Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on November 19, 2021, 12:19:14 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were stress-free, and now it is time for you to post until the stress-free cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: PRESENTLY!
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Have a good day, all!
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Good morning, all!
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I slept rather well. Annabelle stayed with me while Thatch and Stella preferred to stop by for a nap and run off again. Around 4:30 the two devils got rowdy and Annabelle decided to abandon me.
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Last night I fionished Gwen Cooper's wonderful novel - I still don't like the title - Love Saves the Day, which has affected me more strongly than anything I've read in some time, maybe since Catch-22 around 1973.
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In summer 1968, one of my summer theatre roommates kept urging me to read Catch-22. I read the first chapter and thought, this is stupid. In retrospect I was a true naïf, completely unaware of the absurdities of existence who had no sympathy or understanding of alcoholic Masha's answer in The Sea Gull to the question why she always wore black: I'm in mourning for my life.
A couple of years later, I thought I'd give Catch-22 another try. I read the first chapter, which involves a body completely encased in bandages in a military hospital ward, and closed the book, thinking, what a stupid book; people really like this book?
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In 1973, after a disastrous year of failing as a college instructor because of my own immaturity and complete and the fact that I was unsuitable for the post, I returned to mommy and daddy to hide out, lick my wounds, grow up, or kill myself. A good friend's brother and I were talking books one night in a bar where the theatre folk gathered after whatever, and he mentioned Catch-22. I still had my copy, and the next day I read the first chapter, laughed my head off, and finished the book several days later. By the time I reached the final chapters and the account of Snowden's death, I no longer laughed. I wept, I keened, I mourned. It was gard to read the pages through the tears. No other book ever affected me so strongly until I read Gwen Cooper's novel about Manhattan's Lower East Side between 1975 and 1995, grubby politics and the cruelty it does to the poorer people it represents, a record store, a rock star, family estrangement, personal ambitions vs marriage, Jewish family dynamics, and the music of our lives, much of it observed through the eyes of a young cat named Prudence.
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I need to vacuum and play at my worktable today.
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Hello, 11 guests! Do you have any pets?
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I went over to my uncle's house last night about 11 p.m. and sat with him and my sister for a couple of hours.
He is in his hospital bed in his living room. He takes morphine & larzapan (sp). Today at 5 p.m. they are moving him to the hospice facility called The Gathering House.
His sister - our aunt Martha who is mostly drunk 24/7 - and her crazy daughter called last night demanding to know why they hadn't been told everything......why they were the last to know anything......
My brother called her and said this is what we know and this is what is happening. You could have come over ANY TIME to see him when you could TALK to him..... They are coming by the house today at noon, so I'm going to go over there to be with my uncle and my cousin Mickey....
My aunt is grieving.....I'm going to invite me to go to the meeting at the funeral home on Monday - I doubt that she will.
My uncle has everything written down the way he wants it - if our Aunt wants something, as long as it isn't AGAINST his wishes - it will be done..... Her daughter is so jealous & greedy that she can't see straight, she's also on some kind of drugs. She doesn't have a key to the house (my sister and our cousin Mickey do)....and they are executors. EVERYTHING is written out.
If they have a question, our uncle said let them call the attorney.
So sad.
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So I may be scarce around here for a few days or so.
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I went over to my uncle's house last night about 11 p.m. and sat with him and my sister for a couple of hours.
He is in his hospital bed in his living room. He takes morphine & larzapan (sp). Today at 5 p.m. they are moving him to the hospice facility called The Gathering House.
His sister - our aunt Martha who is mostly drunk 24/7 - and her crazy daughter called last night demanding to know why they hadn't been told everything......why they were the last to know anything......
My brother called her and said this is what we know and this is what is happening. You could have come over ANY TIME to see him when you could TALK to him..... They are coming by the house today at noon, so I'm going to go over there to be with my uncle and my cousin Mickey....
My aunt is grieving.....I'm going to invite me to go to the meeting at the funeral home on Monday - I doubt that she will.
