Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on September 15, 2016, 12:41:34 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were trippy, and now it is time for you to post until the trippy cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: RHAPSODE!
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First after BK?
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Last day of the September 15th tax office rush.
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There will be a small mini-rush up to October 15th (which will be October 17th this year, since Oct. 15th is a weekend), but not nearly as hectic as the September 15th tax rush has been.
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Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are in early October, so there may be a little rushing towards the end because of that, but nothing like what we've just had.
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Wonderful to read about those exciting possibilities for BK in the notes today! Feels like this association with Mr. Sherman has been most valuable for both of you.
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Good morning, all!
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I must make a fast run this morning to the post office at 68th Street, refill my Metrocard and return. I have to tidy and vacuum before Eric arrives at 2:00 to watch MIRANDA. I think we are beginning Season 2 today.
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I look forward t more reports on the Sherman shows.
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DR JohnG, is the Sound of Music tour in San Antonio? Ben Davis told me yesterday that he was in San Antonio (I think).
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I had many strange dreams last night. I was working at the Drama Book Shop, only it was also a machine shop and I had to climb this huge construction like a roller coaster.
In another, I dreamed that Annalene Beechey had an apartment in Manhattan with her children, only the apartment was my grandmother's ghost-laden home on Tenth Avenue. There was something evil still lurking there and her children were in jeopardy. This one was most interesting since it had a lot of information about the house that I'd forgotten over the past 60 years, and I think it might have been triggered by the TV previews for this new Blair Witch film.
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Good morning, all.
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A ridiculous night of insomnia here. I started off fine, but was awakened by something only an hour and a half after getting to sleep, and that can really set it off. Whenever I'd start dozing after that, something would wake me again. Finally got a few solid hours between five and eight, but that don't cut it. Must stay awake today and hopefully get really dead tired sleepy for tonight.
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When I'm in NYC next, which looks to be middle of next week, one of the things I'm doing without fail is going to the office where you hand in your application for the Senior Metrocard. I could have done this a year ago, and I could just mail the application in (they don't do online), but when I started that process I found you have to come up with a current picture and get the thing notarized, and I think it's far easier to just walk in and let them snap the picture they want and see who you are from your ID. It'll be great to have it, though, because I will greatly enjoy zipping around NYC at the price the trains and buses ought to cost in the first place.
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OMG. I hadn't remembered any dreams from my ridiculous tossing-and-turning night, but one just popped up at me. I'm not sure where we were or what was going on, but suddenly there was DR Elmore's close personal friend Rob Berman walking by as I was doing or saying something really stupid. I lamely apologized for whatever it was he had to witness, and I shall now proceed to block any attempts at remembering any more than that. Lordy.
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Coffee!
Drink your coffee, man. Have another.
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This is Thursday, and I've got much to accomplish here around home.
Friday evening I'm attending the opening of the relatively new stage version of THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE at our best local theater. It's based on the original short story, not the film. I read it through a while back and it jelled with me in an interesting way. One of our best dramatic directors is at the helm and he's assembled a killer cast, so I'm greatly looking forward to the production and the opening night shenanigans.
Saturday evening, the opening of THE FANTASTICKS, whose opening night shenanigans are going to include a tribute to Mother Dolores Hart on her 50th Jubilee Year of Vows. It will be great to see her and a few of the nuns I've gotten to know a little bit, and of course I have high hopes that the production will be a worthy one. But one never knows, does one...
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As long as BK keeps talking about CDs, I'll have to keep taking them off the shelf. So, okay then, more Trotter today. I don't know why I've played these so little. As much as I can enjoy certain jazz versions of Broadway scores, I do have to be in the right mood. But this week has been a good one for it.
However, I need to bring a CD player up to the bedroom -- something I should have done years ago, as this is where my desk is and where I'll be puttering about today. And it shall be done. I have a nice old KLH Model 20 to play them through up here. The turntable needs servicing, but the AM/FM radio section (they made superb ones) and the auxiliary input work fine, and the speakers are wonderful. This isn't mine, but here's what that model looks like:
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Sleep well tonight vibes for DR Chas!
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I have never noticed a mixup in a character's name but that might explain my confusion at times when reading ;D
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Confusing would have been if I had left spell check alone on my previous post. It changed "at times" to a .com adress, @ sign and all.
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Good morning, all.
