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[KevinH]

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[Jane]

Fingers crossed the painters arrive on time.  The head guy said they will be here shortly but he won't until around noon but will call if he is late.  Groan.  He had better finish straightening up this mess today. 

[Jane]

On the upside, Saturday Keith cleaned all the artwork and put it on the walls making it more cheerful in there and removed them all from the floor of the hallway.

[ChasSmith]

Good morning, all.

[Jane]

My error, not the painters this morning.  Two men are putting up the new bathroom mirror.  There is a cut out for the light fixture we hope was done correctly.  I think it was.

[ChasSmith]

TOD (way too many, but what the hell):

Ariadne auf Naxos
Elektra
Salome
Don Giovanni
Falstaff
Turandot
La Boheme
Tales of Hoffman
Der Ring des Nibelungen - in general, some parts more than others
Porgy and Bess
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Street Scene
The Rake's Progress
Wozzeck
Lulu
Albert Herring
Amahl and the Night Visitors
Turn of the Screw
The Crucible - honorable mention as a newcomer

[Jane]

That "glue" really stinks and the mirror doesn't fit, so I am suffering for nothing.  The drywall guys put the ceiling too low even after the mirror guy measured it to be a quarter inch shorter, just in case.

[Jane]

Turns out one side was correct and the other side of the ceiling too tight.  They did not put it up evenly.  The mirror guys were very nice but not happy.

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up - seven hours of sleep.

[George]

Thanks to all for their kind words on SISTER ACT....even Lauren Bacall courtesy DR FJL.

Here is the Monsignor taking his final bow...

Very nice, Jrand!

[George]

I hope DR VIXMOM sees more than a blank square.

If she (or anyone else) doesn't, here it is:

[George]

T.O.D.

LE MIZ

Ditto!

[George]

TOD:

Madame Butterfly

And I'll add Miss Saigon!

[George]

Turns out one side was correct and the other side of the ceiling too tight.  They did not put it up evenly.  The mirror guys were very nice but not happy.

Are they not happy that they did not put it up evenly, or that they have to do it again because they did not put it up evenly??

[FJL]

Betsy Palmer knew how to honor the writer of her hit comeback film, here at  0:54.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEXvWYEtal0

[FJL]

I hope DR VIXMOM sees more than a blank square.

If she (or anyone else) doesn't, here it is:

That's great!

[FJL]

Here's the final curtain call video someone snuck out. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1TeNJiIeM0

[elmore3003]

TOD:

Madame Butterfly

And I'll add Miss Saigon!

The snob in me says that nrither Les Miz or Miss Saigon is not remotely an opera.

[FJL]

(That's actually the Moulin Rouge final Boston show, for full disclosure.)

[elmore3003]

I had to thin out the accumulating cat food cartons piling up on the shelf, and now i've got two cats sleeping in two empty cartons at my feet.

[George]

TOD:

Madame Butterfly

And I'll add Miss Saigon!

The snob in me says that nrither Les Miz or Miss Saigon is not remotely an opera.

I know you're not alone in that feeling, but they're certainly operatic in scope.

[bk]

Been on the phone with Apple for an hour trying to get Time Machine to work properly.

[Jane]

Turns out one side was correct and the other side of the ceiling too tight.  They did not put it up evenly.  The mirror guys were very nice but not happy.

Are they not happy that they did not put it up evenly, or that they have to do it again because they did not put it up evenly??

The mirror needs to be cut a little bit shorter.  They will try to cut it unevenly to match the ceiling.

[Jane]

Groan!  The guy cancelled on us again.  No work today.

[George]

On a sad note, Charles Aznavour, the 'Frank Sinatra of France', dies aged 94.  That's certainly a long life.  Hopefully, it was a good life.

[FJL]

I do get nervous with my Dad at 98, that when he goes to doctors at this age, some seem to act like "he's had a full life" and don't work hard enough to keep him around.

[FJL]

My mom never gets this attitude from her doctors at 90.

[George]

Topic of the Day (just what I can think of now):

Ahknaten
Carmen
The Crucible
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
The Phantom of the Opera
Porgy and Bess
Der Ring des Nibelungen
Satyagraha
Susannah
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tosca
Turn of the Screw (it turns out that Seattle Opera is doing this this month.)

And I'll call the aforementioned Les Misérables and Miss Saigon "honorable mentions."

[elmore3003]

TOD:

Madame Butterfly

And I'll add Miss Saigon!

The snob in me says that nrither Les Miz or Miss Saigon is not remotely an opera.

I know you're not alone in that feeling, but they're certainly operatic in scope.

I don't think so.  I think they're nothing more than sung-through pop musicals.  I don't think the writers have the skills to write an opera.

[bk]

It's trying to back-up now - we'll see if it completes.  If not, I'll call again tomorrow.