Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on September 11, 2023, 12:11:53 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes did an impression of Rich Little doing an impression of shoes, and now it is time for you to post until the impressionistic cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: HEIGHT!
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~~~Vibes for BK's Modern Major Miracle, Just Because!!~~~
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Good morning, all!
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Rainy days and Mondays don't always make me cry, but it's also 9/11 and I know, before the day is out, that I will weep for the dead and mourn the passage of twenty-two years.
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I had a very busy day yesterday between the ballet's Charleston and the work on Once Upon a Mattress. By 8:00pm I was ready for bed, and by 8:45 I was asleep. I slept rather well with my faithful boy Thatch, although Stella showed up some time after midnight for a few hugs and pets.
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Twenty-two years ago today, I was in London, recording Victor Herbert's The Lady of the Slipper with John McGlinn, who after three months in London had gone completely bonkers. At that point, I doubt there wasn't anyone on the project he hadn't driven to the point of resigning. Alison Fox, recently retired from EMI, was our recording scheduler and manager. She walked out in frustration at least once a week.
I flew to London on Sunday, Sept. 9. I cannot remember the name of the 4-star hotel, but it was a lovely place to stay, and I cannot remember now if we began recording on Sept. 10 or the following Tuesday. I only remember now the horror of that Tuesday. Watching the events in Manhattan unfold on a small TV in the manager's office at Henry Wood Hall was much like watching via security camera your house bein pilfered and then destroyed.
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That night my brother and Lady Macbeth called to ask me if I knew what had happened in Manhattan. Duh! I was in London, not on the moon.
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I wasn't scheduled to return to NYC until some time around Sept. 26, but in 9/12 I didn't kow if I would ever get home or not. While many in the cast, crew, and production staff were worried about getting back to the States, we were fortunate that John McGlinn's insistence on making the entire horrifying situation all about him made things easier for the rest of us.
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I later learned that my friend Matthew's former girlfriend Myra, whom I knew slightly, was on the plane from Boston that crashed into the Trade Center. They had stopped living together around 17 years earlier, but they remained friends and he was still her beneficiary.
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DR vixmom, thanks for the wonderful tale of your latest NYC adventure. I want to go to that restaurant.
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Good morning, all.
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The mornings are staying darker longer.
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Keeps the house a little cooler.
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I was going to a closing in our remote office that morning. It was really another law firm that our firm paid a stipend monthly so we could have our firm name on the door and have use of the conference room.
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I was listening to a book on tape in the car, and when I arrived at the firm around 915 for my 930 closing all the employees there were gathered together in the boss’ office.
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Presuming they were in a meeting, I went about setting things up for my closing.
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Then the people started drifting in for the closing, everyone of them looking shell shocked.
I made a little joke about cheering up they were getting a beautiful new home and one of them turned to me and said, “ you haven’t heard , have you?”
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Then he told me
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The closing still went on, because we were all there and didn’t know what else to do.
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But I spent a good part of it trying to raise Vixdad on the phone
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I finally, did assuring myself he was safe, but traumatized, having a clear view of the towers from his office window on 14th and 8th
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It was hours later when we were finally able to track down my brother, who was supposed to be in the Towers that morning.
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They shutdown the roads westward to all cars except first responders.
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I called into my office , just at the Queens border to ask what to do and they told me to go home, they had closed and were sending everyone home
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I went to the school, and collected the 8 year old Vixter.
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We didn’t turn the tv on in the house for at least a week
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It is a grey rainy day out here today
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When I woke up at 7 I thought it was still night , it was that dark in the bedroom
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Anyway…vibes and hugs to everyone.
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Maybe a Wordle
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Huh
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Monday, Monday
Be good to me
Monday mornin'
Please be all I hope you'll be
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I'm up. I'm up.
I awakened after four and took my early meds and just hopped back into bed and drifted off.
I had another night of a dream-a-thon, this one was as loony as the previous ones.
I'm over it.
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Every morning, I live in hope that I heard on TV something that will reveal the worst possible news for MAGAmericans.
Instead, I hear more absolute insane ravings he made over the weekend.
By "worst possible news", I mean something that will absolutely prevent him from running for president.
The worst possible news for us would be something that would elevate him to martyrdom.
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Some joyous news: Mark Meadows may NOT move his Georgia trial to federal court.
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I totally relate to this one.
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Good morning, friends.
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Enjoyed last night's travelogue, DR vixmom!
