Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on December 21, 2020, 12:23:58 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were stolen, and now it is time for you to post until the thieving cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: BRUMAL!
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Topic of the Day: I've been robbed twice. The first time was when I was living alone for the first time (after college) in Lacey between 1993-1998 and I'm pretty sure that I left my front door open. Dopey me. From my bedroom, they dumped out a box of VHS tapes (that would not be unwelcome in Larry's VCR ;) ) but probably didn't take any. I had two VCRs at the time, and they took one (fortunately, the older one) and the corresponding remote. But they left a brand new 3-VHS set of Star Wars 4-6. Not really a great loss, in the grand scheme of things.
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The other time that I was robbed was when several boxes of CDs of my musicals, and various DVDs were stolen. That hurt. I figure I lost over 300 musical cast recordings. :'( Of course, I didn't have any kind of inventory list, so I have no idea what was actually taken, just some things that I remember I had that I no longer did. That was in 2009.
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And now, I'm off to bed.
Have a good day, all!
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Happy Winter Solstice, everyone!
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The longest night.
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The shortest day.
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It's fodder for several posts! :)
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Good morning, all!
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The shortest day of the year has the longest night of the year . . .
Thank you, Lorenz Hart, poet laureate of the broken heart.
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BK, I am so sorry about your car. Did you call the police? I know that's often a futile situation. When Toyland was robbed in 2007, I figured the police would file the report and that would be it. but several years later, they actually caught one of the thieves and I had to be a witness at the trial.
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Lost in the Stars was one of Encores! best productions, and I wish it had got a recording. The recording I mostly listen to the complete Julius Rudel one. Rudel conducted the NY City Opera performances.
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DR TCB, I hope we will see photos of Drake soon.
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DR Ginny, where is Fisher Road?
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This morning I am having a Zoom visit with my friend Ora, ehom I've not seen in a couple of years. When that ends around 11:00, I need to drag out the vacuum and sweep the area under the computer table. A Time Warner serviceman is coming between 1 and 2:00 to check my cables and modem.
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BK, I went to Amazon to check out that recording of Weinberger music you were playing, and I discovered a Weinberger operetta I never knew about! It's from the Komische Oper who produced that Straus Pearls of Cleopatra you liked so much, and I am looking forward to watching this. I'm sure I will get a few Amazon gift certificates for Christmas.
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Also, BK, did I ever recommend Smetana's The Bartered Bride, one of my very favorite comic operas, to you? There are a nice DVD available, sung in German, and two DVD sets I am very fond of.
I admit I prefer the Czech Supraphon recording for two reasons: (1)Czech is the language it was written for, and (2)the German edition makes a cut in the Act Three "Dance of the Comedians."
Benackova and Stratas are both wonderful heroines and it's an equal toss up between Dvorsky and Kollo as the object of their affection. I love love love this opera, especially the wonderful Act Two duet for the heroine and mentally challenged young man her parents have arranged for her to marry.
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Today is Monday. I am expected in the dentist chair in about an hour.....but since he is only five minutes away.....I don't have to leave my house for 35 minutes or so....my sister is taking me and will pick me up after the excavation.
I do not know if I will be in any shape to post when I get home. Time will tell.
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Last night DR TCB wrote that THE YEAR I LIVED IN MIDDLETOWN would be a volume of his memoirs, but that most of the men in his life there were dead.....
I will only say what Ethel Merman once said in a similar situation:
"I could have told you that in Middletown."
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My car was broken into once while I was in a rehearsal at the old Phoenix Theatre in Indy at 9th Street & Pennsylvania St. Downtown.
They took all my change from the center console, but there was nothing else there.
I had locked the car so there was nothing else I could do. The passenger door had been forced open....but it was fine and no windows were broken.
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Good morning, all.
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Mention of The Bartered Bride always leads me back to A Little Night Music:
The tenor on the boat that we charted
Belching The Bartered Bride.
Ah, how we laughed
Ah, how we cried...
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TOD:
My home has been burglarized twice. They were looking for a gun both times, which they didn’t find, since I don’t have one. They also emptied my change bucket both times.
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Good morning, all.
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Good luck at the dentist vibes for DR Jrand70 today!
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I was lying in bed awake and just about to get up this morning, when all of a sudden my iPhone and iPad started chiming to let me know there was incoming email. And they kept chiming. Sometimes you'll get two or three things at once, and I'm used to that, but this time the chiming didn't stop. It kept going till I lost count after a dozen or so, and I thought I might be getting hit with a barrage of spam. So I just let it continue before looking at anything, and it finally died down.
