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[bk]

Well, you've read the notes, the notes want a feel-good day, and now it is time for you to post until the feel-good cows come home.

[bk]

And the word of the day is: MNEMONIC!

[bk]

That's a good word for dear reader George.

[George]

I copied this last night before BK locked the day:

The more you run, George, the more secure you'll be. It's one of the reasons I get shows up on their feet in four or five days, so that we always run the show from that point on.

I totally get that.  When I've gone through my lines by myself, I have few bumps, but the first run after the cue-to-cue is always is a problem for me, even when I know that I know the lines.

[George]

That's a good word for dear reader George.

Definitely.

[elmore3003]

Good morning, all!

[elmore3003]

I slept rather well. I called our building maintenance first thing yesterday morning and asked for help with hte radiator. Around 11:30, the super arrived, fiddled with things for around 10 minutes and told me it was off. Sure enough, it was, and will most likely remain so uintil January or so when the chill finally reaches this apartment, which has always remained comfortable while my neighbor screams about the cold.

[elmore3003]

Then, yesterday afternoon, following an email to Andy Marlette and cc'd to the potential publisher of Annabelle & Thatch, all hell broke loose. The brouhaha extended from a book I'd written to what I was doing at the time - cleaning my dishes and the cats - and I had a complete meltdown over everything: the apartment clutter I can no longer control because of my health, the property sale for next to nothing, cataracts and Access-a-Ride, too little counter space in the kitchen, and I ended up on the floor of the foyer screaming at the cosmos and crying in frustration.

It wasn't pretty

[elmore3003]

When I calmed down, I dragged myself to my feet, finished cleaning the dishes and cleaning up the kitchen. I posted here and then dragged everything out of my storage area and spent twentry minutes or or so tidying up as much as possible.

[elmore3003]

By then I had an email from the publisher that led to a rather heated exchange. At 5:00, before I gave the cats their nightly treat and lay down. I opened my laptop and there was an email from the publisher asking for the latest draft of A &T, so I got up, turned on the computer, gave the cats their treats, and went back to the computer. I opened the latest copy of the book, and started reading through it. Around 5:30 my neighbor Ann showed up to pick up something I had for her. She brought me two muffins from Zabar's. We visited for around 30 minutes, and when she left, I sent the latest draft to the publisher, shut down the computer, and lay down down again. It was around 6:45, and I posted here, ashut down the laptop, and settled in with the cats.

[elmore3003]

Today, around noon o'clock, Access-a-Ride will take me hopefully to my doctor for my pre-surgery clearance for next Monday. Until then, I have an Interlude to orchestrate.

[vixmom]

Vibes, vibes and more vibes for Elmore

[vixmom]

Line vibes for George

[vixmom]

Wellness vibes for BK

[vixmom]

Wordle time

[vixmom]

Wordle 479 1/6

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[vixmom]

Goodness

[singdaw]

Good morning, friends.

[singdaw]

~~~CONTINUED PAIN MANAGEMENT VIBES~~~ for DR TCB!!!!

[singdaw]

~~~CONTINUED COPING VIBES~~~ for DR elmore3003!!!!!!!

[singdaw]

~~~CONTINUED LINE VIBES~~~ for DR George!!!!!!!!!!!

[singdaw]

~~~CONTINUED DO-NOT-GET-SICK VIBES~~~ for BK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[singdaw]

TOD: Used quite a few of the delivery services early in the pandemic. Even for grocery shopping. By and large it worked fine. A few times I had an incorrect order, such as items missing.

Lately, though, these services seem to have become more expensive. The added surcharges, taxes, and fees have become somewhat eye-popping.

[John G.]

Vibes, vibes and more vibes for Elmore

Amen to that.

[John G.]

Wordle 479 1/6

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Wow!

[elmore3003]

I use Seamless, which is a GrubHub subsidiary, on occasion, but what I hate is the fact that if I pay for $20 worth of food, I have to pay with service fee, tip and tax around $33.00 or more. Most of my deeliveries are Instacart deliveries from airway and Zabar's, and that generally incresases the cost by around 33%.

[ChasSmith]

Good morning, all.

[ChasSmith]

Vibes to all this morning.

[ChasSmith]

And yes, a few actual feel-good days would be wonderful. Life is hectic and stressful at the moment, at least in this corner, and some relief would be most welcome.

[ChasSmith]

TOD

I've never used any of these services. I haven’t even had anything delivered in the old conventional sense, such as pizza, in many years. In the Before Times, we were often just outside of some places' regular delivery range, and it could be a bit tricky finding the address anyway, so we got used to picking things up ourselves.

Those considerations are more or less a thing of the past these days. But even when this stuff  took off with the onset of the pandemic, it didn't quite make sense even then to trust that everything would go right, or that the costs wouldn't be ridiculous, and we just never bothered.