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Monday morning greetings! I was awake for a couple of hours in the middle of the night, first stewing about all the moving prep yet to be done, then finishing Fiona Davis’ THE SPECTACULAR. She sets each of her books in a New York City landmark and this time it’s Radio City.
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~~~MODERN MAJOR MIRACLE VIBES OF THE STRONGEST SORT~~~ for the like of BK!!!!!!
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22 years ago this morning I was just settling in to work in the telephone reference center at Dayton Metro Library. As the horrific events unfolded, the websites we depended upon for our work ground to a halt. Eventually, sites like the New York Times went to text only to conserve bandwidth.
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On 9/11 I was at work at my office in Danbury, CT. They had the televisions on in the cafeteria.
We all worked the rest of the day, but no work really got done. We were all shell-shocked.
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The church where I was working as a singer at the time organized car loads of relief supplies and stuff for the first responders for months afterward. And regular attendance at the church soared for months, as well - people were stacked outside; couldn't even get in.
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22 years ago this morning, I got up, made coffee while I dressed, poured a cup for my trip to work. I did not watch morning TV or listen to radio on my drive in.
At work, I parked, got into an elevator with a co-worker with whom I exchanged morning pleasantries about my boring weekend. Another guy was there who looked at us rather oddly. When the elevator stopped to let him out, he asked us what we thought about what was going down in New York.
We looked at him in complete wonder. He stood in the door and filled us in on all that he had heard before coming to work.
Once we reached our floor, it was deadly quiet and many workers were huddled in a conference room with a TV screen showing the second WTC tower being slammed into.
Very surreal, horrifying and fascinating.
A decision by the County Board of Supervisors sent everyone home by noon.
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Monday....back to rehearsal tonight.....hoping that a couple of folks looked at their lines.
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Well 22 years ago, i was working in the Research & Statistics Division of the Indiana Dept. Of Labor.
I had read the paper and had the radio on.....suddenly.....the announcer said that a small plane had crashed into the Twin towers...and the station started playing soft music instead of the usual rock.
More bulletins came in.....one of the directors brought in a television set.....we could see it through her glass window.....then the other planes began to crash or lose communication.....
Very scary.
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We were in the middle of our two week run of The Odd Couple [I was playing Felix] and we had a brush up rehearsal that night.
I went...a few others didn't....the director said maybe we should cancel the second week....but I thought we should go on as planned and others agreed.
Many folks in our audiences that weekend thanked us for going on.
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TOD:
Keep Your Undershirt ON!!!!
That song was the hit of pre show music for THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG.
The sound man kept saying: "What is that crazy song? Is he saying undershirt on....keep it on.....full of sex....what is that crazy song?"
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And of course I learned about it here on HHW. The most educational site on all of the internet.
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Good morning, all.
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The trip to the airport was wonderful going down, and absolute HELL on the return - thanks to the DELUGE drenching Queens, the Bronx, and parts of Westchester - all of which would have been avoided had there not been the DELUGES earlier in the day delaying untold numbers of flights into NYC.
The Van Wyck Expressway is hell at any time, but the worst this time was the northern portions along Flushing Meadows and the approach to the Whitestone Bridge. The DELUGE was such that it was one of those times that even the idiots on the road slowed down to speeds at which we could take a pretty good guess at where the lane lines were, where the road was going, and what the signs were saying. We arrived home at 11pm instead of 9pm.
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Those crazy kids loved Arizona, though. Absolutely loved it.
DR Elmore -- I'd told them how you'd been enthused to hear they were going to Old Tucson and Tombstone and all, and they want you to know they really had the greatest time.
This was their first time in the Southwest and in any desert region at all. I know they look forward to a return and to seeing even more of it.
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Twenty-two years ago I'd been at work for less than an hour when I checked the news on my browser and saw the first few minutes of coverage about a plane hitting the north tower. Like so many, I assumed that some small plane had somehow blown it. Then the websites started freezing up from so many people logging on. We had no TV in our office, but I knew where there was one. Housemate Kristi worked in the same building and I walked down to her floor to see what they knew. We went into her boss's office where the TV was, just in time to see the second plane hit. My memory tells me we watched that one live, but I think I have a way to confirm or disprove that. I went back upstairs and told the people in our office what we knew so far, and by then we'd heard that the Pentagon had been hit as well. I think within that next hour the office building management called the employees from all the companies outside, fire-drill style, and it was decided that the building would close for the rest of the day. One reason for that was that the building is on a hill across the highway from the local airport, and at that point no one knew anything but that proximity to any airport or airplane could be a risk. We all went home, and at my house we settled in to watch the developing news for literally the rest of the day. I surfed channels, but my main choice was Peter Jennings and I didn't call it quits till midnight.