And then I looked. Not spam, just a bunch of regular people and companies I'm totally familiar with, all legitimate stuff, but I could tell these were things I hadn't yet seen. These were dated from yesterday the 20th back to lat Monday the 14th. Forty-seven (47) emails in all, that had been errant and truant. And I hadn't noticed because other stuff had been coming in normally.
On further investigation I now knew why I seemed to have missed a couple of eBay correspondences. Because there they were, along with a few CastRecL daily digests, a couple of credit card statements, and a few other things that are legitimate but which I generally ignore.
Finally, there was a personal thing that should have arrived yesterday -- a lovelier than lovely e-Christmas card from our own DR Elmore. Thank you very much, sir!
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Well, it's a Monday, and that was my Monday morning Thing.
Because it's always something on a Monday morning. Right? AM I RIGHT?
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Good morning!
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Sorry about the car break-in, BK!
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And here's the kicker. Every one of these things was something that Gmail picks up and forwards from my older Comcast address.
I've been using Gmail for years. I never discontinued the older address because so many people have it, and there seemed to be no reason to bother putting through all the necessary changes. But now here's a major glitch that happened, so I think it's time to begin simplifying things.
First, I think it's best to separate the two and bring each set account's mail in separately. This daisy-chaining is even more insane on the Mac, where I have Apple Mail bringing in Gmail which in turn is bringing in the Comcast mail. So I'll separate those two, then gradually put through address changes so I'll eventually get it all down to one. Separating the accounts will make that next step easier because it will be obvious who's using that address.
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Two!
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TOD, Part I
No car break-ins that I recall, but one little theft from a car back in 1985. I had just moved from Redondo Beach to Schaumburg (Chicago suburb) that summer. I drove downtown and parked in a large valet-attended parking garage. Later, I found that the little change purse I always kept full of parking meter quarters had been emptied. That saddened me at the time because it had never happened in L.A., so I had kind of a sour taste in my mouth about workers in Chicago. I later realized how silly that was, because this would happen anywhere and I had just been lucky. I was also happy that they left the change purse, because I loved that little thing simply because it had been so perfect for that kind of thing. I still have it, even though I rarely use it, and I'm still fond of it.
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Monday morning greetings! Today is Rebecca’s birthday, so we’re having car coffee later.
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DR Ginny, where is Fisher Road?
DR Elmore, it parallels Nelson Road, where Richard’s family moved when you were seniors in high school. I think they call that area Countryside.
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Sometime back in the 1970s, DR Elmore and I saw a beautiful production of “The Bartered Bride” at Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music.
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TOD, Part II
House and Apartment Break-Ins
1. My friend and I, shortly after moving to L.A. in June 1972, came home one night (this was at Franklin and Whitley) to find the turntable and amp and speakers gone from the living room. I don't remember if that was all, but there had been some cash on the kitchen table and they'd completely missed that. We were as naive as could be back then, because here we were, now living in the big bad city and having taken no precautions such as locking the slider door to the balcony which is how the police showed us they'd entered. This unit was on the first floor, right in front, and climbing up onto those balconies was a pretty simple matter back then before people were installing barriers.
1a. Still naive (and that's putting it nicely) several months later, I parked my Schwinn bicycle in the alcove at the entrance to Pickwick Books, completely unlocked, and found it -- SURPRISE! :) -- gone when I came out. DUH.
2. In 1988, just a few months before I'd be moving from West Hollywood (Kings Road) to the east coast, I came home from work one evening to find that one single thing from my audio/video rack had been unplugged and taken away -- the Beta HiFi VCR. They left everything else around it, which is absolutely inexplicable. This was on a weekday and I remember it was still daylight when I got home and discovered it. That evening I had a locksmith install a "long" deadbolt on the front door and a locking mechanism on the slider going out to the balcony. Yes, another slider and another balcony.
3. In 1999, having lived in this house for several years, Kristi and I came home to find the jewelry boxes in our bedrooms (containing sentimental stuff, nothing expensive) ransacked and emptied or missing entirely. The rest of the house seemed to be untouched, including -- again -- all of my audio and video stuff. The police came out and said that by all rights, the room with that stuff should have been emptied, and that I was very lucky. They also said it all looked like the work of kids -- very likely someone we knew, and that they were looking for easy stuff to carry and pawn. Locks changed, and nothing was ever found.
I think -- and hope -- that's the end of my little story.
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I am looking forward to Project Three, BK's opera The Little Thieves.
