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[Jane]

This is what I imagine happens at DR elmore3003's overnight.  Minus the gal, of course.       

That just looks silly to me, never having had cats line up in a row.  I wonder if anyone's cats have done this.  Mine all tucked up into different locations, and then later there were the dogs added to the mix.

[Jane]

Bogie and Bacall, brother & sister, would each curl up into one of my arms.  After a few hours my arms were very sore from not moving

[Jane]

As they got older they found different positions.   Bogie curled up between my book and me and then stayed there all night, even after I fell asleep.

[John G.]

I watched DESK SET on my B I G screen last night.....and it was fun.  I like the movie a lot.  And I wish the play had more of the film's elements.....it is SO DIFFERENT.

I was disappointed when I read it as I thought it would be a terrific show for our stage.....

I would have thought so too.  What a shame. 

Nora Ephron’s parents did a great job with the script.

[singdaw]

Eat your oats!

[Druxy]

Watched TIGHT SPOT w/Ginger Rogers and Edward G. Robinson this afternoon.

Still a good movie.

[Jrand74]

I am watching DESK SET again this afternoon.....I love the ad libbed moment when Tracy comes back into view at Bunny's apartment pretending to be drunk. 

Hepburn & Blondell didn't know he was going to do that and they all broke up.

I also noticed something today that I have NEVER noticed before.  At the Christmas party in the office after Hepburn does her Cole Porter song......when the old lady is walking through the office....Hepburn is in the background using the college muffler scarf like a jump rope and takes a couple of leaps.....

[Jrand74]

Yes DR JOHN G they certainly did.  The movie script was perfectly tailored for Tracy & Hepburn.

[Jane]

I never liked listening to Marlene Dietrich sing which is probably why I never appreciated her acting as a child. I tolerate it now.  I do not have a favorite film of hers.

[Jane]

Craig's late Chanukah gift arrived today.  It wasn't an unexpected gift as we have been sending him the same caramel corn/cheese poporn mix the last several years.  Returning home he became suspicious a downstairs neighbor had a box from the popcorn company.  Sure enough it was his box

[Matthew]

Good Afternoon.  Going crazy today with last minute shopping... and dealing with the boys.

DD Leo Is for sale if anyone wants him.
In the past 20 hours, starting last night, he ate a small box of Sees Candy - don't know what it was because I didn't get a chance to open it - and this morning - a small sleeve of chocolate covered JoJo's as he got out of his pen while I was gone this morning and attacked a bag of gifts from students. 
I don't need to know how to handle the chocolate thing as he's done this thing before, as you all know.  We were up until 2:30am this morning cleaning up throw-up TMI, sorry - and both he and Ben were banished to the pen for the night and Papa slept alone. 

We've recently made up.  He's still in jail for the time being.  He's fine, not getting sick anymore, etc.  We'll all be back to normal soon.

[Matthew]

Speaking of music - I'm listening to a recording of "Messiah"   The improv - or ornamentation as they call it in the baroque world - is out of control. But the tempi are very quick which I love.  But it's taken me a while to get the "style". 

Messiah - Watkins-Shaw edition
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
It's on Spotify so the credits are lacking, no year or anything. 

[Jane]

I am very relieved DD Leo is ok now.  How did he get hold of the chocolate?

[Matthew]

I am very relieved DD Leo is ok now.  How did he get hold of the chocolate?

It was in a bag of stuff from school.  Of course I would have kept it out of reach, but the first time I wasn't thinking, and the second time he escaped from his pen. 

[bk]

Listening to music and pondering some comments on project two, which I kind of suspected I'd get  - it's a weird and unique concept that can't be critiqued in a normal way and trying to make someone see that is daunting - I also don't think he quite got what was happening in the way it was happening.  It's kind of like a Chinese box in that regard, so I'm going to clarify some things that are probably confusing in the reading of it, but at this point I don't really want to change anything.  One of his suggestions would make it even more confusing, I think, and it's weird enough as it is.  I think one of the problem is he's conflating this with what a real counterpart of it would be like, and while this would have the "appearance" of being something else, it, in fact, is it's own thing.  How enigmatic can one paragraph be?

