Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on October 01, 2018, 12:06:56 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were the tenth month notes, and now it is time for you to post until the tenth month cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: MONUMENTAL!
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And now - Dino at the piano.
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First post after Dino.
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BK, you had better check your first paragraph. You typed September where you meant October.
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T.O.D.
CARMEN
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Good night, BK.
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Good night, George.
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T.O.D.
CARMEN
Performing in the chorus of CARMEN while at Western Washington University, was my very first actual theatrical experience. :D
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Good night, Tom.
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I'm off to bed, now.
Have a good day, all!
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Good morning to all.
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Good morning, all!
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I cleaned off my computer table yesterday. I found a stamped envelope I thought I had mailed early last week. I wondered why that check had not cleared. Oy!
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DR vixmom, what wonderful news about your new car! I had never given any thought about the fate of rented automobiles, and I wonder if Budget, Enterprise, and other companies also sell their cars. When I was in Ohio in 2017, I really liked my rental cars.
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Annabelle celebrated our anniversary by keeping away from my work table, and I actually accomplished some work! Thatch has begin a list of things he wants to do to celebrate ours in November.
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I'm waiting to hear from Joshie. His brother Jeremy's playing sax in the tour of Miss Saigon, so Joshie went to Providence RI this weekend to see a performance with his family. He had a question for me about Britten's wonderful opera A Midsummer Night's Dream, so I expect to hear from him at some point today.
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Britten leads to the TOD:
Carmen
The Marriage of Figaro
Don Giovanni
Manon
Mignon
The Tales of Hoffmann
Rigoletto
Falstaff
Turandot
Tosca
La Bohéme
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Amahl and the Night Visitors
The Rake's Progress
The Bartered Bride
Peter Grimes
Albert Herring
Paul Bunyan
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Porgy and Bess
Whatever I decide to listen to at that moment.
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I will add that I generally prefer to listen than watch an opera performance these days, especially since I find this current trend of dressing everything in contemporary dress quite ugly. I also find a lot of "theatre" directors - don't get me started on the Euro-trash directors! - destroy a piece bu imposing their often misguided ideas onto a staging.
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And here's a plug. In 1964, Maria Callas gave one of her last performances at Covent Garden in Tosca. The BBC should have videotaped the entire performance, but they only recorded Act Two. It's quite wonderful, and I think it may be the only footage of Callas in performance as opposed to recital. She's amazing.
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T.O.D.
LE MIZ
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Congrats to the VIXFAMILY on their new driving machine!
Congrats to MR BK on the EBAY sale!
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Thanks to all for their kind words on SISTER ACT....even Lauren Bacall courtesy DR FJL.
Here is the Monsignor taking his final bow...
(https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/42851961_10217801164606001_8719299689855320064_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&oh=0ea3c37b93d3f2711455417472e49b73&oe=5C50203A)
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I hope DR VIXMOM sees more than a blank square.
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TOD:
Madame Butterfly
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Good morning.
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The work continues today. With luck they really will finish everything except for installing the new carpet.
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Insurance does not include cleaning. When we left for our trip I left a clean home, seems it should be returned to that condition, but nope we have to do it ourselves. They did vacuum in the guest rooms but not the hallways they messed up. Keith did that.
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Good morning!
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One more
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Page 2!
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Fingers crossed the painters arrive on time. The head guy said they will be here shortly but he won't until around noon but will call if he is late. Groan. He had better finish straightening up this mess today.
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On the upside, Saturday Keith cleaned all the artwork and put it on the walls making it more cheerful in there and removed them all from the floor of the hallway.
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Good morning, all.
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My error, not the painters this morning. Two men are putting up the new bathroom mirror. There is a cut out for the light fixture we hope was done correctly. I think it was.
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TOD (way too many, but what the hell):
Ariadne auf Naxos
Elektra
Salome
Don Giovanni
Falstaff
Turandot
La Boheme
Tales of Hoffman
Der Ring des Nibelungen - in general, some parts more than others
Porgy and Bess
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Street Scene
The Rake's Progress
Wozzeck
Lulu
Albert Herring
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Turn of the Screw
The Crucible - honorable mention as a newcomer
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That "glue" really stinks and the mirror doesn't fit, so I am suffering for nothing. The drywall guys put the ceiling too low even after the mirror guy measured it to be a quarter inch shorter, just in case.
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Turns out one side was correct and the other side of the ceiling too tight. They did not put it up evenly. The mirror guys were very nice but not happy.
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I'm up, I'm up - seven hours of sleep.
