Haines His Way
Archives => Archive 20 => Topic started by: bk on December 27, 2010, 12:16:41 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were high and had style and were written in the last of 2010, and now it is time for you to post until the last of 2010 cows come home - in high style, of course.
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And the word of the day is: FUNAMBULISM!
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Oops - forgot to read the notes
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Read the notes. And what lovely notes they were
I think the only films I saw this year were Iron Man II and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows. Iron Man was great, Harry Potter was great, too. In fact, if it's still out there next week, I may take the DP to see it, although I read somewhere that it was going away soon.
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the wind is howling around the house - the drift against the back door is about 4 foot high - hope we can get out the front door
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Morning all.
That is all.
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The snow has stopped in Manhattan but there is a lot of it on the street. By Thursday it will be fine. We are supposed to have temperatures in the high 30s with lots of sun so the snow will become slush by New Years Eve.
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I saw some films but not sure if I would put them o a list
Harry Potter ( though it was better than the last film)
The Sound of Music (HD Presentation)
a gay comedy about bears ( Heavy set men and not the animals) where the best line was a throw away and an good example of fine comedy writing. The rest of the film waas a mish mash and unfocused.
There were a couple of others but cannot recall what they were and if the were a best.
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Monday morning greetings! Our household turned in pretty early last night - Rob and Mary Linda were very tired from their long day of driving 2 cars down here from Michigan and Richard and I were just glad to be back in our own home and bed. I woke up early, too, and have been enjoying some quiet time and coffee.
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The sounds of the incredible wind outside woke me up this morning.
As a Christmas treat for myself, I bought a set of red plaid flannel sheets that are so warm and comfy that I hate getting out of bed in the morning. So here in bed I continue to lie, listening to the hurricane-force winds howl...
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HI, DANISE!!!!!
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Welcome back, DR Danise! How are you doing?
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Crap! Power is about to go from my iTouch. I guess I must leave my warm and comfy bed and brace myself for the fun of shoveling outside in these winds.
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Take it easy out there, DR Dan (the Man)!
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Hi all--it's a Ghost of Christmas Past just stopping by to say "Hello"!
I've missed you all and you've never been far from my mind but I've had so many things going on that it was all I could do to just come home and get dinner ready for the dogs and myself. I can't tell you how many times I fell asleep on the couch and woke up at nine or ten o'clock--just in time to go to bed. I just didn't feel like doing anything but veg in front of the TV (when I could manage to stay awake) or just pop on the net for a moment and that's just the plain truth.
I took this week off from work because i didn't have a vacation this entire year and thought I could just use the break. Every time I think things are going good at work something new comes up. They said we were going to have a mass lay off in September then while there was some lay offs I thought I made it though. Then they said it would happen again in December and I was scared to death. Then word came down (the week before Christmas) that it had been put off until March or April but there WILL be a big lay off then.
Work is nothing like it was before--the whole atmosphere has changed. From being laid back to super high stress. You feel like you have to justify your work and prove your worth everyday. That's part of the reason I was to scared to take any time off--if your not there and they can get along without you.......
So please bear with me. After these few days off I can feel myself starting to decompress somewhat but I was so wore out that I went to bed at nine o'clock on Christmas Eve and Christmas night.
The dogs are doing fine. I don't know what I would do without them. Can't tell you how many times I woke up with one or the other (or both) curled up on the couch/bed with me. They are such a comfort.
I hope all of you are happy, safe and well. I saw on the news about that snow storm up by New York. I still want to see snow but not quite that much! I do have to say that I am enjoying the central heat and air. Now that I have it, I don't know how I lived without it. It's soooo nice to come home to a warm or cool house instead of freezing or frying!
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Hi Dan and Ginny! It's so very nice to see you again!
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TOD:
Since I've come to the point in my life where I seldom, if ever, go to a theater any more and wait for a movie to come out on DVD, there are a lot of 2010 movies that I've yet to see.
However, of those I have seen, the ones I enjoyed the most are (in no particular order):
THE TOWN
CITY ISLAND
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT
TOY STORY 3
THE GHOST WRITER
GREEN ZONE
LEAVES OF GRASS
HARRY BROWN
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DR Danise we've missed you so much!
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Thank you DR Jennifer (Gee I've even forgotten the DR part)! I will be here this week at least. I can't promise what will happen when I get back to the grind.
The movies I've seen this year make me glad I didn't go out and pay the money to go to the theater to see them. I didn't think I missed seeing one of them on a big screen.
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How many of you have/planning to get one of those new 3-D TV's? I think it will be quite some time before I'll bother with one--even if I did have the money. I don't think there is enough content out there to justify getting one. I don't like the idea of having to wear the glasses either.
Toby the Terrible would more then likely have them either torn up or out in the back yard.
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I watched a hockey game a few weeks ago that was shown here in 3D. It sort of hurt my eyes. I don't know if I would personally be able to watch a lot of tv that way.
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This is my last full day of vacation in Johnston SC. Will be up at the butt-crack of dawn in the morning to ride to Columbia SC where I will embark upon a short flight to Atlanta. From there (and heaven willing I make my connection), I'll be on a flight to San Francisco which should see me arrive at 1:30 p.m. PDT.
It has been an amazingly fast two weeks. Church was cancelled yesterday for just about every church in SC. We still have snow on the ground which is quite unusual for the rare snowfalls we get here. It's VERY cold (lows in the teens, highs in the 30s)) and will continue to be so until Thursday when, suddenly, things go tropical and temps soar into the 60s (with lows in the upper 40s).
I'm already tired from the flight back and it ain't even happened yet.
Sigh.
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Danise!!! I am so happy to see you there!
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The Vixter went out this morning and cleared the snow from the path and the driveway - I was just getting ready to get in my car and brave the roads when I received a phone call from my co worker saiying hta we were closed
I am so relieved!
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travel vibes for RLP
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Hi DR VixMom! So happy to see you as well! I hope your not buried in snow!
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Yay - snow day for DR Vixmom!
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How many of you have/planning to get one of those new 3-D TV's? I think it will be quite some time before I'll bother with one--even if I did have the money. I don't think there is enough content out there to justify getting one. I don't like the idea of having to wear the glasses either.
Toby the Terrible would more then likely have them either torn up or out in the back yard.
We still haven't moved up to HDTV or blu Ray - si I do not see a 3 D TV in our near future....
unless of course one of us won that 168 million mega millions drawing...where ARE those tickets we got in our stockings?
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So Danise, at the risk of raising a sore subject... what has been happening with your house?
I assume fromthe central heating remark that it is finally finished and you are living there
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I am about to go downstairs for a cardio walk - haven't done that since Thursday and I don't want to get out of the habit.
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As someone who makes at least part of my living from the hi-def world, my advice is wait on 3D HDTVs (the 3D Blu-ray players are already coming down in price and are pretty reasonable). I'd say by mid to late 2011 3D TVs will be relatively affordable. :)
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I don't think I saw any new movies this year. I'm not sure.
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How many of you have/planning to get one of those new 3-D TV's? I think it will be quite some time before I'll bother with one--even if I did have the money. I don't think there is enough content out there to justify getting one. I don't like the idea of having to wear the glasses either.
Toby the Terrible would more then likely have them either torn up or out in the back yard.
We still haven't moved up to HDTV or blu Ray - si I do not see a 3 D TV in our near future....
unless of course one of us won that 168 million mega millions drawing...where ARE those tickets we got in our stockings?
I doubt if I ever will be buying a 3-D television.
Personally, I don't like the process and, after another year or two, my hunch is that it will go the same way that 3-D did back in the 1950s.
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The new 3D process is a good sight better (pun intended) than the old "red and blue" glasses kind. 3D sales are exploding, believe me. It's not going away anytime soon.
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So Danise, at the risk of raising a sore subject... what has been happening with your house?
I assume fromthe central heating remark that it is finally finished and you are living there
It's not as sore as it once was. Yes, I am home. It's not everything I wanted but I am thrilled to be here.
I just got the Final Order from the FL Dept of Business and Pro Regulation--on Friday. I guess it was my Christmas gift. Not that it makes any matter to me. They directed him to give me a full refund of my money but I'll never see a dime of it. I think that was the hardest lesson I learned after the whole mess. I was so sure that when you won in court that other person HAD to pay you but now I know it doesn't mean a thing. I'm sorry DR Cilla but I will have any faith in our court system again. You can win and lose at the very same time.
