Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on March 19, 2017, 12:08:40 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were neither fixed nor broken, and now it is time for you to post until the fixed and broken cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: CHAFFER!
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First post after BK!
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Second post after BK!
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Third post after BK!
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Second post after TCB!!
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I think it is really terrible that you can't get the original version of a musical to produce. You should be given a choice of the original or the revised edition.
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I think it is really terrible that you can't get the original version of a musical to produce. You should be given a choice of the original or the revised edition.
I know! It's kind of like how the original theatrical version of "Star Wars" should also be made available!
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Certainly, THE SOUND OF MUSIC and CABARET should give you a choice between the original stage productions and the often revised productions. Newer isn't always better.
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Follies has the same issues - I would ONLY produce the original script.
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I think it is really terrible that you can't get the original version of a musical to produce. You should be given a choice of the original or the revised edition.
I know! It's kind of like how the original theatrical version of "Star Wars" should also be made available!
That is why I am so grateful that you can get all three versions of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND. The original version is far better, to me, than either of the newer versions.
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And who knows what version you are going to get when you produce GREASE.
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Good night, George.
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Good night, Tom.
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Good night, David.
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Good night, Chet.
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Good morning, all.
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A slightly irritating dream, and feeling very slightly chilled, woke me up a little too early.
But not TOO too early, so not that bad. Kicked the heat up slightly, fed the feline contingent, and there's a cup of coffee in front of me.
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Sickening to hear about the state of COMPANY.
And...I'm a simple man...I don't understand why the original versions of these shows are verboten, should a company be willing and able to mount them.
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Fortunately, we were spared any additional snow yesterday. It flurried once or twice, nothing more.
But lest anyone get misty-eyed over the lack of new snow and the possible loss of old snow, I can assure you that last Tuesday's snow is still right here, right where I left it.
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It just looks a little neater, with the bits stuck to the asphalt and sidewalks having receded. The other parts are still as high as an elephant's eye.
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Good morning, all!
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The laundry is in the washers. I have to make my bed ande pick up the flotsam and jetsam of the past weeks. I can toss all the detritus of "The New Yorkers" and get ready for whatever project comes down the pike next.
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I really have little interest in doing anything today. If I get my energy up, I might walk a block and see "Beauty and the Beast." If I don't leave the aartment today, I'm perfectly content. The next two weeks are going to be busy.
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Good morning to all
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And who knows what version you are going to get when you produce GREASE.
There are three (maybe four versions) available.
The original
Movie songs
High school version (Lyrics and dialogue cleaned up)
The also did the "original" version somewhere (I think Chicago) where it was "tougher" Language and Lyrics before it was changed for Broadway
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Then there are all the high school and junior versions of musicals. For example I believe Into The Woods Junior only uses the first act!
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Thanks for all the compliments from yesterdays posts.
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Good morning, all.
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I overslept. I think I needed it.
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Surgery on Thursday.
Rushing to get HOLLYWOOD SNAPSHOTS: The Forgotten Interviews, my next BearManor Media book, to the book designer before that.
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From Bruce:
Jane, yes, in LA every Rite Aid has a Thrifty ice cream counter.
Keith would have like it if our Rite Aid in Ashland had one.
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Maybe not, if food was sold we could not have shopped in the store with Sherlock.
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Sunday morning greetings! 3/4 of our household went to church together today, but I'm home starting on pre-NYC laundry and getting ready to watch Michigan's round 2 game against Louisville - Go, Blue!
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I'm up, I'm up - barely. Maybe seven hours of sleep.
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COMPANY!!! I loved the original Broadway cast album so much - played it until it was almost worn out.....then got the CD.
I bought the Roundabout CD - a was disappointed.....put it away and continued to play the OBC. Of course I also enjoyed the documentary about the making of the LP.
I saw a production last fall at DePauw which included the revisions, which I didn't much like. I have the DVD of the version featuring Raul What'shisname, and I watched the one with NPH on PBS, which I didn't care for.....
It is very sad that the original version is NOT available - but as the recent THE GLASS MENAGERIE proves - no show is a match for a bone headed director......
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DR JOHN G - my niece and her husband were at SXSW!
