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Archives => Archive 8 => Topic started by: bk on November 29, 2006, 01:18:59 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes had both smoke and a detector, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they've been smoking and they've now been detected by our very own BK - Smoke Detector, which will be a Fox TV series next season.
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And the word of the day is: SALUBRIOUS!
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Ack! What a night. My smoke detector just pops open & isn't connected to our security system. :D
Do those Brain matters have gray areas? ;p
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Good morning, all! This morning I see the barber, do some laundry, and continue the work on The Brain! I beed more coffee.
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ASK BK:
If you ever read MAD magzine what was your favorite piece that they wrote?
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And the word of the day is: SALUBRIOUS!
Casey would waltz
With a strawberry blonde
Because he believed that dancing in three-quarter time
Was SALUBRIOUS and would lead to a long and prosperous life.
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I thoroughly dislike the smoke detector in our house. It is far too sensitive. It will go off if I'm boiling water! Bleh.
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Dear esteemed smoke detector BK -
Do you have any plans for post-Brain? Or can you even imagine ahead that far?
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Very sorry to hear about Edisaurus' cousin's loss.
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Whenever I hear a story like MR BK's - I always think of HAL from A SPACE ODYSSEY.....
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MBARNUM et al - you will get to meet Ms Cindy Williams:
"How about those hash browns!"
"Betty, pick up your hash blacks!"
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Off to the bank, post office, AND grocery store on the day BEFORE it snows!
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My question for ASK BK day...
What part in THE BRAIN FROM PLANET X would you like to play?
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And it's time to head off to work already!
Good morning, Ben!
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Good Morning, Woody.
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And good morning to you all.
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Good morning, Edisaurus!
Good morning, JRand!
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I went to Tower yesterday. The going out of business sale has been on for quite a while but it's the first time I was able to get there. Well, it's pretty slim pickins'. I did manage to get a copy of Manhattan Transfer Live, the first live album, recorded at the Hammersmith in London in 1978. I had it on cassette and transferred it to CD but since it was on sale for $9 I went for it. I also got a copy of the DRG release of An Evening with Frank Loesser on sale for $6. After that there was nothing in the entire store that interested me. The Show Tunes were pretty much gone. There were some soundtracks but real bottom of the barrel choices and vocals were practically non-existent. Oh, well. I got two CDs. Can't ask for much more.
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Good morning, guys...
I had 8 hours sleep for the first time in weeks, so now I'm ready to face the day, and call my cousin.
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I also got a copy of the DRG release of An Evening with Frank Loesser on sale for $6.
My mother named me after a Frank Loesser song.
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BK, I know MusicGuy and Kerry are attending Friday and Saturday evenings. I'm not sure about Saturday afternoon.
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My mother named me after a Frank Loesser song.
I didn't know Frank Loesser wrote a song called Edisaurus ;)
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I'm thinkin' it wasn't Joey either (from The Most Happy Fella) ;)
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Morning all. Trying to decide if I'm going to call my boss and tell him I'm not driving today but will wait until 5:00AM and see what the weather is like then. We may have snow, which is no big deal, but closer to Des Moines they are talking freezing rain and sleet. I just don't want to drive in that. I've pretty much made up my mind. I haven't even packed anything.....better go to work and make the phone call.
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Wednesday morning greetings! If DR Cillaliz has weather challenges today, and DR JRand expects snow tomorrow, does that mean I might get a snow day on Friday?
DR Edisaurus - I'm so sorry for the sudden loss in your family.
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Morning Ginny!
Well, I have heaved a sigh of relief. I called my boss in Des Moines and he said it's fine if I wait until tomorrow. It makes for a very long day tomorrow - driving to Des Moines and back and sitting through the seminar, but I have had the feeling for 2 days that I shouldn't go today and I just can't ignore that. I kind of feel like I dodged a bullet.
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Gotta go to court...laters
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Good morning, DR Cillaliz! Instinct is a useful thing, sometimes. Hope tomorrow is a better driving day for you.
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DR Edisaurus,
Sorry to hear about your cousin's husband. What a shock!
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ASK BK:
If you ever read MAD magzine what was your favorite piece that they wrote?
I think I mention MAD in the first Kritzer book, but yes, I was a huge MAD fan and was buying it when it was comic-book-sized. Of those issues (the first twenty-three), I liked Superduperman and the Howdy Doozit parodies best. When it went to magazine size, my favorite was the West Side Story parody, East Side Story, which was brilliant. For a time, I had a complete run of the first 150 issues, beautifully bound, but there one of the things I had to get rid of during the bad time a few years ago. I now have fifteen of the first twenty-three thanks to Grant Geissman. Mr. Geissman is a huge MAD fan-atic and has a major collection of their original art, plus he's written several books on the subject.
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Dear esteemed smoke detector BK -
Do you have any plans for post-Brain? Or can you even imagine ahead that far?
I'll have a couple of weeks off after The Brain, then I go into rehearsal for the kids show, as well as begin to put together the one-person shows for Joan Ryan and Alet Taylor. So, plenty o' stuff. As well as begin a new book and finish the little play I'm working on.
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My question for ASK BK day...
What part in THE BRAIN FROM PLANET X would you like to play?
The most fun part for a man in The Brain is the alien - but I wouldn't be as good as the fellow who's doing it. If I wasn't claustrophobic, it would be grand fun to play the title character.
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My guess is also that you got "behind" where the battery is, BK. I've never known a smoke detector that you need to unscrew. What you unscrewed was the whole sensor which is screwed onto the plate that attaches to the ceiling. You should have just popped off the cover and there your battery will be. That said, I know our smoke detectors take some major "elbow grease" to pop off the covers--sometimes you have to squeeze them like those child-proof aspirin bottle lids.
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You won't believe it. At six-thirty this morning I was awakened by that incessant sporadic beeping again. After what I did to what I thought was the hallway smoke detector I didn't think I'd ever hear beeping again. But maybe whatever I dismantled and put back together in the hallway wasn't a smoke detector because I couldn't find a battery anyway. This time I isolated the beeping to the smoke detector in the bedroom - that one wasn't too difficult in terms of locating the battery. Unfortunately, I didn't have a fershluganah nine volt battery in the house, so off I went to the twenty-four hour market. I put that in (it's weird how it fits in there - you just sort of lay it in and close the slot and somehow it's connected, so the beeping has stopped. Now, just what did I take apart in the hallway that had no battery?