Turner now has 2 other cases listed against him on their web site so he has been a busy boy scamming folks. I can well imagine that if 3 people filed against him, there may be countless others who didn't know how to take that steps that I did. Who knows how many other people are out there that he took.
At least I feel like I did something. He now has a F BBB rating, can't pull a permit in my county, has some BIG fines to pay if he wants to keep his license and a few news stories that maybe some people saw and will take heed not to do business with him.
Now that's it all said and done I just want to put it behind me but my last thought on the subject is how it never had to happen. If he had just done the work that he was paid to do none of what I or anyone of his other victims had go though would have happened. I just don't understand it. If he was in business for the past 25 plus years he must have done good work at some point in time. He did have a B on the BBB site when I looked him up at the beginning. Well, live and learn.
I never will understand why...
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The new 3D process is a good sight better (pun intended) than the old "red and blue" glasses kind. 3D sales are exploding, believe me. It's not going away anytime soon.
"Soon" is a relative term.
3-D is a gimmick and gimmicks do not last.
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Good morning, all! I slept late. but let's get to the important issues first.
DR Danise, how wonderful to see you! I have missed you, as I'm sure most of us have, and I'm really happy to know what's been going on. Thank you for your card. I was thinking about you on Christmas Day as I was opening four weeks of holiday cards.
Yes, we had a blizzard and the City is very very very quiet this morning. I finished watching NORTH AND SOUTH (wonderful production!) around 12:30 and had a bitch of a time getting to sleep. I was up and down, coughing, wheezing, sleeping a bit until after 4 am. When the alarm went off at 7:30, there was no way in hell I was getting out of bed.
As to the wonderful NORTH AND SOUTH, it was like seeing the film BILLY ELLIOT: I loved the plot but hada hard time at first with the accents and union talk. NORTH AND SOUTH is set in 1857, the same year as Prince Albert's Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace in London, and it's a much darker version of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE set in a town called Milton and the cotton mills of northern England. Mr Darcy's character is John Thornton, a wealthy mill owner and self-made man, and Lizzie Bennett's counterpart is Margaret Hale, daughter of a vicar who's left his church after a disappointment in his clergy, and taken his family to northern England; there is a brother who's gone to sea and now living in exile in Spain following a mutiny that may be based on the HMS Bounty. The plot sprawls all over - several tragic deaths, a murder mystery, a union strike and riot - and two of the most heartbreaking farewell scenes ever, one between Margaret's dying mother and Mrs Thornton and Margaret's departure from Milton to return to London. It's quiet a wonderful series.
The cast is amazing, especially Sinead Cusack (Mrs Jeremy Irons) as Mrs Thornton, the severe mother of the leading man, and Brendan Coyle as the union leader, Nicholas. I recommend this series a lot.
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And the word of the day is: FUNAMBULISM!
And The Song Of The Day Is: BIRD ON THE WIRE
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The new 3D process is a good sight better (pun intended) than the old "red and blue" glasses kind. 3D sales are exploding, believe me. It's not going away anytime soon.
"Soon" is a relative term.
3-D is a gimmick and gimmicks do not last.
One man's gimmick is another man's latest technology. :)
Just so you understand, I can't abide 3D, I just know the sales figures. :)
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In other news, our tenants (actually just the wife) is bitching because they incurred a $30 charge for not removing yard debris that had been there for 5 months, even after I told them if they didn't take care of it, they would incur a $30 charge. Oy. I also can't abide being a landlord.
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The new 3D process is a good sight better (pun intended) than the old "red and blue" glasses kind. 3D sales are exploding, believe me. It's not going away anytime soon.
"Soon" is a relative term.
3-D is a gimmick and gimmicks do not last.
One man's gimmick is another man's latest technology. :)
Just so you understand, I can't abide 3D, I just know the sales figures. :)
will you need to get a 3 D TV to continue reviewing?
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The new 3D process is a good sight better (pun intended) than the old "red and blue" glasses kind. 3D sales are exploding, believe me. It's not going away anytime soon.
"Soon" is a relative term.
3-D is a gimmick and gimmicks do not last.
One man's gimmick is another man's latest technology. :)
Just so you understand, I can't abide 3D, I just know the sales figures. :)
will you need to get a 3 D TV to continue reviewing?
Not for the time being--they have two other dedicated 3D reviewers. But down the road, yes, probably. That said, it will be a business expense for me. ;)
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I'm awake, packed, ready to go, almost. Need to spiffy up the Element to make it purty for the three lovely ladies joining me on this road trip.
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My ire and/or dander is raised by this tenant wife. I am fighting the urge to send them an email saying they can now pay us the total amount due on the lease and continue paying utilities through May.
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How many of you have/planning to get one of those new 3-D TV's? I think it will be quite some time before I'll bother with one--even if I did have the money. I don't think there is enough content out there to justify getting one. I don't like the idea of having to wear the glasses either.
Toby the Terrible would more then likely have them either torn up or out in the back yard.
I found one!!!! :D
We still haven't moved up to HDTV or blu Ray - si I do not see a 3 D TV in our near future....
unless of course one of us won that 168 million mega millions drawing...where ARE those tickets we got in our stockings?
I found one of the tickets Mom!!! :D
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Welcome back, DR Danise
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How is everyone now?
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The new 3D process is a good sight better (pun intended) than the old "red and blue" glasses kind. 3D sales are exploding, believe me. It's not going away anytime soon.
"Soon" is a relative term.
3-D is a gimmick and gimmicks do not last.
One man's gimmick is another man's latest technology. :)
Just so you understand, I can't abide 3D, I just know the sales figures. :)
I thought the New York Times did an article recently on how the sales of 3D movies had dropped off, except for the animated/kids market.
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Listening to Scottsboro Boys. BEST. CHRISTMAS. CD. EVER. Thanks again, Mom. I wish you'd had gotten to see it before it ended.
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I believe I will put on my shoes, bundle up, and head out to investigate the storm's aftermath. If the banks are open, I will make a deposit of holiday checks. After my exercise, I've got some Victor Herbert work to accomplish, some lyrics to type and a pile of papers to sort, toss or file.
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Listening to Scottsboro Boys. BEST. CHRISTMAS. CD. EVER. Thanks again, Mom. I wish you'd had gotten to see it before it ended.
Am enjoying that one, too.
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The new 3D process is a good sight better (pun intended) than the old "red and blue" glasses kind. 3D sales are exploding, believe me. It's not going away anytime soon.
"Soon" is a relative term.
3-D is a gimmick and gimmicks do not last.
One man's gimmick is another man's latest technology. :)
Just so you understand, I can't abide 3D, I just know the sales figures. :)
I thought the New York Times did an article recently on how the sales of 3D movies had dropped off, except for the animated/kids market.
Well, virtually all of the 3D BDs that have been released are animated/kids movies, so I'm at a loss as to how to respond. ;) In fact, I can't even think of a 3D BD that's been released that isn't in the animated/kids market, but maybe someone can remind me.
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Listening to Scottsboro Boys. BEST. CHRISTMAS. CD. EVER. Thanks again, Mom. I wish you'd had gotten to see it before it ended.
Am enjoying that one, too.
I only wish they had made a broadway cast one too, because I met one of the actors for that cast. Some of the lyrics are different too.
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The new 3D process is a good sight better (pun intended) than the old "red and blue" glasses kind. 3D sales are exploding, believe me. It's not going away anytime soon.
"Soon" is a relative term.
3-D is a gimmick and gimmicks do not last.
One man's gimmick is another man's latest technology. :)
Just so you understand, I can't abide 3D, I just know the sales figures. :)
I thought the New York Times did an article recently on how the sales of 3D movies had dropped off, except for the animated/kids market.
Well, virtually all of the 3D BDs that have been released are animated/kids movies, so I'm at a loss as to how to respond. ;) In fact, I can't even think of a 3D BD that's been released that isn't in the animated/kids market, but maybe someone can remind me.
They said that sound was a gimmick, too, when it was first introduced.
But, sound helped the storytelling.
Does 3D really help the storytelling?
I don't think so.
That's why it won't last.
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How many of you have/planning to get one of those new 3-D TV's? I think it will be quite some time before I'll bother with one--even if I did have the money. I don't think there is enough content out there to justify getting one. I don't like the idea of having to wear the glasses either.
Toby the Terrible would more then likely have them either torn up or out in the back yard.
