Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on March 31, 2016, 12:03:13 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes bid a fond farewell to March, and now it is time for you to post until the fond cows come home.
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And the word of the day: APRICITY!
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And a happy haineshisway.com birthday to dear reader Ann, wherever she may be.
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First after BK!
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Happy Birthday, Ann.
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good morning to all
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Happ birthday Ann! Come home to HHW you are missed!
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I have always wanted to be able to play the violin. Especially fiddle music.. I tried for many years and I was truly dreadful...in fact I cannot play sang instrument I simply do not have the coordination and talent. If not the violin, then the piano or guitar
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Good morning, all! It was a very bad night.
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While I can tell the physical therapy is doing good things for my leg, it doesn't mean a thing to the neves in my leg and spinal cord. Around 2:00AM, I finally broke down and took two Tylenol/Arthritis. I wsill be a zombie today.
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I have no plans today beyond finishing the orchestration and getting ready to begin the Moross score, Act Two. The apartment needs a heavy cleaning as well. I hate slobs, and I can be one.
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TOD-- probably the piano.
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Where's our ChasSmith report on "1776"?
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DR JohnG, I have Jack Viertel's book, and he signed it for me at last week's sitzprobe. I have not read much of it yet, but I'm enjoying it.
Its approach seems pretty much based on Lehman Engel's wonderful books and the BMI workshop, which Engel began, but unlike a lot of musical theatre books it's tempered by his personal observations from seeing a lot of musicals in their original Broadway runs over the past 50 years. Unlike a lot of theory-but-no-practice musical theatre book authors, he's been in the trenches.
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Good morning, all.
Here I am, enjoying a "1776" hangover.
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I knew I should have picked up that book last night, damn it.
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Well, I'll still get it.
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"1776" was wonderful, and I enjoyed the unique casting.
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We all really liked Messrs. Adams, Franklin, and Jefferson. And the two women. But really, everyone was fine.
The audience was right with them, eating up every line.
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Orchestra great, of course, and I must say that that new Broadway star Jeremy contributed real beauty to it with some gorgeous double reed playing.
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Orchestra great, of course, and I must say that that new Broadway star Jeremy contributed real beauty to it with some gorgeous double reed playing.
Those Clayton boys are mighty talented!
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TOD:
Piano.
I had lessons when I was a kid, but nothing took.
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Continued good health vibes for MR BK.
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Glad you found your files DR ELMORE!
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TOD:
Guitar.
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Good morning, all.
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Great news on 1776. I hope it's a big hit.
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TOD: Most any instrument would be fun to learn, but I guess I'd really like to bump it with a trumpet.
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Glad you found your files DR ELMORE!
Thank you! I am, too. It took forever because of that curiosity on how iTunes are stored. I had to open all files and search within them.
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DR JohnG, I have Jack Viertel's book, and he signed it for me at last week's sitzprobe. I have not read much of it yet, but I'm enjoying it.
Its approach seems pretty much based on Lehman Engel's wonderful books and the BMI workshop, which Engel began, but unlike a lot of musical theatre books it's tempered by his personal observations from seeing a lot of musicals in their original Broadway runs over the past 50 years. Unlike a lot of theory-but-no-practice musical theatre book authors, he's been in the trenches.
I picked it up last night when I should have been sleeping and devoured about 30 pages without realizing it. He goes over some of the same ground that Engel does, but the writing is better, even if I don't agree with some of his opinions. And I like the fact that I don't agree with him all the time.
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Two!
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Another Thursday.
My doctor called me just before 4 p.m. yesterday and changed more prescriptions. So, I went to the pharmacy to pick them up. Once home, I hauled everything out and threw out the old and replaced with the new.
I was very tired last night and decided to lie down on my bed around 7:30 p.m. Woke up at 12:34 a.m. Went back to bed and woke up at 5:36 a.m.
I'm blaming my new meds cocktail for the sudden attack of sleepiness. Will know the truth of it today as I proceed here at work. Thus far, I feel fine.
