Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on June 24, 2024, 12:12:15 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes changed their habit, and now it is time for you to post until the habitual cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: EXPIDICIOUS!
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And now - Dino at the piano.
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That was lovely music from the YouTube link, BK.
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And I can't believe that this actually happened:
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Who'da thunk it?? :D
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Good morning, all!
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I'm up, dressed, the cats are fed, and my oatmeal is cooling. As soon as I've finished kitty cleanup and made the bed, I need to vacuum. This place is a dump, mostly because my housekeeping has gone to hell since the 2020 surgery and I am physically unable to accomplish much, so I need to get it as presentable as p[ossible. The home healthcare nurse is coming this morning to evaluate my need for physical therapy at home. I'm hoping there's enough room to do physical therapy.
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DR Jeanne, I'm sorry about your real estate loss. Perhaps it means something better is coming along?
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And I can't believe that this actually happened:
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Congratulations!
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Good morning
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I must get going
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But first a Wordle
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Good morning, friends.
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Can I get a fish joke?
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Oh, wait. I did. :)
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Weird.
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Hope your appointment goes well, DR elmore3003.
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And I can't believe that this actually happened:
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Congratulations, DR George.
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Are we still on page one?
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Take Back the Lunch Break Day - is that in favor of the boss, or the worker
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or whichever person is celebrating the day?
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I'm up, dressed, the cats are fed, and my oatmeal is cooling. As soon as I've finished kitty cleanup and made the bed, I need to vacuum. This place is a dump, mostly because my housekeeping has gone to hell since the 2020 surgery and I am physically unable to accomplish much, so I need to get it as presentable as p[ossible. The home healthcare nurse is coming this morning to evaluate my need for physical therapy at home. I'm hoping there's enough room to do physical therapy.
Hoping the appointment goes well!
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Good point, DR Freddie.
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It's all in the perspective, isn't it?
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And the word of the day is: EXPIDICIOUS!
I'd never seen that spelling before.
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You learn new stuff every day on HHW!
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Lovely music from Yngve Skőld.
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Notes visited. Vamped.
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World peas.
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It's all in the perspective, isn't it?
Is there any celebration day that isn't all in the perspective?
I guess the answer to that question on perspective depends on how you look at it.
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For example, I'm seeing now that last two-sentence post could have been two posts
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World peas.
They look like jewelry on my screen.
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Martha Stewart is telling me I should make this:
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Or at least her email is.
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Good morning, all.
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Well, following six days of heat wave HELL (Friday evening and then yesterday for me were the HELL parts), today is breezy, and - like we always end up saying in these parts - like the proverbial first day of autumn. But this is truly the best ever of those days. Or one of the three or four best-of's in history that I can recall. The windows are open and it's a damned paradise.
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National Patch Day, eh? Like Dog and Briar? Or, like Paw-Paw?
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DR Elmore -- Regarding Encores! on Saturday, I want to add that Jeremy Clayton's playing is astounding. It has to be right up there with some of the most beautiful oboe playing I've known. I've heard him before, but this time I kept thinking "beautiful" and "magnificent" throughout.
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I have emailed to ask about a Live Feed or Zoom for the reading. I shall have the answer sometime today is my guess.
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I have emailed to ask about a Live Feed or Zoom for the reading. I shall have the answer sometime today is my guess.
Excellent, DR Jrand73. In the meantime, please make sure my reservation for Saturday gets used by someone. You never know, a reviewer from the Big Apple could be rushing to get there in time, and be in need of a seat at the last minute.
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I need to change my own food habits in similar ways to what BK proposes for himself.
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Today I have to go out for a few things, but this time it will be a damned pleasure.
For one thing, I have to replace yet another broken pair of reading glasses. But these are the cheap drugstore variety, and the hinges on those frames simply do not last forever. This I have learned over the past several months. Today I need a pair - and a backup pair - of the ones I use for just sitting and reading (as opposed to the ones for "music stand distance").
