Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on January 17, 2021, 01:59:46 PM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were in the home and stretched, and now it is time for you to post until the stretched cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: BEAMISH!
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I meant to change the topic before going to bed but I was so tired I guess I forgot such things. And I just woke up after a bit over ten hours of sleep, which I desperately needed.
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Page one? Really?
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LOL.....
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New Day Dance.
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Meta indeed DR singdaw - it is my mantra.
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From DR John:
Especially British mothers.
Hmm, not like my British mother ;D
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DR Jennifer I hope by tomorrow you can walk again.
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New Day Dance.
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Cute :)
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Those of you who use Zoom, is there a news sign in code for each meeting?
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I think it depends upon how it was set up , DR Jane. I attend some regular weekly meetings where the code does not change.
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And we are where we should be, and about time, too!
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Back from some errands.
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I took a walk and then went to a nursery to find some herbs and maybe some planters.
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The nursery forgets it has competition and wanted outrageous prices for their planters, as well as some of their plants. No thank you.
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Then I went to supermarket, but they had none of their gardening stuff out yet. I guess we have to get passed Valentine's Day to make room for that stuff.
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At Lowe's, I found some planters that I liked at a third of the price as the nursery, but I held off. I want to do a little more research. But I did grab a Greek oregano plant and aloe vera.
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And we are where we should be
One of my favorite CD tracks ever is Jason Graae's "hidden" track of Craig Carnelia's "Just Where They Should Be."
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And we are where we should be
One of my favorite CD tracks ever is Jason Graae's "hidden" track of Craig Carnelia's "Just Where They Should Be."
Well, that's the way I always heard it should be.
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I'm off to make some soup.
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Tomato and roasted red pepper soup sounds good.
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BK, you asked about Bellini, whose operas elude me. I think Norma has a great aria, "Casta Diva," but Jesus, is it a bore to sit through. I prefer his English Civil War opera I Puritani, with its silly she's-gone-mad-and-now-she's-sane-so-we-can-have-a-happy-ending. He was a contemporary of Donizetti, and sound much the same. I remember you listened to his Lucia di Lammermoor, and didn't particularly find it to your liking.
Sutherland was excellent with Bellini, and her first Norma with Marilyn Horne is my choice. I like these three recordings of I Puritani. Pick your soprano!
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I think it depends upon how it was set up , DR Jane. I attend some regular weekly meetings where the code does not change.
Thank you. Our book group will be doing our first Zoom meeting. I will ask that it be a one time code.
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One time as members come and go.
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I don't particularly enjoy Bellini, either.
But give me some Verdi. Now there's opera!
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Tomato and roasted red pepper soup sounds good.
It does. I doubt I could eat it :(
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DR Jane - if the group leader sends out a link, and if you have the Zoom app installed, you just click on the link. Again, depending on the way it is set up, you enter the meeting from the link without requiring any code at all.
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You mentioned Verdi? I think Aïda is the perfect grand opera of the 19th century, but you might like the sex, guts, and curses of Rigoletto or Il Trovatore. Don't I remember that you like his Otello? If so, get Falstaff, an 80-year-old's farewell to composing, and it's glorious and very funny.
Leontyne Price was the great Verdi soprano, and I grew up with this Aïda recording, which I prefer to her second. I also love her recording of Il Trovatore, which has good leading men as well. As to Rigoletto, based on a play by Victor Hugo, I love this note-for-note complete recording - many earlier recordings took the standard opera house cuts - but I think Anna Moffo is perfect physically and vocally for the ravaged heroine.
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DR Jane - if the group leader sends out a link, and if you have the Zoom app installed, you just click on the link. Again, depending on the way it is set up, you enter the meeting from the link without requiring any code at all.
Thanks. Someone else in the group is handling it and the Zoom person in the office is setting it up.
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Hello, everyone.
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I had a very bad night. I think I got 1 1/2 hours sleep total. Ugh!