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And why did the beeping stop last night, stay stopped all night, and then resume at six-thirty in the morning?
In any case, I have now had two nights in a row of four hours of sleep and I look like crap and I am not happy. I shall try to go back to bed shortly.
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Smoke detector batteries are notorious for beeping for a while, then somehow miraculously "recharging," then starting the fershluggunah beeping again. It happens here all the time.
Maybe what you dismantled last night is the secret surveillance unit the owners of the home had installed. Did you know that your every move was being broadcast to a worldwide audience in the tens of millions? Well, at least it was--until last night. ;D
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Good morning!
It's overcast, but the sun is trying mightily to break through the clouds, and at the moment, it's succeeding.
It is VERY warm here. Another day in the 70s. My heat (which I have set at 60 during the night) didn't come on this morning, and I was too warm in the bed. Very atypical for November!
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We watched another of these pretty lamentable WB tv movies based on Christie books last night--this one a Helen Hayes Miss Marple. Hayes catches the essence of the character, but her accent, such as it is, is pretty spotty, and some of the supporting performances were just LOL bad. Plus the "Moishe the explainer" section in this one explained virtually nothing--it was like they had forgotten to film it and did it quickly in one very fast take (it lasted about 90 seconds). Virtually none of the red herrings were explained. Oh, well, I got the boxed set free, so I guess I shouldn't complain.
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I agree completely with you, bk, about "East Side Story," forever my favorite MAD parody of all-time. After I misplaced my copy of the magazine that contained it, I bought every one of those MAD paperback compilations until I got it again.
I also thought the parody of HUSH HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE (entitled "Hack Hack Sweet Has Been") was brilliant.
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What about "Flawerence of Arabia?" Or "The Sound of Money"?
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When the smoke detector goes off, sometimes from ordinary cooking, Toby's ears seem to hurt from the noise until it stops. (They say dogs' hearing is much keener than ours.) If it went off while we were gone for a few hours and not here to stop the noise, I wonder what it would do to poor Toby. We don't think it's happened yet, though.
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We watched another of these pretty lamentable WB tv movies based on Christie books last night--this one a Helen Hayes Miss Marple. Hayes catches the essence of the character, but her accent, such as it is, is pretty spotty, and some of the supporting performances were just LOL bad. Plus the "Moishe the explainer" section in this one explained virtually nothing--it was like they had forgotten to film it and did it quickly in one very fast take (it lasted about 90 seconds). Virtually none of the red herrings were explained. Oh, well, I got the boxed set free, so I guess I shouldn't complain.
Was it A CARIBBEAN MYSTERY or MURDER WITH MIRRORS? I agree with you. They are not a patch on the BBC versions with Joan Hickson (her CARIBBEAN MYSTERY is my second favorite of all the Hickson/Marples). Still, I find them oddly entertaining. I was quick to buy that boxed set of CHristie mysteries despite their (mostly) second rate casts, absurdly updated storylines, and mundane direction.
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One of my favorites was LEAST HORIZON, which had a lovely short parody of "The World is a Circle," which some of us used to go around singing in high school:
The world is a rhoimboid without a circumference
And nobody knows what this simile means
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Needless to say, we were not a normal yeshivah high shcool. :)
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Anyone remember MAD's On A Clear Day You Can see a Funny Girl Singing Hello Dolly Forever, with Bubby Strident?
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Argh! I just got a "too many connections" error message with my post lost. Thankfully, it wasn't a long one.
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Anyone remember MAD's On A Clear Day You Can see a Funny Girl Singing Hello Dolly Forever, with Bubby Strident?
No, I had stopped reading MAD by the time Babs became a movie star, but it sounds hilarious.
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[sigh] I have five and a half hours of shows from last night to watch today. The finale to the first of three mini-mystery arcs on VERONICA MARS has gotten rave reviews from critics I've read, so I'll start with that.
Of course, by skipping commercials, it won't that me that long to watch all of these programs.
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A couple of weeks ago I was cooking and the kitchen got smokey. DS's cat, Sassy, was very upset and meowed and meowed and paced around. She found DS and insisted he follow her. She led him outside where he was safe. She didn't care one whit about the rest of us.
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Yep DR MattH, you will enjoy Veronica Mars. I loved it!
Btw, you never answered my question re: heroes yesterday (the part that had you so surprised at the end).
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From the NY Daily News: Tony Danza As Max Bialystock
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Btw, you never answered my question re: heroes yesterday (the part that had you so surprised at the end).
You didn't read my post correctly, DR Jennifer. What surprised me is that there will be another episode next week.
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From the NY Daily News: Tony Danza As Max Bialystock
I saw that yesterday at Playbill, and I thought how desperate the producers of the show are to resort to such obvious miscasting just to get a name actor in the part. I suspect it won't help its sliding box-office and the show will be gone soon after he takes over.
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I'm heading down now to get a jump start on my viewing for the afternoon.
WBBL.
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Has The Producers just about run its course?
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Yes, whatever one thinks of Tony Danza, that is just shamefully bad casting and bad casting is what has plagued the B'way The Producers since the day Mr. Lane and Mr. Broderick left the show.
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I saw The Producers and enjoyed it very much. But if it came through town again, I don't think I'd see it again.
In fact, I don't buy tickets to anything any more, except for renewing the two season ticket series I have. I used to buy single show tickets all the time.
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Now, just what did I take apart in the hallway that had no battery?
Possibly the door bell?
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What a frustrating night BK! Go back to bed!
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From the NY Daily News: Tony Danza As Max Bialystock
The next thing you'll see is the casting of Howie Mandel as Daddy Warbucks in "Annie."
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Anyone remember MAD's On A Clear Day You Can see a Funny Girl Singing Hello Dolly Forever, with Bubby Strident?
I Do! I Do!
;)
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Memories.....fight at the corners of my mind.
Listless muddy-watered memories...
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C-O-L-D!
That's what it is here in Oakland CA.
