Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on July 15, 2020, 12:14:21 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes had meat and were also meatless, and now it is time for you to post until the beyond impossible cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: SCANSORIAL!
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I just pre-ordered the new London cast recording of Rags (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B088GKF357), with a score by Charles Strouse and Stephen Schwartz. I love this score. I'm glad that there's finally another recording. :)
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Since I (pre-)ordered it from Amazon, it includes the Auto-rip FREE MP3 version of this album. I'm listening to it right now, and there's a new song, "Edge of a Knife," in the spot where "Children of the Wind" used to be. That's now at the end of the show just before the finale.
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There are several other new songs, too. That'll be interesting to hear them all. I'm off to bed now, so I'll listen to the rest of it at work.
Have a good day, all!
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Good morning, all!
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I slept quite well last night. Around 3:00 I woke to find all three cats - which is rare - snuggled next to me. I had a long weird dream about friends from college. We were sitting on the floor of an academic building, having in a dinner break from a terrible production of something that no one wanted to be involved with.
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This morning I will leave here around 8:45 to stop at the bank and then see Dr Re for some hip and knee injections. I'm hoping everything goes well.
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DR George, Rags was one of those shows like Tenderloin or Baker Street that, if it had opened 40 years ago, would have had a moderate run, but the producers didn't have enough money to keep it going and it deserved better. It was flawed, and the fact the wrong director was hired only complicated things further. Still, the show had a great cast. Teresa Stratas was really wonderful, but Larry Kert was miscast as the villain, and it was a serious misstep since Kert wants the audience to love him. Steve Sondheim once said Kert was better in cabaret because he liked to flirt with the audience.
It's my observation from all the revisions that the authors will never "fix" the book because they refuse to accept the major problem with it: they kill off the wrong character.
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And speaking of the great Teresa Stratas, that Met La Boheme with her is really good with an over-the-top Zeffirelli Act Two mob of people. Was that the first Met telecast?
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Last night Ann's partner Jen brought me the most wonderful strawberry shortcake that her brother had made. It was so delicious.
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I am please to announce that the AUDIO edition of my play, BUD ABBOTT ALONE, featuring Victor Warren as "Bud Abbott," is now available to download on audible.com. Amazon and iTunes. The production is enhanced with music and sound effects.
https://www.amazon.com/Bud-Abbott-Alone-One-Person-Play/dp/B08CVTQ9HW/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1590116758&sr=1-1
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Good morning, all.
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And speaking of the great Teresa Stratas, that Met La Boheme with her is really good with an over-the-top Zeffirelli Act Two mob of people. Was that the first Met telecast?
No. First was in 1977, and it was La Boheme but with Scotto and Pavarotti. I remember watching it at a friend's apartment. Found an amusing look back at it -- https://shrtm.nu/ae8A -- and oh my, all those names that used to be so familiar and now they seem like something from antiquity. Oy! Italo Tajo as Benoit. Tony Randall was the host. Oh my god, I'd forgotten that. He hosted for a while, didn't he?
Production by Fabrizio Melano. The Zeffirelli streaming this week was Jan. 16, 1982, and that production had just been unveiled the month before. It also turns out to be the one I still have on Pioneer Laserdisc and played countless times. I think most of those got transferred to DVD later.
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I do remember playing that eye-popping Act Two over and over. :)
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I'm about ready to head out. Fingers crossed.
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Good morning, all.
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Injection vibes for DR Elmore!
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DR George, Rags was one of those shows like Tenderloin or Baker Street that, if it had opened 40 years ago, would have had a moderate run, but the producers didn't have enough money to keep it going and it deserved better. It was flawed, and the fact the wrong director was hired only complicated things further. Still, the show had a great cast. Teresa Stratas was really wonderful, but Larry Kert was miscast as the villain, and it was a serious misstep since Kert wants the audience to love him. Steve Sondheim once said Kert was better in cabaret because he liked to flirt with the audience.
It's my observation from all the revisions that the authors will never "fix" the book because they refuse to accept the major problem with it: they kill off the wrong character.
Sadly, you might mean 50. Rags opened in ‘86. That’s already 34 years ago. Where does the time go.