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I just realized when we have had Zoom invites Keith opened them on his computer. I will ask if he needed to use a Zoom app. I thought he just opened a link and signed in.
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I had a very bad night. I think I got 1 1/2 hours sleep total. Ugh!
GROAN! I thought mine was bad.
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TCB, regarding the refi, if there are no fees and your monthly payment is lower, why would you not do it? Your comfort and security today were the reasons for buying the condo, yes?
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Singdaw, I'm glad you found a shopping service that works for you. Is it one offered by the store where you're shopping? I hope there's free delivery, depending on order size.
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This is funny. A man sees an unlocked car with the key inside and steals it. Driving away he notices a four year old in the back seat, turns around and gives the kid to his mother along with a lecture about parenting. He even threatened to call the police on her, before driving off again with the stolen car.
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And on to La Traviata, based on Alexandre Dumas' Camille. I grew up with Anna Moffo, and I still love it, even with its standard opera house cuts. Sutherland's first recording is my preference. It's complete, and it's one of the records that put her on the map.
I will admit, too, that I really love Zeffirelli's film version. Teresa Stratas seems the perfect Violetta, and it's very passionate and beautifully staged.
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Jane, the reading I've done on mRDA technology, which both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines utilize, indicates that neither is a good choice for me. Both the Astra-Zeneca vaccine in the UK and the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in development here use older technology, which I would consider. But we don't know when those vaccines will be available and I need to look into them more, as there's much I don't know.
As you know, the situation is very fluid.
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I had a very bad night. I think I got 1 1/2 hours sleep total. Ugh!
GROAN! I thought mine was bad.
This was an all-time low for me.
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There's a homeopathic product called Good Morning to help with sleepless nights. I've used it many times. It does NOT take the place of quality sleep, but it helps me to function on little sleep, which is the next best thing. That said, I will try to nap.
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BK, I have a memory that you liked Verdi's Otello, his penultimate opera. At the age of 80 or so, he retired from composing with his masterpiece, Falstaff, which has a better script than its source, The Merry Wives of Windsor. I grew up with Bernstein's recording, and I think it's really good. About the same time London-Decca recorded the work with Solti. Both were tie-ins with Zeffirelli's Met production, which was one of the Met's great productions. That was my second Falstaff recording.
I also liked Giulini's later recording very much.
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I watched the new ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL. I enjoyed it. It's a quality production, consistent with other PBS shows. I'll wait a bit, though, as I prefer to watch more often than just once a week. If you watched THE PARADISE you might recognize Siegfried, who played the reporter who married the woman with the red hair.
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TTFN.
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Sunday evening greetings! Do you remember what you did 40 years ago today?
Richard and I got married!
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Jane, the reading I've done on mRDA technology, which both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines utilize, indicates that neither is a good choice for me. Both the Astra-Zeneca vaccine in the UK and the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in development here use older technology, which I would consider. But we don't know when those vaccines will be available and I need to look into them more, as there's much I don't know.
As you know, the situation is very fluid.
I figured you might want to wait. I guessed the reverse for your preferred options.
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Sunday evening greetings! Do you remember what you did 40 years ago today?
Richard and I got married!
Yesterday or today?
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DR Jeanne my one disappointment with the new All Creatures is Diana Rigg as Mrs. Pumphrey. I don't find her endearing.
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DR Ginny & Richard,
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I had a very bad night. I think I got 1 1/2 hours sleep total. Ugh!
Vibes for sleep tonight.
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Sunday evening greetings! Do you remember what you did 40 years ago today?
Richard and I got married!
Yesterday or today?
Today, DR Jane. The 17th was the first Saturday in 1981 that the church would not smell like chicken soup from the Twelfth Night feast.
Thank you for posting that beautiful greeting!
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Sunday evening greetings! Do you remember what you did 40 years ago today?
Richard and I got married!
Happy anniversary to you both!
And no, I don't remember what I did this morning.
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Thanks, DR John G, and :D
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Well, we made it to page 2. How far will we go today. (This version of today, that is.)
