Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on March 28, 2019, 12:08:16 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were boring, and now it is time for you to post until the boring cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: POLYGLOT!
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First post after BK!
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Topic of the Day: What was I up to in the Summer of Love or basically the late 1960s?
Umm...I was born in 1966, so not much, at all. I wasn't even in kindergarten, and I don't think "pre-school" was even a thing, yet. ;)
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And now, it's time for bed.
Have a good day, all!
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Good morning, all!
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Everyone here seems healthy this morning, and that's good.
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Around 10:30 I'll head down to the studio to listen to some of the overdubs. I doubt I'll stay for everything.
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Good morning, all.
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We have been visited by a bear twice in two days.
This is thanks to its having discovered the bird feeders. Nathan says it’s a young one — but not a cub, which is important — and he’ll be able to scare it off easily. (He’s an exterminator with some training in wildlife control, and has the proper noisemakers and other paraphernalia.)
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And I think that’s my news, other than rehearsal rehearsal rehearsal....
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I’m afraid I have no Summer of Love stories. I’m depraved on account of I was deprived. Meadowbrook festival is about as exciting as it got for the likes of me. I can at least say that I now enjoy hearing a great deal of the music from those years more than I ever did before.
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Annabelle loved patrol this morning. she saw several sparrows and a pigeon, and that has made her day.
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The summer of love? I was working summer theatre between junior and senior years of college. I was also taking a symmer school course in American history, as I recall.
I do remember the summer theatre season and even have a few photos. I lived in a house with three other summer theatre students and the house was "the" party place for the entire season. I think I averaged 4-6 hours of sleep a night, and when I got home in August, I went to bed and slept several days straight. The season was A Thurber Carnival, The Firebugs, The King Who Took Sunshine, and The King and I.
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I thought I had more photos! The men in the upper right corner of the first photo were two of my housemates, and for the life of me I cannot remember the other one.
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TOD - 1967
I was 10, so riding my bicycle, playing ball tag with the other neighborhood kids, reading lots of Nancy Drew and Louisa Mae Alcott and Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Damn. I’m sorry to say I have few if any photos from that time beyond some family stuff.
There must be something. Have to think on it. But I won’t be able to get to it before tomorrow.
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TOD:
Working and waiting to see what would happen with my draft number.....
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DR ELMORE mentioned Martin Gottfried - I went to Amazon and ordered a used copy of his book Opening Nights: Theater Criticism of the Sixties.
It arrived yesterday. It was most entertaining.
Inside the book was a card from the publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons that read that they were happy to send this review copy and ask for a couple of quotes to be sent to a certain address - and the publication date 1/6/70.
Written on the inside cover page was "From the library of Arthur Laurents"......and with the same pen in the same handwriting, his birth & death years...
So who knows who wrote it or how they got it. I paid a whopping $1.99 for it.
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DR George those were a good number of similar and duplicate names you worked with.
When we moved into our condo 3 of our neighbos in our building were named Jim and 2 of those had wives with matching names. One Jim moved away and the remaing wives have different names.
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Fingers crossed for DR TCB! May your condo search end with today and you find your new home.
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My uncle Charles married my mother's sister Edith - and his brother Harold also married a lady named Edith.....so there were two ladies named Edith Swinney who lived within a mile of each other.....
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Yes CONDO vibes for DR TCB.
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Yes CONDO vibes for DR TCB.
Ditto!
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Topic of the Day: What was I up to in the Summer of Love or basically the late 1960s?
Umm...I was born in 1966, so not much, at all. I wasn't even in kindergarten, and I don't think "pre-school" was even a thing, yet. ;)
It may have been called something else but it did exist. I went to one and I vividly recall one "special" day. That was the day a boy pushed me off off the metal jungle gym. Falling down the middle of the jungle gym I banged my head and my mother was called to pick me up.
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We have been visited by a bear twice in two days.
This is thanks to its having discovered the bird feeders. Nathan says it’s a young one — but not a cub, which is important — and he’ll be able to scare it off easily. (He’s an exterminator with some training in wildlife control, and has the proper noisemakers and other paraphernalia.)
It was the fruit trees that attracted our bear in Ashland.
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Nice photos DR elmore.
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TOD:
Working and waiting to see what would happen with my draft number.....
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Yes DR ELMORE excellent photos.
DR CHAS SMITH has lots of driving and playing to do today. VIBES for both activities.
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TOD:
I was attending elementary school and watching shows like Family Affair and Bewitched because The Partridge Family didn't air until 1970.
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Good morning!
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Page 2!
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Nice photos, DR elmore!
