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[bk]

Listening to Shostakovich string quartets now - I keep trying to enjoy string quartets, no matter who the composer - it's tough going for me for whatever reasons - I can admire them, I suppose, but they don't get to me, at least not yet.  But I'll give all of the Shostakovich quartets a chance, just as I did for the Villa Lobos quartets.

[bk]

Page six?  Really?

[bk]

About to watch something - nothing too long.

[Jane]

I stopped watching A PLACE TO CALL HOME midway through season 4. I just couldn't handle all the backstabbing. I tried watching it again last week and still couldn't. First we had a horrible election season last year and since then all manner of other stuff. My ability to cope with this has been exceeded. I hope to return to A PLACE TO CALL HOME sometime in the not-too-distant future. In the meantime I am still reading and watching lighter material.

I can understand this.  I like that there is growth with most of the characters.

[Jane]

DR Jeanne, good luck with the plumber.

[Jane]

Glad you made it home safe and sound, DR vixmom!

Ditto and now I am enjoying the photos, especially the fun one of you.

[Jane]

Elevator, and not falling, vibes for DR elmore.

[Jane]

Getting the work done to your satisfaction vibes for DR elmore & Joshie.

[elmore3003]

This morning, the service men arrived.  At 9:30 it was running and I took garbage to the basement.  When I left for City Center, the service men were gone and it's no longer working.  I just dragged myself, my bag, my cane, and a heavy bag of groceries up three flights of stairs that slope inward toward the stairwell.  I've sent the landlord two emails today and yesterday, and I made a call to our building management several weeks ago.  If I fall down those stairs and survive, I will own this building.

Hopefully, it'll never come to that.  But...if you did own the building, you might finally be able to afford to record all the shows that you'd like!

I have to survive thr fall first!  I'm sure falling backwards down a flight of stairs would break my neck, at the least.

[elmore3003]

I stopped watching A PLACE TO CALL HOME midway through season 4. I just couldn't handle all the backstabbing. I tried watching it again last week and still couldn't. First we had a horrible election season last year and since then all manner of other stuff. My ability to cope with this has been exceeded. I hope to return to A PLACE TO CALL HOME sometime in the not-too-distant future. In the meantime I am still reading and watching lighter material.

But the end of the Season 4 is so fantastic!  I can't believe Season 5 can top it.

[Jane]

I stopped watching A PLACE TO CALL HOME midway through season 4. I just couldn't handle all the backstabbing. I tried watching it again last week and still couldn't. First we had a horrible election season last year and since then all manner of other stuff. My ability to cope with this has been exceeded. I hope to return to A PLACE TO CALL HOME sometime in the not-too-distant future. In the meantime I am still reading and watching lighter material.

But the end of the Season 4 is so fantastic!  I can't believe Season 5 can top it.

I agree on both counts.

[elmore3003]

Finished "How To Handle A Woman."  I have to proofread two numbers from my copyist and go to bed.  Tomorrow morning I will start on "The Parisians."

So . . . good night, all!

[Jeanne]

This is what I saw Saturday while I was eating my dinner

That's the restaurant just outside the Torpedo Factory, right? I keep wanting to say it's The Wharf, but The Wharf is about a block and a half away on King St.

And when did a CASINO and FERRIS WHEEL go in over near the Naval Research Lab? Kevin?

[Jeanne]

I tried to swipe something for Jack but it wouldn't fit in my bag

Next time bring a bigger bag.

[Jeanne]

DR Jeanne, good luck with the plumber.

Thanks. El Cheapo is supposed to be here tomorrow. Pray for Rosemary's Baby.

[bk]

Watched most of a nearly two-hour two part thing on Sibelius - interesting, but dry - lots of music excerpts, though.  Fell asleep three times.

[Jeanne]

I stopped watching A PLACE TO CALL HOME midway through season 4. I just couldn't handle all the backstabbing. I tried watching it again last week and still couldn't. First we had a horrible election season last year and since then all manner of other stuff. My ability to cope with this has been exceeded. I hope to return to A PLACE TO CALL HOME sometime in the not-too-distant future. In the meantime I am still reading and watching lighter material.

But the end of the Season 4 is so fantastic!  I can't believe Season 5 can top it.

One has to hand it to the writers. It's quite riveting.

[John G.]

I stopped watching A PLACE TO CALL HOME midway through season 4. I just couldn't handle all the backstabbing. I tried watching it again last week and still couldn't. First we had a horrible election season last year and since then all manner of other stuff. My ability to cope with this has been exceeded. I hope to return to A PLACE TO CALL HOME sometime in the not-too-distant future. In the meantime I am still reading and watching lighter material.

I can understand that. I had to leave the room a few times because the characters were just so nasty. Well, Regina was just so nasty. But I was hooked.

[John G.]

Great photos, Vixmom.

[John G.]

There was a 20% off sale at Half Price Books. Managed to find the TV soundtrack of Wonderful Town and the DVD of Humoresque for $2 each (or $1.60) as well as the new Passion recording (two discs for $3) and a Kurt Weill that was unknown to me, The Tsar Has His Picture Taken.

I also found a couple of cookbooks, including Francois Payard's dessert tome. All I want to do is make Warm Lemon Tart with Lemon-Basil Sorbet and Bail Oil or Almond-Prune Napoleon with Prune-Armagnac Ice Cream. Lemon-Poppy Seed Cake filled with red wine-poached cherries and clotted cream may be the first.

[bk]

Listening to The Bolt, another Shostakovich ballet.

[John G.]

I've started watching Julie Taymor's version of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Some of it is very good. Some of it really isn't.

[John G.]

Good night, all.

[Jrand74]

I agree with DR JEANNE - DR VIXMOM needed to have a bigger bag with her.

[bk]

Dove into the Complete Satie box - starting with the orchestral and ballet music.  Amazing stuff - had a few of these, but none of the piano pieces (to come) or songs or anything.  What a forward-thinking visionary he was.  If he'd written nothing but his two famous Gymnopedies he'd be one for the ages. 

[bk]

Notes are written, so I can post them right at midnight and go right to bed.

[Jane]

Tonight we watched the last episode of the wonderful British show "Home Fires".  Since it had originally been renewed we are left with a cliffhanger.   I hope enough people sign petitions that there will be a change of heart and the show will return.

[Jane]

'night

[TCB]

Good evening!

[TCB]

Just one more post?