Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on April 13, 2017, 12:11:55 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were first written on thin air because they were frozen, and now it is time for you to post until the frozen cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: NAPERY!
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First post after BK!
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Second post after BK!
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Topic of the Day: BK, I'm very sorry about you losing your notes for today, but (not to brag or anything) I had a computer completely crash on me and I lost the entire hard drive. It was completely dead with no way to recover ANYTHING! I had thousands of MP3 files and many programs, and it all went away in an instant. :P
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I will have to give the topic of the day some thought. I can't remember any horror stories.
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Good night, George.
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I'm off to bed, too.
Good night and have a good day. :)
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You, too.
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Good morning, all!
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Today is the orchestra reading of The Golden Apple, Act One. I am looking forward to it.
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I hope Rob Berman is back from Europe!
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DRs George and TCB, do you know any of these actors?
http://www.broadwaybox.com/daily-scoop/exclusive-photos-backstage-at-broadways-hit-come-from-away/
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My corner bodega has a cook who doesn't listen. When I ask for a NOT TOASTED bagel - and I say it very clearly since he keeps toasting them - I expect to get exactly that. I'm beginning to get really pissed at this ass.
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Good morning, all.
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TOD:
I think the worst was losing most of the work I'd done on a paper for my master's degree and having to start that over. I really think that caused me to break down and cry.
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Good morning, all.
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A late-ish one for me, as I had to rise and shine at
(please note): 5:10 a.m.
to drive a friend to LaGuardia for a flight to Indianapolis -- a "buddy" flight (i.e., free one, compliments of a friend who works for the airline, and so my friend was very careful not to wear leggings) which requires a standby status but hopefully he got on the earliest one today.
So, I'm just back home, having first visited the local McDonald's drive-thru where I picked up the most delicious Sausage McMuffin ever.
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I don't know much about Equity, but I am shocked, shocked, at BK's report of such a low turnout. It certainly does sound like an ideal gig.
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So, worst computer disaster(s)?
One would certainly be the ruined laptop due to water dripping from the ceiling back in '13, but the silver lining (which understates it, this really was a damned miracle) was that the hard drive wasn't in danger and for thirty bucks it was removed and installed in one of those little cases with a USB cable so I was able to get every damned file off of it. I was so grateful for that, that even though I've backed my stuff up prodigiously since then, I still keep that little hard drive in my desk drawer out of pure gratitude and perhaps a little bit of superstition, four years after the fact. But I had to replace that computer way before its time, so I still count those few days of uncertainty, and then that expense, as a computer disaster.
Prior to that, I'm mostly wistful about a handful of Word files in the late 1990s that, for some reason, I decided to password. Somehow or other, I ended up utterly forgetting the goddamned password -- which is totally unlike me, but I also suspected that something weird happened to those files through another computer replacement or the moving of a bunch of stuff or...who knows. Looking back, there was one file in particular that contained my description of a series of events that, to this day, I'd still like to have back, even though it's inconsequential in the scheme of things. It's bugged me whenever I stop to think about it, and that was eighteen years ago.
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Good morning to all
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Topic of the Day: BK, I'm very sorry about you losing your notes for today, but (not to brag or anything) I had a computer completely crash on me and I lost the entire hard drive. It was completely dead with no way to recover ANYTHING! I had thousands of MP3 files and many programs, and it all went away in an instant. :P
🤐
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TOD:
I think the worst was losing most of the work I'd done on a paper for my master's degree and having to start that over. I really think that caused me to break down and cry.
I would have cried too.
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Skip really loved THRILL RIDE - gave it 5 stars!
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Good Morning, Everyone!
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Thursday morning greetings! Slept in 'til 8 this morning and have enjoyed some more puttering time. This evening we'll go to a potluck dinner at the church in Dayton where Fr. Richard will deliver the Maundy Thursday sermon.
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TOD - In about 1996 I was adjunct teaching for Miami University and consulting for Follett Software, for whom I was writing a pamphlet about teaching teachers how to incorporate information seeking into the curriculum. The editor was in Chicago and I was in Oxford, OH, using my office computer. It crashed when we were on about the second-to-last draft and I thought I was going to throw up. Fortunately, the IT folks helped resurrect my document and all was well.
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Skip really loved THRILL RIDE - gave it 5 stars!
Yay!
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I'm up, I'm up - probably six hours of sleep.
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Thursday.....moving forward.....
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Page Two.
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Good Morning
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Good morning.
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TOD - When I was working at a parks and rec office about 27 years ago, I managed to wipe out the entire summer recreation registration when I went to access a backup for an old class roster. I wiped out the ENTIRE summer - and it was July, so there was still time left.
We all took turns at re-entering the registration forms. It took quite a while, but we did it. And I wasn't allowed near a computer again for a while.
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TOD: The church was having a new printer installed, and the installer hit a button on the laptop and reinstalled Windows, which deleted everything on the laptop.
