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[George]

PAGE SEVEN CHEESECAKE DANCE!!

[KevinH]

DR Kevin are you doing anything special today?

No, Jane.  I'm going to celebrate with my friends next week, I think.  It's hard having a birthday around Thanksgiving!

[KevinH]

I'm leaving for Buffalo in the morning.   Laundry has been done-yay!  Have to pack.

[Jane]

I survived Costco, barely.  And I'm pretty sure I'm closer to moving to that island.  I hate people at the holiday season - and sometimes barely tolerate them the rest of the year.

I just got back from the local Costco and it was fairly sedate.  I got a regular cheesecake (not a pumpkin cheesecake...and it one of maybe three left that were hidden on the bottom shelf behind a whole bunch of pumpkin cheesecakes) and the line to pay took all of about a minute.  Easy as cheesecake pie!

I guess this means you aren't baking one.

[Jane]

DR Kevin are you doing anything special today?

No, Jane.  I'm going to celebrate with my friends next week, I think.  It's hard having a birthday around Thanksgiving!

This way you just extend your birthday fun.  Thanksgiving is like a celebration.

[Jane]

I'm leaving for Buffalo in the morning.   Laundry has been done-yay!  Have to pack.

SAFE & EASY TRAVEL VIBES!!!

[Jane]

DR Kevin I suppose you spend a lot of birthdays packing.

[George]

I survived Costco, barely.  And I'm pretty sure I'm closer to moving to that island.  I hate people at the holiday season - and sometimes barely tolerate them the rest of the year.

I just got back from the local Costco and it was fairly sedate.  I got a regular cheesecake (not a pumpkin cheesecake...and it one of maybe three left that were hidden on the bottom shelf behind a whole bunch of pumpkin cheesecakes) and the line to pay took all of about a minute.  Easy as cheesecake pie!

I guess this means you aren't baking one.

YES!  It would've cost a lot more to bake one than to buy one, and it wouldn't have been as big a cheesecake, nor could I have guaranteed a successfully baked cheesecake.

[bk]

Back from chicken soup, a sandwich, and no fries, plus picking up a couple of packages, including the very pretty soundtrack to The Impossible.

[Ginny]

I have done just about all I can do the night before.  We have to put the turkey in the oven at 8:30am for our scheduled 4pm meal time.  I'll probably crash early tonight.

[bk]

Guess I'll watch a motion picture - don't know if I'm quite ready to watch the other two and a half hours of Patton just yet, so I may put in the screener of Perks of Being a Wallflower.

[George]

Well, I'm off to my parents' house.  The whole family and friends are gathering there tomorrow, but tonight it's just the family and one foreign exchange student.  Evidently, my mom signed up her and my dad to be a host family for a student from Japan for a couple of weeks (I don't know what's the event...it's only for a couple of weeks).  Anyway, the girl arrived last night and doesn't speak English very well.  My parents, of course, don't speak Japanese at all, so my dad got a book from Barnes & Noble and my sister's boyfriend got a translating app for his smartphone.  Hopefully, that's enough.

Be back later!

[Jane]

I thought I had to begin my liquid diet on Sunday morning at 11:00.  After fretting about the two days on the diet I double checked.  The top of the P was almost touching the M making it look like AM instead of PM.  I'm so relieved.  Since I usually stop eating by 7:00PM I will begin the liquid diet a little early, but by my choice. 

[Jane]

Well, I'm off to my parents' house.  The whole family and friends are gathering there tomorrow, but tonight it's just the family and one foreign exchange student.  Evidently, my mom signed up her and my dad to be a host family for a student from Japan for a couple of weeks (I don't know what's the event...it's only for a couple of weeks).  Anyway, the girl arrived last night and doesn't speak English very well.  My parents, of course, don't speak Japanese at all, so my dad got a book from Barnes & Noble and my sister's boyfriend got a translating app for his smartphone.  Hopefully, that's enough.

Be back later!

I look forward to hearing how the evening went.

[ChasSmith]

Busy day, but I think I'm at a point where I can settle down, eat a little something, and watch a little something.

Oh -- I *almost* took out the Christmas CD and put it on the player this afternoon.  Fate, however, stepped in and presented something I had to deal with, so that pleasure is still on board for tomorrow morning.

[Ginny]

Signing off to change my clothes and then try to stay awake through CSI - 'night!

[Jane]

'night

[Jennifer]

Yeah! Three books that I was waiting for from the library came in today. And I was first for all three. Usually what happens when it's a series and I'm dying for the book is that some other person reserves the book I want a year in advance.

I have 60 pages left in the book I"m reading. But will definitely start one of the books tomorrow. It just came out last week!

Actually two of the three books are final books in series I like.

[Jennifer]

I'm going to go watch X Factor.

[Jennifer]

That cheesecake looks good. I saw a picture of a box of cheesecakes in a grocery store flyer today. IT looked so good. IT was like 6 different kinds of cheesecakes. And they were all really interesting kinds. Looked so good.

[Laura]

Those of you who pray, I would appreciate it if you would keep Ruby in your prayers. She is 95 years old she fell again, and they say she needs surgery. I doubt she will survive it.

[Laura]

I met Ruby when I started going to my church. What I found out later was that she grew up with my father-in-law. So she's been tied to my family for 90 years.

[TCB]

Speaking of CDs and such, I have something to

Ask BK :

This is probably a stupid question, but are Kritzerland CD mixes created with traditional two-channel stereo playback in mind, even on today's multi-channel receivers?  Are there exceptions?