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DR Elmore:
I see that that Lost in the Stars CD carries a Music Masters label.
Is that by any chance an offshoot of the long-departed store of that name on (I think) West 43rd St.? That was one fascinating place. The little I actually knew of it was that for a pretty fee they'd send someone around to surreptitiously record live performances. Must have been a gold mine.
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Today is Monday. I am expected in the dentist chair in about an hour.....but since he is only five minutes away.....I don't have to leave my house for 35 minutes or so....my sister is taking me and will pick me up after the excavation.
I do not know if I will be in any shape to post when I get home. Time will tell.
Mega vibes all goes well.
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TOD:
My home has been burglarized twice. They were looking for a gun both times, which they didn’t find, since I don’t have one. They also emptied my change bucket both times.
Twice :)
How did you know they were looking for a gun?
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Oh yeah, I meant to ask that!
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Thinking of DR JRand...
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T.O.D.
Back in the 1980s, when I had my Calabasas condo, somebody broke in while I was gone for about an hour. I don't recall that they took much; just messed the place up.
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My one-person play, ORSON WELLES, open at the Don Bluth Front Row Theatre in Scottsdale, AZ, on January 28th.
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DR Elmore:
I see that that Lost in the Stars CD carries a Music Masters label.
Is that by any chance an offshoot of the long-departed store of that name on (I think) West 43rd St.? That was one fascinating place. The little I actually knew of it was that for a pretty fee they'd send someone around to surreptitiously record live performances. Must have been a gold mine.
I don't think so.
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TOD:
My home has been burglarized twice. They were looking for a gun both times, which they didn’t find, since I don’t have one. They also emptied my change bucket both times.
Twice :)
How did you know they were looking for a gun?
It’s what the police said.
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Great news, Druxy.
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TOD:
My home has been burglarized twice. They were looking for a gun both times, which they didn’t find, since I don’t have one. They also emptied my change bucket both times.
Twice :)
How did you know they were looking for a gun?
It’s what the police said.
Thanks.
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Great news, Druxy.
Ditto!
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From DR TCB:
I believe I talked about my great nephew having to find a home for his kitty, because he and his girlfriend have two dogs that have been harassing the poor cat. I said I would take the cat, but he had to be fixed and had to be tested for feline leukemia before I would take him.
I remember that and since he hadn't done this you got Sasha.
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Tom, I am glad I misunderstood about Sasha. You rarely mention her. Awhile back someone asked how she was and I thought you responded you didn't want to talk about it. In my mind something bad happened and since you didn't want to talk about it, I didn't ask. I am extremely pleased she is good.
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Ha!
The patented HHW vibes are working.
The procedure took only about 20 minutes although I was in the chair waiting for the numbing to take place, etc, for about an hour and fifteen minutes in total.
My sister has gone to pick up my prescription which sounds like some good stuff.... I am still using the gauze.....
Not much pain yet...still some numbness.....and while I couldn't feel anything, it sounded like Dr. Taylor was cracking walnuts in there........but there you are.
It's done. I shall retire to my fainting couch probably for the rest of the day.....
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Oh....and I got a $100 deduction from the bill for "paying in full" which was a nice surprise.
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TOD:
My home has been burglarized twice. They were looking for a gun both times, which they didn’t find, since I don’t have one. They also emptied my change bucket both times.
Twice :)
How did you know they were looking for a gun?
It’s what the police said.
He lives in Texas.
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Good morning.
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TOD:
1. My husband's car was broken into in the middle of the night. They got his pilot bag, which contained an aviation radio, gps, and his flight log. The flight log was his only record of his flying time, and it was the only thing he really wanted back.
2. I left the gate to the backyard unlocked. In the morning it was propped open, which puzzled me. The only thing we missed was a partial bottle of laundry detergent. And there was an empty place on a shelf, and I never did figure out what was missing.
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I'm glad you are doing well, JRand. Take it easy the rest of the day.
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DR Laura, I never knew your husband was a pilot! Even for as short a time as I enjoyed being a private pilot, losing that flight log would be heartbreaking. I'm so sorry to hear that.
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I think I need a fainting couch like JRAND’s.
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TOD:
My home has been burglarized twice. They were looking for a gun both times, which they didn’t find, since I don’t have one. They also emptied my change bucket both times.
Twice :)
How did you know they were looking for a gun?
It’s what the police said.
He lives in Texas.
Ha!
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Three!
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Nearly 2:00 and no sign of the damned service man. Around 12:45 time Warner sent me an email saying he was on his way. Sure.
