Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on January 02, 2021, 12:02:42 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes spoke of a new book, and now it is time for you to post until the new cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: HANDSEL!
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But not Gretel.
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I ended up really enjoying La Wally. It just got better and better as it went along. Many beautiful passages and the interludes are gorgeous, too.
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The only version of the La Wally famous aria that I've heard is Sarah Brightman's version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgmHaPeogMQ). Since I'm a fan of hers (more of her earlier stuff...and style ::) ), I really like the piece and her version.
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Off to bed.
Have a good day, all!
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Good morning, all!
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I slept much better last night than the night before. I had a long dream about being stuck in a subway station and trying to transfer trains.
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I have no plans at all today.
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Rob Fisher's brother Steve posted on Facebook yesterday that his $600 stimulus payment has landed in his bank account. I will check my account today. In case.
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T.O.D.
Chocolate, vanilla and butterscotch.
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Good morning, all.
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No bank deposit of $600. Pity.
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Good morning.
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The croquembouche was a project I did a few years ago when the marathon had the street outside our subdivision closed for the day. I always get annoyed on that day, since the race shuts down so much of the Phoenix area. We have to cancel church, since the road to the church is closed. I decided I needed a project that would keep me so busy all day I wouldn't have time to think about it. Well, I found it.
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I was also annoyed that we had so much trash to clean up on the church property afterwards, and the crowds would also step on a lot of our plants.
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Good morning, all.
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Continued book-writing vibes for MR BK.
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Yes I know four folks who have been stimulated......
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I should make another one when this whole thing is over with. I have no idea what the occasion would be, though.
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TOD:
My favorite is Butterscotch.......pudding made by the Jello folks!
My mom used to make it......but I would never try.....I buy it in individual cups!
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I particularly used to love it when she used the butterscotch pudding as the filling in a pie!
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We'll have to wait for a check in the mail.
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My bank, for whatever reason, puts no updates through to its website on weekends and holidays. That’s the norm with them and I’m used to it. This means that for all I know, that deposit has been sitting there since Thursday night or Friday morning but I won’t see it until sometime Monday. The almost universal reporting of this deposit by people everywhere shows up how unusual this bank’s practice is, and it pisseth me off. I’m going to call them on Monday to get their explanation.
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TOD
Just about any as long as it is good. Few foods are worse than bad pudding.
Panna cotta
Butterscotch (a hotel near the office used to make theirs with crushed candies)
Rice
My Krispy Kreme bread pudding with hard sauce
Flan
Banana, even though the bananas don’t like me
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When I was in the hospital for the first kidney surgery, I was given chocolate pudding as a dessert. It may be the most disgusting thing I have ever tasted. The nastiness lingered for days. When I got home, I made my own. It was actually worse.
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I remembered that after the second kidney operation. So, I ordered one chocolate and one vanilla pudding. The chocolate was as bad as I remembered. The vanilla was pretty good and comforting.
I guess I want dark chocolate pot de creme instead of chocolate pudding.
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Listening to the new Springsteen album. The songwriting is solid, but the tempos are slow.
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Good morning!
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Didn't sleep very well last night, and as a result slept very late this morning after I finally did fall asleep.
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TWO!
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Good Morning! The ham is in the oven for the brunch today. The rest of the items all have to be prepared at the same time. Sort of like Thanksgiving and the turkey. I am listening to Kodaly's Missa Brevis... I sang this once a long time ago. It's odd. It popped into my memory as BK kept mentioning Janáček, whom I thought composed the mass, but I was wrong. I'm thankful it's short.
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I'm up, I'm up - maybe five hours of sleep.
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I watched the FIVE HOUR version of the movie 1900 - I don't ever need to see it again.
Italian politics is not a very exciting subject for a movie.....although I liked some of the performances and Dominique Sanda was particularly good.....
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I watched the FIVE HOUR version of the movie 1900 - I don't ever need to see it again.
Italian politics is not a very exciting subject for a movie.....although I liked some of the performances and Dominique Sanda was particularly good.....
I liked it when I was a teenager. Lots and lots of sex and violence. I tried watching it a few years back and the bad dubbing drove me crazy.
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Listening to John Mauceri's The Cradle Will Rock. The sound is deplorable. It's as if everyone, singers and orchestra both, were recorded through a tunnel. It's a live recording, I think, but that's no excuse.
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But not even Mauceri can rob the piece of its power and playfulness.
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Saturday afternoon greetings! Well, one Ohio team won their bowl game yesterday and the other lost. I wish the results had been reversed...
