Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on March 07, 2020, 12:26:19 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were invisible, and now it is time for you to post until the invisible cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: WHICKER!
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BK, about that which you were made privy that is going to make a lot of folks happy, can you give a clew, such as will it be a cast recording, or movie soundtrack? :D
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Today will be my family's quasi-weekly family dinner at my parents' house. I don't know what we'll be having, though.
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And now, I'm off to bed.
Have a good day, all!
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Good morning, all!
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I had a horrible night, payback for the last two good ones. As a consequence, I fed the cats and went back to bed. I had a strange dream about being at the Metropolitan Opera abd working on a production of Follies.
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I have no plans at all today beyond changing the clocks, and I may spend most of the day lounging and doing as little as possible.
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The Miss Fisher movie will play at the Cinema Village next Friday, so I will need to plan my itinerary to make the trip downtown.
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T.O.D.
The Fantasticks
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Sometimes if I am making meringue I use my WHICKER.
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Important envelope vibes for MR BK.
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It's a nice sunny day here so far.
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Hmmmm.......TOD is not easy.....
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I've finished kitty cleanup and moved the clocks forward. I have no energy at the moment to make the bed or finish dressing.
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The cats are all in a frenzy this morning, leaping, running, and jumping all over the place. I'm happy Annabelle is feeling good, but her jumping is working my last nerve.
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I use whicker baskets for my laundry
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Well I got up at 7 showered, washed my hair, blew it dry and dressed and made it to my dentist appointment by 7
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This was for a checkup and cleaning
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It was a very aggressive cleaning
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She managed to clean a filling clear out of a front bottom inscisor
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Along with half the tooth
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She popped out for the dentist
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He glued the tooth back together
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And now I am looking at a root canal and crown
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Then I stopped st the local Walgreens and bought the last two packages of Sambucol dissolving tablets and two zinc am nose sprays
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And a three pack of tissues
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The shelf for antibacterial hand gel was entirely empty
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I was one of two shoppers in the Walgreens
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Good morning, all.
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I followed vixmom’s story, rather hoping she was planning on picking up supplies for all of us.
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And what a dental adventure. May we assume that that office will be picking up the tab for everything?
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And what a dental adventure. May we assume that that office will be picking up the tab for everything?
Ah one knows what happens when one assumes....
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The dentist grabbed the chart and said “ah yes...I see the notes that. This was a temporary fuxabd the tooth needed a root canal and crown...it should have been dines years ago...you got five years out of that temporary well done!”
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Then he instructed the hygienist to start the preapproval process with the insurance company
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And what a dental adventure. May we assume that that office will be picking up the tab for everything?
Ah one knows what happens when one assumes....
Oh yes. Indeed. Totally.
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Indubitably.
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I followed vixmom’s story, rather hoping she was planning on picking up supplies for all of us.
Well if anyone needs TP the stores here have plenty send me your orders
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Too bad sears and Roebuck stopped making catalogs.....
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I came home to find a lovely fresh pot of tea awaiting me
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Then I made sausages and a bagel for vixdad
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And two over easy eggs with some Fox
Lint and a slice of Muenster melted on it for me
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I had picked up a lovely loaf of sliced brioche bread during the week and toasted two slices and ate them up with a little cream cheese
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Quite yummy
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Vixdad kindly put the new registration sticker on my car window
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And I washed up the dishes
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And we had a lovely chat with the Vixter
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Now I must hit the bank
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And the gas station
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And the manucurist
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I have 36. I items before my nail appointment
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But since all these places are within blocks of home I should make it
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Laters!
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And now I am looking at a root canal and crown
:(
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And what a dental adventure. May we assume that that office will be picking up the tab for everything?
Ah one knows what happens when one assumes....
I had a minor issue once as a result of my teeth cleaning. It was fixed for free. This is kind of major, not sure it can truly be blamed on the cleaning. Probably mine couldn't have been either.
Vibes the dentist does the work for free.
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The dentist grabbed the chart and said “ah yes...I see the notes that. This was a temporary fuxabd the tooth needed a root canal and crown...it should have been dines years ago...you got five years out of that temporary well done!”
Their fault for not reminding you to get the work done, not for needing it.
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Good morning, all.
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I made it to the airport. Despite the best efforts of Lyft and the Muni transit system.
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George, I don’t know if I’d eat truffles or anything from a sex toy shop.
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I look forward to a night of sleep in my own bed.