It's currently F 41!!! High may reach F 55.
Truly C-O-L-D....for Oakland.
Tonight will be colder...around F 36. Brrrr-r-r-r-r-r-r.
For Oakland, that's an anomaly.
Things are looking up, though. Temps should increase a couple of degrees through Sunday.
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I'm "toying" with taking another day off between now and my vacation (my last work day this year will be Dec. 8th).
I may take either Friday or Monday.
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I didn't do much of anything last night (either). I was so contented sitting by my fire that working up any enthusiasm to watch a DVD was out of the question.
As it happens, I did watch "Friday Night Lights"...and despite the fact that I find Kyle Chandler a very interesting actor (and he has the Texas patois down cold), and despite the fact that the show captures with gritty realism the all-football mentality that besieges the majority of small town residents, I truly don't give a rat's patootie.
Nothing happened in the show at all. Some character development...some emotional outbursts...some stereotyping of a black player with a drug problem (that's my opinion, the stereotyping bit)...all of it just FILLER to get us to next week's "game" show, I suppose.
YAWN.
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A belated "heigh-ho" shout-out to DR George for passing the dieci mille mark!
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That's Italian for 10,000.
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I'll go my way by myself (even though eight other people are currently logged in as active posters).
All alone in a crowd!
;D
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Down to six now. I must have scared a couple of 'em away.
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They're droppin' like flies here in my department and I've just volunteered to help with the information-waitressing today.
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Hmmm, wonder if this (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061129/hl_nm/life_work_sick_dc) could be part of the problem here at work...
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I didn't know Frank Loesser wrote a song called Edisaurus ;)
Do you know one called "Once In Love With Amy"? (Better that than the Pure Prarie League song "Amy" (What you gonna do") which was sung relentlessly to me by friends back in the '70's....)
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My cousin said that she fixed her DH a bowl of popcorn and a coke and he was settled in his recliner watching TV when she went to bed. When she got up, he was still in the recliner but had passed on sometime during the night. They were getting ready to celebrate their 40th anniversary. It all seems pretty unreal.
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I loved MAD magazine, especially Spy vs. Spy and the musical parodies. I'll have to see if I can find some of these compilations you're talking about. I knew Grant was a huge fan---I think we talked about it at our scoring session.
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You didn't read my post correctly, DR Jennifer. What surprised me is that there will be another episode next week.
Ah okay I get it. It's just when you said the ending was a surprise i thought you meant in content.
I think i mentioned on monday morning that this week's show was one of the last few new ones. I believe there is just one more. Should be good.
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Very sorry for you loss DR Edisauraus.
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Hmmm, wonder if this (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061129/hl_nm/life_work_sick_dc) could be part of the problem here at work...
One thing that always occurs to me when I read such stories is that since it IS a heavy shopping season, store employees come into contact with many more people and are far busier than normal. This means the employees are more likely to be more tired/run down during this season than any other.
Add to that the fact that it is now "flu season" and the likelihood of employees becoming sick more frequently is exponentially greater during this shopping season.
Every time I read a story about this it always casts suspicion upon employees....never the more obvious/more likely reason for higher sick day occurrences.
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Hmmm....I am sitting on it now....yes, DR's.....I am sitting on it.
What is it? You may ask. Yes, you may.
I am sitting on my NEW SPLENDIFEROUS DESK CHAIR....and is it nice!!!
On sale for 30% off!!
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On the other hand, I sympathize with the employers and other employees left "holding the bag" when someone calls in sick.
Yes, it's hard enough doing your job during this season without having to do someone else's, too. That often leads to resentment toward the absent employee.
And, yes, I agree that there are instances of goldbricking (i.e., calling in sick when you aren't sick at all).
But still...
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I also bought a new mouse pad!
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Hmmm....I am sitting on it now....yes, DR's.....I am sitting on it.
What is it? You may ask. Yes, you may.
I am sitting on my NEW SPLENDIFEROUS DESK CHAIR....and is it nice!!!
On sale for 30% off!!
Oh, congratulations on the new chair.
That's something your tired old butt is apt to enjoy!
:D
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I also bought a new mouse pad!
Well, after all...you can't keep that mouse in your pocket forever!
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On the other hand, I sympathize with the employers and other employees left "holding the bag" when someone calls in sick.
Yes, it's hard enough doing your job during this season without having to do someone else's, too. That often leads to resentment toward the absent employee.
And, yes, I agree that there are instances of goldbricking (i.e., calling in sick when you aren't sick at all).
But still...
Don't get me started on THIS subject, DRRLP. One of the things that annoyed me most was the extra work I as a SINGLE person ended up with when there was "something at school" or there was a "daycare" emergency or one of the kids was sick.... My guess is that was so about 50% of the time. :P
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Somebody STOP me!
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Is it Wednesday already?
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Arctic blast forecast for us tomorrow night.
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I went to Tower yesterday. The going out of business sale has been on for quite a while but it's the first time I was able to get there. Well, it's pretty slim pickins'. I did manage to get a copy of Manhattan Transfer Live, the first live album, recorded at the Hammersmith in London in 1978. I had it on cassette and transferred it to CD but since it was on sale for $9 I went for it....
Ben, let me know what you think of the sound quality. I got that CD also and it seems to have some audio problems that I don't think could be on the original recording. Something must have happened when they made the CD. An Internet buddy of mine sent me a copy of the Japanese-only CD release (from several years ago) and it sounds so much better than this US release.
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....But maybe whatever I dismantled and put back together in the hallway wasn't a smoke detector because I couldn't find a battery anyway....
....Now, just what did I take apart in the hallway that had no battery?
That kind of sounds like what my sister had in her house (that she just sold). We couldn't figure out what it was, so she just disconnected it, took it down, put a cover over it and called it good. We bought some battery-powered smoke detectors from Costco and put them up in the three bedrooms and another in the hall/living room area, but we never could figure out what that other thing was. :-\
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A belated "heigh-ho" shout-out to DR George for passing the dieci mille mark!
Well, thank you! ;D
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That's Italian for 10,000.
And thank you. ::)
;)
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Maybe it was a carbon monoxide detector.