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I'm hoping (against hope?) that my CD of "Sun Valley Serenade" will await me in my mailbox at home this evening. I'm so jealous of everyone who has gotten his or hers.
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I'm also a bit concerned about a replacement 1099-R from the Department of Veterans Affairs. It was ordered a week ago Monday. Received an e-mail late Monday afternoon (March 21) saying my request had been processed. I thought that meant it has been mailed.
You wouldn't know it, though, given the sluggish mail delivery we've been experiencing recently here in Oakland CA.
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Tomorrow is fool's day.
Who will be making fools of us, I wonder? Will we fall for whatever is put forth?
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DR vixmom, I'm reporting you to the truant officer for playing hooky today.
You'd better have a signed note on you just in case.
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DR Tom....because I was reading without context, I thought your wish for "something with a big trunk" might have been you wishing euphemistically...
Glad to know it's a vehicle, though.
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Had a bacon & egg sammich for brekkies.
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I just took a little break skimming through reaction to "1776" on the chat boards. It's positively amazing what people will get hung up on sometimes, to the detriment of their own appreciation for the whole. Lots of pros and cons on this one!
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Casting, costuming, direction, it all comes under fire among the raves which are plentiful as well. I'm very interested in what the reviews have in store.
One very interesting thing to me is several people commenting on the volume of the orchestra. It did indeed seem a bit low in comparison to that of the last several productions I've seen. I don't refer to the playing, but to the engineered balance which always seems very controlled but well executed at Encores! Specifically, at the two shows last year for which I heard the rehearsal in the beautiful tight acoustics at the studio, all that wonderful power was there as well at City Center. In "1776" that power was likewise magnificent in the studio, but seemed a bit too controlled last night. Again, I don't mean their playing at all, just the amplification levels balancing orchestra and vocals. Vocals were fine.
DR Elmore - if you think I'm off base in this critique, just say so. I might not have even ventured to mention it if I hadn't seen that others had the same reaction.
What's really amusing is misinformation about the orchestrations, for which DR Elmore's corrections are a breath of fresh air. It seems that Mr. Viertel's remarks may have left things a little unclear, complicated by wrong or incomplete information in the Suskin book.
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TOD:
I have to say piano too. I just love the sound of it and it even sounds good played all by itself. I've never been as big a fan of horns or strings individually - I have to hear them played all together to sound good.
I'd like to play the guitar too.
And drums or any percussion instrument look like an awful lot of fun. Unfortunately, I have a terrible sense of rhythm. I don't think I could even play the tambourine well.
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TOD
Oy. Can I choose more than one? I look around me these days and see people -- not just pros, but local friends who dived into multiple instruments back when the diving was good for them -- and I very much wish I'd worked on at least a couple of others.
In high school for some reason I became interested in flute and piccolo, borrowed same from a friend who wasn't using hers at the time, picked up a fingering chart, figured out how to get a sound out of the damned thing, and played around with that for quite a while. Haven't touched one since, and probably couldn't make a sound on it now to save my life, but to this day I can think through the fingering of something I'm hearing.
Prior to that, I became infatuated with drums, bought a cheapo set, and took some lessons. That lasted about as long as the flute, and I didn't go very far with technical proficiency, but I'll bet you if I sat down at a set right now, the basic four-limb coordination for basic rhythms would still be accessible.
I've never had the slightest affinity for strings. I have the ability to pick up an instrument and hand it to its owner without breaking anything, but that's as far as that goes. So, this leaves us with winds and brass, and I would still love to just get familiar with a few such things. Which won't do the world any good at all, so let's not push it...
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I'm up because these (I cannot type the word I would like to) have been doing the most relentless hammering I've ever heard - thankfully I fell asleep before one so I at least got about seven hours - it sounds like one jerk up there - I think they're putting the roof on, but you have never heard anything like it in your life.
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And then you've got the three other houses that are going up.
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Didn't a Professor Hill warn of trouble in Studio City?
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I'm sorry to hear about the noise, but I'm sorrier still to hear about the big picture, that perfect neighborhood being blighted...
