Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on March 26, 2020, 12:17:49 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were masked, and now it is time for you to post until the masked cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: CINDERELLA!
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Not only a name, but an actual word.
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Still awake.
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Me too.
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Or should that be #metoo
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Or me two.
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Had a handful of Cheetos just because I could.
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And why not?
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Well, today I need to do some more laundry. I got three loads done today, and it was the first laundry that I've done since I've been home. ::)
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I am listening to music.
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I keep forgetting, snack-wise, that I have little pizza nuggets - two hundred calories for six, or frozen taquitos, same calories for three of those. Not to mention, a bunch of under 300 calorie frozen dinner things and the pizza bread. I must remember because that's better than pretzels and Cheetos.
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Had a handful of Cheetos just because I could.
Sounds good. I have some Pepper Power Hippeas (they're vegan cheese-puff-like crunchy snacky bits), but I haven't opened the bag...yet. ;)
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In about fifteen minutes I'll have my nightly shower, then try to be in bed by two thirty.
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Open the bag, Max.
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Why I oughta...
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I keep forgetting, snack-wise, that I have little pizza nuggets - two hundred calories for six, or frozen taquitos, same calories for three of those. Not to mention, a bunch of under 300 calorie frozen dinner things and the pizza bread. I must remember because that's better than pretzels and Cheetos.
I actually have some Schwan's pizza rolls, too. They're really good, but it's too late for those.
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No it's NOT - let's eat 'em now! They're pretty good, too. They microwave in a hurry and you pop 'em in your mouth.
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Today is chicken stroganoff day. Tomorrow I may have something delivered, but the weekend I have to make spaghetti or pasta with red sauce and mushrooms and onions, before stuff starts to go bad. Then I'll do a day or two of frozen stuff, then maybe tuna sandwiches while the bagels are still fresh.
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Too many food possibilities, which is why I never have food in the house. Too much damn temptation.
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Damn them, damn them all to hell.
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Every night, and I mean every single night for a week now, when I get in bed I have horrible phlegm problems - you know, endlessly clearing my throat. Don't do it at all during the day.
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Brought some more movies in to watch.
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Might pull a bio off the shelf - I have quite a few things I haven't read, including the Jerome Robbins hefty tome.
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I must start doing some walks as I'm getting no exercise at all.
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I must start doing some walks as I'm getting no exercise at all.
I had started walking during work with some co-workers, but except for a couple of times, I haven't since my work closed. I think I'll walk to work to see if the mail clerk will be there. Hopefully, she will and I can pick up my package that was supposed to be delivered yesterday. It's small enough (it's a pack of 20 blank 50GB Blu-ray discs) that I can carry it.
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Every night, and I mean every single night for a week now, when I get in bed I have horrible phlegm problems - you know, endlessly clearing my throat. Don't do it at all during the day.
That's weird. Hopefully, it'll stop. Just the clearing of the throat can hurt your vocal cords.
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And now, I'm off to bed.
Have a good day, all!
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And then I wrote...
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Shouldn't we just do this?
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I dood it and it didn't work, so maybe shouldn't we do THIS?
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Good morning, all.
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I slept the whole night through. Am very happy about that.
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I don’t quite want to get up for work.
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But I gotta.
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Thursday morning greetings! This might be the day I crack open one of the jigsaw puzzles I bought at last year’s AAUW book sale.
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Jigsaw puzzles!
I wish I had the patience.
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It seems I reached a millstone yesterday!
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I always like R/H Cinderella......
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Good morning, all.
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TOD:
I did stop briefly to speak to two of the workers at WalMart who are always kind to me and ask me about my surgery, etc.
They were very harried, but hoping things settle down soon.....I heard a few short stories from them about crazy folks....I just nodded and said......Yes, I can imagine.....
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Good morning!
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In case you were wondering....I made it through about 45 minutes of the WB Have The Honor To Present the Max Reinhardt version of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare adapted by Charles Henyon and Mary C. McCall, Jr.
After every speech of Dick Powell and James Cagney, I wanted to say "Burma Shave..."
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It seems I reached a millstone yesterday!
Congratulations.