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And thank you. ::)
;)
'wekkum
The explanatory post was for anyone confused by the Eye-talian words.
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I just got some boxes -- from Gump's, the San Francisco department store.
I've always enjoyed wandering through Gump's at any time, but most especially during this season.
I ordered some things a couple of weeks back...and NOW the spirit has HIT ME.
I'm "In the Mood"...FINALLY!
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Well, it's about freakin' time!!
;)
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Is it Wednesday already?
Till midnight, at any rate.
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And I'm off to work!
Laters! (to quote Jose)
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Well, it's about freakin' time!!
;)
:D
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Maybe it was a carbon monoxide detector.
In-ter-es-ting.
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I'll have to confess
I guess
I'm an "ornament" junkie.
And this pomegranate ornament was (box of 6) what put me over the edge and induced seasonal spirit:
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Now, bring on the food
Bring on the cheer
Bring on the countdown
For the New Year!
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DR RLP those are beautiful!!!
I have never seen a pomengranate in the flesh!
Those must be hand painted... ;D
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I've got a hankerin' for yams.
I could DO "The Yam", I suppose.
I could curry some yams, or fix some hot spiced yams.
I could bake some yams and do 'em up like a dessert.
I could fry some yams and eat 'em with mayonnaise (they don't taste as good with French onion dip).
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too tired to dance...........
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Hmmm, wonder if this (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061129/hl_nm/life_work_sick_dc) could be part of the problem here at work...
Since I'm self-employed, i don't have any paid sick days, so I usually end up getting sick over the holidays when my body says: "OK...NOW can I get sick?" Plus I'm usually run down trying to get ready for the holidays and then hugging and kissing a lot of people at parties and family gatherings so I'm an easy target.
Something I swear by that keeps me healthy is not a drug, but a compound made from mushrooms called "Immunity".
http://snipurl.com/immunity
It has helped both of us so much that we signed up as dealers so we could buy it wholesale for ourselves and family members. Now we get sick maybe once a year but recover in a day or two. I recommend it for anyone who has school-age children or any job where they come into contact with a lot of people. The only drawback is that it has no hallucenogenic properties...
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I just got some boxes -- from Gump's, the San Francisco department store.
I've always enjoyed wandering through Gump's at any time, but most especially during this season.
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DR RLP - My parents and sister lived in the Bay Area before they moved to Portland, OR, where I was born. The whole time I was growing up I heard stories about places my mother loved in San Francisco. Gump's was one of them, City of Paris another, and Podesta Baldocchi. When I finally had my first trip to SF, at age 24, I took a day and visited all the places I'd heard Mother talk about.
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On the other side of the "sick leave" discussion, we have an incentive program here that rewards employees periodically for not using any sick hours. I think it encourages people to come to work and spread germs when they should be at home.
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On the other hand, I sympathize with the employers and other employees left "holding the bag" when someone calls in sick.
Yes, it's hard enough doing your job during this season without having to do someone else's, too. That often leads to resentment toward the absent employee.
And, yes, I agree that there are instances of goldbricking (i.e., calling in sick when you aren't sick at all).
But still...
What I have started to resent is that people with kids call in to stay home with a sick kid, leave early to go to this or that, to take their kids here and there. It really gets old when you're trying to get some work done. In fact it may necessitate a mental health day or a mental health afternoon from time to time
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Like yesterday, I managed to get a couple more hours of sleep, but, like yesterday, I am now completely behind in doing things that need doing. Because I have to be at LACC at noon I'm barely going to have time to jog.
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On the other side of the "sick leave" discussion, we have an incentive program here that rewards employees periodically for not using any sick hours. I think it encourages people to come to work and spread germs when they should be at home.
Yes, the guidance from my employer is that despite the fact that we earn 13 sick days per year, we are NOT expected to take them.
The party line is that if you feel sick upon waking up, get up anyway, get dressed and come on in. You'll feel better than you thought once you get to work.
Everyone else pays the price when someone does this...viruses run through our agency lickety-split, all because someone didn't want to risk being criticized for taking a sick day. The result is that many more sick days are lost because of all the contaminated employees staying home.
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Don't get me started on THIS subject, DRRLP. One of the things that annoyed me most was the extra work I as a SINGLE person ended up with when there was "something at school" or there was a "daycare" emergency or one of the kids was sick.... My guess is that was so about 50% of the time. :P
LOL. guess I should have kept reading. It drives me crazy. Especially when it's Friday and I hear "I'll get to this first thing on Monday" and then Monday the kid is sick...funny it's EVERY day after a holiday weekend that the same person has a sick kid....makes me wonder... I say this as I sit in my recliner at home after leaving because of a headache.
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Of course I really do have a headache..which I must go attend to
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Unfortunately, we're not short-staffed enough to give me a graceful reason to miss the meeting that's on my schedule this afternoon. Why did I ever volunteer for this committee :P ?
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What I have started to resent is that people with kids call in to stay home with a sick kid, leave early to go to this or that, to take their kids here and there. It really gets old when you're trying to get some work done. In fact it may necessitate a mental health day or a mental health afternoon from time to time
Now you're ranting my rant. Yes, "parents" can absent themselves at the drop of a hat. Kid sick at school? Bye-bye.
Kid sick at home? Not coming in. And the County even has a special code for the parent to use when accounting for the missed day. The parent gets paid but doesn't lose any personal leave or sick leave. It's a special cache of leave for "parents."
I don't begrudge parents this perk. I begrudge the employer for not offering something in kind to non-parents.
But then, as a single man, I've been railing at "the system" for decades. My primary beef when I was on active duty in the Navy, and assigned stateside or in Europe, my allowance for quarters (a special allowance for renting/maintaining a residence) was half that of a married man/woman. Yet...the married military person gets credit only for one dependent...whether he has just a wife or a wife and 20 kids, his allowance is the same -- TWICE mine, even though he and his wife can live in a one-bedroom as easily as I can.
In fact, single-bedroom units in many cities during the 80s and 90s were only available in more modern complexes...and were, ultimately, more expensive to rent than a 2- or 3-bedroom house.