I found one!!!! :D
We still haven't moved up to HDTV or blu Ray - si I do not see a 3 D TV in our near future....
unless of course one of us won that 168 million mega millions drawing...where ARE those tickets we got in our stockings?
I found one of the tickets Mom!!! :D
did we win?
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The new 3D process is a good sight better (pun intended) than the old "red and blue" glasses kind. 3D sales are exploding, believe me. It's not going away anytime soon.
"Soon" is a relative term.
3-D is a gimmick and gimmicks do not last.
One man's gimmick is another man's latest technology. :)
Just so you understand, I can't abide 3D, I just know the sales figures. :)
I thought the New York Times did an article recently on how the sales of 3D movies had dropped off, except for the animated/kids market.
Well, virtually all of the 3D BDs that have been released are animated/kids movies, so I'm at a loss as to how to respond. ;) In fact, I can't even think of a 3D BD that's been released that isn't in the animated/kids market, but maybe someone can remind me.
Avatar?
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How many of you have/planning to get one of those new 3-D TV's? I think it will be quite some time before I'll bother with one--even if I did have the money. I don't think there is enough content out there to justify getting one. I don't like the idea of having to wear the glasses either.
Toby the Terrible would more then likely have them either torn up or out in the back yard.
I found one!!!! :D
We still haven't moved up to HDTV or blu Ray - si I do not see a 3 D TV in our near future....
unless of course one of us won that 168 million mega millions drawing...where ARE those tickets we got in our stockings?
I found one of the tickets Mom!!! :D
did we win?
You tell me. It's on the table by you downstairs. XD
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Listening to Scottsboro Boys. BEST. CHRISTMAS. CD. EVER. Thanks again, Mom. I wish you'd had gotten to see it before it ended.
Am enjoying that one, too.
I only wish they had made a broadway cast one too, because I met one of the actors for that cast. Some of the lyrics are different too.
Oh. I thouht that was the Broadway cast
darn
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I think I prefer BLOW OUT to DRESSED TO KILL; which is really strange because I am not really a John Revolta fan. I don't think he is as mannered in this film, as he became later, This is, of course, not part of the T.O.D., but it is a post!
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And the word of the day is: FUNAMBULISM!
I think that is when you gorge yourself on humor and then go and puke it out.
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I would include AVATAR as an animated film, if not necessarily a kids' one.
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I think the only movies I saw in the theatre this year were
Twilight
Tangled
Avatar
Toy Story 3D
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I need to get out more
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So Danise, at the risk of raising a sore subject... what has been happening with your house?
I assume fromthe central heating remark that it is finally finished and you are living there
It's not as sore as it once was. Yes, I am home. It's not everything I wanted but I am thrilled to be here.
I just got the Final Order from the FL Dept of Business and Pro Regulation--on Friday. I guess it was my Christmas gift. Not that it makes any matter to me. They directed him to give me a full refund of my money but I'll never see a dime of it. I think that was the hardest lesson I learned after the whole mess. I was so sure that when you won in court that other person HAD to pay you but now I know it doesn't mean a thing. I'm sorry DR Cilla but I will have any faith in our court system again. You can win and lose at the very same time.
Turner now has 2 other cases listed against him on their web site so he has been a busy boy scamming folks. I can well imagine that if 3 people filed against him, there may be countless others who didn't know how to take that steps that I did. Who knows how many other people are out there that he took.
At least I feel like I did something. He now has a F BBB rating, can't pull a permit in my county, has some BIG fines to pay if he wants to keep his license and a few news stories that maybe some people saw and will take heed not to do business with him.
Now that's it all said and done I just want to put it behind me but my last thought on the subject is how it never had to happen. If he had just done the work that he was paid to do none of what I or anyone of his other victims had go though would have happened. I just don't understand it. If he was in business for the past 25 plus years he must have done good work at some point in time. He did have a B on the BBB site when I looked him up at the beginning. Well, live and learn.
I never will understand why...
why can't you file leins against his home and business?
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Good morning.
Happy snow day.
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Hey Vixter -
did you see this?
http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/NaKY6VskYv2UxXvxl23g
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So Danise, at the risk of raising a sore subject... what has been happening with your house?
I assume fromthe central heating remark that it is finally finished and you are living there
It's not as sore as it once was. Yes, I am home. It's not everything I wanted but I am thrilled to be here.
I just got the Final Order from the FL Dept of Business and Pro Regulation--on Friday. I guess it was my Christmas gift. Not that it makes any matter to me. They directed him to give me a full refund of my money but I'll never see a dime of it. I think that was the hardest lesson I learned after the whole mess. I was so sure that when you won in court that other person HAD to pay you but now I know it doesn't mean a thing. I'm sorry DR Cilla but I will have any faith in our court system again. You can win and lose at the very same time.
Turner now has 2 other cases listed against him on their web site so he has been a busy boy scamming folks. I can well imagine that if 3 people filed against him, there may be countless others who didn't know how to take that steps that I did. Who knows how many other people are out there that he took.
At least I feel like I did something. He now has a F BBB rating, can't pull a permit in my county, has some BIG fines to pay if he wants to keep his license and a few news stories that maybe some people saw and will take heed not to do business with him.
Now that's it all said and done I just want to put it behind me but my last thought on the subject is how it never had to happen. If he had just done the work that he was paid to do none of what I or anyone of his other victims had go though would have happened. I just don't understand it. If he was in business for the past 25 plus years he must have done good work at some point in time. He did have a B on the BBB site when I looked him up at the beginning. Well, live and learn.
I never will understand why...
why can't you file leins against his home and business?
Ooh, we've got supper-Mom helping. Go get 'em Mom.
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The Vixter went out this morning and cleared the snow from the path and the driveway - I was just getting ready to get in my car and brave the roads when I received a phone call from my co worker saiying hta we were closed
I am so relieved!
Thank goodness, vixmom. I worried about you all night.
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Lovely ring DR GINNY!
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How great to see DR Danise posting!
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DRTCB you have an envelope headed to your house....1st Class/Delivery Confirmation.
Enjoy!
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There is no Broadway cast recording for Scottsboro, only the Off-Broadway Vineyard version. It then went to the Guthrie in Minneapolis over the summer for a production and some tinkering and then back to Broadway.
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Cold today, but no snow....at least no MORE snow.
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Listening to Scottsboro Boys. BEST. CHRISTMAS. CD. EVER. Thanks again, Mom. I wish you'd had gotten to see it before it ended.
Am enjoying that one, too.
I only wish they had made a broadway cast one too, because I met one of the actors for that cast. Some of the lyrics are different too.
Oh. I thouht that was the Broadway cast
darn
There isn't a Broadway cast in existence. This is the only one.
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Gosh, I didn't get to the movies very much this year which means I am going to be at a great disadvantage when Oscar times rolls around (I like it best if I have seen a majority of the films up for awards).
Looks like the only 2010 films that I even watched this year all came from India, and here are my top picks.
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(http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/nehaflix_2137_439837463)
(http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/nehaflix_2137_834288805)
(http://i.ebayimg.com/20/!Bsgnb7g!mk~$(KGrHqUH-EMEvc+P5H+LBL4IHP7rig~~_12.JPG)
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oh and did you see this dear daughter?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5JcvXyPlbU
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The Vixter went out this morning and cleared the snow from the path and the driveway - I was just getting ready to get in my car and brave the roads when I received a phone call from my co worker saiying hta we were closed
I am so relieved!
Thank goodness, vixmom. I worried about you all night.
thnak you -- I must admit I was not at all happy about going
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oh and did you see this dear daughter?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5JcvXyPlbU
*Insert high pitched scream* I am now hiding up here. O_O
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Hey everyone, if you want a little laugh, smething to cheer you up, take a listen to this. My friend showed me it, and if it can make my Mom laugh, I figure someone else on here might like it too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKrtbUinWOU
Hope this makes you laugh!
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TOD:
Black Swan
I Love You Phillip Morris
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oh and did you see this dear daughter?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5JcvXyPlbU
*Insert high pitched scream* I am now hiding up here. O_O
the plan worked
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HAPPY FURLOUGH MONDAY!
No snow. Now rain. No pay.
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Whew - I found some tight muscles when I stretched before today's cardio walk! Guess that's what happens when you lol around for 3 days enjoying the holiday. At least I didn't gain any weight...
