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Well, you've read the notes, the notes had the flavor of both melon and pineapple, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're currently craving some balls and chunks.
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And the word of the day is: PLUVIAL!
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Topic of the Day: I don't know about a "best" hot dog and I don't think that I've ever had an "exotic" hot dog, but the only hot dogs that I've had that I haven't liked were either overcooked or had too much mustard on them. :P
Otherwise, hot dogs = :D
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Whew more thunderstorms and wind and lightning late last night - and more thunderstorms predicted for today....and a high temperature in the mid 90's!
And that's Mooresville/Greenwood, Indiana, for June 19, 2010.
I appreciate the suggestions for BLITHE SPIRIT. The cast was using their books - so the pace was quick....there is just SO MUCH PLAY there. I am watching the television version to see what Coward himself cut and will probably lose some blocks of repetitive dialog here and there.
Yes, it must move quickly.....so we shall see. So far only one cast member has weighed in on the cuts.....she had some good suggestions, but a line here and there is not the answer.
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The hot dog is a mighty treat.
For lunch it's what I like to eat.
At least until the day I read
Upon the package, what it said:
This hot dog is made of feet.
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Lovely photos from MR BK yesterday....food and otherwise. Nice colors in the sleeping chamber.
Also enjoyed DR GINNY's continuing tree saga.
DR PENNYO was here and was DR DAKOTA CELT....bravo!
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Sometimes a hot dog is just a hot dog.
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Good morning, all! I had rather unsettling dreams of frightening shadows and ghostly presences and sounds that terrified and woke me a couple of times. My last dream was a long one about working at Barnes and Noble on a busy Saturday with too few co-workers and lots of books and magazines to be put away. I was rather happy to get out of bed and realize that I had very few actual plans for the day.
At 10 am I shall meet DR edisaurus for breakfast. I think Greg is with her and we're meeting at Popover's, so that's gong to be fun. For this weekend's work, I have one of Joshie's Victor Herbert charts here to proofread, so I will do that today and tomorrow. I've also got more critical notes to pore over and some work on my WIZARD OF OZ lecture, so that's my weekend.
In my hometown there once was the wonderful Liberty Restaurant, which folded about ten years ago. Long before I ever heard of Skyline or other Chili Dog franchises, the Liberty Restaurant's biggest trade was its wonderful hot dogs and toppings. The restaurant was busy during the day for downtown workers and lunch, but I woul guess the major part of its business was takeout. And, because my parents loved the product, the Liberty became the place for special occasions: company, a good report card, my mother's moments of craziness, whatever. Their chili was wonderful, but their hot dogs - and I still have no idea whether they were cooked in water, beer, Coca Cola, or God alone knows, were the best hot dogs ever. My dismay when I first discovered that the restaurant was now only a bit of Middletown folklore was enormous.
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I dimly recall the Liberty from my year in Middletown, but can't remember the hotdogs there. I may have been in my longneck lunch phase then, which I have since outgrown.
My favorite hotdogs have little to do with the dog themselves, but with the setting. I love them at baseball games. Trite, I know. But there's something about a dog at Shea Stadium or Yankee Stadium with spicy mustard and those onions that makes the whole experience a little more special. Some good friends, a cold beer and maybe some peanuts, and I'm all set. The big deal at the ballparks in San Antonio is smoked turkey legs, which pack a lot of meat on them but not enough sentiment for me.
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TOD: My husband is from Chicago, known for their hot dogs. He was lucky enough to find a Chicago hot dog stand here in Phoenix, so we go there once in a while.
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I guess for an exotic dog, there's the slaw dog in Atlanta, which I love. It's at the Varsity and it arrives covered with, you guessed it, coleslaw. Great combination. I usually try to grab at least one every time I visit.
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Saturday morning greetings! The storms that DR JRand described rolled through here a couple of hours ago. DH Richard is back in Oxford all day and DS Rob and I will attend the Miami University Men's Glee Club Alumni concert tonight. It's reunion weekend at MU, if you hadn't already guessed.
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Ah, yes, DRs Elmore and John G, The Liberty is history. Like DR John G, the hot dog that came to mind for me had more to do with the circumstances than the food itself. A couple of years ago, DH Richard and I took the Circle Line cruise around Manhattan and ate hot dogs and popcorn - the sun was shining and the water was sparkling and we enjoyed every minute of it.