And don't get me started on being taken advantage of BECAUSE I was single. WHO do you think worked EVERY Christmas eve and Christmas day, virtually alone for 10 hours? Yep, me and one or two other single souls. After all, what could we possibly have to do on Christmas which is, AFTER ALL, for the KIDS? (I had invitations to homes for dinner and supper...for Christmas Eve sleepovers....to spend time with families that made me a part of their lives...to enjoy watching their kids get up and open presents). No...as long as there were single sailors around, all the married folks NEVER had to work a single holiday!
AND when someone's kid had a birthday or a graduation or a sporting event or a performance/recital...who got the privilege of covering/working extra hours for them? The SINGLE sailor, that's who. Well, they could ask Bill or Tom to do it, but their wives and kids are waiting for them at home to eat dinner.
Oh, well....
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Well the meeting I was supposed to go to in Des Moines today has been cancelled. So I'm still going toget up VERY early and head out at 5:00AM if the roads are good to get to tomorrow's meeting, but I'm glad I made the decision early to stay here today
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Of course I really do have a headache..which I must go attend to
Well, the weather forecast caused you a lot of angst, very early this morning, didn't it? I'm not surprised you have a headache this afternoon - hope you feel better.
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Off to my 2pm meeting. I'll probably have a headache when I get back.
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The weather was a little stressful, the people I work with are a lot stressful, and the stupid cops who left my client's poor 13 year old yorkshire terrier locked in his house with no one to care for him really set me off this morning. I was as mad as a hornet. I'll be fine.
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I also drink Nikken's pomegranate juice called Ciaga. Pomegranate is one of the super foods!
BTW, Nikken is a MLM company. I generally despise that kind of business, but I do like their stuff. I'm *not* a cult member!
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The Comic Relief web producer just came in to see his piece for the first time and didn't have any changes. Yay! I don't want to have to delve into 30 hours of miserable footage again! Now I just have to send it off to the network head and hope he OK's it. I'm cutting a personal film for him for free for the next two days, so I'm hoping he'll cut me some slack!
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With all these headaches going around, I'm feelin' the need to take somethin'.
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DR GINNY - I have a board meeting Sunday.....
DR CILLALIZ....I have heard that that HEAD ON stuff really works.
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Page Five Christmas Home Dance. ;D
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I guess the upside of being self-employed, which balances out the lack of benefits, is that I don't have to cover for someone when they're sick.
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I remember some MAD parodies:
Valley of the Dollars
The Cute Rook - in the next issue they had to explain it was a parody of THE HOT ROCK
The Honey West parody...."Thirty Minutes to Kill"....which it turns out is what ABC had when it ordered up the series.
The ad parodies.
What me worry?
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MattH: you guessed it--"The Caribbean Mystery," shot entirely in sunny Santa Barbara. ;)
Sick kids: Well as someone with two younger children and also someone who teaches in both the public school and private school arenas, many times to snotty-nosed kids who are walking TB wards (so to speak), I must say I congratulate parents who keep their kids home when they're ill. And when the kids are as young as mine, they don't get to stay "home alone."
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Back from a jog, must now shower quickly and be on my way to LACC.
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I'll have to confess
I guess
I'm an "ornament" junkie.
And this pomegranate ornament was (box of 6) what put me over the edge and induced seasonal spirit:
(http://www.haineshisway.com/community/attachments/pomegranates.jpg)
That's definitely seasonal spirit inducing! ;D
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DR GINNY - I have a board meeting Sunday.....
DR CILLALIZ....I have heard that that HEAD ON stuff really works.
But only if you apply it directly to the forehead
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I guess the upside of being self-employed, which balances out the lack of benefits, is that I don't have to cover for someone when they're sick.
I really enjoyed being self employed. I am much happier when I work for myself. I have toyed with going back to it often, but financially it makes sense for me to stay put.
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I looked out the bedroom window, and this is what I saw:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/47/Red-tailed_hawk02.jpg)
Actually, he was sitting on the ground atop a grey bundle which turned out to be one of my squirrels!
The red-tailed hawk just sat there for about fifteen minutes; I tried to sneak outside and get a picture, but the Mail Man's truck scared him away. The Mail Man said he saw the hawk with prey in hand claws winging it back into the marsh.
I wish they'd do this Circle of Life bit somewhere else!
der Brucer
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Back from my meeting. I do not have a headache :)
But I do need some chocolate.
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But only if you apply it directly to the forehead
I never knew that! :P
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DR derBRUCER - that's better than looking INSIDE the bedroom window and seeing it!
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Glad you survived the meeting, DR GINNY!
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DR JMK - the check is in the mail.
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I've survived lunch. It was some Vietnamese concoction...Guon Cha or something...chicken and imperial rolls over vermicelli in a bowl (with salad on the bottom!). Yummy and nummy at the same time.
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I've settled on taking Monday off. Most of my co-workers will be out in the afternoon getting a look at an office furniture showroom and new product.
I don't "do" furniture. I could have gone, but I'd rather BE gone.
;D
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I've checked tracking on my Ultimate Superman boxed set and UPS claims it's "out for delivery."
Sure hope it gets here today (they've missed a few times).
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I am also hopeful the USPS man (Humphrey) will bring me some DDDVD boxes.
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Yes, it was the same in teaching, too. Single teachers were always expected to chaparone dances and school trips at night since we didn't have families of our own to go home to. FOr the first few years of teaching, I let them take advantage of me over and above the call of duty, but after about five years, when I had a home and a partner, I made sure it was understood that I was NOT available for any after school activities that other folks didn't have to attend.
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Mail delivery was late this afternoon, and when it finally arrived, I was disappointed that my amazon order wasn't there. I got the shipping notice on Monday morning, so I hoped it would get here today. No such luck. Maybe tomorrow.
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Next week, we have those four collections of Disney True-Life Adventures coming out. My bank account is already yelping in pain, but I've loved those features and featurettes all my life, so I had to have these.
Charlie Chan Volume 2 is also out next week.
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"No" has become one of my favorite words over the past year.
People still "take advantage" of me in ways that don't necessarily bother/trouble me, but in ways that occasionally irritate me.
They just assume that, because I love to cook, I will prepare a food for some function or other...sufficient to feed 20 people or 40 people.