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DR Elmore - if you think I'm off base in this critique, just say so. I might not have even ventured to mention it if I hadn't seen that others had the same reaction.
What's really amusing is misinformation about the orchestrations, for which DR Elmore's corrections are a breath of fresh air. It seems that Mr. Viertel's remarks may have left things a little unclear, complicated by wrong or incomplete information in the Suskin book.
I've heard from inside sources that the problem is the sound person on this show. it's not the ever-reliable Scott Lehrer who knows how to make an orchestra sound great and natural. The orchestra has to be miked because of their position on stage. all the real sound gets lost in the flies.
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DR Elmore - if you think I'm off base in this critique, just say so. I might not have even ventured to mention it if I hadn't seen that others had the same reaction.
What's really amusing is misinformation about the orchestrations, for which DR Elmore's corrections are a breath of fresh air. It seems that Mr. Viertel's remarks may have left things a little unclear, complicated by wrong or incomplete information in the Suskin book.
I've heard from inside sources that the problem is the sound person on this show. it's not the ever-reliable Scott Lehrer who knows how to make an orchestra sound great and natural. The orchestra has to be miked because of their position on stage. all the real sound gets lost in the flies.
Thank you for confirming!
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Tonight, our local PBS station (KQED) is airing the San Francisco Opera Company's 2013 production of "Show Boat" (with Bill Erwin as Captan Andy).
I have my DVR set to record it.
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Good Morning All:
I am watching the Mass for Mother Angelica Today.
A truly Wise and inspirational Women for our times!!!
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TOD:
I do play the guitar, which I really enjoy, along with a little singing.
I wish I could play the piano!!!
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My Brother Kevin plays the piano. He is very good!!!
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From DR TCB:
Oh. I guess Jane left.
I did. I read 2 chapters and then slept ALL night. :) :) :)
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I am very excited DR Vixmom is playing hooky.
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Now that it's absolutely too late to get any more sleep, they've stopped. Probably on their break.
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DR Kate I can see why you like Mother Angelica so much. This is funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyOmKAnEjwI
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Thursday afternoon greetings! I helped Fr. Richard set up for his clergy study group, then made myself scarce this morning. Visited the book sale site, where they finally allowed me in, to pick up a generous supply to bookmarks for us to hand out at First Friday tomorrow. I looked around a bit and we have a great selection, beautifully organized. Sale opens a week from tonight. From there I went to Java Johnny's to meet a grantwriter friend for lunch. She's someone who used to attend my programs at the Dayton library and who worked at the hospital where I was treated for my heart attack. She just started working at our local Miami University campus. Got home in time to say HI to the clergymen before their meeting ended.
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More info on Sepsis. It can't hurt to know the symptoms.
https://www.yahoo.com/
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Tonight, our local PBS station (KQED) is airing the San Francisco Opera Company's 2013 production of "Show Boat" (with Bill Erwin as Captan Andy).
I have my DVR set to record it.
I really enjoyed a lot of that production. But it's Show Boat. And I'm just a sucker for that show.
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From DR TCB:
Oh. I guess Jane left.
I did. I read 2 chapters and then slept ALL night. :) :) :)
Wonderful news.
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Three!
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From DR TCB:
Oh. I guess Jane left.
I did. I read 2 chapters and then slept ALL night. :) :) :)
Wonderful news.
Thanks. Now to repeat it tonight.
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All things considered, I think I'd rather be in Florence, Italy, sitting at a table in some piazza and drinking house wine while eating a calzone.
Sigh.
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And if I were there, I'd like to have a webcam I could link all of you to...and I'd wave and say "Ciao, Tutti!"
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orchestrations finished. Now on to picking up and tidying the apartment.
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A Very Happy Birthday to (former) DR Ann!