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Injection vibes for DR Elmore!
Ditto!
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Watch your phraseology! Otherwise this will be the most SCANSORIAL site on all of the internet!
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DR VIXMOM's liberry is selling booms - which is really all you can do with them.
HOWEVER, she has given me an idea and I think I will also have cheeseburgers and corn on the cob today......
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Thank you MR BK......it would be a shame even MORE now if she doesn't order it.
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Yesterday for the first time I used the WalMart self-checkout for my entire order.
It took a bit to get used to it....but now I think I have it. I am not happy about doing someone else's work - the prices certainly haven't gone down.....but you are really in charge of how long the checkout takes.....
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Temps in the 90's for the next four days.....time to stay indoors.
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I only know Teresa Stratas from the West Side Story recording tv documentary, but she was great and she was so funny....
I may have seen her in a production of CANDIDE on PBS.....
Renata Scotti or whatever her name is sets my teeth on edge when she "sings".....but I may be talking about someone different than is being mentioned here.
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I hope DR ELMORE doesn't get hurt when he gets stuck.
My uncle is having a new pacemaker put in this morning....he is 79, but in reasonably good health.....hoping he doesn't have a bad time.
He said he would be home tonight about 6 o'clock, so I asked him if he wanted to come over to play volleyball and he said: "I'll be there."
So I guess I have to go out and put up the net - after I go buy one.
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DR George, Rags was one of those shows like Tenderloin or Baker Street that, if it had opened 40 years ago, would have had a moderate run, but the producers didn't have enough money to keep it going and it deserved better. It was flawed, and the fact the wrong director was hired only complicated things further. Still, the show had a great cast. Teresa Stratas was really wonderful, but Larry Kert was miscast as the villain, and it was a serious misstep since Kert wants the audience to love him. Steve Sondheim once said Kert was better in cabaret because he liked to flirt with the audience.
It's my observation from all the revisions that the authors will never "fix" the book because they refuse to accept the major problem with it: they kill off the wrong character.
Sadly, you might mean 50. Rags opened in ‘86. That’s already 34 years ago. Where does the time go.
Actually, I probably meant 60. In 1960 Rags with its stars might have lasted 3-6 months, not 2-3 days on Broadway.
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I only know Teresa Stratas from the West Side Story recording tv documentary, but she was great and she was so funny....
I may have seen her in a production of CANDIDE on PBS.....
Renata Scotti or whatever her name is sets my teeth on edge when she "sings".....but I may be talking about someone different than is being mentioned here.
You're mistaking her for someone else. She wasn't on the West Side Story recording. Could it have been John McGlinn's Show Boat?
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And I am home. Injections in right hip and both knees were quite painless. I really like Dr. Re.
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Kiri Te Kanawa is on the West Side Story recording.
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Kiri Te Kanawa is on the West Side Story recording.
And what a pain she is!
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Wednesday morning greetings! Our governor is to address the state at 5:30pm - something tells me his news won't be good...
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I’ll buy 60, Elmore. I have a bootleg of the last performance. Rags was definitely a case of having a dreadful second act, despite some beautiful songs.
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All Walmarts now require masks.
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Teresa Stratas was on TV in The Ghosts of Versailles and The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.
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The painters have begun.
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Ah - that was Tatiana Troyanos.....thanks.....she was terrific.....I did enjoy Miss Kiri struggling with the Soliloquy and Mr Carreras telling Mr Bernstein how his music should be sung.....LOL....
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DR GINNY our governor is talking at 2:30 p.m. as usual......I don't expect good news either.
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The cheeseburgers have been broiled.....the corn on the cob has been broiled.....now I am cooking a tin of biscuits since the oven is on.....and I love tin biscuits......even reheated in the mike-ro-wave.
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Painting vibes for DR JOHN G....are any of them nice looking? We need photographic evidence.
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I'm up at the moment and have been so since seven-fifteen - the noisy neighbors are back from wherever they were and they will not shut up. Maybe I'll go back to bed for a couple of hours.