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DR Laura, I never knew your husband was a pilot! Even for as short a time as I enjoyed being a private pilot, losing that flight log would be heartbreaking. I'm so sorry to hear that.
Learning to fly was on his bucket list. NOTHING I ever want to do EVER will be as expensive as that.
He flew a wee Cessna for a few years.
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I think I need a fainting couch like JRAND’s.
You need a fainting couch like mine.
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Ha!
The patented HHW vibes are working.
The procedure took only about 20 minutes although I was in the chair waiting for the numbing to take place, etc, for about an hour and fifteen minutes in total.
My sister has gone to pick up my prescription which sounds like some good stuff.... I am still using the gauze.....
Not much pain yet...still some numbness.....and while I couldn't feel anything, it sounded like Dr. Taylor was cracking walnuts in there........but there you are.
It's done. I shall retire to my fainting couch probably for the rest of the day.....
Fantastic! I hope the pains remain light.
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The longest night.
The shortest day.
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The shortest day.
The longest night.
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Lost in the Stars was one of Encores! best productions, and I wish it had got a recording. The recording I mostly listen to the complete Julius Rudel one. Rudel conducted the NY City Opera performances.
Wasn't that the show with June Lockhart?
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DR TCB, I hope we will see photos of Drake soon.
I will try.
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Thank you for the Christmas card, elmore!
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DR Laura, I never knew your husband was a pilot! Even for as short a time as I enjoyed being a private pilot, losing that flight log would be heartbreaking. I'm so sorry to hear that.
Learning to fly was on his bucket list. NOTHING I ever want to do EVER will be as expensive as that.
He flew a wee Cessna for a few years.
I flew the wee Cessnas (high wing) off and on between 1977 and 1985. In those last few years I also flew Pipers (low wing) which I really liked. In that time I accumulated about 260 hours and made 401 landings.
For years I've intended to either scan or photocopy the logbook as a backup. At one point I designed an Excel spreadsheet to enter all the data and have it do all the math for me. The design is good but I didn't get very far because, to my regret, there were a number of entries made by instructors or others that were barely decipherable. They write like doctors, and very very tiny.
As for the expense -- I kept track of every penny spent in the pursuit of flying from my first textbook to the day I got my license in 1978. That year of instruction, materials, and practice flying cost me $1500. No one believes that now. Today it costs student pilots $1500 to get out of bed in the morning.
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Good Morning. Looks like the boys are fine. We are all glad that that episode is behind us.
First weekday of Christmas Break - I'm making beer bread for Christmas gifts, some with cheddar and bacon, some plain, some with just cheddar, it's quick and easy!
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Ha!
The patented HHW vibes are working.
The procedure took only about 20 minutes although I was in the chair waiting for the numbing to take place, etc, for about an hour and fifteen minutes in total.
My sister has gone to pick up my prescription which sounds like some good stuff.... I am still using the gauze.....
Not much pain yet...still some numbness.....and while I couldn't feel anything, it sounded like Dr. Taylor was cracking walnuts in there........but there you are.
It's done. I shall retire to my fainting couch probably for the rest of the day.....
Excellent.
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Quick healing vibes for DR Jrand.
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Oh....and I got a $100 deduction from the bill for "paying in full" which was a nice surprise.
That is a nice deduction. Our current dentist as well as our last one also offer deductions for paying in full.
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DR Laura I can appreciate the loss of something as special as a flight log.
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DR Laura, I never knew your husband was a pilot! Even for as short a time as I enjoyed being a private pilot, losing that flight log would be heartbreaking. I'm so sorry to hear that.
Learning to fly was on his bucket list. NOTHING I ever want to do EVER will be as expensive as that.
He flew a wee Cessna for a few years.
Cool. Did you ever go up with him? I have no desire to fly in small planes.
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Lost in the Stars was one of Encores! best productions, and I wish it had got a recording. The recording I mostly listen to the complete Julius Rudel one. Rudel conducted the NY City Opera performances.
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6354.0;attach=10976)
I have this recording (it wasn't one of the stolen ones...fortunately). I haven't listened to it in years, though.
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DR Laura, I never knew your husband was a pilot! Even for as short a time as I enjoyed being a private pilot, losing that flight log would be heartbreaking. I'm so sorry to hear that.
Learning to fly was on his bucket list. NOTHING I ever want to do EVER will be as expensive as that.
He flew a wee Cessna for a few years.
I flew the wee Cessnas (high wing) off and on between 1977 and 1985. In those last few years I also flew Pipers (low wing) which I really liked. In that time I accumulated about 260 hours and made 401 landings.
