Topic: ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE, ELIMINATE THE NEGATIVE (Read 34130 times)

elmore3003 · « **Reply #90 on:** November 17, 2012, 06:09:51 PM »

This should get us to page 4, and I am going to bed.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #91 on:** November 17, 2012, 06:10:32 PM »

!!!! 4 !!!!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #92 on:** November 17, 2012, 06:11:03 PM »

And to all a good night!

Ginny · « **Reply #93 on:** November 17, 2012, 06:28:36 PM »

'night!

Laura · « **Reply #94 on:** November 17, 2012, 06:48:28 PM »

I am so tired and my body hurts. That is all.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #95 on:** November 17, 2012, 06:57:00 PM »

Watched the 1971 Columbia film "See No Evil" today. It aired early this a.m. on TCM. It was shown 16:9, high def, and it was a beautiful print. The story isn't overwhelmingly exciting, but Mia Farrow is wonderful in it, and the photography is gorgeous, especially the exteriors with swirling leaves in a fall landscape. The music score by Elmer Bernstein is evocative (not GREAT Bernstein, but very GOOD Bernstein). Sidenote: Andre Previn, Mia's hubby at the time, was assigned to write the score but it was rejected.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #96 on:** November 17, 2012, 06:58:27 PM »

Wouldn't it be quite the coup if someone could get rights to release not only the Bernstein score but the rejected score, as well?
??!!!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #97 on:** November 17, 2012, 07:08:55 PM »

I wanted to see that, but as the one person alive on Earth who has yet to acquire a DVR, this showing passed me up.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #98 on:** November 17, 2012, 07:11:35 PM »

Oh, that's too bad. I remember using VHS recorders to catch shows before DVR. But the quality was laughable (now that digital is the norm).

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #99 on:** November 17, 2012, 07:13:13 PM »

I'm off work until the Monday after Thanksgiving, and I'm sooooooo happy!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #100 on:** November 17, 2012, 07:13:44 PM »

I snagged a laptop out of Amazon.com's gold box at noon today. It will be my first. Sooooo happy.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #101 on:** November 17, 2012, 07:14:17 PM »

All right, only 19 more posts are needed before we turn to Page 5.

Laura · « **Reply #102 on:** November 17, 2012, 07:33:26 PM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on November 17, 2012, 07:08:55 PM

I wanted to see that, but as the one person alive on Earth who has yet to acquire a DVR, this showing passed me up.

Not only do I not have a DVR, I have no tv.

TCB · « **Reply #103 on:** November 17, 2012, 07:34:02 PM »

Quote from: bk on November 17, 2012, 12:19:38 AM

And the word of the day is: MISNOMER!

Hey, I once dated Misnomer!

No, wait; that was Mr. Nomer.

TCB · « **Reply #104 on:** November 17, 2012, 07:38:36 PM »

Quote from: vixmom on November 17, 2012, 05:26:16 AM

The Vixter bought tickets for us to see Ragtime at the local theatre arts college last night.

They had lost the last two weeks of rehearsal and construction due to Hurricane Sandy - the school lost power for two weeks and there wassome sort of power surge that damaged half their sound system

so the sets were minimilistic - and they cut one number short but it was well done

The young man who played Coalhouse Porter was amazing - and we found that the student playing Younger Brother was a former student at the Vixter's high school - someone she had done shows with there.

He was quite good as well

Is Coalhouse Porter the cousin of Coalhouse Walker?

TCB · « **Reply #105 on:** November 17, 2012, 07:58:31 PM »

Quote from: bk on November 17, 2012, 09:15:18 AM

The best thing about the Paypal debit card, which is the ONLY card I use (if I used the debit card attached to the Kritzerland bank account, I would never have any way of knowing what was what unless they caught it), is that when I make a charge somewhere an instant e-mail shows up noting the charge. And I look at every single one of those e-mails every day. Also, I know my Paypal balance every day so it's all very easy to spot. But the stupid thing on these people's parts is either giving or selling the number to people out of town - if the card company suddenly sees charges being made in LA and NY at the exact same time it's a dead giveaway.

My credit union called me one time because a purchase was made on my debit card on the other side of the country. Luckily it was a purchase that I had made. Obvioously, it must have happened when I was still able to travel farther than the apartment house parking lot.

vixmom · « **Reply #106 on:** November 17, 2012, 07:59:57 PM »

Quote from: TCB on November 17, 2012, 07:38:36 PM

Quote from: vixmom on November 17, 2012, 05:26:16 AM
The Vixter bought tickets for us to see Ragtime at the local theatre arts college last night.