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When I'm at my next checkup with the ophthalmologist in a couple of months, I'll see about getting a decent pair or two that should actually be easier to take care of, and to repair if a screw or something goes missing.
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Good morning, all.
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I slept close to 10 hours and feel much better. I don’t know what the body will feel like when I start to move.
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Dietary change vibes for BK.
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I’ve been thinking of watching Brief Encounter again since you asked the David Lean question, BK.
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TOD
Wuthering Heights
Do I Hear a Waltz?/Time of the Cuckoo/Summertime
No Strings
Brief Encounter
Romeo and Juliet
Pygmalion
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I had a wonderful reunion with my cousins Saturday.
All but two were there: One is in hospital with pneumonia. The other I have never seen and other cousins haven't seen her since her mother's funeral. She was never "close" to our family like her father was.
It was a long day for me. When I woke up Saturday morning in the Hampton Inn at Wake Forest, NC, I had a text frm my cousin Joye (our host for the gathering) inviting me to join her and her family for breakfast at 8:30 a.m. Pancakes and sausage! I accepted.
I got there at about 8 a.m., and I did not leave until about 5 p.m. (I was first there and had to wait for everyone to leave so I could get out of the driveway.
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My trip up to Wake Forest was long and tedious. I hadn't driven that far, by myself, in 31 years.
I don't know why, but the trip there took six-and-a-half hours. I had several route options on my iPhone Google GPS app, and I elected the four-hour-forty-two minutes-option.
Coming back, I selected the same option and got hom in just a bit over five hours (although I lost about 20 minutes by missing an interstate exit and having to route around Wake Forest to get back to it.
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As you may have read a week ago, I have hearing aids.
I use my iPhone for GPS via a Google Maps app. It has always been an audible experience with a voice telling me what to do. When I got my hearing aids, which are Bluetooth enabled, I was getting that voice right through my hearing aids. It was great!!
Let me tell you that the trip going to Wake Forest was fraught with a lot of surprising noises, many of which seemed like they were coming from my car. I even thought I had a flat tire at one point. That was based on sound, not performance. I was also hearing other cars and trucks as they sped by.
Speeding was a surprise! In 60 mph zones most cars do 75-85 mph. In 70 mph zones, many cars do in excess of 90 mph and sometimes I think must be over 100 mph. Rattled my nerves, but I stayed in the right lane and did the posted limits.
I decided that my return trip would be quieter. I opted not to wear my hearing aids and departed the hotel parking lot. But my GPS did not talk to me. I was annoyed, but could hold the phone and see where to go and what turns to make. I missed a turn, however, and had to drive around Wake Forest to get back to it (it was an interestate exit).
Once I got on the interstate, i was a bit perplexed and bothered by the lack of an audible signal and stopped at the first rest area I came to. I thought that if I re-set my route the voice might come back.
As I sat in my car and fiddled with the phone, it dawned on me that all might be well if I put my hearing aids in my ears...because, you know...they are Bluetooth-enabled and my hearing aids had synched up with the phone. And VOILA! That was the fix. I could have turned the Bluetooh switch off on my phone, of course, but I figured I could adjust to the extra noises I was hearing on my trip.
I was a bit annoyed with myself for not thinking about that from the git-go, but am pleased I figured it out when I did.
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Saturday was a bit exhausting, but I was invigorated to be around my cousins who had always been fun to be around when I was growing up. Until I was in college, I visited with them several times a year with my folks. My dad loved his family and my mom loved being related to such a large family. My dad had seven siblings, and most lived in and around the small town of Aaron's Creek VA.
We were various ages. Some were the same age as my mom because my dad was the youngest in his family. His father dad when he was six, and he and my grandmother lived with a couple of married siblings until he was a grown man.
Still, many of use were close enough to the same ages to have shared some wonderful experiences and the memories were flowing all day during our get-together.
I am a bit sad about it, though, because I am quite certain it was the last time will see a few of them. All of us are over 70 years old. The eldest is 95 and in good health. One of her sisters is 91 and very frail. Joyce, the youngest of the three sisters, is 81. She's a pistol and always has been.