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Thursday morning greetings! We are home after a (scheduled) visit to our local hospital. Richard had a cervical epidural (steroid shot in the neck) at the pain center. Hopefully it will relieve the neck and shoulder pain he's had for the last several months. We've been to Cracker Barrel for breakfast and are now ready for naps.
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TOD - The highlight of 1967 for me was my first trip, with my mother, to New York City. It was the summer between my junior and senior years of high school. Of course, later that summer Detroit experienced terrible riots and my senior year began with a 3-week teachers' strike. My parents decided to move out of Detroit as soon as I finished high school, so right before I went to Ann Arbor in 1968 for college they moved to the suburbs. And I landed smack dab in the middle of one of the hotbeds of student unrest, both anti-war and civil rights.
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Yes CONDO vibes for DR TCB.
Yes, I hope this is THE ONE!
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I'm up, I'm up - nine hours of sleep.
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How do you do that! I am so tired and my eyes hurt from lack of sleep.
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So far, DR GINNY wins the TOD Contest.
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The summer of love? I was working summer theatre between junior and senior years of college. I was also taking a symmer school course in American history, as I recall.
I do remember the summer theatre season and even have a few photos. I lived in a house with three other summer theatre students and the house was "the" party place for the entire season. I think I averaged 4-6 hours of sleep a night, and when I got home in August, I went to bed and slept several days straight. The season was A Thurber Carnival, The Firebugs, The King Who Took Sunshine, and The King and I.
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Great pictures, Larry!
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DR ELMORE mentioned Martin Gottfried - I went to Amazon and ordered a used copy of his book Opening Nights: Theater Criticism of the Sixties.
It arrived yesterday. It was most entertaining.
Inside the book was a card from the publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons that read that they were happy to send this review copy and ask for a couple of quotes to be sent to a certain address - and the publication date 1/6/70.
Written on the inside cover page was "From the library of Arthur Laurents"......and with the same pen in the same handwriting, his birth & death years...
So who knows who wrote it or how they got it. I paid a whopping $1.99 for it.
That's pretty cool...assuming it really was "From the library of Arthur Laurents."
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I got to the studio a little after 11:00 and we finished up around 1:30. I got home a little after 2:00 and lay down for a nap with Thatch.
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Back from picking up a package and hearing nothing about books shipping. Work session in twenty minutes, then FOOD.
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Forty three posts at almost 3:00 p.m. on the Left Coast?? Not cool.
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Maybe the T.O.D. has scared people away from posting?
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I guess 1967 was actually the Summer of Love. Like Ginny and Jack, I was still in high school, so there was little of the summer of love that affected me.
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The summer of 1968, I was busy doing THE SOUND OF MUSIC (playing Rolf). Pretty tame summer.
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The summer of 1969 was after my first year of college, and I convinced my mom to let me attend summer quarter at college. We did CARMEN and THE FANTASTICKS, and I also worked stage crew building (or trying to build) all the sets for CARMEN. Yes, 1969, did become the "summer of love" for me.
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So far, DR GINNY wins the TOD Contest.
I agree.
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Thank you for all the positive vibes about the condo. No decision has been made yet.
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Offers are being collected until 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, April 2.
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I really don't how I am supposed to buy a home and still be able to eat?
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In 1967 I graduated high school and 2 days later I was engaged to be married. I also moved out of my childhood home into my first apartment, and then into my second apartment. In June of 1969, after we returned from our honeymoon, I moved again into our first apartment.
1968 was less exciting except for the experience of watching my cat give birth to 3 kittens.
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I really don't how I am supposed to buy a home and still be able to eat?
Do you think you might stay where you are?
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I really don't how I am supposed to buy a home and still be able to eat?
Do you think you might stay where you are?
No.
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I really don't how I am supposed to buy a home and still be able to eat?
Do you think you might stay where you are?
No.
Do you need to move, or do you just really want to?
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DR TCB is also a winner in the TOD contest.
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TOD 1968 Finished LACC. Spent the summer going to love-ins in Griffith Park and hanging out on the Sunset Strip. Met Peter Tork of the Monkees. Waiting to start working at the phone company. Moved into my first apartment on the hill next to the Hollywood Bowl.
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Hello, everyone.
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Late '60s:
College, working, travel.
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I've been trying to figure what I need to do to sleep through the night. In desperation one night at 2 am, unable to sleep, I pulled out some sleep products I hadn't used in a while. One used to help, but no longer did so. The other never did seem to help. Guess what? The one that never helped made a difference! I now keep it next to my bed in case I wake up during the night.
Those who never have sleep issues just don't know how lucky they are!