For years I've intended to either scan or photocopy the logbook as a backup. At one point I designed an Excel spreadsheet to enter all the data and have it do all the math for me. The design is good but I didn't get very far because, to my regret, there were a number of entries made by instructors or others that were barely decipherable. They write like doctors, and very very tiny.
As for the expense -- I kept track of every penny spent in the pursuit of flying from my first textbook to the day I got my license in 1978. That year of instruction, materials, and practice flying cost me $1500. No one believes that now. Today it costs student pilots $1500 to get out of bed in the morning.
:o :o :o
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Good Morning. Looks like the boys are fine. We are all glad that that episode is behind us.
First weekday of Christmas Break - I'm making beer bread for Christmas gifts, some with cheddar and bacon, some plain, some with just cheddar, it's quick and easy!
Great news about the boys. Are you using light beer or did you find good beer to use?
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Good Morning. Looks like the boys are fine. We are all glad that that episode is behind us.
First weekday of Christmas Break - I'm making beer bread for Christmas gifts, some with cheddar and bacon, some plain, some with just cheddar, it's quick and easy!
Great news about the boys. Are you using light beer or did you find good beer to use?
I ended up grabbing a 12 pack of Blue Ribbon, which is fine. I think light beer wouldn't have as much yeast as regular and I wasn't going to take a chance. So far they look great.
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I hate beer but like beer bread and beer batter. I was thinking light wouldn't have the same amount of flavor. I never thought about the yeast.
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Apparently I am not as old as I thought. I will not be in the first round of seniors to be vaccinated which begins at 75. The next round is 65 and older.
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I guess it will still be a while before we go to Chicago.
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I hope Bryan doesn't have a reaction to his vaccination tomorrow.
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Mention of The Bartered Bride always leads me back to A Little Night Music:
The tenor on the boat that we charted
Belching The Bartered Bride.
Ah, how we laughed
Ah, how we cried...
That's the very first time that I'd ever heard of The Bartered Bride.
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Monday morning greetings! Today is Rebecca’s birthday, so we’re having car coffee later.
A Very Happy Birthday to Rebecca!
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Great news, Druxy.
Ditto!
Ditto, two!
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I hate beer but like beer bread and beer batter. I was thinking light wouldn't have the same amount of flavor. I never thought about the yeast.
I don't like beer either, but I also like beer bread and beer batter. I think it was Applebee's that for a while had breadsticks with a beer cheese...or something like that...to dip the breadsticks in. It was really good. :)
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PAGE FOUR DANCE!!
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As I'm making more bread. I'm listening to musicals that have a Holiday reference. Besides Annie and Here's Love - what others are there? And yes, I've recently listened to both A Broadway Christmas and a Hollywood Christmas!
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As I'm making more bread. I'm listening to musicals that have a Holiday reference. Besides Annie and Here's Love - what others are there? And yes, I've recently listened to both A Broadway Christmas and a Hollywood Christmas!
There are also Promises, Promises and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
;D
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As I'm making more bread. I'm listening to musicals that have a Holiday reference. Besides Annie and Here's Love - what others are there? And yes, I've recently listened to both A Broadway Christmas and a Hollywood Christmas!
There are also Promises, Promises and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
;D
YES! Absolutely!
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I hate beer but like beer bread and beer batter. I was thinking light wouldn't have the same amount of flavor. I never thought about the yeast.
I don't like beer either, but I also like beer bread and beer batter. I think it was Applebee's that for a while had breadsticks with a beer cheese...or something like that...to dip the breadsticks in. It was really good. :)
Beer cheese also sounds good.
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As I'm making more bread. I'm listening to musicals that have a Holiday reference. Besides Annie and Here's Love - what others are there? And yes, I've recently listened to both A Broadway Christmas and a Hollywood Christmas!
There are also Promises, Promises and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
;D
YES! Absolutely!
And the Broadway cast recording of Meet Me in St. Louis which thank goodness is not the representation of what the show has become and what is rented! Still one of my favorite shows.
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I'm up, I'm up - maybe five hours of sleep, maybe six.
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Funny that Druxy's play is at the Don Bluth theater - apparently at Druxy's age he doesn't have a clew as to why he should know that name.
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For our honeymoon we drove to San Francisco. My sister was living in Berkley at the time so we spent a few hours visiting her. She gave us a wedding present which we left in the car along with a coat I was partial to. In the morning both items had been stolen.
