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Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on May 18, 2019, 12:27:02 AM

Title: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: bk on May 18, 2019, 12:27:02 AM
Well, you've read the notes, the notes were level two notes, and now it is time for you to post until the level two cows come home.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: bk on May 18, 2019, 12:27:29 AM
And the word of the day is: TENACIOUS!
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: bk on May 18, 2019, 12:28:41 AM
And now - Dino at the piano.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: bk on May 18, 2019, 12:31:46 AM
TCB, I couldn't find your Wednesday question - just looked again.  Can you ask again?
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: jan on May 18, 2019, 12:34:39 AM
He wanted know about your memories of Tim Conway.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: TCB on May 18, 2019, 12:35:41 AM
TCB, I couldn't find your Wednesday question - just looked again.  Can you ask again?


I just wanted to know your memories or stories of working with the late Tim Conway?
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: TCB on May 18, 2019, 12:45:27 AM
I was hoping to stay awake until George got home safely.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: TCB on May 18, 2019, 12:54:40 AM
But, I guess I will have to hang it up.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: TCB on May 18, 2019, 12:55:01 AM
Good night, jan.
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Post by: TCB on May 18, 2019, 01:07:08 AM
Aha!  Waiting till you thought I had gone to bed!
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Post by: TCB on May 18, 2019, 01:07:42 AM
Glad you made it home safely, George.
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Post by: George on May 18, 2019, 01:10:21 AM
Glad you made it home safely, George.

Thanks, Tom.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: George on May 18, 2019, 01:10:56 AM
Aha!  Waiting till you thought I had gone to bed!

No.  I just needed to type out my next message. ;)
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: George on May 18, 2019, 01:11:38 AM
And here it is...

I was hoping to stay awake until George got home safely.

I'm finally home!  It took me 22 minutes just to get out of the parking garage!  Once I got out of there, it was pretty easy to follow the signs on the street to get to the freeway and go south back to Tumwater.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: George on May 18, 2019, 01:12:18 AM
I did stop at the McDonald's in Renton to get a Quarter Pounder Deluxe.  It was fresh and delish!  And then I came home.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: George on May 18, 2019, 01:12:39 AM
Now, I have to feed my cat.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: bk on May 18, 2019, 01:19:39 AM
I just remember it was a wonderful way to spend a week at Disney.  I was only slated to work one day, but the director was very fond of me and kept adding to what he'd originally asked me to do, which was just the one scene where I'm talking about the gold or whatever that is.  I would normally not have accepted a brief few-lines scene at that point in my career, but I really liked Norman Tokar, who'd cast me in my first pilot, so I said yes.  Both Conway and Don Knotts were warm and really funny at lunch. 
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: George on May 18, 2019, 01:26:28 AM
That's very nice, BK.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: George on May 18, 2019, 01:28:04 AM
And now, I must hie myself to bed.  I don't have any plans until the evening, so I can sleep in and ketchup on some TV watching. ;D