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I really don't how I am supposed to buy a home and still be able to eat?
You want to eat, too? Picky, picky, picky.
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We have been visited by a bear twice in two days.
This is thanks to its having discovered the bird feeders. Nathan says it’s a young one — but not a cub, which is important — and he’ll be able to scare it off easily. (He’s an exterminator with some training in wildlife control, and has the proper noisemakers and other paraphernalia.)
Well, those skills will certainly come in handy.
Anti-bear vibes.
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DR George those were a good number of similar and duplicate names you worked with.
When we moved into our condo 3 of our neighbos in our building were named Jim and 2 of those had wives with matching names. One Jim moved away and the remaing wives have different names.
George's case is the most I've ever heard of.
In my life currently there's an Erik and a Daerick, a Mindy and a Mandy. (Two Mandys, actually.) I've gotten a bit tongue-tied once or twice.
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I've been trying to figure what I need to do to sleep through the night. In desperation one night at 2 am, unable to sleep, I pulled out some sleep products I hadn't used in a while. One used to help, but no longer did so. The other never did seem to help. Guess what? The one that never helped made a difference! I now keep it next to my bed in case I wake up during the night.
Those who never have sleep issues just don't know how lucky they are!
I am glad something is finally working.
When it is really bad I feel the same as when I am suffering from server jet lag without the the reward of seeing new places.
DR Jeanne do you also get nauseated along with the other symptoms?
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DR George those were a good number of similar and duplicate names you worked with.
When we moved into our condo 3 of our neighbos in our building were named Jim and 2 of those had wives with matching names. One Jim moved away and the remaing wives have different names.
George's case is the most I've ever heard of.
In my life currently there's an Erik and a Daerick, a Mindy and a Mandy. (Two Mandys, actually.) I've gotten a bit tongue-tied once or twice.
;D
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I've been trying to figure what I need to do to sleep through the night. In desperation one night at 2 am, unable to sleep, I pulled out some sleep products I hadn't used in a while. One used to help, but no longer did so. The other never did seem to help. Guess what? The one that never helped made a difference! I now keep it next to my bed in case I wake up during the night.
Those who never have sleep issues just don't know how lucky they are!
I am glad something is finally working.
When it is really bad I feel the same as when I am suffering from server jet lag without the the reward of seeing new places.
DR Jeanne do you also get nauseated along with the other symptoms?
Not from sleep issues. When my neck and shoulders cramp up badly it can make me a bit sick, but I learned long ago that I need to treat for cramping, not stomach issues.
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Pain does that too :(
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I've been trying to figure what I need to do to sleep through the night. In desperation one night at 2 am, unable to sleep, I pulled out some sleep products I hadn't used in a while. One used to help, but no longer did so. The other never did seem to help. Guess what? The one that never helped made a difference! I now keep it next to my bed in case I wake up during the night.
Those who never have sleep issues just don't know how lucky they are!
I am glad something is finally working.
When it is really bad I feel the same as when I am suffering from server jet lag without the the reward of seeing new places.
DR Jeanne do you also get nauseated along with the other symptoms?
I'm trying to make a joke out of your "server jet lag" typo. When the (computer) server is really slow you get jet lag. I'm sure someone here can do better than that.
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I have no other news.
Vibes to all.
TTFN.
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Had a good and brief work session, then was just in the mood for something fast and easy so - McDonald's - very good today.
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Tonight we are going to watch Stan & Ollie. DR Druxy I will mention your comments to Keith. Did anyone else also see it? If so did you find it sad?
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I've been trying to figure what I need to do to sleep through the night. In desperation one night at 2 am, unable to sleep, I pulled out some sleep products I hadn't used in a while. One used to help, but no longer did so. The other never did seem to help. Guess what? The one that never helped made a difference! I now keep it next to my bed in case I wake up during the night.
Those who never have sleep issues just don't know how lucky they are!
I am glad something is finally working.
When it is really bad I feel the same as when I am suffering from server jet lag without the the reward of seeing new places.
DR Jeanne do you also get nauseated along with the other symptoms?
I'm trying to make a joke out of your "server jet lag" typo. When the (computer) server is really slow you get jet lag. I'm sure someone here can do better than that.
;D :)
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The news has broken on Facebook, so I can share it here now: Rob and Mary Linda closed on their first house today. It's about 15 miles from us and a very good choice for them. This photo makes it look like it's out in the country, which it was when it was built, but it's actually 5 minutes from lots of shopping & dining and right across the road from Voice of America Park.