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The one weird aspect of the AirBnB I stayed at is that the owners seem to be millennials, who have made top sheets obsolete. The bed just had a comforter and a fitted sheet.
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Three!
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DR JOHN G did you wear flowers in your hair?
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Per VIXMOM temporary = five years....that's about right.
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The dentist grabbed the chart and said “ah yes...I see the notes that. This was a temporary fuxabd the tooth needed a root canal and crown...it should have been dines years ago...you got five years out of that temporary well done!”
Yikes! Does "fuxabd" have a meaning similar to what it looks like, or was that a typo?
OMG!
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The one weird aspect of the AirBnB I stayed at is that the owners seem to be millennials, who have made top sheets obsolete. The bed just had a comforter and a fitted sheet.
Is that an environmental thing?
At the hotel I was at recently, they offered 250 extra points for every day forgoing cleaning the room, which was cool since I was there 6 nights and really didn't need housekeeping every day, except to get the coffee stuff refilled.
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But they said there's an environmental benefit too, which seems logical if you don't need new towels and sheets every day and they can save on water and soap.
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And with the talk of the My Sharona virus or whatnot since the name had not taken hold yet, and noticing housekeeping doesn't seem to wash their hands between rooms...
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The one weird aspect of the AirBnB I stayed at is that the owners seem to be millennials, who have made top sheets obsolete. The bed just had a comforter and a fitted sheet.
Is that an environmental thing?
At the hotel I was at recently, they offered 250 extra points for every day forgoing cleaning the room, which was cool since I was there 6 nights and really didn't need housekeeping every day, except to get the coffee stuff refilled.
No. It’s a lifestyle thing. They just don’t use top sheets.
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I chose the environmental benefit and the points on a number of the nights but just asked for coffee supplies to be refilled
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Here’s a story on it.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.yahoo.com/amphtml/lifestyle/death-top-sheet-181200512.html
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I made it to the airport. Despite the best efforts of Lyft and the Muni transit system.
Yay. Safe & easy travels home.
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The one weird aspect of the AirBnB I stayed at is that the owners seem to be millennials, who have made top sheets obsolete. The bed just had a comforter and a fitted sheet.
It sounds very European.
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The one weird aspect of the AirBnB I stayed at is that the owners seem to be millennials, who have made top sheets obsolete. The bed just had a comforter and a fitted sheet.
Is that an environmental thing?
At the hotel I was at recently, they offered 250 extra points for every day forgoing cleaning the room, which was cool since I was there 6 nights and really didn't need housekeeping every day, except to get the coffee stuff refilled.
Offering points was nice. Usually there is something to leave on the bed if you want your sheets changed.
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Also, the wonderful and truly faaaaabulous couple in the room next door for a number of days were delightful to talk to, but something about what was left out in the hall from room service suggested that there was a lot of whoopee being made in that room (it was straight whoopee, so not that there's anything wrong with that of course, as Seinfeld used to say)
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$500,000,000 split between 327,000,000 people = $1.53 per person, not $1 million per person.
Multiple people keep stating this fact to a fb friend and she keeps telling everyone they are doing the math wrong ;D
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and of course with the virus being reported then to be spread by saying "hello" without a mask or touching the same elevator buttons,
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and with the sheets and stuff from their youthful love being handled by Housekeeping, with no hand washing before Housekeeping would enter my room and hit my sheets so to speak, as their room would have been cleaned just before mine,
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Aww, the stubborn fb poster just agreed that we were right :)
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I figured why not be safe and pass on Housekeeping and tidy up myself while the neighbors are clearly in their room being like any late-20s-something couple who were so lovey-dovey in the hall and leaving champagne bottles from room service for cleaning - meaning to use a euphemism, they were very likely screwing like jackrabbits given how romantic they always were,
and since we still really didn't know how easy it was to catch the virus, which was said to be transmitted on cruises from the same buffet
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So that's how I got 750 extra hotel points and helped the environment.
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The one weird aspect of the AirBnB I stayed at is that the owners seem to be millennials, who have made top sheets obsolete. The bed just had a comforter and a fitted sheet.
Is that an environmental thing?
At the hotel I was at recently, they offered 250 extra points for every day forgoing cleaning the room, which was cool since I was there 6 nights and really didn't need housekeeping every day, except to get the coffee stuff refilled.
Offering points was nice. Usually there is something to leave on the bed if you want your sheets changed.
