Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on December 27, 2014, 12:27:59 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes paid a visit ($1.93) and a visit bought a candy bar and a soda pop, and now it is time for you to post until the visiting cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: SUMPTUARY!
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Morning all.
That is all.
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Good morning, everyone.
Sorry I didn't make it back here yesterday after my morning visit. I worked all day, and then went straight to a birthday party thrown in honor of my DH. Whose birthday it was.
Good King Wenceslas looked out on the Feast of Stephen. Yep, that was what day it was. :)
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DR TCB - so happy that all your loved ones are OK.
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LOVED the photo from yesterday's mini-HHW reunion! :)
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Good morning, all! I must run to the post office and market, which should put me back here close to 10AM. Then, I plan to listen to Sandy Bainum's new CD, which I've been looking forward to, and contact my Mac man to assure he will come tomorrow and fix my computer.
My only other plans today are to cook and freeze at least half of whatever I purchase at the market. I'm still up in the air about chili, pasta sauce, or chicken soup. I'll decide when I get there.
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Coffee!
I mean, good morning, all!
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I wonder how many times DR SINGDAW is singing today? Or is today a work day?
I am all mixed up. What day is it?
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Belated birthday greetings to JAYSON.
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I wonder how many times DR SINGDAW is singing today?
I read that as "I wonder how many notes DR SINGDAW is singing today".
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I can't tell you what day it is. Yesterday felt like a Monday to me, all day and into the evening.
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Saturday morning greetings! I agree, yesterday felt like Monday.
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Fr. Richard is on his way to Lima for a funeral. Remember when we were there for Easter weekend, he was called to the hospital for the death of Mr. B? Well, Mrs. B died just a few days before Christmas. Richard is not performing the funeral, but wanted to be there.
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I am not accompanying Richard because the plan was to meet my cousin and his wife (from Georgia) at Mom's for a visit. Well, they heard from their cat sitter late yesterday that their house had been broken into, so they've headed home. For a while, their 2 cats were missing, but apparently they've been found.
I have to go to Mom's at the appointed time because her phone is still not connected and I could not notify her of the change in plans. That will be my task for Monday - chasing down someone on campus who can get the phone straightened out. Holiday time is not the best time to engineer a move.
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good morning to all
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Errands are run, and I am home. I have things to accomplish today, so I'd better start.
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tod
I think it would be a three panel Cinerama movie. The film would be The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm which was one of two fiction films. (The rest of the Cinema movies were documentaries) It was released in 1962. I've never seen this film in any format.
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Visit and telephone vibes for DR GINNY - who set us straight on what day it is.
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Cinerama movies are so strange on TV - don't know how they are in the theater - but the people walk toward the camera and get bigger. And for all the technology, you can still see the separation lines of the three cameras....at least on tv.
Maybe in some of the BluRay discs being released, it's not so apparent.
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There is another Carry On movie coming on TCM.....I think it's Carry On Teaching.....
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We are now watching and listening as James A. Fitzpatrick discusses Cambridge College....most interesting.
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A shot of us after dinner on Christmas day with espresso and pastries
(http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff302/HHWgroup/ChristmasonLI_zpsa1245be4.jpg) (http://s238.photobucket.com/user/HHWgroup/media/ChristmasonLI_zpsa1245be4.jpg.html)
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Nice photo, DR Ben! Next year's Christmas card?
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I was just straightening up some
sh stuff, and uncovered the LinkSys Wi-Fi router I'd been using up till just a few months ago when I got a new modem/router combo supplied by the cable company. So now I'm wondering:
DR Elmore: are you still routerless at Toyland? You're totally welcome to try plugging this one in and, if it works, just keep it.
I don't know what you'd have to do -- if anything -- to configure it or set a new password or whatever, but maybe someone here has a clue or two?
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I got a "new" one at Goodwill a couple of months ago, and it worked when I plugged it in. I think a password is needed only if you want to keep your signal to yourself.
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What a great photograph DR BEN!! Thanks for sharing.
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I must say that so far CARRY ON TEACHER is the funniest of the series I have seen so far.