My uncle has everything written down the way he wants it - if our Aunt wants something, as long as it isn't AGAINST his wishes - it will be done..... Her daughter is so jealous & greedy that she can't see straight, she's also on some kind of drugs. She doesn't have a key to the house (my sister and our cousin Mickey do)....and they are executors. EVERYTHING is written out.
If they have a question, our uncle said let them call the attorney.
So sad.
DR Jrand71, you're a good man. I hope your uncle's passing is painless and swift. My heart aches for you and your family; these times bring out the best and the worst in family dynamics. I wish you all the best.
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Good morning, all.
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DR Jrand71, you're a good man. I hope your uncle's passing is painless and swift. My heart aches for you and your family; these times bring out the best and the worst in family dynamics. I wish you all the best.
I couldn’t say it any better than that, so I shamelessly quote DR Elmore’s words.
Condolences and best of vibes to you and your family, DR Jrand71.
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Last night’s rehearsal was our last before having the band there on Sunday, and I couldn’t be happier knowing that I can finally quit butchering a couple of the songs that absolutely depend on a prominent bass part AND a not-difficult-but-takes-two-hands piano part.
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I cannot believe we are six days away from Thanksgiving. How did that happen? Where did the summer go?
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In new news, I just got invited to play in the pit for How to Succeed... at Marist College in Poughkeepsie in February. That’s a nice gig that I’ve enjoyed a couple of times. They have a strong theater department, and they always hire the full band, whatever’s called for. I look forward to properly learning the score, especially since I presume we’ll be using the materials that were blessed by DR Elmore a few years back...? :)
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It actually feels a bit weird having gigs come back.
Because of my show, I just had to turn down two schools that needed pianists for their holiday shows. So now I’m set for February, and “my director” and I have a couple of irons in the fire for the latter part of 2022 that can’t be announced yet.
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I have nothing for the Friday TOD, but we might watch Tick, Tick... Boom tonight if I’m correct in thinking this is its premiere on Netflix.
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Good morning, all.
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I have nothing for the Friday TOD, but we might watch Tick, Tick... Boom tonight if I’m correct in thinking this is its premiere on Netflix.
So I’ve read.
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TOD:
Luchino Visconti’s The Damned
The Brink’s, if I can get the disc to play.
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In new news, I just got invited to play in the pit for How to Succeed... at Marist College in Poughkeepsie in February. That’s a nice gig that I’ve enjoyed a couple of times. They have a strong theater department, and they always hire the full band, whatever’s called for. I look forward to properly learning the score, especially since I presume we’ll be using the materials that were blessed by DR Elmore a few years back...? :)
Congratulations!
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In new news, I just got invited to play in the pit for How to Succeed... at Marist College in Poughkeepsie in February. That’s a nice gig that I’ve enjoyed a couple of times. They have a strong theater department, and they always hire the full band, whatever’s called for. I look forward to properly learning the score, especially since I presume we’ll be using the materials that were blessed by DR Elmore a few years back...? :)
Well, per the MTI page, keyboard (piano/celeste) is only involved if we’re using the alternate orchestration, not the original. That’s with no strings. Is that correct, DR Elmore?
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Continued {{{hugs}}} for DR Jrand71...
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And good morning, friends.
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Mega vibes for JRand and family.
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YOU try answering the phone at this establishment!
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In new news, I just got invited to play in the pit for How to Succeed... at Marist College in Poughkeepsie in February. That’s a nice gig that I’ve enjoyed a couple of times. They have a strong theater department, and they always hire the full band, whatever’s called for. I look forward to properly learning the score, especially since I presume we’ll be using the materials that were blessed by DR Elmore a few years back...? :)
Well, per the MTI page, keyboard (piano/celeste) is only involved if we’re using the alternate orchestration, not the original. That’s with no strings. Is that correct, DR Elmore?
Sadly, no. MTI has all the cleaned up materials but they have not prepared them for public use yet.