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I got the new Rags but listening to the download version the orchestrations are not great (they're trying for exact same sound we used for Levi), and while everyone raves about how great it sounds, I think cast album producing today is at its nadir - it sounds dead because today's producers/engineers don't give any space to the instruments or vocals - so the new cast album "sound" is dry, small, and makes even an orchestra of thirty sound like ten. Goddard Lieberson would be turning in his grave if he heard this stuff.
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Good afternoon!
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I really enjoyed the Kaye Ballard documentary. I never realized she had such a great singing voice.
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Good morning.
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Alas, our improved covid numbers was a fluke. A lab missed the deadline for reporting, so the number was lower. It's back to our usual 3000+ per day.
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I saw Kaye Ballard at Jason Graae's concert. Kerry recognized her and said hello to her.
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I saw Kaye Ballard at Jason Graae's concert. Kerry recognized her and said hello to her.
She loved Jason. I first worked with her in 1985 for a Jerome Kern Centennial concert at Town Hall. I orchestrated "Long Ago and Far Away" for her. When I went to her apartment, I met her then girlfriend, and Arthur Siegel, whom I knew through Ben Bagley, was there. It was a wonderful visit, and Arthur for years later, whenever I saw him, always raved about "Long Ago and Far Away." The last time I saw Kaye, after a rehearsal with the New York City Gay Men's Chorus, I walked her and actress Myfanwy Jenn, who was on Broadway in Oh, What A Lovely War! and Richard Rodgers' I Remember Mama, their apartment off Sheridan Square. Kaye was planning on moving permanently to Palm Springs, I think.
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DR George, Rags was one of those shows like Tenderloin or Baker Street that, if it had opened 40 years ago, would have had a moderate run, but the producers didn't have enough money to keep it going and it deserved better. It was flawed, and the fact the wrong director was hired only complicated things further. Still, the show had a great cast. Teresa Stratas was really wonderful, but Larry Kert was miscast as the villain, and it was a serious misstep since Kert wants the audience to love him. Steve Sondheim once said Kert was better in cabaret because he liked to flirt with the audience.
It's my observation from all the revisions that the authors will never "fix" the book because they refuse to accept the major problem with it: they kill off the wrong character.
Interesting. I never knew any of this.
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Last night Ann's partner Jen brought me the most wonderful strawberry shortcake that her brother had made. It was so delicious.
Nice!
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I am please to announce that the AUDIO edition of my play, BUD ABBOTT ALONE, featuring Victor Warren as "Bud Abbott," is now available to download on audible.com. Amazon and iTunes. The production is enhanced with music and sound effects.
https://www.amazon.com/Bud-Abbott-Alone-One-Person-Play/dp/B08CVTQ9HW/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1590116758&sr=1-1
Congrats, Druxy!
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I only know Teresa Stratas from the West Side Story recording tv documentary, but she was great and she was so funny....
I may have seen her in a production of CANDIDE on PBS.....
Renata Scotti or whatever her name is sets my teeth on edge when she "sings".....but I may be talking about someone different than is being mentioned here.
Teresa Stratas was also on the complete studio recording of Show Boat (http://castalbums.org/recordings/Show-Boat-1988-Studio-Cast/2869), conducted by John McGlinn. I love that recording!
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I hope DR ELMORE doesn't get hurt when he gets stuck.
My uncle is having a new pacemaker put in this morning....he is 79, but in reasonably good health.....hoping he doesn't have a bad time.
He said he would be home tonight about 6 o'clock, so I asked him if he wanted to come over to play volleyball and he said: "I'll be there."
So I guess I have to go out and put up the net - after I go buy one.
~~~Quick and Easy Procedure Vibes for Jrand's Uncle!!~~~
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And I am home. Injections in right hip and both knees were quite painless. I really like Dr. Re.
Whew! Good news, Larry!
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Wednesday morning greetings! Our governor is to address the state at 5:30pm - something tells me his news won't be good...
~~~Vibes for Ginny and Everyone in Her State!!~~~
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DR GINNY our governor is talking at 2:30 p.m. as usual......I don't expect good news either.
