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« Reply #30 on: December 29, 2006, 08:25:32 AM »

From the mouths of semi-babes department:

We, bad parents that we are, finally unloaded the kids' backpacks yesterday from the last day of school before winter break.  Inside Zach's we found this beautiful piece:

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« Reply #31 on: December 29, 2006, 08:26:28 AM »

There, in very neat printing underneath said art, was the lovely title:

DEATH
by Zach Kauffman
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« Reply #32 on: December 29, 2006, 08:27:18 AM »

We asked Zach why it was called "Death," to which he responded with obvious exasperation that he had incarnated into such a group of idiots:

"It's a pictogram!"
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« Reply #33 on: December 29, 2006, 08:29:08 AM »

Good morning!

Another beautiful day here with temps in the low to med 60s. Still amazing how warm in general this December has been.
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« Reply #34 on: December 29, 2006, 08:31:55 AM »

DR derBrucer:

I'm sure the players will drop within one and a half to two years. I remember paying $300 for my first DVD player back in 1998. Right now, because of the inflated prices, neither high def format has truly taken off, and until one of them manages to snare a respectable number of users/buyers, the format may remain a niche market for awhile.

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« Reply #35 on: December 29, 2006, 08:33:16 AM »

Friday Media Check:

CD - Lucy/MAME soundtrack

DVD - CSI, Season 6, disc 2
          HARPER
          CORPSE BRIDE (blu-ray)

DVR - PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (Keira Knightley)
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« Reply #36 on: December 29, 2006, 08:33:53 AM »

Now, I'm off for my usual Friday errands.

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« Reply #37 on: December 29, 2006, 08:34:48 AM »

Friday media report (amended)

Audiobook for the car - Bill Buford's Heat, narrated by Michael Kramer, who is married to narrator and DC-area actress Jennifer Mendenhall.  And why is this so interesting to me?  Because, one of Jennifer's pseudonyms is Kate Reading, who is my all-time favorite audiobook narrator!

Thanks for leading me to this recording and to this info, DR SWW!
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« Reply #38 on: December 29, 2006, 08:43:01 AM »

"It's a pictogram!"

Duuuuhhhhh!!!!

Thanks for the laugh of the day...glad I didn't have a mouthful of coffee!
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« Reply #39 on: December 29, 2006, 08:48:57 AM »

I will check out that website Edisaurus!

I also forgot to tell you that I laughed heartily when I saw your business card! It is great!!!
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« Reply #40 on: December 29, 2006, 08:49:11 AM »

what part of the Atlanta area is your new house in?

It's an old neighborhood called Peachtree Hills, which is a few blocks off the main drag of Peachtree Street, just south of Buckhead. Our house is the second oldest one there, built in 1904. It was originally the caretaker's cottage for the family that owned all the land that became the Peachtree Hills, Peachtree Heights and Garden Hills neighborhoods. The house was teensy when it was built and in the 40's, was added on to, badly. Subsequent owners moved walls and butchered it, so it has little character or curb appeal. We hope to return some character to it, and expand a little. (I really would like more than one bathroom, which is already tiny!)
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« Reply #41 on: December 29, 2006, 08:52:14 AM »

TOD's media check:

DVD:
JOURNEY BENEATH THE DESERT starring Rad Fulton and a lot of Italian and French actors

Episodes of the 1950s TV show MEDIC, which I am now addicted to.

CD:
I am hoping something new will arrive in todays mail. Otherwise, one of my Amr Diab CDs.

DVR:
I don't know yet, but I do know I have a ton of movies on there I need to watch.
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« Reply #42 on: December 29, 2006, 09:00:41 AM »

We didn't buy this house because we liked the house. We bought it because we liked the yard! The moment I saw it, I thought "if that house is even inhabitable, I'm buying this!"

It's 3/4 of an acre-rare in downtown neighborhoods--backing up to Peachtree Creek, with another creek on the side. This means our house is surrounded on two sides by a flood plain and another half-acre of unbuildable land. After being forced out of Marietta by the 5 story loft a few feet from our property line, I now look upon the flood plain as an "amenity"!

Here's the side of the house and the land behind. The caretaker's horse barn can be seen in the distance. The cats will love having a big screened in porch to lounge on, but they will still be indoor cats. (Coyotes and owls have done away with quite a few kitties!)
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« Reply #43 on: December 29, 2006, 09:01:40 AM »

The splendiferous back yard, waiting for a gardener!
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« Reply #44 on: December 29, 2006, 09:02:47 AM »

Love the house DR EDISAURUS!!!
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« Reply #45 on: December 29, 2006, 09:03:56 AM »

TOD:

DVD: MRS PALFREY AT THE CLAREMONT
CD: INFERNAL VIOLINS (Angele Dubeau & La Pieta), Guy Haines
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« Reply #46 on: December 29, 2006, 09:06:11 AM »

Yes, EDISAURUS, lovely house and yard. How nice to have that space!
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« Reply #47 on: December 29, 2006, 09:09:27 AM »

Heaven Amy.  You're moving to heaven.
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« Reply #48 on: December 29, 2006, 09:10:01 AM »

Good morning, Tutti ( & Frutti).
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« Reply #49 on: December 29, 2006, 09:10:30 AM »

What?

It's Friday already?

Why, oh, why, does time fly?

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« Reply #50 on: December 29, 2006, 09:12:41 AM »

I'd love to say my Thursday was terribly productive and filled with adventure.

Alas, alack...no such thing.

My evening was quite mild...watched reruns of Ugly Betty and CSI.

To bed at an early hour.

And am llooking forward to going to see "DreamGirls" sometime today.

Am awaiting a call from a friend as to the time and other particulars.
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« Reply #51 on: December 29, 2006, 09:14:18 AM »

I also forgot to tell you that I laughed heartily when I saw your business card! It is great!!!

The edisaurus was drawn by Jim Morin, Pulitzer prize winning political cartoonist for the Miami Herald. We exchange music and he usually does little drawings when he writes to me.

I was at work one day and ran into an old friend. He gave me his card as he was leaving and asked for mine. When I told him that I didn't have one, he was appalled. He asked me to email him my information and said he would make me a card that night. When he asked if I had a logo or any artwork to use, I said no, but as I was driving home, I remembered the edisaurus drawing, asked Jim if I could use it on my card and he said he would be honored.

I emailed the file to a printer, picked out paper and ink and by the end of the week I had my first business card after 20-some years of editing!
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« Reply #52 on: December 29, 2006, 09:15:44 AM »

The downstairs apartment doesn't quite look the same since it has been gutted by fire, but that's one of the things we have to deal with before moving in.
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« Reply #53 on: December 29, 2006, 09:18:35 AM »

Hey, DR Edi:

I got your DVD of LIFE AFTER TOMORROW into the mail before noon today. I don't know if that made any difference as far as when it would set out for your place of residence, but it's finally on its way.

You never can tell about the mails. Lately, it's been a week between getting an Amazon shipping notice e-mail and the actual delivery of the package.

Today, I got an Amazon order and the shipping notice from them was Wednesday so a mere two day turnover. You NEVER can tell!
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« Reply #54 on: December 29, 2006, 09:19:31 AM »

Now, off to have some lunch.

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« Reply #55 on: December 29, 2006, 09:23:44 AM »

DR Edisaurus - What a beautiful setting for your new home!  How soon do you plan to move?
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« Reply #56 on: December 29, 2006, 09:25:47 AM »

I'm up, I'm up.  Looks like another sparkling day - just sparkling - oh, a Last Starfighter reference.
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« Reply #57 on: December 29, 2006, 09:26:38 AM »

This is what we're running away from---a 5 story loft that was plunked down right in the middle of our National Register Historic District. The developer even got a half-million dollars in TAD funding (basically our tax dollars) from the city because they thought he wasn't making ENOUGH PROFIT, even though his proforma statement showed he would be making substantial $ on the development. The developer is in business with the city councilman who cast the deciding vote to give him the money. (The councilman has recused himself in the past from voting on projects involving this developer because of their financial involvement.) We fought this development with everything we had for over two years. We hired a lawyer and brought ethics charges against the councilman. We lost (he hired our ex-Governor as his lawyer!) but it did bring about a revamping of our ethics code. After many tears shed and many sleepless nights, we are leaving the town where our family and friends are, and moving on. The house isn't nearly as nice as our dream house, (a 1901 folk victorian) but at least we won't have people out on their decks looking into our windows!

This is not our house BTW...our house is a smaller one behind this house but you can't get the same perspective as in this photo. Feel our pain, and our joy at finding a great place to land!
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« Reply #58 on: December 29, 2006, 09:27:22 AM »

I had a completely odd dream, one in which I kept forgetting there was a houseguest and I kept walking in on him and not only did I not know he was there, I didn't know who he was.  But, in the dream, my ex-wife was still in the house so maybe she knew him.  Wacky.
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« Reply #59 on: December 29, 2006, 09:28:04 AM »

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