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Thanks to all for their kind words on SISTER ACT....even Lauren Bacall courtesy DR FJL.
Here is the Monsignor taking his final bow...
(https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/42851961_10217801164606001_8719299689855320064_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&oh=0ea3c37b93d3f2711455417472e49b73&oe=5C50203A)
Very nice, Jrand!
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I hope DR VIXMOM sees more than a blank square.
If she (or anyone else) doesn't, here it is:
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T.O.D.
LE MIZ
Ditto! ;)
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TOD:
Madame Butterfly
And I'll add Miss Saigon! ;D
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Turns out one side was correct and the other side of the ceiling too tight. They did not put it up evenly. The mirror guys were very nice but not happy.
Are they not happy that they did not put it up evenly, or that they have to do it again because they did not put it up evenly??
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Betsy Palmer knew how to honor the writer of her hit comeback film, here at 0:54. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEXvWYEtal0
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I hope DR VIXMOM sees more than a blank square.
If she (or anyone else) doesn't, here it is:
That's great!
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Here's the final curtain call video someone snuck out. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1TeNJiIeM0
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TOD:
Madame Butterfly
And I'll add Miss Saigon! ;D
The snob in me says that nrither Les Miz or Miss Saigon is not remotely an opera.
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(That's actually the Moulin Rouge final Boston show, for full disclosure.)
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I had to thin out the accumulating cat food cartons piling up on the shelf, and now i've got two cats sleeping in two empty cartons at my feet.
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TOD:
Madame Butterfly
And I'll add Miss Saigon! ;D
The snob in me says that nrither Les Miz or Miss Saigon is not remotely an opera.
I know you're not alone in that feeling, but they're certainly operatic in scope. :)
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Been on the phone with Apple for an hour trying to get Time Machine to work properly.
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Turns out one side was correct and the other side of the ceiling too tight. They did not put it up evenly. The mirror guys were very nice but not happy.
Are they not happy that they did not put it up evenly, or that they have to do it again because they did not put it up evenly??
The mirror needs to be cut a little bit shorter. They will try to cut it unevenly to match the ceiling.
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Groan! The guy cancelled on us again. No work today.
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On a sad note, Charles Aznavour, the 'Frank Sinatra of France', dies aged 94 (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/01/charles-aznavour-french-singer-dies-aged-94). That's certainly a long life. Hopefully, it was a good life.
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I do get nervous with my Dad at 98, that when he goes to doctors at this age, some seem to act like "he's had a full life" and don't work hard enough to keep him around.
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My mom never gets this attitude from her doctors at 90.
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Topic of the Day (just what I can think of now):
Ahknaten
Carmen
The Crucible
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
The Phantom of the Opera
Porgy and Bess
Der Ring des Nibelungen
Satyagraha
Susannah
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tosca
Turn of the Screw (it turns out that Seattle Opera is doing this this month (https://www.seattleopera.org/on-stage/turn-of-the-screw/).)
And I'll call the aforementioned Les Misérables and Miss Saigon "honorable mentions."
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TOD:
Madame Butterfly
And I'll add Miss Saigon! ;D
The snob in me says that nrither Les Miz or Miss Saigon is not remotely an opera.
I know you're not alone in that feeling, but they're certainly operatic in scope. :)
I don't think so. I think they're nothing more than sung-through pop musicals. I don't think the writers have the skills to write an opera.
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It's trying to back-up now - we'll see if it completes. If not, I'll call again tomorrow.
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I've been queasy all day. Don't like it. Must stop now.
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I'm queasy about page threesy.
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~~~Stop-Feeling-Queasy Vibes for BK!!~~~
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DR FJL I am not sure I would have survived that curtain call....
And those are some of the ugliest costumes I've seen in awhile....at first I thought it was for the MY FAIR LADY revival....
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I do get nervous with my Dad at 98, that when he goes to doctors at this age, some seem to act like "he's had a full life" and don't work hard enough to keep him around.
They should be working extra hard so they can mention their 100 year old patient.
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~~~Stop-Feeling-Queasy Vibes for BK!!~~~
DITTO! I hate that feeling and I have it too often.
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I do get nervous with my Dad at 98, that when he goes to doctors at this age, some seem to act like "he's had a full life" and don't work hard enough to keep him around.
They should be working extra hard so they can mention their 100 year old patient.
I'd hope so!
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Just received in the mail: the new SACD Hybrid Multi-channel release of the quadrophonic mix of the original Broadway cast recording of A Little Night Music (https://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=CDLK4626)!