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All of these great thievery stories, and I forgot to tell about the time I was actually robbed; i.e., held up at knife point.
Cleveland, around 1971. My part-time job was driving a cab, which most of the time was quite enjoyable. Long story short, one night I was "hailed" at a downtown taxi stand and directed to a neighborhood that none of us ever voluntarily went into except maybe in broad daylight. The situation became crystal clear when I felt the blunt side of a cold blade held at the back of my neck. In the middle of a block with few streetlights, I was asked for the key which was tossed out in front of the cab. It was explained to me that I'd been good and wasn't going to get hurt as long as I waited five minutes after the gentleman departed, then I could get the key to the cab and continue on my way.
The police were involved, and my experience turned out to be much like other drivers had described, before and after. I heard they caught the guy some months later, but who knows.
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Took my first pain pill about half an hour ago.....it is certainly doing its job.
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I also asked my dentist if I would able to sing when all the work was completed and he said yes.
This will be good news to all of the Music/Vocal Directors at PCPH....and I look forward to auditioning for leading roles when the PANdemic is over.
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Time to sleep.
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As I'm making more bread. I'm listening to musicals that have a Holiday reference. Besides Annie and Here's Love - what others are there? And yes, I've recently listened to both A Broadway Christmas and a Hollywood Christmas!
There are also Promises, Promises and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
;D
YES! Absolutely!
And also Subways Are For Sleeping!
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Had tuna for food, then picked up some packages, and am back home and listening to music. I won't look at project two until later this evening. Just not in the mood right now.
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All of these great thievery stories, and I forgot to tell about the time I was actually robbed; i.e., held up at knife point.
Cleveland, around 1971. My part-time job was driving a cab, which most of the time was quite enjoyable. Long story short, one night I was "hailed" at a downtown taxi stand and directed to a neighborhood that none of us ever voluntarily went into except maybe in broad daylight. The situation became crystal clear when I felt the blunt side of a cold blade held at the back of my neck. In the middle of a block with few streetlights, I was asked for the key which was tossed out in front of the cab. It was explained to me that I'd been good and wasn't going to get hurt as long as I waited five minutes after the gentleman departed, then I could get the key to the cab and continue on my way.
The police were involved, and my experience turned out to be much like other drivers had described, before and after. I heard they caught the guy some months later, but who knows.
That is very scary. I am glad you weren't hurt.
Cleveland, the city where Bryan was mugged. When I saw photos of what he looked like afterwards, I didn't recognize him.
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Took my first pain pill about half an hour ago.....it is certainly doing its job.
You are lucky you can take them without getting sick.
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I also asked my dentist if I would able to sing when all the work was completed and he said yes.
This will be good news to all of the Music/Vocal Directors at PCPH....and I look forward to auditioning for leading roles when the PANdemic is over.
I never thought about that. Thank goodness he said yes.
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Lolita, The Twentieth Century, The Littlest Revue and Irving Berlin Revisited have ALL arrived in Tumwater!! Hoo and Ray!! :D
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Chrstmas in a Broadway musical?
Babes In Toyland
Irma la Douce
Greenwillow
White Christmas
A Christmas Carol
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Rebecca and I discovered today that car coffee doesn’t work very well in a downpour. We visited a bit, she opened her birthday presents, and we exchanged Christmas packages to be opened Friday.
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As I'm making more bread. I'm listening to musicals that have a Holiday reference. Besides Annie and Here's Love - what others are there? And yes, I've recently listened to both A Broadway Christmas and a Hollywood Christmas!
I Love My Wife
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Well, the Time Warner man told me I was set and left my apartment around 3:00. Five minutes later, I found I had no telephone, no Wi-Fi, and no internet. A second service man showed up about 20 minutes ago after I made three phone calls, and the problem was in putting the computer table back, the router got unplugged. What the fat hell do I know?
Everything now works.
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...and I’ve had a kitchen fail this evening. I’ve used a shortbread cookie recipe for cut-outs that I got from my grad school roommate 48 years ago. It requires a lot of hand kneading and tonight I tried using the dough hook on my new KitchenAid mixer. The dough got way too crumbly, so tomorrow I’ll try again the old way.
I pressed the crumbly dough into a shallow pan and baked it as a sheet. We’ll taste it soon and let you know.
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As I'm making more bread. I'm listening to musicals that have a Holiday reference. Besides Annie and Here's Love - what others are there? And yes, I've recently listened to both A Broadway Christmas and a Hollywood Christmas!