The points are a lovely incentive. They gave a little tag to hang on the door,
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So that's how I got 750 extra hotel points and helped the environment.
Excellent.
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At a Westin in Tampa, they said any towels you leave on the bathroom floor will be replaced, any not on the floor will not be replaced. But no points incentive.,
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Here’s a story on it.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.yahoo.com/amphtml/lifestyle/death-top-sheet-181200512.html
It makes me think of The King and I, "Mischief Maker Top Sheet." (instead of Topsy)
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Of course, e now know , that it's safe if you're under 60, but if you're over 60, don't even shake hands with anyone.
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Easy travels to John G!
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If I get us to page 4, will my E&T-ness be replaced by a respectable daily posting average?
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I'm wondering if there really will be inventive masks for Purim.
Maybe concerns about Hamantashen particles escaping
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I hope the market is monitoring the Hamantashen shortage issue, The supply they have does not seem like enough to last until Tuesday.
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Is it page 4?
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OMG! Four pages.
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I just spent the past three hours revising and polishing a story, only to accidentally delete it while I was trying to save it. How frustrating.
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Vexing, irritating, also. And how maladroit.
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Okay, this is unbelievable.
Last night it was announced that one employee of Danbury Hospital (who also works in Norwalk hospital) was exposed. He or she lives over in NY state. I have no idea whether that person is even sick. But it has apparently sent this region into a tailspin, because look what Nathan just found at BJ's in the TP & PT aisle.
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Kristi's over in Rhode Island and she'll pick up supplies there.
I now feel like we're in a 1960s sci-fi film or a Twilight Zone episode.
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The dentist grabbed the chart and said “ah yes...I see the notes that. This was a temporary fuxabd the tooth needed a root canal and crown...it should have been dines years ago...you got five years out of that temporary well done!”
Yikes! Does "fuxabd" have a meaning similar to what it looks like, or was that a typo?
OMG!
Well everyone who is anyone knows fuxabd is the way trendy, hip and happening people say “fix and” on the inter webs....
Typo. Pshaw! Who do you think you’re talking to?
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::)
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Here’s a story on it.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.yahoo.com/amphtml/lifestyle/death-top-sheet-181200512.html
I’ve been doing that way ever since Vixdad arrived . As long as you have a removable washable duvet cover
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Of course, e now know , that it's safe if you're under 60, but if you're over 60, don't even shake hands with anyone.
Good to know....I’ll just be going with my usual 5 minute snog then
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https://www.google.com/search?q=snog+meaning&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari
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Oh goodness I passed a plateau without noticing
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Assuming 54000 is a plateau
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Although in my case there so no plateauing just a steady climb to the Peak of Tediousness
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Ok time to go to Brooklyn
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Laters!
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So, my next thing is playing Keyboard 1 in "The Drowsy Chaperone". That runs for two weeks at a high school near New Haven I hadn't been familiar with, but it seems they have a great theater and musical department and they always have a full pit for the shows.
Spring musical season is great for us free-lancers. That and "Willy Wonka" are two good solid gigs for yrs truly. If someone called me for a late May slot, I could make it a trifecta.
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Following up on the paper towel (we're fine on TP) saga, Home Depot had plenty in stock, so we're all set for a few weeks.
I suspect the biggest runs would be on the warehouse clubs like Costco and BJ's. That's where people expect to buy large, and the towns that have these stores get thronged with outsiders on weekends anyway.
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At a Westin in Tampa, they said any towels you leave on the bathroom floor will be replaced, any not on the floor will not be replaced. But no points incentive.,
That sounds typical. I have still found used towels left on the rack replaced.
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Here’s a story on it.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.yahoo.com/amphtml/lifestyle/death-top-sheet-181200512.html
I’ve been doing that way ever since Vixdad arrived . As long as you have 2 removable washable duvet cover
Makes sense it was what Vixdad was used to.
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DR Chas is BJ's like Costco?
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We stopped for a few items at Safeway today. The paper & cleaning shelves were fully stocked again except for sanitizer.
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I hope the market is monitoring the Hamantashen shortage issue, The supply they have does not seem like enough to last until Tuesday.
This seems pandemic worthy.
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I have arrived in Denver.
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DR JOHN G did you wear flowers in your hair?
I forgot.
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DR Chas is BJ's like Costco?
Yep. Some difference in products and brands carried, but same deal. I've had a Costco membership since the local store opened in 1993, and Kristi & Nathan joined BJ's when they opened here a few years ago. So whatever we want at either one, we're covered.