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In case you were wondering....I made it through about 45 minutes of the WB Have The Honor To Present the Max Reinhardt version of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare adapted by Charles Henyon and Mary C. McCall, Jr.
After every speech of Dick Powell and James Cagney, I wanted to say "Burma Shave..."
Ha! That’s sort of why I enjoy it.
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DR Elmore:
Yes, I very much anticipated my watching of NASHVILLE last night, and as the main title sequence went by, I was stunned at how good it was. Everything about that first five or ten minutes is what Altman so excelled at, and I couldn't believe I had ignored it all these years. Another five or ten minutes in, and I was mentally adding it to my list of landmark/favorite 1970s movies from the other day. AND ranking it right up there with my favorite Altmans.
And then -- silly me, I took a break about an hour into the film, and on my return I ended up getting drowsy and finally nodding off. So today I'm making an exception to my rule (or just my preference) of not watching a good film at home in the daytime, and I'll finish the second half. Then I'll check into a few of the extras on the Criterion disc. Fortunately, I can darken the Music Room enough to make the viewing pleasurable and comfortable.
As I type this, it occurs to me that I only ever do any serious watching in the daytime in cases where I'm completing something and just can't wait till later. I never go in there during the day and think "I'll put in something to watch". More often than not, it's a TV series I'm bingeing on. I've done this with the likes of THE WIRE, TWIN PEAKS, MAD MEN, and I think the last such thing for me was FOSSE/VERDON. Somehow, an Altman epic seems just as appropriate.
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And now I must throw something on and drive down to Cat Clinic for my first "curb service" pickup of Poe's prescription food!
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Good morning, all!
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Fate isn't always kind, and last night was dreadful. I was still awake when I last checked the clock around 2.
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When I finally slept, I had weird dreams. I remember a bit of one in which Rob Berman and I were casting a recording of Babes In Toyland, a project I still would like to do before I kick. In another, Kate Baldwin and I were at the theatre seeing something.
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So I fed the cats at 6:15 and went back to bed. I lay there for two hours as Stella jumpled all over me, and got up.
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BK, I had forgotten how wonderful "Getting Away With You" is. I miss my iTunes. I want my playlists back.
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Strangely, I have no plans today. I have some recyclables to go to the basement but first I need some breakfast after kitty cleanup. I am surprised the fastidious Thatch hasn't thrown a fit over the current state of the litter box.
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Going to haul out some more Kurt Weill to listen to today. Street Scene? Lady in the Dark? Firebrand of Florence?
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Going to haul out some more Kurt Weill to listen to today. Street Scene? Lady in the Dark? Firebrand of Florence?
I sure wish that Firebrand of Florence weren't so miscast!
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I've accomplished everything but making the bed and getting some breakfast.
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I’m going to start with McGlinn’s set with selections from Firebrand and Love Life. It’s packaged with symphonies 1 and 2.
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DR vixmom, I knew you were a paralegal, but I just assumed because you were in and out of Manhattan with closings that you worked for a real estate company. Are you going in today?
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I’m going to start with McGlinn’s set with selections from Firebrand and Love Life. It’s packaged with symphonies 1 and 2.
I love that McGlinn recording. One man's dying is another man's living.
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Me too.
But you will sleep 8-10 hours once you fall asleep. I still woke up early in the morning. ;D
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I must start doing some walks as I'm getting no exercise at all.
I had started walking during work with some co-workers, but except for a couple of times, I haven't since my work closed. I think I'll walk to work to see if the mail clerk will be there. Hopefully, she will and I can pick up my package that was supposed to be delivered yesterday. It's small enough (it's a pack of 20 blank 50GB Blu-ray discs) that I can carry it.
Now you should have plenty of time to walk. Good luck getting your package.
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I slept the whole night through. Am very happy about that.
Congrats.
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An Amazon package that was supposed to be delivered on Tuesday has been stuck with UPS in New Jersey for the past two days.
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Just put together a batch of Lemon Lime Jello Pineapple Cottage Cheese Surprise to go with the sloppy joes we're having for dinner tonight.
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Sloppy Joes!!!!!
I am finishing up the spaghetti I made on Saturday.