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TOD:
My wife makes the greatest hot dogs.
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She also makes great meatloaf, which is what she's going to make me for Father's Day tomorrow.
:)
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1963 posts!
That's the year I graduated from college.
;D
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I would have to go with any hot dog, done with Cincinnati chili, described in BK's notes. -- your basic Cincinnati Coney, dog, mustard, bun onions, Cincinnati-style chili, shredded cheese Though there are several variations and brands in Cincy, the difference between them is pretty much a toss-up, all are good.
Other than that, I'm not really into unusual or exotic hot dogs...I've seen those fancy dogs on the Food Channel piled with strange oddities that, frankly, look unappetizing to me. Simplicity if the key, a nice plump hot dog, warm bun, mustard, diced onions, a good pickle relish. And I don't always need the relish.
Though they are not especially brilliant, I've always enjoyed Dodger Dogs. But like John G, this has to do with the setting. A hot dog is de rigeur at a baseball game. Nothing else will do. Aside from baseball games, I rarely order a hotdog at a restaurant or deli.
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Whew more thunderstorms and wind and lightning late last night - and more thunderstorms predicted for today....and a high temperature in the mid 90's!
And that's Mooresville/Greenwood, Indiana, for June 19, 2010.
I appreciate the suggestions for BLITHE SPIRIT. The cast was using their books - so the pace was quick....there is just SO MUCH PLAY there. I am watching the television version to see what Coward himself cut and will probably lose some blocks of repetitive dialog here and there.
Yes, it must move quickly.....so we shall see. So far only one cast member has weighed in on the cuts.....she had some good suggestions, but a line here and there is not the answer.
JRand, what TV version of BLITHE SPIRIT are you watching. If the cast just got off books, no wonder your run-through went three hours, if your a week away or something from opening, then I'd worry.
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Goodbye, Jeanne and kittens. We will miss you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFwJkBqHFqw
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TOD - Costco has the best hot dog. I think they might be Hebrew Nationals, but they are yummy, and you can't beat the price!
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A hot dog does not make ME lose control.
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1963 posts!
That's the year I graduated from college.
;D
I was 2 years old in 1963 ;)
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I like fried hot dogs
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I really should go to the farmers market, but I'm not in the mood
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I had a great time last night. This morning I discovered that Gatorade also helps get rid of that morning after headache
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It's a nice day. I have the windows open to air out the house. I did a little cleaning this morning before a friend stopped by to bring me some iris and blackberry plants and some lilac bushes. I have tons of lilacs coming up, but may plant them in another part of the yard
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He also brought me coffee. What a sweetheart. He's the young guy who made me the homemade miso and used to work at my favorite coffee shop.
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I've really got to run some errands. I just can't seem to get motivated. Maybe if I just turn off the computer and go!
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And the word of the day is: PLUVIAL!
And The Song Of The Day Is: I THINK IT'S GOING TO RAIN TODAY
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I'm up, she of the Evil Eye and her sister are cleaning away - we can't do the bed skirt as we all seem to have bad backs at the moment - so I may enlist the aid of my helper on Monday or get some strapping person here to help do it.
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PAGE TWO!
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T.O.D.
Without a ddoubt, Nathan's Hot Dogs with chili and cheese. There used to be a Nathan's just east of Broadway on 43rd or 44th. It was always one of my stops when I was in The City.
Hot Dogs at any sport's arena. Even if I have dinner before coming to the game, I still have to have a hot dog. Also, Costo hot dogs are a must.
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1963 posts!
That's the year I graduated from college.
;D
I was 2 years old in 1963 ;)
:P
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1963 posts!
That's the year I graduated from college.
;D
I was 2 years old in 1963 ;)
The niece I visited last weekend was born in 1963. I was 12.
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I had a wonderful date with Greg and our DR edisaurus, who had a successful presentation of the baseball documentary on Thursday evening. It's now heading out for film festival bookings before opening in Manhattan in November. I'm sure I'm telling it all badly, so she can give you all the news when she's back in Atlanta.
She and Greg both mentioned lousy internet connection at the Edison Hotel, so there was little communication with anyone before calling me last night. We'll have a big HHW event in November.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Safe Travel Vibes for DR edisaurus and Greg Tonight! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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I must still be stuck on some of last evening's posts. I opened an e-mail from Amazon.com; and I thought the headline said FREE RETURN ON EDIBLE CLOTHING (eligible)
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I was 10 years old in 1963
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I was 10 years old in 1963
I was 13 in 1963.