Usually, I don't mind at all. But when they'd rather hand it over to me EVERY TIME rather than solicit other "volunteers", I find that "No, thanks, I'm doing something else that day!" works very well.
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I started this afternoon with VERONICA MARS. My local CW affiliate for some reason did not pick up the high def version of the show, so I had to settle for the standard version they showed and had to manipulate the aspect ratio of my set so the picture wouldn't be distorted. Weird.
Anyway, the solution of the rapist mystery was quite good and had me completely fooled. I had gone in another direction entirely (the professor's assistant was my guess). And the new murder mystery set up last night was also a great way to begin the next mystery arc on the show. The victim was REALLY a surprise! I thouoght for sure it would be either the dean's wife or the professor.
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I used to "decorate" our common areas in our division for the holidays.
It was always something tasteful...a touch here, a dab there. Color, some sparkle, and every year it was different.
Last year, a newer co-worker, who had really loved what I'd done the year before, decided she wanted to do the decorating.
Fine by me.
Trouble is, when she brought everything in, she expected me to drop everything and assist her in her grand scheme.
I asked her if she remembered how much help I requested the year before. She admitted she didn't recall me asking for help.
And that's when I told her I didn't expect to "help" her. If she has a vision, she can put it out there. I used to come in over a weekend to decorate. She wanted to do it during the work day (we can finish in an hour if you help).
No.
I don't mind someone else doing it. When I was doing the decorating, it was because nothing was being done by anyone else. If someone else wants to do it, though, I want them to do it.
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Next was HOUSE with some really surprising developments amid the story of a child with mysterious ailments that seemed to get worse every time they tried to do something that should have been positive for her.
I really have no idea where the frame story of House's drug addiction is going at all.
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"I've never enjoyed assisting/enabling others in tackiness" is the title of my first self-help book, to be written at some point in the future.
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Next was HOUSE with some really surprising developments amid the story of a child with mysterious ailments that seemed to get worse every time they tried to do something that should have been positive for her.
I really have no idea where the frame story of House's drug addiction is going at all.
In real life, Dr. House would more than likely be in a bed with all his limbs fractured. NOBODY should have to put up with the shit he's been dishing out.
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I watched 3 LBS. next. Two stories took up the hour - a woman with a brain aneurysm which could only be operated on with her body cooled and heart stopped for thirty minutes (GREY'S ANATOMY had a similar story last season dealing with the bar owner) and a man with face blindness.
The stories featured OK drama but nothing which makes this show unique or cutting edge, nothing to make it a must-see. I think this may be my last viewing of 3 LBS.
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HELP ME HELP YOU had a humorless half hour devoted to a couple of stories: a boxer who didn't have rage in the ring and an Asian girl turned on by Jewish men so she pretended to be Jewish herself. Neither funny, neither interesting. Another show I will drop from my viewing roster.
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nip/tuck had an off night, too, I thought, with poor Sean drinking to get through the holidays and Christian reunited with a black child (Wilbur from a previous season before I started watching) he thought was his. I did love seeing Charles Haid as the homeless guy (he's been behind the cameras directing in recent years a lot more than he's been acting).
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Page Six TREASURE PLANET Dance!!!
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I still have last night's LAW & ORDER: SVU to watch and I started a CSI: MIAMI episode from the disc in the player, but I only got ten minutes in.
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I just saw NBC's midseason slate necessitated by the end of Sunday night football and shifts by other networks upcoming.
THE APPRENTICE will be the Sunday 9 p.m. show on NBC followed by CROSSING JORDAN in its familiar timeslot at 10.
STUDIO 60 is going to remain on Mondays at 10, at least for now.
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS moves out of the Tuesday at 8 suicide slot opposite AMERICAN IDOL and will be on Wednesday nights at 8.
NBC is putting DATELINE on Tuesday at 8 p.m.
NBC has two hour long midseason replacement shows - THE BLACK DONNALEYS and RAINES, but they have not yet been placed on the schedule.
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Time for dinner.
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Did anybody watchthe "My Boys" premiere last night, and if so, what did you think?
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I am also hopeful the USPS man (Humphrey) will bring me some DDDVD boxes.
I've ordered quite a few DVDs over the last couple of weeks from a variety of sources and so far the only thing that I've gotten is a package from amazon.co.uk for my niece. :( Where's my stuff?? >:(
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DR MattH, re: last night's VERONICA MARS.
spoilers
spoilers
spoilers
Okay i loved the finale of this arc. Totally satisfying. I won't say that i was surprised at who the rapist turned out to be. But i loved how it all turned out.
My favorite parts were 1. parker coming to the rescue. 2. ra guy giving veronica that tea (totally caught me off guard even though we had been explicitly told that he had the keys to all the rooms. 3. the murder (i was expecting the professor). 4. but my most favorite bit was logan smashing the police car and where he ended up afterwards. Totally awesome ending.
Btw, we had so many real clues throughout the previous episodes. But how cool that veronica helped free the guy who would later attack her.
And how interesting that the not so interesting prison experiment (from the second show) played such an important part in the finale. We know moe was in the experiment last year. But was mercer in it with logan/wallace this year?
I hope the show is back next week. Not sure when the next arc starts.
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Ron---good for you on learning to say "no". Greg and I have run ourselves ragged over the last 5 years or so in community activism, volunteering and serving on boards. I have realized that the people who do the most work in this regard (in our town anyway) don't have kids. Raising kids is so much harder that maybe we volunteer out of guilt that we aren't raising kids!
All of the councilpeople we've helped, all of the city activites---planting trees, being docents, monitoring streams, organizing neighborhoods to deal with their own issues, was of no help to us when we faced our own problems. No one helped us fight for our historic district, which is being destroyed by developers.
We have also helped out so many people on their films for free.
So for the first time, the past year, we have learned to say "no" because we realized that if we didn't, we would never move to the new house.
Saying "no" has been a very liberating experience for us.
We still volunteer for a few groups, including SMA and our new neighborhood group, but generally, until we move, our mantra will be:
JUST SAY NO!
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I also bought a new mouse pad!
Furnished or un- ?
