Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on March 16, 2024, 12:08:38 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were weirdly weird, and now it is time for you to post until the weirdly weird cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: SIMPATICO!
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Yesterday's day of posts is still open. ::)
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I guess BK forgot. ;)
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A Very Happy Birthday to BK's one and only genuine original Darling Daughter!
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Topic of the Day: not a fan of steaks. :P
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Good morning, friends.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY to BK's DD!
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This day is already flying by like a gazelle playing musical spoons.
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~~~CONTINUED GET-WELL VIBES~~~ for DR Rodzinski!!!!!
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Is today his travel day?
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Something must be wrong with my tickets. I didn't win the MegaMillions drawing last night.
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Is this the reference in On the Twentieth Century (the musical)?
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TOD: I don't eat steak very often, but when I do, I love it medium-rare with horseradish sauce. And a baked potato.
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Good morning, all!
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I had a night full of weird dreams, but I remember bits of two of them this morning. In the first, I had taken under my wing a young, abused boy with no family. This kid had done something to put himself in danger, and I was sitting in a van with the kid and a friend in the parking lot of a Middletown, Ohio, restaurant to negotiate.
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The later dream was another Drama Book Shop epic with customers waiting for scripts in a late Samuel French delivery and maintenance work on the back door.
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I have no plans for today. I may step out to post a check, but I have no plans beyond that.
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Good morning, all.
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I love many kinds of steak done in various ways, with varying types of sauces or with none at all, usually medium rare, but there’s a lot of variety in how steak can be cooked and served, so…
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Today is the closing double header for CARRIE, so I will be out all day.
Tonight I leave everything in the car to load in for a MATILDA double header set of rehearsals tomorrow, and I’ll be out all day for that.
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A Very Happy Birthday to BK's one and only genuine original Darling Daughter!
Ditto!
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Because of all this, my multi-year run of traditional St. Patrick’s Day cooking is completely broken. I’ll make up for it by preparing a corned beef feast in a couple of weeks. Nobody takes care over that like I do, if I say so myself, and it’ll be worth the wait. It can be our Easter feast. Or something.
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Happy Birthday wishes for the Darling Daughter!
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I have never been much of a steak eater. I'm guessing my last steak was nearly fifty years ago when I worked in Middletown for an office supplies store. Several of my colleagues and I would go to a Ponderosa (I think) for a nice lunch. I looked forward more for the salad and baked potato than the steak.
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Happy happy birthday to BK's Darling Daughter!
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Today is the closing double header for CARRIE, so I will be out all day.
Tonight I leave everything in the car to load in for a MATILDA double header set of rehearsals tomorrow, and I’ll be out all day for that.
Happy closing night to Chas!
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Something must be wrong with my tickets. I didn't win the MegaMillions drawing last night.
You go back there and tell them to give you the winning tickets! It's only right!
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Page 2!
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BK write last night: "There is no way we can still be on this silly page - some serious gaslighting going on."
Maybe some of the 45 guests viewing the board would know!
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Good morning, all.
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Happy birthday to BK’s Darling Daughter!
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And happy birthday to my sister, Linda!
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TOD:
I prefer to grill my own steaks. I love a thick-cut strip or ribeye coated in Montreal steak seasoning and grill for 5 minutes on each side for a perfect medium rare. Costco’s regular, not prime, cuts were an old reliable. But I haven’t grilled in years. And since I am on this diabetes med, I doubt I could eat more than four ounces of meat in one sitting.
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I’m not big on reheating steaks.
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I do love steak and eggs for breakfast.
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And I do like steak sauces, Worcestershire, Heinz 57, A-1, brown sauce. They really can help a less-than-tender T-bone.
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OK, I am hungry now.
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But the day calls.
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The best steaks I ever ate were ones grilled by my dad.
That said, I love/adore/crave steaks at different times.
My favorites are rib eye, filet and New York strip. The latter, especially, I love served with a wedge of lemon. I squeeze the lemon onto the steak and it complements the steak beautifully. But this is true only of the strip steak for some reason. (I learned to eat strips this way in Italy).
I prefer my steaks medium rare, but you must be careful in the ordering of medium rare because some chefs think it means to brown it on both sides but to serve it bloody. That's not for me. I like the meat to be pink...borderline red but not oozing blood.
As accoutrements, baked potatoes are great, but I also love a vegetable like asparagus to be served.
I have enjoyed, in years past, a filet smothered in mushrooms.
Rib eye cuts in restaurants tend to be thinner and thinner thanks to the high costs of beef. Of course, you buy the steaks by the ounce on most menus, but the prices are out of sight most of the time.
I can buy some seriously thick cuts of rib eye, strip steaks, etc., at CostCo or Sam's Club. Expensive but not compared to what restaurants charge. I prefer my steaks just a little over half an inch thick.