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I turned 13 three weeks before 1963 ended.
At least these are posts...
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Today is my sister's birthday. She prefers to tell people that she is three years younger; so, in her honor:
HAPPY 57TH
BIRTHDAY, DIANE!
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I turned 13 three weeks before 1963 ended.
At least these are posts...
HAPPY 13,959 POST, GINNY
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I turned 13 three weeks before 1963 ended.
At least these are posts...
This should have been two posts.
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I wish I could see Angela Lansbury in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, but that won't happen. I believe she is gone at the end of June.
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Happy Birthday to Diane, DS (dear sister) of DR TCB! If I'm doing my math right, she and I were born in the same year - I'll have my "57th" birthday in December.
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Happy Birthday to Diane, DS (dear sister) of DR TCB! If I'm doing my math right, she and I were born in the same year - I'll have my "57th" birthday in December.
(Shhh, she is actually three years older than her younger brother.)
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Ginny, if you are turning 57 this year, then you were ten in 1963.
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Angela (and Catherine Zeta-Jones) leave after the final show tomorrow (June 20th).
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Ginny, if you are turning 57 this year, then you were ten in 1963.
DR TCB, the only way I'm turning 57 this year is by shaving 3 years off my real age!
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Ginny, if you are turning 57 this year, then you were ten in 1963.
DR TCB, the only way I'm turning 57 this year is by shaving 3 years off my real age!
Well, I would have pegged you as about ten years younger than me!
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Ginny, if you are turning 57 this year, then you were ten in 1963.
DR TCB, the only way I'm turning 57 this year is by shaving 3 years off my real age!
Well, I would have pegged you as about ten years younger than me!
:-*
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Today I fed the starving masses yearning not to be the subject of a Facebook page:
Master Rocky - Lord of the Realm
(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b70/GEORDIEMC/Sat100001.jpg)
Capt Jay - chief enforcer
(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b70/GEORDIEMC/Sat100002.jpg)
And an old pal who's figurered out bird bars are easing to use the tree tunks (and when no one is looking - I hop over and steall a kernel of corn
(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b70/GEORDIEMC/Sat100003.jpg)
der Brucer
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Gee a whix-bang psoting speed is up to a post/hour - BK will be so pleased.
(Of course he's not here to complain)
der Brucer
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Nice photos, DR der Brucer. The wildlife is gradually returning to our backyard, now that the guys with the chainsaws have been gone for 24 hours. Wait'll the birds and squirrels see (and hear) the equipment they're bringing back on Tuesday or Wednesday to grind out the stumps!
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Hello!
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today I cleaned house a little
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Then I went to the store and bought flowers
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Then I went to the grocery store and bought groceries and salt for the water softener
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I also got a new furnace filter
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i'm not resting before I plant the flowers
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Not a real exciting day
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But I stretched it into a lot of posts
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And here we are on Page 3!!
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Where is Jose?
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I hope he hasn't left us
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I heard that they are installing pianos around NYC for the public to use. Has anyone heard about this?
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Ah here it ishttp://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2010-06-19-new-york-city-pianos_N.htm?csp=tf (http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2010-06-19-new-york-city-pianos_N.htm?csp=tf)
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Happy Birthday to DR TCB's sister.
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Happy Birthday To DR TCB's sister
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Ah here it ishttp://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2010-06-19-new-york-city-pianos_N.htm?csp=tf (http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2010-06-19-new-york-city-pianos_N.htm?csp=tf)
"Anyone who gets a sudden itch to tickle the ivories will be able to play free public pianos in 50 places throughout New York City, from the Coney Island boardwalk to the Metropolitan Museum."
But any guy who gets a sudden itch to shake the dew from his lily will search in vain for accessible accommodations.
der Brucer
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Happy Birthday to Diane, DS (dear sister) of DR TCB! If I'm doing my math right, she and I were born in the same year - I'll have my "57th" birthday in December.
Thanks, Ginny.
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Happy Birthday to DR TCB's sister.
Happy Birthday To DR TCB's sister
Thank you, my friends.
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Has there been a major power failure throughout the Western Hemisphere?