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TOD: My daughter was writing a college paper on a laptop, and one of the foster kittens stepped on the keyboard, hitting what we now call the Orlando Button, which erased her entire document. It could not be recovered. Ever since, she has written stuff on paper in its entirety, and then types it into the computer.
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I shall now be on my way to our first day of appointment casting. I was hoping to get to the bank this morning, but there's no way I then wouldn't be too rushed to get to the rehearsal studios where we're casting.
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First post since the last one!
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Good morning, one and all.
Today is a day.
I have a kidney ultra-sound this afternoon.
Tomorrow I am off and hosting a plumber for a variety of problems that recently cropped up. Ain't that the way these things happen?
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Kidney vibes for Ron.
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In 2010, when I was unemployed, I got a temporary job with the Census Bureau. It was supposed to last six weeks. It lasted six months largely because they set up the computer system on a single mainframe that crashed most every single day. We ended up working every day of the week, sometimes up to 18 hours a day, a lot of which was waiting to work.
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Kidney vibes for Ron.
And more health vibes from us, too.
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TOD - When I was working at a parks and rec office about 27 years ago, I managed to wipe out the entire summer recreation registration when I went to access a backup for an old class roster. I wiped out the ENTIRE summer - and it was July, so there was still time left.
We all took turns at re-entering the registration forms. It took quite a while, but we did it. And I wasn't allowed near a computer again for a while.
How embarrassing ;D
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Kidney vibes for Ron.
DITTO!!!
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DR George you should receive mail from me today.
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DRs George and TCB, do you know any of these actors?
http://www.broadwaybox.com/daily-scoop/exclusive-photos-backstage-at-broadways-hit-come-from-away/
I know who some of the actors are, but I only actually know the music director/conductor, Ian Eisendrath (https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/ian-eisendrath-493229) (although, I haven't seen him in quite a few years). He's from Olympia!
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TOD:
I think the worst was losing most of the work I'd done on a paper for my master's degree and having to start that over. I really think that caused me to break down and cry.
Oh, my goodness! :(
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Kidney vibes for Ron.
And more health vibes from us, too.
~~~Ditto, Too!!~~~
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DR George you should receive mail from me today.
Cool! I can't wait! :-*
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Thanks, all y'all!
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TOD:
I bought a new laptop 8 months ago and a new desktop PC six months ago. One afternoon, I received a phone call telling me that a computer virus has been reported to them by my computer and that only they could remove it. All I had to do was allow them control over my computer. At first, I was concerned, but then it dawned on me that "Hey! I haven't used my home system for several days." So, I asked when the virus had cropped up. Within the last three hours, I was told. I thanked him kindly and invited him to do something to himself that I could not have possibly known how to translate into his native tongue. Still, he got the gist that I was "onto" him.
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Ultrasound vibes for DR Ron!
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I double-checked my hospital appointment to verify I knew exactly where it was I was going.
I am satisfied I knew exactly where I was going.
Sadly, I am also satisified I didn't have the slighted idea of "when" I was going.
My appointment is Tuesday, April 18, not Thursday, April 18.
I think "Old Timer's Disease" has well and truly set in.
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TOD:
I bought a new laptop 8 months ago and a new desktop PC six months ago. One afternoon, I received a phone call telling me that a computer virus has been reported to them by my computer and that only they could remove it. All I had to do was allow them control over my computer. At first, I was concerned, but then it dawned on me that "Hey! I haven't used my home system for several days." So, I asked when the virus had cropped up. Within the last three hours, I was told. I thanked him kindly and invited him to do something to himself that I could not have possibly known how to translate into his native tongue. Still, he got the gist that I was "onto" him.
;D
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We're not moving things along very rapidly today.
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Oh! Oh! Yes, I'm still at work. My mind is off looking for a parking place at the hospital, but my body is here.
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Long, but good readthrough of Act One. Without voices, the debt to Aaron Copland really comes through in the orchestrations
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And now, some thought about dinner.
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The weather here is weird today. It was raining this morning.
Now, it seems to be clearing. It's 61 degrees outside.
It's cool here in the office.
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...59...
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Page 3
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And now, some thought about dinner.
Bon appetit!
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And now, some thought about dinner.
Bon appetit!
LOL! I'm still debating what to have. i may just go to bed.
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Oh! Oh! Yes, I'm still at work. My mind is off looking for a parking place at the hospital, but my body is here.
I didn't realize you were doing it after work. Good luck finding that parking place ;)
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Good evening!
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Kidney vibes for Ron.
From me too!
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I need a burst of energy for every thing I need to do. We have had appointments every day. This afternoon we were planning to get our enhanced/secure Washington driver's licenses we need by June 6th. Instead we went for a walk. Without the secure license we won't be able to fly unless we have our passports with us. We will need to do this soon.
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Well, I must be off. I'm going with my friend Margo to see a production of Sister Act at the Cornish Institute in Seattle. A friend of Margo's daughter is in the show (and I think I've met her) and she's graduating soon, so we're going to see her in her final show at the school.
