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[singdaw]

PAGE TWO!!

[Ron Pulliam]

And so it goes...

[John G.]

Good morning, all.

[John G.]

Best wishes, Singdaw, on your expanded work force.

[Ron Pulliam]

I could also go for some peanut butter fudge if it's made the way I like it.

My mother made the best I've ever had.

She followed the fudge recipe on the Nestle's Cocoa Powder can but added a tablespoon or so of peanut butter at the end.  It helped set the fudge more quickly and the taste was just out of this world. 

I've seen peanut butter fudge that has no chocolate in it, and I have to say, "What is up with THAT"? 

Did any of you know that "white chocolate' has no chocolate in it?  White chocolate is a by-product of cacao beans, using whatever oils are removed during the processing of cacao to create the so-called "white" chocolate.

[Ron Pulliam]

Best wishes, Singdaw, on your expanded work force.

Yes, doubling in size sounds terrific.  But...does the workload double in size? 

[John G.]

Had a weird dream that I had been asked to conduct the first rehearsal of a Brahms symphony. It was to be broadcast. Someone stole my copy of the score, and I was under prepared. It was a disaster. Only the oboes sounded good. The regular conductor quit. I finally got the score and went to work, section by section. Then the oboes started to get mad. Somehow, while it was coming together, it was discovered that the oboes players,who apparently lived together on a farm, had started growing porcini mushrooms and were now able to finance the orchestra.

[John G.]

George, great story about meeting Merrily. I, too, miss our Tom.

[Ron Pulliam]

Responding to DR Freddie's quiery last night:

Alas!  I was never young enough to mishear the lyrics in "Mame". 

I was a senior in high school when it opened.  But, being in the south, I was very familiar with bougainvillea.

[Freddie]

Oh, my goodness!  I can't believe that I forgot to mention this!  When I worked concessions on Sunday for Olympia Symphony Orchestra's Orchestra Games, I worked with a new concessionaire named Merrily.  We got to chatting and I talked about the play I just SMed, and she mentioned that her cousin Tom Birkeland used to do plays before he died!  I said that I'd known Tom for many years and then we chatted about him for a little while!

That's such a lovely chance meeting!

[Freddie]

I forgot to mention how much joy DR John G.'s photos of his garden brought me last night. Thank you.

Yes, such beautiful photos!

[John G.]

I forgot to mention how much joy DR John G.'s photos of his garden brought me last night. Thank you.

Yes, such beautiful photos!

I am taken with that blue every time I look out the back door.

[Freddie]

Responding to DR Freddie's quiery last night:

Alas!  I was never young enough to mishear the lyrics in "Mame". 

I was a senior in high school when it opened.  But, being in the south, I was very familiar with bougainvillea.

Thanks for answering that, Ron!

[Freddie]

Responding to DR Freddie's quiery last night:

Alas!  I was never young enough to mishear the lyrics in "Mame". 

I was a senior in high school when it opened.  But, being in the south, I was very familiar with bougainvillea.

Thanks for answering that, Ron!

And back then, there was no google and no wikipedia to look such things up.  We just had the encyclopedias and dictionaries, but you usually had to spell things right to find those really useful.

[Ron Pulliam]

Responding to DR Freddie's quiery last night:

Alas!  I was never young enough to mishear the lyrics in "Mame". 

I was a senior in high school when it opened.  But, being in the south, I was very familiar with bougainvillea.

Thanks for answering that, Ron!

And back then, there was no google and no wikipedia to look such things up.  We just had the encyclopedias and dictionaries, but you usually had to spell things right to find those really useful.

Again, being from the south...and loving the film "Auntie Mame"...I was often exposed to exaggerations like "hissy fits" and "busting a gut", etc.    And who could forget "black-eyed peas and our grits"?

[Freddie]

Responding to DR Freddie's quiery last night:

Alas!  I was never young enough to mishear the lyrics in "Mame". 

I was a senior in high school when it opened.  But, being in the south, I was very familiar with bougainvillea.

Thanks for answering that, Ron!

And back then, there was no google and no wikipedia to look such things up.  We just had the encyclopedias and dictionaries, but you usually had to spell things right to find those really useful.

Again, being from the south...and loving the film "Auntie Mame"...I was often exposed to exaggerations like "hissy fits" and "busting a gut", etc.    And who could forget "black-eyed peas and our grits"?

Until I got the script from the library, I thought it was "black-eyed peas in our grits"


And I can't imagine I knew what they were doing at the Ritz in "Seem like the bill of fare at the Ritz"

[Freddie]

Maybe I thought it was "seem like a big old fair at the Ritz"

[ChasSmith]

I'm upstairs, eating a plain bagel lightly toasted with cream cheese, drinking a cup of Joe, and listening to the noisy sounds of sheetrock being cut out of the living room ceiling (where there had been water damage). There's plastic sheeting everywhere to protect everything as best possible from the dust.

[ChasSmith]

The plain bagel is boring, and I didn't even sprinkle any Everything seasoning on it. It'll fill the pie hole - nothing more, nothing less.

[ChasSmith]

Actually, I think it's a day past its prime. Pretty blah.

[Laura]

Good morning.

[Laura]

I saw on the news there is a huge storm hitting the northwest. Has anyone heard from Jane and George?

[Laura]

I'm glad my conference in Sacramento was not this week.

[John G.]

The reviews for Swept Away were not great. Tammy Faye is closing. Not a great fall for Broadway.

[John G.]

Blood test this morning. Ugh.

[Ginny]

Wednesday morning greetings!  It was very foggy earlier and now it’s rainy, windy, and cold.

[Jrand74]

Wind and rain for the rest of the day.

Cooler tomorrow with snow predicted for the afternoon.

[Ginny]

Six months ago my niece Lauren sent me the “Wicked” trailer and said, “Promise you’ll be sitting next to me!”  She and I both have had enough health issues since then to make me skeptical that would ever happen.  But, later this afternoon I’m picking up her son after school and Lauren’s coming from work to meet up for dinner and a 6:30 screening!

[Freddie]

The reviews for Swept Away were not great. Tammy Faye is closing. Not a great fall for Broadway.

Jesse Green in the Times called "Swept Away" a "Critic's Pick" though.

[Freddie]

Six months ago my niece Lauren sent me the “Wicked” trailer and said, “Promise you’ll be sitting next to me!”  She and I both have had enough health issues since then to make me skeptical that would ever happen.  But, later this afternoon I’m picking up her son after school and Lauren’s coming from work to meet up for dinner and a 6:30 screening!

That's terrific!