There is one cut of beef I once enjoyed in a restaurant in San Francisco. It wasn't prohibitively expensive, either. It was "tournedos of beef" served on a bed of goose liver pate on toast. It came with a green side salad. This steak was about two inches thick and three inches in diameter. How they managed to cook it to perfection has eluded me all these years.
I have only once found a cut of meat that thick and tried to cook it, but I could not get it right.
While waiting at the table for that tournedos of beef, I had the best margarita I ever drank. Happily, the meal arrived before I would be unable to eat it.
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When I grill my own steak, after I remove it from the grill, I let the steak sit on a plate and put a pat or two of butter on top.
After a few minutes, I dig in.
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Today looks to be pleasant and warm.
We got into the 80s yesterday.
Strangest March i have ever experienced.
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And happy birthday to my sister, Linda!
Ditto!
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BK has inspired me! I don't own that huge Ormandy set, biut I do have his 12-disc Tchaikovsky set I purchased several years ago, and I am downloading all of it into my iTunes this morning. I am, up to Disc 7, the Manfred Symphony.
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Who doesn't need a stacking silicone avocado?
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And happy birthday to my sister, Linda!
Happy birthday wishes to Linda!
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Glad for the arrival of BK's modern major miracle.
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Happy Birthday to the DS of DR John G.!!!!!
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Happy Birthday to the DD of MR BK.
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Happy Birthday to the sister of DR JOHN G.
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I like steak.....usually broil them..... Rib eye and sirloin are probably the ones I buy most often.
Medium well.......with French Fries.
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Purdue in the Big Ten semifinals at 1 p.m. on CBS.
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Happy birthday to BK’s DD
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Happy Birthday to John’s DS
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I love steak…medium rare with just salt thank you very much. No sauce to distract from the taste of the meat.
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Jacqueline Susann was a keto fan before it was possible. Her menfolk always ate steaks and a salad, never a potato.
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The rains have picked up. And the thunder has returned. Naturally I am on the south side of town, waiting for friends. I think breakfast is in order.
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Three!
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DR JohnG, have you ever seen the movie Evil Under the Sun? I watched it last night. John Lanchberry, music director of the Royal Ballet and arranger of some of my favorite ballet scores (La Fille mal Gardee and The Merry Widow), based the film score on Cole Porter songs. It's fun!
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I love that movie, Elmore. Diana Rigg! Maggie Smith!
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Bruce, to your Darling Daughter,
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And happy birthday to my sister, Linda!
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Good morning.
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I saw another thing I thought you should bake, DR Laura - but I can't remember now what it was.
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...and then I
wrote baked...
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I rarely cook steak at home
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But when I go out to the Texas Roadhouse I will have their 6 Oz sirloin
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If I go to a fancy steakhouse ( for a special occasion or a work do) I generally will order a filet mignon
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I once had steak Diane , back when Vixdad and I were first engaged, at a tiny restaurant that no longer exists.
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They cooked it and sliced it table side
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That was absolutely delicious
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Maybe I’ll try the connections game
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Cute park bench
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Connections
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TOD: I can't remember the last time I've had a real steak. My DH sometimes buys things he tries to cook as steak, but they are tough and not worth eating.
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I don't know how dry that would really keep you, though.
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I am no good at that Connections game.
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Today is the closing double header for CARRIE, so I will be out all day.
Tonight I leave everything in the car to load in for a MATILDA double header set of rehearsals tomorrow, and I’ll be out all day for that.
~~~Break Legs Vibes for ChasSmith!!~~~
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And happy birthday to my sister, Linda!
A Very Happy Birthday to Linda!! :D
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TOD: I have 3 favorite steak preparations:
1) Florentine-style, a porterhouse or T-Bone grilled with garlic smeared on the bone
2) Sirloin strips pan-broiled on a bed of salt, a James Beard recipe
3) Steak au poivre, complete with flaming brandy or bourbon
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But we tend to only have steak on patriotic summer holidays like Memorial Day, 4th of July, and Labor Day.
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Happy birthday to all who celebrate!
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Cute park bench
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7538.0;attach=21335)
That is cute! ;D
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I don't know how dry that would really keep you, though.
I suppose it might be better than nothing in a downpour, or it can offer some shade in the sun.
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I agree, it is cute.
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I am no good at that Connections game.
I didn’t get it yesterday
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I also love Evil Under The Sun.
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4our!!!!
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Saturday afternoon greetings! My week ended with a couple of reunions with former co-workers from Dayton Metro Library. Sue came to see our new house on Thursday, then we spent the day exploring Lebanon (Ohio).
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Yesterday I met Mimi for lunch in a suburb that’s halfway between her Cincinnati home and ours. Good company, disgusting restaurant :P
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I'm up, I'm up and have been up since eight. Four hours of sleep.
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I already wrote three pages, so I'm swinging away.
