Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on November 18, 2016, 12:05:05 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were breaking and had news, and it is now time for you to post until the breaking cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: LAMBENT!
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Tom, Happy (belated) Birthday to your niece!
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Thank you, George.
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Here is the story about my great nephew.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/crime/article115368008.html#1
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good morning to all.
And I am NOT on the west coast.
Just trouble sleeping
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Well, my Physician in Spite of Himself rehearsal went well last night. Except...I got there at the call time of 7:00 pm, but since two actors with larger roles than mine weren't there (scheduled conflicts), we worked several random scenes rather than the whole show. Which meant that we didn't get to the one scene that I'm in until 9:45 pm...15 minutes before the end of the rehearsal. Oh, well. It was a fun evening, otherwise.
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Also, I stayed after and helped pug (our director) put slides into the sound/projector program for tomorrow and Saturday's WORDS, WORDS, WORDS: Hans Christian Andersen readings. I'm reading "The Goblin and the Grocer" and "The Princess on the Pea." We had no rehearsal or even a read-through for that, at all. We're all just going to be winging it! It'll be fun, though. ;D
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Here's what's left from yesterday's list of stuff I'm getting rid of - some really top-notch music here.
Malcolm Arnold conducts his Symphony 1, Concerto for Two Pianos, and Tam O'Shanter and more - $5
Sibelius - The Symphonies (3 CDs) - Lorin Maazel all seven in really good sound. Not my fave conductor, but they're good. $10
Sibelius - Symphonies 1 and 5 Ormandy and Bernstein - great CD. $3
Sibelius - Symphony 7 and more Beecham great performances $4
Mahler - Symphony 5 Barbirolli - Many people's favorite version. $5
Mahler - Symphony 2 Klemperer/Schwarzkoff - $4
Mahler - Symphonies 1 and adagio from 10 - Mehta and Szell - really fine. $4
Mahler - Symphony 6 Szell - great performance okay sound - $4
Rachmaninov - Symphony 2 (my favorite) Ormandy (with Scriabin Poem of Ecstasy - this is his later version on RCA) $4
William Walton, John Ireland, Frank Bridge - Piano Concertos - $4
Randall Thompson - Symphonies 2 and 3 - Andrew Schenk - $5
Randall Thompson - choral works The Testament of Freedom/Frostiana $4
Shostakovich - Bernstein/Previn and Ormandy - Piano Concerto/Cello Concerto $5
Shostakovich/Prokofiev - Violin Concerto Oistrakh $4
Prokofiev/Saint-Saens/Britten - Peter and the Wolf, Carnival of the Animals, Young Person's Guide - $4
Vaughan Williams - Job and Partita Boult $4
Vaughan Williams - Job and Variations for Orchestra Hickox $4
William Alwyn The Chandos Collection Five Symphonies and other great stuff (7 CDs at an amazing price) $30
Howard Hanson The Delos Collection Gerard Schwartz Seven Symphonies and other great stuff (5 CDs at an amazing price) $20
John Alden Carpenter Adventures in a Perambulator/Two Symphonies great stuff $4
Arthur Bliss A Colour Symphony/Metamorphic Variations Wordsworth $4
Arthur Bliss Pastoral/Music for Strings Hickox $4
Gerald Finzi Cello Concerto (plus a Kenneth Leighton piece) $4
and now - drum roll - the Dave Brubeck Collection
Japanese imports - mini-LPs all with their OBI strips. You will never find these at these prices - these can go as high as $40 each or more
Angel Eyes $10
Bossa Nova USA $10
Time Out $10
Brubeck Time $10
These next are regular CD jewel cases - some domestic, some import
Take Five (Japanese compilation with all classics) $5
Time Changes $4
Jazz Impressions of the USA $4
Time Further Out (Japanese Import) $5
Time In (French Import) $5
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Well, I'm off to bed.
Good night, Tom.
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Good night, George.
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Good morning, all.
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Good morning, all!
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BK - that Stokowski is also sold, unless you had more than one copy. :)
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I slept very poorly. My body ached from Gurjeet's pummeling yesterday. Finally, around 5:00, I dragged out the heating pad for my knee and lower thigh. It was a great success.
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I have to go to City Center this morning, so we'll see how that goes with my current round of pains.