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So cute!
https://www.facebook.com/camille.perrone.904/videos/419196113184647
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Page 2 Dance!
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I went over to my uncle's house last night about 11 p.m. and sat with him and my sister for a couple of hours.
He is in his hospital bed in his living room. He takes morphine & larzapan (sp). Today at 5 p.m. they are moving him to the hospice facility called The Gathering House.
His sister - our aunt Martha who is mostly drunk 24/7 - and her crazy daughter called last night demanding to know why they hadn't been told everything......why they were the last to know anything......
My brother called her and said this is what we know and this is what is happening. You could have come over ANY TIME to see him when you could TALK to him..... They are coming by the house today at noon, so I'm going to go over there to be with my uncle and my cousin Mickey....
My aunt is grieving.....I'm going to invite me to go to the meeting at the funeral home on Monday - I doubt that she will.
My uncle has everything written down the way he wants it - if our Aunt wants something, as long as it isn't AGAINST his wishes - it will be done..... Her daughter is so jealous & greedy that she can't see straight, she's also on some kind of drugs. She doesn't have a key to the house (my sister and our cousin Mickey do)....and they are executors. EVERYTHING is written out.
If they have a question, our uncle said let them call the attorney.
So sad.
~~~Continued Vibes and Hugs!!~~~
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From DR John:
We went to the Mexican place where I took Jane and Keith when they came to town, La Fonda on Main
I would love to go back there, the company and the food were both wonderful.
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Yes, the patio was lovely.
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Vibes Anne's sister stays at stage zero!
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From John:
I didn't know there was such a thing as stage zero.
I didn't know they could detect it that early. I am having a someone routine MRI next week so it is good to know about this, and a reminder why I am having it.
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I am more concerned about the abdominal/pelvic CAT scan I am also having next week. I get to drink an iodine drink for contrast images :P
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I went over to my uncle's house last night about 11 p.m. and sat with him and my sister for a couple of hours.
He is in his hospital bed in his living room. He takes morphine & larzapan (sp). Today at 5 p.m. they are moving him to the hospice facility called The Gathering House.
His sister - our aunt Martha who is mostly drunk 24/7 - and her crazy daughter called last night demanding to know why they hadn't been told everything......why they were the last to know anything......
My brother called her and said this is what we know and this is what is happening. You could have come over ANY TIME to see him when you could TALK to him..... They are coming by the house today at noon, so I'm going to go over there to be with my uncle and my cousin Mickey....
My aunt is grieving.....I'm going to invite me to go to the meeting at the funeral home on Monday - I doubt that she will.
My uncle has everything written down the way he wants it - if our Aunt wants something, as long as it isn't AGAINST his wishes - it will be done..... Her daughter is so jealous & greedy that she can't see straight, she's also on some kind of drugs. She doesn't have a key to the house (my sister and our cousin Mickey do)....and they are executors. EVERYTHING is written out.
If they have a question, our uncle said let them call the attorney.
So sad.
I am so very sorry :(
Lorazepam is the generic name for Ativan. It relaxes the nerves and also reduces nausea.
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In new news, I just got invited to play in the pit for How to Succeed... at Marist College in Poughkeepsie in February. That’s a nice gig that I’ve enjoyed a couple of times. They have a strong theater department, and they always hire the full band, whatever’s called for. I look forward to properly learning the score, especially since I presume we’ll be using the materials that were blessed by DR Elmore a few years back...? :)
Congratulations!
Ditto!
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VIBES OF COMFORT TO DR JRAND AND HIS FAMILY!
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28 days...
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I cannot believe that little shit Rittenhouse walked. Well, it's a victory for the white trash Trumpers and their GOP ilk.
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My health insurance approval just landed.
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I cannot believe that little shit Rittenhouse walked. Well, it's a victory for the white trash Trumpers and their GOP ilk.
>:(
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My health insurance approval just landed.
Halle-freakin'-looya!!