I can't hear the multi-channel quadrophonic sound (I don't even know anyone local who has a surround sound set-up), but just as a remastered recording, it sound pretty darned good! :D
It's also available on Amazon.com (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07HB4VTYM) (and this separate Amazon listing (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HGNRD34/)) and Amazon.co.uk (https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07HB11BMC).
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And now, I'm off to get my tires rotated. I made an appointment at Costco. Since I bought them there, it's free.
Be back later.
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Keith gave me a nice little bean bag that is designed for using with a mouse. I have my forearm resting on it instead of the hard table, plus it keeps my elbow off of my desk. What a relief.
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Good evening.
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Good evening, all.
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It was one of those days at work again.
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We have lived in this house a long long time. When we replaced the water heater in 2002, we discovered a stamp on it dated 1962. That thing lasted 40 years! Today the replacement began leaking. They don't make things like they used to!
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I had to work through lunch, but I managed to get a lot done.
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But 3.5 straight hours of meetings was not fun.
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Then dance athleticism was something else. Lots of muscles in pain.
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I'm going to be sad, though, when the seven or eight weeks are done.
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Oh -- Hurricane Rosa is visiting Arizona this week. She is most welcome.
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Right now, I'm watching On Chesil Beach. I love Soairse Ronan and Emily Watson.
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I read the Ian McEwan book it's based on twice, and it's such a beautiful, compact work with a music all its own. So, I'm kinda dreading the movie not matching up. But Soairse Ronan certainly does, at least in the first 25 minutes.
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But I may be too tired to see it through tonight.
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TOD:
Die Zauberflote
Sweeney Todd
Porgy and Bess
Madame Butterfly
Einstein on the Beach
The Marriage of Figaro
Hansel und Gretel
Elixir of Love
The Bartered Bride
Gianni Schicchi
La Traviata
Paul Bunyan
La Centerentola
The Ghosts of Versailles
Nixon in China
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Oh -- Hurricane Rosa is visiting Arizona this week. She is most welcome.
Good luck. We did get a bit of rain today. And the plants look happy.
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We have lived in this house a long long time. When we replaced the water heater in 2002, we discovered a stamp on it dated 1962. That thing lasted 40 years! Today the replacement began leaking. They don't make things like they used to!
Sounds like mine, which I had to replace a few years ago. Ugh.
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I would have liked to watch Shoot the Piano Player tonight in honor of Aznavour. I will have to watch it a little later this week. I have two movies due back at the library in three days.
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Can we make it to page four?
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I still have 20 pages left in Zola to read.
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And an article for work.
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Let's move on.
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Four!
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We have lived in this house a long long time. When we replaced the water heater in 2002, we discovered a stamp on it dated 1962. That thing lasted 40 years! Today the replacement began leaking. They don't make things like they used to!
What? 40 years??
The typical life span is, what, ten years?
And, um, wasn’t 2002 when I replaced mine? And that one was just under ten.....
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I started listening to Renee Fleming. Her voice is a little operatic for my tastes, but it's OK. I doubt I will listen to it a lot.
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I just wish she had had a good copy editor for the listings. The Sondheim: Medley includes Children Will Listen and You've Got to Be Carefully Taught, which is from that fine Sondheim show, South Pacific, you know.
Oy.
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I was surprised I liked the song from Dear Evan Hansen, since I haven't been able to listen to the CD from the show from start to finish.
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I did finish the Zola novel. Very surprising for the time period. He spends a lot of time with an androgynous character. There are plenty of lesbians running about. And a suspicious butler turns out to be gay and running after the stable boys. The lead story is one of incest in which a man's wife goes for her step-son. And the end result is that no one really cares. She seemingly wants to be punished or upbraided for her behavior, but no one gives it a second thought. Her husband, her maid, her step-son, society, no one. Except her sister-in-law, who hates her and wishes she could guilt the woman into being a prostitute in her discreet house of ill repute.
Proust learned his lessons very well.
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Good night, all.
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We have lived in this house a long long time. When we replaced the water heater in 2002, we discovered a stamp on it dated 1962. That thing lasted 40 years! Today the replacement began leaking. They don't make things like they used to!
Wow! That was an amazing water heater! Because the company made them so well, probably no one bought any more and they went out of business. ::)
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;)
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Rehearsal was fun. And then things got wacky. I went and picked up one package, then did some banking. Then I had a Cobb salad, stopped at Staples and got paper and ink, then came home. I bought a box of four reams of paper - in lifting it out of the motor car I pulled something bad in my lower right back - terrible pain - it's a bit better now, but geez. I noticed the back-up failed so I left my senior tech a message and hopefully he'll call me tomorrow. Then because I've been told by Apple repeatedly that having this 2011 version of Word is part of the computer's problems, since it's completely incompatible with High Sierra, the current operating system.
