Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on August 30, 2017, 12:18:15 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were a little tired, and now it is time for you to post until the tired cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: INTERSTICE!
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First post after BK!
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Second post after BK!
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Good night, George.
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I just realized that the play Silent Sky has five actors (four female and one male), not four total actors.
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Good night, George.
Good night, Tom. Have a good day.
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I just realized that the play Silent Sky has five actors (four female and one male), not four total actors.
And I didn't realize until last night that the play is based on real people. Here's a synopsis from Amazon's listing for the script (https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Sky-Lauren-Gunderson/dp/0822233800):
When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she isn't allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. Instead, she joins a group of women "computers," charting the stars for a renowned astronomer who calculates projects in "girl hours" and has no time for the women's probing theories. As Henrietta, in her free time, attempts to measure the light and distance of stars, she must also take measure of her life on Earth, trying to balance her dedication to science with family obligations and the possibility of love. The true story of 19th-century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt explores a woman's place in society during a time of immense scientific discoveries, when women's ideas were dismissed until men claimed credit for them. Social progress, like scientific progress, can be hard to see when one is trapped among earthly complications; Henrietta Leavitt and her female peers believe in both, and their dedication changed the way we understand both the heavens and Earth.
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And now, I'm off to bed.
Have a good day, all.
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Good morning to all
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Good morning!
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Good morning, all!
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I'm on my first cup of coffee and playing at the computer.
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I slept quite well last night. Jo, Randy and I watched "America's Got Talent," which I found hyperventilated and hyper-ridiculous. The hostess - is that Tyra Banks? - wore the most god-awful dress that looked as if she had thrown a mantilla over her bathing suit from the 1950s.
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In an hour I will ask Randy to drive me to the car rental. Jo has a job interview today and I hope it goes well. She wants a part-time job to keep herself occupied.
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There's a Renaissance Faire opening this weekend and Randy wants to go. Jo and I would rather not.
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DR vixmim, what treatment, if any, is suggested for this cataract?
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Good morning, all.
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Vixmom, how big is the cataract? I was told I have the beginnings of cataracts, but that was five years ago and they haven't progressed and it's probably not anything to be concerned about for the near future. Hopefully, yours is/are the same.
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Thanks, BK, for the notes on Roadshow. I had been interested, but I won't bother. I don't care for a lot of the roadshow movies anyway.
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Good morning, all.
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It's too bad about the Roadshow book. I remember some people posting about it some months back, probably on HTF or Criterion Forum or who the hell knows where. It was apparently a huge disappointment for ALL -- not just us diehard devotees of the era -- which is saying something.
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Vixmom, how big is the cataract? I was told I have the beginnings of cataracts, but that was five years ago and they haven't progressed and it's probably not anything to be concerned about for the near future. Hopefully, yours is/are the same.
Mine also do not seem to be processing.
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It had to be nearly ten years ago that I was first told by my optometrist that she could see just the beginnings of a little fogginess in there. I didn't detect anything myself then, or for the longest time, but now I can and the current doc says I'm definitely getting closer to doing something about it.
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Wednesday morning greetings! Richard and I went to Oxford last night to see Cincinnati Shakespeare Company's abbreviated "Merry Wives of Windsor." It was a perfect evening for a performance in the park and we quite enjoyed it. Today I'm doing desk work before meeting Rebecca for lunch at Bravo, one of our favorite places.
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DR Elmore, welcome to SW Ohio! Call me sometime so we can synchronize our watches 8)
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DR Vixmom, sorry to hear your cataract news. Remember, I had both eyes done at the beginning of this year. It was quite smooth and, now that I've figured out what glasses I need when, I'm very satisfied with the result.
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Ohio vibes for DR ELMORE.
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I'm tired.
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Let's move on ...
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Two!
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I am cleaning.
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I am cleaning.
Hello, cleaning. I am George.
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:))
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Remember...no groaning!
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Or...
I am cleaning.
(https://www.moretvicar.com/media/product/2014/11/27/1809_8897_w300.jpg)
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In an hour I will ask Randy to drive me to the car rental. Jo has a job interview today and I hope it goes well. She wants a part-time job to keep herself occupied.
~~~Successful Job Interview Vibes for Jo!!~~~
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I'm up, I'm up - nine hours of sleep.