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My lower back pain started easing up yesterday evening, and for the most part I slept okay --
EXCEPT for the ABSURD dream in which I was trying to look at and rent or buy this apartment, or maybe it was a little house, in Miami Beach, involving the help of some cops, a lot of driving around the area in circles, and later stuff that makes even less sense than what I've posted so far. I shall stop right here and begin the exorcism process.
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TOD:
I was sent a review copy of HANDS OF STONE, a boxing film with Robert DeNiro. Will probably watch this weekend.
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Good news from DR METAL MOUTH.....I mean DR VIXMOM
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New boss vibes for DR JOHNG.
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That is a sad and shocking story DR TCB.
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Lunch vibes for MR BK & DR JEANNE.
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Bombshell tonight!
It is Friday!
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Here's my therapist Gurjeet and his staff last Christmas. From the left, Lisa. Gurjeet (standing), Dipika (kneeling), Jen, Bart, Morgan (who got me walking again in 2013-2014), and Denisse. Morgan's husband is an attorney and they have moved to Texas. I miss her.
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Good morning.
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Here is the story about my great nephew.
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/crime/article115368008.html#19
Your poor niece and family. At least she had a nice celebration the night before. How is her health?
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My lower back pain started easing up yesterday evening, and for the most part I slept okay --
EXCEPT for the ABSURD dream in which I was trying to look at and rent or buy this apartment, or maybe it was a little house, in Miami Beach, involving the help of some cops, a lot of driving around the area in circles, and later stuff that makes even less sense than what I've posted so far. I shall stop right here and begin the exorcism process.
😆
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TCB - so sorry to read your family's news.
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I had some computer problems this morning, but they appear to be resolved.
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Friday
morning afternoon greetings! Where did the morning go?
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Because we have high temps forecast in the 70s today and in the 40s tomorrow, Richard has installed our downstairs storm windows today.
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DR TCB, I'm so sorry for the strife in your niece's family...
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Home from City Center. The walking is better today, and I'll credit the painful massage yesterday and the exercises for that.
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I'm up, I'm up - been up since ten - six hours of sleep. Helper came by to get stuff and I had to get ready for lunch - still have to shower, though. I'll leave at eleven-thirty. I've been staying up till three every night - can't do that anymore, must have discipline. I listened to the first half of Vanessa, Samuel Barber's opera. Some consider it THE greatest American opera. I'm certainly enjoying it but it will take more than one listening for me - right now, I still prefer The Crucible by Ward.
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And then I'm revisiting whatever Menotti I've got in the closet if I can find it.
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DR John G, this is the Stratford Festival DVD of The Tempest that I own.
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In preparation for our early Thanksgiving feast, I've just put 2 pumpkin pies in the oven. The house will smell real good, real soon...
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Because we have high temps forecast in the 70s today and in the 40s tomorrow, Richard has installed our downstairs storm windows today.
Good idea.
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Home from City Center. The walking is better today, and I'll credit the painful massage yesterday and the exercises for that.
May each day be better!
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Glad you are walking easier, Elmore. Too bad you had to suffer so much to make progress.
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Bruce, regarding "BREAKING NEWS!" :D ;D :D ;D
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Pies are done and they're beautiful!
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Pies are done and they're beautiful!
DR Ginny, I just got your package in today's post. Thanks so much!
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You're welcome, DR Elmore!
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It is very, very windy here.
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Back from a delightfully delightful lunch with dear reader Jeanne. Many interesting topics were discussed.
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:)
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Page two? Really?
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i kind of enjoy when CNN does its BREAKING NEWS banner (and the music) with a story over an hour after I had read it elsewhere online.
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Listening to Andre Previn's violin concerto - it's very nice - and listening on new speakers for the computer. I'd grown weary of my Harmon Kardon sound sticks with the huge subwoofer on the floor under the kitchen table. They were very good for the last five years but I felt since I've been listening to so much music I may as well hear it in as good a sound as possible. Interestingly, prior to turning the new ones on I heard for the first time the actual iMac speakers and they're not half bad - they used to be awful. But these babies that I just got are very sweet - I think all speakers need a break-in period, and I'd read that these might need little inexpensive little wood lifts to tilt the tweeter more towards ear level - those are on their way just in case I need them. There's a model above what I got but they're bigger and I didn't want to take up that much real estate on the table - they would have required actually moving the computer screen a bit to the left. I used an Amazon gift card I'd been given a while back that I'd completely forgotten I had.
