In a few moments I will be leaving for the Dentist to be - whatever is done to one to get a partial dental plate......mandible.
Tomorrow is my oncologist six month video visit.
He has had four wives - and I have had none.
He has had four wives - and I have had none.
Nice piano recital, DR John G. Thanks for sharing.
So, if I don't keel over today, I have several things to accomplish:
1. make a haircut appointment;
2. call my urologist to book a PSA test;
3. call my HMO and ask them what;'s the problem with their site;
4. send my doctor a message about this eye issue.
Goddam UPS! They tried to deliver a Petco package on Saturday night just before 9:00. By the time I got to the intercom, there was no one there so I figured someone else had let the driver into the building. Yesterday I got an email saying they couldn't deliver it. So, this morning I get a UPS email saying the package would be delivered by 9:00 tonight. I just got another UPS enail saying it's at the UPS store at 79th & Broadway. Come pick it up.
They can rot in hell first.
I have to go out on two quick errands.
The second one is just filling up a two-gallon gas can for the snowblower and other equipment.
The first one is something you all, especially BK, will enjoy. I have to return something to Amazon. It's something totally inconsequential, but it's wrong and I'm not willing to keep it. It's a movie for which there's a new edition by the same company that released an earlier edition, and this is the kind of thing where Amazon completely FAILS. Their descriptions are ambiguous, and there's no way to specify or guarantee you're going to get the right item when ordering it.
I also know, from my own experience and countless others, that you can't get anyone there to comprehend what you're talking about when it comes to something like this. It's a losing proposition, and the problem goes right back to how they have chosen to list things like books and movies in the first place. So I'm cutting out the bullshit and taking a simple refund. If I still want the thing, I'll just have to buy it direct from its publisher.
Tomorrow is my oncologist six month video visit.
He has had four wives - and I have had none.
My appt. went well.....mouth full of plastic and goo - next appointment to make sure it's right on Feb. 4......and then one more to get my new choppers on the bottom......
I have to go out on two quick errands.
The second one is just filling up a two-gallon gas can for the snowblower and other equipment.
The first one is something you all, especially BK, will enjoy. I have to return something to Amazon. It's something totally inconsequential, but it's wrong and I'm not willing to keep it. It's a movie for which there's a new edition by the same company that released an earlier edition, and this is the kind of thing where Amazon completely FAILS. Their descriptions are ambiguous, and there's no way to specify or guarantee you're going to get the right item when ordering it.
I also know, from my own experience and countless others, that you can't get anyone there to comprehend what you're talking about when it comes to something like this. It's a losing proposition, and the problem goes right back to how they have chosen to list things like books and movies in the first place. So I'm cutting out the bullshit and taking a simple refund. If I still want the thing, I'll just have to buy it direct from its publisher.
this has happened four times recently - all with RCA SACDs - clearly pictured on the item page but when they send it's the non-SACD version.
I am back from dropping off my Amazon return, and what an adventure it was.
It had been several years since I'd returned anything, so I was surprised yesterday when they told me not to package the item, just take it to one of the authorized drop-off locations, show them the code that was being emailed to me, and that would be that.
Well, that was indeed that. I picked a UPS store. I walked in and only one other person was finishing up with one guy, and the other guy called me right over. I showed him the email on my phone and handed him the goods, he printed a receipt, and I was out of there in thirty seconds.
I am back from dropping off my Amazon return, and what an adventure it was.
It had been several years since I'd returned anything, so I was surprised yesterday when they told me not to package the item, just take it to one of the authorized drop-off locations, show them the code that was being emailed to me, and that would be that.
Well, that was indeed that. I picked a UPS store. I walked in and only one other person was finishing up with one guy, and the other guy called me right over. I showed him the email on my phone and handed him the goods, he printed a receipt, and I was out of there in thirty seconds.
Interesting, we usually repackage our items. We are happy when the packages fit into the drop box near us vs having to go to the UPS store.
I may have had a stroke last night. Around 2:00 I was wide awake after sleeping solidly for nearly five hours. So I reached for ther alarm, to check the time and I felt like I was suddenly punched in my left eye. The pain was quite intense. And then it happened again. I don't know if something blew in my brain, if it's glaucoma, if I'm a hypochondriac. This is maybe the third time this has happened in the past year, only it was just one hit in the previous occurrences.
Was the Brooklyn gangster Rigoletto an earlier concept of the Las Vegas one, or an entirely unrelated thing?
Was the Brooklyn gangster Rigoletto an earlier concept of the Las Vegas one, or an entirely unrelated thing?
I watched my favorite movie version of A TALE OF TWO CITIES this afternoon.....the one with Mr Dirk Bogarde.
I miss the fight between Janette DeFarge and Miss Pross as enacted by Blanche Yurka and Edna May Oliver from the Selznick/Colman version, but otherwise.....
Uh oh......Pressidint Bidun has made his first mistake with me....his press conference is pre-empting Judge Judy.
I first read ATOTC when I was in the 6th grade after watching the Colman version on television. I loved the book......I re read it now and then.
I wonder if any other DR has a FAVORITE ABOVE ALL film version of the story......
Today my brother Kent is 58 years old.
In a few moments I will be leaving for the Dentist to be - whatever is done to one to get a partial dental plate......mandible.
Tomorrow is my oncologist six month video visit.
Vibes for both appointments, DR JRand70!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Was the Brooklyn gangster Rigoletto an earlier concept of the Las Vegas one, or an entirely unrelated thing?
I am back from dropping off my Amazon return, and what an adventure it was.
It had been several years since I'd returned anything, so I was surprised yesterday when they told me not to package the item, just take it to one of the authorized drop-off locations, show them the code that was being emailed to me, and that would be that.
