Haines His Way

DR MAttH:  I'm interested to learn who that woman is on the far right of the second row.  She looks VERY familiar -- I think she was known for offbeat deliveries...her face was her fortune...sort of an "Ernestine"-like character without the switchboard schtick.

For some strange reason (known only to God and Bill Gates) my brand-new scanner will not work.  So, here is a (very bad) photo of the original Titanic poster.

TCB - Sally was not there, she was busy practicing for her GIDGET tv audition.

That's okay MATTH - I don't recognize any of the names, so I couldn't put it to the face anyway.  

And Constance was still lovely and elegant.  I don't remember her looking much different than that picture....but then she was a lot taller than I was - then!

And nice younger pictures TD and MattH!

Hello all,

I'm sorry I haven't been here.  I haven't been feeling very well these past few days. I wish I could say I feel much better but I'm still not up to par.

I've tried to at least read the posts whenever I could.  Thank you to those who sent the good vibes & well wishes.  I didn’t sign on because I didn’t want you to see my name and wonder why I wasn’t posting.  My eyes were/are all messed up and I’ve having a really hard time reading the computer screen on top of everything else.

I'm so glad the skier was found safe and sound.  What a blessing it must have been for his family to see him again.

I'm so excited about the pictures from Mars!  I can't believe we are finely exploring other planets.  I was one of the one's who fully expected us to be much further along in our space exploration by this stage of my lifetime. But then I also thought we would have a 3 day work week as well.  Sigh!  Shows what I know.

I'm very sorry I missed the chat last night.  I wanted to say, Bruce, that I really liked the idea of it being an hour earlier.  I would have signed in but it goes so fast that I have a hard time sometimes keeping  up with it when I feel well.  It took everything I had just to make it through work yesterday and I thought I needed the rest more.

I bought a late Christmas gift for myself in the form of a new PDA.  An iPAQ Pocket PC.  I'm just starting to learn to use it.  In fact, I'm typing tins on the bus on the way to work using Pocket  Word.  We'll see if I have a problem uploading this to where I can cut and paste this onto the board tonight.

One very sad thing to tell.  My fish--the one I keep at my desk at work passed away sometime over the weekend.  I was very upset when some people at work said it was silly to cry for him. I know he was just a little fish but he was mine and I loved him. What do they know?

I already miss him greatly.  I think I have looked over at his tank a hundred times already.  I don't know if I will get another one or not.  I'll have to think about it.

As far as the karma points/levels go, they don't mean very much to me.  I tend to go off on them because it's my way of poking fun at them.  Kinda like when I became Broadway Legend on BWW.

The whole thread was nothing more than my way of acting/playing around.  There’s nothing I love more than having someone to fun around with something I say and I like to play it to the hilt.  

I drive’em crazy down at work.  We received an e-mail the other day saying that the PIMMS report was unavailable.  Now, understand, I have absolutely NO idea WHAT a PIMMS report is but I told my boss I was very upset that it was unavailable and I didn’t know how I could be expected to do my job without it.  She knows me now so she told me to just do my best and muddle through without it.  

We received an e-mail today saying that the PIMMS report is back up and on line.  I told my boss that my world was now complete and I am ecstatic that it is now there for all to behold.  She said she is thrilled for me.  I told her it’s the little things in life that make it all worth while.

Wow!  Long post and I'm STILL on the bus to work.  Bad traffic, I guess.

As an add on—this uploaded perfectly from my new PDA.  Whooho!  I feel a little better tonight but will still hit the hay a bit early tonight.

Thanks again for all the well wishes.

Continue to get better, Danise! I'm sorry about your fish!

I have decided against doing errands this evening in the hopes I don’t regret my decision tomorrow when, or if it rains.  

Yesterday our local paper finally had a news story on the missing skier now that he has been found.  It was a decent article describing how he was found, though lacking the personal story we had here at HHW.  

Oops (spoo, spelled backwards) - five posts to 17,000.

The folks here on HHW.com will be the first outside of New York to see this... I guess maybe it's actually going to happen! (And BOY! they didn't waste any time taking down the old marquee...)

WOWZA! YOWZA! WOWZA!

I go away for a few hours to do some work and go to a very short(!) rehearsal, and I come back to over nine pages of notes to go through - it was just on page 3 when I last checked - and about 250 posts!  Truly a frenzy!  F-R-E-N-Z-Y!