I turned them on and the sound is so much warmer than the HK sticks. It does take some getting used to because my ears are accustomed to the high end sound of the sticks. Even with the subwoofer there was rarely any low end. These have a nice bottom and I think when the tweeters are tilted up slightly the highs and mids will be a little more open. But this Previn sounds amazing, actually. And you get a lot more power out of these puppies than the sticks.
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BK is only 45 posts from 87000. Will that count as a millstone?
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Someone on All That Chat put up a post referring to a post on Broadway World which was a dissection of All that Chat. Then the Broadway World posters referred back to the All That Chat post which is about Broadway World. I used to assume these were a lot of the same people posting in both places, but I guess I was wrong.
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BK is only 45 posts from 87000. Will that count as a millstone?
Of course!
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Well, I must be off. I'm going to the theater to help clean it up before tonight's first performance of two of "WORDS, WORDS, WORDS: Hans Christian Andersen." It's the latest in our series of spoken word works around a specific author or subject. Tonight's author is...drum roll...Hans Christian Andersen. :) I'm reading "The Princess on the Pea" and "The Goblin and the Grocer." It'll be fun!
Be back later.
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Break a leg, George!
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Hello, everyone.
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Yes, BK and I had a most interesting lunch today. I hope there'll be an encore.
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I'm listening to the Sherman Bros. I do love SIR PUSS-IN-BOOTS.
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Welcome to the DR John G imposter!
You're John G's cousin, right? Younger and 30 pounds lighter. Same interests.
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I'm pleased to hear that Vixmom's implants are working out well. Vibes that this continues.
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Larry, I very familiar with the pain during and after therapy. I'm pleased that you're starting to see progress and hope it continues. May the pain soon diminish and the progress accelerate.
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Congrats to DR Laura on her holiday reprieve for her dental work.
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MEGA VIBES to TCB and family!
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Vibes to all for good health and prosperity!
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Last night I watched the first episode of DEEP WATER, an Australian series. Not bad, but it may be one of those shows that has a slowish start.
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i gotta tell you.
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Lisening to the Naxos recording of the two Barber Symphonies - much better than any other I had - so, a keeper.
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TTFN.
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Listened to Mars with Previn - performance is fine but sound is not to my liking and this is some high end mastering thing - I actually can't believe it sounded so muffled but it does. So, Steinberg remains it although I'll listen to the rest of the Previn. Also uploaded the Colin Davis Sibelius and listened to a bit of one and two, which I also have with Ormandy and it's no contest for those - the Ormandy wins hands down. But I do like his performances better than Maazel. Wish the sound were a bit more immediate.
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Well, I must be off. I'm going to the theater to help clean it up before tonight's first performance of two of "WORDS, WORDS, WORDS: Hans Christian Andersen." It's the latest in our series of spoken word works around a specific author or subject. Tonight's author is...drum roll...Hans Christian Andersen. :) I'm reading "The Princess on the Pea" and "The Goblin and the Grocer." It'll be fun!
Be back later.
I always identified with the Princess who could feel that darn pea.
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Last night I watched the first episode of DEEP WATER, an Australian series. Not bad, but it may be one of those shows that has a slowish start.
Please let me know if it improves.
We have three episodes of A PLACE TO CALL HOME and then we will be finished with season three, in plenty of time for the beginning of season four.
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Page three? REALLY?
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Wish I felt like jogging but I just don't.
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I don't feel like jogging.
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I just don't.
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Feel like jogging.
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I will say that once again I confirm that Genghis Cohen's lunch chef is just not anywhere near the evening chef. It was still good, but not euphoric and I expect euphoria from my Genghis Cohen.
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Found most of the Menotti easily - there's one I can't get to because it's under Barber but I'm surprised I didn't pull it out when getting the Barber stuff out.
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Where in tarnation IS everyone?
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Can I make thirty-five more posts this evening.
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That is the question.
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I'm enjoying Mr. Menotti.
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Breaking news - no jog tonight.
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Breaking News - of course that could change.