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The news has broken on Facebook, so I can share it here now: Rob and Mary Linda closed on their first house today. It's about 15 miles from us and a very good choice for them. This photo makes it look like it's out in the country, which it was when it was built, but it's actually 5 minutes from lots of shopping & dining and right across the road from Voice of America Park.
Congratulations! I wish them years of joy
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Thank you, DR Vixmom! We're very happy for them, of course, but will miss having upstairs housemates...
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Congrats to Rob and Mary Linda!
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Thanks, DR KevinH!
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I wrote about Stan and Ollie right here - I enjoyed it for what it was.
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Congratulations to Rob and Mary Linda on their lovely new home. While you will miss your upstairs housemates I still congratulate you on the nearness of their new home.
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I wrote about Stan and Ollie right here - I enjoyed it for what it was.
It would be nice if the "search" bar included the notes.
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Congratulations to Rob and Mary Linda on their lovely new home. While you will miss your upstairs housemates I still congratulate you on the nearness of their new home.
Thank you, DR Jane! We are very pleased with their location.
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Very nice house DR GINNY!
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Very nice house DR GINNY!
Thanks, DR JRand! It’s going to be even nicer before they move in because they’re redoing all the floors downstairs - new carpet in the living room and bedrooms, woodgrain laminate in kitchen, dining room, and hall.
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DR George those were a good number of similar and duplicate names you worked with.
When we moved into our condo 3 of our neighbos in our building were named Jim and 2 of those had wives with matching names. One Jim moved away and the remaing wives have different names.
George's case is the most I've ever heard of.
In my life currently there's an Erik and a Daerick, a Mindy and a Mandy. (Two Mandys, actually.) I've gotten a bit tongue-tied once or twice.
When I did A Christmas Story back in December, there were two Meghans and one Megan. One of the Meghans (the only one that I knew...she also was just in Bunbury) said that people could call her Meg. I still called her Meghan.
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The news has broken on Facebook, so I can share it here now: Rob and Mary Linda closed on their first house today. It's about 15 miles from us and a very good choice for them. This photo makes it look like it's out in the country, which it was when it was built, but it's actually 5 minutes from lots of shopping & dining and right across the road from Voice of America Park.
Congrats to the new home owners!! :D
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And now, I'm off. Gonna do a little shopping, then head home.
Be back later.
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Good evening, all.
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It's been an insane day.
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Let's move on.
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Four!
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Every time I got into a project that was due today, someone submitted something that was due sooner. That happened five times today.
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But I managed to get it all done and had a couple of promising meetings.
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Then I did something new this evening that was truly odd. I was a hired dancer for a seniors party. For three hours tonight, I went around and asked elderly people to dance to a big band that was playing everything from Perfidia to Just in Time.
And I had fun.
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Now I'm home unwinding with the first episode of season two of Riverdale.
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Elmore, wonderful photos.
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Congratulations to Rob and Linda.
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TOD:
I was 4 in the summer of 1967. So, I guess I was learning to read.
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Jane, I started Ivanhoe three times and never got into it. One of these days, maybe.
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Hello, 1 guest!
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Gratuitous post No. 100!
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John, when you were at the seniors party, were pole dancing and stripping?
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Dear reader Jane, the notes are easily searchable - but not from here - at the bottom of every notes is a search bar - that's where you search: Search BK's Notes Archive. I just did: http://www.haineshisway.com/2019/01/people-come-people-go-like-grand-hotel-in-japanese/
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Good evening.
Back home and exhausted. I am SO glad I have nothing tomorrow.
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DR Ginny, congrats to both you and the new homeowners. What a surprise! And I know exactly where Voice of America Park is.
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John, when you were at the seniors party, were pole dancing and stripping?
There were plenty of walkers and canes.
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I spoke with Carol today for a few minutes. She was tired, But she was a little better. She told the folks at the hospital that she would not go to a rehab center. She would rather go home, and I think they agreed with her. She did have physical therapy today, which was likely good albeit incredibly painful.
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Summer of 1967 was my summer between high school and college. I believe I mostly spent it at home in Fort Lauderdale prior to the family road trip to take me to school in Cleveland. I do have very sweet memories of fun had that summer with my best high school friends, and it was all innocent of anything related to the actual Summer of Love. Whatever was going on then was going right over my head.
My “Rosebud” of that summer would be my best friend’s MG TD which to this day ranks as one of my favorite cars ever.
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This production of A Chorus Line looks and sounds damned good over the monitors in the remote pit, and I’m sorry that that’s all I’m going to be able to see of it.
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Tomorrow is Dad's procedure. Mom says she has all the paperwork under control. But she was a bit confused about the medication he can and can't take beforehand.