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TOD: The 1968 "Romeo and Juliet".
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I had a wonderful reunion with my cousins Saturday.
All but two were there: One is in hospital with pneumonia. The other I have never seen and other cousins haven't seen her since her mother's funeral. She was never "close" to our family like her father was.
It was a long day for me. When I woke up Saturday morning in the Hampton Inn at Wake Forest, NC, I had a text frm my cousin Joye (our host for the gathering) inviting me to join her and her family for breakfast at 8:30 a.m. Pancakes and sausage! I accepted.
I got there at about 8 a.m., and I did not leave until about 5 p.m. (I was first there and had to wait for everyone to leave so I could get out of the driveway.
Great to hear that the reunion was so worth going to!
Sorry to hear about the problems in traveling, though.
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TOD2:
Call Me By Your Name
Brokeback Mountain
Jean de Florette
Roman Holiday
Daniel Deronda
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Ron, I have a cousin who disappeared after her mother’s funeral. Since I haven’t seen the other cousins in a number of years, I might be a part of that list.
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Today would have been my dad’s 96th birthday.
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Today would have been my dad’s 96th birthday.
Vibes of comfort to you, John.
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A picture from his honeymoon in Venice
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Three!
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Thank you, Freddie.
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I love this idea of teaching a cat to play a piano.
https://laughingsquid.com/the-pet-piano/
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Just watched a horrifying episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents in which a man knows he has a poisonous snake in his bed. I’ll leave the rest to your imagination.
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Just watched a horrifying episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents in which a man knows he has a poisonous snake in his bed. I’ll leave the rest to your imagination.
Sounds even scarier than snakes on a plane!
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After Donald Sutherland died last week, I went to the library’s website to see what films of his they had. One was Hamlet at Elsinore, a Tv film of the play from 1964 with Christopher Plummer as Hamlet and Sutherland in a supporting role. Filmed at the actual castle. Should be fun.
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I'm up, I'm up - maybe five hours of sleep - been up since eight-thirty dealing with one thing after another.
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Ron, I have a cousin who disappeared after her mother’s funeral. Since I haven’t seen the other cousins in a number of years, I might be a part of that list.
Fran (the mysteriously absent cousin) is a friend on Facebook although she has never communicated back with me to anything I have posted to her. I know she is alive and well. Several of us tried calling and messaging her about the reunion, but to no avail. She did not reply, not even to voice mails.
Even when her mom and dad (my Uncle Andy and Aunt Louise) were living, she did not communicate with anyone else in her dad's family.
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DR JOHN G that's a nice photo.
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DR RON PULLIAM I was happy to read about your trip and that you had so much fun.
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I forgot that the theatre office is closed from business on Mondays...so I won't get my answer until tomorrow sometime.
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Jrand, do the rules for the actors allow for a video to be made, for you to help promote the play?
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Monday afternoon greetings! We did, indeed, venture out today to do some errands and eat lunch in a restaurant. Eighty degrees is tolerable if the humidity is low, which it is today.
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Please sign this petition:
https://www.idausa.org/campaign/justice-for-animals/latest-news/cats-die-when-surrendered-to-florida-shelter/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2U4m0uV1W1Eivte42VUzMPtQEw9a8PxcLOdfwgEPFf93dtYP5wtVeqUPw_aem_IlRxRgE2LAk_x9G3QgND8g
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Very frustrating day.
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Very frustrating day.
Vibes the day gets better!
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I ventured out only once today...to the post office and to a grocery store.
It is 99 degrees right now!!! Clear skies!!! Hot, HOT, HOT! Just walking out the door for minute feels like a hot overn.