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And sadly, Dave Frishberg, Jazz Songwriter Behind ‘I’m Just a Bill’ on ‘Schoolhouse Rock,’ Dies at 88 (https://www.thewrap.com/dave-frishberg-jazz-songwriter-im-just-a-bill-schoolhouse-rock-dies-at-88/amp/). :(
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Great news, DR elmore3003. I'm sorry there was so much angst getting there.
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Another time elapse photo.
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:)
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It was a sad and disappointing day when I discovered that my Universal Remote Control did not, in fact, control the Universe.
Not even remotely.
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;D
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As the days stretched out and the defense attorney wanted a mistrial I began to hope. Nope, the verdict was what I expected all along.
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I thought I saw it on the news at the gym. What attracted my attention to the tv were two men side by side on recumbent bikes who were sitting still and watching the tv. Later the two men walked past me and I asked them if I read the news correctly. We were all shaking our heads.
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The wheels of the machinery spin fast: my penultimate procedure before the radiation begins is now scheduled for this Monday morning.
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Wow! Now - will you be able to get there?
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:)
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I'm up, I'm up - eight and a half hours of sleep.
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Even before I could write B'way World about the youth pay to play, apparently they'd already figured it out and removed that theater from all nominations but missed editing, so I sent that to them. The other theaters that are ahead of us because they have huge numbers of people are community theater - should be a separate category for them, too, but then we'd be the only ones nominated :)
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Wow! Now - will you be able to get there?
Let us hope.
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Three!
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Having a happy hour with folks from work.
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Then a dance in the evening.
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Crappy news from the world, good news from DR Elmore.
And we'll take that good news, damn it to hell.
I'm about to have my own little happy hour right here at home. Just try to stop me.
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I've left work for the day and am having lunch at the local Eagan's burger joint. I'm having a chili dog with onions and shredded cheddar. Mmmmm!
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When I'm done here, I'll head to my mom's for dinner. ::)
;D
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And at work today, I received my brand new KitchenAid stand mixer that I bought on a whim because it was on sale from KitchenAid for about half off! I don't specifically need one, but it was such a great price that I couldn't pass it up...and it'll be nice to have one, when (or if) I do.
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I've left work for the day and am having lunch at the local Eagan's burger joint. I'm having a chili dog with onions and shredded cheddar. Mmmmm!
Yes, please.
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I've left work for the day and am having lunch at the local Eagan's burger joint. I'm having a chili dog with onions and shredded cheddar. Mmmmm!
Yes, please.
It was quite delish. :)
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We're going to have pizza from a jernt in the neighborhood we haven't tried, even though it's been in operation for several years.
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I like it when my birthday and Christmas are both presently.
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Thank you for the good thoughts, everyone.
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Thanks DR JANE that's the medicine I meant, but I had ever seen its name written down.
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Good pizza vibes for DR CHAS SMITH and congrats on being hired by World Wide Wickets.
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As my sister and cousin were standing around - my other two sisters were visiting my uncle - my sister Paula received a text from Crazy Town.
My cousin said that my aunt had fallen and they would be unable to join us......I think this is a prelude to them both missing the actual farewell event.....but we shall see.
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One less confrontation.
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And at work today, I received my brand new KitchenAid stand mixer that I bought on a whim because it was on sale from KitchenAid for about half off! I don't specifically need one, but it was such a great price that I couldn't pass it up...and it'll be nice to have one, when (or if) I do.
Enjoy.
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Good evening!
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Vibes for DR Jrand and family.
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One less confrontation.
True.
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My health insurance approval just landed.
Great news, DR elmore!
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BREAKING NEWS:
In a race with Access-A-Ride, Turtle Wins
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:)
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BREAKING NEWS:
In a race with Access-A-Ride, Turtle Wins
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LOL!