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BK, I'm glad you had such a nice visit with your darling daughter. We're looking forward to Rob and Mary Linda returning from Michigan today. We'll have our Christmas celebration with them tomorrow - bacon-wrapped filet mignon, anyone?
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A shot of us after dinner on Christmas day with espresso and pastries
(http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff302/HHWgroup/ChristmasonLI_zpsa1245be4.jpg) (http://s238.photobucket.com/user/HHWgroup/media/ChristmasonLI_zpsa1245be4.jpg.html)
How festive-- I love it!
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bacon-wrapped filet mignon, anyone?
Yes!
:) :) :)
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I'm up, I'm up - maybe six hours of sleep - this madness must stop this coming week. I have to get eight hours or more every day from now until a week from Monday.
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Good morning!
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Some of the family members are coming later for pizza. It's DR Kate's husband's birthday.
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Great photo, Ben !
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I had the craziest dream - all I can tell you is I was having a meeting with a singer named Johnny "Stilts" something-or-other. He'd made one album in the 60s for United Artists - him singing odd songs complete with background noise like people chattering at a restaurant or whatever (not recorded live!). And then Quentin Tarantino had used a track in the film previous to Kill Bill, which, in this dream was called something with the last word being Disturbance in the two-word title. That had gotten him notice and his manager and he were trying to place the album, which they, according to them, owned, even though what they were playing me sounded like a bad, bad vinyl transfer from a scratchy record. They kept talking about owning it and how convoluted getting ownership had been because at the time of release they'd sent Sammy Cahn the two-inch session tapes rather than a mixed version and he'd sued them and won $500,000. (I'm not making one word of this up). Then we were at a club and Stilts was going to perform. Then my alarm went off.
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Nice photo of DR JohnG,DR Ginny and DH Richard!
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Wow, what a detailed memory of your dream, BK!
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bacon-wrapped filet mignon, anyone?
Yes!
:) :) :)
Well, now I know what to serve when DR ChasSmith comes for dinner!
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This is a most entertaining dream.
Perhaps the Dream-O-Matic 6000 should take a crack at it.
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Good morning.
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Sleep vibes for BK
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Wow, what a detailed memory of your dream, BK!
Some fifteen years ago I decided to keep a dream journal for a while, and described the really elaborate ones in that kind of detail. For a few of them I even made a sketch of the layout of the place I was dreaming about. I gave up the practice after a few years, but still have a twinge of regret about doing so whenever one of those beautiful epics comes around. Hell, I've had a few within the past few weeks that would have qualified for making the effort. Those worlds and situations we create in our sleep are often quite fascinating and beautiful.
Here's something weird, though. When you write them down like that, you "assume" you've documented them well enough that you'll be able to read them years later and picture them all over again. That may be the case with many of them, but I took that journal out a couple of years ago and was stunned at the number of them, even those long ones described in that kind of detail, that resulted in a total blank! :)
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LOVED the photo from yesterday's mini-HHW reunion! :)
Sod did I!
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Errands are run, and I am home. I have thin gs to accomplish today, so I'd better start.
I wish I had some thin gs. It would be the only thin thing I have.
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I stepped on the scale today
I am again convinced that the scale doesn't know what it's talking about
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I don't want to think about that
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I thought about going to the sales in the stores because you can get such good deals, but then I decided not buying anything is a better deal, so I'll just stay away
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It snowed last night. Only about 2 -3 inches, but it's nice to see snow again. I cleaned out the driveway this morning and now will have to scoop out the hump left at the end of the driveway by the road grader
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I woke up to the cats making lots of noise in their new habit of fighting. I was not happy as I sprang from bed screaming "WHAT IS GOING ON!!!!!!" They split up and we've only had a hiss or two since then.
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I ordered some of Jackson Galaxy's spirit essences. There is one called Peacemaker that is supposed to stop this sort of fighting and one called safe space that is supposed to make them feel safe and that their boundaries aren't being invaded. I have no idea if this stuff works. The reviews are great and he seems to have the touch, so I'm going to try it.
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I keep saying I'm going to lock them in different rooms, but they seem to do that themselves. I really don't think they will hurt each other at this point and am concerned that they are just trying to wake me up as when they fight I do tend to come running.