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The soup was good. Had it with some chicken salad.
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I made add some chili to the leftovers. Roasted red peppers, tomatoes and lime juice feel Mexican to me. They all would work with a little heat.
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Sunday evening greetings! Do you remember what you did 40 years ago today?
Richard and I got married!
A Very Happy Anniversary to you and Richard!! :D
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And do you know what else happened today, but 99 years ago?? Betty White was born! A Very Happy 99th Birthday to Betty White!! ;D
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Thank you, DR George, and happy birthday to Betty White!
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Futzed and finessed, had a pulled pork sandwich for food, and have written four new pages. Must do another ten between now and bedtime, but for now I'll finish the movie I'm watching. I'll resume writing around seven. I do think this is going to be twenty pages longer than I thought, so I definitely won't finish tonight and possibly not until Tuesday.
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Sunday evening greetings! Do you remember what you did 40 years ago today?
Richard and I got married!
Yesterday or today?
Today, DR Jane. The 17th was the first Saturday in 1981 that the church would not smell like chicken soup from the Twelfth Night feast.
Thank you for posting that beautiful greeting!
That's funny.
You are welcome.
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I went for a walk and ending up doing part of it with a neighbor I like. I do wish though that her mask didn't keep falling down-lol. We did keep our distance.
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HAPPIEST OF ANNIVERSARY WISHES TO DR Ginny and DH Richard!
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Checked out a book from the library yesterday called Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin. She was Benjamin Franklin's sister and apparently a wit in her own right. I'd never heard of her before.
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I have a couple of books to finish first, Private Life by Jane Smiley and Written in the Stars.
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The latter is a lesbian Pride & Prejudice with one of the women named Darcy and the other Elle. Despite the twee naming, the beginning is fairly interesting. It's not pure romance novel.
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We are not in the home stretch.
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At least not in terms of pages posted after the delayed start of the day.
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I just learned from Wikipedia that Jane Smiley has written eight YA novels about horses. I wonder if they are any good.
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I'm just a little on edge waiting for the next three days to pass.
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The new video from the New Yorker doesn't help matters any, except to show how culpable Cruz and Hawley were in all of this.
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The stupidity on display is scarier when I remember that these folks were armed.
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Armed and Stupid. The title of my fourth novel.
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Now, when am I going to write the first three?
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I certainly can't do it as quickly as BK or Anthony Trollope, who was more of a word processor than Stephen King. Trollope would wake every morning at 5:30 a.m. and write until 8:30, when he left for work. He wrote the same number of words every day, and the stories always seemed to keep coming, because the novels (more than 40) did.
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Hello, 0 guests!
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The new video from the New Yorker doesn't help matters any, except to show how culpable Cruz and Hawley were in all of this.
A Reporter’s Footage from Inside the Capitol Siege (https://www.newyorker.com/news/video-dept/a-reporters-footage-from-inside-the-capitol-siege).
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That's terrible. >:(
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Of course, they're all stupid enough to not only not wear masks, but they video recorded themselves AND posted them on the interwebs!
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:))
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Oh, no! :o "Kamala Harris will resign...
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...[her] Senate seat Monday in run-up to inauguration (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-resign-senate-seat-before-inauguration)." ;D
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I'm just a little on edge waiting for the next three days to pass.
Yup.
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The new video from the New Yorker doesn't help matters any, except to show how culpable Cruz and Hawley were in all of this.
I haven't watched it yet.
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I certainly can't do it as quickly as BK or Anthony Trollope, who was more of a word processor than Stephen King. Trollope would wake every morning at 5:30 a.m. and write until 8:30, when he left for work. He wrote the same number of words every day, and the stories always seemed to keep coming, because the novels (more than 40) did.
This is interesting.
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...[her] Senate seat Monday in run-up to inauguration (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kamala-harris-resign-senate-seat-before-inauguration)." ;D
I knew this was coming ;D
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I gotta tell you.
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Let's at least get to page five.