8)
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Well, I'm trying out the site. As you all know I'm out here from New York for the Brain and thoroughly enjoying. I'm learning all about Bruce, and I'm on my second of the Kritzer books and am laughing my way through his childhood. I love reading about the blow by blow of his daily life on this site.
He's giving me the restaurant tour of the city which I'm loving. Of course we're touring the restaurants that are open after 10pm since that is when rehearsal finishes. All of them have been great. Musso and Franks, Astro Burger, Genghis Cohen, Prizzie's, Birds, Kendalls. I'm having a wonderful time and the show should be great. I'd love to meet you in person after the show and hope you're coming. I love reading all the postings!
~Merrill
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...I have never seen a pomengranate in the flesh!
...
We had five (count 'em) pommegranate bushes in our back yard, when I was growing up in Burbank, CA. Every year, those prolific bushes would give us hundreds of fruits. And every year, I was the one who got to juice them all. This involved cutting them open, getting all the seeds out, and running the seeds through a food mill. Messy work, and whatever I was wearing that day was ruined, but I enjoyed it (and my sisterthebitch refused to help). After, Mom would strain the juice through a few layers of cheesecloth to filter out all the impurities, and then she'd make pommegranate jelly! Absolutely delicious, marvelous ruby stuff.
That's what childhood memories are made of.
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Furnished or un- ?
8)
LOL.
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Welcome, New Girl Merrill!
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Welcome, Merrill!!!!!!
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VERONICA MARS.
I hope the show is back next week. Not sure when the next arc starts.
I think I read somewhere that the next new show isn't until early January, but I could be wrong about that.
I did truly love the episode and this entire first arc.
And good news! Ratings were up, too! It was VERONICA's highest ever rating last night. The CW has to be happy with this pairing of VERONICA and GILMORE GIRLS. Both face very heavy competition and are doing much better than shows with much less competition on other nights.
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Welcome to our madcap little group, Merrill.
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I'm heading down now to clean the den. Should have time left over to get SVU and that CSI: MIAMI episode watched before BONES begins.
WBBL.
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Welcome, Merrill! Tell us more about yourself when you have time. I know Bruce is keeping you hopping right now!
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We had five (count 'em) pommegranate bushes in our back yard
I didn't even know they grow on bushes!
That's a wonderful memory, SWW...makes me want to find some pom jelly!
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Of tonight's programming, "Jericho" really needs to step up and slap me in the face if it wants me to continue watching.
Can't wait for "Medium" which I always find entertaining and satisfying.
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I wonder what's going on over in Oz?
TomovOz hasn't posted since early a.m. yesterday.
I hope he and Colin are well.
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A flip-side to the filling-in-for-absent-workers problem:
For me, filling is is a good thing. Since I'm a part-time worker, every time I'm asked to fill in it means that I get more hours on the job, which in turn means more on my weekly paycheck.
I started out this week with just eightteen hours scheduled.
Sunday, Kimmy really wanted to have off, so I got her shift, adding five hours.
Another two hours were added on Tuesday, due to another co-worker calling out.
Today, I was asked if I could come in for an eight-hour shift on Friday. I said sure!
So, I'm up to thirty-three hours for the week. And, since union rules say that I only have to have one day off per week, I could still be called in on either Thursday or Saturday for up to seven hours before I get pushed into overtime. Sure, overtime means more pay, but we try to avoid it because it makes the regional bean-counters nervous.
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Oh, one more thing about the pommegranate bushes - they have really sharp stickers! Every year, they had to be pruned back, a job that required wearing gloves (and that is not a Gypsy Rose Lee reference). Then all those branches had to be bundled and tied, and the night before the trash truck came they had to be hauled out to the parkway...
Those jobs were not fun.
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Oh, one more thing about the pommegranate bushes - they have really sharp stickers! Every year, they had to be pruned back, a job that required wearing gloves (and that is not a Gypsy Rose Lee reference). Then all those branches had to be bundled and tied, and the night before the trash truck came they had to be hauled out to the parkway...
Those jobs were not fun.
But they made you who you are today....and you have wonderful memories of doing something that the rest of us have no clue about.
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Where's my stuff?? >:(
Did you change your profiles with your online stores (i.e., did you let them know your address has changed?).
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This could be...
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...the start of something...
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...big!
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Hello Ron. I've been our pruning the pommegranates.
It's nice to be missed.
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Good news - our USPS fellow delivered, direct to our door and into der Brucer's hands, Doctor Who - The Beginning! Three discs, containing the first three serials (An Unearthly Child, The Daleks, and The Edge of Destruction) plus a thirty-minute condensed version of the fourth story, Marco Polo.
(Marco Polo is one of the "lost" stories, due to someone at the Beeb deciding to clean out a lot of the stuff that was in storage. Some of the lost material has been found again, on occasion as far away as Singapore, but some of the stories now exist only in script form.)
We're still waiting for a delivery from DDDVD. Maybe tomorrow....
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And a lovely Steve and Eydie reference from Ron.
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Page Seven Dance!
[move=left,scroll,6,transparent,100%][size=20]The Hokey-Pokey!!![/size][/move]
That's what it's all about!
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Dinner should be fairly easy tonight. I'm making meatballs and barley/vegetable soup. Yes, the meatballs will be in the soup. Should be yummilicious.
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The girls are FINALLY friends. This photo isn't the clearest, but it was one of the first times I saw them grooming each other and just grabbed and clicked before it scared them away
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Did you change your profiles with your online stores (i.e., did you let them know your address has changed?).
Yes...I got that out of the way pretty early on. It's that I've ordered some things that are not yet released and I chose the free shipping, which takes even longer...so it's all my fault. ;)
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Hi Merrill! Welcome. Over the summer the gang here heard the saga of my cats. The black one, Boo was a stray, Callie wanted to kill her for about the first 6 weeks she lived here. It was a very long time that more than tried my patience and led to many postings of their feline adventures here at HHW, but here they are...friends at last
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And Welcome NewGirl (aka Merrill)!
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George, belated congrats on 10,000 posts
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Welcome Merrill! Glad to have you join us. We have heard wonderful things about you.
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Nice picture of the girls, Cillaliz. Finally!