A side story is Kristi's brother who was working in one of the buildings across the West Side Highway from the towers, and how he had gotten away from there just in time and walked 40 or 50 blocks north to stay clear of it.
DR singdaw, where in Danbury was your office? Our building was Lee Farm Corporate Park across Route 7 from the Danbury Airport.
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I have always wanted to be a poseur! Or, at the very least, a POS.
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DR ChasSmith, I worked at Lee Farm for several years! But mainly in the campus on the top of the hill directly south of the Mall.
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Apple Ridge Road.
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We probably overapped.
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Small world.
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THREE
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Oh! Got it. That's the building(s) on the other side of the mall from us. I had never heard that it shared the Lee Farm name.
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DR ChasSmith - it doesn't. That building was the main campus, and for a time we used a portion of Lee Farm for overflow.
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I found the food at the Lee Farm commissary to be pretty good, but the prices exorbitant.
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It was hours later when we were finally able to track down my brother, who was supposed to be in the Towers that morning.
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Very good, Vixmom!
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Some joyous news: Mark Meadows may NOT move his Georgia trial to federal court.
Whew!!
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Those crazy kids loved Arizona, though. Absolutely loved it.
DR Elmore -- I'd told them how you'd been enthused to hear they were going to Old Tucson and Tombstone and all, and they want you to know they really had the greatest time.
This was their first time in the Southwest and in any desert region at all. I know they look forward to a return and to seeing even more of it.
I am so happy they had a good time!
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I had a good time with Joshie and brought home my next assignment: fix the strings for "In a Little While." The AAR driver this morning was a POS. When we got to City Center, he set my walker just far enough from the car door to frighten me about falling. Without waiting to help me, he returned to the driver's seat and left me to fend for myself. The driver back uptown was one of the best!
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I found the food at the Lee Farm commissary to be pretty good, but the prices exorbitant.
There were a few different vendors over the years who tried different types of things, and a couple of them were quite good. And yes, the prices always rose. I was there from 1989 to 2002. Kristi's company moved out of there at some point, and returned just a couple of years ago.
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I'm up, I'm up - maybe four or five hours of sporadic sleep. I was pretty much up every hour on the hour for thirty minutes.
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At whatever time in the morning on September 11, 2001, the phone rang and it was my long-time engineer Vinnie who said, "Are you watching?" I said, barely coherent, "No, sleeping, what's up?" He simply said, "It's the end of the world." I got up and watched, just in time to see the second plane hit. In a way, it WAS the end of the world.
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We were supposed to fly to NY to do two live recordings - Klea Blackhurst and Donna McKechnie - we cancelled of course and went a week later - very nerve-racking flights. And shortly thereafter my personal world had its own ending when I was ousted from my own label in what can only be called a coup. And shortly thereafter, this here site was created.
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I am enjoying listening to 70, Girls, 70.
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I am still going ahead with my participation in the Trail Talk about the 40th Anniversary of the Phoenix Theatre......even though as I have reported my friend Suzanne can no longer participate.
She was fine with Wednesday, Nov. 1 - but the Artistic Director changed it to Sunday, November 5...... It's being held after a matinee performance of whatever show is going on then.
It has been announced on the theeder website and I have not heard from any of my other friends about it.....we shall see what happens.
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In a bit I shall take my small bananas and head for rehearsal.
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Pray for Rosemary's Baby.
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And story with photos is now up on the theeder website.
https://putnamcountyplayhouse.com/mornings-at-seven-closes-the-season/
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BK, do you have a list of the songs you’ll be using in 70, Girls, 70?
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The two folks in the first photo are the line deniers - Linda had plenty of time to take that picture because they stood just like that without moving or talking for about six minutes on Thursday night.
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I am an Amy Irving fan, not that I have seen her in anything recently.
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I too liked Crossing Delancey.
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The house where my father lived when he was born was on Delancey Street, only in Philadelphia vs NY.
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When I walked Delancey Street in Philadelphia I found it to be beautiful area, only my father's address, along with a couple of other buildings, was now an elementary school.
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DR Vixmom was your brother's assistant ok?
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DR Vixmom, did your cousin call the company and thank them for not hiring him ;)
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From Vixmom:
The service was wonderful, though!