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Instead of getting a yearly sticker to put on my license plate, I got a NEW plate.....it's very nice....trees, a covered bridge, and some cardinals (the bird kind).... I have not had a REAL new physical license plate in over ten years.
My number remains the same..... 376BFF.
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One thing to look forward to each afternoon:
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LOL DR JOHN G - maybe if I think of it as a plus, it will help.
I am waiting for DR CHAS SMITH to finish watching Nashville before I post a particular comment.
Did DR VIXMOM find a copy?
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Just put together a batch of Lemon Lime Jello Pineapple Cottage Cheese Surprise to go with the sloppy joes we're having for dinner tonight.
Well, the sloppy joes sound good.
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Did DR vixmom go into work?
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Just put together a batch of Lemon Lime Jello Pineapple Cottage Cheese Surprise to go with the sloppy joes we're having for dinner tonight.
A congealed salad. Love that stuff. Do you use pecans?
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Two years ago, a bunch of us were in New York for some Cole Porter.
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Just put together a batch of Lemon Lime Jello Pineapple Cottage Cheese Surprise to go with the sloppy joes we're having for dinner tonight.
A congealed salad. Love that stuff. Do you use pecans?
Of course! And now I'm out of pecans. Going to try to order some from Georgia...
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No pecans for us from Georgia. The shipping cost is way too high! I'll try to find some locally.
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Instead of getting a yearly sticker to put on my license plate, I got a NEW plate.....it's very nice....trees, a covered bridge, and some cardinals (the bird kind).... I have not had a REAL new physical license plate in over ten years.
My number remains the same..... 376BFF.
Nice. When you move a lot you get new plates. I do miss our vanity plate from Oregon, Mt. Dog. We still have it.
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Good morning.
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I shouted at a neighbor from the next street south of me. Well, that's how we carried on our conversation. She was on the other side of the street. I told her she is welcome to come into my yard and harvest wildflower seeds for her yard. I have several varieties that are not commercially available that I have gathered from my hiking over the years.
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Leonard likes having me stay home.
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Here I am, fresh from having watched NASHVILLE.
Thanks to everyone for avoiding spoilers. Oh my. I'd never even thought about that being a consideration! :)
It's really fantastic. And like all such films, it will reward repeated viewings. If I keep my evening free, I'll get into the Criterion extras, and I'll watch it again with Altman's commentary soon.
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As I watched the characters and marveled at the actors themselves, I thought of three or four more seminal 1970s films that I'm amazed didn't occur to me the other day.
But that kind of thing is about what you're thinking of at the time, and shouldn't be an effort to replicate an encyclopedia. However, that having been said, how in the #%!*$ did I manage to leave out DELIVERANCE? :)
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I'm up, I'm up - five and a half hours of sleep thanks to the doorbell ringing at nine-thirty. I was determined not to answer it and didn't, but then I thought maybe the Instacart delivery was today rather than tomorrow, so a minute after it had rung I got up and there was nothing outside at all - so who rang the damn doorbell and why?
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I might go back to bed for a bit.
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But of course first I had to deal with some e-mails I'd rather not have dealt with.
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Leonard likes having me stay home.
I am sure.
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Leonard likes having me stay home.
I am sure he does.
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Here I am, fresh from having watched NASHVILLE.
Thanks to everyone for avoiding spoilers. Oh my. I'd never even thought about that being a consideration! :)
It's really fantastic. And like all such films, it will reward repeated viewings. If I keep my evening free, I'll get into the Criterion extras, and I'll watch it again with Altman's commentary soon.
I agree. And it only gets better with age. I think it lost the Oscsrs that year to Cuckoo’s Nest, which hasn’t aged quite so well, IMO. But it was a great year for films. Dog Day Afternoon, too, which I also forgot the other day.
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DR Laura have you been video chatting with your grandson?
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One more detail for now:
Ronee Blakley. Oh my god. Where did she come from? And where did she go?
That performance is beyond stupendous. But her songs, and those orchestrations. Gorgeous. Next time I run this I'm cranking it up on the Big Speakers. Of course I always watch a movie with the Big Speakers. But I'll plan on having a real theater-level experience next time.