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I will say that once again I confirm that Genghis Cohen's lunch chef is just not anywhere near the evening chef. It was still good, but not euphoric and I expect euphoria from my Genghis Cohen.
That is often the case, or if it is the head chef's day off.
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I'll be interested to hear A Mall and the Night Visitors after all these years. I also have the Blu-ray of the 1955 telecast on its way. I remember really liking it when I was a kid and watched it each year.
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I am glad the pumpkin cheese cake at Beaches had a hazelnut glaze. I really did not need dessert tonight.
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The Menotti I'm listening to right now is called Sebastian - a ballet. It's really beautiful, with melody galore. The fun part is that he and Samuel Barber were partners and lived happily together for years and years.
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My ears are getting used to the speakers and I'm really enjoying them, I must say. I think they'll be even better when the little tilt-up stands arrive. They'll actually be here on Sunday but I won't get to retrieve them until Monday.
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Well I am home from work
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All the loan officers have just noticed that thanksgiving is next week
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Imagine having it the last Thursday of November! I wonder when that started?
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Idiots
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I feel like the miller's daughter..
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Only Rumplestilken never shows up
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And I have to spin the straw into,gold all by myself
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Thank you for the vibes. I am in pain and grumpy
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I am going to take a pain pill and go to bed
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I have to be up early
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I'm the chef for tomorrow's soup,kitchen
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They're getting Swedish meatballs with egg noodles and salad
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Page four? Really?
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Twenty-five more posts.
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And I achieve some sort of new plateau.
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Breaking News - listening to Benjamin Britten's piano concerto. I like it - I don't think I ever even opened this CD before. I know, crazy.
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I will say that once again I confirm that Genghis Cohen's lunch chef is just not anywhere near the evening chef. It was still good, but not euphoric and I expect euphoria from my Genghis Cohen.
Perhaps, but you had such sparkling company! ;)
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Breaking News - listening to Benjamin Britten's piano concerto. I like it - I don't think I ever even opened this CD before. I know, crazy.
I like Benjamin Britten, but I don't think I've heard the piano concerto. Must address that.
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Pain-begone and sleep well vibes to vixmom.
I hope you are able to rest some this weekend.
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Pain-begone vibes to all in need of them.
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I'm off to watch a DVD.
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I gotta tell you.
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I'm not watching, I'm listening. I'm listening, I'm not watching.
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Where in tarnation IS everyone?
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Twenty more posts to a nice round number.
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What is the sound of one hand clapping?
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Actually, I just one hand clapped and it made quite an interesting little flapping sound, as if an Australian was playing Seventy-Six Trombones on the zither.
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Why does it feel like midnight when it's not even eight o'clock?
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Or, conversely, why does it feel like eight o'clock when it's not even midnight?
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Fourteen more posts and I will achieve a specious new something or other.
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What is the sound of one hand clapping?
Maybe Mike Pence at the curtain call for HAMILTON tonight?
(sorry, is that too political)
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Breaking news -
It's page 5!
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Breaking news -
Mike Pence really was at HAMILTON tonight.
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Page five? Really?
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Twelve more posts.
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Good evening, all.
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Big, bad day at work. Found out more about why my beloved boss is moving. Don't hold anything against him. He needs to look out for himself and his family. But he's sad about the change. And so am I.
Still, here's hoping it works out for the best for him. I think it will. He's very good, which is why I like working with him. And I work with several of the people he'll be working with, so I will have time to work indirectly with him.
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Went out and celebrated a birthday of a friend tonight. Very nice evening.
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Went to Barnes and Noble today because of the Criterion sale. I found four DVDs I wanted. They were 50% off. Add an extra 10% off for being a member and then an additional 20% for having a coupon that both the saleswoman and I were surprised it took. So, I got four Criterion Collection DVDs for $36 today.
The one I'm looking forward to the most is the double disk of The Red Balloon and White Mane. Maybe.
The others included Belle du Jour, Rashomon and Rushmore, all of which I really love.
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I think that's it for me tonight.
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Here's my therapist Gurjeet and his staff last Christmas. From the left, Lisa. Gurjeet (standing), Dipika (kneeling), Jen, Bart, Morgan (who got me walking again in 2013-2014), and Denisse. Morgan's husband is an attorney and they have moved to Texas. I miss her.