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I got the Roadshow book because some guy on Facebook was going on and on about Doctor Dolittle and the cuts as if he were an expert on it. I challenged him, told him I was at the premiere, that it had major cuts after that, because I also saw it with the major cuts at its general release. He wouldn't stop. He finally said "my sources say" this. I asked him what his sources were. Roadshow was the answer. I responded with "My sources are my eyeballs, not some book that could be shoddily researched." He never responded. Funny that. But I wanted to have the book to see if the author was credible - and he just isn't. It's just rehashed stories, anecdotal things, and then everyone on the imdb reads that crap and rehashes the rehashed in the trivia section. But unless I haven't gotten to where he talked to Hayley Mills and is therefore thanking her, I'm not finding any credible evidence she was EVER cast in Doctor Dolittle - just one thing in the trivia section that had her on the list of people "considered" - and those included Barbra Streisand - and I think we know how credible THAT nonsense is. Anyone's name can be on some list - doesn't mean anything was ever done about it.
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Remember...no groaning!
Trying hard to suppress it.
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I got the Roadshow book because some guy on Facebook was going on and on about Doctor Dolittle and the cuts as if he were an expert on it. I challenged him, told him I was at the premiere, that it had major cuts after that, because I also saw it with the major cuts at its general release. He wouldn't stop. He finally said "my sources say" this. I asked him what his sources were. Roadshow was the answer. I responded with "My sources are my eyeballs, not some book that could be shoddily researched." He never responded. Funny that. But I wanted to have the book to see if the author was credible - and he just isn't. It's just rehashed stories, anecdotal things, and then everyone on the imdb reads that crap and rehashes the rehashed in the trivia section. But unless I haven't gotten to where he talked to Hayley Mills and is therefore thanking her, I'm not finding any credible evidence she was EVER cast in Doctor Dolittle - just one thing in the trivia section that had her on the list of people "considered" - and those included Barbra Streisand - and I think we know how credible THAT nonsense is. Anyone's name can be on some list - doesn't mean anything was ever done about it.
I was told I was on the list. But I didn't believe it. 😉
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Back from a grilled cheese sandwich and a side Caesar and picking up no packages.
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Not feeling great today. May just go home in a bit and work from there.
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I got back from Oxford around 2:30 and Randy and I watched Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. Jo has been through her interview and various tests and I think she has a new job.
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How is that Sleepy Hollow? I saw it once back in the day and have no memory of it.
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Time to get ready for a rehearsal.
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We picked up the rental car later than I would have liked and I spent about 75 minutes with the staff discussing the collection. I like them very much. Next summer I need to spend about a week and a half with one of the staff, Justin, reorganizing everything.
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Then I met Gion DeFrancesco of the Miami U Theatre Dept. for lunch. He's got a project for me if the funding can be raised. I hope so, since it's quite interesting.
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How is that Sleepy Hollow? I saw it once back in the day and have no memory of it.
Think it's wonderful, a Tim-Burton-does-Hammer production, only better written and better photographed than a lot of Hammer horror films.
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Jo has been through her interview and various tests and I think she has a new job.
That's great!
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Slumming my way further into Roadshow there's this: Did you know that Gertrude Lawrence was married to ROBERT Aldrich? Didn't think so. This book is riddled with stupid stuff like that. In talking endlessly about Thoroughly Modern Millie, he refers over and over again to Andre Previn, who arranged the songs ONLY - he never once mentions the Oscar-winning contribution of someone named Elmer Bernstein. One wonders if this nitwit even watched the movie.
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Julie Andrews "was paid a cool million" for Thoroughly Modern Millie. Very doubtful, in fact if she had been you'd be able to find many references to it because she'd have been the member of a very exclusive club of one, for while some will tell you that E. Taylor received a million for Cleopatra it isn't true.
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I think this guy is just making it up as he goes along. I've got to now find the thread on Facebook where the guy was giving me grief by using this sorry book as his "source."
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"Tony Walton, Andrews' costume designer husband" - listen stupid, Mr. Walton may have occasionally designed costumes, but he was primarily a brilliant SET DESIGNER. This guy better hope I never have the ability to take him on in public.
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And according to this nerdlinger, Streisand was also paid one million to star in Hello, Dolly the film. I can find not one source to back up that assertion and it's almost laughable, since the film of Funny Girl hadn't even come out when she was hired to do Dolly.
