Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on July 22, 2024, 12:08:47 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were stuffed to the gills, and now it is time for you to post until the stuffed cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: BONUS!
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And now - Dino at the piano.
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DARN!! I was just about to get to page eight!
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Notes stuffed. Gilled.
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So close to 8! Now forever away.
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Cats. Now and forever at the Winter Garden.
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Didn’t turn out to be true.
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One positive is that in waiting until after the RNC, those clowns wasted all their hot air and unchecked media time on Joe.
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One positive is that in waiting until after the RNC, those clowns wasted all their hot air and unchecked media time on Joe.
I watched another video last night that mentioned that and wondered if that was deliberate. ;)
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Good morning, friends.
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And others.
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Who decides these things?
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Good morning, all!
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I need more sleep. I was up too late watching the Kamala Harris discussions on MSNBC.
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DR Jeanne, I thought the country was ready for a woman president in 2016. I think Clinton would have won but for that idiot FBI email brouhaha. So, much as I will miss Joe, I'm ready to see a woman beat Trump's fat orange ass.
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Last night I dreamed that our DR George and I were in a library basement reading back issues of Films in Review and looking for Sondheim's reviews.
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I have no plans for today beyond my usual housekeeping and basement trip. I may do laundry tomorrow; Stella once again used the bathroom rug for the litter box. I may was the bedding at the same time, depending on my energy today
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Monday morning greetings! It’s rainy and gloomy here today - perfect for welcoming a certain vice-presidential candidate for his “homecoming” rally :P
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Well done!
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Connections
Puzzle #407
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Oh my I do love beef
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Rare filet mignon with some sautéed mushrooms accompanied by scallops in a sherry cream sauce is my idea of heaven
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Today is Vixdad’s birthday
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Unfortunately we are both working
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Happy Birthday to Vixdad!
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Well wordle and work
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Around 1981 film director John Schlesinger staged Offenbach's wonderful Les Contes d'Hoffmann for Placido Domingo and the Royal Opera. The DVD is probably my favorite staging of the opera. I do love the Michael Powell film, but it cuts about a quarter of the score. Both the Schlessinger staging and the film catchg more of the gothic and tragic qualities than any other staging I've seen live or on video.
So, around 2016, the Royal Opera restaged the production, and last night I watched the new DVD. The cast is good, although Thomas Hampson, a singer I really like, doesn't really have the low notes for the evil genius and his disguises. I thought the singer playing Olympia, the mechanical doll, was sloppy in her coloratura but she acted the role well. The Antonia, Sonya Yoncheva, was superb. Vittorio Grigolo and Kate Lindsey, as Hoffmann and Nicklausse, were fantastic.
The 1981 staging used the traditional 1904 score published by Choudens with Raoul Gunsbourg's "finalization" of the Venice act. Sin ce the second half, more of Offenbach's opriginal scores from 1880 have turned up, and this new Royal Opera included some music I had nevere heard before, like the Violin aria for Nicklausse in the Antonia act.
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I'm not a red meat person except for ground beef in pasta sauce or other foodstuffs. I do love ham, but my heart belon gs to chicken and seafoods.
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One positive is that in waiting until after the RNC, those clowns wasted all their hot air and unchecked media time on Joe.
Could that have been intentional?
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One positive is that in waiting until after the RNC, those clowns wasted all their hot air and unchecked media time on Joe.
Could that have been intentional?
I guess George just asked that. I'll try to find some of those videos where they discuss that question.
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Monday morning greetings! It’s rainy and gloomy here today - perfect for welcoming a certain vice-presidential candidate for his “homecoming” rally :P
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Today is Vixdad’s birthday
Happy birthday to Vixdad!
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TOD: My favorite beef dish from restaurants recently has been the Sloppy Joe from Schnipper's in Times Square (consistently a classy and tasty concoction despite the name)
On a fast food level, would the McRib count as a meat dish?
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, vixdad!!!!!!
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Good morning, all.
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Meat.
I love it.
It loves me.
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DR Elmore, I didn't know about that Schlesinger-directed Hoffmann!