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I love steak…medium rare with just salt thank you very much. No sauce to distract from the taste of the meat.
I agree with DR Vixmom - no fancy spices or sauces. I like to buy filets, no more than 1” thick, and wrap them in bacon secured with 3 toothpicks. They kind of look like Sputnik. Broil or cook on charcoal grill and serve with baked potatoes and a green veggie.
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Happiest of birthdays to BK’s Darling Daughter and to DR John G’s sister, who I assume is also darling.
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Saturday afternoon greetings! My week ended with a couple of reunions with former co-workers from Dayton Metro Library. Sue came to see our new house on Thursday, then we spent the day exploring Lebanon (Ohio).
Benjamin Kritzer had a meal at the Golden Lamb.
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Cute park bench
Love that!
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Yesterday I met Mimi for lunch in a suburb that’s halfway between her Cincinnati home and ours. Good company, disgusting restaurant :P
:) for the company
:( for the restaurant
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Saturday afternoon greetings! My week ended with a couple of reunions with former co-workers from Dayton Metro Library. Sue came to see our new house on Thursday, then we spent the day exploring Lebanon (Ohio).
Benjamin Kritzer had a meal at the Golden Lamb.
Sue and I ate at the Village Ice Cream Parlor, filming site for 2 movies - Harper Valley PTA and Milk Money. Also a favorite dining spot of Neil Armstrong who resided on a farm nearby.
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Yesterday I met Mimi for lunch in a suburb that’s halfway between her Cincinnati home and ours. Good company, disgusting restaurant :P
Better than the other way around ;)
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Saturday afternoon greetings! My week ended with a couple of reunions with former co-workers from Dayton Metro Library. Sue came to see our new house on Thursday, then we spent the day exploring Lebanon (Ohio).
Benjamin Kritzer had a meal at the Golden Lamb.
Sue and I ate at the Village Ice Cream Parlor, filming site for 2 movies - Harper Valley PTA and Milk Money. Also a favorite dining spot of Neil Armstrong who resided on a farm nearby.
Good company and good food :)
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Growing up we had a bar in our dining room and behind the bar, against the wall that was the backside of our living room fireplace, was a built in gas grill. I never had a better steak than those cooked on that grill.
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When I think of a steak I immediately think baked potato with loads of sour cream and chives. It is that loaded baked potato I miss, not steak which I never craved to begin with.
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Yesterday I met Mimi for lunch in a suburb that’s halfway between her Cincinnati home and ours. Good company, disgusting restaurant :P
:) for the company
:( for the restaurant
Ditto and ditto!
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I don't know (and I didn't search to find out) if this had been posted already, but someone in the audience filmed the entire original Broadway production of The Rink!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=p4LJPWn7YzFGPof6&v=QxJstIozp60 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=p4LJPWn7YzFGPof6&v=QxJstIozp60)
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I don't know (and I didn't search to find out) if this had been posted already, but someone in the audience filmed the entire original Broadway production of The Rink!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=p4LJPWn7YzFGPof6&v=QxJstIozp60 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=p4LJPWn7YzFGPof6&v=QxJstIozp60)
Wow!
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Food arrived and has been eaten. Black Angus - an ad came up on Facebook, I clicked on it and found the Burbank branch and they had a nice discount AND free delivery - so I had a little six-ounce New York and four crispy shrimp, with free sides of scalloped potatoes and broccoli. Total calories 1000 and boy, am I full.
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Listening to the Ormandy performance of Carmina Burana. There may be better ones (Eugen Joachum's is the best thought of, I think, and it is terrific) but this one is classic Ormandy, I like the singers and chorus. The aesthete and snooty prig David Hurwitz is an Ormandy fan but really doesn't care for the Carmina by him. I can't stand him, really.
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Loading discs 51 through 60.
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Saturday afternoon greetings! My week ended with a couple of reunions with former co-workers from Dayton Metro Library. Sue came to see our new house on Thursday, then we spent the day exploring Lebanon (Ohio).
Benjamin Kritzer had a meal at the Golden Lamb.
So did DR Jane and Keith, several years ago with Richard and me.
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We enjoyed our company, the meal, and the historal building.
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Nice photo DR JANE.
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Thank you, and a very nice memory.
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Nice photo DR JANE.
Ditto. I love the photo!
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Thank you Freddie.
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That photo was taken in April, 2014. We saw Bryan in Cleveland while he was doing his residency. While there we went to the Music Hall of Fame. On our drive out of town we met DR Ginny & Richard for lunch. Then we drove to Georgetown, Kentucky to visit friends, and then on to Craig before flying home.
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Yes, popcorn is happening tonight.
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FIVE!
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'night
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Goodnight, Jane!
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Since we did not have pie on pi day I decided to make pie for dinner tonight
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Chicken and mushroom pie
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Not particularly pretty….but it was yummy
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Great photo, DR Jane!