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Interestingly I Googled "who made one million dollars a film in the 1960s" - the only items that came up were the ones reporting that Taylor had made that for Cleopatra, but apparently that was what she made for the year, not that particular film. But one site came up where they had a list of popular stars and what they'd made. This list had no attributions and was titled of all things Teachers Salaries. On that ONE list it has Julie Andrews making 1.1 million for Darling Lili - again, no sources, but I'm sure that's where Mr. Idiot got this information and made assumptions based on it. However, in the same decade this site reports that Sean Connery made 1.1 million dollars for the first Bond movie. Amazing, aint' it, considering the entire budget for the film was 1.1 million dollars? And this is what the Internet has brought us and why there's so much misinformation flying around.
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Factcheckers are an endangered species.
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Facts are an endangered species.
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Facts are an endangered species.
Sadly, that's a too accurate statement. :-\
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Good evening!
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Interestingly I Googled "who made one million dollars a film in the 1960s" - the only items that came up were the ones reporting that Taylor had made that for Cleopatra, but apparently that was what she made for the year, not that particular film. But one site came up where they had a list of popular stars and what they'd made. This list had no attributions and was titled of all things Teachers Salaries. On that ONE list it has Julie Andrews making 1.1 million for Darling Lili - again, no sources, but I'm sure that's where Mr. Idiot got this information and made assumptions based on it. However, in the same decade this site reports that Sean Connery made 1.1 million dollars for the first Bond movie. Amazing, aint' it, considering the entire budget for the film was 1.1 million dollars? And this is what the Internet has brought us and why there's so much misinformation flying around.
BK---I see a couple of sources that say she got $750,000 for Dolly.
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Page 3!
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Page 3?
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Good afternoon.
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Facts are an endangered species.
Alternative facts are all the rage now.
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I am cleaning.
Hello, cleaning. I am George.
;D
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:))
:)
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It is much easier to clean this place than our Ashland home, and it seems to collect less dust.
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Or...
I am cleaning.
(https://www.moretvicar.com/media/product/2014/11/27/1809_8897_w300.jpg)
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Cute :)
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I got back from Oxford around 2:30 and Randy and I watched Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow. Jo has been through her interview and various tests and I think she has a new job.
Vibes she got it!
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Facts are an endangered species.
Alternative facts are all the rage now.
Sad but true.
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DR John I hope you are feeling better.
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It is much easier to clean this place than our Ashland home, and it seems to collect less dust.
I collect dust. I have a huge collection.
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DR John I hope you are feeling better.
Sort of. I woke up with an allergy attack in the middle of the night and I think it's all playing a part.
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Starting with a modern western tonight. Glenn Ford, Henry Fonda and Chill Wills in The Rounders. Kathleen Freeman is in the supporting cast.
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Any Richard Russo fans here? I'm into the last story in his latest collection, Trajectory, and I'm really enjoying it.
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I bought flood insurance today.
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I have a chef friend in Victoria, Texas, who has a food truck with a sit-down cafe. James has been in overdrive since the flooding began and fellow chefs have turned out to help him. They've feed more than 6,000 people so far, and it's a pay what you can type operation. In other words, if you haven't got any money or you're homeless because of Harvey, that's OK. More chefs are rolling over to help on the long weekend ahead.
I'd love to go help out but with this pinched nerve I can't stand for a long time or walk a great deal.
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It is much easier to clean this place than our Ashland home, and it seems to collect less dust.
I collect dust. I have a huge collection.
With your allergies ;)
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DR John I hope you are feeling better.
Sort of. I woke up with an allergy attack in the middle of the night and I think it's all playing a part.
Exactly, you need to stop collecting dust ;D
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I bought flood insurance today.
Did you pay double for it?
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DR John, your friend James and his chef friends are truly good people.
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I bought flood insurance today.
Did you pay double for it?
No. It's government run and the prices are stable if the area hasn't flooded recently. I think it's been 20 years since that's happened. Also, it takes 30 days to go into effect.
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DR John, your friend James and his chef friends are truly good people.
And that's just one group. Know a lot of others who are helping out in the Rockport area and still more trying to get into Houston.
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It is much easier to clean this place than our Ashland home, and it seems to collect less dust.
I collect dust. I have a huge collection.
What a coinkydink! So do I! :D
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Well, I need to be going to the theater. Tonight is the final dress rehearsal before Silent Sky opens tomorrow. Why they open on a Thursday, I'll never know...and they start at 7:25! What's that about??