Good night, BK, and have a good day, all!
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: elmore3003 on May 18, 2019, 04:09:51 AM
Good morning, all!
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: elmore3003 on May 18, 2019, 04:14:05 AM
Yesterday, I buckled down Winsocki and finished my Moross work with the assistance of Annabelle and Thatch who both think that being a musical editor is jumping on and off a desk, walking over a score, lying on it to play with pens, paper clips, and other toys an editor plays with, tanning under the desk lamp, and leaping to the windowsill and back from the edge of the desk.  Annabelle also believes that rolling around on a score and gazing soulfully into my eyes inspires me.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: elmore3003 on May 18, 2019, 04:14:37 AM
Because I love her, I let her believe it.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: elmore3003 on May 18, 2019, 04:18:29 AM
So, this morning - after the kitty bowls are washed, the litter is cleaned, and the bed is made - I shall get the Moross scores ready for photocopying and mailing on Monday, clean the remains of that work from my desk, and begin this 92nd Street Y show.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: elmore3003 on May 18, 2019, 04:19:24 AM
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Good Weekend Vibes to all!  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: elmore3003 on May 18, 2019, 04:23:47 AM
I slept well until 5:00 or so when the kitty brigade began their drill.  At 6:15 I reset the alarm for 7:30, fed them all - Annabelle and Thatch really liked their whitefish/tuna Fancy Feast - let Stella out to exercise and play, and went back to bed.  By 6:45 I had two cats and one ferociously energetic kitten leaping all over me.  Stella wants to play and Annabelle and Thatch run from her, but I figure as long as there's no fighting or bloodshed, let keep socializing them.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: elmore3003 on May 18, 2019, 04:26:40 AM
The end result was I got no more sleep and by 6:50 I was ready to get up, dress, and have the first cuppa coffee.  Stella will need to go back to her cage, so I can tidy without worrying about her or stepping on her.  Annabelle will want to patrol and I'm surprised she's not bugging me yet about that.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: elmore3003 on May 18, 2019, 05:16:49 AM
We are back from patrol.  Annabelle was slow stepping out of the apartment and the door closed on her tail.  The poor baby emitted a scream that I'm sure people on Broadway could hear.  She seems to be okay now, but I was afraid I had seriously injured her.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Druxy on May 18, 2019, 05:34:44 AM
T.O.D.

I used to listen to audio books, borrowed from the library, when I was in my car and had a 45-60 minute drive to and from my Hollywood office every day.  Made the boring drive enjoyable.

Working from home for the past 2-3 decades, I really don't have the time for that diversion.

However, I do enjoy working with actors in the creation of audio editions of my plays and novels.  It allows me to put on my "director's hat" again.

We've just completed a 17th audio production, my play, CLIFTON WEBB, which should be available for download in a couple of weeks, and I just signed somebody to do my play, DICK POWELL.

I also have an actress who will be doing my YVONNE DE CARLO play later this summer.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: John G. on May 18, 2019, 06:48:39 AM
Good morning, all.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: John G. on May 18, 2019, 06:49:18 AM
JB is off to the Tweet Suite soon.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: John G. on May 18, 2019, 06:49:31 AM
Two!
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: ChasSmith on May 18, 2019, 07:00:39 AM
Good morning, all.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: ChasSmith on May 18, 2019, 07:02:20 AM
Well. We have here a Saturday that actually feels like a Saturday.

A profound observation, I know. One which you all will no doubt be ruminating on for the rest of the day.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: ChasSmith on May 18, 2019, 07:06:25 AM
Sometime soon (because they close at noon) I need to throw some clothes on and drive down to the power equipment store for a couple of air filters for the weed whacker.

Exciting, eh?
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jrand74 on May 18, 2019, 07:13:37 AM
Saturday!  It is a lovely day here weatherwise.....

I shall be working on a few lines and preparing my report for the board meeting tomorrow.

Yesterday I made some chicken & noodles so there is plenty to eat!
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jrand74 on May 18, 2019, 07:13:53 AM
I do not listen to audio books and do not own any.

The End.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: ChasSmith on May 18, 2019, 07:31:20 AM
TOD

For many years I paid no attention to audio books. It took listening to a couple on road trips to completely sell me on them. I really haven't heard all that many, but a few fiction titles that immediately became favorites for both the material and the quality of the reading would include:

Kerouac:  On the Road, read by Matt Damon
Bradbury:  Fahrenheit 451, read by the author
Stephen King:  The Langoliers, ready by Willem Dafoe
Dean Koontz:  One Door Away From Heaven, read by Anne Twomey