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Yes, Elmore, the tour is in town. I had planned to miss it because I've seen umpteen productions of it through the years. Should I go?
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As long as BK keeps talking about CDs, I'll have to keep taking them off the shelf. So, okay then, more Trotter today. I don't know why I've played these so little. As much as I can enjoy certain jazz versions of Broadway scores, I do have to be in the right mood. But this week has been a good one for it.
However, I need to bring a CD player up to the bedroom -- something I should have done years ago, as this is where my desk is and where I'll be puttering about today. And it shall be done. I have a nice old KLH Model 20 to play them through up here. The turntable needs servicing, but the AM/FM radio section (they made superb ones) and the auxiliary input work fine, and the speakers are wonderful. This isn't mine, but here's what that model looks like:
I just got the Trotter of Sweeney and am enjoying it because it just revels in the beauty and, stripped of context, the playfulness of the music. I know I have a few of the others, including Company, Follies and ...Forum. I'll have to dig those up.
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Thursday morning greetings! I was up at 7:30, but spent the morning finishing the book we're discussing tonight - Euphoria by Lily King. It's based somewhat on the life of Margaret Mead in the 1930s and I wish I'd read it sooner in order to read something about MM before tonight's meeting.
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When I'm in NYC next, which looks to be middle of next week, one of the things I'm doing without fail is going to the office where you hand in your application for the Senior Metrocard. I could have done this a year ago, and I could just mail the application in (they don't do online), but when I started that process I found you have to come up with a current picture and get the thing notarized, and I think it's far easier to just walk in and let them snap the picture they want and see who you are from your ID. It'll be great to have it, though, because I will greatly enjoy zipping around NYC at the price the trains and buses ought to cost in the first place.
I went to the MTA office for mine as well. It's a schlep around lower Manhattan, and I really don't think I could do the walk from the subway now. After they get your information and take your photo, it's a 30-45 minute wait for the processing, as I recall.
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After lunch Rob and I are going to visit Mom. She will like the 2 boxes I have for her. One contains her fall decorations and will keep her busy for a while. The other is a pound of See's soft-centered chocolates.
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I am back from my errands. What should have taken less than an hour took about 1:45, thanks to the damned buses and traffic mess. This is a day I hate living here.
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Yes, Elmore, the tour is in town. I had planned to miss it because I've seen umpteen productions of it through the years. Should I go?
Yes, and go backstage and take Ben out for a drink. He's a hoot. I believe DR Matthew enjoyed it when he saw it in San Francisco.
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My friend Darren Matthias is also in that company of the Sound of Music....perhaps he can join you as well.....
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After lunch Rob and I are going to visit Mom. She will like the 2 boxes I have for her. One contains her fall decorations and will keep her busy for a while. The other is a pound of See's soft-centered chocolates.
Can you buy See's candy locally now or did you order it online?
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Page Two Darren Matthias Dance. The last show we did was Poor Superman at the Phoenix back in the 20th Century....but he may recall it.....he knows me as Jack Randall
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I loved the notes and reading all about the CD's and Mr. Sherman.
I must have been absent on the day MR BK discussed SUBWAYS...... I am appalled.
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I loved the notes and reading all about the CD's and Mr. Sherman.
I must have been absent on the day MR BK discussed SUBWAYS...... I am appalled.
I got mine thanks to that last mention. A few months back, methinks. I hadn't known about it, either.
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Thanks, DR Elmore. I'll deal with the downtown schlep, and the sooner I have the thing, the merrier life will be.
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After lunch Rob and I are going to visit Mom. She will like the 2 boxes I have for her. One contains her fall decorations and will keep her busy for a while. The other is a pound of See's soft-centered chocolates.
Can you buy See'some candy locally now or did you order it online?
There's a See's shop in the mall where the Apple Store is. There's also a Vera Bradley store, but I didn't indulge THAT vice yesterday.
BTW, Richard's laptop is fine and he's pleased with its performance. We did spend some time looking at a new, HUGE, desktop for him, but didn't buy anything.
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Got the previously underused CD player from the living room hooked into the KLH system, PASSION is playing on the lovely Medium Size 1960s Bookshelf Speakers, and life is beautiful.
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Lovely......I like all of the Trotter cd's.....but I especially LOVE:
The Fantasticks
Company
A Funny Thing Happened.....
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I think I have them all. Should just bring up the stack.
