Topic: THE SORT OF DAY OFF (Read 14591 times)

Kate · « **Reply #120 on:** July 26, 2013, 05:46:10 PM »

I'm half listening to it now!

Kate · « **Reply #121 on:** July 26, 2013, 05:46:28 PM »

I will post till the cows come home!

John G. · « **Reply #122 on:** July 26, 2013, 05:46:38 PM »

Great shirt on Mr. Ponce.

Kate · « **Reply #123 on:** July 26, 2013, 05:46:48 PM »

I will post till we get to page 5!

Kate · « **Reply #124 on:** July 26, 2013, 05:47:44 PM »

The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog's back!

Remember this typing exercise!

Kate · « **Reply #125 on:** July 26, 2013, 05:48:09 PM »

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party!

John G. · « **Reply #126 on:** July 26, 2013, 05:48:34 PM »

The nurse sent me home from work earlier after giving me a steroid shot and a prescription. She thinks I might have a sinus infection in the making.

All I know is the swelling around my left eye is still bad, but not as bad and, thankfully, it doesn't itch too much.

John G. · « **Reply #127 on:** July 26, 2013, 05:48:55 PM »

Sorry to hear about your bus trip, Larry. Sounds awful.

Kate · « **Reply #128 on:** July 26, 2013, 05:50:15 PM »

Well I'm still reading The Paris Wife by Paula Mclain.

It is very good. Loosely based on Ernest Hemingways life with his wife Hadley.

Kate · « **Reply #129 on:** July 26, 2013, 05:53:23 PM »

It is set during the Jazz Age in Paris. It is while Hemingway is writing The Sun Also Rises.

He and his wife become the Golden Couple of the "Lost Generation", that included Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

I am really enjoying it. Slowly but surely I will get it read.

George · « **Reply #130 on:** July 26, 2013, 05:54:47 PM »

Quote from: Jane on July 26, 2013, 05:37:58 PM

Quote from: TCB on July 26, 2013, 04:40:08 PM
Under new laws, tourists visiting Russia who are gay can be arrested! Boy that news ought to increase their tourist dollars.

I read that recently and thought my eyes deceived me.

I'd read that some people are calling for a boycott of the next Olympics, which will be in Russia.

Kate · « **Reply #131 on:** July 26, 2013, 05:54:49 PM »

DR John G,

I hope you start to feel better soon.

Sinus infections are terrible. I had one last year!

Kate · « **Reply #132 on:** July 26, 2013, 05:55:59 PM »

DR Elmore,

So sorry about your travel woes! Try not to dwell on it and upset yourself more.

Jane · « **Reply #133 on:** July 26, 2013, 05:56:02 PM »

Quote from: Kate on July 26, 2013, 05:43:58 PM

Hello Everyone:

Well the painting is done for now. Looks great.

Jane · « **Reply #134 on:** July 26, 2013, 05:56:48 PM »

Quote from: John G. on July 26, 2013, 05:48:34 PM

The nurse sent me home from work earlier after giving me a steroid shot and a prescription. She thinks I might have a sinus infection in the making.

All I know is the swelling around my left eye is still bad, but not as bad and, thankfully, it doesn't itch too much.

GET WELL FAST VIBES!!!!

bk · « **Reply #135 on:** July 26, 2013, 05:56:59 PM »

Art was a very nice man. I didn't think much of the food there, but the service was fun and a few things were good. For those who have the Junior High School Blu-ray, Art plays one of the gym teachers.

Jane · « **Reply #136 on:** July 26, 2013, 05:58:56 PM »

Quote from: Kate on July 26, 2013, 05:50:15 PM

Well I'm still reading The Paris Wife by Paula Mclain.

It is very good. Loosely based on Ernest Hemingways life with his wife Hadley.

Someone in my book group chose this for our October book so the person doing September picked THIS SIDE OF PARADISE.

Kate · « **Reply #137 on:** July 26, 2013, 05:59:14 PM »

Thanks Jane.