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I stepped on the scale today
I am again convinced that the scale doesn't know what it's talking about
Mine's broken, too!!
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I was just straightening up some sh stuff, and uncovered the LinkSys Wi-Fi router I'd been using up till just a few months ago when I got a new modem/router combo supplied by the cable company. So now I'm wondering:
DR Elmore: are you still routerless at Toyland? You're totally welcome to try plugging this one in and, if it works, just keep it.
I don't know what you'd have to do -- if anything -- to configure it or set a new password or whatever, but maybe someone here has a clue or two?
DR ChasSmith, I don't know the answer! That's the bailiwick of my vey E&T colleague Curtis. I believe he is back in town next week, and i will inquire.
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I must say that so far CARRY ON TEACHER is the funniest of the series I have seen so far.
I love the Hammer Films CARRY ON (HAUNTING?)with Jim Dale and Finella Fielding.
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The soup is made; I ended up with three pots, so I threw some corn starch into one and got rid of most of the stock, and I have chicken stew. The process took about four hours, and I have listened to Sandy's album three times so far.
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I hope that means you like it!
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Back from a bacon and cheese omelet, doing errands, and picking one little package.
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Well, my sister and I are at our cousin's house in Oregon and have been since yesterday. We had a long drive and stopped a couple times, but otherwise had no trouble driving down here. We'll be here until Monday! My nettab tablet couldn't hook up to my cousin's wi-fi so I'm on my cousin's iPad. I probably won't be able to be back on HHW until we get back on Monday. :(
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So, I'll be back when I'm able to be back! Have a good weekend, all! :D
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PAGE THREE DANCE!!
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I hope that means you like it!
Very much. I'm not sure I'm ready to talk about it yet. Does Sandy's husband want to produce a video of The Brain from Planet X for SyFy or HBO? I really like her "Here On Earth."
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Belated,
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I am not accompanying Richard because the plan was to meet my cousin and his wife (from Georgia) at Mom's for a visit. Well, they heard from their cat sitter late yesterday that their house had been broken into, so they've headed home. For a while, their 2 cats were missing, but apparently they've been found.
I have to go to Mom's at the appointed time because her phone is still not connected and I could not notify her of the change in plans. That will be my task for Monday - chasing down someone on campus who can get the phone straightened out. Holiday time is not the best time to engineer a move.
I am relieved for them that their cats have been found. Good luck with the phone situation.
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Nice photo, DR Ben! Next year's Christmas card?
DITTO!
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Some of the family members are coming later for pizza. It's DR Kate's husband's birthday.
For the husband of DR Kate,
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at this point and am concerned that they are just trying to wake me up as when they fight I do tend to come running.
That is very possible-lol
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Have fun DR George and safe travels home!
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I have had a very lazy, quiet day of napping and just doing what I darned well feel like. :)
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We, too, have a new blanket of white - about 5 inches - a nice surprise when we woke up this morning.
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If anyone is looking for some amazon. com kindle sales:
http://aestasbookblog.com/latest-book-sales/
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Belated birthday wishes for DH Jayson.
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Dayton is drizzly and dank today. But I've had a lot of fun exploring.
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If anyone is looking for some amazon. com kindle sales:
http://aestasbookblog.com/latest-book-sales/
I see "Me Before You" on there which I highly recommend.
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If anyone is looking for some amazon. com kindle sales:
http://aestasbookblog.com/latest-book-sales/
I see "Me Before You" on there which I highly recommend.
One of my favorite authors, Colleen Hoover has two books on that list.
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Thanks for the tip DR Jennifer. I didn't see anything I need.
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I use a site called ereaderiq.com. You can put your kindle wishlist in there and they will notify you when any of the e-books go on sale. It's pretty cool. I've also been lending/borrowing a lot of kindle books. There are many e-books you can loan once for 14 days. Love this feature. Although there is one book I have been wanting to read that nobody seems to have.
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If anyone is looking for some amazon. com kindle sales:
http://aestasbookblog.com/latest-book-sales/
I see "Me Before You" on there which I highly recommend.
One of my favorite authors, Colleen Hoover has two books on that list.