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Bad service in an empty restaurant is extra annoying.
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Wow, your service really was excellent.
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Good black bread is a treat.
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That was very nice of them to give you extra bread to take home. Did they say where the grandmother was from?
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DR Vixmom when do you plan to return to L’Addresse?
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Boom ditty boom.
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Finished prepping the script for 70, Girls, 70, so that's done.
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We didn’t turn the tv on in the house for at least a week
A very, very wise thing to do with a child in the house.
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Nice.
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I'm up. I'm up.
I awakened after four and took my early meds and just hopped back into bed and drifted off.
I had another night of a dream-a-thon, this one was as loony as the previous ones.
I'm over it.
I am glad you are over it. At least there is hope these dreams will go away once you are off the medications.
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Every morning, I live in hope that I heard on TV something that will reveal the worst possible news for MAGAmericans.
Instead, I hear more absolute insane ravings he made over the weekend.
By "worst possible news", I mean something that will absolutely prevent him from running for president.
The worst possible news for us would be something that would elevate him to martyrdom.
Sigh :(
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The trip to the airport was wonderful going down, and absolute HELL on the return - thanks to the DELUGE drenching Queens, the Bronx, and parts of Westchester - all of which would have been avoided had there not been the DELUGES earlier in the day delaying untold numbers of flights into NYC.
The Van Wyck Expressway is hell at any time, but the worst this time was the northern portions along Flushing Meadows and the approach to the Whitestone Bridge. The DELUGE was such that it was one of those times that even the idiots on the road slowed down to speeds at which we could take a pretty good guess at where the lane lines were, where the road was going, and what the signs were saying. We arrived home at 11pm instead of 9pm.
Groan. Thankfully you made it home safely.
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I have always wanted to be a poseur! Or, at the very least, a POS.
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At whatever time in the morning on September 11, 2001, the phone rang and it was my long-time engineer Vinnie who said, "Are you watching?" I said, barely coherent, "No, sleeping, what's up?" He simply said, "It's the end of the world." I got up and watched, just in time to see the second plane hit. In a way, it WAS the end of the world.
He woke you up very early. The second plane crashed at 9:03.
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I can't recall if our wakeup call was that early. Craig called and talked to Keith, then Keith woke me up.
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My first call was to my brother to ask about my niece. She called her mother after the first crash and was on the phone with her while watching the second crash. My niece was in a different building in viewing distance. It took until the end of the day to find out one of her roommates was ok.
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I had to call former DR TPunk to make sure she’d gotten to work. This was pre-cellphone era for us. We had just been dating a few months and she’d stayed over in Brooklyn but left for work after I did. When I reached her at her job in the Viacom Building in Times Square, she had absolutely no idea anything had happened. She came to my office and we had a surreal walk all the way up to her apt on 190th.
It was lucky she had left after me because it was Fashion Week that week. A friend of mine had come to town to sleep on my couch all day while working all night at Bryant Park. TPunk had passed him arriving at my place as she was leaving. So I was able to calm his wife who was calling frantically wanting to make sure he was ok. He slept the day away with no idea that anything had happened until I finally got him to pick up the phone at 5pm.
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I had a call from a woman in my book group asking if I was still hosting the meeting. I hadn't even thought about cancelling until she asked. She said she still wanted to have it so I said "come". I then called everyone else in the group to ask what they wanted to do. A few of them had seen the news and I had to tell them.
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It was a small group that day but we were all glad we still got together.
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And story with photos is now up on the theeder website.
https://putnamcountyplayhouse.com/mornings-at-seven-closes-the-season/
Very nice, Jrand!
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Yes, very nice DR Jrand.
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The M@7 photos look great.
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Busy day at work today.
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I don't have a lot to say.
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I shall shortly be on my way to re-ship a package and then rehearsal and then picking up some kind of MILD food.
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And story with photos is now up on the theeder website.
https://putnamcountyplayhouse.com/mornings-at-seven-closes-the-season/
I enjoyed that. Thanks!
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It is quiet here.
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The two folks in the first photo are the line deniers - Linda had plenty of time to take that picture because they stood just like that without moving or talking for about six minutes on Thursday night.
Sorry to hear that Jack
( full disclosure, your post made me laugh)
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Page FOUR???
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Two posts since I left at 4:00.
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Where in tarnation IS everyone.
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This will NOT do.
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People WILL be held accountable.
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Back from rehearsal and stopping at Jack in the Box.
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It is quiet here.