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I have been watching A Streetcar Named Desire this morning, after Netflix informed me it would no longer be available on Instant Play starting in a few days. I had forgotten how incredibly good Marlon Brando was in this. I mean, I remembered that he was good, but I had forgotten the depth of his intensley wonderful portrayal of Stanley.
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oh and did you see this dear daughter?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5JcvXyPlbU
*Insert high pitched scream* I am now hiding up here. O_O
the plan worked
-_-" No cookies for you.
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So Danise, at the risk of raising a sore subject... what has been happening with your house?
I assume fromthe central heating remark that it is finally finished and you are living there
It's not as sore as it once was. Yes, I am home. It's not everything I wanted but I am thrilled to be here.
I just got the Final Order from the FL Dept of Business and Pro Regulation--on Friday. I guess it was my Christmas gift. Not that it makes any matter to me. They directed him to give me a full refund of my money but I'll never see a dime of it. I think that was the hardest lesson I learned after the whole mess. I was so sure that when you won in court that other person HAD to pay you but now I know it doesn't mean a thing. I'm sorry DR Cilla but I will have any faith in our court system again. You can win and lose at the very same time.
Turner now has 2 other cases listed against him on their web site so he has been a busy boy scamming folks. I can well imagine that if 3 people filed against him, there may be countless others who didn't know how to take that steps that I did. Who knows how many other people are out there that he took.
At least I feel like I did something. He now has a F BBB rating, can't pull a permit in my county, has some BIG fines to pay if he wants to keep his license and a few news stories that maybe some people saw and will take heed not to do business with him.
Now that's it all said and done I just want to put it behind me but my last thought on the subject is how it never had to happen. If he had just done the work that he was paid to do none of what I or anyone of his other victims had go though would have happened. I just don't understand it. If he was in business for the past 25 plus years he must have done good work at some point in time. He did have a B on the BBB site when I looked him up at the beginning. Well, live and learn.
I never will understand why...
why can't you file leins against his home and business?
Been there. Leined that (those?) as well as him and his wife. Results? Zero. I was told that somewhere down the road (could be years from now if I keep up with the leins) I might open my mail box and have a check but I doubt it. He's in so much debt right now I don't think my turn will ever come around.
I keep a watch on his legal doings and he just had some property (I think the business) foreclosed on. December 17th, 2010. He hasn't paid the taxes on the property for the last 3 years. I don't know if that means they would have to give me a share when the property is sold but I think not since it was the bank who did the forclosure.
I also notice he did paid the property tax on his compound/house to the tune of over $2,500 so he is getting money from someplace.
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Hi DR TCB and DR Elmore! It's so nice to see/talk with you again!
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DR Vixmom that is great that you got a snow day. Would not want to think of you traipsing around in the snow.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo
I wonder if any of Jose's friends were involved in this
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Danise, hire a collection agency who will work for a percentage.
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So nice to wake up and see Danise back, and Julie, too!
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I was up at nine and must now do stuff.
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I've been out in the snow, which is quite deep. It's very quiet and people on the streets seem to be in a good mood. Tnere's very little traffic and it's kinda fun to stand in the middle of a Broadway lane of traffic and look down the street, as far as 77th Street or so. On my way out I ran into my neighbor Steve, who directs for ALL MY CHILDREN. He was off to work on sound for a film he shot this summer.
The sidewalk from 200 West 82 to the laundromat (216 West 82, I believe) was nicely cleared off. That's about three quarters of the block. I got to Broadway and stumbled into Laytners to look at their Christmas sale items, then crossed Broadway to the bank, which is closed. I deposited the checks via the ATM and wandered over to the bodega on Amsterdam and 82nd.
The wind is fierce and flurries of snow still blow around, making it feel chillier than it is. The drifts are enormous and the streets are crossable in small footpaths. I only fell once, at 82nd and Broadway as I was treading the footpath leaving the bank. My hands got a lot of snow but there was no damage.
I have no idea if we have mail delivery today or not.
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Danise, hire a collection agency who will work for a percentage.
What a great idea!
Make life difficult for the bastard!
I spit on his grave!
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DR DANISE!
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I well remember winning items on EBAY and sending a money order to pay!
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I now have a pianist for CAMELOT, which doesn't come with a piano/vocal score, only a Piano Conductor's score....whew. I bought a used piano/vocal for $25 - so now I can write in it all I want to.
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Methinks there will be no mail today (in New York that is). I have not been out today. We will wait until tomorrow to trek to the store for some staples (food, not stapler staples).
I think I have my new lease waiting for me at the post office. While we were on Long Island a notice was delivered for a certified letter. Since my lease is up in June I think it's probably my landlord sending me the new one for my approval.
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DR ELMORE:
Hammer Films I enjoy:
TWO FACES OF DR JEKYLL
CURSE OF THE MUMMY'S TOMB
PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES
CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF
THE BRIDES OF DRACULA
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HAPPY FURLOUGH MONDAY!
No snow. Now rain. No pay.
:'(
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DR ELMORE:
Hammer Films I enjoy:
TWO FACES OF DR JEKYLL
CURSE OF THE MUMMY'S TOMB
PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES
CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF
THE BRIDES OF DRACULA
I love THE BRIDES OF DRACULA! I really like VAMPIRE CIRCUS: unflinching pedophilia, nudity, child murder, bestiality, revenge, gypsies, and circuses. It's like watching the original 1903 BABES IN TOYLAND. All that's missing are the demon-possessed dolls.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo
I wonder if any of Jose's friends were involved in this
Wow--that was pretty neat! I don't know what I would have thought if I saw people "froze" like that.
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I don't think I have seen Vampire Circus...
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Danise, hire a collection agency who will work for a percentage.
What a great idea!
Sorry, been there. Tried that. Not to mention they take over 65% of anything they collect. I still tried it with a company that wouldn't charge unless they collected. They tried for over 6 months but he wouldn't even answer the phone or the letters they sent so I canceled the contract with them.
Make life difficult for the bastard!
I spit on his grave!
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I don't think I have seen Vampire Circus...
Oh, come on, it was on Frances Farmer Presents. Unfortunately, she introduced it as The Littlest Rebel. ;)
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Opps, I guess I'm out of practice. My answer is in the quotes!
Hi JRand! Hi BK! To paraquote the song, "It's so nice to be back where I belong".
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Ain't it the truth, DR DANISE!!!
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I don't think I have seen Vampire Circus...
Oh, come on, it was on Frances Farmer Presents. Unfortunately, she introduced it as The Littlest Rebel. ;)
Oh....that's right....starring - uh - Shirley...uh....MacClaine....and Buster Crabbe.
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I just order VAMPIRE CIRCUS and Miss Bette Davis in DEAD RINGER, so I can at last retire my video copy of said title.
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I just order VAMPIRE CIRCUS and Miss Bette Davis in DEAD RINGER, so I can at last retire my video copy of said title.
One more mittel-European gorefest! I think you will enjoy it, DR JRand60.
When the vampires drag the heroine away with her duenna Gerta Hauser, you will see the
Tony-winning Elizabeth Seal of IRMA LA DOUCE as Gerta.
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Honestly I think I have done everything that can be done from a legal standpoint. I just have realize that it's over, that money is gone and move on.
The only glimmer of hope at this point is the Recovery Fund but they are out of money and 3 years behind in paying claims. It might take a good 4-8 years (yes that is what I was told) before my name comes up to the top of the heap and by then I will have either sunk or still be swimming, abet barely (if I keep my current job). They haven't even got to my paperwork yet to approve it and they are running about year behind.
When it gets to that point, I have to go through the whole process of proving my case all over again even though the Final Order I just received is from the same government agency. It will help that I have that Final Order and a Civil Judgement so I don't know what else they could want but who knows? Then and only then my name will be in the heap to be paid and if they are still short on funds, it could take a year or two before they are able to pay me anything.
Who said something about a lotto ticket? Maybe I need to buy one. It might get me some cash quicker. :)
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Danise, hire a collection agency who will work for a percentage.
What a great idea!
Sorry, been there. Tried that. Not to mention they take over 65% of anything they collect. I still tried it with a company that wouldn't charge unless they collected. They tried for over 6 months but he wouldn't even answer the phone or the letters they sent so I canceled the contract with them.
Make life difficult for the bastard!
I spit on his grave!