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I just got a text from a TAO board member working on their production of 1984, asking if I would be able to help set up the sound board before my union board meeting at 2:30. I said that I can, so now I have to get ready for my union board meeting much earlier. It shouldn't take too long, but I also need to shower and get dressed and eat.
Have a good day, all!
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DR JOHN G - my niece and her husband were at SXSW!
It was a great deal of fun, but also a lot of people giving way to more people. I'm just glad i didn't try to get to the free shows that Garth Brooks and Lady Antebellum gave. No thank you.
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I didn't discover Company until after falling or A Little Night Music. But fall for it I did. I even did one of my master's degree classes on the show. I understand one of the changes made to the show, and that's dropping of Tick Tock, but I don't like it. It really shows how miserable and empty Bobby's sex life is. But not providing that orgasmic release of Tick Tock is as anti-audience as Sondheim not wanting people to applaud at the end of Rose's Turn.
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GO BLUE!
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GO BLUE!
Thanks, DR TCB!
They've advanced to the Sweet Sixteen!!!
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Sorry to be late!
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43rd after BK!
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GO BLUE!
Thanks, DR TCB!
They've advanced to the Sweet Sixteen!!!
Hey, anybody who beats Louisville is aces in my book!
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Found a copy of the Samuel Ramey Kismet for $1. They tried to tell me it was two discs and the second disc was lost, but it's actually one of those oversized packages that Columbia used to do.
Some of the singing, especially Julia Migenes, good. Others (Jerry Hadley) is not so hot. I'm so not looking forward to Mandy "Chile" Patinkin's take on Zubbedayia (sp?)
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Rob's review is up - he's nicer than I would have been, probably, but I think you can discern just how much he didn't like it.
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Page two? Really?
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Had fun at the paperback book show. I've learned over the years not to bring many books - the authors signing at this show sign for free and people bring in all their books - very few actually purchase anything. Funnily, the only book sold was my one and only extra hardback of Thrill Ride - someone saw the cover and couldn't resist. :) Grant Geissman was there and we spent a couple of hours looking at stuff, then we went to the Coral Cafe where I had the chicken strips, a small salad, and some sweet potato fries. Filling.
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Congrats to MR BK on the Sale of the Day!
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Page two? Really?
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Is there an echo in here?
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The sound of silence.
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Watching Manchester by the Sea. I don't like Casey Affleck. I find his performance too mannered, too predictable, too forced. He was better in that Assassination of Jesse James movie.
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I would be able to finish my taxes if I had one form.
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The same form I was missing last year.
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I, of course, called for help 15 minutes after the office closed.
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I'm not liking Turbo Tax this year, either.
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They tell you to select a menu that doesn't have the title they tell you to look for. Then they try to upgrade you in several different ways at once. I could end up spending $500 on forms, if I took their advice.
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Hopefully, I will get to finish before I leave on Wednesday.
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Three!
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Finally!
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Page three? Really?
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Good evening. We had a whirlwind trip to Palm Springs and enjoyed a concert by Jason Graae and Liz Callaway.
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Good evening!
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Good evening. We had a whirlwind trip to Palm Springs and enjoyed a concert by Jason Graae and Liz Callaway.
Sounds great, DR Laura!
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DR vixmon and those meeting on Saturday: Ben and Anthony won't be able to make it to brunch but Ben will be at the show and go out afterwards.
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Good evening. We had a whirlwind trip to Palm Springs and enjoyed a concert by Jason Graae and Liz Callaway.
Very nice.
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Got a ticket for Come From Away on Thursday and Amelie on Friday.
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And Manchester by the Sea is finally over.
Woody Allen once said that the movies in his head are never the movies he ended up with. Seeing the scenes in the before starting the movie, I think the same thing happened with this one.
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Watching Manchester by the Sea. I don't like Casey Affleck. I find his performance too mannered, too predictable, too forced. He was better in that Assassination of Jesse James movie.
I won't argue this. He was not our pick for best actor.
We recently saw A UNITED KINGDOM and preferred it to Manchester. The performances by, IMHO, David Oyelowo & Rosamund Pike were terrific.
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Good evening. We had a whirlwind trip to Palm Springs and enjoyed a concert by Jason Graae and Liz Callaway.
