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Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT THE DO
« Reply #30 on: December 24, 2009, 05:51:19 AM »
Happy Holidays to all!
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Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT THE DO
« Reply #31 on: December 24, 2009, 06:03:28 AM »
Good morning. I have had a headache most of the night.
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« Reply #32 on: December 24, 2009, 06:04:56 AM »
Feel better DR Laura! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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« Reply #33 on: December 24, 2009, 06:21:04 AM »
Good morning all.

Our high speed went out last night but it seems to be back up.

DAW to answer your question from last night, things on Long Island are very nice. We are relaxed and sleeping late (at least for me 7:30 is considered late). I'm eating too much but it is the holidays and the exercise bike awaits my return from Long Island. We already know what we're getting for Christmas but we will pretend to be surprised when the packages are opened this evening (the Morelli's are a Christmas Eve family, while growing up I was in a Christmas Day family). We will go to Anthony's uncle and aunt tomorrow for Christmas day dinner and then we will probably head back to New York on Saturday unless the predicted rain is too much in which case we will postpone until Sunday.

I then still have another full week of vacation. We have no plans for New Years Eve. We will probably stay in, even though Dear Amy (Edi) will be in New York. We stay as far away from Times Square as possible (it may be fun for the first time but it's a MADHOUSE and once is enough).
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Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT THE DO
« Reply #34 on: December 24, 2009, 06:22:45 AM »
It's December the 24th, but I am NOT longing to be up north!
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« Reply #35 on: December 24, 2009, 06:24:08 AM »
I found out yesterday that in spite of the financial issues at the office I am getting a bonus but it's not a traditional cash (or check) bonus. Instead I get a floating holiday to be used anytime during the year and I will get a special "lunch with the president". I'm glad to get the floating holiday but lunch with the president (not Barak) is kind of weird since I see him frequently during the year. I've been part of the 14 presentations from April to November (which is why I received the bonus) and they already have a presentation scheduled for January 6th, two days after I return. Oh, well. Lunch should be fun, whatever happens.
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« Reply #36 on: December 24, 2009, 06:25:28 AM »
We must go to the Credit Union and either Target or Walgreens. We need some blank CD-Rs and Target is near the Credit Union but Walgreens is having a sale on blank recordable media. If we can find one near us we will go to Walgreens and save a few dollars.
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« Reply #37 on: December 24, 2009, 06:26:44 AM »
A bonus? That's great. My husband has never received a Christmas bonus. Nor have I.
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« Reply #38 on: December 24, 2009, 06:26:58 AM »
Quote from: Kerry on December 24, 2009, 06:22:45 AM
It's December the 24th, but I am NOT longing to be up north!

Especially since a storm is heading through the area again. I assume my family is all safe and warm. They will gather tomorrow and I will call them since they will all be in one place. Since I'm the one away from them all I have to call but with everyone being at my sister's it will be easier to talk to them.
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Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT THE DO
« Reply #39 on: December 24, 2009, 06:28:39 AM »
Quote from: bk on December 24, 2009, 12:16:46 AM
And the word of the day is: ONOMATOMANIA!

And The Song Of The Day Is:  DO,DO,DO !
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« Reply #40 on: December 24, 2009, 06:28:56 AM »
I should probably walk on the treadmill here on Long Island today (since I've been eating like a PIG!!!). There is much more snow here than in Manhattan and driving is a bit treacherous because there are many of those traffic blocking snow piles left by plow drivers.
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Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT THE DO
« Reply #41 on: December 24, 2009, 06:29:24 AM »
It's a beautiful morning in Johnston...but a vast storm is "said to be" moving this way.  For us, that means rain.  For others...it's going to be a whiter Christmas than it has thus far been.
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« Reply #42 on: December 24, 2009, 06:29:29 AM »
Well, I have frenzied enough. I must get on with the day.

Later, gaters.
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Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT THE DO
« Reply #43 on: December 24, 2009, 06:31:08 AM »
We went riding last night after our candlelight service at the Johnston Baptist Church.

The outside lights were sparse...and very scattered.  SC has a 12.3% unemployement rate.  Electricity is one of those utilities that folks cut back on first.

It's kind of sad.  Used to be you could ride through any street and see wonderful displays of lights at each house.
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Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT THE DO
« Reply #44 on: December 24, 2009, 06:33:41 AM »
Ron, there's one house on our street with outside lights. It's not mine.
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Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT THE DO
« Reply #45 on: December 24, 2009, 06:34:23 AM »
Good morning!

I slept like the dead and overslept my usual wake-up time by over half an hour. Boy, was I tired last night! It's a gorgeous day here, and so when I have to go out later, it won't be nearly as unpleasant as it might have been. We're supposed to get some rain over the next two days.
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Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT THE DO
« Reply #46 on: December 24, 2009, 06:38:13 AM »
TOD:

The only books I've read this year are books by BK.