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I've done twelve pages so far. I got stuck rewriting the same three pages about twenty times, but I think I finally got them right. I knew this part would go slowly because I really am in the last fifteen or twenty pages now.
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I just spent most of the day reading. It was a luxury.
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But I'll take a break to write the notes, and then do three or four more pages.
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I need to do it more often.
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Four!
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Writing vibes for BK.
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I need to start cleaning house.
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Not tonight. Maybe tomorrow.
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Seems strange to have the day off Monday. No employer has ever done that for me before.
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Trump has 100 pardons set to go.
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Wonder what wonderful people will be included?
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Gratuitous post No. 99!
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Good night, all.
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I just spent most of the day reading. It was a luxury.
I need to do it more often.
I usually read when I'm eating lunch, or dinner if I eat out by myself...of course, that was in the before-times. ::)
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Trump has 100 pardons set to go.
:P
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Sunday evening greetings! Do you remember what you did 40 years ago today?
Richard and I got married!
I knew I had a Saturday night blackout (one of many) in early January. Thank you for letting me know where I was that night.
Happy Anniversary, Ginny and Richard!
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Is Monday a holiday??? No mail?
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Inquiring minds want to know.
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I'm waiting.
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Patiently.
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TCB, regarding the refi, if there are no fees and your monthly payment is lower, why would you not do it? Your comfort and security today were the reasons for buying the condo, yes?
My confusion was whether to take the lower payment or to shorten the loan by five years. I see no reason to shorten the loan, because I don’t plan on continuing the payments from heaven. So, I am going to take the lower monthly payment.
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I'm just a little on edge waiting for the next three days to pass.
I agree, John. I am very worried about what new nightmare will confront us this week. I am praying for the health and success of our country.
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Is Monday a holiday??? No mail?
Yes, that is correct. Monday is a federal holiday and there will not be mail.
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I watched a docudrama tonight about the sinking of the passenger ferry, the Estonia, In the Baltic Sea back in 1994. I didn’t remember much about it, despite the loss of 852 people.
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Hi, Tom.
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Today, I've just been burning a Blu-ray disc (it took seven, count 'em, SEVEN hours to burn ONE title! :o ) and watching videos on YouTube.
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...and playing Solitaire and a Phase 10 game on my tablet.
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The most shocking thing to me was that after the ship capsized on her side and people had to basically climb to get out on deck; the passengers were basically mugged and robbed by a few of the passengers, as they came out on the deck.
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I have never heard of such a thing like that happening.
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Seems strange to have the day off Monday. No employer has ever done that for me before.
Thank you, Bob Cratchit.
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The most shocking thing to me was that after the ship capsized on her side and people had to basically climb to get out on deck; the passengers were basically mugged and robbed by a few of the passengers, as they came out on the deck.
That's terrible!
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Seems strange to have the day off Monday. No employer has ever done that for me before.
Thank you, Bob Cratchit.
I've only worked for the library, never any kind of private business, so I've always had the federal holidays off. :)
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Wonder what wonderful people will be included?
I am wondering if he will pardon Michael Cimino for HEAVEN’S GATE?
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Is Monday a holiday??? No mail?
Nope.
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Well, we made it to page five.
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Tom, you found Page Five!
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Not bad considering this topic wasn't opened until two, when I got up.
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And then I wrote...
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Well, we made it to page five.
What BK said. ;)
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I gotta tell you.
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I'm getting close to 109,000 postings.
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If I made 150 more posts right now it could happen.
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And that would get us to page something or other.
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I'll change the topic shortly, so get in a few more posts. Then it's back to writing and I'm hoping for three or four more pages this evening.
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If I made 150 more posts right now it could happen.
PUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Uh oh. BK forgot to open a new day of posts...again. ::)
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Well, today (Monday, January 18, since it's after midnight on the left coast) is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and (former) DR Charles Pogue's birthday. A very happy birthday to (former) DR Charles Pogue!
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And now, I'm off to bed. I hope BK changes the day, soon. ::)
Have a good Monday, all!