DR Danise, when I sued my landlord in 1985 for a rent reduction, it took me twelve years to settle, 6 years for the board to settle in my favor and 6 years for the landlord to appeal it, lose, and pay me $14,000. I'd let the agency hang onto it for as long as it takes. As long as it's costing you nothing, you might be surprised to win some money in the future.
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Hi all--it's a Ghost of Christmas Past just stopping by to say "Hello"! ....
Welcome back, Danise!
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Thank you, Dr George.
I guess I could do that, DR Elmore but here's the thing. If I have to wait a couple years and the Recovery Fund might come though, I would rather wait for them. I would receive a much bigger amount of the money I'm owed from them then I would get with a collection agent.
The Recovery Fund would deduct any money I receive (including the 65% the collect agent got) from what ever money I am awarded. Why give 65% away unless I have to? I don't think Turner was going do anything with the collection agent anyway. They even told me that if someone doesn't make some kind of payment arrangement in the first 3 months it is highly unlikely they ever will.
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Rob and Mary Linda have gone to pick up Gram, so I'm going to sign off to continue getting ready for our family gathering. See y'all later this evening!
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How many of you have/planning to get one of those new 3-D TV's? I think it will be quite some time before I'll bother with one--even if I did have the money. I don't think there is enough content out there to justify getting one. I don't like the idea of having to wear the glasses either.
Toby the Terrible would more then likely have them either torn up or out in the back yard.
While I do want to get a HD TV in the coming year, it definitely will not be a 3D model. I still think the whole 3D thing is a fad that will pass.
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I am waiting for the holographic TeeVees before I upgrade
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In other news, our tenants (actually just the wife) is bitching because they incurred a $30 charge for not removing yard debris that had been there for 5 months, even after I told them if they didn't take care of it, they would incur a $30 charge. Oy. I also can't abide being a landlord.
But think of the fun you will have knocking on her door on a cold winter night and saying to her (whilst twisting on the end of your waxed moustache) "You MUST pay the $30 yard debris charge!"
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I think the only movies I saw in the theatre this year were
Twilight
Tangled
Avatar
Toy Story 3D
Twilight tangled avatar,
How I wonder what you are...
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Listening to Scottsboro Boys. BEST. CHRISTMAS. CD. EVER. Thanks again, Mom. I wish you'd had gotten to see it before it ended.
Am enjoying that one, too.
I only wish they had made a broadway cast one too, because I met one of the actors for that cast. Some of the lyrics are different too.
Oh. I thouht that was the Broadway cast
darn
There isn't a Broadway cast in existence. This is the only one.
I saw an ootlegbay posted on alt.binaries.sounds.musicals, but it looked incomplete. I'll check later to see if it was reposted.
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Page Five Snow Dance:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/WandaDuck/snowdogsdance.jpg)
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In other news, our tenants (actually just the wife) is bitching because they incurred a $30 charge for not removing yard debris that had been there for 5 months, even after I told them if they didn't take care of it, they would incur a $30 charge. Oy. I also can't abide being a landlord.
But think of the fun you will have knocking on her door on a cold winter night and saying to her (whilst twisting on the end of your waxed moustache) "You MUST pay the $30 yard debris charge!"
:D
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I think the only movies I saw in the theatre this year were
Twilight
Tangled
Avatar
Toy Story 3D
Twilight tangled avatar,
How I wonder what you are...
:D
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I just had a little stray visitor. A young male dog who was very skinny. I gave him a bowl of food and he wolfed it down.
I saw some kids down the street and asked them if they knew whose dog it was. They pointed out a house so I got one of my dogs leashes and took him there. They claimed he was indeed theirs but I'm worried. How did he get away from them and to be so skinny!
I hope that they are feeding him and he didn't escape out of hunger. Yet the first thing the guy said was that he bet the dog was hungry and was going to get him some food. I will say his nails were trimmed and he smelled like he just had a bath.
I also hope they just adopted him and are nursing him back to health. At least I know he got one full bowl of food today. I will keep an eye out on that house. Let's see if he comes back here again.
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Thanks, DR Vixmom--I'm here all week!
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While I was outside shoveling, I saw my neighbor's cat walk down the middle of the street. I said to him, "What are you doing out here?" The cat just looked at me and then walked away.
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My shoveled-out house:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/WandaDuck/IMG_1099.jpg)
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DanTheMan, you house is so very cute.
What year was it built and what room is where that little window up top is?
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we have no snow here. Just rain.
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Hello dear, sweet Danise!
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we have no snow here. Just rain.
Lucky. I'm stranded here. -_-"
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R.I.P Teena Marie
Her's was one song I would always dance too...in fact, you couldn't stop me! LOL!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYVWoi72Ow4 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYVWoi72Ow4)
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How many of you have/planning to get one of those new 3-D TV's? I think it will be quite some time before I'll bother with one--even if I did have the money. I don't think there is enough content out there to justify getting one. I don't like the idea of having to wear the glasses either.
Toby the Terrible would more then likely have them either torn up or out in the back yard.
We still haven't moved up to HDTV or blu Ray - si I do not see a 3 D TV in our near future....
unless of course one of us won that 168 million mega millions drawing...where ARE those tickets we got in our stockings?
I don't plan on getting a 3-D TV anytime soon, but my sister's boyfriend bought a new Blu-ray DVD player and he said that I could have his older (but not-very-old) Blu-ray player! Score!
;D
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DanTheMan, you house is so very cute.
What year was it built and what room is where that little window up top is?
DR MB, the house was built in 1948. The gabled front is just a walk in closet, which is a shame since it gives a nice view of the street.
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It is a very cute house.
I'm hearing about the snow on the news. They keep saying Old Man Winter is making himself at home in the Northeast.
I think I would tell OMW to go back to where ever he came from and STAY there! Here's your hat--What's your hurry!
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we have no snow here. Just rain.
Lucky. I'm stranded here. -_-"
You know why we stay up in this tower
That's right to keep you safe and sound dear
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DanTheMan, you house is so very cute.
What year was it built and what room is where that little window up top is?
DR MB, the house was built in 1948. The gabled front is just a walk in closet, which is a shame since it gives a nice view of the street.
a walk in closet - oh what I would give for one of those!
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Danise!! So happy to see you are back at HHW. We all missed you. The justice system still can't get blood from a turnip. I've never felt it was that just anyway
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I went to the office VERY briefly today. I got up, took a shower, got dressed, started driving to work and it hit me "I am NOT ready to go back to work" So I called in, then decided to do a couple things. After I was done with the couple things...I left. I'll work tomorrow and Wednesday and see how I feel on Thursday. It's been such a busy year, I haven't gotten enough of a break yet
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Think I'll go take a nap. Haven't done that in years....
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I think I prefer BLOW OUT to DRESSED TO KILL; which is really strange because I am not really a John Revolta fan. I don't think he is as mannered in this film, as he became later, This is, of course, not part of the T.O.D., but it is a post!
I completely agree with you. I have never been able to sit through "Grease" because he just irritates me.
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Page Five Snow Dance:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/WandaDuck/snowdogsdance.jpg)
How wonderful. I have a friend with a pair of Boston terriers. They're great dogs. And dancing just one of their charms.
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oh and did you see this dear daughter?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5JcvXyPlbU
I made some hazelnut soup recently. With parsnips.
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One more picture--a beautiful pink and purple dusk sky this evening:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/WandaDuck/IMG_1110.jpg)
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Nice sunset shot, Dan (the Man).
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Good Morning! Good Afternoon! Good Evening!
I'm up, I'm up... And I can't believe that my nieces and nephew ate almost all of the doughnuts!
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TOD:
I only saw a few movies at the theater this year: the three "Girl" movies, "Tangled," "Harry Potter" and "Inception" this year. On a certain level, I enjoyed all of them. I saw more of this year's movies on DVD.
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DR Danise - Thanks for stopping by! -Enjoy your week of decompressing.
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Greetings from Buffalo, where it's 26 degrees, but just flurries as far as snow goes. Of course there's still a foot or so on the grass from previous storms.
Hoping my drive back from BWI (Baltimore-Washington International Airport) tomorrow isn't bad considering the snow that fell Saturday and Sunday.
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So entirely wonderful and entertaining to have you at Ellen's House on the Morning of Christmas. The blonde daughter's admission of an old crush on you was cute, especially considering...dot dot dot. :o
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I keep forgetting about the TOD. The only movies that really made an impression on me this year were:
TOY STORY 3
THE BLACK SWAN
THE KING'S SPEECH
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The Vixter went out this morning and cleared the snow from the path and the driveway -
Can we borrow her?