I'm someone who's largely indifferent to this genre of music. Hell's bells, the main reason I never felt compelled to see the movie was because of its setting and what I knew the general musical style would be. It won't change my lifelong musical preferences, but I can certainly love what's up there on the screen. Thank you, Mr. Altman, sir.
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I'm really glad to hear the Woody Allen book is so good. I hope it becomes a GREAT seller.
Can't wait to dig in, and will try to do that soon.
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Okay, DR Jrand69, out with your spoiler! :)
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So now I have to drive out for another curb-service pickup -- an external hard drive I ordered through Best Buy is in. And tomorrow morning will be my third, when I return to Cat Clinic for the second half of Poe's large food order.
The new normal.
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I just finished my census info. That's off my back.
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This is currently playing for the second time.
https://youtu.be/MERgceA-BeI
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There may be a third time.
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There may be a third time.
I love the score for Love Life!
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That's beautiful.
Of all the damned years...
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The theme of a dream gone astray.
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I’m too exhausted to focus on much today. That said, I’ve gotten a lot of work done.
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I spent about an hour reading on our front porch 8)
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I just finished my census info. That's off my back.
We received a postcard today reminding us to do this. Keith said he will do it.
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This is currently playing for the second time.
https://youtu.be/MERgceA-BeI
Beautiful.
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I spent about an hour reading on our front porch 8)
That sounds nice. I could go out and sit on our little back patio. I don't want the dogs to see me & think they will get treats. I decided I should stop carrying them for now :(
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I spent about an hour reading on our front porch 8)
If I had an hour, I could finish the last 30 pages of Edith Wharton’s The Children. I think this one would have been better as a novella. It feels awfully padded.
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And it’s also kinda creepy from our perspective since the young heroine is 15 and the man who falls for her is 37.
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Talk about your broken promise lands of 15.
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Our postman now appears to be leaving everyone's mail in a heap on the floor in front of the postboxes, It's a complete mess. I just sorted through it all and retrieved my package and mail.
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The most dreaded part of the day has arrived: the Fat Orange Moron's daily update. He can't read a teleprompter, can't make sense, and cannot complete a sentence. I feel as though I'm watching a brain-damaged sports coach trying to rev up a group of recalcitrant children.
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Our postman now appears to be leaving everyone's mail in a heap on the floor in front of the postboxes, It's a complete mess. I just sorted through it all and retrieved my package and mail.
:o
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DR elmore you must have the worst postman.
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DR elmore you must have the worst postman.
Worst post office.
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Talk about your broken promise lands of 15.
I should have remembered it was Edith Wharton. No happy endings.
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In case you were wondering....I made it through about 45 minutes of the WB Have The Honor To Present the Max Reinhardt version of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare adapted by Charles Henyon and Mary C. McCall, Jr.
After every speech of Dick Powell and James Cagney, I wanted to say "Burma Shave..."
We only lasted about 15 minutes
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DR vixmom, I knew you were a paralegal, but I just assumed because you were in and out of Manhattan with closings that you worked for a real estate company. Are you going in today?
Nope I’ve been in Lender representation all these years. So we’re the ones preparing the loan documents and handing out the loan proceeds
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LOL DR JOHN G - maybe if I think of it as a plus, it will help.
I am waiting for DR CHAS SMITH to finish watching Nashville before I post a particular comment.
Did DR VIXMOM find a copy?
I have not. The library is closed and I haven’t looked on Amazon yet
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I wonder if it would be on a Netflix...
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Did DR vixmom go into work?
I did indeed
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Two years ago, a bunch of us were in New York for some Cole Porter.
That was such a fantastic day!
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As I watched the characters and marveled at the actors themselves, I thought of three or four more seminal 1970s films that I'm amazed didn't occur to me the other day.
But that kind of thing is about what you're thinking of at the time, and shouldn't be an effort to replicate an encyclopedia. However, that having been said, how in the #%!*$ did I manage to leave out DELIVERANCE? :)
Another film I have not seen
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My sister-in-law Jo and I have been trying to figure out the reasons for Lady Macbeth's phone call.
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Jo thinks she's up to something.
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I think she's just a mean drunk with cabin fever.
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Page 5 Dance!