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When I was in the hospital for the first kidney surgery, I was given chocolate pudding as a dessert. It may be the most disgusting thing I have ever tasted. The nastiness lingered for days. When I got home, I made my own. It was actually worse.
;D My mother used to make a good chocolate pudding. I found Jello boxed vanilla & butterscotch were better from the box. I haven't had pudding in so long I don't even know if I would still like it.
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I hate tapioca.
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I like tapioca as a pie thickener instead of corn starch.
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TOD - Apparently Richard's grandmother made rice pudding that he and his brothers all loved, but, of course, there was no written recipe. I have tried in vain to replicate it and told my sister-in-law, before she married Richard's older brother, "Don't even try!"
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TOD - Apparently Richard's grandmother made rice pudding that he and his brothers all loved, but, of course, there was no written recipe. I have tried in vain to replicate it and told my sister-in-law, before she married Richard's older brother, "Don't even try!"
That's sad. And there are so many different styles of rice pudding.
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TOD - Apparently Richard's grandmother made rice pudding that he and his brothers all loved, but, of course, there was no written recipe. I have tried in vain to replicate it and told my sister-in-law, before she married Richard's older brother, "Don't even try!"
That's sad. And there are so many different styles of rice pudding.
Yes. For now Richard seems satisfied with the individual serving cups from KozyShack - when we can get them from Kroger.
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I like tapioca as a pie thickener instead of corn starch.
If only the pearls could be removed-lol. It probably tastes fine as a thickener.
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The best part of this The Cradle Will Rock is the appendix, a 13+-minute recording of Blitzstein telling his version of what happened on opening night. And you know what? The sound quality is much better than Mauceri's. Hardly a surprise, but still.
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My bank, for whatever reason, puts no updates through to its website on weekends and holidays. That’s the norm with them and I’m used to it. This means that for all I know, that deposit has been sitting there since Thursday night or Friday morning but I won’t see it until sometime Monday. The almost universal reporting of this deposit by people everywhere shows up how unusual this bank’s practice is, and it pisseth me off. I’m going to call them on Monday to get their explanation.
I decided to post my question on their Facebook page, and got a reply:
Hello Charles,
We are aware other banks have posted pending stimulus payments as early as January 1st, Peoples United Bank will be following the ACH instructions received from the Fed to post transactions beginning the business day January 4th.
Which is all fine and good, I know the stimulus will show up. What they didn't address was my main query about their practice of not showing ANY weekend transactions till Monday, every week of the year. So I posted a followup, and we'll see what they say.
In the meantime, am I correct in thinking that other banks DO show new transaction over the weekend? Out of curiosity, whose banks do and don't update their websites over the weekend?
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I once at a Lincoln Center Library bazaar mentioned to Betty Chapin, whose husband Schuyler was at one time the executive producer for Leonard Bernstein's Amberson Organization among many other positions he held during his lifetime, that I had just recorded Girl Crazy with John Mauceri. She gave me a look as though I had just told her she had lice and, after a moment, said in a chilly voice, "John Mauceri thinks he invented Leonard Bernstein."
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Back from a nice over the hill drive and some research. I didn't go to Hugo's for breakfast in the car - but I have some on its way to me now.
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Brunch was a success. I sent them home with leftovers, which was great. My brothers homemade Italian sausages (which he gave out as Christmas gifts) were fantastic. Nice way to start the year. Oh, and my recent COVID test was negative. Living the life, I tell you!
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Good news, DR Matthew.
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We re-watched the 2017 Broadway production of Falsettos. I'll admit to being a blubbering mess during most of Act Two.
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It's time for: Today's Opera Update.
Un Ballo tonight. Scotto and Pavarotti.
Battle tomorrow, in L'Elisir.
Next week's theme: Epic Rivalries!!!
To be followed by Renée Fleming week, with her Rusalka streaming on Sunday the 17th.
This has been: Today's Opera Update.
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What they meant to say -
Dear Charles:
When you have your bank, you can do it that way. This is my bank, and this is how it will be done. Thank you. THE Bank.
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My bank definitely posts weekend activity.
DR ChasSmith, I still have a People's Bank account from my Connecticut days.
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Brunch was a success. I sent them home with leftovers, which was great. My brothers homemade Italian sausages (which he gave out as Christmas gifts) were fantastic. Nice way to start the year. Oh, and my recent COVID test was negative. Living the life, I tell you!
Congrats on your test results and a successful brunch.
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What they meant to say -
Dear Charles:
When you have your bank, you can do it that way. This is my bank, and this is how it will be done. Thank you. THE Bank.