Recent entries include
Elf
A Christmas Story
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
A Carol Christmas
Getting a little older:
A Christmas Carol
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Rebecca and I discovered today that car coffee doesn’t work very well in a downpour. We visited a bit, she opened her birthday presents, and we exchanged Christmas packages to be opened Friday.
I am sorry but I laughed. I would think not. At least you did the basics. Will you do a quick video chat while opening your gifts?
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...and I’ve had a kitchen fail this evening. I’ve used a shortbread cookie recipe for cut-outs that I got from my grad school roommate 48 years ago. It requires a lot of hand kneading and tonight I tried using the dough hook on my new KitchenAid mixer. The dough got way too crumbly, so tomorrow I’ll try again the old way.
I pressed the crumbly dough into a shallow pan and baked it as a sheet. We’ll taste it soon and let you know.
Did you use the bread dough beater or regular beaters? The crumbly dough might have worked well as a pie crust. I have a cookie crust recipe that gets pressed into the pie pan like that.
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DR ChasSmith, Richard just discovered a similar email glitch, but with messages that were sent to his Road Runner address and forwarded to Gmail. He just received 90+ messages dating back to December 14.
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I sure am glad I don't have an email account that needs to forward my messages.
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Oh, Ginny! I'm so glad your shortbread was a fail. I read that as you had "a kitchen fall." I am so relieved.
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Scrooge and She Loves Me
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Oh, Ginny! I'm so glad your shortbread was a fail. I read that as you had "a kitchen fall." I am so relieved.
Sorry to scare you, DR Laura.
We’ve just taste-tested the consolation shortbread and it’s not bad. Not pretty, but it tastes OK.
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Oh, Ginny! I'm so glad your shortbread was a fail. I read that as you had "a kitchen fall." I am so relieved.
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DR ChasSmith, Richard just discovered a similar email glitch, but with messages that were sent to his Road Runner address and forwarded to Gmail. He just received 90+ messages dating back to December 14.
Thank you, DR Ginny. Same thing, then. It was December 14 that Google had an outage, and now we know one result of it. Their system stopped doing email forwarding for a week. I've tried, but I haven't yet found anything about this in "the media" today.
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Very glad to read that Jrand70 has come through his ordeal and survived.
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We just watched Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (filmed a year ago). Kelli O'Hara sounded great.
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This is all too true at our house...
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Well, the celebration has started early. I cut one of the black radishes early and made a loaf of radish bread.
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Oh, Ginny! I'm so glad your shortbread was a fail. I read that as you had "a kitchen fall." I am so relieved.
Sorry to scare you, DR Laura.
We’ve just taste-tested the consolation shortbread and it’s not bad. Not pretty, but it tastes OK.
Taste is all that matters.
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This is all too true at our house...
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6354.0;attach=10985)
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(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6354.0;attach=10983)
Cute!
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K.T. Oslin has died. I did not like country back in the 1980s, but I liked her voice.
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Oslin was also one of the few good things in Peter Bogdanovich’s The Thing Called Love.
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The sight of the “Christmas star” was neat.
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Good night, all.
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I wasn’t able to see the Christmas star, it was far too overcast
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I was quite disappointed
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Finished with my viewing. A terrible production of Street Scene from Madrid - horrifying, really, and most of the blame goes to the director. There's one other DVD available of a German production, perhaps that one will be better.
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https://www.mercadomagico.com/grocery/general-merchandise/saverne-artisanal-kraut-craft-beer-16-oz/?gclid=CjwKCAiArIH_BRB2EiwALfbH1CItarN5Ptm53OcaoFLYdje2z_MD-_EJzBllLVB_SSXFKJ4Tf2KqtRoC9XsQAvD_BwE
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I had this sauerkraut for dinner tonight, as soon as I opened the jar I could smell the beer
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Listening to Threepenny Opera, Decca with Mauceri conducting. I must say, Mauceri has wonderful taste in music - can't be faulted - and occasionally he's made a decent album. But he clearly knows nothing about sound and every album I've heard from him is recorded distantly and mastered too low. I have never heard so lifeless a version of Threepenny in my life and you hear it from note one of the overture, which is funereal in pace. Ute Hagen is fine and so are the most of the other singers. But this requires energy and it also requires that the band be, I don't know, present?
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I added some pork gravy and caraway seeds and riced cauliflower and 2 tablespoons of sour cream. This accompanied a center cut boneless pork chop
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Delicious
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Vixdad wouldn’t touch any thing of the sort
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He had sliced new potatoes cooked in pork gravy and peas with his pork chop
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When I was a child my brothers and I rode our bicycles to the town pool.