Did you get them? I'm not in love with my Kindle app and am just using it for something I really want, if the price is worth it. I'm going to double check it for a series I'm reading that I have to purchase vs getting at the library.
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If anyone is looking for some amazon. com kindle sales:
http://aestasbookblog.com/latest-book-sales/
I see "Me Before You" on there which I highly recommend.
One of my favorite authors, Colleen Hoover has two books on that list.
Did you get them? I'm not in love with my Kindle app and am just using it for something I really want, if the price is worth it. I'm going to double check it for a series I'm reading that I have to purchase vs getting at the library.
I've already read all of her books. I don't often give 5 stars. But all of her books but one have been 5 stars for me. She is an amazing author.
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I am currently reading "Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown. It is well written and I am engrossed in the story.
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DR Jennifer I think you would like the books by JoJo Moyers. I recently finished "One Plus One". While not as thought provoking as "Me Before You" is is excellent. The main characters are extremely likable.
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No discounts for the books I was searching for. I did find one for something else on B&N, so thanks Jennifer for motivating me to search.
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Hello, everyone.
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Today was the day for putting away Christmas presents. The problem is that I have no room for anything! I am a pack rat by nature, but trying to live in a small space and be more of a minimalist. I am bursting at the seams here and looking for what I can get rid of.
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Belated birthday wishes to DH Jayson. I hope he's fully recovered, too.
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Great photo of DR Ben and DH Anthony. I always like Ben's taste in eyeglass frames. I pay a lot of attention to such things!
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I had the craziest dream - all I can tell you is I was having a meeting with a singer named Johnny "Stilts" something-or-other. He'd made one album in the 60s for United Artists - him singing odd songs complete with background noise like people chattering at a restaurant or whatever (not recorded live!). And then Quentin Tarantino had used a track in the film previous to Kill Bill, which, in this dream was called something with the last word being Disturbance in the two-word title. That had gotten him notice and his manager and he were trying to place the album, which they, according to them, owned, even though what they were playing me sounded like a bad, bad vinyl transfer from a scratchy record. They kept talking about owning it and how convoluted getting ownership had been because at the time of release they'd sent Sammy Cahn the two-inch session tapes rather than a mixed version and he'd sued them and won $500,000. (I'm not making one word of this up). Then we were at a club and Stilts was going to perform. Then my alarm went off.
This dream may compete with many of DR Elmore's in the Most Colorful Dream category.
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Wow, what a detailed memory of your dream, BK!
Some fifteen years ago I decided to keep a dream journal for a while, and described the really elaborate ones in that kind of detail. For a few of them I even made a sketch of the layout of the place I was dreaming about. I gave up the practice after a few years, but still have a twinge of regret about doing so whenever one of those beautiful epics comes around. Hell, I've had a few within the past few weeks that would have qualified for making the effort. Those worlds and situations we create in our sleep are often quite fascinating and beautiful.
Here's something weird, though. When you write them down like that, you "assume" you've documented them well enough that you'll be able to read them years later and picture them all over again. That may be the case with many of them, but I took that journal out a couple of years ago and was stunned at the number of them, even those long ones described in that kind of detail, that resulted in a total blank! :)
I know what you mean. That has happened to me when returning to my notes. There was apparently a lot that never made it to paper.
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I stepped on the scale today
I am again convinced that the scale doesn't know what it's talking about
Mine's broken, too!!
The mirror lies, as well. I lost twenty pounds last year, and yet, when I look into the mirror, all I see is what I still wish to lose.
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I have had a very lazy, quiet day of napping and just doing what I darned well feel like. :)
I'm glad you were able to have a lazy day. I have no doubt you needed it.
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I have nothing else to report.
TTFN.
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Just being lazy. Not. I wrote half the commentary, got the MD his music and stuff, and ate some Wacky Noodles (didn't make the whole box - whew!). I have to say The Fortune is one of the most punishingly long movies I've ever seen. It runs eighty-eight minutes and seems like four-and-a-half hours, no mean feat.
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Thanks for the birthday wishes for my DH! Yes, thankfully, he is feeling much better now.
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We are re-watching The Princess Bride. Haven't seen it since it first came out.