Where in Texas?
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Pies are done and they're beautiful!
I'll be right over.
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Welcome to the DR John G imposter!
You're John G's cousin, right? Younger and 30 pounds lighter. Same interests.
Bless you.
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The thing I'm most hopeful for is finishing Hag-Seed this weekend. Maybe it's because I love The Tempest, maybe it's because I love Margaret Atwood, but the book is exhilarating. I'm so caught up in it all that I've managed in a few short days to get to disc six of seven.
As for DVDs, if there's time, I'd like to get to the last Brokenwood mystery.
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Good night, all.
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I will say that once again I confirm that Genghis Cohen's lunch chef is just not anywhere near the evening chef. It was still good, but not euphoric and I expect euphoria from my Genghis Cohen.
Perhaps, but you had such sparkling company! ;)
😃
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DR Vixmom I hope you slept well and woke up feeling less pain.
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It took me forever to sign in just now.
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But I made it.
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I have spent a lot of time this evening in the bathroom.
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Not by choice.
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I have spent almost no time in the bathroom tonight.
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Ten more posts and then hopefully dear reader George and immortalize the big number.
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Page five? Really?
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Page 1? Soon?
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Rehearsal tomorrow at noon.
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A cue-to-cue. Oh boy, my favorite.
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The day when actors become mere cattle.
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Well, I must be off. I'm going to the theater to help clean it up before tonight's first performance of two of "WORDS, WORDS, WORDS: Hans Christian Andersen." It's the latest in our series of spoken word works around a specific author or subject. Tonight's author is...drum roll...Hans Christian Andersen. :) I'm reading "The Princess on the Pea" and "The Goblin and the Grocer." It'll be fun!
Be back later.
Break a leg, George!
Thanks, Fred! It went well, for the most part. One of our performers didn't show up! :-\ Someone texted and tried to call her, but there was no answer. We can only hope that she's okay and just forgot. Each reader printed out his or her own stories, so no one else had copies of what she was going to read. This is all pretty low key, so we were able to just skip her stories without any trouble.
I'm sure that there will be NO problems tomorrow. ;D
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Thanks to those of you who commented on my latest family crisis.
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It is nice to be able to share things with my HHW family.
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SIX!
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George, I hope your cast member is okay.
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I can't imagine forgetting a performance.
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Especially an opening night.
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Thank you for the vibes. I am in pain and grumpy
~~~Vibes for No More Pain or Grumpiness for Vixmom!!~~~
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Great news for Elmore for less pain.
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Pain be gone vibes for DR Vixmom.
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George, I hope your cast member is okay.
Thanks! So do we!
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George, I hope your cast member is okay.
Thanks! So do we!
Is this someone you have worked with before?
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I can't imagine forgetting a performance.
Especially an opening night.
We're hoping she (Hannah) just forgot, because she was a fill-in for someone who was originally asked, but couldn't do both nights. Debbie, the original woman, has family visiting and could do one or the other night, so Hannah said that she could do a night, and Debbie said that Hannah could pick which night she would like, and Hannah chose tonight. So theoretically, Debbie will read tomorrow night. We'll see if they both show up tomorrow.
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Thanks to those of you who commented on my latest family crisis.
No wonder you were sick tonight.
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George, I hope your cast member is okay.
DITTO
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George, I hope your cast member is okay.
Thanks! So do we!
Is this someone you have worked with before?
Yes, and she's on the board of TAO, too!
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George, I hope your cast member is okay.
DITTO
Thanks, Jane!
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I can't imagine forgetting a performance.
The first year we lived in Ashland one of the lead actresses forgot about an afternoon performance .
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Thanks to those of you who commented on my latest family crisis.
No wonder you were sick tonight.
I just keep chanting the name of the play over and over again.
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It really isn't all that unbelievable with that shuffled show times and the multiple plays the Astros performs in.
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I have spent a lot of time this evening in the bathroom.
No!!!!!
~~~Feel Better Vibes for TCB!!~~~
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Thanks to those of you who commented on my latest family crisis.
No wonder you were sick tonight.
I just keep chanting the name of the play over and over again.
Keep that up.
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I am falling asleep .
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'night