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They were gone when we came out
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When I was 16 my mother finally learned to drive
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She took my brothers and me to the mall to buy Easter clothes.
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Then she took us to another mall to buy shoes
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When we came out the car was gone
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It was found a few days later in a wooded area by some road worker that went into the woods to relieve himself
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But our new clothes were gone along with my dad’s tools and for some odd reason, the sun visors
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When the Vixter started working at the Texas Roadhouse her car was broken into one night.
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She was taking an art class at college and had all her art supplies ($300 worth just purchased the week before) stolen, along with her portfolio.
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She had them in a tool box on the back seat so I suspect the thief was disappointed to find paint , brushes and pastel crayons instead of pricy tools
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They got in by smashing the window with a big rock
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The owner of the Texas Roadhouse gave the Vixter the money to repurchase her art supplies
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Oy and vey.
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The sight of the “Christmas star” was neat.
I am glad you enjoyed it.
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I wasn’t able to see the Christmas star, it was far too overcast
It has been pouring here.
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Listening to the oddest Sibelius second I've ever heard, Thomas Schippers conducting. I don't know if this was recorded during an LSD trip but it's pretty wacky. The opening is so slow and ponderous, rather like Godzilla, and then the second movement's opening is on speed. The recording itself is a bit dry, surprising for Columbia and the NY Phil. Well, it's keeping me entertained.
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The owner of the Texas Roadhouse gave the Vixter the money to repurchase her art supplies
Awww.
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I wasn’t able to see the Christmas star, it was far too overcast
Ditto and ditto. :-\
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Listening to Threepenny Opera, Decca with Mauceri conducting. I must say, Mauceri has wonderful taste in music - can't be faulted - and occasionally he's made a decent album. But he clearly knows nothing about sound and every album I've heard from him is recorded distantly and mastered too low. I have never heard so lifeless a version of Threepenny in my life and you hear it from note one of the overture, which is funereal in pace. Ute Hagen is fine and so are the most of the other singers. But this requires energy and it also requires that the band be, I don't know, present?
Yikes! :o
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I had some Gelson's snacks - a little stuffing and a little string bean casserole, then I had the rest of yesterday's Hormel chili - all in all about 1200 calories, I should think.
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Did I really write Ute Hagen??? Ute Lemper, of course.
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The owner of the Texas Roadhouse gave the Vixter the money to repurchase her art supplies
That was really nice.
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Tonight I watched and recorded to my computer what I hope is the last Hallmark Christmas movie that my niece wanted me to record. ::)
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This was one of several Hallmark movies that were all based in the same fictitious town of Evergreen, Vermont, and featured characters from other movies as cameos.
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Now, I'm converting the chunks (because recording the whole movie as one file doesn't seem to work) and then I'll combine them into one complete file.
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As I'm making more bread. I'm listening to musicals that have a Holiday reference. Besides Annie and Here's Love - what others are there? And yes, I've recently listened to both A Broadway Christmas and a Hollywood Christmas!
SHE LOVES ME
HOLIDAY INN
DIE HARD-The musical
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I also asked my dentist if I would able to sing when all the work was completed and he said yes.*
This will be good news to all of the Music/Vocal Directors at PCPH....and I look forward to auditioning for leading roles when the PANdemic is over.
I never thought about that. Thank goodness he said yes.
*That was his little joke that he could never sing before.
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As I'm making more bread. I'm listening to musicals that have a Holiday reference. Besides Annie and Here's Love - what others are there? And yes, I've recently listened to both A Broadway Christmas and a Hollywood Christmas!
I Love My Wife
That is very sweet, Ginny, but I didn’t know you had one!
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Oh, Ginny! I'm so glad your shortbread was a fail. I read that as you had "a kitchen fall." I am so relieved.
That was what I read, too.
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Well, the celebration has started early. I cut one of the black radishes early and made a loaf of radish bread.
I don’t think I have ever heard of a black radish or radish bread.
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He had sliced new potatoes cooked in pork gravy and peas with his pork chop
I think I vote with vixdad.
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Hi, Tom.
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Well, the celebration has started early. I cut one of the black radishes early and made a loaf of radish bread.
I don’t think I have ever heard of a black radish or radish bread.
Not being a fan of radishes in general, I hadn't either.
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PAGE SEVEN DANCE!!
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Darn. I have rerecord five of the nine chunks of this latest Hallmark movie. There are digital goobers that, hopefully, rerecording will fix.
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New notes are up, and I'll change the topic and share with you something that's really terrific.
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