Well, dear readers, thankfully we had no problems with either notes or the board today, in terms of loading. We are fully loaded and ready for bear or a least ready for bare. I personally am fully loaded and ready for hair, but that’s another story. Not much to tell other than what there is to tell, which, by the way, isn’t much. Oh, I could tell you I got almost eight hours of sleep. I could tell you I got up, answered e-mails, then had garlic chicken pasta with broccoli, red onions, and cashews from Stanley’s – filling and very tasty. I could tell you that for the first two hours of trying to sleep that my hands were cramping so badly that I wanted to choke the living daylights out of some pickle and pimento loaf. I could tell you I dozed off for ninety minutes, I could tell you that Muse Margaret called and we went over the thirteen fixes I had questions about and we did five of them – the rest we didn’t touch for one reason or another. I could tell you I moseyed on over to the theater, I could tell you I stayed for the show because the audience of twenty-five were very vocal in their enjoyment, although the show itself played well it was way too sloppy for my taste, with too much fumfering, ography that was “off,” and so after the show I gave some tough love about all that. Our skeleton didn’t work as it should have, so we have to get that fixed before today’s matinee, I could tell you I came right home and had a bagel mit cream cheese, and finally, I could tell you that I am sitting here like so much fish, listening to the music of one H.K. Gruber – his piano – I found it very appealing in its jazzy sort of way. Now playing is his Short Stories from the Vienna Woods. The latter reminds me a little of Kurt Weill, so that’s good. I think I’ve covered everything of interest. I don’t think I uncovered anything else of interest.

Today, I’ll be up by eleven at the latest, I’ll do whatever needs doing, I’ll be on my way to the theater, I’ll do the pre-show speech, and if it’s a nice vocal audience I’ll stay and then go out to eat after the show. Then I’ll come home and watch, listen, and relax.

Tomorrow and this week will be book stuff – second proofing, getting blurbers, getting it to the designer, then doing a set of liner notes and prepping our next foreign cast album release – found some really fun extras for it, too. Along the way, there’ll be some meetings and meals and then come Friday it’s the last three shows for The Altruist.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up by eleven at the latest, do whatever needs doing, be on my way to the theater, do the pre-show speech, watch the show, have some dinner, then come home and watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s free-for-all day, the day in which you dear readers make with the topics and we all get to post about them. So, let’s have loads of lovely topics and loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to be fully loaded and ready for hair, bear, bare.