;D
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#truth
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What?
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DR Ginny, did Fr. Richard's grandmother's rice pudding recipe have eggs? Could it be that the whites needed to be whipped and then folded into the pudding?
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We’ll never know, DR Laura.
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A few days ago my trunk was frozen shut. And I think I pulled a muscle in my left upper back/shoulder neck trying to open it. I thought for sure that this would go away. But it still hasn't. Luckily sleeping is much better (the first night was really bad). But it's hard to use the computer, read, watch tv... :(
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Vibes for Jennifer
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Oh Jennifer, that sounds very unpleasant. Did you get it open or give up?
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HEALING VIBES FOR DR JENNIFER!
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DR Ginny have you read anymore of The Vanishing Half?
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Hello, everyone.
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My father loved tapioca. I don't recall ever tasting it.
I love a good chocolate mousse, but it's just too addictive.
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My bank, for whatever reason, puts no updates through to its website on weekends and holidays. That’s the norm with them and I’m used to it. This means that for all I know, that deposit has been sitting there since Thursday night or Friday morning but I won’t see it until sometime Monday. The almost universal reporting of this deposit by people everywhere shows up how unusual this bank’s practice is, and it pisseth me off. I’m going to call them on Monday to get their explanation.
I decided to post my question on their Facebook page, and got a reply:
Hello Charles,
We are aware other banks have posted pending stimulus payments as early as January 1st, Peoples United Bank will be following the ACH instructions received from the Fed to post transactions beginning the business day January 4th.
Which is all fine and good, I know the stimulus will show up. What they didn't address was my main query about their practice of not showing ANY weekend transactions till Monday, every week of the year. So I posted a followup, and we'll see what they say.
In the meantime, am I correct in thinking that other banks DO show new transaction over the weekend? Out of curiosity, whose banks do and don't update their websites over the weekend?
I just checked my US Bank account and found $600! Dated Jan 4. I cannot recommend the bank, though. They were decent when I opened the account ten years ago, but they've become quite horrible since. Totally incompetent management. Totally horrible website.
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I'm familiar with croquembouche as a French wedding cake. A French friend ordered one for his wedding, but the baker in the little town outside of Pittsburgh had never heard of it. My friend supplied a recipe, but said the cake wasn't right at all. I suspect something was lost in translation.
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Vibes for DR Jennifer's shoulder. Have you tried a heating pad?
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I slept like the dead last night and yet woke up tired. I can think of a couple reasons for this, but I also suspect a post-2020 letdown. So much stress last year!
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And the stress continues.
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My bank, for whatever reason, puts no updates through to its website on weekends and holidays. That’s the norm with them and I’m used to it. This means that for all I know, that deposit has been sitting there since Thursday night or Friday morning but I won’t see it until sometime Monday. The almost universal reporting of this deposit by people everywhere shows up how unusual this bank’s practice is, and it pisseth me off. I’m going to call them on Monday to get their explanation.
I decided to post my question on their Facebook page, and got a reply:
Hello Charles,
We are aware other banks have posted pending stimulus payments as early as January 1st, Peoples United Bank will be following the ACH instructions received from the Fed to post transactions beginning the business day January 4th.
Which is all fine and good, I know the stimulus will show up. What they didn't address was my main query about their practice of not showing ANY weekend transactions till Monday, every week of the year. So I posted a followup, and we'll see what they say.
In the meantime, am I correct in thinking that other banks DO show new transaction over the weekend? Out of curiosity, whose banks do and don't update their websites over the weekend?
It's in any bank's interest to post deposits as late as possible to gain maximum use of your money, ie, the float. Understandable when all bookkeeping was done by hand, but hardly kosher today. A strong banking lobby has kept archaic laws on the books. They all want us to do online banking -- cheaper for them -- but want to play by the old rules. I'd love to find a decent bank. What's so difficult?
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And the stress continues.
Covid case numbers, yes. Trump idiocy, yes. But better things coming!
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TTFN.
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Glad everyone's getting their 600 bucks. I will not get it, just as I didn't get the 1200 bucks. Oh, well.
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I have not gotten a lot of new pages done. Futzing and finessing the first twenty pages was a long process - lots of smoothing out, lots of detail added, nuking a few things, but mostly getting the pace and tone right, since chapter one sets all that for the rest of the book. I've done four new pages since then because I've also been finessing all these tracks, and that takes quite a bit of time. I think I'll forego watching anything this evening. I need a little thirty-minute break and then I'll try writing another six to ten pages in a row and perhaps finish off chapter two. That would be good.