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Well, today was a wasted day. I took DS's pickup truck to have the brakes checked (the brake light was staying on), and several hours later I am home. In a couple of hours, I have a board meeting, which likely will end around midnight.
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George, belated congrats on 10,000 posts
Thanks! On to 20,000!!
;D
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UPS Guy stopped by...left me a lovely Ultimate Collector's Edition of "Superman"...plus one of my two remaining DDDVD orders....the Bogie & Bacall set...and the Paul Newman box. Funny thing....the B&B set is four DVDS in regular keepcases. The Newman box is seven DVDs in slimline cases. The Newman box is only as wide as three of the four B&B DVDs.
So...in essence...10 slimline DVDs will fit in the same space as four regular keepcase DVDs.
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Hello Ron. I've been our pruning the pommegranates.
It's nice to be missed.
Now cut that out!
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I've got a few errands before rehearsal tonight so I'm leaving work now. Have a good evening, all!
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I'm absolutely sure of one thing right now:
I'm comin' down with somethin'.
T'ain't allergies!
T'aint the holidays!
It scratches my throat and incites mucous flow.
And I'm feeling kind of flushed.
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I think I am gedding a code in by dose.
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The girls are FINALLY friends. This photo isn't the clearest, but it was one of the first times I saw them grooming each other and just grabbed and clicked before it scared them away
Lovely girls.
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Lovely girls.
Thanks Woody
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Ah, Cillaliz, how cute!
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Welcome Merrill!
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Edisaurus, I meant to add my condolences on your cousin's husband.
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Welcome DR NewGirl!
I just finished watching Christmas in Rockefeller Center - it made me want to be back in NYC (but not in that crowd!).
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Home again, home again!
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I'm gonna have a nice hot bowl of stew for dinner with leftover cornbread.
I had a hot cup of Thera-Flu before leaving work and I'm feeling kind of sedate. Sniffles are abated and throat seems okay...for the moment.
Early to bed this evening....well, after "Medium" if I can last that long...otherwise, that's what VCRs are for.
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Edisaurus, I'm sorry to hear about your and your family's loss.
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[sigh] I have five and a half hours of shows from last night to watch today. The finale to the first of three mini-mystery arcs on VERONICA MARS has gotten rave reviews from critics I've read, so I'll start with that.
Of course, by skipping commercials, it won't that me that long to watch all of these programs.
I've recently started watching Veronica Mars this season and thought last night's episode was awesome.
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The next thing you'll see is the casting of Howie Mandel as Daddy Warbucks in "Annie."
And who wouldn't pay their bottom dollar to see that!?
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I had a hot cup of Thera-Flu before leaving work and I'm feeling kind of sedate.
I <heart> Thera-Flu.
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TPunk and the rest of HHW: Thank you so very much for all your support. It means a lot to me and my family. This happened so suddenly that they are not going to have a funeral, just a graveside service, so I don't think my family will be able to go up for it.
My brother and I will go up to visit my cousin in VA when things settle down and see how we can help.
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On the other hand, I sympathize with the employers and other employees left "holding the bag" when someone calls in sick.
Yes, it's hard enough doing your job during this season without having to do someone else's, too. That often leads to resentment toward the absent employee.
And, yes, I agree that there are instances of goldbricking (i.e., calling in sick when you aren't sick at all).
But still...
I am fully planning on taking a "mental health" sick day sometime between now and Christmas. The holiday season is also rough in my line of work. It's only 3 days after TG weekend and I'm already burnt out! But I think a lot of folks at my office indulge in an occasional mental health day and I know that my kids will get a better therapist in me as a result. Or at least that's my rationalization. ;D
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Welcome NewGirl!
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Sadly neither Michaels nor ACMoore allows you to purchase craft supplies online. You can view craft ideas or products available for purchase in the stores.
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At the first firm I worked for out of law school in the mid-1980's, the Human Resources people spoke openly about people needing and taking mental health days from time to time. It wasn't being encouraged but it was basically represented that they knew the need for them was there, the firm knows you're going to take them and be considerate to your co-workers about when you take them.
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I've recently started watching Veronica Mars this season and thought last night's episode was awesome.
You might want to check out the first two seasons on DVD (especially season 1 which has delightful episode mysteries plus one long season long mystery to entertain you.)
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I finished the CSI: MIAMI episode I had started late this afternoon. It had a sad story of a suspected rapist being let go and the CSIs trying to find the guilty party while lawsuits and accusations swirled around them.
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SVU had the return of Mariska Hargitay to the series after her maternity leave and she came back amid a trio of guest stars: Chris Sarandon, Bob Saget, and Bernadette Peters. Nice mystery this week.
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I loved BONES tonight. A kind of offshoot story to THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, it was creepy and genuinely shudder-inducing (as the best SUPERNATURAL episodes are).
spoiler
Alas, Brennan once again lost at a chance for love. The writers are cruel doing this to her both last season and now this season as well.
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DAY BREAK fit together some more pieces of the puzzle as the day began to change in some not so subtle ways keeping the show from getting stale. Looks like as he does positive things for people during one of his "days," they seem taken care of the next time the day comes around. Interesting.
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MEDIUM I enjoyed until the last five minutes or so. I didn't think the ending held up, but I love the character of evil Charles Walker and hope he does make a return appearance. It was great to get his backstory.
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Sorry to those who are feeling under the weather. Hope good health returns to those in need.
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SVU had the return of Mariska Hargitay to the series after her maternity leave and she came back amid a trio of guest stars: Chris Sarandon, Bob Saget, and Bernadette Peters. Nice mystery this week.
I didn't see tonight's episode but I'm still thinking about last week's episode. It had to do with foster care and mentally ill children so of course it was right up my alley. Very disturbing. Also right up my alley.
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Okay, I must get myself to bed.
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Good night all!
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I'm heading off to bed, too.
Good night!
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As DR George would say: A lull.
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Looks like the major reviews for the John Doyle COMPANY are money reviews.
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Well, it is 11:42 p.m. Arizona time, and our board meeting just concluded a few minutes ago.
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Back from rehearsal and food, must now write quick notes and try to catch up on my sleep as I'm very overtired. Of course, I must do an errand in the morning, then do a casting session, then go to rehearsal.