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I've also got two sets of auditions coming up. One is next weekend, for a production of "Addams Family", and the other is three days in April for the local outdoor summer theater that's doing "Sound of Music", "Edwin Drood", and "In the Heights". These should result in an interesting selection of songs being brought in.
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Saturday afternoon greetings! We're going to a lecture at Miami University in Oxford this evening. I've done my ankle exercises once today and may try to get another set in before we leave in time to stop for dinner at Skyline Chili on the way.
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TOD:
I spent my early teens watching Jon Jory direct at Actors Theater of Louisville. One month, he would direct a crackerjack revival of Wodehouse’s The Play’s the Thing or Barrie’s What Every Woman Knows and the next, he’d be all over the place with a misbegotten Cyrano or Julius Caesar. I don’t know why some succeeded and others failed, but I have such a warm feeling for those days. The Humana New Plays Festival introduced me to new works like Gin Game and Agnes of God. I saw Shaw, Fugard, Preston Jones, Ayckbourn, a special Morning’s at Seven, and so much more.
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So, my next thing is playing Keyboard 1 in "The Drowsy Chaperone". That runs for two weeks at a high school near New Haven I hadn't been familiar with, but it seems they have a great theater and musical department and they always have a full pit for the shows.
Spring musical season is great for us free-lancers. That and "Willy Wonka" are two good solid gigs for yrs truly. If someone called me for a late May slot, I could make it a trifecta.
Are they actually going to do the spit-take in this virus time?
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I've also got two sets of auditions coming up. One is next weekend, for a production of "Addams Family", and the other is three days in April for the local outdoor summer theater that's doing "Sound of Music", "Edwin Drood", and "In the Heights". These should result in an interesting selection of songs being brought in.
I read on Theatermania that "In the heights" was the musical that Mayor Pete named when asked what was his favorite musical.
(Twelfth Night was his favorite play.)
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Hello, everyone.
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Good news from DR Ginny!
So glad you're seeing improvement and able to be out and about more. Do you feel that the exercises did the trick? I believe you had said that the boot didn't seem to help much.
Vibes for continued improvement!
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The Miss Fisher movie will play at the Cinema Village next Friday, so I will need to plan my itinerary to make the trip downtown.
Lucky you! I'll be streaming it.
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Well I got up at 7 showered, washed my hair, blew it dry and dressed and made it to my dentist appointment by 7
Vixmom is a real whiz in the morning. She did all that in no time. ;)
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Then I stopped st the local Walgreens and bought the last two packages of Sambucol dissolving tablets and two zinc am nose sprays
I'm glad there was still some available. I find that most of these things are sold out by now. Maybe Walgreen's is making an extra effort to keep them on the shelves.
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DR JOHN G I saw a lovely play at the Humana Festival one year called LLOYD'S PRAYER.....
And another one that same season that was awful.....about the carving of Mt Rushmore using kitchen chairs as the mountain......
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I just watched downsizing with Matt Damon. I hadn't read too much about it - just assumed I knew what it was about.....but it wasn't about that....I liked it.
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The dentist grabbed the chart and said “ah yes...I see the notes that. This was a temporary fuxabd the tooth needed a root canal and crown...it should have been dines years ago...you got five years out of that temporary well done!”
This was the reaction I was expecting, but withou the praise.
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And two over easy eggs with some Fox
Lint and a slice of Muenster melted on it for me
Fox lint? As in little tuffs of hair from a fox? And I thought that DR John G ate exotic food!
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The one weird aspect of the AirBnB I stayed at is that the owners seem to be millennials, who have made top sheets obsolete. The bed just had a comforter and a fitted sheet.
I was about to ask if the AirBnb is in Albany (near Berkeley), as some friends of mine have one there, but they are definitely NOT millennials!
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At a Westin in Tampa, they said any towels you leave on the bathroom floor will be replaced, any not on the floor will not be replaced. But no points incentive.,
I've always felt that changing the sheets and towels every night is a bit silly. On one cruise we asked them to only replace the dirty towels (on the floor), but they replaced everything every time. I'm pleased to see them giving customers options and rewards.
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Okay, this is unbelievable.
Last night it was announced that one employee of Danbury Hospital (who also works in Norwalk hospital) was exposed. He or she lives over in NY state. I have no idea whether that person is even sick. But it has apparently sent this region into a tailspin, because look what Nathan just found at BJ's in the TP & PT aisle.