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Ladies and gentlemen, it's Monday.
I fervently hope it won't turn out to be "a Monday". Just Monday will do, thanks.
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Should be a nice day here again, with a high of around 83.
Starting tonight, there's rain coming for the next couple of days. But we're "looking at" a nice clear weekend after that. Which I hope does come to pass, for the sake of the outdoor theeder which opens Grease on Friday. But they could have a rough go of it during their tech week.
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Good morning, all.
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Slept well. Dreamt I was assigned to write about a family getting a Habitat for Humanity house. Instead of a traditional family, they were all philharmonic musicians.
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A thick slab o’ steak coated in Montreal seasoning and grilled out back is a joy.
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I also like Brazilian steakhouses where men bearing skewers of meat seem to dance around you.
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Happy birthday, Vixdad!
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Good morning, all!
Happy Birthday to Mr. Mann, aka vixdad (IIRC).
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Schnippers! Expensive, but I liked it for lunch back in the day.
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TOD;
I have several favorite beef cuts -- rib eye, N.Y. Strip, porterhouse and filet mignon. Not that I, a retiree, can any longer afford weekly treats of them, but they have been lifelong favorites.
I also love veggies, like fresh tomatoes, squash, crowder peas, corn and such. I love all manner of greens, including collard, turnip and mustard. Spinach is wonderful.
I love great casseroles of squash, broccoli, corn-and-tomato, etc. Lots of veggies with cheese and onions. I adore onions cooked and, sometimes, raw.
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I love my veggies too. But I am surprised that I don’t miss spinach, which is absurdly high in oxalic acid and perhaps the No. 1 cause of kidney stones in me. BTW, I don’t miss the kidney stones either.
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I’m rolling over a retirement account and it has taken an unbelievably long period of time (more than 3 months). Hopefully it gets resolved this week.
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Does anyone know the pianist Paul Wee? I got a recording of two piano concertos from the library and am really enjoying it. He plays Hanselt and Bronsart with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
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There was no booklet with the recording.
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Just showy, fun music.
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Why are we still on this page?
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Onwsrd!
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Three!
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I’m rolling over a retirement account and it has taken an unbelievably long period of time (more than 3 months). Hopefully it gets resolved this week.
Vibes that gets resolved quickly.
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Roll over vibes for DR JOHN G.
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Happy Birthday to ViXDAD.
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I also like a nice rib eye with fries.
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Tonight is our second and final night of auditions.
I need at least two MEN.....and a lady or two would be nice.....
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Tonight is our second and final night of auditions.
I need at least two MEN.....and a lady or two would be nice.....
More audition vibes for Jrand!
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(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7666.0;attach=22765)
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Last night I dreamed that our DR George and I were in a library basement reading back issues of Films in Review and looking for Sondheim's reviews.
Cool! I was in one of Larry's dreams! :D
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Well done!
Thanks, Vixmom!
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Today is Vixdad’s birthday
A Very Happy Birthday to Vixdad!!
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There was no booklet with the recording.
I hate it when they (don't) do that!
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Tonight is our second and final night of auditions.
I need at least two MEN.....and a lady or two would be nice.....
More audition vibes for Jrand!
~~~DITTO!!~~~
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George, congrats on winning the game last night.
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Rodzinski I hope you are right about Harris, and that there will be a debate for her to prove herself.
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From George:
Another video said that he's now claiming that when the debates were set up, he agreed to debate Biden (and all his prep work was against Biden), but now that Kamala is the (assumed) nominee, he won't debate her because the Dem's ticket has changed. ::)
And there you go.
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DR Elmore, I didn't know about that Schlesinger-directed Hoffmann!
Of the two DVDs, I'd go with the earlier Domingo; Schlesinger was alive to supervise the production, but the second one is awfully good, especially the Nicklausse and Hoffmann. And the newly discovered music is nice.
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Monday morning greetings! It’s rainy and gloomy here today - perfect for welcoming a certain vice-presidential candidate for his “homecoming” rally :P
Good. I am curious though as I thought the locals were not pleased with his book. How popular is he there?