Now, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC -- and wow, BK is right again. :D
Just piano, and the essence of the music. Haven't listened to the show in a long time, so this is especially nice.
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TOD:
"On A Clear Day You Can See Forever" and/or "She Loves Me".
Or have they both (or singularly) been done already?
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I'll have to see if time and budget allow for the show. Sounds like fun. Wish it were something I hadn't seen so many times.
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TOD:
Finian's Rainbow (To piggyback on Ron's list, anything by Burton Lane)
Funny Girl
The Boys from Syracuse
Top Hat film score
Anything Goes
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Food truck day at the office. Had a bacon jalapeņo burger. Need a nap now.
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After lunch Rob and I are going to visit Mom. She will like the 2 boxes I have for her. One contains her fall decorations and will keep her busy for a while. The other is a pound of See's soft-centered chocolates.
Can you buy See'some candy locally now or did you order it online?
There's a See's shop in the mall where the Apple Store is. There's also a Vera Bradley store, but I didn't indulge THAT vice yesterday.
BTW, Richard's laptop is fine and he's pleased with its performance. We did spend some time looking at a new, HUGE, desktop for him, but didn't buy anything.
See's and Vera Bradley, a great combination for you :) I went back to my original post and corrected the correction spellcheck made for me ::)
Good news on the laptop.
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Ah!
For the TOD:
I shall second Anything Goes and She Loves Me.
And i shall add:
Bye Bye Birdie
Li'l Abner
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"Li'l Abner" has been done. (Previn, I think.)
I second all of the above, but I do especially like DR Ron Pulliam's "Clear Day" and "She Loves Me".
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And now I am off to some lunch. Nothing special, just something I can grab quickly. I need to shop later because there's basically nothing in the house.
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I had a fried Twinkie from a food truck. But the mention of See's Candies has me hungry.
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Keith would be drooling over the fried Twinkie. I want the See's :)
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Ah DR CHAS SMITH....I am listening to samples from the Lil Abner CD....interesting....but something seems to be missing....not sure what....of course these are only samples....
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I'm up, I'm up - got up at eleven after about seven hours of sleep.
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While She Loves Me hasn't had a jazz treatment, I do think there was an orchestral cover version by Frank Chacksfield. On a Clear Day would be a great jazz album.
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AOL had a worldwide outage and finally came up - it's still up save for one of the accounts I have which promptly went back down.
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While She Loves Me hasn't had a jazz treatment, I do think there was an orchestral cover version by Frank Chacksfield. On a Clear Day would be a great jazz album.
Yay!
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I wonder what it would take to get singdaw to return to this here blog!
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Here are the Trotters I have. It seems like I checked some time ago to determine whether this was all of them. If anyone knows of something else, please say so.
Passion
A Little Night Music
Company
Forum
Sweeney Todd
Follies
Fantasticks
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You have the six Sondheims, so that's complete. Aside from The Fantasticks, which you also have, you're missing Star Wars in Jazz and The Michel Legrand Album, both of which are well worth having.
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Thank you!
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I wonder what it would take to get singdaw to return to this here blog!
Have you asked him? :)
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I asked him a year ago, Jane - did you miss that post?
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Page three? Really?
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Been choosing the last of the songs and still trying to cast our final guy.
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Thank you!
And taken care of!
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Good evening!
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Episodes of Frasier are now on Cozi TV from 7 - 9 pm.
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I asked him a year ago, Jane - did you miss that post?
I did not miss the post. You also said he planned to return, which is why I asked Ron the question :)
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Good evening.
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COZI Tv trims its episodes drastically and cuts out the end credits.....when Adam-12 went from Antenna Tv to COZI, I had to stop watching.
What they do to Here's Lucy - which is NO great shakes to begin with - is criminal.
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I don't think I've ever come up against COZI TV. But thanks for the warning, DR Jrand66.
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I can tell a full moon is coming. People are driving like maniacs.
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Page three? Really?
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Where is everybody tonight?
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I'm watching Agnes Varda's first movie, La Pointe-Courte, which is about people in a slum area of a small French fishing village.
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The story is about a couple whose marriage is on the rocks. But the music sounds like it's from an Addams Family episode.
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My favorite shot has been of the unhappy couple sitting next to each other and grumbling about their unhappy lot. The camera seems more focused on this black cat behind them. He gets up, stretches, looks at the couple, decides they're not worth anything and goes off.