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Both important envelopes arrived, so that was good - I can see that the most important one was sent on the 28th - it is outrageous that it would take five days from Burbank to Valley Village. But, that's the USPS for you. There were also quite a few packages.
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The pasta papa was not as good as usual today. Don't know why.
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Eating a cupcake and really enjoying Massenet's Thais - lovely tunes.
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Eleven new pages so far and time for another break, and then I'll go for another five or so, if I'm feeling it. Now back to Thais and the famous Meditation, which I've always loved. Anyone know his other operas like Werther and Manon, etc.
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We watched City Lights tonight. It may be 45 years since I last saw it. I was surprised st how much I remembered. As much as love Gold Rush and The Circus, this is Chaplin’s best.
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Cheyenne Jackson is in a new sitcom, Call Me Kat.
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It’s set in Louisville.
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We just watched RAGTIME.
Still an excellent movie.
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I'm familiar with croquembouche as a French wedding cake. A French friend ordered one for his wedding, but the baker in the little town outside of Pittsburgh had never heard of it. My friend supplied a recipe, but said the cake wasn't right at all. I suspect something was lost in translation.
To say the least. I would not want something that complex from someone who’d never heard of it.
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Page three? Really?
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Let's fix that.
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Four!
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page four, really?
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What is this page four malarkey?
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Jeanne, I'm halfway through Megan Rapinoe's One Life. It's good and not great at the same time. It's good in that the discussion about being out in American sports still needs to be had. But it could be better for the same reason. Is Rapinoe's sexuality her whole life outside of soccer? No, and she knows that. But it's a big part of the story she has to tell because of the stigma that still surrounds it.
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Thankfully, it's not that long.
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It's time for me to hit the hay.
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But first ...
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Underpants!
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Cranberries!
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Gratuitous post No. 99!
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Good night, all.
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I'm familiar with croquembouche as a French wedding cake. A French friend ordered one for his wedding, but the baker in the little town outside of Pittsburgh had never heard of it. My friend supplied a recipe, but said the cake wasn't right at all. I suspect something was lost in translation.
To say the least. I would not want something that complex from someone who’d never heard of it.
At least not without a trial run.
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Page four? That's saying something - but not what I want to say.
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I've written seventeen pages, so that's enough for today. We'll see if I like any of it tomorrow.
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Listening to a little opera-ish thing (it sounds more like musical comedy) - I might issue it as I'm a huge fan of its composer.
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Now playing: Another Entartete opera - very entertaining - Pavel Haas, Sarlatan (The Charlatan) - wonderful music. And yet another young composer put to death by the disgusting Nazis.
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Saturday afternoon greetings! Well, one Ohio team won their bowl game yesterday and the other lost. I wish the results had been reversed...
That Ohio game was awesome!
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I hate tapioca.
I love tapioca!
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Rob Fisher's brother Steve posted on Facebook yesterday that his $600 stimulus payment has landed in his bank account. I will check my account today. In case.
I haven't received mine.
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I hate tapioca.
I love tapioca!
If you're talking about pudding, I love tapioca also! :D
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Hi, Tom.
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We re-watched the 2017 Broadway production of Falsettos. I'll admit to being a blubbering mess during most of Act Two.
You and me, both.
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Jeanne, I'm halfway through Megan Rapinoe's One Life. It's good and not great at the same time. It's good in that the discussion about being out in American sports still needs to be had. But it could be better for the same reason. Is Rapinoe's sexuality her whole life outside of soccer? No, and she knows that. But it's a big part of the story she has to tell because of the stigma that still surrounds it.
And, of course, her wife Sue Bird is also a professional athlete.
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When I was in the hospital for the first kidney surgery, I was given chocolate pudding as a dessert. It may be the most disgusting thing I have ever tasted. The nastiness lingered for days. When I got home, I made my own. It was actually worse.
Yikes! That's terrible! :o
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Rob Fisher's brother Steve posted on Facebook yesterday that his $600 stimulus payment has landed in his bank account. I will check my account today. In case.
I haven't received mine.
Nor have I.
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Jeanne, I'm halfway through Megan Rapinoe's One Life. It's good and not great at the same time. It's good in that the discussion about being out in American sports still needs to be had. But it could be better for the same reason. Is Rapinoe's sexuality her whole life outside of soccer? No, and she knows that. But it's a big part of the story she has to tell because of the stigma that still surrounds it.
And, of course, her wife Sue Bird is also a professional athlete.