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DR VIXMOM you can skip this post.
Anyway from the first time I saw NASHVILLE, I imagined that Rayette from Five Easy Pieces had come out of the restroom at that gas station and had driven Bobby's car to Nashville and by singing and sleeping with the right people had become Connie White.......
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My friend former DR KURT was working at the Indiana Repertory Theatre and a year or so after NASHVILLE, Miss Ronee Blakeley was brought into town to do a play there....I forget which one.
But anyway - she got unpacked at her hotel and promptly fell asleep under her sunlamp and got a terrible sunburn. She was in pain for the duration of rehearsals and performances.
Kurt said she was not the smartest person he ever met - and had trouble following simple directions - but she was not unkind....
It always breaks my heart in the movie when she's trying to sing at Opryland on that boat.....and she says....apropos of nothing...."....a storm....there's a storm a brewin'..." just before she faints.....
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DR elmore you must have the worst postman.
Worst post office.
I feel bad for you dealing with them.
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I think she's just a mean drunk with cabin fever.
That sounds about right.
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It seems I reached a millstone yesterday!
Congrats, Jrand!
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In case you were wondering....I made it through about 45 minutes of the WB Have The Honor To Present the Max Reinhardt version of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare adapted by Charles Henyon and Mary C. McCall, Jr.
After every speech of Dick Powell and James Cagney, I wanted to say "Burma Shave..."
:))
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I got another two hours of sleep, had a nice telephonic conversation, and started writing the book thing I'm contributing to. 1500 words, of which I've now written close to 400, some of which are decent.
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I picked up dinner tonight from a place south of downtown. I missed a turn-off, so I drove through downtown. It was strange. A homeless man in an area next to a stop light started losing it and was throwing trash all over the road. Most of the streets were empty, but the bus station was crowded with plenty of people not practicing social distancing.
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The drivers were crazy. One half was driving way too fast, the other way too slow. On the interstate, people were entering driving 10 miles over the speed limit while people already on the road were doing 20 or 30 miles under it.
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Started watching Cluny Brown, a delicious Ernst Lubitsch comedy with Charles Boyer and Jennifer Jones.
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Faux chicken stroganoff was excellent and TOO filling and I feel like a whale right now.
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I am really full.
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If I go sit on the couch like so much fish I know I'll be asleep in seconds. I don't think I need to eat anything else today.
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Of course, "today" is almost over and tonight is almost upon us.
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Today, I am not only self-isolating, I'm self-imposing and self-serving.
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Where in tarnation IS everyone? You can't get the virus in here, baby.
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Listening to great music by a composer named Karol Rathaus. Wonderful stuff. I had one piece by him on a compilation album and found tons of others to grab on the Tube of You, including three symphonies.
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I must start doing some walks as I'm getting no exercise at all.
I had started walking during work with some co-workers, but except for a couple of times, I haven't since my work closed. I think I'll walk to work to see if the mail clerk will be there. Hopefully, she will and I can pick up my package that was supposed to be delivered yesterday. It's small enough (it's a pack of 20 blank 50GB Blu-ray discs) that I can carry it.
Now you should have plenty of time to walk. Good luck getting your package.
It didn't arrive. :(
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Instead of getting a yearly sticker to put on my license plate, I got a NEW plate.....it's very nice....trees, a covered bridge, and some cardinals (the bird kind).... I have not had a REAL new physical license plate in over ten years.
My number remains the same..... 376BFF.
Nice. When you move a lot you get new plates. I do miss our vanity plate from Oregon, Mt. Dog. We still have it.
When I had my Subaru Justy, the non-personalized plates were 222DBL! ;D
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This is currently playing for the second time.
https://youtu.be/MERgceA-BeI
Very nice.
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Back to Cluny. I took a break to clean up some more of the garage. The trash pickup was today, and my trash can is already half-full. I could throw out more. What I need to do first, though, is get rid of some of the books out there. These are cookbooks I inherited, many of which I already had. I have plenty need to go. Maybe on Saturday I could do a Goodwill run.
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Today, I am not only self-isolating, I'm self-imposing and self-serving.