~~~Ditto Vibes for Jrand!!~~~
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I got the new Rags but listening to the download version the orchestrations are not great (they're trying for exact same sound we used for Levi), and while everyone raves about how great it sounds, I think cast album producing today is at its nadir - it sounds dead because today's producers/engineers don't give any space to the instruments or vocals - so the new cast album "sound" is dry, small, and makes even an orchestra of thirty sound like ten. Goddard Lieberson would be turning in his grave if he heard this stuff.
I thought that I had read that it was a small production, so I assumed (not having a booklet to look at) that it was just a small orchestra. :-\
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Alas, our improved covid numbers was a fluke. A lab missed the deadline for reporting, so the number was lower. It's back to our usual 3000+ per day.
That's too bad.
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Moving on ...
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Three!
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I saw Kaye Ballard at Jason Graae's concert. Kerry recognized her and said hello to her.
Nice memory. Her version of You’ve Got Possibilities on Jason’s CD is wonderful. Well, their version...
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Facebook has banned me for 30 days.
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Kaye first recorded for me on the very first album, Unsung Sondheim with her deliciously wicked duet on There's Always a Woman with Sally Mayes. She replaced Marilyn Cooper on one of the Lost in Boston albums - Coopie couldn't handle the key the song was in but I'm not sure why it was in a key she couldn't handle, since we set those things with the singers. And then she did Jason's album. She was a treasure.
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I'm up again - six hours total, I guess.
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Yesterday for the first time I used the WalMart self-checkout for my entire order.
It took a bit to get used to it....but now I think I have it. I am not happy about doing someone else's work - the prices certainly haven't gone down.....but you are really in charge of how long the checkout takes.....
Keith prefers it. I feel the same about doing someone else's job, or taking away a job. Around here if you want to reuse your own bags you have to bag them yourself, might as well do self check.
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The painters have begun.
Yay!
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Alas, our improved covid numbers was a fluke. A lab missed the deadline for reporting, so the number was lower. It's back to our usual 3000+ per day.
That happens occassionally.
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DR Jrand good vibes for your uncle.
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The painters have begun.
Yay!
They didn’t actually paint. They caulked and power washed everything. Tomorrow the painting begins.
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Last night, I started A Town Like Alice. The first chapter got me hooked.
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The painters have begun.
Yay!
They didn’t actually paint. They caulked and power washed everything. Tomorrow the painting begins.
Of course, but yay the work has begone :)
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Last night, I started A Town Like Alice. The first chapter got me hooked.
I am excited. I look forward to your final opinion. This is one of the rare books I gave 5 stars.
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When I was a kid, The Mothers-in-Law was a favorite in our house, which is where I first got to know Kaye Ballard. Later, when I discovered Ben Bagley, she lit up every album of his that she sang on. There were a number of her albums in that movie last night that I had never heard of. Nice to know there’s a world of her singing waiting to be heard.
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Well, lunch, which should have been great, is a four-star disaster. I decided to order Dino's Pizza, free delivery and all. I ordered last night and the pizza arrived with a little salad I ordered. I open the box and it's pepperoncini not pepperoni. I go back ready to really get nasty and see that that's what I ordered because pepperoncini and pepperoni are next to each other and impossible to tell apart when glancing. I've salvaged as much as I can, but I hate spicy stuff like pepperoncini and this was a total waste of money, save for the salad.
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No word about my uncle yet......maybe that's good news.
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Kaye Ballard appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show in October, 1958, on the same episode in which Miss Frances Farmer made her second appearance singing "Down In The Valley"......while playing a guitar.
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In Indiana we are holding on Opening Up 4.5 for two more weeks.....
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Our upstairs dog is very sick :'(
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Vibes for the doggie DR JANE.
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Thank you.
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Vibes for the doggie DR JANE.
~~~Ditto!!~~~
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Thanks.
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Commentary is finished, so that's good. I'll finesse it in a couple of days.
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The sky is falling.....
I just saw a promo on TCM about the "Stars of August" and one of the names on the list was:
NORMA SHEER
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Is this a joke? No posts in three HOURS?
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Finished with my viewing.
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And marveling that everyone must be out and about.