(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b70/GEORDIEMC/Snow0002-1.jpg)
(http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b70/GEORDIEMC/Snow0001-1.jpg)
The foorprints are Woody's from trudging up the drive to get the car and toodle off to work for eight hours.
Yesterday the market called at 6:20 AM and asked him if he could come in "right away" instead of the scheduled start time of 9 AM.
der Brucer
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo
I wonder if any of Jose's friends were involved in this
I don't think I knew anyone who participated in that "prank". However, I do know some people who have participated in other Improv Anywhere events. -But with the annual "No Pants Subway Ride" is coming up in a few weeks...
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Greetings from Buffalo, where it's 26 degrees, but just flurries as far as snow goes. Of course there's still a foot or so on the grass from previous storms.
Hoping my drive back from BWI (Baltimore-Washington International Airport) tomorrow isn't bad considering the snow that fell Saturday and Sunday.
DR KevinH - The Baltimore-DC area was truly spared over the weekend. If anything, you'll just be dealing with the usual traffic between Baltimore and DC.
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Hello, newest DR Annie Glimmerglass!!!
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Listening to Scottsboro Boys. BEST. CHRISTMAS. CD. EVER. Thanks again, Mom. I wish you'd had gotten to see it before it ended.
Hmmm...
I don't think I'd categorize the Cast Recording of The Scottsboro Boys as "Christmas Music". ;)
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So entirely wonderful and entertaining to have you at Ellen's House on the Morning of Christmas. The blonde daughter's admission of an old crush on you was cute, especially considering...dot dot dot. :o
Welcome new D(ear) R(eader) Annie Glimmerglass!
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Hey Vixter -
did you see this?
http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/NaKY6VskYv2UxXvxl23g
This is pretty darned funny! :D
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Hmmm...
I don't think I'd categorize the Cast Recording of The Scottsboro Boys as "Christmas Music". ;)
And I don't think we'll be playing it for the Grandlads, either.
der Brucer
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... I don't want to get out of the habit.
Didn't Mother Superior warn you you'd catch your death of cold if you got out of the habit?
der Brucer (who leaves no low-hanging fruit unpicked)
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Welcome to our newest Dear Reader Annie Glimmerglass! We hope you will introduce yourself and hang around!
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Hi DerBrucer! Good to see you!
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oh and did you see this dear daughter?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5JcvXyPlbU
may I have the recipe?
I made some hazelnut soup recently. With parsnips.
may I have the recipe?
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In fact, I can't even think of a 3D BD that's been released that isn't in the animated/kids market, but maybe someone can remind me.
Wait a few weeks:
(http://images.blu-ray.com/movies/covers/18574_medium.jpg)
der Brucer
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In fact, I can't even think of a 3D BD that's been released that isn't in the animated/kids market, but maybe someone can remind me.
Wait a few weeks:
(http://images.blu-ray.com/movies/covers/18574_medium.jpg)
der Brucer
Oh, yeah--and I even knew about that one, I handle that studio for Blu-ray.com. :)
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Read the notes. And what lovely notes they were
I think the only films I saw this year were Iron Man II and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows. Iron Man was great, Harry Potter was great, too. In fact, if it's still out there next week, I may take the DP to see it, although I read somewhere that it was going away soon.
I can't believe that I didn't see "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows"! :-\ It's still playing locally, so I may still have a chance.
Otherwise, the only new movies that I can remember seeing this year are Avatar and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (and I only saw this on DVD). I guess I don't get out to the movies very much.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo
I wonder if any of Jose's friends were involved in this
I don't think I knew anyone who participated in that "prank". However, I do know some people who have participated in other Improv Anywhere events. -But with the annual "No Pants Subway Ride" is coming up in a few weeks...
:o
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Listening to Scottsboro Boys. BEST. CHRISTMAS. CD. EVER. Thanks again, Mom. I wish you'd had gotten to see it before it ended.
Hmmm...
I don't think I'd categorize the Cast Recording of The Scottsboro Boys as "Christmas Music". ;)
I've not heard it ye t - but the Vixter so grreatly enjoyed the show...
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Nice to see DerB back again!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo
I wonder if any of Jose's friends were involved in this
I don't think I knew anyone who participated in that "prank". However, I do know some people who have participated in other Improv Anywhere events. -But with the annual "No Pants Subway Ride" is coming up in a few weeks...
:o
In England, I think that it would be called "No Trousers Subway Ride." ;)
The participants do wear undergarments.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo
I wonder if any of Jose's friends were involved in this
I don't think I knew anyone who participated in that "prank". However, I do know some people who have participated in other Improv Anywhere events. -But with the annual "No Pants Subway Ride" is coming up in a few weeks...
:o
In England, I think that it would be called "No Trousers Subway Ride." ;)
The participants do wear undergarments.
I am quite glad to hear it
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welcome Annie Glimmerglass
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My favorite Email of the day:
THIS IS JUST AN INCREDIBLE STORY !!!!
In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University ..
On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air.
The elephant seemed distressed, so Peter approached it very carefully..
He got down on one knee, inspected the elephants foot, and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it.
As carefully and as gently as he could, Peter worked the wood out with his knife,
after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot.
The elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments.
Peter stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled.
Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away.
Peter never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.
Twenty years later, Peter was walking through the Chicago Lincoln Park Zoo with his teenaged son.
As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and
walked over to near where Peter and his son Cameron were standing.
The large bull elephant stared at Peter, lifted its front foot off the ground, then put it down.
The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at the man.
Remembering the encounter in 1986, Peter could not help wondering if this was the same elephant.
Peter summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing, and made his way into the enclosure.
He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder.
The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Peter legs
and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly.
Probably wasn't the same elephant.
der Brucer
PS
This is for everyone who sends those heart-warming bullshit stories.
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DRTCB you have an envelope headed to your house....1st Class/Delivery Confirmation.
Enjoy!
Thank you, Jack!
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Glad to see Annie Glimmerglass posting - neighbor and, more importantly, friend for close to forty-five years.
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It's been a wacky day and I'm happy it's done. The helper packaged up stuff, did some organizing, then went to the post office, where she was told our single CD packages were not weighed correctly and should cost twenty-five cents more - um, no. Either their scales are off or they are just plain perpetrating a fraud. We've been sending these packages forever - they have, with the exception of when postage went up on first class packages over a year ago, always weighed the same and always cost the same - period, the end. We have never had a package returned for insufficient postage, and a Pitney-Bowes scale and our new digital scale are not BOTH going to be so off. Her mistake was in handing them to someone - and she's now left them on the loading dock as she should have done, where they will be fine. I've asked her to call the USPS and rat out her post office branch, the ONLY branch where anything like this has happened - I've gone in and shipped from the USPS directly and the packages cost what the packages cost. So a big RASPBERRY to her local post office branch.
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Then I spent a few too many hours dealing with a guy who spends 24/7 trying to cause other film music labels grief. He went too far this time, and I was able to cut and paste a post of his and send it to various publishers and film music licensors, all of whom were very unhappy at what he was posting - and they'll be having words with him. He considers himself a saint and everyone else sinners. Well, no, sorry - what we are, those of us who do this with soundtracks, are heroes - we find music, we make it sound as good as possible, and we get it out into the world, which is good for the fans and for the rights' holders. This we do for very little profit. In my opinion, this person is nothing more than a little peckerwood and here's a note to the little peckerwood: Karma. VERY potent.
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I had lunch at Hugo's, which was quite yummilicious. Now I am sated and tired, not necessarily in that order.
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And the word of the day is: FUNAMBULISM!
Good day one and all!
Funny..... I actually had this word on a GRE test....
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Hi all--it's a Ghost of Christmas Past just stopping by to say "Hello"!
I've missed you all and you've never been far from my mind but I've had so many things going on that it was all I could do to just come home and get dinner ready for the dogs and myself. I can't tell you how many times I fell asleep on the couch and woke up at nine or ten o'clock--just in time to go to bed. I just didn't feel like doing anything but veg in front of the TV (when I could manage to stay awake) or just pop on the net for a moment and that's just the plain truth.
I took this week off from work because i didn't have a vacation this entire year and thought I could just use the break. Every time I think things are going good at work something new comes up. They said we were going to have a mass lay off in September then while there was some lay offs I thought I made it though. Then they said it would happen again in December and I was scared to death. Then word came down (the week before Christmas) that it had been put off until March or April but there WILL be a big lay off then.
