Well, dear readers, it is late and so I must write these here notes in a hurry as I wish to get another twenty pages or so of the new book proofed, due to yesterday being an abbreviated day – or an abbr dy. It was an abbreviated day because I got to bed late, got up at seven, went back to bed at nine, and didn’t wake up until 12:45, just as food was arriving. I’d pre-ordered using a 40% off coupon – ordered a wedge salad with lots of 1000-Island on the side, a shrimp cocktail, and the half order of garlic cheese bread from the Smoke House. What arrived was a wedge salad with one small thing of bleu cheese dressing, a full order of garlic cheese bread and no shrimp cocktail. Trying to get a usable refund on Postmates was not possible on the computer. I had to use the app, which is endlessly confusing, but I finally got it to apply the credit on a new order of those same items. I spoke to the manager of the Smoke House and she apologized – they’d had two orders come in for a wedge and she put the wrong order in my bag. She said she’d make sure the new one was correct, which she did. I gave the wrong one to Lydia Geissman next door, along with the full order of garlic cheese bread. As I was handing it to her, the bleu cheese dressing came out of the bag and fell to the floor, losing some of its contents on the floor, and let me tell you how happy that did NOT make me. I had to clean that smelly mess up off the floor and the wall next to the door and the door handle. Most irritating. My order finally got there, and it was excellent. I couldn’t eat all of the garlic cheese bread – left two pieces. I spent a good portion of the rest of the day and evening proofing the book – about seventy pages so far – just cleaning up typos, some punctuation, some extraneous words – that sort of thing. I took a break at seven and sat on my couch like so much fish and started to watch some irritating YouTube videos but dozed right off for a couple of hours. I proofed some more, needed a sweet and got a mixed berry slice of cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory, but I didn’t care for it much, although that didn’t stop me from finishing it. That was pretty much it for the day and evening.

Today, I’ll try to be up by ten and proof away, then in the afternoon I’ll shave and shower and then stop at the mail place to see what’s what, then I’ll mosey on over to the theater to do the pre-show announcement – I’m told that it’s the usual light Friday evening, so I probably won’t stay. I may watch the opening then leave. Then I’ll come home and proof for another couple of hours.

Tomorrow is more of the same, the pre-show thing, and I’ll decide if I’m watching or not. Sunday is a matinee, which is usually full, but this is Stupid Bowl Sunday, so who knows. I probably will watch the show then go out for a nice meal somewhere. Then next week I can have a bit of a break while the two proofers proof away, but then I have to organize the recording session and do a few other things that need doing.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, try to be up by ten, proof away, maybe eat something light, shave and shower, stop at the mail place, mosey on over to the theater, do the pre-curtain speech, and then, most likely, come home and proof some more and hopefully finish proofing, which is my goal. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/Blu and Ray/streaming player? I’ll start – CD, The Kurt Weill Album on Deutsche Grammophon (I’ll have more to say about the album title when I’ve heard the CD). Streaming, maybe this Merrily We Roll Along video. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, as I continue to merrily proof along.