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So, I got someone at Microsoft chat and discussed which option would be best for me, and I got it. Then began the ordeal of the new Office for Mac. We got it downloaded fine, got it to open but nothing looked the same so it took a full hour to get everything to resemble what I'm used to. It was VERY frustrating - and I'll need to get used to how it all works now, since there are changes. You get some kind of cloud storage, but I want these documents on my computer - that alone took me fifteen minutes to figure out.
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Some evening it's been. And I don't think I've lost a damn pound and if that is the case when I wake up, I'm done with Keto and any other diet save for counting calories.
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The person from whom I bought my condo agreed to install a new water heater when I moved in. It originally had a 50-gallon tank, but she had a brand new 65-gallon tank installed! One time, the power went out for several days and I was still able to get two warm showers from that tank. :)
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I would have liked to watch Shoot the Piano Player tonight in honor of Aznavour. I will have to watch it a little later this week. I have two movies due back at the library in three days.
I have two movies and a TV series checked out. They're all due in the next three days (one each day) and they all have holds, so I can't renew any of them. :P
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BK, for the Indiegogo campaign 10-CD perk, can we just e-mail you (or someone) the list of titles that we want, or will we get some e-mail from you saying you're ready for them?
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I was surprised I liked the song from Dear Evan Hansen, since I haven't been able to listen to the CD from the show from start to finish.
Don't forget to order your Evan Hansen polo shirts.
http://www.playbill.com/article/official-dear-evan-hansen-polo-shirt-now-available-at-the-playbill-store
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We have lived in this house a long long time. When we replaced the water heater in 2002, we discovered a stamp on it dated 1962. That thing lasted 40 years! Today the replacement began leaking. They don't make things like they used to!
Sad but true.
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George, yes send me the list. I'm gonna try to do e-mails tomorrow and Wednesday.
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George, yes send me the list. I'm gonna try to do e-mails tomorrow and Wednesday.
Thanks. I have them written down at work.
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Good evening.
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Well, tonight I am on my laptop.
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Early this evening, I checked my IPad, and the WIFI was working really well.
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But when I signed on at around 1O:OO P.M., it refused to let me post.
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It kept telling me that I wasn't signed on to the internet.
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But when I went into the Settings, it showed that my WIFI was up and running.
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Hi, George.
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I have officially stopped this ridiculous Keto thing. I did it for a week, ate only what one could eat, never overate (in fact yesterday I don't think I even had 1000 calories) - no bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, sugar, just what was allowed. Not a pound, and maybe I even gained one. Anyone, ANYONE who says they lost eight pounds in a week is either lying or delusional, unless they literally stopped eating save for a salad or two a day. But the real problem is it makes you feel bad. Who needs that? Not me.
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I think Nicky has been messing with my iPad.
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He doesn't like me on the iPad when he is trying to sleep.
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One more post.
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Page 5
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Boring day around the homestead.
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Biggest activity was a trip to the Safeway store.
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I couldn't figure out what to make for dinner, so I came home and ordered pizza.
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Tomorrow I am going to Lacey to have lunch with my friend, Diane.
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Hi, George.
Hi, Tom.
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And Wednesday, I go back to the old actors lunch for the first time in a month (at least).
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I have officially stopped this ridiculous Keto thing. I did it for a week, ate only what one could eat, never overate (in fact yesterday I don't think I even had 1000 calories) - no bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, sugar, just what was allowed. Not a pound, and maybe I even gained one. Anyone, ANYONE who says they lost eight pounds in a week is either lying or delusional, unless they literally stopped eating save for a salad or two a day. But the real problem is it makes you feel bad. Who needs that? Not me.
The other thought is that they had SO much weight to lose that it was really a small percentage of their total body weight. The same percentage of YOUR body weight might be so little as to not be noticeable, yet...maybe.
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Tomorrow I am going to Lacey to have lunch with my friend, Diane.
Cool. Where?
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I have such a busy life!!
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Tomorrow I am going to Lacey to have lunch with my friend, Diane.
Cool. Where?
I don't know yet.
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Tomorrow I am going to Lacey to have lunch with my friend, Diane.
Cool. Where?
I don't know yet.
Well, have a good time!
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It will get me out of the house.
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Well, it is
getting late.
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Good night, George.
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Good night, Tom.