Self-quarantine seems to be a popular word that from the way things look must mean "I go outside anytime I feel like it."
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Jo thinks she's up to something.
Hopefully not!!
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Enjoying a chilled glass of Lillet Rose'. A nice reward for my labors.
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Well, I got the official word: we're off work until (but probably no later than) April 20. Some Service Center people (where I work) may be called back on April 10, but they don't know who, yet. I will have to go in on April 1 or 2 so that I can pay the credit card bill.
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That is good news, George. Our libraries are supposedly closed a week longer than yours. But everything checked out now has had the due date extended to May 1. It may take that long to finish the last three discs of the book I've been listening to in the car. I don't have to drive anywhere, so I don't get to listen to anything.
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I did notice, however, that the items I returned to my library weren't checked in for a week. Then suddenly they were. So, I guess one or two people have gone in there and cleared out the return areas.
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One more ...
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Six!
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I must start doing some walks as I'm getting no exercise at all.
I had started walking during work with some co-workers, but except for a couple of times, I haven't since my work closed. I think I'll walk to work to see if the mail clerk will be there. Hopefully, she will and I can pick up my package that was supposed to be delivered yesterday. It's small enough (it's a pack of 20 blank 50GB Blu-ray discs) that I can carry it.
Now you should have plenty of time to walk. Good luck getting your package.
It didn't arrive. :(
Darn. Will you have another opportunity to collect it?
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Back to Cluny. I took a break to clean up some more of the garage. The trash pickup was today, and my trash can is already half-full. I could throw out more. What I need to do first, though, is get rid of some of the books out there. These are cookbooks I inherited, many of which I already had. I have plenty need to go. Maybe on Saturday I could do a Goodwill run.
Is Goodwill open?
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DR George do you still have emergency leave pay?
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Back to Cluny. I took a break to clean up some more of the garage. The trash pickup was today, and my trash can is already half-full. I could throw out more. What I need to do first, though, is get rid of some of the books out there. These are cookbooks I inherited, many of which I already had. I have plenty need to go. Maybe on Saturday I could do a Goodwill run.
Is Goodwill open?
Our Goodwill is closed, don't know if they have receptacles to leave things
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Strange to work at home....but nice too, this afternoon I took a walk and sat on my front porch in the sun - that lasted about 5 minutes. It's been rainy and cloudy for a week. Looking forward to Sunday when the sun is supposed to come out.....it isn't coming out tomorrow... Today was a hard day for me. Grief sucks
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I had a long talk with mom tonight. I think it's all starting to sink in. She is terrified of thunderstorms and doesn't know what she is going to do without Dad there. She thought she'd go into the hallway and close all the doors so she can't see the lightning. Poor thing
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Of course it isn't storming now, she's just getting nervous thinking about getting nervous
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We don't have a shelter in place order, but the governor just ordered a whole list of stores to close in addition to bars, restaurants salons etc.... We just got our third case in the county. We're behind everyone, but I think it's going to be here soon. They are just setting up drive through testing. They haven't been doing many tests at all, so I'm expecting the numbers to start going up
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Back to Cluny. I took a break to clean up some more of the garage. The trash pickup was today, and my trash can is already half-full. I could throw out more. What I need to do first, though, is get rid of some of the books out there. These are cookbooks I inherited, many of which I already had. I have plenty need to go. Maybe on Saturday I could do a Goodwill run.
It always feels good to toss things that you don't need and declutter a little
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DR George do you still have emergency leave pay?
So far, we've been using "Emergency Leave," but after Monday, March 28, we'll select "Administrative Leave" on our electronic time sheets. The library buildings are closed to the public until April 24, but may open early if situations change. The good news is that everyone still gets paid! :D
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Back to Cluny. I took a break to clean up some more of the garage. The trash pickup was today, and my trash can is already half-full. I could throw out more. What I need to do first, though, is get rid of some of the books out there. These are cookbooks I inherited, many of which I already had. I have plenty need to go. Maybe on Saturday I could do a Goodwill run.
Is Goodwill open?
I think the drop-off donation places are.
