Well, dear readers, I am sitting here using my mobile hot spot – that sounds dirty, doesn’t it – because at two in the morning the Internet went down and out. I called Spectrum immediately and the voice message confirmed it was an outage and their ETA for it to be back up was six-thirty in the morning. I was up at six in the morning, the Internet was not. I went back to sleep and got up at nine. It was still down and out. I called Spectrum and got a human on the phone, a nice lady, and she confirmed that the outage had no ETA and confidentially told me it was a fiber cut. I have no idea what that meant but she told me it wasn’t good. So, I had to begin using my mobile hot spot so I could work on the computer and be online. And here we are, twenty-two HOURS later and until one minute ago, it was still out. I just looked over at the router and it had finally, mercifully turned blue. Concurrent with that, I received an e-mail saying I’d used all my high-speed time up on the hot spot and they would be reducing the speed. Let me tell you how they will NOT be doing that. They are getting a nice phone call from me in the morning, and we’ll figure out how much I’ll be credited for the twenty-two hours because if I used that much offline service, they charge you a lot. They will be charging me zero. Anyway, I’m just glad it’s up finally. I was so irritated that it was still down after I watched my movie, that I wanted pie. Yes, you heard it here dear readers, I wanted some damn pie. But you know what the damn problem is with damn pie? No one has pie anymore. I went to DoorDash and typed in pie and do you know what came up? House of Pies. They must have just added it because I have never seen House of Pies on DoorDash. This was great news and I ordered a slice of custard pie and a slice of butterscotch pie for dessert today. But I love everything at the House of Pies, so I’m going to order from there tomorrow – perhaps broasted chicken, perhaps a chef salad or perhaps a fun sandwich of some sort. The pie got here in thirty minutes. Speedy pie, that’s what we like. Oh, and my Darling Daughter did text me a Happy Father’s Day wish.
I did manage to watch a movie last night, on Blu-ray – Hatari, starring John Wayne, Red Buttons, Hardy Kruger, Elsa Martinelli, and a LOT of animals. It’s a typical Howard Hawks movie, wherein characters have names like Pockets and Dallas. I saw it when it came out – and have always thought I saw it at the Vogue in Hollywood. But I can find no listing for it at that theater ever. Which means I must have seen it across the street during its exclusive engagement at the Egyptian Theater. I did enjoy it back then, especially Mr. Henry Mancini’s music. Watching it now, it’s just such an oddly structured and almost plotless movie that goes on for a whopping two hours and thirty-nine minutes. The chasing animals footage is exciting and then we get endless scenes between them. There are a few fun sequences like the Baby Elephant Walk scene. There was a Blu-ray release several years ago that contained one of the worst transfers ever done. I’m happy to say that this new Blu-ray is from the original camera negative and it looks great, has perfect color, and probably looks better than it did in the theater. And finally, router with a lovely blue light rather than the ugly red light that last twenty-two HOURS, I am calm.
Today will hopefully be better than yesterday. I’ll be up by eleven at the latest, I have a LOT to futz and finesse, I’ll try to write some new pages, then at two Richard Allen comes and we’ll run through all the songs for the Kritzerland show – shouldn’t take more than forty minutes. Then you already know I will place an order for House of Pies to come to the House of Me. I’ll eat, and then I’ll write more pages – my goal being twelve to fourteen. Things get a bit easier in this upcoming section so I should be able to move along. Then at some point I’ll watch, listen, and relax.
The rest of the week is busy, writing commentary as soon as I do a show order, I do a blood draw on Wednesday and once that result comes back then I can make an appointment with a specialist about things that go bump in the night, I’ll hopefully get Muse Margaret pages on Wednesday, I’ll continue to pray for a desperately needed modern major miracle, we have our first Kritzerland rehearsal on Thursday, our second on Saturday, stumble-through on Monday and sound check and show on Tuesday.
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, futz and finesse, write new pages, have a work session, eat, write more pages, then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: What did we all do before the Internet become a thing? How did we communicate, how did we keep in touch, how did we actually converse with and see people? Did you like life pre or post Internet? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy that the outrage of the twenty-two hour outage is finally over.