Nice. I hope not too whirlwind and that you spent the night.
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And Manchester by the Sea is finally over.
Woody Allen once said that the movies in his head are never the movies he ended up with. Seeing the scenes in the before starting the movie, I think the same thing happened with this one.
;D
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San Antonio's mayor, whom I dislike, has chosen an odd selection for the next citywide read. We've had "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "The Bicycle Thief" in the past. Now we're going to read "Art of the Pie: A Practical Guide to Homemade Crusts, Fillings and Life" by Kate McDermott. Very weird. But I look forward to chapter on rhubarb pie.
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Definitely an odd selection.
I looked up "The Bycicle Thief" is that by Gunter Schaule? There is another book with that title which is a Hardy Boys mystery.
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Definitely an odd selection.
I looked up "The Bycicle Thief" is that by Gunter Schaule? There is another book with that title which is a Hardy Boys mystery.
Mixing my Italian neo-realism films with books. I should have typed "The Book Thief." Sorry.
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LOL. One of my all time favorite books.
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Fortunately the rise in waters has slowed down and the sunshine today gave us a break.
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I am sorry Ben and Anthony cannot join us for brunch but I am looking dorwRd to seeing Ben at the show
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Only 5 days away ( I'm not counting he rest of today)
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CB I am so glad the threatened snow storm never came
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Who is CB?
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That was supposed to say Chas
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Lest I forget travel vibes to John, Ginny Richard , Kevin and Chas
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Lest I forget travel vibes to John, Ginny Richard , Kevin and Chas
Thank you.
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Just finished up a sweet little picture called East Side Sushi, about a Latina chef who would like to be a sushi chef and the obstacles she faces.
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Page three? Really?
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Can we move this along?
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I need to get some sleep.
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Let's move on.
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Four!
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What is this page four malarky? And JUST on page four. Page four? Really?
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Finished with my viewing.
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Lest I forget travel vibes to John, Ginny Richard , Kevin and Chas
DITTO!
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Fell asleep with iPad on my lap. Good night all
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'night
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Good evening!
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Where is everybody?
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Today was the first sunny Sunday of the year.
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So, the traffic was backed up for miles to go through the park by my house.
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It made getting in and out of my apartment building very difficult.
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Well, not the building, but the parking area.
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Finally some nice gentleman took pity on me and let me out of the driveway.
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You would think people had been locked away in their homes since the last sunny day.
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Lest I forget travel vibes to John, Ginny Richard , Kevin and Chas
DITTO!
DOUBLE DITTO!
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I went to pick up my laundry at this strip mall a few miles from me.
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There are two handicapped parking spots and one ramp for me to get up to laundry.
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Finally some nice gentleman took pity on me and let me out of the driveway.
Thank goodness or you would still be out there ;)
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You would think people had been locked away in their homes since the last sunny day.
Our walking path was busy again with the Sunday nice weather folks.
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Both handicapped spots were taken, AND someone had parked their pickup truck between the spots blocking the ramp.
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I waited for a while, hoping the
idiot person would come out and move their truck.
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No such luck!
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Finally I just gave up and came home.
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How stupid are people?
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What a silly question.
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Greetings, 1 Guest!
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But it was a nice drive over to the laundry - for nothing.
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Oh I did stop and pick up Chinese on the way home.
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That was a nice change of pace.
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One more post.
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Page 5
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Tomorrow I am supposed to go to lunch with Sandy.
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He will let me know in the morning if he is feeling up to getting together.
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I hope he is feeling okay.
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It is going to be another pretty day.
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Actually it is going to be the last sunny day of the week.
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Rain again by tomorrow night.
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Our guest has left the building.
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I think I need to switch computers.
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I hope I remembered to charge my iPad.
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No George tonight?
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Maybe he is ushering tonight.
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Or maybe he is catching up on his TV watching.
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I watched another episode of TIME AFTER TIME tonight.
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I am almost ready to drop the show, but there really isn't anything else that I want to watch.
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I suppose I could turn off the TV and actually read a book.
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No George tonight?
I'm here. I definitely had a day.