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Back to Cluny. I took a break to clean up some more of the garage. The trash pickup was today, and my trash can is already half-full. I could throw out more. What I need to do first, though, is get rid of some of the books out there. These are cookbooks I inherited, many of which I already had. I have plenty need to go. Maybe on Saturday I could do a Goodwill run.
It always feels good to toss things that you don't need and declutter a little
I would need a semi if I did all that!
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That is good news, George. Our libraries are supposedly closed a week longer than yours. But everything checked out now has had the due date extended to May 1. It may take that long to finish the last three discs of the book I've been listening to in the car. I don't have to drive anywhere, so I don't get to listen to anything.
Thanks, John! When they closed all the libraries, they also extended the due dates for ALL items, even Interlibrary Loans...not really any choice.
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Cluny is almost over. It's been hilarious to see Richard Haydn as a prim and proper pharmacist about 15 years before he played Max in Sound of Music.
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Good evening.
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Thanks to the miracle of the innnerwebs, I was able to watch my grandson do the Hokey Pokey tonight.
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Back to Cluny. I took a break to clean up some more of the garage. The trash pickup was today, and my trash can is already half-full. I could throw out more. What I need to do first, though, is get rid of some of the books out there. These are cookbooks I inherited, many of which I already had. I have plenty need to go. Maybe on Saturday I could do a Goodwill run.
It always feels good to toss things that you don't need and declutter a little
I would need a semi if I did all that!
LOL me too! But if I get rid of a few things I get that sense of satisfaction and treat myself with ice cream
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Great line in Never Give a Sucker an Even Break: You're as funny as a cry for help.
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That is good news, George. Our libraries are supposedly closed a week longer than yours. But everything checked out now has had the due date extended to May 1. It may take that long to finish the last three discs of the book I've been listening to in the car. I don't have to drive anywhere, so I don't get to listen to anything.
Thanks, John! When they closed all the libraries, they also extended the due dates for ALL items, even Interlibrary Loans...not really any choice.
The only items they did not extend were the OverDrive loans.
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Thanks to the miracle of the innnerwebs, I was able to watch my grandson do the Hokey Pokey tonight.
Is the hokey pokey really what's it's all about?
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That is good news, George. Our libraries are supposedly closed a week longer than yours. But everything checked out now has had the due date extended to May 1. It may take that long to finish the last three discs of the book I've been listening to in the car. I don't have to drive anywhere, so I don't get to listen to anything.
Thanks, John! When they closed all the libraries, they also extended the due dates for ALL items, even Interlibrary Loans...not really any choice.
The only items they did not extend were the OverDrive loans.
Actually, that's the same for us. Makes sense, since it's all digital and you don't have to physically go to the library to return something. ::)
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Good night, all.
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Thanks to the miracle of the innnerwebs, I was able to watch my grandson do the Hokey Pokey tonight.
Awwwww
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Back to Cluny. I took a break to clean up some more of the garage. The trash pickup was today, and my trash can is already half-full. I could throw out more. What I need to do first, though, is get rid of some of the books out there. These are cookbooks I inherited, many of which I already had. I have plenty need to go. Maybe on Saturday I could do a Goodwill run.
It always feels good to toss things that you don't need and declutter a little
I would need a semi if I did all that!
LOL me too! But if I get rid of a few things I get that sense of satisfaction and treat myself with ice cream
My decluttering task for today was disposing of all the ice cream
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I ended up taking a nap for a couple of hours tonight. Actually both a Vixdad and I did in our respective recliners approximately 6 feet from one another
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Vixdad has taken to watching Russian car crashes on YouTube on the tv again
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It is educational
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We have learned that “sootKA!” (Phonetic spelling) means “oh how unfortunate, I seem to have run my car into something”
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Well my iPad is at 4% so I guess I must be going
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Good night
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Strange to work at home....but nice too, this afternoon I took a walk and sat on my front porch in the sun - that lasted about 5 minutes. It's been rainy and cloudy for a week. Looking forward to Sunday when the sun is supposed to come out.....it isn't coming out tomorrow... Today was a hard day for me. Grief sucks
Yes it does :(
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I had a long talk with mom tonight. I think it's all starting to sink in. She is terrified of thunderstorms and doesn't know what she is going to do without Dad there. She thought she'd go into the hallway and close all the doors so she can't see the lightning. Poor thing
This is sad but not a bad plan.