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Anyway, be back later!
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I bought flood insurance today.
Did you pay double for it?
No. It's government run and the prices are stable if the area hasn't flooded recently. I think it's been 20 years since that's happened. Also, it takes 30 days to go into effect.
That's great!
No flooding vibes for you at all, but at least not for 30 days!
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DR John, your friend James and his chef friends are truly good people.
And that's just one group. Know a lot of others who are helping out in the Rockport area and still more trying to get into Houston.
The wonderful people we see on the news probably doesn't come close to the numbers actually out there.
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I don't even believe the 750K figure - John Wayne, the top box-office draw then made 650,000 for his films. And even that sounds too high, frankly.
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Latest howler from the Goodbye, Mr. Chips chapter: Apparently Andre and Dory Previn while constantly revising their score to the film were distracted by their Broadway bound musical The Happy Time's out of town tryout. This is the problem with idiots - at that point The Happy Time's director, Gower Champion, was going to direct the Chips film - so, he has the show right but isn't even smart enough to know that the Previns had nothing to do with it. And the ONLY songwriters involved with Chips were the Previns and Bricusse. Really? Then what are all these Rod McKuen demos I have, and the Tony Hatch title song I have, etc. And I've located many of the sources he simply copies - changes a few words here and there, but lots of time spent at the Margaret Herrick Library cobbling together the real and the anecdotal (here presented as real) and the patently false PR crap (also presented as real). And people buy the book and take it all as gospel.
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Half a Sixpence had lovely 70mm photography. No, it had lovely 35mm photography and a handful of blow-up 70mm prints - a small distinction, but you know he just read that it played in 70mm, probably not even understanding what a blow up is.
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Watching a justly forgotten musical called Golden Girl with Mitzi Gaynor as Lotta Crabtree. Don't know how much I can take.
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All I know about the DR DOOLITTLE fiasco is what I read in THE STUDIO a very entertaining book by John Gregory Dunne.....I think.....
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Began the commentary for the film music thing. Just as infuriating as I knew it would be, not having a show order. But I got four of them done, so only twelve to go. Maybe I'll do two more later.
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Okay, page four? Really? Let's just fix this, shall we? Like NOW.
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I am basically reading for our company tomorrow morning, just a few things to do when I get up.
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Good evening!
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Page 4? Really?
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I have been feeling sick all day.
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I bowed out of lunch with the old actors today.
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I just didn't feel like driving over to the restaurant.
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I tried working on the book, but I just couldn't concentrate.
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I slept on and off in my chair.
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Fortunately, it wasn't as hot today as it has been.
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I think it only got up to 76 today.
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Hopefully, it will stay around that temperature tomorrow, as well.
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This weekend it is supposed to be up to 90 degrees again.
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At least, it will be a nice holiday weekend.
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I have slept away most of the evening.
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I got my Safeway delivery today.
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I am starting to refill my new fridge.
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The first purchase was ice cream.
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I wish I had felt up to having some of it.
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I did watch a movie today.
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It was a strange little film from Australia called NICE PACKAGE.
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It was about a "professional" thief who steals a package from a home and ends up taking a hostage.
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For some strange reason, he takes his hostage to the home of his gay best friend.
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It was definitely an unusual film.
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It was kind of funny and kind of entertaining.
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Page 5
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I need to get ready for bed.
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First of all, I have to close the sliding door off of the balcony.
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Then take my medications.
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And then change computers.
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I shall return.
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I think some other people better damn well return.
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I have returned.
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But no crowd has gathered.
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The A/C is running and Nick is curled up with me.
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I guess the sound isn't bothering him at the moment.
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I hope George's final dress went well tonight.
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I have often wondered why Olympic Little Theatre shows start at 7:25 p.m.
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Especially considering how difficult it is to find the damn theater.
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Still no George.
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A long evening for him.
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I have been feeling sick all day.
~~~Feel Better Vibes!!~~~
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This weekend it is supposed to be up to 90 degrees again.
:P
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The first purchase was ice cream.
A good choice!
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I hope George's final dress went well tonight.
It did go well. I set off one sound cue a little early, but it didn't hurt anything.
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After the run (it'll be just about 2 hours and a little bit including intermission), we adjusted a couple more of the cues.