Oh, my, oh, my. What a catch up!
I am now all caught up and will proceed.
Congrats on the new plateau/milestone. Although I wasn't part of it, I'm happy to be part of this here site.
I was at the theatre last night seeing Jan Maxwell's replacement in "Entertaining Mr. Sloane" That's why I posted the link to the Playbill article yesterday. The production was OK, not great. Barbara Sims, who replaced Jan Maxwell was fine in the part. The theatre was freezing cold, so cold in fact that many of the audience members were complaining to management and to the ushers. At the end of intermission a voice came on saying "if you used your cell phone during intermission, please remember to turn it off again" The woman in front of me said, loudly enough for the entire audience to hear, "I'll turn off my cell phone if you turn down the air conditioning". Much laughter from the rest of the audience. I read in the paper today that one of the reasons Mr. Baldwin exploded earlier in the week was because he felt the air conditioning in the theatre was not high enough. He sweats profusely in this production and he wears glasses and it was difficult for him to see so he wanted more air conditioning. He got the icebox he requested. He also lost a co-star. Oh, well.
We also made some "lifestyle" changes at Chez McLaughlin/Morelli. After enduring years of increased prices and decreased satisfaction with cable television (we had another price increase in February) when the bill came last week I looked at it and decided not to cancel cable altogether but to downgrade to Basic service. I would cancel altogether if I got decent reception but we live on the fourth floor of a small building with no big antenna. We are surrounded by tall apartment buildings which make TV reception iffy at best without cable. We decided that as long as we got the broadcast channels and PBS we could live without anything else and the bill goes down from $57.94 to $24.96. It would be even less if we were not gouged by excessive fees and taxes (over $10 in fees). The change hasn't taken place yet, we're still getting the 65 channels we used to get but I won't miss a single channel. We just don't watch enough television to justify paying so much money for so little quality.
Almost 8am. I need to get to work.
One of my fondest memories is meeting DR Kerry and former DR MusicGuy (Lyn) in 2003 when they came to New York City for their 30th Anniversary! We went to dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria (along with former DR Jason) and then up to their suite for post-dinner conversation. What a wonderful evening and what a wonderful couple.
Bye for now.
