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[Jrand73]

Page Two.

[Jrand73]

Hello, two guests.

[ChasSmith]

Super duper tech magician Joshie is coming over to help me in about an hour! This is a big relief.

Now that's what I call service. Good news!

[KevinH]

Good morning!

[elmore3003]

Super duper tech magician Joshie is coming over to help me in about an hour! This is a big relief.

Now that's what I call service. Good news!

Speaking of visits, DR ChasSmith, when would you like to stop by for my book donation?

[ChasSmith]

Super duper tech magician Joshie is coming over to help me in about an hour! This is a big relief.

Now that's what I call service. Good news!

Speaking of visits, DR ChasSmith, when would you like to stop by for my book donation?

Amazingly, it seems like we could actually be doing this sometime soon, doesn't it?
What a difference a year makes! 

Let me think upon that, and we'll pick a day.

[ChasSmith]

I've been ignoring the opera streams these last few weeks. Have to see what's coming up.

In the meantime, I've got the Met/Levine CD of Pelleas et Melisande playing while I scan The Fantasticks into my iPad, and I can hardly believe the beauty of this music. I haven't listened to it in probably thirty years, and much to my surprise, it ALL sounds like it just happened yesterday. Okay, maybe the week before last. But I honestly didn't think I'd practically be humming along in more than just a few key moments, whatever those might have been. I'll have to get the scores out and have a listen to the old recordings sometime soon.

[singdaw]

That's lovely, DR ChasSmith.

And on a completely different note, or maybe not...

[elmore3003]

Joshie has come and gone, and the Dept of Labor has my information. He took my selfie, which I submitted, and photographed my health insurance and Social Security cards since the site rejected my expired passport. I had to show them and my drivers license to an ID.me official who took another photo of me. He told me I would receive an emai shortly, if everything cleared.

[elmore3003]

I just received this email:
You're receiving this email because you verified your identity on a video call with an ID.me Trusted Referee on 04/07/2021 in order to access benefits and services at New York State Department of Labor.

So glad this megillah is over!

[ChasSmith]

OH MY GOD. That's a relief.

Why did all of that happen in the first place?

Did they put you through this when you made your original claims?

[ChasSmith]

That's lovely, DR ChasSmith.

And on a completely different note, or maybe not...

That's excellent, DR singdaw. Most excellent.

[singdaw]

Oh, DR elmore3003, I am so relieved. I am sure you are, too.  What a fraught situation to be in limbo.

[elmore3003]

OH MY GOD. That's a relief.

Why did all of that happen in the first place?

Did they put you through this when you made your original claims?

No, this whole ID.me thing is new. I suspect they decided to use it during last year to insure there was no fraud by verifying every applicant when the PUA began again.

[Matthew]

Good Morning.  It's a bright and chilly day.  I'll need to get out to the shops soon.  Mom is coming for tea on Friday and I need to get stuff for that. 

[Jane]

Good morning.

Leonard decided I should get up at 4 a.m.

"Sweet" cat

[Jane]

Today the landscapers are going to plant the replacement shrubs at the church. I have to have the plants there at 6:30 a.m. Maybe Leonard heard me talking about that and decided to help make sure I'm up on time.

So he really is a sweet cat

[Jane]

Arizona never had a mask mandate. Our governor refused to allow local governments to require masks until our numbers were out of control last summer. After he finally decided to allow local governments to make their own decisions, our numbers went way down. He recently signed an executive order saying local governments can no longer require masks.

From what I've seen, people still wear them when going into stores because the stores require them. But I still don't go into stores often.

I will be glad to get a haircut. I haven't had a haircut in over a year. But that will be a while yet.

I will never ever not understand not having a mask mandate inside of buildings.  I understand relaxing them a bit so people can eat or drink, but aside from that it is completely unnecessary. 

[Jane]

My hairdresser now covers my face with a towel, on top of my mask, when she washes my hair.  It is part of the salon's very careful safety precautions. 

[Jane]

This morning, my friend Carol is headed into surgery as they try again to give her an artificial hip. I hope this time everything goes well.

Vibes to your friend Carol.

[John G.]

Back when THE FIRM was coming out, the John Grisham books seemed to be all the rage as great "airplane reading" because they got you into the story and moved quickly, and of course there's always something compelling about legal goings-on -- as long as they're someone else's legal goings-on. And at the time, I was doing a fair amount of traveling for business, so I was the perfect target for these fast reads. (My other true favorites, though, were the lengthy Robert Ludlum novels, which I look forward to returning to sometime.)

So I had read THE FIRM, along with PELICAN BRIEF and a couple of other titles that escape me at the moment. And I remember liking the movie, but I also have a nagging memory that I felt I had been held in greater suspense while reading the book. But that often happens when film adaptations have to leave out detail that feeds the reader but not the viewer. Anyway, seeing the film in recent years, I've had an even greater appreciation for it. And yes, wonderful casting. I see this now and always wish Wilford Brimley had done more serious or bad-guy roles.

I liked the movie of The Firm better than the book. In the book, the attorney’s adultery isn’t caught and it ends with a “what a clever little boy I am” smugness that made me hate it. It was so repulsive to me that I flung the book across the room in disgust. I also threw the book away instead of donating it, because I really didn’t want anyone to read it again.

[John G.]

I’m passionate about books that way.

[John G.]

Thank you, all, for the vibes. I’m sure Carol will appreciate them.

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up - seven hours of sleep and 162%!!! All the first edition musicals have been spoken for now.

[vixmom]

So I tested negative for covid today

[vixmom]

My boss was out yesterday

[vixmom]

Today he called to say he tested positive and to ask us to get tested

[vixmom]

One of my co workers contacted the walk in place down the block and they said there was no line so the three of us who sit closest to his office went to get tested

[vixmom]

They we’re ok too

[John G.]

I did get some bad news this morning. Sandy Winokur, who owned an olive orchard south of town and invited me out for several Easters and Thanksgivings, died a couple of weeks ago. She had had several bouts of cancer. And I wonder if the stress from the freeze and snow got to her.

I bought my olive tree from her. Yesterday I was terribly afraid it died in the polar vortex, but I actually found a few new leaves yesterday. A genuine sign of resurrection.