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Today is Vixdad’s birthday
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I love my veggies too. But I am surprised that I don’t miss spinach, which is absurdly high in oxalic acid and perhaps the No. 1 cause of kidney stones in me. BTW, I don’t miss the kidney stones either.
I don't care for spinach like I used to and wouldn't miss it. I'm very glad you are missing the kidney stones.
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Tonight is our second and final night of auditions.
I need at least two MEN.....and a lady or two would be nice.....
Good luck you find them tonight.
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George wrote last night: "Our house rule is that we can look up words in the Scrabble dictionary anytime we want."
That's a nice house rule. It can keep the Scrabble game tension-free if no one's challenging anyone!
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George, congrats on winning the game last night.
Thanks, Jane!
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Nice.
Thanks, again!
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George wrote last night: "Our house rule is that we can look up words in the Scrabble dictionary anytime we want."
That's a nice house rule. It can keep the Scrabble game tension-free if no one's challenging anyone!
True, it does make for a longer game, but we're not complaining. :)
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Topic of the Day: mostly ground beef in foods like lasagna, tacos, burritos, burgers, as well as well done crispy bacon...not floppy bacon.
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I remember seeing a bumper sticker years ago:
There are two kinds of people: those who love bacon and those who are wrong.
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George wrote last night: "Our house rule is that we can look up words in the Scrabble dictionary anytime we want."
That's a nice house rule. It can keep the Scrabble game tension-free if no one's challenging anyone!
Our family was never like that. Cut-throat Scrabble only.
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George wrote last night: "Our house rule is that we can look up words in the Scrabble dictionary anytime we want."
That's a nice house rule. It can keep the Scrabble game tension-free if no one's challenging anyone!
Our family was never like that. Cut-throat Scrabble only.
Prize for the winner was the last serving of the lime Jello?
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Page Four!
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George wrote last night: "Our house rule is that we can look up words in the Scrabble dictionary anytime we want."
That's a nice house rule. It can keep the Scrabble game tension-free if no one's challenging anyone!
Our family was never like that. Cut-throat Scrabble only.
Prize for the winner was the last serving of the lime Jello?
Thankfully no.
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Good afternoon!
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Wordle: 4/6
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Happy Birthday to vixDad!
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George wrote last night: "Our house rule is that we can look up words in the Scrabble dictionary anytime we want."
That's a nice house rule. It can keep the Scrabble game tension-free if no one's challenging anyone!
Our family was never like that. Cut-throat Scrabble only.
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George wrote last night: "Our house rule is that we can look up words in the Scrabble dictionary anytime we want."
That's a nice house rule. It can keep the Scrabble game tension-free if no one's challenging anyone!
Our family was never like that. Cut-throat Scrabble only.
Prize for the winner was the last serving of the lime Jello?
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117 Guests are viewing this board!
If each guests would make just one measly post, we could be beyond the not-cared-for page 7 before you know it.
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I’m feeling very unfocused today.
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I managed to get two plants into the ground. And I managed a two-hour nap. But that’s about it.
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I'm just noticing the tribute to John G and ChasSmith in the Curtain Call acknowledgments for "Directed By" for their help with the book - lovely!
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Thank you, Freddie. It’s always nice being able to help when possible.
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It’s supposed to rain today (the reason I put the plants in the ground), but nothing has happened so far.
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JB got a new toy in the mail. In true catbird mode, he really likes playing with the plastic it was wrapped in.
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It’s supposed to rain today (the reason I put the plants in the ground), but nothing has happened so far.
Vibes you get rain for your new plants.
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JB got a new toy in the mail. In true catbird mode, he really likes playing with the plastic it was wrapped in.
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We just got a few drops of rain. More supposedly on the way.
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Good afternoon.
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The Big Storm we were warned about hit the other side of town. We got no rain.
I think it has been close to a month since we've had rain at my house.
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TOD: Mexican food.
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For any lurkers who live in Phoenix, give Maria's Frybread at 40th Street and Thomas a try.
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I don’t have the space to go into barbecue for the TOD. Let’s just say: Bring it on.