[singdaw]

DR Matthew-


Here's the information on that recording of Messiah by the Baltimore Symphony:
https://www.bsomusic.org/misc/handel-messiah-naxos-recording/

[singdaw]

How enigmatic can one paragraph be?

Intriguing, bk.  Intriguing.

[Jane]

I am very relieved DD Leo is ok now.  How did he get hold of the chocolate?

It was in a bag of stuff from school.  Of course I would have kept it out of reach, but the first time I wasn't thinking, and the second time he escaped from his pen. 

I bet you won't make that mistake again, if he is in his pen or not

[vixmom]

Tonight's dinner is chicken breast, courtesy of that wonderful Omaha Steaks gift, with mushrooms and mixed veggies.

That sounds most satisfactory

[vixmom]

Sadly, I'm just not feeling the season this year.

I just ordered my Christmas dinner.
https://nicematinnyc.com/menus/christmas-at-home/

What did you choose? I looked at that menus and decided I would need to order 4 dinners so I could  have everything on the menu

Christmas turkey, winter salad, toffee-gingerbread pudding.

Mmm,mmm mmmmmm

[Jane]

I understand bottlenecks and that kind of thing.

What I don't get is how the USPS website goes down (or gets overloaded) so often. And how the tracking software is so lacking in consistency and reliability.

One clue:  I hear from a friend who had a career with the USPS that, especially in times like this, there's always a number of employees who will feel so overloaded that they say "F--- it" and don't bother scanning half the items that come their way. Some do it because that's who they are. Others, because they're so beaten down by the load and the staffing issues that they have to just stop caring. So you have a tracking system that, theoretically, is fantastic...which in reality is only properly used half the time

I wonder if this is what has happened with the Baby's first Christmas ornament we ordered.  Either a tracking number was given and then the order not sent, or USPS hasn't scanned it, or worse not processed it. 

[Jane]

As of today everything else we ordered for her has been delivered.

[Jane]

The adults each have one order still to be sent.  Weather permitting it will be shipped from the company to arrive within two days as it is perishable. 

[George]

DR TCB, DR Ginny was not in The Beggar's Opera; she was my assistant. I had cast a good baritone as Lockit, and he dropped out shortly after rehearsals began.  I've always suspected some of Britten's harmonies frightened him off.  I ended up having to play the role, and the production suffered because (1)I am no legit baritone and (2)my focus was scattered.

I looked good, though.

You did, Larry!  Great picture!

[George]

Cativity!

[George]

I watched DESK SET on my B I G screen last night.....and it was fun.  I like the movie a lot.  And I wish the play had more of the film's elements.....it is SO DIFFERENT.

I was disappointed when I read it as I thought it would be a terrific show for our stage.....

Too bad it can't be revised with elements from the movie.

[George]

That's funny, too!!

[George]

I finally got a picture of the beautiful neighborhood cat when he jumped up on the ledge to visit Birdy Barnum today.

He has a black hat and black on his haunches.....otherwise all white.

Cute picture, Jrand!

[Jane]

Ellen DeGeneres talked the painful covid symptom she didn't know about.  If I had seen her discuss this sooner I definitely would have gotten tested for covid last week when I mentioned I was considering doing so.

[George]

I understand bottlenecks and that kind of thing.

What I don't get is how the USPS website goes down (or gets overloaded) so often. And how the tracking software is so lacking in consistency and reliability.

One clue:  I hear from a friend who had a career with the USPS that, especially in times like this, there's always a number of employees who will feel so overloaded that they say "F--- it" and don't bother scanning half the items that come their way. Some do it because that's who they are. Others, because they're so beaten down by the load and the staffing issues that they have to just stop caring. So you have a tracking system that, theoretically, is fantastic...which in reality is only properly used half the time

That's too bad.