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BREAKING NEWS:
In a race with Access-A-Ride, Turtle Wins
(https://media1.giphy.com/media/Eha0thdXTeX2U/200w.gif?cid=ecf05e473zw3nv57hfq32e80emcyjm591q83ywon0a9erhd3&rid=200w.gif&ct=g)
:))
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Things that keep me up at night:
1] isn't it strange that John the Baptist and Winnie the Pooh have the same middle name?
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Good evening.
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Hugs for your whole family, JRand.
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Good news, Elmore. I'm so glad your treatment was finally approved.
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Went to Art's Deli for a turkey sandwich and a few fries. Brought half the sandwich home and just ate it whilst scanning stuff for the computer - of course, there was a recent printer/scanner update that's completely changed the way you scan stuff - I wasted an entire document before I realized what had changed.
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Been sending music to singers.
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Good night, friends.
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Had a nice happy hour at a weird, crappy bar.
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They had no menu, but they had a table of free food, including jalapeño pot roast and dirty rice in crockpots.
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There weren’t many people there on a Friday night. Odd.
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But people were glad to see each other.
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Then went dancing at the Arthur Murray Thanksgiving party where I danced and danced.
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Now I’m trying to relax a little.
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Things that keep me up at night:
1] isn't it strange that John the Baptist and Winnie the Pooh have the same middle name?
AND Kermit the Frog! :o
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I’m starting to watch The Damned. It’s fascinating, but the dubbing is irritating.
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Gratuitous Post #100!!
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I’m starting to watch The Damned. It’s fascinating, but the dubbing is irritating.
So John, is it...damned fascinating??
;D
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Things that keep me up at night:
1] isn't it strange that John the Baptist and Winnie the Pooh have the same middle name?
AND Kermit the Frog! :o
And Claudius the God and Ivan the Terrible
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I’m starting to watch The Damned. It’s fascinating, but the dubbing is irritating.
So John, is it...damned fascinating??
;D
Ja wohl.
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How are you tonight, George?
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Finished with my viewing - just a bit of My Neighbor Totoro.
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Now I'm listening to music.
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And I don't care who knows it.
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Certainly I know it.
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Because I'm listening to it.
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Funny how that works.
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We had a fun evening with a cousin of Keith's, and his wife, we met through genealogy.
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'night
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Good night, all.
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Listening to a magnificent La Boheme recording - Sir Thomas Beecham with Victoria do Los Angeles and Jussi Borling. Mono from 1956, but great sound and what a performance. The only other one I have is Leinsdorf with Anna Moffo, which I like very much, but this one's in another league altogether.
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In summer 1968, one of my summer theatre roommates kept urging me to read Catch-22. I read the first chapter and thought, this is stupid. In retrospect I was a true naïf, completely unaware of the absurdities of existence who had no sympathy or understanding of alcoholic Masha's answer in The Sea Gull to the question why she always wore black: I'm in mourning for my life.
A couple of years later, I thought I'd give Catch-22 another try. I read the first chapter, which involves a body completely encased in bandages in a military hospital ward, and closed the book, thinking, what a stupid book; people really like this book?
Should be three posts!
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In 1973, after a disastrous year of failing as a college instructor because of my own immaturity and complete and the fact that I was unsuitable for the post, I returned to mommy and daddy to hide out, lick my wounds, grow up, or kill myself. A good friend's brother and I were talking books one night in a bar where the theatre folk gathered after whatever, and he mentioned Catch-22. I still had my copy, and the next day I read the first chapter, laughed my head off, and finished the book several days later. By the time I reached the final chapters and the account of Snowden's death, I no longer laughed. I wept, I keened, I mourned. It was gard to read the pages through the tears. No other book ever affected me so strongly until I read Gwen Cooper's novel about Manhattan's Lower East Side between 1975 and 1995, grubby politics and the cruelty it does to the poorer people it represents, a record store, a rock star, family estrangement, personal ambitions vs marriage, Jewish family dynamics, and the music of our lives, much of it observed through the eyes of a young cat named Prudence.
Should be 6 to 8 posts.