That is indeed an OMG!
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The panic shopping is actually quite good for business at the large warehouse stores. Costco reported that their sales were up over 12% last month over the same time period a year ago, and they attribute 3% of it to the coronavirus. Of course, sales will slow once the pandemic is over as people will be using all the stuff they stockpiled.
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TTFN.
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I'm up, I'm up - nine hours of sleep, did stuff, answered stuff, picked up a package but no important envelope, so I've sent an e-mail about that.
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Went to Ralph's and got a huge crab leg thing - expensive but lots of meat and almost zero calories. Also got shrimp. Lines were reasonable, but certain types were buying only two things had had carts loaded with them - toilet paper and water. Plenty available.
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Just landed in SA.
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Back to reality
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Beginning with eating an entire orange I have eaten too many foods today that only make me sick.
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Now I am in pain.
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Fortunately I know it will pass and it is my own fault.
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I am going to relax with a heating pad.
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I have a newbie iTunes question, for BK or DR Elmore or whoever is good at this.
BK, for instance, loads CDs into iTunes (and probably has the world’s largest library). Is all of this music local and playable only on the Mac, or is it in the “cloud” and accessible via iPhone or iPad?
Also, when loading new music, do you keep it in its original format, let it convert to mp3 or some other compressed format, or what? I’m trying to imagine the storage space involved.
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I'm not sure about the cloud thing and I should probably check on the phone to see what's what. I used to load in everything as AIFFs but they take up way too much space on the computer, so I do the higher-quality mp3s, which take up not much at all and sound fine to me.
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Home after a nice dinner with some of the weirdest ice cream that I've yet tasted: pink peppercorn-fennel. Didn't taste fennel. Just tasted an odd caramelization of something that just didn't work.
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Good night, all.
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Back from Brooklyn
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I met Mariaand we had a nice dinner at a place called Black Forest
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Pork Schnitzel with spaetzle and sauerkraut and lovely mushroom gravy
Apple strudel with vanilla ice cream for dessert
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Then we went to see Gnit
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Since it’s a Will Eno play it was quirky and thought provoking and funny when you least expected it
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During intermission we ran into Will Eno at intermission. Maria had met him several times before and he recognized her, she introduced me and we all had a nice chat
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So that was fun
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Then I drove Maria home and then drove me home
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The coffee urn return to Walmart didn’t happen
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Guess that’s a Sunday job
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Home after a nice dinner with some of the weirdest ice cream that I've yet tasted: pink peppercorn-fennel. Didn't taste fennel. Just tasted an odd caramelization of something that just didn't work.
;D
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The coffee urn return to Walmart didn’t happen
I was wondering which activity you would have to slip ;)
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The clocks have sprung forward. Maybe I can convince myself it is time to sleep.
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Watched a motion picture, and now listening to music. I forgot we lose an hour tonight.
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Home after a nice dinner with some of the weirdest ice cream that I've yet tasted: pink peppercorn-fennel. Didn't taste fennel. Just tasted an odd caramelization of something that just didn't work.
It seems so strange when anything about ice cream doesn't work, but fennel could do it.
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That sounds exciting. Will Eno was there? Is it in previews and he's still working on it
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Good evening.
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Thank you all (probably FJL) for the nice posting total.
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It is nice not to have to turn my brain on.
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Tomorrow we start rehearsals.
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I am called every night of the first two weeks of rehearsal.
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Good night.
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And now I am looking at a root canal and crown
:o NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
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I've never had a root canal and hope to never have one.
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Tomorrow we start rehearsals.
Break Legs and Tires, Tom! ;D
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Today, my family had our weekly family dinner.
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We all had different things to eat...which is fine. :)
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My sister's boyfriend and I had a couple of chicken sausages and (instant) mashed potatoes.
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I actually like instant mashed potatoes, so I was happy.
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My niece and mom had homemade spring rolls with shrimp.
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:P
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I don't know what my dad had (he ate before I got there).
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Then we played the ubiquitous Phase 10.
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PAGE SEVEN PHASE 10 DANCE!!
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71Fe425lmsL._AC_SL1500_.jpg)
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I lost both games...as usual.
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After dinner, Larry (my sister's boyfriend) came over to my place and updated the drivers on my Windows XP computer so that I can record programs from my other DVR to make Blu-rays. :D