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Of course it isn't storming now, she's just getting nervous thinking about getting nervous
I used to be that way about flying. I would get sick thinking about getting sick.
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DR George do you still have emergency leave pay?
So far, we've been using "Emergency Leave," but after Monday, March 28, we'll select "Administrative Leave" on our electronic time sheets. The library buildings are closed to the public until April 24, but may open early if situations change. The good news is that everyone still gets paid! :D
Yay to still getting paid.
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Thanks to the miracle of the innnerwebs, I was able to watch my grandson do the Hokey Pokey tonight.
Awww :)
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That is good news, George. Our libraries are supposedly closed a week longer than yours. But everything checked out now has had the due date extended to May 1. It may take that long to finish the last three discs of the book I've been listening to in the car. I don't have to drive anywhere, so I don't get to listen to anything.
Thanks, John! When they closed all the libraries, they also extended the due dates for ALL items, even Interlibrary Loans...not really any choice.
The only items they did not extend were the OverDrive loans.
Speaking of Overdrive.
The new system I complained about seems to be moving the books faster. The option to borrow the book in 3 days or delay a week is making the wait shorter. More books than I can read have become available much sooner than I expected.
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That is good news, George. Our libraries are supposedly closed a week longer than yours. But everything checked out now has had the due date extended to May 1. It may take that long to finish the last three discs of the book I've been listening to in the car. I don't have to drive anywhere, so I don't get to listen to anything.
Thanks, John! When they closed all the libraries, they also extended the due dates for ALL items, even Interlibrary Loans...not really any choice.
The only items they did not extend were the OverDrive loans.
Actually, that's the same for us. Makes sense, since it's all digital and you don't have to physically go to the library to return something. ::)
I am very glad right now that my books are digital.
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Vixdad has taken to watching Russian car crashes on YouTube on the tv again
Oh my ;D
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We have learned that “sootKA!” (Phonetic spelling) means “oh how unfortunate, I seem to have run my car into something”
:D
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My eyes hurt so goodnight.
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Someone posted this on FB: Too Many Mornings (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTFnkscp7yg) sung by David Carroll & Christine Andreas. It's just the audio of them singing in a summer stock production of Side by Side by Sondheim. Someone mentioned that it's been 30 years since he died. Wow...30 years.
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That video led me to this Follies Medley (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKgwhNYFvPI), sung by Dorothy Collins, obviously in a cabaret act. After talking a bit, the first song that she sings is a kind of uptempo version of "The Road You Didn't Take," and then goes on from there. She ends with "Losing My Mind." Pretty cool!
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I'm up, I'm up - oh, wait.
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Uh oh, allergies coming on, must nip it in the bud with a pill. Nip It in the Bud With a Pill - that's the title of the new Stephen Sondheim musical.
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I gotta tell you.
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Oh, yes, allergies have shown up.
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Greetings!
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SPOILER ALERT
Tonight, I watched the season finale of A MILLION LITTLE THINGS. Just when it looked like recovering alcoholic, Eddie (GRIMM’s David Guintoli) was going to break down and have a drink; he walked out of the bar, called his wife and said he was on his way home, and BAMM! he gets hit by a car.
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Now, I have to wait for the fall to find out what happened. Oh great, the series has not yet been renewed.
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200!!
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SPOILER ALERT
Tonight, I watched the season finale of A MILLION LITTLE THINGS. Just when it looked like recovering alcoholic, Eddie (GRIMM’s David Guintoli) was going to break down and have a drink; he walked out of the bar, called his wife and said he was on his way home, and BAMM! he gets hit by a car.
Don't you HATE it when that happens on a TV show?? >:(
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Grey's Anatomy has done things like that many times over the years.
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Hi, Tom.
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Hello, George.
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I have been watching a Judy Garland documentary on YouTube. It has several clips of the adult Judy on THE JACK PARR SHOW. I loved it when Judy was on that show.
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If I remember correctly, it was on Friday night at 10:00 p.m.
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Notes are up and the In My Mind's Eye play is now posted and linked to so give it a look-see.