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I have always wanted to be able to play the violin. Especially fiddle music.. I tried for many years and I was truly dreadful...in fact I cannot play sang instrument I simply do not have the coordination and talent. If not the violin, then the piano or guitar
When I was going to Western Washington University to be a choir teacher (and we all know how well that turned out ;) ), I had to take several classes on how to play instruments so that I would be able to teach those instruments (just in case we had to take over a band or orchestra). I learned to play the clarinet, bassoon, tuba, French horn, and cello, which was my favorite.
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Otherwise, I really wish I had stayed with playing the piano. I took lessons from middle school through two years of community college, but didn't continue. At least, I can still read music and plunk out parts, but I couldn't sit down and just play anything.
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Back from a sandwich and a cup of soup, or, conversely, a cup of soup and a sandwich.
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Picked up no mail.
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No news on the book order. I got very snippy this morning about it, and went as high up on the food chain as possible, to a fellow who's been there from the beginning and who was my first contact. He assured me he was going to get into it right then and there.
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I'm hoping (against hope?) that my CD of "Sun Valley Serenade" will await me in my mailbox at home this evening. I'm so jealous of everyone who has gotten his or hers.
Ditto and ditto!
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I don't recall reading it here at any time in the past 9 days, but does everyone here know that Rita Gam (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/rita-gam-dead-glamorous-actress-877486) died on March 22?
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And if I were there, I'd like to have a webcam I could link all of you to...and I'd wave and say "Ciao, Tutti!"
Ciao, yourself.
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Happy birthday to (former?) DR Ann.
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Happy Birthday to DR Ann!
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TOD: Maybe the violin.
DR Kate--you're too kind. I just fake play the piano. I was taught by an older gentleman who believed in short cuts. He taught me how to play chords so I'd be able to play a song right away. I only took lessons for about 9 months, I think.
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DR Kate plays the guitar (very well), as she said, and has a very nice singing voice.
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I'm going to do my utmost (or my mostut) to stay awake tonight and enjoy some TV or CDs or BDs...or, in general, just some alertness.
The day has moved along sweetly. Am not the least bit tired or worn out, so that's something.
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Instruments I play: The B-flat clarinet (or is that "clarionet" as in "The Music Man"?)
Instruments I wish I played: The violin, the piano and the French Horn.
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If everyone currently online indulged in a small frenzy for the next 10 minutes, I bet we could turn the page to 4.
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Instruments I play: The B-flat clarinet (or is that "clarionet" as in "The Music Man"?)
Instruments I wish I played: The violin, the piano and the French Horn.
How about the player piano? You don't dream of being the player piano player?
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As for singing voices, my father declared I didn't have one. He heard me singing in our yard once when I was pruning shrubbery. He just scoffed and said, "You can't sang!" (he indulged in countrified lingo from time to time).
Still, I enjoyed singing. Signed up for choir when I went to college. All you had to do was be there and you got a credit for combined semesters.
Then I got cast in a musical. The music director was in charge of the college's "touring choir" (for which auditions brought some voice majors to their knees). The music director was a professor for voice in the music department.
I "had" to audition for the play (because I was a theater major), and I talk-sang my way through "What Kind of Fool Am I?" My right arm when numb about halfway through it. I concentrated hard to remain on key, and when it was over I left the theater. I later learned I had been asked to come back the next night. I was cast as "Matt" in "The Fantasticks". My father and mother were in the audience one night. Never heard a negative word. In fact, my father wanted to know if I wanted to audition for the North Carolina School of Performing Arts. He said he had "no idea"....
At any rate, I didn't think I was any great shakes as Matt. But one day, the music director asked me to come to the choir room at a specific time. When I arrived, he introduced me as the "newest member" of the touring choir. I was in heaven.
My friends in the regular choir hated my guts. Some voice majors not in touring choir hated my guts.
I didn't care. I still don't!!!
:D
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Instruments I play: The B-flat clarinet (or is that "clarionet" as in "The Music Man"?)
Instruments I wish I played: The violin, the piano and the French Horn.
How about the player piano? You don't dream of being the player piano player?
Nah. I want to tickle those ivories myself!
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Five more posts, guys. Can we get some help here?
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Five more posts, guys. Can we get some help here?
