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[bk]

I'll try for a nap later.

[Jane]

DR Singdaw,

[George]

A Very Happy Birthday to DR Singdaw!!

[George]

Going to a grief seminar at church this morning.

{ { { HUGS } } }

[Jane]

MMM vibes for MR BK.

I have a Humana Advantage Plan.

I get a $1000 Flex account each year - it doesn't roll over - it can be used for vision and dental  I also have $45 per month for groceries and $75 quarterly for OTC items like allergy pills, Poligrip!, vitamins, supplements, etc.  Well worth it.

That's great regarding groceries.  With our insurance we have a card for OTC items.

Do you need a referral from your primary to see an opthamologist?

[Jane]

Going to a grief seminar at church this morning.

{{{HUGS}}}

I hope it helps.

[Jane]

I have regular Medicare and AARP/UHC's Plan N supplemental. I probably don't have the bargain on this stuff like some of you with different plans. Premiums are higher than I'd like, and I have a couple of hundred bucks deductible every year. But I'm never asked for a co-pay, and everywhere I've gone thus far, they take this with no questions asked.

I didn't pay a dime for the cataract surgeries, but there's no routine vision and dental coverage, which is all too typical with regular policies that aren't Advantage plans.

Great price for your cataract surgeries.  I just paid $350 per eye to the hospital.

[Jane]

There was just a terrible commotion in the cage of the pair of keets.

Somehow the treat cup came off the cage wall and crashed to the floor.

It was pandemonium.

Oh my.

[Jane]

Saturday morning greetings!  I am now exactly halfway through my radiation treatments and very glad for a couple of days off.  This afternoon I’ll watch Michigan football on my iPad and a crafty event on my MacBook all while texting with my sister and niece on my iPhone.

Enjoy a relaxing weekend.

[Jane]

Our insurance, as most seem to these days, covers our membership at the gym for seniors.

[Jane]

Bruce, congrats on getting a doctor and everything settled with the insurance.

[George]

I see folks buying health care plans on the exchange with $8,000 and $9,000 deductibles, and I just think, "Yikes!" I mean, it would come in handy if something catastrophic happens, but otherwise...

Yikes is right!

[George]

Saturday morning greetings!  I am now exactly halfway through my radiation treatments and very glad for a couple of days off.  This afternoon I’ll watch Michigan football on my iPad and a crafty event on my MacBook all while texting with my sister and niece on my iPhone.

That's great about your radiation treatments, Ginny!

~~~Continued Treatment Vibes!!~~~

[John G.]

Happy birthday, Singdaw!

[singdaw]

Happy birthday, Singdaw!

Thank you so much, DR John G.!

[singdaw]

DR Singdaw,

Thanks, DR Jane!     

[singdaw]

A Very Happy Birthday to DR Singdaw!!

Why thank you, DR George!

[singdaw]

I'm feeling sluggish and may indulge in a nap.

[Jrand74]

DR JANE.....hmmmmmmm.....I just went to WalMart for new glasses.....I don't know about an opthalmologist.

[Jane]

Bruce, our Medicare Advantage plan includes dental.  It covers some of our regular check-ups and cleanings plus a certain amount every year towards crowns, etc.

[Jane]

Thanks DR Jrand.

[Jane]

I'm feeling sluggish and may indulge in a nap.

After your nap I hope you feel much better.

[elmore3003]

I went to watch that, and what happened? Something interrupted me. I'd better try again!

But yes, that "too fast and hard-driven" rings true. I can't name examples, but I know how different these things tend to sound these days. Anyhoo, a question for DR Elmore:

I don't know the scope of the project, but it sounds like y'all are researching/restoring the original score and parts, as before, but also making good transpositions for this production. Am I close?

We are not working for the new production; we have no contract with it. We are restoring as closely as possible - from what exists - the original orchestrations.  For instance, in a post DR slingshot made weeks ago, Jay Diaz, the MD for ther Lyric Theatre production in Texas, said the guitar was cut from Broadway in 1959 because of budget. Our research saus the guitar part was added to the score in 1974 (?) for the London Angela Lansbury production.

Joshie and Jason are certainly making the newly creaed materials available to the MD of the McDonald production.

[elmore3003]

I have been bemoaning the lousy direction over the past thirty years of operettas, particularly the Offenbach masterpieces. Last night I watched a 1982 production of La Perichole from Geneva, starring Maria Ewing, Neil Rosenshei, and Gabriel Bacquier, and directed by Jerome Savory. It was so wonderful!

U love Maria Ewing's Carmen, but she's quite charming as Perichole, and Nei Rosenshein was wone of the handsomest tenors of his time. He sang late in his career as a Metropolitan Opera second-stringer. He deserved much better.
Here's some bad video; mine is much clearer and sharper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN-Tn9RFSnY

[Ginny]

Thanks, DRs Jane and George!

[John G.]

More vibes for DR Ginny.

[John G.]

Up from a nap.

[John G.]

Revolutionary news, I know.

[John G.]

Let's revolve to another page.

[John G.]

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