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I went over to my uncle's house last night about 11 p.m. and sat with him and my sister for a couple of hours.
He is in his hospital bed in his living room. He takes morphine & larzapan (sp). Today at 5 p.m. they are moving him to the hospice facility called The Gathering House.
His sister - our aunt Martha who is mostly drunk 24/7 - and her crazy daughter called last night demanding to know why they hadn't been told everything......why they were the last to know anything......
My brother called her and said this is what we know and this is what is happening. You could have come over ANY TIME to see him when you could TALK to him..... They are coming by the house today at noon, so I'm going to go over there to be with my uncle and my cousin Mickey....
My aunt is grieving.....I'm going to invite me to go to the meeting at the funeral home on Monday - I doubt that she will.
My uncle has everything written down the way he wants it - if our Aunt wants something, as long as it isn't AGAINST his wishes - it will be done..... Her daughter is so jealous & greedy that she can't see straight, she's also on some kind of drugs. She doesn't have a key to the house (my sister and our cousin Mickey do)....and they are executors. EVERYTHING is written out.
If they have a question, our uncle said let them call the attorney.
So sad.
My thoughts and prayers to Jrand and his family
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With a possible exception or two.
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Last on page 4.
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P A G E 5!
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My health insurance approval just landed.
Great news, Larry.
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It was a sad and disappointing day when I discovered that my Universal Remote Control did not, in fact, control the Universe.
Not even remotely.
You may be more responsible than any of us realized!
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I've left work for the day and am having lunch at the local Eagan's burger joint. I'm having a chili dog with onions and shredded cheddar. Mmmmm!
$8.06 for a chili dog. It better be damn good. Is that the drive-in by your office?
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How are you tonight, George?
Doing pretty good...still quite full from dinner tonight. :)
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I've left work for the day and am having lunch at the local Eagan's burger joint. I'm having a chili dog with onions and shredded cheddar. Mmmmm!
$8.06 for a chili dog. It better be damn good. Is that the drive-in by your office?
It's not fabulous, but it's pretty good. And yes, it's only about 5 minutes from my house and work.
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My mom taught Michael, her brother visiting from Germany, how to play Phase 10...with our "house rules." ;)
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My niece won tonight.
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I think I came in third.
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Oh, well...we will play again.
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Tomorrow, my mom's taking Michael to the Red Wind Casino for a steak dinner.
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The rest of us are on our own until Sunday when we're all going to my sister's house for dinner.
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It probably isn’t the one I am thinking it is.
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Tonight, we had lasagna.
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It probably isn’t the one I am thinking it is.
Maybe you're thinking of Red Wagon? But that's not a drive-in.
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For frozen lasagnas, they weren't too bad.
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We had two different kinds. One had a meat sauce (from Costco) and the other was had no meat (from WinCo).
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We had two different kinds. One had a meat sauce (from Costco) and the other was had no meat (from WinCo).
I have never been to WinCo, although there is one very near my house.
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After I left my mom's, I hied myself to the Lacey Costco just before they closed.
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We had two different kinds. One had a meat sauce (from Costco) and the other was had no meat (from WinCo).
I have never been to WinCo, although there is one very near my house.
It's literally up the street from my mom's house. It's probably the same distance as my house to Eagan's. She goes to WinCo all the time.
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At Costco, I bought myself a new shower head.
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8 bucks for a chili dog seems reasonable compared to the 21 bucks for a turkey sandwich at Art's.
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I just don't like the one I bought last week.
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I gotta tell you.
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New notes are up.
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8 bucks for a chili dog seems reasonable compared to the 21 bucks for a turkey sandwich at Art's.
:o I can't imagine paying that around here!
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Up are new notes.
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It probably isn’t the one I am thinking it is.
Maybe you're thinking of Red Wagon? But that's not a drive-in.
I don’t know, George, we have only gone to lunch together once. I picked you up at your office, and it was a straight shot up the road.
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Anyway, I'll try out my new shower head in the morning. :)