with the hair dryer this year, It looks crystal clear, but has blown off the past two years in a row. So I just got clear plastic and really strong tape and put it up. Hoping it will work. It's amazing how much warmer it is in here
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I wouldn't have done that much today, but it was in the lower 50s and starting tomorrow the highs are going to be in the 20s for the foreseeable future. I'd much rather do the outside work when it's in the 50s.
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Unfortunately, in between each thing I did I managed to eat something....soup, pie, fruit, twizzlers.....I'm feeling very full
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it was also a full day of eating for me
dinner was a the rest stop in Milford CT
http://cheeseboy.com/
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I had the Gobbler and it was wonderful
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https://www.backstageeatdrinklive.com/
and this was lunch (well brunch, we didn't have breakfast)
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it was also a full day of eating for me
dinner was a the rest stop in Milford CT
http://cheeseboy.com/
That looks yummy!
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How does DR vixmom just drive somewhere and find all of this great food?
Or maybe it's, like ..... the food finds her???
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I'm feeling sleepy. I have a busy day at work tomorrow. Time to go.
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How does DR vixmom just drive somewhere and find all of this great food?
Or maybe it's, like ..... the food finds her???
Just lucky I guess! We stopped at the service station as we were running low on gasoline and then decided to use the facilities and were intrigued by the name Cheesy Boy as we never heard of it before- I highly recommend it --- they also had a homemade tomato soup I now regret not buying
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Torrington's main street looked immensely interesting we wish we had more hours to explore it
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and some crying
Ragtime does that to me, too.
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Thanks for the photos, Vixmom.
Looking snazzy, Chassy.
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Just finished a book on Rouben Mamoulian's role in shaping Porgy and Bess, so I've been listening to some of my jazz versions of the score. Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne up first, then Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.
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well I have got to get some sleep good night all
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TOD:
I came to this sight through Elmore, who had been an acquaintance ever since I did a story about him for the Middletown Journal. We met again in upstate New York (Cohoes, which I mentioned recently, to be precise) and my admiration for his work grew through the years. I became more acquainted with BK when someone gave me "A Broadway Christmas," which I proceeded to play for the entire year after that. I began collecting more of the Varese Sarabande recordings, so I got to hear a lot of Elmore's work for BK, too. Then Elmore brought me to this site, and it has really been a blessing. You all were here for me after I lost my last journalism job and during the time it took for me to realize that that, too, was a blessing, albeit one in a thick, heavy, freaking disguise. And it has been nice to be able to share the good stuff with you as well, from getting my new job to the two books, the school work and even the daily gifts.
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Today, I worked concessions for the Olympia Symphony Orchestra. I got a lot of reading in during the show. ;)
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Actually, I could hear the orchestra from the lobby and they were pretty good. They performed music based on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."
Bellini: Overture to I Capuleti e I Montecchi
Prokofiev: Suite No. 2 from the ballet Romeo and Juliet
Lars-Erik Larsson: Conciertino for Double Bass, Op. 45 soloist: Logan Coale, double-bass
Bernstein: Symphonic dances from West Side Story
As 2014 marks the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, I feel it was a must to do a concert based on the Bard—and his indelible inspiration to generations of composers. This program focuses on the play Romeo and Juliet (completed in 1595), and the young “star-crossed lovers” from feuding Italian families. The Overture to Bellini’s rarely-produced opera I Capuleti and Montecchi opens this concert, and a Suite from the amazing ballet-score by Serge Prokofiev will also be performed—one of the most stirring Russian works in the repertoire. Romeo and Juliet inspired West Side Story, and the “Symphonic Dances” concert-hall work that Leonard Bernstein crafted from the full Broadway has become one of the most treasured pieces of American orchestral music. A short Concerto for Double Bass by the Swedish composer, Lars-Erik Larsson, rounds out this program—note how the solo works go from bottom to top throughout our “Fact or Fiction” season!
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Oops, I meant: We're here!
And here's the proof!
(http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff302/HHWgroup/FJLs22000th_zps0e0a954f.png)
:D
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The pure white short-haired cat that walks around the neighborhood must have been celebrating Halloween.
When he came yesterday, he looked like this.
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Oh, my goodness! I think that that cat has had some "work" done.
;)
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We decided to play the OBC of Ragtime on our way to the show -- it took exactly the length of the cast recording to get from church to the theatre
one funny coincidence (which we could not have planned if we tried) as we drove up US 95 North as we approached the exit for Mamaroneck the train conductor on the recording shouted "Next stop Mamaroneck!"
That's pretty cool! I love this score! Someday, I'll actually get to see it.
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About joining HHW, I was a fan of BK's when he was on the website that he started (and was ended by the bad stuff). I don't remember exactly how I found HHW, but I started lurking and eventually joined in June of 2002.
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Had a nice dinner at the Daily Grill, then watched stuff.
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Well...
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...since...
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...we...
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...are...
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...so...
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...close...
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