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The morning felt great, then the day turned so-so when I ran my errands later. By then it was feeling just a little too warm again out there in the world, even though it was only 75. And then BJ's air pump for the tires was barely working, and I felt taken to the cleaners by what the cleaners was charging for a suit and three shirts. Then someone asked for an emergency audition track, and I somehow got it just decent enough in one take to send it off, so that's a relief. I still have to take the trash down to the road, and I'll be damned if it hasn't started sprinkling, but it actually makes the air smell even nicer so what am I, complaining? It'll be warmer again over the next two days, so let's enjoy the rest of this one. And isn't it just about cocktail hour?
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Yep, 88 tomorrow and 90 on Wednesday, then we'll get another three days of 70s.
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And isn't it just about cocktail hour?
It's 5 o'clock somewhere!
Oh wait, it's 5:05 here! A milk shake is in order!
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Starting Hamlet. Robert Shaw is Claudius. Michael Caine is there also, possibly as Horatio.
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I have just made the leaven. Tomorrow I make the bread.
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I shall find out tomorrow hopefully DR FREDDIE.
In a moment I shall be on my way to the Monday PP rehearsal......for what it's worth.
I am sure I will get some notes from the leading lady....and line readings and comments about my costumes as well....and probably the way I park my car.
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Gay cat Badger and his sister Elie are my new obsession:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/704324825085112
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DR Ron - glad you enjoyed your reunion. It was fun reading about it.
And it sounds like it turned out better than this one:
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Enjoyed your photos, DR John G.
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But I think I'll skip the Hitchcock episode.
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One more.
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PAGE FOUR
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Ha!
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Good evening!
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Wordle: 6/6
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And I can't believe that this actually happened:
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Congrats, DR George!
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Really enjoying this Hamlet. The actors are all into making the dialogue sound as conversational as possible. Michael Caine is Horatio. Surgerland is Fortinbras, a name that sounds like a teenager’s joke. And yes, I laughed at it when I was a teenager.
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Why does A Little Night Music need a new libretto?
https://playbill.com/article/photos-see-ruthie-ann-miles-marsha-mason-more-rehearse-for-a-little-night-music-in-concert
Especially one from John Doyle?
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Hamlet has come to an end. Plummer had me teary-eyed at the end. First time that’s happened with a play I have read again and again since the eighth grade. Caine was all treary too as Horatio. His “flights of angels” line was marked by tears rolling down his face and sobs breaking in his voice. Highly emotional.
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DR Vixmom a vegetarian portobello burger usually means that the thick portobello is a substitue for a burger.
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And I can't believe that this actually happened:
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CONGRATS!
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World peas.
They look like jewelry on my screen.
:o They look like peas to me.
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Well, following six days of heat wave HELL (Friday evening and then yesterday for me were the HELL parts), today is breezy, and - like we always end up saying in these parts - like the proverbial first day of autumn. But this is truly the best ever of those days. Or one of the three or four best-of's in history that I can recall. The windows are open and it's a damned paradise.
Lovely.
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Today would have been my dad’s 96th birthday.
Sending hugs.
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A picture from his honeymoon in Venice
Great photo.
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I shall find out tomorrow hopefully DR FREDDIE.
In a moment I shall be on my way to the Monday PP rehearsal......for what it's worth.
I am sure I will get some notes from the leading lady....and line readings and comments about my costumes as well....and probably the way I park my car.
;D Coping with the leading lady vibes.
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DR Ron I enjoyed reading about your reunion and am glad you had a good time, and extended family time.
I suggest talking to your audiologist about the issues you experience. He likely can tweak the program on your hearing aids to improve the sound.
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I enjoyed my book discussion gathering this afternoon. Since I had to be there at 4:00 it motivated me to hussle and pack my suitcase.
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We aren't leaving until Wednesday, however, tomorrow I need to clean and do laundry.
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TOD:
Casablance, depending if you consider it a happy ending or not.
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'night
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And I can't believe that this actually happened:
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Congratulations!
Thanks, Vixmom!
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What is a cat's favorite color?
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Purrple.
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Why are cats afraid of trees?
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Because of their bark.
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How do cats resolve an argument?
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And I can't believe that this actually happened:
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Congratulations, DR George.