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I did some cooking today.
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Let’s move on ....
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Four!
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I liked that ranch potato salad so well, I made another batch today.
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Then I made more brownies for a social distancing party tomorrow. I put in a Heath bar, a cookies and cream bar and a caramel bar with sea salt. Should be good.
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Then I whipped up a lime congealed salad for my dance instructor, who had cataract surgery recently.
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I also got through most of the second half of The Glass Hotel audio.
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I finished up Vanessa today. Meh. There was a really beautiful aria before the end, but the story was just too dreary.
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I read another chapter in A Town Like Alice. I’m going to take this one slowly.
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Where is everyone?
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Hello, 1 guest!
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What’s in your blender?
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Gratuitous post No. 100!
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That’s about it for me.
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Good night, all.
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Then I made more brownies for a social distancing party tomorrow. I put in a Heath bar, a cookies and cream bar and a caramel bar with sea salt. Should be good.
That sounds really good!
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Then I whipped up a lime congealed salad for my dance instructor, who had cataract surgery recently.
That doesn't...to me. :P
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Well, I'm home and have been for a while.
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::)
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I came home and ate dinner and fed my cat.
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While I was eating, I was reading on my Kindle.
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Right now, I'm reading The Last Librarian (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B016VAQVXM/).
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It's the first of three books in The Justar Journal series.
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It's pretty interesting...and it's set in the Pacific northwest, but almost 80 years in the future.
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I'm also doing laundry and the one load in the washer has just finished, so time to put it in the dryer.
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Excitin', ain't it??
;)
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Hadn't been out of the house all day, so I took a drive, ended up at Jerry's Deli, and got food for tomorrow, so that's done. I might even be able to stretch two meals out of it.
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I also got through most of the second half of The Glass Hotel audio.
I could not get into this and put it down rather quickly.
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I read another chapter in A Town Like Alice. I’m going to take this one slowly.
His books should be read slowly though my definition is slow is a lot faster than your definition ;)
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Then I whipped up a lime congealed salad for my dance instructor, who had cataract surgery recently.
That doesn't...to me. :P
;)
;D
I agree.
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Listening to music.
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Right now, I'm reading The Last Librarian (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B016VAQVXM/).
Is it good?
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It's pretty interesting...and it's set in the Pacific northwest, but almost 80 years in the future.
I guess so :)
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Hadn't been out of the house all day, so I took a drive, ended up at Jerry's Deli, and got food for tomorrow, so that's done. I might even be able to stretch two meals out of it.
No walks or jogs?
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'night
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Hadn't been out of the house all day, so I took a drive, ended up at Jerry's Deli, and got food for tomorrow, so that's done. I might even be able to stretch two meals out of it.
No walks or jogs?
I walk around the house, I walk to my car, I walk into wherever I'm going - that's about it for now.
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Listening to music.
I'm listening to Hamilton and reading along with the lyrics, of which there are a LOT!!
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Sorry, but I never cared for Kaye Ballard.
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Another beautiful day today.
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About 82 degrees.
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I forgot to go look at the comet tonight.
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Not able to see it for the next couple of nights.
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I forgot to go look at the comet tonight.
Darn. So did I, actually. Where I live, I don't think I could've seen it anyway. There are too many trees around. :-\
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Hi, Tom.
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Maybe sometime this weekend.
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Either that, or I have to wait another 6800 years to see it.
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Listening to music.
I'm listening to Hamilton and reading along with the lyrics, of which there are a LOT!!
Good grief, George, I will gladly pay the $6.99 for you to order Disney + for one month.
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Hello, George.
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Good night.
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Good night, Tom.
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I gotta tell you.
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Listing to Berlioz - some of Berlioz is okay.
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And then I wrote...
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Why I oughta...
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Page five is a dive.
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Sad to be all alone in the world.
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And yet, I am the only one posting. Just me and Berlioz and Toscanini.
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Me and Toscanini - that's the title of my next novel.
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Okay, gaslighting is going on here.
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Serious gaslighting.
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Even Sirius gaslighting.
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The story goes on.
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And on and on.
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At long last page six.