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Tomorrow is also my friend Pam's 65th birthday. We're going out to celebrate at one of my favorite restaurants. It was her choice. I'm just going along to stuff myself.
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I need some sleep.
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Good night, all.
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Very nice house DR GINNY!
Thanks, DR JRand! It’s going to be even nicer before they move in because they’re redoing all the floors downstairs - new carpet in the living room and bedrooms, woodgrain laminate in kitchen, dining room, and hall.
Very nice. It sounds like you get to keep them a little longer.
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But I managed to get it all done and had a couple of promising meetings.
A job well done.
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Then I did something new this evening that was truly odd. I was a hired dancer for a seniors party. For three hours tonight, I went around and asked elderly people to dance to a big band that was playing everything from Perfidia to Just in Time.
And I had fun.
I suspect some small cruise ships give free or discounted cruises to men willing to dance every evening.
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Jane, I started Ivanhoe three times and never got into it. One of these days, maybe.
At this point I suggest watching the movie instead ;)
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I barely read today since I didn't go to the gym. I usually read while using the treadmill. Instead I stayed home and did laundry. My plan was to make a recipe of Bryan's I have been craving, a Mexican bean salad. I had all of the ingredients out and began with the dressing first. I measured out the olive oil. Instead of pucking up the red wine vinegar in front of me I opened a bottle of balsamic vinegar and measured and poured it into the oluve oil.
I have been intending to make a balsamic vinegar dressing and my brain went there. I made a dressing of equal parts oil and vinegar.
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Does anyone have a good balsamic dressing recipe?
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Dear reader Jane, the notes are easily searchable - but not from here - at the bottom of every notes is a search bar - that's where you search: Search BK's Notes Archive. I just did: http://www.haineshisway.com/2019/01/people-come-people-go-like-grand-hotel-in-japanese/
Thanks for finding this for me. I will show it to Keith tomorrow. Clueless about the little details that bothered you we enjoyed it very much. Of course we thought the actors were great.
We found a lot of joy in the story.
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Back to my fun book.
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Good evening.
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Hi, Jane.
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My brain is totally fried this evening.
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Not only have I been swinging back and forth between buying a condo or not buying one; but BK’s T.O.D. has sent my brain plunging back into long forgotten memories from the summer of ‘69.
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Then I did something new this evening that was truly odd. I was a hired dancer for a seniors party. For three hours tonight, I went around and asked elderly people to dance to a big band that was playing everything from Perfidia to Just in Time.
And I had fun.
I suspect some small cruise ships give free or discounted cruises to men willing to dance every evening.
I believe all of the major cruise lines still offer free cabins to gentlemen who are willing to dance and make polite conversation with older women who are traveling unaccompanied. Unfortunately, I believe John is, at least, twenty years too young to qualify.
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Hi, jan.
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Hi, George.
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Tracy is going to go with me on Saturday to look at the condo. Of course, she has seen the photos, but she needs to see it in person.
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Oh, Honey, John is not too young for women who just want to dance without being hassled. I'd dance with him in a hot minute. Hell, I'd dance with you! We just want to get out there and boogie.
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Hi, Tom, jan and Jane.
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I did a little shopping tonight after work.
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And then I went to Happy Teriyaki for dinner. :)
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Was the teriyaki happy?
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Then, I came home and fed my cat.
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And now I'm watching a repeat episode of Antiques Roadshow.
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Tomorrow is also my friend Pam's 65th birthday. We're going out to celebrate at one of my favorite restaurants. It was her choice. I'm just going along to stuff myself.
John, Happy Birthday to your friend, Pam!
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Dear Jane, barely reading is unseemly. Make up for it tomorrow or I shall reveal secrets about you like the name of the street you grew up on.
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Notes are written and written are notes.
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OOOOOHHHH, blackmail!!!!!!!!!! Any other juicy tidbits? Jane, want to spill on BK?
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Oh, Honey, John is not too young for women who just want to dance without being hassled. I'd dance with him in a hot minute. Hell, I'd dance with you! We just want to get out there and boogie.
I am sure you would, but the cruise lines are very strict on the ages of their escorts.
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Then we'll just have to go on a cruise so they can't dictate to you.
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Then we'll just have to go on a cruise so they can't dictate to you.
I am now the right age, but I don’t dance!!
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Good night, all.
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He won't dance, don't ask him. Apparently jan would not dance with me in a hot or cold minute.
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He won't dance, don't ask him. Apparently jan would not dance with me in a hot or cold minute.
That's too bad.
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Well...
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...let's...
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...try...
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...to make it to the...
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PAGE SIX DANCE!!
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:D
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Good night, Tom.