Haines His Way

Does Greg know?

For the dog...and for my viewing entertainment!

I think we know a couple of those people

What??? I am allowed to blather on about SACCO AND VANZETTI (opening May 4th in Wilmington (DerB and SWW), Lake Worth Florida (Michael Shayne) and San Francisco (Ron Pulliam) and we have to learn about this from PLAYBILL??

Seriously, break a leg, Rodz and T-Punk! Very cool!!

I just had an interesting call. Turns out that I won't be officing at the Orpheum after all.  I was supposed to get a lease today, but the leasing agent called to tell me that they have an offer on the building (sounds like an owner/tenant  which would be great for downtown) and that they can't lease any space for 90 days.  Since I'm opening in 60 that's a problem.  the funny thing is it upset the leasing agent more than it upset me.  I've had a feeling that this wasn't going to happen, can't explain it, but it's been bugging me.  

Sorry to hear that, DR Cillaliz, but it sounds like there are very good alternative prospects.

Reminds me that we haven't heard from DR elmore3003 about his office hunting recently.

Thanks. I think it's a good thing, actually, and for some reason I had a feeling this may happen.  About a week or two ago I went to the leasing office in the building I'm going to see to ask about space, but no one was there.  I decided not to pursue it then because I had given my word to the Orpheum.  I'm a little relieved.  It was funny, the leasing agent said she'd had a stomach ache all morning thinking about telling me.  I was comforting her!

Pierrot, a macaroon!  I cannot LIVE without a macaroon.

Yay - telephone reference for the duration of the workday (90 minutes, but who's counting?).

DR Cillaliz - hope everything turns out OK with the office thing.

Good vibes to DR Danise and mom. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

DR Cillaliz, I'm sorry about what happened. But glad that you are sort of glad.  I think you are taking it very well. I would have been livid.  To string you along when you had an agreement seems so wrong.  I get why the woman felt ill having to tell you.

I have had a very 0busy Friday afternoon. I did my usual errands (ATM, post office, grocery store), and when I got home and was putting away the groceries, the phone rang. My friend Hal gave himself an HD-DVD player for his birthday this week and after trying and trying, he couldn't get it hooked into his system, so he called me to help.

Naturally, not having worked with an HD-DVD player before, I was anxious to play with it, so I headed on over. A couple of cables and some reconfiguration of his receiver, and we were good to go.

The Toshiba HD-DVD is a fantastic upconversion standard DVD player which is all he could use it for right now, but I also took him to the HD-DVD page at Amazon where he could order some high def movies to play on it. I said he planned on getting several once he could sit down and make up his mind.

This new version of the Toshiba HD-DVD player just came out a couple of months ago, and it's much sleeker and more elegant than the clunky first generation model that came out last year. I'm sure he's going to love having it.

After I got home and fixed lunch, I sat down to eat and watch last night's SMALLVILLE. A pretty good episode with Lex and Clark buried in underground tunnels and Clark mostly helpless due to kryptonite being in the underground tunnel.

Tense episode and some good exchanges between the two one-time friends, but once again, I'm amazed at SO MUCH kryptonite that is used in this series. There was never this much in the comics when I was reading them decades ago.

I certainly saw DR Cason on THE OFFICE, and I also laughed loud and long at the wild episode that had the workers trying to do damage control when some obscene water marks on their paper products got distributed all around the area. Just one hilarious scene after another with all of the regulars.

30 ROCK had guest stars Elaine Stritch (as Alec Baldwin's mother) and Sean Hayes (as Kenneth the NBC page's brother) stealing part of the show, but Alec Baldwin still landed front and center with probably his Emmy-winning submission episode right here, the season finale.

SCRUBS had a good one too as Keri Russell guest starred as one of Elliott's sorority sisters back for a visit. The janitor was his usual hilarious self roller-blading in the kid's ward playing a ghost to scare the kids into not being messy. A great night of comedy on NBC last night.

I still have SUPERNATURAL left to watch from last night's line-up. I was very surprised being gone as I was this afternoon that I was able to get through some much of what I recorded last night.