There have been a few other King and Koontz ones as well, because they're so great for longer road trips. I also love radio plays, both the old traditional ones and more contemporary ones such as the original Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Anyhoo, there's much more, but those came to mind. And I have yet to really listen to audio books at home. For me they've been best for travel. But that could easily change.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: elmore3003 on May 18, 2019, 07:47:03 AM
I have never listened to an audiobook, but I love to listen to plays.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Ginny on May 18, 2019, 07:54:54 AM
Saturday morning greetings!  We caved and turned on our air conditioning today, because it's going to be hot and muggy.  What happened to spring?
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Ginny on May 18, 2019, 07:56:08 AM
YIKES, DR Vixmom, that's a truly terrifying tale!  I'm so glad you're OK  :-*
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Ginny on May 18, 2019, 08:00:13 AM
TOD - I love audiobooks, with the right narrator.  I used to listen on my 25-mile, each way, commute to work and, in retirement, listen while knitting and crafting.  They're good while exercising, too, but I don't do that very often.

The best of the best, IMHO, is Jim Dale doing the Harry Potter books.

Some of my other favorite narrators are Kate Reading, Grace Conlin, C. J. Critt, and Orlagh Cassidy.  Sometimes I'll listen to a book based solely on the voice.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jane on May 18, 2019, 08:10:45 AM
DR TCB super vibes you have a covered parking space.  I know you really need one.  Your realtor should sort this out.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jane on May 18, 2019, 08:12:02 AM
DR Jeanne did you meet Bruce in 1965?
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: John G. on May 18, 2019, 08:33:11 AM
Don't know when I'll leave for Houston. A tornado hit San Angelo near Bonnie's house, so she's dealing with a power outage and downed branches.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: John G. on May 18, 2019, 08:40:45 AM
TOD:

I'm addicted to audiobooks. I have been since I had a 75-minute commute each way in Florida. It's a great way to get to those books that I just haven't found the time to read. I started with the Travis McGee novels from John D. MacDonald, then graduated to Wodehouse and classics and new fiction and just about anything. But it must be unabridged.

When I was working on the barbecue book, I liked to listen to books about Texas, including Elmer Kelton's westerns, alternately with food books. They helped make an 8-hour drive go by better.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: bk on May 18, 2019, 08:50:42 AM
I'm up, I'm up - five-and-a-half hours of sleep. 
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: John G. on May 18, 2019, 08:51:58 AM
The best narrators are those who understand how to tell a story as much as the writer does.

Recently, I listened to Brid Brennan bring life to Anna Burns' complicated Irish novel, Milkman, in a way that made the book easy to love. It was one of the most powerful books I've listened to in ages. 

I agree with Ginny that Jim Dale is a master with the Harry Potter books.

George Guidell's work on I Know This Much Is True is phenomenal, as is Frank Muller on The Prince of Tides. Muller was also great on Stephen King's books, which are often better listened to than read.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: John G. on May 18, 2019, 08:55:25 AM
There are some readers I can't listen to. Patrick Tull, who narrated the Master and Commander series and the Cadfael books, has too thick a British accent and it becomes more about hearing him than the story.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: John G. on May 18, 2019, 09:02:15 AM
Watching a nifty B movie called When Strangers Marry/Betrayed with a very young Robert Mitchum and an evil Dean Jagger. Kim Hunter is not my favorite performer, but she's perky if a little too stupid for her own good. William Castle directs without gimmicks. Great Dimitri Tiomkin score.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jane on May 18, 2019, 10:08:57 AM
Don't know when I'll leave for Houston. A tornado hit San Angelo near Bonnie's house, so she's dealing with a power outage and downed branches.

Oh no!
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Druxy on May 18, 2019, 10:10:37 AM
Watching a nifty B movie called When Strangers Marry/Betrayed with a very young Robert Mitchum and an evil Dean Jagger. Kim Hunter is not my favorite performer, but she's perky if a little too stupid for her own good. William Castle directs without gimmicks. Great Dimitri Tiomkin score.