I wish I could post pictures of the kitchen. One of these days I will learn how!

Jane · « **Reply #138 on:** July 26, 2013, 05:59:52 PM »

Quote from: Kate on July 26, 2013, 05:53:23 PM

It is set during the Jazz Age in Paris. It is while Hemingway is writing The Sun Also Rises.

Hmmm, she picked the wrong book

Jane · « **Reply #139 on:** July 26, 2013, 06:01:37 PM »

Quote from: George on July 26, 2013, 05:54:47 PM

Quote from: Jane on July 26, 2013, 05:37:58 PM
Quote from: TCB on July 26, 2013, 04:40:08 PM
Under new laws, tourists visiting Russia who are gay can be arrested! Boy that news ought to increase their tourist dollars.

I read that recently and thought my eyes deceived me.

I'd read that some people are calling for a boycott of the next Olympics, which will be in Russia.

Oh oh, will they make an exemption for those competing and their family & friends?

Jane · « **Reply #140 on:** July 26, 2013, 06:02:49 PM »

Quote from: Kate on July 26, 2013, 05:59:14 PM

Thanks Jane.

I wish I could post pictures of the kitchen. One of these days I will learn how!

That would be nice. You may email it to me if you like and I will post it. DR George might make the photo look better than I will.

Jane · « **Reply #141 on:** July 26, 2013, 06:06:31 PM »

DR's George & TCB I hope you will share the photo I just put on FB that goes with the following story:
"Army First Lieutenant Brandon Harker arrived home from a nine-month deployment to Afghanistan to find his two-year-old yellow labrador retriever was either given away or sold while he was gone."

bk · « **Reply #142 on:** July 26, 2013, 06:07:54 PM »

Back from a three-mile jog. I've been also doing a minute or two of the silly planking thing, plus twenty sit ups a day.

John G. · « **Reply #143 on:** July 26, 2013, 06:11:21 PM »

Quote from: Kate on July 26, 2013, 05:54:49 PM

DR John G,

I hope you start to feel better soon.

Sinus infections are terrible. I had one last year!

Thank you. My eyes are not good enough for reading, so I brought in my book on CD tonight. So, it's a bit of Willa Cather tonight. Same time period or slightly before Hemingway, but a world of difference. Cather was all about looking back on a world that was disappearing, not on the present.

Ginny · « **Reply #144 on:** July 26, 2013, 06:13:49 PM »

Went to the Y for the first time in a week. When I got home I roasted a new supply of almonds, fixed myself some dinner, and watched SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK. I think it'll be an early night for me, too.

John G. · « **Reply #145 on:** July 26, 2013, 06:14:12 PM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on July 26, 2013, 02:53:02 PM

The book is not as anecdotal or dishy as Max Wilk's book, and this is far beyond Wilk in scholarly examination of Theatre Guild papers, libretto development - it's amazing how old-fashioned for 1942 Hammerstein's original scenario was! - and music and lyrics. It's not an easy read because the scholastic goal, like my friend Dominic's book LOVERLY, is to seriously trace the show's gestation and its huge success.

Ooh, a school book.

John G. · « **Reply #146 on:** July 26, 2013, 06:14:34 PM »

Thanks, Jane and Singdaw.

John G. · « **Reply #147 on:** July 26, 2013, 06:15:22 PM »

Quote from: Jane on July 26, 2013, 05:59:52 PM

Quote from: Kate on July 26, 2013, 05:53:23 PM
It is set during the Jazz Age in Paris. It is while Hemingway is writing The Sun Also Rises.

Hmmm, she picked the wrong book

This Side of Paradise is wonderful. It's not a wrong book.

Ginny · « **Reply #148 on:** July 26, 2013, 06:16:08 PM »

DR John G, Cather should be very soothing. Feel better soon!

Jennifer · « **Reply #149 on:** July 26, 2013, 06:19:32 PM »

That is terrible DR Elmore.

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