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I don't know if you noticed, but there is an animal photobombing you.
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Nice pie, DR vixmom.
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Are ultra-thin houses a new fad?
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This dog's bowl also waters the plants.
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Fading fast.
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Hope DR John G.'s fellow dancers enjoyed the sesame noodles.
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Good night, friends.
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Good evening.
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Today we saw the tour of the Michael Jackson musical.
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The last show of the season is Peter Pan in June.
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Today we saw the tour of the Michael Jackson musical.
Did you enjoy it?
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We enjoyed our company, the meal, and the historal building.
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7538.0;attach=21337)
Great picture! I love Keith's halo! ;)
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Are ultra-thin houses a new fad?
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7538.0;attach=21343)
On purpose?? :o
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I've heard of awkwardly sized places being repurposed as thin buildings, but not deliberately built that way. :-\
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This dog's bowl also waters the plants.
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7538.0;attach=21345)
That's a pretty cool idea.
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Today we saw the tour of the Michael Jackson musical.
Did you enjoy it?
That's the important part. I don't really have any interest in seeing it, but I don't doubt that I'd enjoy it if I had a free ticket.
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That photo was taken in April, 2014. We saw Bryan in Cleveland while he was doing his residency. While there we went to the Music Hall of Fame. On our drive out of town we met DR Ginny & Richard for lunch. Then we drove to Georgetown, Kentucky to visit friends, and then on to Craig before flying home.
Almost 10 years ago!
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where’s everyone?
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Even BK is MIA
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I have no news
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I’ve just been dozing
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I hope everyone else is out having a more adventurous Sarurday
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Now we're down to page five???
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Most unseemly.
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Now we're down to page six???
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Slim pickin's around these here parts.
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Watched a terrible motion picture and got the bad taste out of my mouth by watching a Jack Benny Show with Gary Cooper as guest star.
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Have to write notes soon, but will try to write another page or two first.
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Tonight, I ushered for the Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella competition at the WCPA.
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Aside from the great (usually) singing, it's just a fun evening.
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There eight groups this year, and sadly, my favorite group didn't win. :-\
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The group that won overall and audience favorite, was a Christian group from Utah.
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They were good, but I didn't feel like they had the edge to be the winner.
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Obviously, I was wrong. ::)
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So, in addition to seeing great (usually ;) ) vocalists performing great (for the most part) music is the audience participation aspect of the evening.
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Not the results, but the process.
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What happens is that there are boxes in several stations around the Center, one box for each performing group at each station, so tonight, there were a set of eight boxes in three different places.
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And to vote, people can either put their tickets in the box for the group that they would like to vote for, or there's some other way to vote if you had electronic (PDF) tickets.
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You vote during intermission, and once that's over, people from Masterworks Choral Ensemble (the group that hosts the event) combine all the tickets for each group from the various locations, and they count all the votes for each group to get the audience favorite.
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Once that's all done and they have the audience favorite, the tickets are all recycled.
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I didn't vote because I didn't hear them.
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Listening to Bach.
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But Bach is certainly not listening to me.
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Where'd George go?
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Eating a burrito in a rabbit hole?
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SO, on the back of every printed WCPA ticket (but not the e-mailed electronic tickets) is a coupon for $1 off a half sub or $2 off a whole sub from Meconi's Italian Subs (https://www.meconissubs.com/)
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That doesn't sound right.
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That sounds like a Randy Vicar story.
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Where'd George go?
Are you not paying attention?? I'm extemporizing about my evening!
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I assume you stopped at Meconi's and got the sub?
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Extemporize away.
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I collect these tickets because I live two blocks from the Tumwater Meconi's and I love their subs.
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I assume you stopped at Meconi's and got the sub?
Not tonight. They close at 7:00 pm, and are closed all day Sunday.
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So, extemporize already.
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I do not care for page seven.
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Anyway, the pile on the left are the tickets that I'd had so far, and the pile on the right are the tickets that I got just tonight!
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I just perused the Meconi's menu and I must say it looks great and now I want the salami and capicola sub. Does any service do same day shipping???
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Their salads look great, too.
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And since the coupons on the backs of the tickets never expire, I'll be able to save a dollar or two (depending on what size sub I get) for each sub for YEARS!!
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I just perused the Meconi's menu and I must say it looks great and now I want the salami and capicola sub. Does any service do same day shipping???
Probably not Meconi's.
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...unless you were local.
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And since the coupons on the backs of the tickets never expire, I'll be able to save a dollar or two (depending on what size sub I get) for each sub for YEARS!!
FYI, I also share the coupons with friend, family and co-workers all the time, so I don't hoard the coupons.
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I specifically get them to share. :)
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So, that was my evening.
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Fed Ex does same day delivery from Tumwater to here.
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Hmmm.
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And since tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day, this is the shirt that I wore tonight: