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[singdaw]

DR elmore3003, if I could find my gosh-darned copy of that CD, I could email you the "Ridin' on the Breeze" track.  

[Jeanne]

I'm really pissed at the moment since the mail arrived:  the sub post lady, who's nice but dumber than a box of rocks, carried up to my door a package but crammed my Netflix envelope into my postbox and completely destroyed the envelope so it cannot be used to return the DVD.  I don't know why she couldn't drop opff the Netflix DVD wityh my package. That's one.

Here's two: I ordered an out-of-print set (I thought) of the 3-part BBC COLD COMFORT FARM on videocassette.  The ass vendor onAmazon.com Marketplace  only sent Part One although her ad implies she's selling all three parts of the series.  

Larry, I can understand your annoyance, especially after all you've had to deal with lately. Re Amazon Marketplace: I've bought quite a few used books from them and only once had a problem. Amazon was quite good about crediting me, even though the seller raised hell. I hope Amazon or the seller is as good to you.

[Ron Pulliam]

DR elmore3003, if I could find my gosh-darned copy of that CD, I could email you the "Ridin' on the Breeze" track.  

You could always download the mp3 at Amazon.com for 99 cents and send it to him that way.

[Jane]

Thank you. I didn't know her all that well, but she was much loved by my mom & her sisters.

My heartfelt condolences to your mother and her sisters.

[Jeanne]

Sorry to hear about your great-aunt, SingingNymph. I hope everything straightens out for you.

[singdaw]

Ah, DR Ron Pulliam...you never cease to make me laugh!  

[S. Woody White]

Michael Ruhlman has a great rant about fat and salt in our diets, over in his blog.

Americans have a hopelessly neurotic relationship with what they consume, of this there’s little disagreement, a neurosis that’s built into our culture from the broadest levels of agriculture and government, which demand that we subsidize farmers to grow crops you can’t eat without industrial processing, all the way down to our grocery store shelves, which are packed with confusing, marketing-spun messages about what’s good for us and what’s not.

Snackwells, for instance.   Who’s the clever executive who came up with that name?  Want a healthy snack?  Try buying ... Snackwells!   Are Americans stupid enough to buy that?  You bet!  (More here from Trib article on the Snackwell story.)

Just about every box and bag on the grocery store shelves has some kind of  “low fat” version, sometimes even if the real version doesn’t require fat in the first place.  On a recent flight, I  was handed a Quaker Oats Granola Bar—granola, it’s good for you, and it’s low fat.  Granola doesn’t need much fat, if any, in the first place; but it does need sugar and you can bet that’s the reason my Quaker Oats “low fat” granola bar was every bit as sweet and chewy as a Milky Way bar.  And on the previous flight, the first ingredient in the blueberry muffin I’d been given was sugar, not flour.

And, with that, I've got to head over to work, so I can assist people in their pursuit of Snackwells.

[bk]

I worked at the piano, plus played through the Brain score, since I'll have to play it at the read-through.

[elmore3003]

I turned down an invitation to a rehearsal with our DR Josr this evening because I've got too much work, but I forgot that I've committed myself to a dinner party tonight!  Oy!

I'd rather be working or seeing a rehearsal, but it's friends I haven't seen in a long time so that will be nice.

[MBarnum]

.... but I forgot that I've committed myself .....

Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later!

[elmore3003]

Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later!

I'm sending you a box of bird mites.

[singdaw]

I'm sending you a box of bird mites.

Make sure you don't mistakenly send him catamites.    

_{[ that wouldn't interest him, anyway   ]}

[Jane]

Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later!

 

[George]

DR Elmore is really gonna be on my $%&! list today!

But Michael, you're so cute!!

[Jane]

"And on the previous flight, the first ingredient in the blueberry muffin I’d been given was sugar, not flour."

No wonder muffins on flights are sooooo disgusting.

[singingnymph]

Girl Scout Cookie Warning:
I mistakenly bought the sugar free chocolate chip cookies & they are CRAP.
I could've matched their weight watchers points with the fudgy shortbread
or had more thin mints! Argh!

[George]

I'm back. Life's been cuckoo. I've got a class 2 nights a week, choir twice a week & Grandma's been here since Tuesday. My great-aunt passed away & the memorial service is this evening. And here I was looking forward to doing something happy for Leap Day.

I'm very sorry about your loss, Singingnymph.

[elmore3003]

But Michael, you're so cute!!

I told DR Jose that photo would make you happy!

[Matt H.]

I meant to comment on BK's mentioning of RONIN and THE TRAIN in the notes.

I have a slight bit more admiration for RONIN than BK, but it's not all that good, it's true.

I LOVE the movie THE TRAIN. My DVD is nonanamorphic, and that is my biggest gripe about the DVD. The movie is terrifically entertaining.

[Matt H.]

Lunch was late starting and ran late. Still, it was nice to have a lunch outing on Friday. That's two weeks in a row!

[Matt H.]

I spent the afternoon time remaining watching BONES episodes upconverted. They are SO near-HD quality when upconverted.

I read a review of BONES season 2 in which the writer lamented the poor quality of the transfers, but boy do we have different DVD sets! I think it's the best TV-to-DVD transfers out there. I saw none of the problems he quoted about the show's quality of image. Weird.

[Matt H.]

I did have time to skim through today's AS THE WORLD TURNS. No Luke and Noah, but they did figure in one scene in the previews for next week, and, of course, that ridiculous Imira is at the forefront of the problems.

[Matt H.]

When I go back down later, I'll go ahead and watch LIL' BUSH. SInce there is nothing to watch on TV tonight, I should be able to do the entire set tonight unless there are an unusual number of bonus features.

[JoseSPiano]

Girl Scout Cookie Warning:
I mistakenly bought the sugar free chocolate chip cookies & they are CRAP.
I could've matched their weight watchers points with the fudgy shortbread
or had more thin mints! Argh!

<nod>

BLECH!!!!

I'm really surprised they past any sort of taste test(ers).  They really don't taste good.  It's almost like they left any sort of sweetener - regular or artificial - out of the recipe.  Sort of bitter and harsh, imho.  Although, I think the "formula" they used last year - or was it the year before that? - for whatever the fat-free, sugar-free variety they used was even more unpalatable. -I think it was a cappucino-chocolate cookie.

[JoseSPiano]

I turned down an invitation to a rehearsal with our DR Josr this evening because I've got too much work, but I forgot that I've committed myself to a dinner party tonight!  Oy!

I'd rather be working or seeing a rehearsal, but it's friends I haven't seen in a long time so that will be nice.

Well... If it makes you feel any better, DR elmore, I won't be going to the dress rehearsal tonight due to some crazy "confirmation" process which was not passed on to a couple of the cast members.  I could probably still get in tonight, but I don't feel like dealing with any possible attitude from the Lincoln Center ushering staff.  But, no worries - I'd rather see it once the show is a bit more settled.  *And since this director is sort of known for "interesting" tech processes, well...

[singingnymph]

I'm very sorry about your loss, Singingnymph.

Thank you.

[George]

I told DR Jose that photo would make you happy!

Thank you!

[George]

Does this look like a 60-year old to you?

That's right!!  Yesterday was her birthday!  Happy Birthday to Bernadette Peters!!

[singingnymph]

I love her.

[Ron Pulliam]

Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later!

Mikey strikes back!