Well, that was indeed that. I picked a UPS store. I walked in and only one other person was finishing up with one guy, and the other guy called me right over. I showed him the email on my phone and handed him the goods, he printed a receipt, and I was out of there in thirty seconds.
Interesting, we usually repackage our items. We are happy when the packages fit into the drop box near us vs having to go to the UPS store.
This was my first time for it. It's effortless, AND you don't wait days to see your refund. Mine was back in my bank account before I got home.
What's really abominable about Amazon's systemic - if I may coin a word - problem is that they started out as a bookseller. And what do books come in? They come in many, many various and sundry editions, that's what. And CDs and DVDs and Blu-rays and such are the same. So what do they do? From day one, they lump all comments and "reviews" for a title into one bucket, a situation that by itself has created hell on earth. The rest of the mishegoss followed.
DR elmore3003 - I think Gloriana was written for the Coronation. I so appreciate your information and insight.
Was the Brooklyn gangster Rigoletto an earlier concept of the Las Vegas one, or an entirely unrelated thing?
Here's the great quartet from the ENO Rigoletto:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ1ct9Dy89I
The TV commercial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-0_-rSnbwE
In my Britten assessment I made a wrong comment because I forgot the Great Unknown Opera. I'm getting old.
Billy Budd was not a great success in its initial outing, but it was not written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth. Gloriana was, and it was a flop at the time. It was rediscovered 20 years later, and it gets fewer performances than it deserves. I was lucky to see in 1984 or 85 the English National Opera perform it in New York, along with their wonderful Brooklyn gangster Rigoletto, and Gilbert & Sullivan's Patience, or Bunthorne's Bride.
Gloriana has one recording and it's mighty fine, the closest Britten came to writing a grand opera along the lines of Aïda.
My book group is doing our first Zoom meeting soon.
My book group is doing our first Zoom meeting soon.
And the book is ..,
Tomorrow is my oncologist six month video visit.
MAJAOR VIBES ALL IS WELL!
I may have had a stroke last night. Around 2:00 I was wide awake after sleeping solidly for nearly five hours. So I reached for ther alarm, to check the time and I felt like I was suddenly punched in my left eye. The pain was quite intense. And then it happened again. I don't know if something blew in my brain, if it's glaucoma, if I'm a hypochondriac. This is maybe the third time this has happened in the past year, only it was just one hit in the previous occurrences.
~~~Eye Vibes for Larry!!~~~
It will keep me distracted as I am nervous my vaccination will actually happen tomorrow, and without any major reactions.
Goddam UPS! They tried to deliver a Petco package on Saturday night just before 9:00. By the time I got to the intercom, there was no one there so I figured someone else had let the driver into the building. Yesterday I got an email saying they couldn't deliver it. So, this morning I get a UPS email saying the package would be delivered by 9:00 tonight. I just got another UPS enail saying it's at the UPS store at 79th & Broadway. Come pick it up.
They can rot in hell first.
I am back from dropping off my Amazon return, and what an adventure it was.
It had been several years since I'd returned anything, so I was surprised yesterday when they told me not to package the item, just take it to one of the authorized drop-off locations, show them the code that was being emailed to me, and that would be that.
Well, that was indeed that. I picked a UPS store. I walked in and only one other person was finishing up with one guy, and the other guy called me right over. I showed him the email on my phone and handed him the goods, he printed a receipt, and I was out of there in thirty seconds.
Uh oh......Pressidint Bidun has made his first mistake with me....his press conference is pre-empting Judge Judy.
Alas, whatever the building did to try to solve the bathroom ceiling water leak did not work. There is more water gushing. Honestly...
And now, as predicted, bits of the ceiling are starting to drop.
At least tonight, it's over the tub.
So I will count that as a plus.
Vaccination vibes to DR Jane! I hope it's uneventful for you. A quick jab and that's it.
I am not going to finish it tonight, which means that I can spread the depression to another day.
I am going to try and sleep as I have to be up early tomorrow.
'night
I may have had a stroke last night. Around 2:00 I was wide awake after sleeping solidly for nearly five hours. So I reached for ther alarm, to check the time and I felt like I was suddenly punched in my left eye. The pain was quite intense. And then it happened again. I don't know if something blew in my brain, if it's glaucoma, if I'm a hypochondriac. This is maybe the third time this has happened in the past year, only it was just one hit in the previous occurrences.
I think I prefer Steuart Bedford's recording, which has a really fine cast including my friend Stuart Kale.
Then, for Queen Elizabeth's coronation, we get Billy Budd. It was not a success, Britten later revised it, and it took off. These days, because of the homoerotic subtext and the continual references to Billy's beauty, it's become the opera for handsome buff baritones to show off their buff bodies. I think Britten's recording of the revised version still takes the cake.
The Dancing Noses reminded me of the Dancing Dildoes.....only not quite as funny.
Uh oh......Pressidint Bidun has made his first mistake with me....his press conference is pre-empting Judge Judy.
I think I prefer Steuart Bedford's recording, which has a really fine cast including my friend Stuart Kale.
Then, for Queen Elizabeth's coronation, we get Billy Budd. It was not a success, Britten later revised it, and it took off. These days, because of the homoerotic subtext and the continual references to Billy's beauty, it's become the opera for handsome buff baritones to show off their buff bodies. I think Britten's recording of the revised version still takes the cake.
That’s strange. I saw Nathan Gunn in BILLY BUDD, and I don’t remember there being any music in it.
Hi, Tom.
Tom, today I mailed a package for you. You should receive it in a couple of days. :)