you can tell i'm not a big gambler, i'm too cheap.
Now, it isHappy Birthday DR Michael!Happy BELATED Birthday wishes to Michael Shayne!
Today is also the birthday of the late DR Kerry.
What is the name of the stupid play where the lights go out, but onstage the lights are on so we see the actors groping around....and then when the lights come back on....the stage is dark and we hear them talking.....
I suffered through it once and have luckily avoided it since then.
Today is also the birthday of the late DR Kerry.
I miss DR Kerry :(
We watched HARRIET last night.
Excellent!
One of the best 2019 films I've seen.
Today is also the birthday of the late DR Kerry.
I miss DR Kerry :(
Me, too.
Today is also the birthday of the late DR Kerry.
I miss DR Kerry :(
Me, too.
Me too.
Last night I used DR Kerry's mixer. Today I will see a musical. Two good ways to remember my friend.
I use the mixer a lot. He'd be glad to know that.
Just kidding!
:D :D :D
So we opened the revue last night, and it was one of those rare times when everything clicked right off the bat -- when there had been some risk that certain things just wouldn't. We had an all too short rehearsal period, some of which had been lost due to weather, and then people got sick, and one or two were learning the thing slower than we would have liked. With great effort it literally came together within the last three days. Our preview senior audience on Thursday was small and unresponsive even though they said afterwards that they loved it and they want us to come out for a command performance at their community center. But that evening was an effort, and it was excellent training for last night when we were rewarded with a very enthusiastic house. We're sold out tonight, and we thankfully have the next few days off (my first few days off in weeks), so I'm feeling pretty okay about it right now. It's been an uphill climb, but we have a show. Whew.
My first time in Las Vegas I put a quarter in a slot machine to amuse my daughter and a former Dear Reader. I got five quarters back. I called myself a winner and put the quarters in my pocket. I was disappointed, though. I thought there would be more. I mean, on tv the machines clang and clang and hundreds of quarters come falling out.
Last night I used DR Kerry's mixer. Today I will see a musical. Two good ways to remember my friend.
DR George you did some impressive posting last night.
So we opened the revue last night, and it was one of those rare times when everything clicked right off the bat -- when there had been some risk that certain things just wouldn't. We had an all too short rehearsal period, some of which had been lost due to weather, and then people got sick, and one or two were learning the thing slower than we would have liked. With great effort it literally came together within the last three days. Our preview senior audience on Thursday was small and unresponsive even though they said afterwards that they loved it and they want us to come out for a command performance at their community center. But that evening was an effort, and it was excellent training for last night when we were rewarded with a very enthusiastic house. We're sold out tonight, and we thankfully have the next few days off (my first few days off in weeks), so I'm feeling pretty okay about it right now. It's been an uphill climb, but we have a show. Whew.
Annabelle has twice today climbed onto my worktable to play with me and sneezed snot all over everything. I am very lucky I was never a parent. I'm afraid I would have been an abusive one, just as my mother and her mother were.
Cookies are packed, and I am off to pick up my theater date.
So we opened the revue last night, and it was one of those rare times when everything clicked right off the bat -- when there had been some risk that certain things just wouldn't. We had an all too short rehearsal period, some of which had been lost due to weather, and then people got sick, and one or two were learning the thing slower than we would have liked. With great effort it literally came together within the last three days. Our preview senior audience on Thursday was small and unresponsive even though they said afterwards that they loved it and they want us to come out for a command performance at their community center. But that evening was an effort, and it was excellent training for last night when we were rewarded with a very enthusiastic house. We're sold out tonight, and we thankfully have the next few days off (my first few days off in weeks), so I'm feeling pretty okay about it right now. It's been an uphill climb, but we have a show. Whew.
On Thursday I lost Vixdad’s hat while putting our stuff in a locker before the Hagrid motorcycle ride ( I must have dropped it while I was putting everything else in)
SoFriday morning vixdaD and I went back to the park and picked up his hat and went into the “Hogsmeade” side of Harry Potter world in the Islands of Adventure park and rode the hogswart express to the ”Diagonal Alley” side of Harry Potterland in the Universal theme park and had breakfast at The leaky Cauldron
To answer George and Janes question, yes a lot of people dress in the Harry Potter robes. They sell them in the parks and they’re very popular with all ages
Some people go all out, there was a couple there about our ages that were dressed like escaped prisoners from the wizard prison and another woman, also about our age dressed as professor Dumbledore (the headmaster)
There were a bunch of people in their teens and 20’s that were dressed like members of the Quidditch team ( the official wizard sport)
There were a bunch of people in their teens and 20’s that were dressed like members of the Quidditch team ( the official wizard sport)
Such fun this must be to see all the people in costume.
There were a bunch of people in their teens and 20’s that were dressed like members of the Quidditch team ( the official wizard sport)
Such fun this must be to see all the people in costume.
It is. Our theory is that to truly enjoy the parks you must check your age at the door and become a child again.
And I have to say I followed the lost hat story with bated breath, potential sadness, and joy.
I, too, lost a hat down there in Disney’s Magic Kingdom, in a location that made me think it was extremely unlikely that it would be recovered. I was flabbergasted when it turned up at the lost and found. It was an ordinary baseball cap I’d bought at the Gap, nothing unique like vixdad’s, but it already had a bit of sentimental value, and in getting it back we dubbed it the Magic Cap. That was in 1998, and to this day I watch that thing carefully.
Second show was one of technical mishaps.
First, we lost power to the instruments and the backstage area in the middle of our opening number. It turned out to be just a circuit that popped due to a heater or something. The four actor/singers carried on with drums and acoustic bass, with two key changes and lots of choreography, and half the audience never knew anything was amiss. I think it’s my first experience with a power loss. But this one could literally not have happened at a better place in the show, and you couldn’t have asked for a better outcome. Not a beat was lost.
That, and a few other little things not worth writing about, made it an evening to remember, but everyone is happy and now we have our few very welcome days off.
What is the name of the stupid play where the lights go out, but onstage the lights are on so we see the actors groping around....and then when the lights come back on....the stage is dark and we hear them talking.....
I suffered through it once and have luckily avoided it since then.
Black Comedy?
T.O.D.
I like to play slot machines, but I don’t play any of the other casino games. The first time I was in Vegas I played roulette, even though I had no idea what I was doing. I only played it because Hugh O’Brian was playing. I very quickly lost my twenty dollars, and Hugh very quickly lost a great deal more.
This morning I felt like I was coming down with The Thing--or perhaps an ordinary cold. I took a couple Sambucol, which revived me enough to do the laundry, some cleaning, and a trip to the nearby salad bar. But tonight I am quite wiped out.
Brian is coming next week to do more cleaning, but his time is very limited and I do what I can.
This morning I felt like I was coming down with The Thing--or perhaps an ordinary cold. I took a couple Sambucol, which revived me enough to do the laundry, some cleaning, and a trip to the nearby salad bar. But tonight I am quite wiped out.
Brian is coming next week to do more cleaning, but his time is very limited and I do what I can.
Jeanne, never say Brian is coming next week. You will give Jane a heart attack!