As I recall, Dean Jagger actually has hair in that one, doesn't he?
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: elmore3003 on May 18, 2019, 10:39:42 AM
And today another certified letter from my landlord's attorney arrived with a copy of the eviction petition that was taped to my door last Wednesday.  I'm ready to sue for harassment.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: ChasSmith on May 18, 2019, 11:08:31 AM
Harassment and incompetence.

But when was it posted?
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: ChasSmith on May 18, 2019, 11:09:50 AM
I have never listened to an audiobook, but I love to listen to plays.

Yes!
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: elmore3003 on May 18, 2019, 11:13:27 AM
Harassment and incompetence.

But when was it posted?

Wednesday, same day it was taped to my door.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: ChasSmith on May 18, 2019, 11:19:08 AM
Yes, the reader is all-important. I especially like it, too, when the reader has had some connection with the author or the work. There’s a nice one of Sissy Spacek reading CARRIE, in which she does one stupid thing. She talks like a robot when reading a newspaper clip or a police bulletin or some such. Silly and amateurish. But it’s otherwise fine.

And yes to unabridged works. I do allow one exception to that, something that serves a specific purpose for me. (Ahem.) [whispers:]  Proust.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: vixmom on May 18, 2019, 11:39:47 AM
I used t listen to audio books all thetime when  I had my 60 mile round trip commute . 

I don't listen as often but at the moment I am in the middle of Stephen Kings Pet Semetary narrated by Michael C. Hall.

MCH has the qualities that make a perfect narrator, good pace, using different voices for the characters, to the point that I keep forgetting it's all him. 

Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: vixmom on May 18, 2019, 11:41:27 AM
Another reader I loved is a British woman, Donata Peters , I listened to all the Colleen McCullough Ancient Rome series as read by her, she is wonderful
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: vixmom on May 18, 2019, 11:42:18 AM
We always listen to audio books or radio plays on our drives to Florida
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: ChasSmith on May 18, 2019, 11:50:24 AM
We always listen to audio books or radio plays on our drives to Florida

As do we. Not that any of us has done that trip in a while, but it became an essential element of every such road trip starting with a Florida one in 2005. Wouldn’t be without it now.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: bk on May 18, 2019, 12:16:05 PM
The robot thing is interesting.  I've found in a lot of the auditions so far that the reader reads the third person narration without any color.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: elmore3003 on May 18, 2019, 12:18:29 PM
I have a wonderful neighbor in the apartment below me.  She was a Broadway dresser from the age of 18  - dressed Ann Reinking in Goodtime Charlie, Antyhony Quinn in Zorba, and Bebe Neuwith in Chicago - and she's about 10 years or so younger than I.  For the last couple of years she's been going through a rough patch of too little work, and about two years ago she took all her savings and took acting classes.  I ran into her a couple of months ago and we were lamenting our current state of living, and I asked her why she wasn't auditioning.  She said she couldn't afford head shots.  I told her when I got the recording money, I'd help her with that, so the other day I gave her a check.

She just brought me a gift of brownies, warm corn muffins, and homemade strawberry butter.  She's been baking all day.  I asked, get a photographer yet? and she said she was waiting for a return call.  Then she ran back to her baking.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: elmore3003 on May 18, 2019, 12:19:18 PM
The muffins and the butter are wonderful!
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: ChasSmith on May 18, 2019, 12:26:16 PM
The robot thing is interesting.  I've found in a lot of the auditions so far that the reader reads the third person narration without any color.

And there's no earthly reason for that, that I can think of.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: ChasSmith on May 18, 2019, 12:29:40 PM
It's all part of communicating the story. Do I "hear" the third person narration in an Adriana mystery or any book as being flat or lifeless or without color? That's absurd.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: ChasSmith on May 18, 2019, 12:30:38 PM
So, a bunch of weeds have been whacked.

There are many many more weeds. Waiting their turn.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: ChasSmith on May 18, 2019, 12:31:38 PM
The robot thing is interesting.  I've found in a lot of the auditions so far that the reader reads the third person narration without any color.