I actually was able to get three charts "outlined" this afternoon before heading to rehearsal.  Once at rehearsal, the MD said he was "Hun-gur-ry!", so we headed over to Cosi so he could get a sandwhich - and I got a salad.  Then we started rehearsing, well it was more like a work-thru.  We just went song by song checking to make sure we both had the right chords and melodies in our heads - the composer/playwright didn't write anything down.  Luckily, it's kind of a pop-py and folksy "score" (it's just seven songs), so transcribing the chords was an easy job - although, all those inverted chords kind of stumbled us a few times.  We were working on the piano in theatre while they were still building the set.  And we actually got some good work done among all the hammering, sanding (lots of dust), scraping and vacuuming that was going on.  I was supposed to stay until 8:00, but the MD said to go on home since he was back, so... After fighting the typical DC rush hour traffic, I was back home around 5:15!  Not a bad "day"!

And then to turn on my laptop and see all the posting that's been going on!  WOWZA!

While reading all the posts, I decided to sample the flavors in on a box of Hershey's Pot of Gold truffles.  Not bad at all.  I was just going to have two or three pieces, but I ended up sampling one each of the six flavors... and I had the "signature" milk chocolate bar too.  Ah, well... -And the chocolate kind of tasted old too... Not bad, mind you, just old.  

I'll probably do my best to finish up the rest of the charts tonight - only four songs left - well, actually three, since one of the songs will be done on guitart by the MD, and he'll be doing his own chart for that one.  So...

Thanks for the pic of the NEW FACES OF 1952 program.  

Every time I see a picture of PAUL LYNDE, it makes me smile.  I felt a strange rapport with Mr. Lynde when I was a youngun; only after I went through puberty did I know just what that rapport was, but that, as they say, is another story.

The other day I caught a cablecast of HOLLYWOOD SQUARES on teevee, which had Mr. Peter Marshall ask of Mr. Lynde:

"When a man falls overboard from a ship, it's proper to yell 'Man Overboard'.  What does one yell when a WOMAN falls overboard?"

"Full speed ahead," quipped Mr. Lynde.  

God help me, I love that guy!

Thank you MBarnum and Jane.  I never really named him but I sorta called him "Fishbutt".  That came about when we kept having all the fire/disaster drills.  I wasn't going to leave him behind so I practiced "packing" him up in a small jar with a screw lid so I wouldn't slosh his water everywhere.  

People laughed about it but I would say that if anything happened, his Fish butt was going where mine was so I started calling him "Fish butt".  

DR Danise - Enjoy your iPac!  I love mine!  -And I happened to win it from an internet sweepstakes - see, people do win those things!  I just wish I could be as "religious" about using it as I should - I'm still a pencil and paper guy at heart.  And there are times when I forget to recharge it, and I lose all the "memory"... and, of course, I haven't synced it recently with my computer, so...  Ah, well...

-And I love the case design too!

Did we pass 17,000 posts yet?

I'm sorry to read about the fish, too.  I have friends here who have gone through tons of fish at their desk.  It's a sad, sad thing when tank fish float!

Especially when one doesn't know why they died.

I mean, did some little fin reaper pass by and spirit them away, or was it something in the water....or?

I really mean it when I say I'm sorry, but I have this little perverse imagination, too, and it seems irreverent even when I am being sincere.

Jed, I like the Swiss Turkey Ranch sandwich.  Yum!  

Wow, your lucky, Jose!  I had a Casio PDA but the headphone jack was on the bottom where you had to put it in the craddle.  Since I listen to MP3's al the time, I kept puting the headphone in and finely broke it.  

I played with the idea of getting an Ipod but I'm more into multi-functional than just a MP3 player.  As in less space/weight in the old purse.  It's already the most deadly weapon known to man.  If I hit anyone with it, I could kill them.  No joke.

I'm still learning to use it but I do like it.  I haven't tried the voice recorder or the MS reader yet but looking forward to the reader.

Bruce, is there a downloadable version of your books?  

Hmmm.. and interesting news about Liam Neeson slated for an upcoming revival of Camelot...  Papermill... Arena Stage... now Broadway... hmm... I wonder if they need an assistant musical director?

-And I could actually see Matt Bogart playing Lancelot -for the third time - in this revival.

Just as long as Mrs. Neeson - Natasha Richardson - is not up for Guenevere.... Ouch!  Although, she could be a fun Morgen Le Fey.  Hmmm...