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I am making another tuna pasta salad this weekend, but I hope it isn't a crime that I am replacing the red onion with vidalia onions.
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I had a great time last night. This morning I discovered that Gatorade also helps get rid of that morning after headache
:) & ;D
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Happy Birthday to Diane, DS (dear sister) of DR TCB!
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Ah here it ishttp://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2010-06-19-new-york-city-pianos_N.htm?csp=tf (http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2010-06-19-new-york-city-pianos_N.htm?csp=tf)
How fun. I hope none of them are stolen.
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DR DerBrucer, thanks for the backyard photos!! :)
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Has there been a major power failure throughout the Western Hemisphere?
Maybe you had a stroke?
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WONDERFUL HOME ADOPTION VIBES FOR DFC (DEAR FOSTER CAT) JEANNE & HER KITTENS!!!
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Hi DR elmore. :)
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Howdy!
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It took you long enough to respond. ;D
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Sheets are clean, off to make the bed.
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Has there been a major power failure throughout the Western Hemisphere?
We're having a little thundershower, but my laptop is on battery so I should be ok
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I got out and planted some flowers I picked up on sale and got them done just before it started raining. It's supposed to rain off and on for the next few days so hopefully that will give them a good start
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Back from various and sundried. I had poached eggs on toast at Jerry's Deli to kill time this morning. Then I did a few errands and whatnot, then I went to the lunch meeting, which was very interesting on any number of levels - many things were discussed, lots o' laughs, and a potential upcoming project was also discussed, as well as Shelly Markham's involvement in our upcoming thing.
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Guess what was in the tuna? It came from Whole Foods.
CRANBERRIES!
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Melon Balls. We didn't have any of those.
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Post deleted.
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The deleted post was something about page three.
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Wow, in the not too distant future I shall reach a rather fun plateau of all 5s.
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At long last page four. That's what I'M talkin' about.
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How did we go from six users to one user without so much as a post from the disappearing five. The Disappearing Five - that's the title of my next novel.
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Lunch, aside from the little tuna thing from Whole Foods, was a light salad that was very yummilicious.
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We just saw "In the Heights." The very nice theater-seat neighbors left at intermission. We stuck it out.
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New seat neighbor's?
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How did we go from six users to one user without so much as a post from the disappearing five.
You left without a word/post ;)
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I made about twelve posts, actually :)
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I'm thinking I've had enough food for the day, although I could probably be coerced into a sweet later.
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A Sweet Later - that's the title of my next novel, a story of the hereafter and the afterhere.
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I make twelve posts and others make zero posts - where is the equality, I ask you?
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Listening to music, and tonight will be watching a motion picture on Blu and Ray entitled Edge of Darkness, a movie from earlier this year that I know nothing about.
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Did I miss something? is the tour of IN THE HEIGHTS not as good as the Broadway production?
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Went to some sort of counseling at Unemployment fo helping to find a job. Have resumes changed so drastically in ten or so years? I was told my resume needed to consider the internet better
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I finished reading "The Devil in the White City". While reading about the Chicago Worlds Fair two thing came to mind, DC & the Lincoln Memorial and Disneyland. The Lincoln Memorial is obvious. It was interesting to learn Walt's father helped build the "White City".
Somehow I was under the impression this book was about a serial killer and the fair. I'm glad I was wrong. It was definitely about the fair, other events and the serial killer.
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So they'll give me a free resume preparation workshop - which is a good thing.
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I;m assuming their real objective is to get people off the Unemployment rolls
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We celebrated Father's day last night. went to an italian restaurant in Brooklyn, Very nice place called Gargulios (sp?)
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DR FJL, were they more specific on how you need to consider the internet?
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I;m assuming their real objective is to get people off the Unemployment rolls
Whatever their reasons I hope it is helpful!
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Today was the Broadway Across America tour; the bad seat neighbors are at a local theater.
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Happy Birthday to Diane, DS (dear sister) of DR TCB!
Thanks, Jane.
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Of course only good seat neighbors would leave. ;) I'm sorry the show wasn't more enjoyable.
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This is my second post. Does this mean that I can now leave and Bruce will post my other ten posts?
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Well, Burce didn't say anything about my use of Vidalia onions in the tuna pasta; so either it is okay, or he doesn't really care because he doesn't have to eat it.