And there's no earthly reason for that, that I can think of.

I understand the effect Sissy Spacek was going for in those brief sections. I just think it was totally misguided.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jeanne on May 18, 2019, 01:21:41 PM
Hello, everyone.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jeanne on May 18, 2019, 01:22:57 PM
Re whipped butter:

I like it better than standard, cubed butter. I no longer keep butter in the house, but when I did it was whipped butter that I would buy. I didn't know it has fewer calories.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jeanne on May 18, 2019, 01:25:09 PM
DR TCB super vibes you have a covered parking space.  I know you really need one.  Your realtor should sort this out.

Yes, the realtor, knowing that TCB is in a wheelchair, should have checked on this prior to the sale, IMHO.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jeanne on May 18, 2019, 01:25:51 PM
DR Jeanne did you meet Bruce in 1965?

No, it was 1962 or 1963.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jeanne on May 18, 2019, 01:28:34 PM
Harassment and incompetence

Yes, I feel there's a case for both. Did the attorney discuss the harassment aspect of it?
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jeanne on May 18, 2019, 01:29:43 PM
The muffins and the butter are wonderful!

How nice! What a treat!
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jeanne on May 18, 2019, 01:34:08 PM
During my really rough pain years I would sometimes listen to audio books. I enjoyed them. But I can't use them as background the way I can music. I need to concentrate and I want to hear everything. In most cases I prefer to read a book, rather than listen to it.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jeanne on May 18, 2019, 01:37:39 PM
More to do around the apartment.

TTFN.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: elmore3003 on May 18, 2019, 02:23:50 PM
Stella is mouthy and likes to bite.  When she jumps on Annabelle and Thatch, I'm pretty certain she wants to play, but I think she's playing too rough and they don't like it.  I wish Annabelle would go into Mommy mode and teach her.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: ChasSmith on May 18, 2019, 02:25:49 PM
She might be expecting an increase in salary first.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: vixmom on May 18, 2019, 02:39:12 PM
And today another certified letter from my landlord's attorney arrived with a copy of the eviction petition that was taped to my door last Wednesday.  I'm ready to sue for harassment.

I believe the legal requirement is that they must both post the notice and mail a certified copy on the same day.  So they are just following the rules. 
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jeanne on May 18, 2019, 02:41:57 PM
But he's paid in full and has received an email acknowledging that, yes?
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: vixmom on May 18, 2019, 02:48:41 PM
But he's paid in full and has received an email acknowledging that, yes?


I believe so.  I understood that the landlord has since notified the lawyer
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: bk on May 18, 2019, 02:50:36 PM
My third person narration is always as if it was a "character" in the book - in fact, it's frequently almost a mirror of the protagonist - hence, in the Kritzer books, while it's third person, that prose has the same color as Benjamin.  Same with the Adriana books and same with GEE.  You can't read that flat.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: FJL on May 18, 2019, 02:57:54 PM
But if that's happening with a few different auditions, all being robotic at the same lines, doesn't it mean that somewhere, they are using something (Ann instruction an industry suggestion) that is suggesting they do that? 
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: FJL on May 18, 2019, 03:00:29 PM
If one person makes a mistake, it's likely a mistake.  But if four people who are good otherwise are doing the same odd thing, it can't be their fault.  if you write them off, you may be losing good people that way.  You may want to correct it for when they submit to you in the future.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: FJL on May 18, 2019, 03:03:32 PM
Larry - Check if it says in the document that they are submitting it three different ways.

I know when Relatd sends a notice of something they want done by tenant, they may say By Certified Mail and Hand Delivery - meaning expect two copies. 
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: FJL on May 18, 2019, 03:04:27 PM
Or in How to Succeed, something might be sent "By Office Mail" and "Personally by Hedy"
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: ChasSmith on May 18, 2019, 03:07:57 PM
My third person narration is always as if it was a "character" in the book - in fact, it's frequently almost a mirror of the protagonist - hence, in the Kritzer books, while it's third person, that prose has the same color as Benjamin.  Same with the Adriana books and same with GEE.  You can't read that flat.