Be back later...much later.
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DR Ron if I remember correctly you are retiring before October 10, 2017, the date a secure license is needed in California to fly without a passport as your i.d. Once you move you might want to request a secure driver's licence since South Carolina is required to have them by June 6th.
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Page three? Really?
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Back from a long casting day - some really terrific options today - and we finished a bit early so I was able to get to the bank and do my stuff.
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Well my moms bed was delivered. She was shocked to discover that a queen size bed is much smaller than a king size bed
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She was also surprised to discover that neither a twin size headboard or two twin size headboards put together will fit in the frame of a queen size bed
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I put her paintings back on the walls in her bedroom, the staircase and the hallway
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Dinner is in the oven
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Roast chicken and asparagus with roasted red pepper slices, a touch of garlic (don't tell Vixdad) and a sprinkling if olive oil
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Well my moms bed was delivered. She was shocked to discover that a queen size bed is much smaller than a king size bed
;D
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She was also surprised to discover that neither a twin size headboard or two twin size headboards put together will fit in the frame of a queen size bed
She purchased a a mattress and a frame without a headboard? I hope she finds a headboard she likes, many are part of the frame.
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I don't have a headboard. Never saw the need for one.
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Major headache this evening.
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Came home to a box set of Jean Renoir movies.
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Watched a strange silent short called Charleston Parade. I'm starting La Marseillaise about the French Revolution. Very contemporary.
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Good night, all.
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Page THREE??? Really?
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Finished with my viewing.
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DR John I hope your major headache is better.
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Had some popcorn and then some cherry chip ice cream for my evening snack. All good.
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Keith had popcorn. I had more than enough to eat for the day and had to pass.
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Good evening!
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Page 3? Really?
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Page 4
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Where is everybody?
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This is a Thursday.
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I went down to Yelm (near George) today to meet my friend, Diane, for lunch.
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We didn't plan our arrival time to match up with the buffet.
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So, against my better judgement, we decided to play the slots for a while.
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My friend has the magic touch when it comes to slot machines.
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As for me, I learned long ago, that I have no luck when it comes to electronic gaming devices.
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So, knowing my lack of luck, I am careful how much I wager.
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So, knowing my limits, we started to play.
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By the time we went to lunch, my friend, Diane, had won about six hundred dollars.
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Surprisingly, I was ahead by $150.00.
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The lunch buffet was only so-so.
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The salad bar portion is very limited compared to the Emerald Queen buffet in Fife, where Sandy and I go to lunch.
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If you like fresh cracked crab it is great, but I am not much of a fan of crab.
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Especially when you have to crack your own crab.
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The rest of the lunch was just okay.
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I should have had them make me some fettucine with chicken from the pasta bar, but I was lazy.
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Also, Thursday is their picnic buffet, so there was lots of baked beans, many types of chicken, and French fries.
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But I got plenty to eat, and I skipped the dessert area.
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They have a nicer restaurant, but it doesn't open until three o'clock.
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Eating at that restaurant means you leave right in the middle of rush hour.
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But next time I will wait until the other restaurant opens because the buffet has really gotten boring.
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After lunch, we returned to the slot machines.
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I had a lucky spin that gave me $350.00, so it was time to leave.
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And amazing enough, it didn't rain the whole way home.
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When I got home, I found an e-mail from a good friend and former boss at Children's Services.
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Her partner of over thirty years, and one of my first supervisors with the State died Monday.
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He passed away from Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis which he had been suffering from for the past seven years.
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Page four? Really? I'm taking a shower and hopefully when I return to the computer we will have had a frenzy or nine.
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He hadn't wanted anyone to know how ill he was, so Jean had just kind stopped returning e-mails.
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Page 5
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I am trying to create a frenzy. Thank you.
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I had a lucky spin that gave me $350.00, so it was time to leave.
Was that in total or on top of your $150 win?
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DR TCB, I am sorry for your sad news.
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Anyway, Jean had stopped writing but I had actually thought that maybe she was the one who was in ill health.
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It hadn't occurred to me that it might be Bruce who was ill.
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DR TCB, I am sorry for your sad news.
Thanks, Jane.
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It is hard to believe that they lived together for over 30 years.
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Of course, it is hard to believe that I will be turning 67 this year.
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I had a lucky spin that gave me $350.00, so it was time to leave.
Was that in total or on top of your $150 win?
It was a total of $500.00
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Hopefully, if he is feeling up to it, Sandy and I will be going out to lunch tomorrow.
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If I go out to lunch tomorrow, it will make a perfect record of going out to eat every day this week.
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DRs George and TCB, do you know any of these actors?
http://www.broadwaybox.com/daily-scoop/exclusive-photos-backstage-at-broadways-hit-come-from-away/
I don't know any of the actors, but I would certainly like to know Geno Carr.
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Nicky threw-up a hair all in my bed.
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Perhaps I have been going out too much this week.
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Luckily, tomorrow is sheet-cleaning day.
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Of course, it could have been worse.