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I just got a text from a TAO board member working on their production of 1984, asking if I would be able to help set up the sound board before my union board meeting at 2:30. I said that I can, so now I have to get ready for my union board meeting much earlier. It shouldn't take too long, but I also need to shower and get dressed and eat.
Have a good day, all!
Well, it turns out that my union's board meeting is NEXT WEEK! :o I arrived at the union office and waited for a bit. There was only one other car in the parking lot and that person (Nicole) was also on our board. She got out and we started talking and then we realized that the e-mails that we received had the subject of "Meeting on March 19," but within the body of the e-mail message was "the meeting is on the 26th, right?" Several people had confirmed, and even Nicole had confirmed, but evidently forgotten. I know that I never noticed the specified date in the e-mail body...just the subject line. ::)
:P
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Spoo!!
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Did you get the sound board take care of for them?
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I didn't read today's posts, because when I arrived I needed to start posting right away.
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I will ketchup on the posts tomorrow.
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Did you get the sound board take care of for them?
For the most part. When I left at about 2:15, it was mostly complete. I did come back in the evening and we worked on it a bit more.
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Since we pretty much got most of the sound board set up, I didn't go back to the theater after the board meeting that didn't happen. I decided to lunch at Wendy's. I ate (grilled chicken BBQ salad) and read my Kindle ("Hidden Figures").
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Since we pretty much got most of the sound board set up, I didn't go back to the theater after the board meeting that didn't happen. I decided to lunch at Wendy's. I ate (grilled chicken BBQ salad) and read my Kindle ("Hidden Figures").
How is that salad?
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When I was finished at Wendy's, I went to Costco to get some water for the theater's concessions and for the actors. I went home after that since it was too early to get back to the theater for the board's feeding of the actors and crew. When I left to get food for the dress rehearsal in the evening, I went to Taco Bell and got the Box of Tacos. That's what I usually get for these board-provided meals. I get 6 crunch tacos with beef and 6 soft tacos with beans (there are usually a vegetarian or two in our productions).
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Since we pretty much got most of the sound board set up, I didn't go back to the theater after the board meeting that didn't happen. I decided to lunch at Wendy's. I ate (grilled chicken BBQ salad) and read my Kindle ("Hidden Figures").
How is that salad?
It's not too bad. They usually give a separate packet of dressing, but today, they put the dressing directly on the salad and I didn't get a packet. I wonder if they were out of them. I would've liked a little more of the dressing. ;)
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Now I am getting hungry.
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When I got to the theater at a little after 6 p.m., I thought that they were going to have a run-through, but they ran act one after I left for my non-existent meeting. They ran act two, so I at least got to see that.
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Let's get off this page.
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Now I am getting hungry.
Wendy's is open late. Just sayin'. ::)
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Lest I forget travel vibes to John, Ginny Richard , Kevin and Chas
DITTO!
DOUBLE DITTO!
~~~TRIPLE DITTO!!~~~
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Both handicapped spots were taken, AND someone had parked their pickup truck between the spots blocking the ramp.
How rude! >:(
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I have now ketchuped on all of the posts. :D
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We don't have a Wendy's near by. I would have to settle for Taco Bell.
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Lest I forget travel vibes to John, Ginny Richard , Kevin and Chas
DITTO!
DOUBLE DITTO!
~~~TRIPLE DITTO!!~~~
Would that be like the Dancing Dittos?
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Lest I forget travel vibes to John, Ginny Richard , Kevin and Chas
DITTO!
DOUBLE DITTO!
~~~TRIPLE DITTO!!~~~
Would that be like the Dancing Dittos?
:))
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If Sandy cancels out on lunch tomorrow, I may just go to the Emerald Queen for lunch by myself.
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If Sandy cancels out on lunch tomorrow, I may just go to the Emerald Queen for lunch by myself.
Wish I had time to meet you there. I've never been.
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Their buffet has a nice big salad bar. I can pretty well fill up on just salads.
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But I do have to get some of their Chinese food.
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If you ever decide to go, go to the one in Fife, not the scuzzy one on Portland Avenue.
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My Wifi is acting up.
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That is W-I-F-I, not WIFE.
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That is WIFI, not WIFE.
I actually had to read that twice to make sure!