Yes, and that definitely succeeds in your books.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: FJL on May 18, 2019, 03:08:16 PM
Personally, I never really felt why "Personally by Hedy"  was so effective. 
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: FJL on May 18, 2019, 03:11:20 PM
It always looked like Hedy was just blocking their light by leaning over, so that couldn't read the letter.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jrand74 on May 18, 2019, 03:46:36 PM
Hedy was always like that.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jrand74 on May 18, 2019, 03:46:52 PM
DR ELMORE that was a very thoughtful thing to do for your neighbor.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: bk on May 18, 2019, 04:11:44 PM
Had a fun lunch with the Miller family - Hadley Belle, Dan, and Kendra.  We went to Barone's - I had some pepperoni pizza (ordered for all of us), and we all shared the antipasto salad, which was really delicious. 
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: John G. on May 18, 2019, 04:12:30 PM
Four!
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: bk on May 18, 2019, 04:12:54 PM
Prior to that, I killed time over at the nearby mall - many closed shops there, Mrs. Fields has bit the dust, but their food court, which I've never actually visited before, is pretty interesting, so I think I'll go over there this week and have something.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: John G. on May 18, 2019, 04:12:59 PM
Great story about your neighbor, Elmore.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: John G. on May 18, 2019, 04:13:30 PM
Druxy, Jagger sort of had hair in that one.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: John G. on May 18, 2019, 04:17:30 PM
I’m in Houston’s Chinatown having dinner, a big pot of radish soup with pork slices (bacon).
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: John G. on May 18, 2019, 04:18:39 PM
Found out there’s a free production of La Boheme in the park tonight, rain or shine.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: John G. on May 18, 2019, 04:19:57 PM
Bonnie did not join me on the trip. She needs to her broken limbs attended to. They’re larger than she can handle.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jane on May 18, 2019, 04:40:02 PM
The muffins and the butter are wonderful!

This is very kind of both of you, especially you.  Vibes the head shots help her find work quickly.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jane on May 18, 2019, 04:41:28 PM
DR Jeanne did you meet Bruce in 1965?

No, it was 1962 or 1963.

Then I am in-between you and DR Jan as I met him in 1964.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jane on May 18, 2019, 04:43:35 PM
And today another certified letter from my landlord's attorney arrived with a copy of the eviction petition that was taped to my door last Wednesday.  I'm ready to sue for harassment.

I believe the legal requirement is that they must both post the notice and mail a certified copy on the same day.  So they are just following the rules. 

I would expect both are required.  The question is when will DR elmore receive a written notice that it has been dropped   :-\
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: TCB on May 18, 2019, 04:58:48 PM
I have a wonderful neighbor in the apartment below me.  She was a Broadway dresser from the age of 18  - dressed Ann Reinking in Goodtime Charlie, Antyhony Quinn in Zorba, and Bebe Neuwith in Chicago - and she's about 10 years or so younger than I.  For the last couple of years she's been going through a rough patch of too little work, and about two years ago she took all her savings and took acting classes.  I ran into her a couple of months ago and we were lamenting our current state of living, and I asked her why she wasn't auditioning.  She said she couldn't afford head shots.  I told her when I got the recording money, I'd help her with that, so the other day I gave her a check.

She just brought me a gift of brownies, warm corn muffins, and homemade strawberry butter.  She's been baking all day.  I asked, get a photographer yet? and she said she was waiting for a return call.  Then she ran back to her baking.


You are such a sweetheart, even if you deny it!
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: TCB on May 18, 2019, 04:59:40 PM
So, a bunch of weeds have been whacked.

There are many many more weeds. Waiting their turn.