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DR Jennifer I think you would like the books by JoJo Moyers. I recently finished "One Plus One". While not as thought provoking as "Me Before You" is is excellent. The main characters are extremely likable.
I haven't read any of these books although my library has them.
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Give one a try ;)
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Give one a try ;)
Maybe. I have seen them recommended a lot. Although since i cannot keep with the books on my TBR already it could be a while. :)
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I have had a very lazy, quiet day of napping and just doing what I darned well feel like. :)
Aren't you waiting on your husband? Happy Birthday, Jayson!
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I am off to see a production of SCROOGE THE MUSICAL, featuring a couple of friends of DR George.
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A shot of us after dinner on Christmas day with espresso and pastries
(http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff302/HHWgroup/ChristmasonLI_zpsa1245be4.jpg) (http://s238.photobucket.com/user/HHWgroup/media/ChristmasonLI_zpsa1245be4.jpg.html)
Ah! I am glad to see we are not the only ones that maintain the tradition of Christmas crackers!
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bacon-wrapped filet mignon, anyone?
Yes!
:) :) :)
Well, now I know what to serve when DR ChasSmith comes for dinner!
I may have to drive him there
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vixdad and I went to the movies today we went to see The Hobbit part three We quite enjoyed it
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I hope that means you like it!
Very much. I'm not sure I'm ready to talk about it yet. Does Sandy's husband want to produce a video of The Brain from Planet X for SyFy or HBO? I really like her "Here On Earth."
That would be so cool!
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Have fun DR George and safe travels home!
Thanks, Jane!
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Belated birthday wishes for DH Jayson.
Ditto!!
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We are re-watching The Princess Bride. Haven't seen it since it first came out.
Today, my cousin mentioned that he'd heard that TPB was mentioned as a possible remake contender!
NOOOOOOO!!!!
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I am off to see a production of SCROOGE THE MUSICAL, featuring a couple of friends of DR George.
Hope you enjoyed it, Tom!
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vixdad and I went to the movies today we went to see The Hobbit part three We quite enjoyed it
I haven't even seen part 2. ::)
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Well, I'm at my cousin's and everyone has gone to bed.
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He let me use his iPad, so I at least have contact with the outside world.
;)
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My net pad tablet is just not very good at all.
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It has some options that are great...
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...such as mini-hdmi output...
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...two, count 'em, TWO mini sd memory card slots (up to 32GB each!)...
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...two, count 'me, TWO USB inputs...
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...AND an Ethernet cable input.
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The browser speed is crap, as is the battery life.
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I think the most time I've gotten with the battery is about 45 minutes.
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That's just wrong.
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:P
And since we're so close...
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5
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Well, we can't stop here just yet!
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Today can't be the lowest posting day!
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And so it shan't. :D
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Gratuitous Post #124!
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Just saw the new "Annie" movie. It hit all the marks it should have, especially being full of heart - like any other "Annie" treatment. Lots of fun.
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Just saw the new "Annie" movie. It hit all the marks it should have, especially being full of heart - like any other "Annie" treatment. Lots of fun.
That's good to know. I don't know if it's enough to make me want to see it in a theater, but I will more likely want to at least see it on DVD. :)
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I, on the other hand, am finished with my viewing and listening to music. I did the Facebook event page for the Kritzerland show. Facebook has FINALLY done something helpful - you can now choose an event list from a previous event and invite from there - while there's no select all function, it's so much easier because you're only dealing with less than three hundred invites, instead of having to scroll through 3,000 "friends" which is what I've had to do all these years. And since we always invite the same folks, it only took five minutes rather than two hours.
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And now, I must go to bed. Last night, I slept quite uncomfortably. The metal futon frame of the hide-a-bed that I slept on was VERY uncomfortable. Tonight, however, we put the mattress directly on the floor and my cousin had ANOTHER mattress that we put on top of that. It should at least be MORE comfortable than being on the metal frame.
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Until the next time!!
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This is most unseemly.
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You know what they say - the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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Or so the notes told me.
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People just deserted this here site in search of other excitement.
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Not me. I get all the excitement I need right here, baby.
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I could go on like this for hours.
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Or seconds.
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I could, but I won't.