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I'm afraid I don't have much today. Many more fires to put out.
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Tomorrow is Friday, and that's very good thing.
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I need to go out and look at the moon.
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Tomorrow is Friday, and that's very good thing.
You said it.
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Hello, 1 guest.
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What's your favorite pizza topping?
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I feel like having a pizza right now.
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Even though it's right before bedtime.
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I am hungry.
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But I'm headed for bed soon.
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That noos spelled backwards.
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But not before we reach the promise land of page four.
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That's no near and yet so far.
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As Cole Porter once said in a song.
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Four!
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Page four? Really?
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I guess it is fish.
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Interesting line at the end of the movie:
Their secrets are their own. Only they know if the secrets are happy or sad.
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Tomorrow is Friday, and that's very good thing.
Boy the week went by quickly, but the I was a walking zombie the first few days and kind of missed them.
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Confusing would have been if I had left spell check alone on my previous post. It changed "at times" to a .com adress, @ sign and all.
In my last post last night, I didn't notice that I had spelled "good" as "goid." ::) But that was just my not aiming properly on my tablet's keyboard.
Of course, it's too late now to correct it. ;)
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You have the six Sondheims, so that's complete. Aside from The Fantasticks, which you also have, you're missing Star Wars in Jazz and The Michel Legrand Album, both of which are well worth having.
I also have the six Sondheim CDs and The Fantasticks, so I just bought both the Star Wars and Legrand CDs. :D
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Today was All Staff Training Day for my work. The first session was kind of an overview of the changes that are coming to our library's computer system. Kind of interesting, but not as informative as it could've been.
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The second session was by Gene Ambaum, the author of a daily internet-based comic strip about a fictional (of course) library in a strip mall called Unshelved (http://www.unshelved.com). You don't have to work with the public to find funny. He was also our keynote speaker in the morning. He was very good and funny and just seemed like a really nice guy.
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The third and final session was about nutrition. Nothing groundbreakingly profound, but it was informative and interesting. Then we were done.
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Good evening!
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Sorry I am so late tonight.
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Several phone calls kept me away until now.
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I can't believe what time it is.
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I went to have lunch with my friend, Diane.
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She just returned from Arizona.
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She was visiting her son, daughter-in-law, and ...................
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Her one and only granddaughter.
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Actually it is her only grandchild period.
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She had a wonderful visit.
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They went over to California.
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And no, they didn't stop in to see BK.
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Actually they were around the San Diego area.
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They went to the San Diego zoo.
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And they spent a fun-filled day in LeggoLand.
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She said it was really fun.
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I guess I will take her word for it.
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I don't plan on visiting it myself.
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And they spent a fun-filled day in LeggoLand.
That sounds like fun.
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Although I would certainly like to return to Disneyland and Universal Studios.
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Page five
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Hello, George!
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I am glad you enjoyed your day.
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Hi, Tom!
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It looks like rain is going to be returning starting this weekend.
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So far, only this weekend looks wet.
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I am hoping that it will clear up on Monday.
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Sandy and I are supposed to go to the Washington State Fair.
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Topic of the Day: I think "City of Angels" by Cy Coleman and David Zippel would make for a great jazz treatment. It's older than from the last decade, but it's a great jazzy score.
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I only go for the food.
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I am glad you enjoyed your day.
Thanks!
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A couple of onion burgers and a bag of scones and I will be set.
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I only go for the food.
I haven't been in several years.
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A couple of onion burgers and a bag of scones and I will be set.
My sister LOVES to get the scones...otherwise, she hates the crowds.
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A couple of onion burgers and a bag of scones and I will be set.
My sister LOVES to get the scones...otherwise, she hates the crowds.
Me too!!
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I imagine I will be infuriated by the way people tend to ignore the guy in the chair.
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Not to mention being at everybody's butt level.
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Which is why I never attend a chili cook-off.
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I need to get ready for bed.
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Which is why I never attend a chili cook-off.
:))
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I'm back.
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My wifi is really slow tonight.
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Back from what I hope will be seeing a show I never really need to see again - Parade. More in the notes.
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Seven minutes for this post.
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Seven minutes for this post.
Yikes!
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I think it is mainly a problem with my iPad.
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I think it is mainly a problem with my iPad.
Hopefully, it'll either fix itself, or it'll be easy to get fixed.
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Well...
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...since...
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...we're so close...
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PAGE SIX DANCE!!