Thanks, Singdaw!
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They hiss and make up.
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One more.
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PAGE FIVE
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Why are cats such bad storytellers?
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They only have one tail.
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Why do cats have minty breath?
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They use mousewash.
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What's the unluckiest kind of cat?
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A catastrophe.
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What is a cat's favorite movie?
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The Sound of Mewsic.
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I hate what DR Jrand73 is going through, but I kind of love hearing about the Leading Lady's bad behavior.
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Some people are just so unware of their own deficiencies.
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They don't know that they don't know.
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Like some of the bad auditions on American Idol.
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Unless those are staged for the camera.
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Which is a possibility.
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Thanks for sharing the cat/piano video, DR John G.
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Only half way to page six.
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I'm not gonna make it.
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Good night, friends.
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I watched a 90-minute interview with Christopher Plummer after watching Hamlet at Elsinore. It was fun not just because he had great stories but because it was filmed in Sarasota where I used to live.
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Starting Space Cowboys now, which I have never seen. I usually don’t like more recent movies Clint Eastwood has directed, but I love James Garner, Tommy Lee Jones and Donald Sutherland.
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So hot in the house - finally had to turn on the air. I'll get it cooled down to 74 and hope it stays there - currently 81 inside and I don't even want to know about outside.
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Don't know if I feel like watching anything.
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I’m calling it a night after a half hour of Space Cowboys. Great cast. Cliched script. Lazy direction. I’ll finish it tomorrow.
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Martha Stewart is telling me I should make this:
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7638.0;attach=22371)
Yes, please do! And then ship a piece (or three) to me! ;D
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Auditions are going well...so far. Only two more, then we're done for tonight. :)
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And we're done!
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It took a while because one of the auditioners had signed up for the 9:00 time slot, but the otherwise last person was at 8:20 or so, so they called him to see if he could get there earlier, and he was able to get there earlier.
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After the auditions were over, the director and the theater owners (a very nice husband and wife) and I chatted for a bit, then we left.
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I've been sitting in my car, ketchuping on things, but now I have to leave and hie myself to the environs of Tumwater and home. :)
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s i x ! ! ! ! ! !
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And now, I'm off to home!
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Hello and good evening and goodnight.
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George left for home at 9:45. And here it is 11:51. So, where the HELL is he?
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Certainly not here.
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Nooooo, why be here when you can be stuffing your face with jalapeño peppers.
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This is sadly the new normal.
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Page six is ridic.
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And not very far.
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I do think that George WILL be held accountable.
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In a big way.
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Think I'll take a quick shower before posting the new notes.
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Perhaps George will show up and regale us with the tale of this two hour and five minute drive home.
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And if it didn't take two hours and five minutes, then where the HELL is he?
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And if it didn't take two hours and five minutes, then where the HELL is he?
I was organizing some boxes of stuff that needed organizing.
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I had a McDonald's Quarter Pounder and a diet Coke on my way home from Tacoma.
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The Quarter Pounder was cooked fresh and was quite tasty. :)
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The McDonald's diet Coke is always quite tasty.
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I need to continue the organizing tomorrow.
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One thing I found was a VHS tape of the TV version of Ain't Misbehavin' that I must've gotten from eBay back in the '90s because it has the kind of label that I've never made.
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Before I left for Tacoma, I set my DVD burner to record the VHS tape.
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I don't think I needed to do that because the whole show is on YouTube here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=yMJDt11HoZgTKleg&v=gE8_MxJCsqg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=yMJDt11HoZgTKleg&v=gE8_MxJCsqg)
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I'll have to compare them to see which has a better quality.
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I also found VHS tapes of two different productions of the Cinderella ballet.
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One is the traditional version by the San Francisco Ballet Company, and the other is the Paris Opera Ballet Company (or something like that) with choreography by Rudolf Nureyev.
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Nice shower.
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George finally showed up.
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And yet, we're still on page six.
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Startling, when you think about it.
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I thought about it.
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It was startling.
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See?