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[elmore3003]

I think she's just a mean drunk with cabin fever.

[elmore3003]

Page 5 Dance!

[Jrand73]

DR VIXMOM you can skip this post.




Anyway from the first time I saw NASHVILLE, I imagined that Rayette from Five Easy Pieces had come out of the restroom at that gas station and had driven Bobby's car to Nashville and by singing and sleeping with the right people had become Connie White.......

[Jrand73]

My friend former DR KURT was working at the Indiana Repertory Theatre and a year or so after NASHVILLE, Miss Ronee Blakeley was brought into town to do a play there....I forget which one.

But anyway - she got unpacked at her hotel and promptly fell asleep under her sunlamp and got a terrible sunburn.  She was in pain for the duration of rehearsals and performances.

Kurt said she was not the smartest person he ever met - and had trouble following simple directions - but she was not unkind....

It always breaks my heart in the movie when she's trying to sing at Opryland on that boat.....and she says....apropos of nothing...."....a storm....there's a storm a brewin'..." just before she faints.....

[Jane]

DR elmore you must have the worst postman.

Worst post office.

I feel bad for you dealing with them. 

[Jane]

I think she's just a mean drunk with cabin fever.

That sounds about right.

[George]

It seems I reached a millstone yesterday!

Congrats, Jrand!

[George]

In case you were wondering....I made it through about 45 minutes of the WB Have The Honor To Present the Max Reinhardt version of A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare adapted by Charles Henyon and Mary C. McCall, Jr.

After every speech of Dick Powell and James Cagney, I wanted to say "Burma Shave..."

[bk]

I got another two hours of sleep, had a nice telephonic conversation, and started writing the book thing I'm contributing to.  1500 words, of which I've now written close to 400, some of which are decent.

[John G.]

I picked up dinner tonight from a place south of downtown. I missed a turn-off, so I drove through downtown. It was strange. A homeless man in an area next to a stop light started losing it and was throwing trash all over the road. Most of the streets were empty, but the bus station was crowded with plenty of people not practicing social distancing.

[John G.]

The drivers were crazy. One half was driving way too fast, the other way too slow. On the interstate, people were entering driving 10 miles over the speed limit while people already on the road were doing 20 or 30 miles under it.

[John G.]

Started watching Cluny Brown, a delicious Ernst Lubitsch comedy with Charles Boyer and Jennifer Jones.

[bk]

Faux chicken stroganoff was excellent and TOO filling and I feel like a whale right now.

[bk]

I am really full.

[bk]

If I go sit on the couch like so much fish I know I'll be asleep in seconds.  I don't think I need to eat anything else today.

[bk]

Of course, "today" is almost over and tonight is almost upon us.

[bk]

Today, I am not only self-isolating, I'm self-imposing and self-serving.

[bk]

Where in tarnation IS everyone?  You can't get the virus in here, baby.

[bk]

Listening to great music by a composer named Karol Rathaus.  Wonderful stuff.  I had one piece by him on a compilation album and found tons of others to grab on the Tube of You, including three symphonies.

[George]

I must start doing some walks as I'm getting no exercise at all.

I had started walking during work with some co-workers, but except for a couple of times, I haven't since my work closed.  I think I'll walk to work to see if the mail clerk will be there.  Hopefully, she will and I can pick up my package that was supposed to be delivered yesterday.  It's small enough (it's a pack of 20 blank 50GB Blu-ray discs) that I can carry it.

Now you should have plenty of time to walk.  Good luck getting your package.

It didn't arrive.

[George]

Instead of getting a yearly sticker to put on my license plate, I got a NEW plate.....it's very nice....trees, a covered bridge, and some cardinals (the bird kind)....  I have not had a REAL new physical license plate in over ten years.

My number remains the same.....  376BFF.

Nice.  When you move a lot you get new plates.  I do miss our vanity plate from Oregon, Mt. Dog.  We still have it.

When I had my Subaru Justy, the non-personalized plates were 222DBL!

[George]

This is currently playing for the second time.

https://youtu.be/MERgceA-BeI

Very nice.

[John G.]

Back to Cluny. I took a break to clean up some more of the garage. The trash pickup was today, and my trash can is already half-full. I could throw out more. What I need to do first, though, is get rid of some of the books out there. These are cookbooks I inherited, many of which I already had. I have plenty need to go. Maybe on Saturday I could do a Goodwill run.

[Freddie]

Today, I am not only self-isolating, I'm self-imposing and self-serving.

Self-quarantine seems to be a popular word that from the way things look must mean "I go outside anytime I feel like it."

[George]

Jo thinks she's up to something.

Hopefully not!!

[John G.]

Enjoying a chilled glass of Lillet Rose'. A nice reward for my labors.

[George]

Well, I got the official word:  we're off work until (but probably no later than) April 20.  Some Service Center people (where I work) may be called back on April 10, but they don't know who, yet.  I will have to go in on April 1 or 2 so that I can pay the credit card bill. 

[John G.]

That is good news, George. Our libraries are supposedly closed a week longer than yours. But everything checked out now has had the due date extended to May 1. It may take that long to finish the last three discs of the book I've been listening to in the car. I don't have to drive anywhere, so I don't get to listen to anything.

[John G.]

I did notice, however, that the items I returned to my library weren't checked in for a week. Then suddenly they were. So, I guess one or two people have gone in there and cleared out the return areas.

[John G.]

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