Topic: THE NEED OF SLEEP (Read 6521 times)

singdaw · « **Reply #90 on:** June 25, 2024, 11:29:57 AM »

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Jane · « **Reply #91 on:** June 25, 2024, 11:54:25 AM »

Quote from: MichaelG on June 25, 2024, 11:06:05 AM

I think most of the pop from my youth is still around, particularly Vernors and Red Pop. You can't get Red Pop out here but Vernors is plentiful. I used to be a Tab fan but converted to Diet Coke when it came out. I haven't had any pop for many years though, when I decided I finally had to kick my Diet Coke habit.

Tab was the only diet drink I could tolerate, not that I enjoyed it.

Jane · « **Reply #92 on:** June 25, 2024, 11:55:28 AM »

Quote from: John G. on June 25, 2024, 11:17:54 AM

Quote from: MichaelG on June 25, 2024, 11:06:05 AM
I think most of the pop from my youth is still around, particularly Vernors and Red Pop. You can't get Red Pop out here but Vernors is plentiful. I used to be a Tab fan but converted to Diet Coke when it came out. I haven't had any pop for many years though, when I decided I finally had to kick my Diet Coke habit.

I liked Vernor’s. Haven’t had it in ages.

I never had Vernor's until we moved to Michigan. Once was enough

Keith likes it.

KevinH · « **Reply #93 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:07:46 PM »

Good afternoon!

KevinH · « **Reply #94 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:08:00 PM »

Wordle: 3/6

Jane · « **Reply #95 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:08:57 PM »

Nice Kevin.

John G. · « **Reply #96 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:09:55 PM »

I’m enjoying reading about the third Downton Abbey film.

John G. · « **Reply #97 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:10:58 PM »

Watching Bang, You’re Dead, the Bill Mumy episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #98 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:16:09 PM »

I grew up on Vernors (we didn't get it all that often, just an occasional thing) and I love it. I can't get it locally so I pick it up whenever I drive into the Midwest. That hasn't happened in a while, and the online costs are ridiculous.

BUT... it put me in mind of Chicago hot dogs, and 'tis the season, so I just found a good deal on Vienna brand sport peppers and Chicago relish, and ordered a supply of those.

bk · « **Reply #99 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:17:31 PM »

Back from a thoroughly disgusting morning.

bk · « **Reply #100 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:17:55 PM »

It began with she of the Evil Eye arriving thirty minutes early, just as my alarm went off.

bk · « **Reply #101 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:18:23 PM »

I'd decided to go to Uncle Bernie's for breakfast - hadn't been in ages. VERY VERY VERY bad decision.

bk · « **Reply #102 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:19:12 PM »

I am happy to say that I have never had a meltdown in public. Not once. I have had them occasionally in private. I had one this morning. Here's why.

bk · « **Reply #103 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:19:58 PM »

I'm on Ventura Blvd. heading toward Uncle Bernie's, a ten-minute drive at the end of Encino.

bk · « **Reply #104 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:21:31 PM »

At Kester, which is halfway between Van Nuys Blvd and Sepulveda, traffic is completely stopped and isn't moving an inch. Why? Who knows. If there is one thing that will set me on the road to an in the car meltdown it is that, as I'm far too claustrophobic to sit in a car that cannot move.

bk · « **Reply #105 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:22:45 PM »

I turn right onto Kester and head north to Burbank Blvd. - two miles out of my way. I get on Burbank. It's immediately a mess because traffic is backed up a few blocks before Sepulveda, but at least we're moving, slowly but surely.

bk · « **Reply #106 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:25:38 PM »

Finally get past Sepulveda and am zooming along. I pass the first major street, Woodley, go two blocks to find - Burbank Blvd. CLOSED but only on my side of the street. Now, I'm in fully blown meltdown mode, screaming to the high heavens. I do a U-turn and go back to Sepulveda and head south toward Ventura. I don't get fifty feet because traffic is backed up three MILES to Ventura. I pull another U-turn and head north to Victory, now six miles out of my way, all the time screaming that I should just turn around and go to Hugo's but am now determined that I get to Uncle Bernie's.

bk · « **Reply #107 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:27:48 PM »

I turn left on Victory and head to White Oak in Encino. I get four blocks and traffic is backed up a half mile. When I finally get to the signal ten minutes later, it's because there'd been an accident earlier and their towing the car - mind you, it is not blocking ANYTHING, but people being morons, they have to stop and look at the car being hooked up to the tow truck. By this time, I have almost no voice left and am ready to eat the head of a chicken.

bk · « **Reply #108 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:29:45 PM »

I finally get to White Oak. Clear sailing until Burbank Blvd, at which point we slow to a crawl because that's a popular on ramp. Finally pass that and am to Uncle Bernie's a minute or two later. Forty minutes for a ten-minute drive. For a minute, I thought about ordering the head of a chicken but opted for bacon and eggs instead. I had to repeat the order three times because I had almost no voice.

Jane · « **Reply #109 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:29:53 PM »

And you wonder why we don't visit LA very often.

bk · « **Reply #110 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:30:14 PM »

The good news about Uncle Bernie's was that it's ten bucks cheaper than Art's or Hugo's.

bk · « **Reply #111 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:32:55 PM »

Ninety minutes later, I head up White Oak to the freeway, which even at ten-thirty is at a crawl, so I to Burbank Blvd. and take that - the blocked part on the west lanes is now no longer blocked - of course, block it at rush hour and unblock it when nobody gives a crap. I stopped at Gelson's and got something for later - something I've never done before from Gelson's - we'll see how it comes out. I was going to have a small Caesar, but they don't have it anymore - they have the large Caesar which is now in the container that used to house the small Caesar. That's progress.

bk · « **Reply #112 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:33:16 PM »

Now I'm home, cooling down the house and trying to rest my voice.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #113 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:33:32 PM »

I followed along on Google maps.

Nightmare.

bk · « **Reply #114 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:34:20 PM »

No news about the book going to the printer. If I haven't heard anything by noon tomorrow, I will pull the book and have them remove it from Amazon and elsewhere, and I'll just do it myself.

Freddie · « **Reply #115 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:36:48 PM »

If you want a bright side, you could get some piece of entertainment out of this, maybe a film, maybe a one-act play - A Ten-Minute Drive in Forty Minutes.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #116 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:45:03 PM »

Quote from: Jane on June 25, 2024, 11:54:25 AM

Quote from: MichaelG on June 25, 2024, 11:06:05 AM
I think most of the pop from my youth is still around, particularly Vernors and Red Pop. You can't get Red Pop out here but Vernors is plentiful. I used to be a Tab fan but converted to Diet Coke when it came out. I haven't had any pop for many years though, when I decided I finally had to kick my Diet Coke habit.

Tab was the only diet drink I could tolerate, not that I enjoyed it.

I occasionally enjoyed a Tab. I had to be "in the mood" for one, but it happened.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #117 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:48:15 PM »

All right, everyone!!

Let's CONGA!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #118 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:53:45 PM »

Vibes for MR BK!

Jrand74 · « **Reply #119 on:** June 25, 2024, 12:56:05 PM »

There will be no streaming or recording because the actors are not miked.

In other bad news....my main computer is DEAD.

All of my inner web programs that I use for the theater are on it....and I can't do any work.

I am on the small computer.

I tried to use the APPLE but my fat fingers pressed some key combination and now I am typing in Russian if anyone knows how to remedy that.

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