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I saw the production at Lincoln Center. I'd need to give it another listen. I like Trouble in Tahiti, which has been subsumed into the latter piece as flashbacks.
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DR Vixmom was your brother's assistant ok?
Yes she was in the midtown office with him, they had a television on with news at all times because they were a financial management firm.
Everyone in the tower’s office was okay because my brother called them and told them to evacuate and to follow the emergency plan that was set in place back in 1993 when the towers were bombed.
So by time the towers fell, they were all well away
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DR Vixmom, did your cousin call the company and thank them for not hiring him ;)
Probably not
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And story with photos is now up on the theeder website.
https://putnamcountyplayhouse.com/mornings-at-seven-closes-the-season/
A nice story and photos!
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DR Vixmom was your brother's assistant ok?
Yes she was in the midtown office with him, they had a television on with news at all times because they were a financial management firm.
Everyone in the tower’s office was okay because my brother called them and told them to evacuate and to follow the emergency plan that was set in place back in 1993 when the towers were bombed.
So by time the towers fell, they were all well away
Wow, good for your brother.
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What shall we talk about now?
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Very good, Vixmom!
Thank you! 2 was a very lucky choice
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DR Vixmom, did your cousin call the company and thank them for not hiring him ;)
Probably not
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What's next?
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What indeed.
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Popcorn is calling me.
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We must be intrepid explorers.
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'night
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We must mine the wit
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That was very nice of them to give you extra bread to take home. Did they say where the grandmother was from?
They didn’t. The server actually told me what was in the bread but I couldn’t understand his accent
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And extrapolate the giggles
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And bend the entendres
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DR Vixmom when do you plan to return to L’Addresse?
I do! I’ve already told my NJ friend who often joins me on my NY jaunts and she’s already excited to try. She was supposed to be with me yesterday but she suffers from migraines and the atmospheric pressure yesterday was giving her a blinding headache and she had to cancel
I just realized I missed the “when” in your question .
No idea. But hopefully not too far in the future
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And expose the euphemisms
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Batten down the hatches
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Foist the folderol
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Hoist the hilarity
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Stifle the sanguinity
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5...
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4...
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3...
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2...
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1...
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SIX!
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Do I hear seven?
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We didn’t turn the tv on in the house for at least a week
A very, very wise thing to do with a child in the house.
I didn’t want those images seared in her little mind. We didn’t bring in any newspapers either.
One of her classmates was the granddaughter of the NYC Fire Department Battalion Chief in charge of Special Operations.
The street I live in was renamed in his honor, as was our post office, which act required an act of Congress.
Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer were here for the ceremony.
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Not from me, alas.
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Good night, friends.
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Good night Singdaw!
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Howdy.
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I took my MacBook back tonight. What a mistake buying that was. Now, I need to find a laptop.
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I’ll wait until after my trip.
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I’m starting an Ida Lupino-directed movie called Outrage. It was an early film dealing with rape.
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The beginning is wonderful. The ominous music has just started though.
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I started listening to the new Stephen King. It’s called Holly, and his long-running character is investigating the disappearance of a young woman. She’s been kidnapped by a pair of old conservatives. It’s set during covid and it’s highly political.
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It’s also highly enjoyable.
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FWIW: I called the potluck organizer today and begged off from Wednesday's do. I barely trust myself to drive to the post office so doo-wacka-doo I feel after these drugs.
I hoped I'd become accustomed to them, but not yet.
It's only a potluck. Still, I might be mistaken for someone with tourettes if I bobbled something or knocked into chair.
Best to leave some things alone.
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I would love to "account" for my day, but nothing accountable happened. I had a nice nap at some point.
Am nearly ready for bed, just as soon as I take my final pills of the night.
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Continued vibes for DR RON PULLIAM.
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Thanks to all for the nice comments on the theeder story.
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I loved reading about DR VIXMOM's latest adventure.
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I also loved reading MR BK's comments in the notes about DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
It is a very atypical role for Miss Allison - she plays the good girl....the fiance of the hero. And she wears some nice 1955 couture clothes.....or at least clothes that look like they didn't come from Frederick's of Hollywood.
I agree with MR BK's assessment of the film....but kudos to Miss Allison.... DR ELMORE I don't believe she sneers once in the entire picture, if you can believe it.
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Rehearsal was fine tonight....lines dropped but everyone helped everyone out and we moved right along.
I have suddenly become MR RANDY wig stylist to the stars - two other actresses asked me for help with their wigs....so tomorrow I shall go early and see what I can do with these magic hands.