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For any lurkers who live in Phoenix, give Maria's Frybread at 40th Street and Thomas a try.
I love frybread.
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The Big Storm we were warned about hit the other side of town. We got no rain.
I think it has been close to a month since we've had rain at my house.
Sending mega rain vibes!
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For any lurkers who live in Phoenix, give Maria's Frybread at 40th Street and Thomas a try.
I just googled it-looks good.
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It's a family-run place. Maria cooks in the back, and her family runs the counter.
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I like family run places.
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I do too.
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I like page five.
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So let’s go there.
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Five!
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Starting Full Metal Jacket. Lee Ermey is brilliant in the beginning.
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I don't know from frybread, but it sounds like something I should like.
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The energy in the election I was hoping for has begun :)
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I don't know from frybread, but it sounds like something I should like.
Yes. You do.
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The energy in the election I was hoping for has begun :)
And the racism and misogyny are only just surfacing.
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And Harris's delivery in her speech about knowing Trump's type was great.
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The energy in the election I was hoping for has begun :)
And the racism and misogyny are only just surfacing.
That was expected :(
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I pulled out a package of cream cheese I bought a few weeks ago. I checked the expiration date on the side to see if it were still good. It’s good until December.
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What will you be doing with the cream cheese or did you already mention that?
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I pulled out a package of cream cheese I bought a few weeks ago. I checked the expiration date on the side to see if it were still good. It’s good until December.
This sounds very promising!
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Vixdad says thank you for tg3 birthday wishes!
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What will you be doing with the cream cheese or did you already mention that?
Olive-nut sandwiches
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The second half of Full Metal Jacket isn’t as good as the first.
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What will you be doing with the cream cheese or did you already mention that?
Olive-nut sandwiches
I always preferred chopped olives and mayo for my school sandwiches but often traded half a sandwich with my friend when she had olives and cream cheese. Those were also good. Never nuts as I still couldn't eat nuts back then.
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The second half of Full Metal Jacket isn’t as good as the first.
FACT
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The second half of Full Metal Jacket isn’t as good as the first.
There was a joke decades back about the movie they were going to make about Vice President Dan Quayle's war experience - it`s called ”Full Dinner Jacket.”
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I'm up, I'm up - eight hours of sleep. I had so many e-mails to answer and then had to be on my way to the mail place - residual was there, thankfully - came right home, but thought I'd already posted when I got up. Was surprised to come here now and see I hadn't.
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I hate when that happens.
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Happy birthday to vixdad.
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And now s movie I have waited decades to see. Maybe I should wait more … Xanadu.
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I saw the stage musical on YouTube.
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I had my tri-salad from Art's thanks to a 50% off coupon. I always leave special instructions for TWO scoops of turkey salad, one scoop egg salad, instead of one egg, one turkey, and one tuna. I then emphasize NO TUNA in all caps. They've never gotten it wrong.
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Until today - I had to toss that smelly tuna mound right into the trash. I then reported it to Uber Eats. Had it been DoorDash I would have received a partial credit instantly. Uber Eats tells you they'll get back to you via e-mail. Apparently, they think they have all the time in the world to do this. I'm about to tell them otherwise when I report it AGAIN.
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Wow, I'm closing in on a rather large new plateau.
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I really am.
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Potential VP candidate Gov. Beshear of Kentucky tried out a jab at JD Vance on CNN: JD Vance has no conviction. Lucky for him, his running mate has 34.
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I'd cooled the home environment down to 74. I shut off the AC. Forty minutes later, it's already 79 degrees in the home environment.
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So, now I have to cool it down again.
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Irritatingly irritating.
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And so is page five.
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Whew. Page six.
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Wow, I'm closing in on a rather large new plateau.
That IS a pretty major posting plateau!
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Okay, everyone knows Xanadu is crappy, but to have a tap routine when you can plainly see they don’t have taps on their shoes is beyond ridiculous.
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'night
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Made it safely to Indiana.
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A full.day of conferencing, and I'm exhausted.
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Good night, friends.
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And others.
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I survived Xanadu and the half-hour documentary on it, which may be worse than the movie.
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Good night, all.