Is that a euphemism?
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jane on May 18, 2019, 05:09:07 PM
Blackstone Audio, Inc is located in Ashland.  Friends would stop in, sometimes getting good deals, and buy books for road trips.  Keith was never interested in listening to books while we traveled.

Popular books were often those narrated by favorite actors from the Shakespeare Festival.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jane on May 18, 2019, 05:10:28 PM
I get to distracted, or fall asleep when reading and need to read the printed book/tablet.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jane on May 18, 2019, 05:11:13 PM
Now with my difficulty hearing what is said it kind of rules out audio books for road trips.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jane on May 18, 2019, 05:12:45 PM
I occasionally listen to a clip of an audio book from a favorite book.  So far I have not really enjoyed any of the clips.  Maybe it isn't enough time to get into the rhythm of the narrator. 
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jeanne on May 18, 2019, 09:52:08 PM
where is everyone? Has the site been down?
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jeanne on May 18, 2019, 09:53:04 PM
TCB, how's the packing going? I hope you have help. When do you move in?

Packing and moving vibes.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: bk on May 18, 2019, 09:54:42 PM
Finished with my viewing and now listening to music.  I've done a good deal of the act one commentary for the Group Rep show.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jane on May 18, 2019, 10:38:41 PM
where is everyone? Has the site been down?

I kept checking and no one posted after me.  Then we watch tv, talked on the phone, and watched more tv.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jane on May 18, 2019, 10:40:48 PM
We also learned if Alexa says you have a phone call, replying "Hello" will not answer the call.  You have to tell her "Alexa answer the call". ;D
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jane on May 18, 2019, 10:42:31 PM
After we didn't answer Alexa our friends called my cell but for some odd reason it only made a small beep sound and then showed "missed call".
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jane on May 18, 2019, 10:43:50 PM
Then the house phone rang 3 times and stopped, again strane or we didn't hear the first few rings.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jane on May 18, 2019, 10:44:42 PM
At that point we called them back and put the land line on speaker phone😊
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jane on May 18, 2019, 10:44:59 PM
Wasn't that exciting.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jane on May 18, 2019, 10:46:00 PM
DR Jan I hope your evening report will be better than yesterday's.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jane on May 18, 2019, 10:46:55 PM
Since, once again, I amm all alone I will return to the book I am reading.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: George on May 18, 2019, 11:12:16 PM
I'm home and in my bed watching TV.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: George on May 18, 2019, 11:12:33 PM
Hi, Jane.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: George on May 18, 2019, 11:13:16 PM
PAGE FIVE DANCE!!
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: Jane on May 18, 2019, 11:17:10 PM
Hi George.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: George on May 18, 2019, 11:20:44 PM
Topic of the Day:  I don't listen to talking books, mainly because I can easily get distracted and forget what I just listened to. 
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: George on May 18, 2019, 11:21:03 PM
If I'm reading a book, I can just look up at what I just read, but with audio, rewinding is too inconvenient and I could too easily rewind too far back too quickly, and then I'd again have to listen to what I just heard and that annoys me too much. ::)

;)
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: George on May 18, 2019, 11:27:58 PM
That being said, I do have a few audio books, mainly just to have them (one being the whole Harry Potter series read by Stephen Fry that a co-worker ripped for me), but the ones that I really wanted and love are the original radio broacasts of the six-volume Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. :D I also have the re-recorded versions of the first two titles that was done after the original versions were broadcast.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: George on May 18, 2019, 11:33:54 PM
I did just order the new full-cast audio version of the recent London/Broadway revival of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0593153944/).  It was just released this past Tuesday.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: jan on May 18, 2019, 11:34:40 PM
Lady Jane, today was not wonderful.  I've been trying not to take pain pills but I think I'm gonna have to take one.  How 'bout you?
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: jan on May 18, 2019, 11:36:38 PM
Hi, George, how's it going today?  How is her majesty?
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: TCB on May 18, 2019, 11:39:31 PM
Good evening.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: George on May 18, 2019, 11:39:56 PM
And speaking of gay theater, I ushered for the local college production of Fun Home again tonight.  They had a much larger audience than they had on opening night, so that's good.  And it's improved since Thursday, too.  Technical issues and actor comfort in the roles were improved.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: TCB on May 18, 2019, 11:40:13 PM
I am suffering from digestive problems again.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: George on May 18, 2019, 11:40:22 PM
Hi, Tom and jan.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: George on May 18, 2019, 11:40:47 PM
I am suffering from digestive problems again.