Gratuitous Post #86!
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Gratuitous Post #87!
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Gratuitous Post #88!
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And since we're (finally) so close...
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PAGE FOUR RON'S CHOIR DANCE!!
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:))
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That's a GREAT story with a wonderful ending DR RLP!!! I don't think you've ever shared that on HHW before.....
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Good afternoon. I have been out camping in the woods. It took until the fourth day before the little woodland creatures found the peanuts and seeds I put out for them.
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TOD: bagpipes
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And if I were there, I'd like to have a webcam I could link all of you to...and I'd wave and say "Ciao, Tutti!"
:)
That would be nice.
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Am home in the bosom of my condo....and AM LISTENING TO "SUN VALLEY SERENADE".
Huzzah!
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PAGE FOUR RON'S CHOIR DANCE!!
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La! La! LA-A-A-A-A-A-H!!!
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That's a GREAT story with a wonderful ending DR RLP!!! I don't think you've ever shared that on HHW before.....
:D
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Well, it's time to go to the theater. Our stage manager has a job in Tacoma this weekend, so she won't be there at the beginning of each show, but will show up when she gets there.
Until later!
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Had a fun second rehearsal - really good show, this one, and a great cast of players.
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Great story DR Ron.
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It is beautiful out and we took a lovely long walk.
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I'm at the theater and it's our Pay-What-You-Can night. So far, we have nine people here. :)
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Page four? Really?
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Head guy at the publisher said they're hoping to have a tracking number for me tomorrow.
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And we're off!
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had a wonderful day doing touristy things
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i am exhausted
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Elmore and Chas I stopped dillying and dallying and finally bought a ticketto 1776 Saturday ar 8 PM
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i havr to sleep now
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goodnight
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Good night, Vixmom!
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Act two has started and our regular stage manager has arrived.
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Good evening!
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Well, this isn't funny.
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We were on page three at 11:17 this morning, and we are on page four at 9:30 this evening?
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Yeah, well, I'm taking names and putting them into the bitch-slap machine, trust me on this.
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Well, I have an excuse. ::)
;)
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And since we're so close...
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PAGE FIVE DANCE!!
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We better get busy.
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I skipped going to the waterfront today.
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Instead I went to lunch with my sister and brother-in-law.
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We had a good time.
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It was a beautiful day.
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It was sunny and 73 degrees.
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And 75 degrees for George.
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Because he lives farther south than me.
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And 75 degrees for George.
I was inside all day, so I couldn't tell.
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We're heading to the end of tonight's performance of "The Credeaux Canavas."
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And 75 degrees for George.
I was inside all day, so I couldn't tell.
You didn't go out at lunch?
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It is supposed to be even nicer tomorrow.
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Ron, shame on you.
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And 75 degrees for George.
I was inside all day, so I couldn't tell.
You didn't go out at lunch?
I did, but I was rushing around so I didn't pay much attention.
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Well, we're done, so now I'm going home.
Until later.
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Great story, Ron. Good for you. You can get back on the stage when you retire!!
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I wonder if John is having some of those storms tonight.
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BK, I have thought about buying the Kindle version of your book, but it wouldn't be the same.
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And then you would have to autograph my Kindle.
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had a wonderful day doing touristy things
I'm sooooo glad. You deserved a fun day.
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I played the violin in 7th grade. I loved it but it was pure torture, I'm sure, for those who had to listen to be practice. It was fun while it lasted.
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'night
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UNDERPANTS!
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CRANBERRIES
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I need to switch to my iPad and take my medications.
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Back in a few!
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And I'm back.
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In a few.
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Six
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I'm home.
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Just had to share. :)
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BK, I have thought about buying the Kindle version of your book, but it wouldn't be the same.
I did buy it, but I'm reading Seveneves (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062190377/) right now.
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The hardback book is 880 pages! :o
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I'd heard that it was good (and it really is), but I didn't realize that it was so long.
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I just read this on Amazon's site, but the author, Neal Stephenson, lives in Seattle!