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George wrote last night: "Our house rule is that we can look up words in the Scrabble dictionary anytime we want."
That's a nice house rule. It can keep the Scrabble game tension-free if no one's challenging anyone!
Our family was never like that. Cut-throat Scrabble only.
;D
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George wrote last night: "Our house rule is that we can look up words in the Scrabble dictionary anytime we want."
That's a nice house rule. It can keep the Scrabble game tension-free if no one's challenging anyone!
Our family was never like that. Cut-throat Scrabble only.
Prize for the winner was the last serving of the lime Jello?
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The Big Storm we were warned about hit the other side of town. We got no rain.
I think it has been close to a month since we've had rain at my house.
~~~Rain Vibes for Laura and Her Side Of Town!!~~~
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TOD: Mexican food.
Ditto! :D
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The energy in the election I was hoping for has begun :)
And the racism and misogyny are only just surfacing.
Yup.
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And Harris's delivery in her speech about knowing Trump's type was great.
I heard that part...she was good!
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The second half of Full Metal Jacket isn’t as good as the first.
There was a joke decades back about the movie they were going to make about Vice President Dan Quayle's war experience - it`s called ”Full Dinner Jacket.”
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And now s movie I have waited decades to see. Maybe I should wait more … Xanadu.
I like that movie...mostly because of the music. I love the songs!
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I saw the stage musical on YouTube.
The musical is a spoof, but not quite a parody, of the movie. They try to make the songs funny, but they're not funny songs. They're very well written songs from the late 1970s/early 1980s.
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Wow, I'm closing in on a rather large new plateau.
PUUUUUUSH!!!!
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Potential VP candidate Gov. Beshear of Kentucky tried out a jab at JD Vance on CNN: JD Vance has no conviction. Lucky for him, his running mate has 34.
That's a good one! ;D
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Wow, I'm closing in on a rather large new plateau.
That IS a pretty major posting plateau!
A HHW world record!! ;)
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Okay, everyone knows Xanadu is crappy, but to have a tap routine when you can plainly see they don’t have taps on their shoes is beyond ridiculous.
For the movie, I choose to suspend disbelief. :)
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I've been watching weird YouTube videos, but have to stop that nonsense.
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No posts in an hour and George probably won't show up until one minute to midnight, his "jam."
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I have to buy some jam and English muffins. I always forget what a nice low-cal snack that makes in the evening hours.
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Perhaps I'll do that very thing tomorrow.
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Perhaps.
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I just might.
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There is a good possibility.
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I do not care for page seven.
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And true to form, no George.
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It's his damn jam.
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And ridic.
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Couldn't be more ridic.
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I have to buy some jam and English muffins. I always forget what a nice low-cal snack that makes in the evening hours.
That sounds good. :)
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Probably eating a burrito.
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I fell asleep. ::)
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Oh, look who decideded to show up earlier than his jam.
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Probably eating a burrito.
Not eating anything, sadly.
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The one and only George.
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Falling asleep is no excuse. You can post while you're asleep, everyone knows that.
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Falling asleep is no excuse. You can post while you're asleep, everyone knows that.
I tried, but it just didn't work. ::)
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What?
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Dreaming of burritos, I suppose.
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I think I'll achieve a new plateau tomorrow at some point.
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Not tonight, Josephine.
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I'm about to reach a new plateau, too.
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Gratuitous Post #200!!
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A sleepy check-in!
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I dozed but did not dream of burritos.
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Sleepy head is here.
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Rodzinski!
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This is a video that I've been watching:
Cast Album Chat with Tyler: Recorded but never released! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jUzefBHulg)
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It's quite interesting, and very informative. :)
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Tyler Donahue, the host of the channel, is (was?) a professional actor and talks about how he was in the German production of Love Never Dies (Liebe Stirbt Nie).
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At the end of the video, he mentions that a live recording had been made, but for whatever reason it wasn't (and probably will never be) released.
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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.
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That's too bad, but at least the actor who played the Phantom, Garðar Thór Cortes, recorded a song, so at least there can be a PAGE EIGHT DANCE!!