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Continued vibes for DR RON PULLIAM.
A double dose!
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Outrage was good but not great. It became a little melodramatic in the second half, but the first half was excellent.
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Now starting After Office Hours with Constance Bennett as a reporter and Clark Gable as her acerbic editor.
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Billie Burke and Henry Travers are in the supporting cast.
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But I may be fading.
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It’s been a long day.
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But let’s move on first.
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Only a few more.
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2
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1
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Seven!
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Heavenly seven!
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Mellifluous seven!
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Magniloquent seven!
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Marmoset seven!
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Marmite seven!
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Munchable seven!
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Muumuu seven!
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Money seven!
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Mumford seven!
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Mammy seven!
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Suddenly Seven is standing beside you!
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With sweet understanding
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With sweet understanding
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With sweet understanding
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Seven’s your friend!
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I should go to bed
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But I wonder if we can push forward
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Just a little
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Just a bit
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So I do
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What I can
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Bit by bit
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Inch by inch
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Man by…
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Well maybe I’m not that anxious for page 8
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Today I visited with WFO
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We got into a conversation about “the philosophy of math”
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I am still thinking about it
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Because I never thought about math that way
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Which explains why Bill was an extraordinary math professor for so many years
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And we are on page eight
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My work here is done
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With not one iota of help from BK I might add
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It is quiet here.
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7351.0;attach=18822)
I have that recording, as well as the original.
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I saw the production at Lincoln Center. I'd need to give it another listen. I like Trouble in Tahiti, which has been subsumed into the latter piece as flashbacks.
I really like Trouble in Tahiti. I have several recordings, as well as a couple of downloaded videos that were streamed on YouTube when everything was shut down.
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:)
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DR Vixmom was your brother's assistant ok?
Yes she was in the midtown office with him, they had a television on with news at all times because they were a financial management firm.
Everyone in the tower’s office was okay because my brother called them and told them to evacuate and to follow the emergency plan that was set in place back in 1993 when the towers were bombed.
So by time the towers fell, they were all well away
Amazing!
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We didn’t turn the tv on in the house for at least a week
A very, very wise thing to do with a child in the house.
I didn’t want those images seared in her little mind. We didn’t bring in any newspapers either.
One of her classmates was the granddaughter of the NYC Fire Department Battalion Chief in charge of Special Operations.
The street I live in was renamed in his honor, as was our post office, which act required an act of Congress.
Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer were here for the ceremony.
That's really cool!
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Wait...it really was renamed in his honor, not his memory, right?
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I started listening to the new Stephen King. It’s called Holly, and his long-running character is investigating the disappearance of a young woman. She’s been kidnapped by a pair of old conservatives. It’s set during covid and it’s highly political.
Interesting. I haven't read one of his books in years. :-\
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It’s also highly enjoyable.
That's always good!
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Gratuitous Post #222!! ;D
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Today, we ran act three, which at about 20 minutes or so is the longest act of the three.
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I have no spoken lines in act three.
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But we learned the incredibly simple choreography for the finale number, the title of which has escaped my brain.
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We ran the number a couple of times, then I and a few other people who don't sing/dance in any other number got to leave.
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I then went to my sister's to get her debit card so that I could go shopping for her at Costco.
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After shopping for her (and getting a wrong item ::) ), I shopped for myself at Fred Meyer and came home.
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And now, I having a leftover burrito in green (on purpose!) enchilada sauce.
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It's quite tasty.
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Sounds Dee-lish!
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Today I took my MIL for a medical procedure in Surrey, BC, and that went well so we went and each had a bowl of chili at a diner.
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Today I took my MIL for a medical procedure in Surrey, BC, and that went well so we went and each had a bowl of chili at a diner.
Nice! I have some leftover homemade chili from my mom...but it might be a little past its "best by" date. ::)
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I'll have to check it soonly.
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Sounds Dee-lish!
It was!
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AND I still have two of them left, but I'd better eat them soon because I've had them for a few days and I don't know how much longer they'll last.
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So, my character Chef Potts ("...and yes, that is my real name!") needs to be clean-shaven, so I trimmed and clipped all the hairs on my face.
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I'll do a full shave tomorrow after I shower.
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I know BK shaves and then showers, but I muchly prefer to shower then shave...to each their own. :)
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PAGE NINE DANCE!! ;D
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New notes are up.
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Up are new notes.
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I've seen them.
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I've read them.
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I wrote them.