Work is nothing like it was before--the whole atmosphere has changed. From being laid back to super high stress. You feel like you have to justify your work and prove your worth everyday. That's part of the reason I was to scared to take any time off--if your not there and they can get along without you.......
So please bear with me. After these few days off I can feel myself starting to decompress somewhat but I was so wore out that I went to bed at nine o'clock on Christmas Eve and Christmas night.
The dogs are doing fine. I don't know what I would do without them. Can't tell you how many times I woke up with one or the other (or both) curled up on the couch/bed with me. They are such a comfort.
I hope all of you are happy, safe and well. I saw on the news about that snow storm up by New York. I still want to see snow but not quite that much! I do have to say that I am enjoying the central heat and air. Now that I have it, I don't know how I lived without it. It's soooo nice to come home to a warm or cool house instead of freezing or frying!
Danise....
I am glad to see you and I completely understand about stress at work.
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PAGE SEVEN DANCE!!
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George....
Per your comment last night about Matt Smith aka the New Doctor, I have heard he is quite entertaining and I am looking forward to seeing him on screen. I envy you if you get BBC America
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From the files of LIFE SUCKS:
Yesterday afternoon, I took what little money I had left after Christmas, scrapped every possible dollar and coin that I could find (except the pennys in my loafers). I went up to the Boeing Employee Credit Union ATM located in my local Safeway. This is one of those new fangled machines that doesn't use envelopes or deposity slips. I put the money in the slot and it sat there doing nothing for a few minutes; then finally it brought up a message saying that it was unable to process my transaction. It then spit back my card back to me....................... but NO MONEY was returned.
Hoping upon hope that the machine was just out of receipt paper, I went home and accessed my account. No Transaction! So I sent them an official e-mail asking for help. By 4:00 p.m., they still hadn't gotten to the secure e-mails. I talked to a woman at my credit union, who took all of my information (again). She called back at just about 5:00 p.m. telling me that she was e-mailing some forms that I needed to complete and fax back to her tomorrow. In the mean time, I have checks that didn't process today, so they will probably process tomorrow morning -- including my rent check!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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As to the wonderful NORTH AND SOUTH, it was like seeing the film BILLY ELLIOT: I loved the plot but hada hard time at first with the accents and union talk. NORTH AND SOUTH is set in 1857, the same year as Prince Albert's Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace in London, and it's a much darker version of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE set in a town called Milton and the cotton mills of northern England. Mr Darcy's character is John Thornton, a wealthy mill owner and self-made man, and Lizzie Bennett's counterpart is Margaret Hale, daughter of a vicar who's left his church after a disappointment in his clergy, and taken his family to northern England; there is a brother who's gone to sea and now living in exile in Spain following a mutiny that may be based on the HMS Bounty. The plot sprawls all over - several tragic deaths, a murder mystery, a union strike and riot - and two of the most heartbreaking farewell scenes ever, one between Margaret's dying mother and Mrs Thornton and Margaret's departure from Milton to return to London. It's quiet a wonderful series.
The cast is amazing, especially Sinead Cusack (Mrs Jeremy Irons) as Mrs Thornton, the severe mother of the leading man, and Brendan Coyle as the union leader, Nicholas. I recommend this series a lot.
I have added it to my viewing list.... I loved Cranford... The BBC does a wonderful job with dramas of this nature
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This morning I went for a walk, and this is what I saw:
Northern harrier:
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5122/5298735322_9b8807412c.jpg)
Northern mockingbird:
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5081/5298734512_06ba1a9d36.jpg)
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How is everyone now?
I am doing well... I hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a fantastic 2011!
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Karma. VERY potent.
Even more so if accompanied by a RASPBERRY!
der Brucer
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Glad to see Annie Glimmerglass posting - neighbor and, more importantly, friend for close to forty-five years.
Wow, you've known her since you were negative 6! ;D
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo
I wonder if any of Jose's friends were involved in this
I don't think I knew anyone who participated in that "prank". However, I do know some people who have participated in other Improv Anywhere events. -But with the annual "No Pants Subway Ride" is coming up in a few weeks...
:o
In England, I think that it would be called "No Trousers Subway Ride." ;)
Actually it would be called, "No Trousers Tube Ride
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This morning I went for a walk, and this is what I saw:
Northern mockingbird:
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5081/5298734512_06ba1a9d36.jpg)
ARe those mauvish thingies seed pods?
der Brucer
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Prickly pear cactus fruits. His face is stained from sticking it into the fruit.
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Prickly pear cactus fruits. His face is stained from sticking it into the fruit.
He ain't the only one!
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Cold today, but no snow....at least no MORE snow.
They are predicting a possible storm here on Thursday, however we would not be offended if it went elsewhere...
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This morning I went for a walk, and this is what I saw:
Northern harrier:
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5122/5298735322_9b8807412c.jpg)
Northern mockingbird:
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5081/5298734512_06ba1a9d36.jpg)
Impressive birds... Laura, you do a wonderful job capturing them on film
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They are predicting a possible storm here on Thursday, however we would not be offended if it went elsewhere...
Hey! What's hatched in the Dakotas should stay in the Dakotas.
der Brucer
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From the files of LIFE SUCKS:
Yesterday afternoon, I took what little money I had left after Christmas, scrapped every possible dollar and coin that I could find (except the pennys in my loafers). I went up to the Boeing Employee Credit Union ATM located in my local Safeway. This is one of those new fangled machines that doesn't use envelopes or deposity slips. I put the money in the slot and it sat there doing nothing for a few minutes; then finally it brought up a message saying that it was unable to process my transaction. It then spit back my card back to me....................... but NO MONEY was returned.
Hoping upon hope that the machine was just out of receipt paper, I went home and accessed my account. No Transaction! So I sent them an official e-mail asking for help. By 4:00 p.m., they still hadn't gotten to the secure e-mails. I talked to a woman at my credit union, who took all of my information (again). She called back at just about 5:00 p.m. telling me that she was e-mailing some forms that I needed to complete and fax back to her tomorrow. In the mean time, I have checks that didn't process today, so they will probably process tomorrow morning -- including my rent check!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
TCB So sorry to hear this. Vibes that it gets worked out before your checks are processed
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They are predicting a possible storm here on Thursday, however we would not be offended if it went elsewhere...
Hey! What's hatched in the Dakotas should stay in the Dakotas.
der Brucer
Its payback after Letterman's deragatory remarks about the Dakotas and Minnesota
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From the files of LIFE SUCKS:
Yesterday afternoon, I took what little money I had left after Christmas, scrapped every possible dollar and coin that I could find (except the pennys in my loafers). I went up to the Boeing Employee Credit Union ATM located in my local Safeway. This is one of those new fangled machines that doesn't use envelopes or deposity slips. I put the money in the slot and it sat there doing nothing for a few minutes; then finally it brought up a message saying that it was unable to process my transaction. It then spit back my card back to me....................... but NO MONEY was returned.
Hoping upon hope that the machine was just out of receipt paper, I went home and accessed my account. No Transaction! So I sent them an official e-mail asking for help. By 4:00 p.m., they still hadn't gotten to the secure e-mails. I talked to a woman at my credit union, who took all of my information (again). She called back at just about 5:00 p.m. telling me that she was e-mailing some forms that I needed to complete and fax back to her tomorrow. In the mean time, I have checks that didn't process today, so they will probably process tomorrow morning -- including my rent check!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
TCB So sorry to hear this. Vibes that it gets worked out before your checks are processed
I also send positive thoughts...
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One more picture--a beautiful pink and purple dusk sky this evening:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v130/WandaDuck/IMG_1110.jpg)
Stunning sunset...
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Greetings from Buffalo, where it's 26 degrees, but just flurries as far as snow goes. Of course there's still a foot or so on the grass from previous storms.
Hoping my drive back from BWI (Baltimore-Washington International Airport) tomorrow isn't bad considering the snow that fell Saturday and Sunday.
What a beautiful winter day.....
I would take 26 degrees anyday over -15
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Oh, TCB. That's just awful. I refuse to put any money into those ATM machines because I just don't trust them.
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The local newspaper awards sprigs of prairie roses or leafy spurge depending on if something is good or bad....