I particularly liked:

REWIND
WRITER'S BLOCK
THE KRITZER TRILOGY


Okay, Bruce, you can send me the check now.

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Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT THE DO
« Reply #47 on: December 24, 2009, 06:38:41 AM »
All of Tom Laughlin's films are too long. I find them tedious to sit through now because of their overlength and slow pacing. BORN LOSERS, which introduced the character of Billy Jack, has Billy against a drug dealing, girl raping motorcycle club. (And yet, there is a full, long man-on-man kiss between the club's leader and one of his biker cohorts.) Jane Russell also appears in the movie as a special guest star.
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Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT THE DO
« Reply #48 on: December 24, 2009, 06:39:49 AM »
One bad thing about being in Austin is that I'm going to miss the DO tonight.

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Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT THE DO
« Reply #49 on: December 24, 2009, 06:40:43 AM »
I'd certainly rank the LADY IN THE DARK book I just finished as one of the best books I've read this year. I also got around to finishing HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS. (I could never make my mind up to finish the last couple of chapters until this past summer when my health was so precarious that I thought I'd better finish it while I could.)
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Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT THE DO
« Reply #50 on: December 24, 2009, 06:42:01 AM »
I certainly enjoyed the couple of chapters I read last night in Meredith Willson's book on writing THE MUSIC MAN. It is going to be a fun read.
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Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT THE DO
« Reply #51 on: December 24, 2009, 06:42:40 AM »
Please note, I have a vest and a scarf under the coat and a hat in my pocket....I'm not that fat!
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Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT THE DO
« Reply #52 on: December 24, 2009, 06:43:20 AM »
I will likely take the day off even if MIGHTY MOUSE appears in the mailbox. It's not due until January 5th, and I have some Blu-ray CHristmas presents I'd like to watch (probably starting with BEETLEJUICE). I also got more Warner Archive discs yesterday, so they're piling up too as well as other CHristmas presents which I'm anxious to explore.
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Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT THE DO
« Reply #53 on: December 24, 2009, 06:43:32 AM »
Quote from: Matt H. on December 24, 2009, 06:38:41 AM
All of Tom Laughlin's films are too long. I find them tedious to sit through now because of their overlength and slow pacing. BORN LOSERS, which introduced the character of Billy Jack, has Billy against a drug dealing, girl raping motorcycle club. (And yet, there is a full, long man-on-man kiss between the club's leader and one of his biker cohorts.) Jane Russell also appears in the movie as a special guest star.

Actually, I think that the story of the Making of BILLY JACK is more interesting than the movie itself, which I have difficulty watching.

It's my understanding that Laughlin and company grabbed the soundtrack of the picture and held it hostage until Warner Brothers agreed to their demands...whatever they might have been.

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Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT THE DO
« Reply #54 on: December 24, 2009, 06:44:05 AM »
That's a nicely done angel, DR Cilla!
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Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT THE DO
« Reply #55 on: December 24, 2009, 06:45:57 AM »
Nothing much on TV for me tonight, so another reason for me to take today off and watch things I have here that I'm itching to see.
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Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT THE DO
« Reply #56 on: December 24, 2009, 06:46:41 AM »
That's a great snow angel.
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Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT THE DO
« Reply #57 on: December 24, 2009, 06:46:51 AM »
I have never made a snow angel.
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« Reply #58 on: December 24, 2009, 06:49:55 AM »
Thanks!  It's beautiful out now. But the forecast is another foot of snow tonight and 45 mph winds.  I'll post more photos later...breakfast is ready
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Re: MUCH ADO ABOUT THE DO
« Reply #59 on: December 24, 2009, 06:53:46 AM »
A joyous Christmas to all my new friends.
Books are a strange lot because I don't tend to read a lot of books from they year they were published. And I read a lot of 19th century fiction this past year. But some of my favorite current writers had works out, so here's a short list of what I enjoyed, even if it wasn't always the best:

"Rhino Ranch," by Larry McMurtry
"That Old Cape Magic," by Richard Russo
"South of Broad," by Pat Conroy
"Last Night in Twisted River," by John Irving
"Juliet, Naked" by Nick Hornby
"Robert Altman, the Oral Biography," by Mitchell Zwukoff (hilarious stories about Tom Laughlin in his pre-"Billy Jack" days)
"Run" by Ann Patchett
"The Scarecrow," Michael Connelly's sequel to "The Poet," of sorts
"Fool" by Christopher Lamb

A few extras that I loved: "Whatever You Do, Don't Run" by Peter Allison (a memoir of a safari guide read while on safari), "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie, "Food in History" by Reay Tannenhill, "Blindness" by Jose Saramago and 10 Anthony Trollope novels.
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