Topic: MY KINGDOM FOR A MELODY (Read 4374 times)

bk · « **on:** August 28, 2021, 12:21:09 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes were melodic, and now it is time for you to post until the melodic cows come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** August 28, 2021, 12:22:12 AM »

And the word of the day is: CRUCIVERBALIST!

Smoke on your pipe and put that in.

George · « **Reply #2 on:** August 28, 2021, 12:28:38 AM »

Quote from: bk on August 28, 2021, 12:22:12 AM

And the word of the day is: CRUCIVERBALIST!

Gesundheit!

George · « **Reply #3 on:** August 28, 2021, 12:34:53 AM »

Topic of the Day:

Finding Dory
Finding Nemo
Private Benjamin

I think these are all the movies that he's been in that I've seen.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 28, 2021, 04:13:30 AM »

Good morning, all!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 28, 2021, 04:14:52 AM »

I should have begun the laundry by now, but I'm not moving yet. When the alarm rang this morning, I turned it off and went back to sleep for 45 minutes. The cats were not amused.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #6 on:** August 28, 2021, 04:24:07 AM »

Last night we watched the director's cut of The Creature Wasn't Nice. I enjoyed it and laughed quite a lot. I had seen Naked Space, which I did not care for at all, so I was pleasantly surprised by what the movie should have been.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #7 on:** August 28, 2021, 04:29:59 AM »

Die Meistersinger, Tannhauser, and The Flying Dutchman are the only Wagner operas I truly like, with Lohengrin and the Ring Cycle limping along. Except for The Flying Dutchman, which is nicely paced, they're al;l too damned long. I saw a wonderful ghostly and rather frightening production of the Dutchman at City Opera around 2003. It was really good.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #8 on:** August 28, 2021, 04:39:54 AM »

Benefit concert for my beloved Karla Burns:
https://www.kansas.com/entertainment/arts-culture/article253621683.html

elmore3003 · « **Reply #9 on:** August 28, 2021, 04:50:32 AM »

Today, in 2008 - it was a Thursday - after a summer of nausea, excessive urination, cramps, thirst, and too many x-rays, tests, scams, and other treatments from an idiot incompetent HMO "care practitioner" who should have been put to pasture years before, I learned that I was a diabetic. I had been to a birthday party the night before and several guests, upon hearing my symptoms, said "You're diabetic."

elmore3003 · « **Reply #10 on:** August 28, 2021, 04:54:07 AM »

So the next morning I made an appointment to see my incompetent doctor assigned by my HMO. I asked if I might be diabetic, and he tested my blood sugar level. He looked at the results, and after a long pause, he said, "You must go at once to an ER for insulin." I went home, sent an email to a lot of people about where I was going - I think I posted here, too - and took a bus to St Luke;s at 114th and Amsterdam, afraid I was dying.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #11 on:** August 28, 2021, 04:58:27 AM »

That was around 4:00. They immediately put me on an IV of insulin, and I was on IV's until just before midnight. Former DR Jose came up to stay with me and bought his new Smart Phone. To add insult to injury, my idiot doctor never answered his phone to the many calls the ER doctors made to him that night. I still believe the HMO finally sacked the bastard.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #12 on:** August 28, 2021, 06:12:03 AM »

Thinking back on that day thirteen years ago, I realized that was his third strike against me:
1. Spring 1999, I had balance problems and trouble with my right foot dragging. He put me through x-rays, scans, various tests all summer, and into autumn as I worsened and could no longer use my hands. He finally sent me in late October for an MRI, which discovered two crushed discs in my neck causing all my problems. I had surgery the first week of December, followed by six weeks of hand therapy and physical therapy.
2. In 2003, he misdiagnosed an abscess as a boil, lanced it, and put me on antibiotics. The antibiotics may have irritated the perianal abscess, which grew to the size of a tennis ball before blowing up in the middle of the night. I awoke covered in blood and other fluids. I had surgery to repair the damage twice in late 2003 and spring 2004.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #13 on:** August 28, 2021, 06:41:52 AM »

Wow! DR ELMORE!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #14 on:** August 28, 2021, 06:42:09 AM »

Maybe you should sing a chorus of "I'm Still Here."

Jrand74 · « **Reply #15 on:** August 28, 2021, 06:42:40 AM »

A little cooler here today.

Thanks DR VIXMOM - it was a nice birthday!

LOL DR TCB - time will tell......

elmore3003 · « **Reply #16 on:** August 28, 2021, 06:46:51 AM »

Quote from: Jrand71 on August 28, 2021, 06:42:09 AM

Maybe you should sing a chorus of "I'm Still Here."

We could make it a duet!

John G. · « **Reply #17 on:** August 28, 2021, 07:20:02 AM »

Good morning, all.

John G. · « **Reply #18 on:** August 28, 2021, 07:20:21 AM »

Wow, Elmore. Just wow.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #19 on:** August 28, 2021, 07:22:41 AM »

Good morning, all.

singdaw · « **Reply #20 on:** August 28, 2021, 07:23:10 AM »

Good morning, friends.

singdaw · « **Reply #21 on:** August 28, 2021, 07:24:10 AM »

I am still doing Noom. As of this morning, I am down 61 pounds.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #22 on:** August 28, 2021, 07:24:28 AM »

Holy... um, cow, DR Elmore. I never heard or knew about any of that. Of course I wasn't here back in those years either. But that is one HELL of a scary story.

singdaw · « **Reply #23 on:** August 28, 2021, 07:25:05 AM »

It is supposed to be stormy here this afternoon.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #24 on:** August 28, 2021, 07:25:18 AM »

Incredible, DR singdaw. Absolutely incredible. Congratulations.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #25 on:** August 28, 2021, 07:25:46 AM »

It is SO DAMNED NICE having "normal" weather back today. Totally comfortable.

singdaw · « **Reply #26 on:** August 28, 2021, 07:26:05 AM »

That's a pretty scary list, DR elmore3003.

singdaw · « **Reply #27 on:** August 28, 2021, 07:26:51 AM »

Thanks, DR ChasSmith! A long ways to go yet.

singdaw · « **Reply #28 on:** August 28, 2021, 07:34:14 AM »

ChasSmith · « **Reply #29 on:** August 28, 2021, 07:39:10 AM »

My one experience with Die Meistersinger is seeing the Met's production in - I think - the early or mid-1990s. Incredible stage design, and incredible singing and orchestra. Unfortunately, I didn't know it until about 30 minutes into the first act, but I was coming down with a head cold and began feeling sniffly and drowsy. During the second act I literally began dozing off, and while I was blown away by what I was hearing and seeing, I knew I wouldn't make it through the third. I sheepishly gave it up and didn't finish the marathon. But that music is outta sight.

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