I was a late-comer to surround sound at home, setting up my first decent system only two years ago.  The receiver I chose needed to not only process movie tracks wonderfully, but also assume the duties of a traditional stereo amp in being the hub for turntable and other goodies.  (I added a decent outboard phono pre-amp.)  It was my belief then, and is now, that traditional stereo sources should be appreciated in their own element, not "processed" in any number of schemes by the receiver.  Not that I don't experiment now and then.  But I'm a purist at heart, and always force the system into plain old stereo when enjoying regular CDs and records and tapes.  I'll bet a lot of people don't pay much attention to that stuff, but it makes sense to me.

No, I've never done a surround mix for a CD - I don't see the point, really.

I have a Quadrophonic album release of the Broadway cast recording to Company.  I don't have a Quadrophonic system, so I've never heard it, but I've always wondered why it hasn't been (or couldn't be) remixed and rereleased in modern surround sound.  I would hope that it's not so cheesy that people wouldn't want it, but of course, someone would have to do it.

I had a quad studio cast of "Man of La Mancha" with Jim Nabors, Marilyn Horne and Madeline Kahn that hasn't been released on CD yet.

What role does Madeline Kahn play?

[John G.]

DR John vibes those pay check aren't too late!

I'll find out on Friday.

[John G.]

Many prayers and vibes for Ruby.

[TCB]

Since last Saturday I've felt like I'm fighting an oncoming cold or something - please send excellent vibes and xylophones that I win this fight - I cannot afford to get sick, nor do I want to get sick.  This has happened three times this year and each time I've won and I must win this time.  I've been sucking down Coldeez for the last three days.  I think I'll go have some chicken soup right now.

Cold Be Gone Vibes for our Fearless Leader!

[John G.]

Speaking of CDs and such, I have something to

Ask BK :

This is probably a stupid question, but are Kritzerland CD mixes created with traditional two-channel stereo playback in mind, even on today's multi-channel receivers?  Are there exceptions?

I was a late-comer to surround sound at home, setting up my first decent system only two years ago.  The receiver I chose needed to not only process movie tracks wonderfully, but also assume the duties of a traditional stereo amp in being the hub for turntable and other goodies.  (I added a decent outboard phono pre-amp.)  It was my belief then, and is now, that traditional stereo sources should be appreciated in their own element, not "processed" in any number of schemes by the receiver.  Not that I don't experiment now and then.  But I'm a purist at heart, and always force the system into plain old stereo when enjoying regular CDs and records and tapes.  I'll bet a lot of people don't pay much attention to that stuff, but it makes sense to me.

No, I've never done a surround mix for a CD - I don't see the point, really.

I have a Quadrophonic album release of the Broadway cast recording to Company.  I don't have a Quadrophonic system, so I've never heard it, but I've always wondered why it hasn't been (or couldn't be) remixed and rereleased in modern surround sound.  I would hope that it's not so cheesy that people wouldn't want it, but of course, someone would have to do it.

I had a quad studio cast of "Man of La Mancha" with Jim Nabors, Marilyn Horne and Madeline Kahn that hasn't been released on CD yet.

What role does Madeline Kahn play?

She plays Antonia and sings "I'm Only Thinking of Him".

[TCB]

And while still on the subject of CDs...

DR ELMORE:  Today I drove up to Poughkeepsie and back, which provided a perfect opportunity to listen to the JUBILEE CDs straight through.  Haven't read up on it yet, but the music is beautiful!  Well, it's Cole Porter.  But what great stuff.  Thank you again for those.

Thank you, DR ChasSmith. I'm really proud of that reconstruction/arrangement. I'm hoping that, if this current recording project I'm on continues, we will get to JUBILEE. On those CDs, the "Judgment of Paris" ballet is from a poor-sounding bootleg of the 1998 Carnegie Hall performance, and no one's played the wonderful Ravel-inspired Act Two Beach Dance, which was written to placate Dorothy Fox, Charles Walters' dancing partner in nightclubs. She had to be employed so the production  - and Porter personally - could land Charles Walters.

After Mr Porter landed Charles Walters, did he also put him in the show?

[John G.]

Went to dinner with a dozen friends. Most of us have been going out on Thanksgiving Eve for a dozen years or so, and it was just a beautiful evening of fine talk, fine food and fine wines.

It was a yet another reminder of how much I have to be thankful for.

[John G.]

And while still on the subject of CDs...

DR ELMORE:  Today I drove up to Poughkeepsie and back, which provided a perfect opportunity to listen to the JUBILEE CDs straight through.  Haven't read up on it yet, but the music is beautiful!  Well, it's Cole Porter.  But what great stuff.  Thank you again for those.

Thank you, DR ChasSmith. I'm really proud of that reconstruction/arrangement. I'm hoping that, if this current recording project I'm on continues, we will get to JUBILEE. On those CDs, the "Judgment of Paris" ballet is from a poor-sounding bootleg of the 1998 Carnegie Hall performance, and no one's played the wonderful Ravel-inspired Act Two Beach Dance, which was written to placate Dorothy Fox, Charles Walters' dancing partner in nightclubs. She had to be employed so the production  - and Porter personally - could land Charles Walters.

After Mr Porter landed Charles Walters, did he also put him in the show?

Waters and Betty Grable were the second leads in "Du Barry Was a Lady" on Broadway. Waters later directed "High Society."