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Damn! Now I have done
three four posts.
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Damn! Now I have done three four posts.
Rather, I should have said that I have now posted four times.
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Nope. Now that is six posts.
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Jump on in everybody, the water is fine
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Jump on in everybody, the water is fine
Whoops! I missed my period.
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PAGE FIVE!!!
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I am on a roll. Stop me, somebody!
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Well fine! Doesn't anybody want to come out and play?
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No cranberries will be added to my tuna pasta.
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Okay, I have to go soak in the tub.
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You are all on your honor to post (at least) 12 posts each.
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G'night!
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Here is a post, but I have nothing to say other then I took two naps today an I am now going to watch this Tollywood (Telugu) comedy.
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fWT-pCpvgrA/Sbjtm5BKNgI/AAAAAAAABag/ABQ4EqZ86Lk/s320/Evadi+Gola+Vadidi.jpg)
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Darn, I missed jumping in-sorry TCB.
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One of my first really strong memories is from 1963. The JFK assassination, which I mostly remember because there were no cartoons on that weekend.
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We finally got our Media Room put together today, reconnecting the 7.1 Onkyo system and thank heaven it still works. I had a nightmare with it when we first got it and I was really paranoid about disconnecting the wires, but all seems fine. Then Betsy and I went out and bought a much needed new mattress and box springs. Unfortunately, it's being custom made for us so will probably not get here until right before we go on vacation in early July. It's filled with soy foam!!
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Soy foam, intriguing.
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'night
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Had a frustrating day today. Or maybe it was just weird. I spent the entire day fixing the work of people who make more money than I do, and they don't seem to care about the needless mistakes that they make. I guess they figure us minions will clean up their mess. In the midst of all this work (for which I am truly grateful, even on days like this), I heard that the man who laid me off last year has been laid off himself. He's put his house on the market and is probably heading out of town. I didn't feel schadenfreude, I didn't really feel anything. I felt sorry for other co-workers who have now lost their jobs, though most have other opportunities facing them.
I made up for any discomfort, though, by heading out to a home-cooking/soul food place for dinner, where we had dessert first (handmade peach cobbler) and dessert last (still-warm-from-the-oven buttermilk pie). In between was a great plate of fried catfish and shrimp with cabbage/collard greens and coleslaw. Forget music, that buttermilk pie -- with a drizzle of heavy cream on top -- had the charms to soothe this savage breast this evening.
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And with that, I say good night, all.
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Maybe one more post.
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Or maybe one quote from Alan Jay Lerner:
One more walk around the garden
One more stroll along the shore.
One more memory I can dream upon
Until I dream no more.
For one more time perhaps the dawn will wait
And one more prayer it's not too late
To gather one more rose
Before I say goodbye and close the garden gate.
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Some overwrought YouTube thoughts from "Alan Jay Lerner" on the gender-bending revisal of ON A CLEAR DAY:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt9VtE_1TY8
i should be intrnetting rather than these silly videos, but they're keeping me less crabby than I might otherwise be. :)
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Jump on in everybody, the water is fine
Whoops! I missed my period.
Is this your attempt at gender-bending humor?
der Brucer
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Some overwrought YouTube thoughts from "Alan Jay Lerner" on the gender-bending revisal of ON A CLEAR DAY:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt9VtE_1TY8
i should be intrnetting rather than these silly videos, but they're keeping me less crabby than I might otherwise be. :)
Cojones!
der Brucer
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I have finished with my viewing for the evening. I ended up getting hungry, too, so I went and had a turkey sandwich and no fries.
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Has there been a major power failure throughout the Western Hemisphere?
Yes, there was some time this afternoon when the DP (He who is not religious at all...) informed me he was going to my Grandmother's Funeral Mass AND the Rosary the night before, There was either a power surge or an earthquake.
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Anyone have any info on the missing DR Jose?
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1963 posts!
That's the year I graduated from college.
;D
I was 2 years old in 1963 ;)
I wasn't even born yet...not for another three years. :D
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Today is my sister's birthday. She prefers to tell people that she is three years younger; so, in her honor:
HAPPY 57TH
BIRTHDAY, DIANE!
DITTO!!
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WONDERFUL HOME ADOPTION VIBES FOR DFC (DEAR FOSTER CAT) JEANNE & HER KITTENS!!!
Ditto, too!!