They had lost the last two weeks of rehearsal and construction due to Hurricane Sandy - the school lost power for two weeks and there wassome sort of power surge that damaged half their sound system

so the sets were minimilistic - and they cut one number short but it was well done

The young man who played Coalhouse Porter was amazing - and we found that the student playing Younger Brother was a former student at the Vixter's high school - someone she had done shows with there.

He was quite good as well

Is Coalhouse Porter the cousin of Coalhouse Walker?

Yes, yes he is.

vixmom · « **Reply #107 on:** November 17, 2012, 08:01:33 PM »

Ginny - thank youfor your kind words - but I feel more full of joy for having had this day than anything else I can think of at the moment

TCB · « **Reply #108 on:** November 17, 2012, 08:03:32 PM »

Quote from: Doug R on November 17, 2012, 09:56:29 AM

TOD

I had my credit card cloned about 10 years ago. The fraud section of my bank had spotted some unusual and expensive purchases and asked if I had used the card for them. One of the amounts was the equivalent of about $1000 for the purchase of shoes in a shop in Rome. I was sure that the card details could only have been taken a few days earlier when I was in a restaurant in Lisbon and the waiter had taken the card from me to process it. Those were in the days before we had PIN numbers in the UK. No-one would ever take a card away from a customer nowadays but it was common in restaurants at that time when a card had to go through a machine.

Really? They still take them away from us in the States.

Laura · « **Reply #109 on:** November 17, 2012, 08:05:02 PM »

I haven't had a misuse of my credit card since about 1979, when a gas station attendant put two paper receipts into the machine to run the pressure thing over them and then filled up his car and a few of his buddies' cars, too.

Laura · « **Reply #110 on:** November 17, 2012, 08:06:17 PM »

My DH and I don't use our debit cards except at the ATM, and our credit cards are all with local banks. So if we have a problem, I'd walk into the bank in person and get them to fix it.

Laura · « **Reply #111 on:** November 17, 2012, 08:08:54 PM »

I have, however, had my account frozen because they seemed to think it might not be me using it. That's fine with me. A phone call straightened it out quickly.

TCB · « **Reply #112 on:** November 17, 2012, 08:08:58 PM »

Quote from: Cillaliz on November 17, 2012, 12:47:17 PM

The Hostess outlet store had a big line and many many empty shelves. I got some vanilla zingers, some bread crumbs and even a fruit cake. I got some chocolate zingers and cupcakes at the neighborhood convenience store. I'm going to give the Zingers to friends and take them home for Thanksgiving, lol

You are giving them to friends? Or are you taking them home for Thanksgiving?

Laura · « **Reply #113 on:** November 17, 2012, 08:11:20 PM »

I think she is going to give them as Christmas presents.

Laura · « **Reply #114 on:** November 17, 2012, 08:11:47 PM »

You know, that just might be "the thing" this year for Christmas!

Laura · « **Reply #115 on:** November 17, 2012, 08:13:23 PM »

At least it might be the popular item in a white elephant gift exchange.

Laura · « **Reply #116 on:** November 17, 2012, 08:13:40 PM »

I think this qualifies as a frenzy for me.

vixmom · « **Reply #117 on:** November 17, 2012, 08:14:06 PM »

Holly and I drove randomly through the streets stopping wherever we saw people working and offering them hot soup and hot chili - sandwiches etc these areas are still without power and heat

for some reason I turned down a little street and noticed a house that had a huge pile of baby items piled up outside - there was no one outside but the garage door was wide open and the windows were open

Holly and I looked at each other and at the same moment said - "should we knock at the door?" We laughed and I said "I guess so!"

So I went up and knocked and a small lady with a little baby in her arms and a girl of about 6 standing next to her answered

I introduced myself, pointed out the church van in front of the house and asked if they could use any hot food or baby items -

She told that she had just put the last clean diaper she had on the baby -

It turned out we had a case of the size diaper her baby used in the van, and a case of the formula the baby used - we gave her those and some soup. chili and sandwiches - she was crying and saying 'God sent you" --- you know, I believe He did

what else could I have done today to make me feel more satisfied with my day than that?

TCB · « **Reply #118 on:** November 17, 2012, 08:15:27 PM »

Quote from: Jrand62 on November 17, 2012, 01:37:29 PM

Raw Tracks

Wasn't that a Burt Reynolds movie back in the 1980's?

No, but I think that elmore has the video.

Laura · « **Reply #119 on:** November 17, 2012, 08:16:25 PM »

You had a much more meaningful day than I had, Vixmom. That's wonderful.

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