The letterman comments are at the top and he was awarded Leafy Spurge...
http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/303030
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Oh, TCB. That's just awful. I refuse to put any money into those ATM machines because I just don't trust them.
Well, I guess I won't trust them anymore.
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I dont trust them.... period....
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Vibes for DR TCB. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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George....
Per your comment last night about Matt Smith aka the New Doctor, I have heard he is quite entertaining and I am looking forward to seeing him on screen. I envy you if you get BBC America
I do get BBC America, but I also bought the season (series) 5 DVDs. They're also available from Netflix, if you subscribe to that...or you might try your local library. :)
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George....
Per your comment last night about Matt Smith aka the New Doctor, I have heard he is quite entertaining and I am looking forward to seeing him on screen. I envy you if you get BBC America
I just may do that...
I do get BBC America, but I also bought the season (series) 5 DVDs. They're also available from Netflix, if you subscribe to that...or you might try your local library. :)
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From the files of LIFE SUCKS:
Yesterday afternoon, I took what little money I had left after Christmas, scrapped every possible dollar and coin that I could find (except the pennys in my loafers). I went up to the Boeing Employee Credit Union ATM located in my local Safeway. This is one of those new fangled machines that doesn't use envelopes or deposity slips. I put the money in the slot and it sat there doing nothing for a few minutes; then finally it brought up a message saying that it was unable to process my transaction. It then spit back my card back to me....................... but NO MONEY was returned.
Hoping upon hope that the machine was just out of receipt paper, I went home and accessed my account. No Transaction! So I sent them an official e-mail asking for help. By 4:00 p.m., they still hadn't gotten to the secure e-mails. I talked to a woman at my credit union, who took all of my information (again). She called back at just about 5:00 p.m. telling me that she was e-mailing some forms that I needed to complete and fax back to her tomorrow. In the mean time, I have checks that didn't process today, so they will probably process tomorrow morning -- including my rent check!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
~~~FINANCIAL VIBES FOR DR TCB!!~~~
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo
I wonder if any of Jose's friends were involved in this
I don't think I knew anyone who participated in that "prank". However, I do know some people who have participated in other Improv Anywhere events. -But with the annual "No Pants Subway Ride" is coming up in a few weeks...
:o
In England, I think that it would be called "No Trousers Subway Ride." ;)
Actually it would be called, "No Trousers Tube Ride
I should've known that. ::)
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PAGE EIGHT!
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G'night!
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(((TCB))))
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Finished with one motion picture and am starting another.
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TCB - I HATE those machines - I'm sure you'll get it all sorted out, but minimally if they know you made the deposit they should at least hold the checks until you've submitted your information and can verify it.
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Oh, TCB. That's just awful. I refuse to put any money into those ATM machines because I just don't trust them.
I also don't trust making deposits into ATM machines. I've heard way too many stories of amounts not getting posted to accounts. Though everyone who I've heard this sort of thing has happened to did eventually get their money accounted for, it often takes filling out a claim and then waiting for a number of days.
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Earlier this evening, I thought I would make a funny and I posted the following on All That Chat:
Taymor Forces Performers to Walk Thru Dangerously Snowy NYC Streets
Because of an iron-clad clause in their contracts, actors, dancers and stunt flyers in SPIDER-MAN:TURN OFF THE DARK are being forced to make their way through the snowy,slushy, slippery streets and sidewalks to appear in tonight's performance. Taymor is an insane tyrant to make such demands on these performers and to put them at such risks of injury.
Close this show down NOW!!!
I should have known better. Evidently, if one does not use emoticons in one's satirical posts over there, most of the denizens do not realize one is joking. Next time (if there is a next time), I'll supply a laugh track.
:D ;D :D ;D :D ??? ;D :D ;D :D
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Earlier this evening, I thought I would make a funny and I posted the following on All That Chat:
Taymor Forces Performers to Walk Thru Dangerously Snowy NYC Streets
Because of an iron-clad clause in their contracts, actors, dancers and stunt flyers in SPIDER-MAN:TURN OFF THE DARK are being forced to make their way through the snowy,slushy, slippery streets and sidewalks to appear in tonight's performance. Taymor is an insane tyrant to make such demands on these performers and to put them at such risks of injury.
Close this show down NOW!!!
I should have known better. Evidently, if one does not use emoticons in one's satirical posts over there, most of the denizens do not realize one is joking. Next time (if there is a next time), I'll supply a laugh track.
:D ;D :D ;D :D ??? ;D :D ;D :D
well I think its funny!
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99% of the posters who frequent that board have not one humorous bone in their body - and the other 1% THINK they do (FJL excepted of course).
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DtM - we were thinking if you post that elsewhere, you might wnat to add that she forced the audience to be there as well, that tyrant. :)
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Laura's Northern Hummingbird and Dan's sunset match.
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oh and did you see this dear daughter?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5JcvXyPlbU
may I have the recipe?
I made some hazelnut soup recently. With parsnips.
may I have the recipe?
Yes, you may:
http://www.savorsa.com/2010/12/a-tangled-treat-creamy-hazelnut-soup/
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Earlier this evening, I thought I would make a funny and I posted the following on All That Chat:
Taymor Forces Performers to Walk Thru Dangerously Snowy NYC Streets
Because of an iron-clad clause in their contracts, actors, dancers and stunt flyers in SPIDER-MAN:TURN OFF THE DARK are being forced to make their way through the snowy,slushy, slippery streets and sidewalks to appear in tonight's performance. Taymor is an insane tyrant to make such demands on these performers and to put them at such risks of injury.
Close this show down NOW!!!
I should have known better. Evidently, if one does not use emoticons in one's satirical posts over there, most of the denizens do not realize one is joking. Next time (if there is a next time), I'll supply a laugh track.
:D ;D :D ;D :D ??? ;D :D ;D :D
That is very funny.
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Laura, the birds are beautiful.
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Financial vibes for TCB. I only trust the ATMs at branches of my bank. And I'm probably foolish for trusting those.
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My favorite Email of the day:
THIS IS JUST AN INCREDIBLE STORY !!!!
In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University ..
On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air.
The elephant seemed distressed, so Peter approached it very carefully..
He got down on one knee, inspected the elephants foot, and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it.
As carefully and as gently as he could, Peter worked the wood out with his knife,
after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot.
The elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments.
Peter stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled.
Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away.
Peter never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.
Twenty years later, Peter was walking through the Chicago Lincoln Park Zoo with his teenaged son.
As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and
walked over to near where Peter and his son Cameron were standing.
The large bull elephant stared at Peter, lifted its front foot off the ground, then put it down.
The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at the man.
Remembering the encounter in 1986, Peter could not help wondering if this was the same elephant.
Peter summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing, and made his way into the enclosure.
He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder.
The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Peter legs
and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly.
Probably wasn't the same elephant.
der Brucer
PS
This is for everyone who sends those heart-warming bullshit stories.
LOL. I feel like spaming this to all those people you mention.
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Welcome, DR Annie Glimmerglass.
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oh and did you see this dear daughter?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5JcvXyPlbU
may I have the recipe?
I made some hazelnut soup recently. With parsnips.
may I have the recipe?
Yes, you may:
http://www.savorsa.com/2010/12/a-tangled-treat-creamy-hazelnut-soup/
thank you! Sounds wonderful!
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well tomorrow I must to wrk --- night all
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FJL, got a copy of "Last Starfighter" for Christmas. Enjoyed it on the first listen.
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oh and did you see this dear daughter?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5JcvXyPlbU
may I have the recipe?
I made some hazelnut soup recently. With parsnips.
may I have the recipe?
Yes, you may:
http://www.savorsa.com/2010/12/a-tangled-treat-creamy-hazelnut-soup/
thank you! Sounds wonderful!
Enjoy.
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Just finished watching "Calamity Jane," which was a lot better than I thought it would be. Except, where was Ian McShane as Al Swearingen? And where was all the cursing I was led to expect from "Deadwood"?
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Night, all.
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Finished with my viewing and will now take a nice hot shower, then play on the computer.
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Welcome five GUESTS.
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I'm watching the the repeat of Oprah with the cast of "The Sound of Music." There is a "special performance" from (four of) the great-grandchildren of Maria and Georg Von Trapp. They sang a lovely, simple version of "Edelweiss."
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I didn't realize that "Evening Primrose" and The Sound of Music were Charmian Carr's only screen credits. :-\
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They certainly are good ones, but only two?