Haines His Way

So, DR Jose, it's 12 days since you've updated your blog.  Writer's cramp?

So, DR Jose, it's 12 days since you've updated your blog.  Writer's cramp?

Aw, thanks for checking in and noticing.  It's not so much writer's cramp, as it is lack of writer's energy - last week's series of EPAs really took it out of me - and my brain.  However, I should have a new entry or two going up in the next day or two.  Stay tuned.

In our break room at the office, a stack of CDs appeared, with the sign, "FREE TO A GOOD HOME."  

In the stack were two Barbra Streisand releases, "Higher Ground" and "A Love Like Ours."  

So if any DR wants 'em, PM me your mailing address and they're yours!    

Hmmm... I could trade you some peanut butter cookies

DRs elmore, FJL, etc... - Are you interested in catching Rachel York at the Metropolitan Room this week?

The horror!  The horror! department:  I awoke this morning to discover my coffee maker had died.  

Between Keith and Bryan I can appreciate your horror.

Poor Bryan has a perfectly wonderful coffee maker he can't use.  The realtor says it is too big to leave on the counter while his loft is for sale.  Keeping the place in perfect order is a cinch for him, not having his coffee is pure hell.  He has had to drink instant coffee & caffeinated soft drinks (something he never does).

Oh.  Well...

You can't have enough cute men gracing the pages of HHW.  

Charles E. Pogue might have something to say about that.

 

If you think DS Betsy would make my coffee for me, you obviously don't know Betsy.  

I forgot to send my sympathies to DS Betsy, having to live with you this morning minus your coffee.

DRs elmore, FJL, etc... - Are you interested in catching Rachel York at the Metropolitan Room this week?

Until I pay the estimated taxes, a movie is all I can afford!

Happy Birthday to DR Ann!

Oh, I made coffee--the old fashioned way.  I heated up water and poured it through the filter.

And did you roast and grind your own beans too?

And did you roast and grind your own beans too?

I grind my beans every morning (not a euphemism).  Actually, Gabe does it--he has been doing it since he was old enough to toddle over to the grinder.  He gets *very* upset if he doesn't get to do this regular part of his morning routine.

Good day one and all!!

Pretty day outside.

TOD

Just going through the current series of Doctor Who gives a nice list of guest stars:

Zoe Wannamaker as Lady Cassandra O'Brien ("The End of the Earth", "New Earth")
Simon Callow as Charles Dickens ("The Unquiet Dead")
Penelope Wilton as MP (later Prime Minester) Harriet Jones ("Aliens of London", "The Christmas Invasion")
Simon Pegg as The Editor ("The Long Game")
Anne Robinson as Anne Droid ("Bad Wolf")
Daniel Evans as Daniel Llewellyn ("The Christmas Invasion")
Anthony Stewart Head as Headmaster Finch ("School Reunion")
Catherine Tate as Donna Noble ("The Runaway Bride")
Dekek Jacoby as Professor Yana ("Utopia")
John Simm as The Master/Harold Saxon ("The Sound of Drums")

Plus the third Christmas special, "Voyage of the Damned," brings us Kylie Minogue, Geoffrey Palmer, and Bernard Cribbens.

Torchwood, on the other hand, has avoided having very many names as guest stars, limiting themselves to James Marsters as Captain John Hart ("Kiss Kiss Bang Bang") and Alan Dale as Aaron Lopley ("Reset").  

A week from Friday, at least on the American SciFi Channel, brings us Samantha Bond as Mrs. Wormwood in the first episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures: "The Invasion of the Bane."

(And this doesn't even bring in how Freema Agyeman, Naoko Mori and Eve Myles all started out in smaller roles, before moving on to co-star status.  Or how John Barrowman instantly moved into co-star/star status.  And, come to think of it, Catherine Tate is turning into the newest co-star...)

I always thought of this place of euphemism central