:(
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: TCB on May 18, 2019, 11:41:48 PM
I think it is probably a “nervous stomach.”
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: TCB on May 18, 2019, 11:43:10 PM
I didn’t even know that FUN HOME had been released.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: TCB on May 18, 2019, 11:45:23 PM
Somehow (and at some time) I got a crack in the screen of my iPad.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: TCB on May 18, 2019, 11:46:13 PM
I didn’t drop it, or anything like that, so I don’t know what happened.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: TCB on May 18, 2019, 11:47:42 PM
Take the pain pill, jan.  The doctor gave it to for a reason - to make you more comfortable while you are healing.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: TCB on May 18, 2019, 11:48:17 PM
You will not wake up in the morning addicted to heroin.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: George on May 18, 2019, 11:51:46 PM
I didn’t even know that FUN HOME had been released.

Yes.  This production is by the South Sound Community College theater (theatre?) department.  Next year, Harlequin Productions (https://harlequinproductions.org/next-season/) will do it, and I'd heard that Evergreen Playhouse in Centralia will do it, too!
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: TCB on May 18, 2019, 11:52:22 PM
George, do you like the show FUN HOME?
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: George on May 18, 2019, 11:57:24 PM
George, do you like the show FUN HOME?

It's can be a little intense at times, and certainly not a happy show, but I think it's really good, and the college did a great job with it.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: jan on May 18, 2019, 11:59:13 PM
Tom, you promise?  And what have you been eating to screw with your stomach?
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: George on May 18, 2019, 11:59:49 PM
The best narrators are those who understand how to tell a story as much as the writer does.

Recently, I listened to Brid Brennan bring life to Anna Burns' complicated Irish novel, Milkman, in a way that made the book easy to love. It was one of the most powerful books I've listened to in ages. 

I agree with Ginny that Jim Dale is a master with the Harry Potter books....

The co-worker who gave me the Stephen Fry Harry Potter books really likes his versions more than Jim Dale's.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: George on May 19, 2019, 12:00:32 AM
Don't know when I'll leave for Houston. A tornado hit San Angelo near Bonnie's house, so she's dealing with a power outage and downed branches.

Oh, no!  Hopefully, her house is otherwise okay!
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: TCB on May 19, 2019, 12:02:03 AM
Tracy and I are going furniture shopping on Tuesday.  I am hoping that I can find a new sofa and a new bed.  I want to do this before moving day, so I will know what I don’t have to move.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: TCB on May 19, 2019, 12:04:14 AM
Tom, you promise?  And what have you been eating to screw with your stomach?


Nothing terrible.  I suffer from a sensitive system due to my suppressed emotions when I was younger.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: TCB on May 19, 2019, 12:05:41 AM
If all goes right, St Vincent de Paul will come and take my old furniture away for me.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: George on May 19, 2019, 12:05:53 AM
Somehow (and at some time) I got a crack in the screen of my iPad.
I didn’t drop it, or anything like that, so I don’t know what happened.

When I was leaving my parents' house after my birthday, I dropped my phone and cracked my screen, too.  It still works, but I bought the parts to replace it.
Title: Re: LEVEL TWO SUPPORT
Post by: TCB on May 19, 2019, 12:07:21 AM
You can buy replacement screens?  I didn’t know that.  How difficult is it to replace them?