My niece is a big fan of Sue Bird's! She used to be able to go to the games and got their autographs, and has gotten lots of Seattle Storm memorabilia.
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I hate tapioca.
I love tapioca!
If you're talking about pudding, I love tapioca also! :D
Were you thinking of the dance?
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I hate tapioca.
I love tapioca!
If you're talking about pudding, I love tapioca also! :D
Were you thinking of the dance?
That, too! ;)
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(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6366.0;attach=11068)
That's so cool! ;D
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I have a friend who is a big sports fan. He stopped going to the Seattle Storm games, not that he didn’t enjoy them, but he felt intimidated by the large lesbian fan base.
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TOD - Apparently Richard's grandmother made rice pudding that he and his brothers all loved, but, of course, there was no written recipe. I have tried in vain to replicate it and told my sister-in-law, before she married Richard's older brother, "Don't even try!"
That's sad. And there are so many different styles of rice pudding.
Yes. For now Richard seems satisfied with the individual serving cups from KozyShack - when we can get them from Kroger.
I love KozyShack's tapioca pudding!
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Tonight, I watched Kelli O’Hara’s THE KING AND I. Boy, I tell you, I never cried like that when Yul Brynner died.
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The best part of this The Cradle Will Rock is the appendix, a 13+-minute recording of Blitzstein telling his version of what happened on opening night. And you know what? The sound quality is much better than Mauceri's. Hardly a surprise, but still.
That was pretty cool. I also really enjoyed John Housman's telling of the story on the 1985 cast recording. :)
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Topic of the Day (in addition to tapioca): chocolate, banana, butterscotch, caramel, pistachio (but I strain out the pistachio nuts from the packet puddings), vanilla...only if it's not instant, bread (but no raisins). The other flavors in instant are okay (or, at least, good enough for me) and prepared vanilla in the cups or tubs are fine, too, but instant vanilla has never tasted right. :P
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Hell, I cry during the opening credits of CAMELOT.
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I once at a Lincoln Center Library bazaar mentioned to Betty Chapin, whose husband Schuyler was at one time the executive producer for Leonard Bernstein's Amberson Organization among many other positions he held during his lifetime, that I had just recorded Girl Crazy with John Mauceri. She gave me a look as though I had just told her she had lice and, after a moment, said in a chilly voice, "John Mauceri thinks he invented Leonard Bernstein."
:o Oh, my!
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What is this page five malarkey.
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Brunch was a success. I sent them home with leftovers, which was great. My brothers homemade Italian sausages (which he gave out as Christmas gifts) were fantastic. Nice way to start the year. Oh, and my recent COVID test was negative. Living the life, I tell you!
Great news, all around, Matthew!
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A little early in the New Year for such things.
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I ate four mini-cupcakes today.
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We re-watched the 2017 Broadway production of Falsettos. I'll admit to being a blubbering mess during most of Act Two.
It always gets me, too.
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I suspect that's like eating two normal cupcakes.
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I gotta tell you.
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About to move on to a Humperdinck opera that elmore mentioned a few days ago - Konigskinder.
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Now finishing up this Pavel Haas opera.
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I talked to a friend of mine, whose mother suffered from restrictive lung disease. She said her mom had to be on oxygen all the time.
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Yeah, well every patient is different.
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#truth
(http://www.haineshisway.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6366.0;attach=11070)
This reminds me of the time when I think it was DRs Laura and Sandra were posting to each other on HHW from different rooms in their house. Does that sound familiar?
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A few days ago my trunk was frozen shut. And I think I pulled a muscle in my left upper back/shoulder neck trying to open it. I thought for sure that this would go away. But it still hasn't. Luckily sleeping is much better (the first night was really bad). But it's hard to use the computer, read, watch tv... :(
Oh, no!
~~~Feel Better Vibes for Jennifer!!~~~
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Listening to a little opera-ish thing (it sounds more like musical comedy) - I might issue it as I'm a huge fan of its composer.
That's cool! I wonder what it could be. I'm sure I've never heard of it, though.
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I have a friend who is a big sports fan. He stopped going to the Seattle Storm games, not that he didn’t enjoy them, but he felt intimidated by the large lesbian fan base.
My niece can't go anymore because she has hyperacusis (https://www.webmd.com/brain/sound-sensitivity-hyperacusis#1). :-\
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I ate four mini-cupcakes today.
Yum!
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I talked to a friend of mine, whose mother suffered from restrictive lung disease. She said her mom had to be on oxygen all the time.
:(