Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on February 27, 2022, 12:24:46 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes were good and productive, and now it is time for you to post until the good and productive cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: ARBITRARY!
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Good morning, all!
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I had a pretty good night of sleep, but I have no memory of a single dream. Faithful Annabelle slept by my side until sometime after three she crawled under the blankets with me. At that time she proceeds to relax and take up 75% of the bed.
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I got a lot of printing of invoices accomplished yesterday. Today I must tackle a lot of Amazon invoices. Once that's finished, I will sort and file all the invoices I've printed under their subject matter: books, music, CDs, DVDds, subscriptions, etc.
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Good morning, friends.
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Thanks for stopping by last night, DR vixmom. I can't even imagine all the disruption you've been living through. Glad that is coming to a close.
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I had intended to listen to the CDs of LA Then and Now, but I discovered that my CD player, which I haven't sed in over six months, is no longer a living thing and in need of disposal. Sadly, I cannot afford a new player, much less a CD, so that has to wait.
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So, I downloaded LA Then and Now into my iTunes while I listened to McGlinn's unreleased Babes in Toyland. I'll listen to it this morning as I print invoices.
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DR vixmom, I've missed you. Please come back more often.
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Also, when you and vixdad go shopping for your new matteress and box springs, do not get arrested for trying them out.
You put ideas inside my head
To make me order a double bed
With an extra spriong
You've got that thing!
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Good morning, all.
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Whew. Dead tired this morning, but a cinnamon roll and coffee are beginning to revive me.
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Good to see vixmom here, and glad to hear the repairs are getting done in what seems to be a timely manner. What a horrible set of damages that was.
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Thank you for that link, DR JRand71. Talk about an unwelcome proposition. Here's what "my" site is still showing for the latter part of the week as of this moment, and -- well, damn it to HELL, I do rather hope my team wins. :)
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Good morning, all.
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After four days with highs in the 30s, today is supposed to get up to 67.
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It should get to around 45 here today, which will feel like another welcome false spring. Especially in comparison with yesterday's sub-freezing temps in the middle of the day.
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Following today's matinee and the two shows yesterday, this evening is going to feel like a damned vacation. And the next four days are to be precious ME days, with plenty to ketchup on and for learning to play Chicago - which, oddly enough, will be my first ever time to play the show. It will also be my first ever "high school edition" to witness, let alone play. I glanced at the Piano 1 book but I don't know it well enough to tell what the differences will be from the main show. Doesn't matter. It's going to be a fun one-week gig.
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In the meantime, I *continue* to find and correct mistakes (and unreadable blobs) in my book in this early sixties reduced touring orchestration. It's for ten players and no one gets a real break at any time in the show. I know our brass players' faces will be welcoming a return to "normal" parts.
I would LOVE to hear a production with the original orchestration sometime. And hopefully by then it would be played from DR Elmore's critical edition.
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Okay, enough from this county. I hereby yield the floor, and hope all'a y'all have a nice day.
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Good morning.
This will be a busy day.
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Be wary, all:
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Ha! Happy ME day for MR BK.
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Invoice printing vibes for DR ELMORE.
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Matinee vibes for DR CHAS SMITH.
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It was very nice to see DR VIXMOM last night. I am happy that her home is getting back to normal - construction wise.
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We are expecting temperatures in the mid 40's today leading into the 60's next week.
I'll take it.
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Before I could get to work, I had to clean up the mess that Thatch or Stella made of my worktable and the floor below it since yesterday. I took care of that, then cleaned up all the clutter on the table so I have a good tax station.
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Why is it that whebn you wait for the stick of butter to soften, it never does?
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Well, duh!
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Page TWO
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Happy Sunday to everyone. There's a new Broadway Radio Show up on this site for your listening pleasure. It's New Releases for Winter 2022....cast recordings, vocalists, jazz, cabaret....lots of wonderful music for you to sample and hopefully purchase! Check it out.
http://www.haineshisway.com/the-broadway-radio-show-2/
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Good morning.
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Still catching up from being gone last week.
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Leonard is finally speaking to me again.
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We went to see a local production of Singing in the Rain yesterday afternoon.
It was a vaccine and masked production only. I'd like to continue this a while longer.
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How good is your daughter at Wordle, DR Laura?
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I have made it past the halfway point of Burning Boy, Paul Auster's biography of Stephen Crane.
It raises a question about biographies of writers. Do you like biographies that assume you've read everything a writer has written and only provide a little about each work? Or do you like those where every work is examined minutely, down to the last comma?
At 783 pages, Burning Boy is the obviously the latter.
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From TCB:
I think it is the dog that has been photoshopped.
Except I saw the same dog doing this to a different face.
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Leonard is finally speaking to me again.
;D
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DR Laura did you have a good vacation?
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We had a great time on vacation. Our feet still hurt.
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Soooo,
I told them at church where we were going and that I wouldn't be back in person today. Just in case we picked up covid on vacation.
The sound booth person (who wouldn't allow anyone else to learn the sound booth because he didn't want to be replaced) was up north skiing today. They wanted me to come in to run it, but I told them not this weekend.
I watched on zoom. It was a disaster. Maybe they will learn to train multiple people.
Natural consequences.
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I'm thinking if we were exposed to covid we'd start feeling sick today or tomorrow. So far so good. Which amazes me, frankly.
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DR Elmore, to soften butter quickly, put it in the microwave and open the microwave every ten seconds and give it a quarter turn.
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Today's sermon was mostly about fasting for Lent.
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Next week is the church spring picnic.
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Everything is now printed, and I have two days of tallying to face. On top of that, my new keyboard has gone to hell. Oy!
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We had a great time on vacation. Our feet still hurt.
Wonderful and ;D
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Soooo,
I told them at church where we were going and that I wouldn't be back in person today. Just in case we picked up covid on vacation.
The sound booth person (who wouldn't allow anyone else to learn the sound booth because he didn't want to be replaced) was up north skiing today. They wanted me to come in to run it, but I told them not this weekend.
I watched on zoom. It was a disaster. Maybe they will learn to train multiple people.
Natural consequences.
I am proud of you for saying no.
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I'm thinking if we were exposed to covid we'd start feeling sick today or tomorrow. So far so good. Which amazes me, frankly.
Did you wear masks inside? From what I am reading things are getting better. I suspect mask requirements will be greatly reduced. I hope not too soon.
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The wonderful vet from Romanian Animal Rescue International has been doing live reports from the border. It is extremely cold there and volunteers have been there for over 20 hours, as well as evacuees waiting to cross the border. There are buses and private volunteers offering to drive people to Bucharest. He has room for 3 people.
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Once across the border volunteers are handing out hot drinks, toiletries and other essentials, and stuffed toys for the children. I think he is checking on the pets, which for the most part have been healthy. He did as people to share a post for a dog that will need help, medically & financially, to have a tumor removed once arriving in Istanbul-wow.
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He did one live, and obviously angry, video in Romanian. It seems his initial calm attitude has changed to anger over the length of time it is taking for people to cross the border in the freezing weather.
At least it isn't snowing or raining.
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It is 10:00pm in Romania and the vet is heading back to Bucharest with only two passengers, a man and his dog that needs medical help. The vets hospital in Bucharest is just for dogs like this and Isaac, the dog, will receive the best of care.
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I'm up, I'm up - eight hours of sleep.
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Sunday afternoon greetings! Just sitting here watching Michigan lose badly to Illinois on the basketball court.
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I should have but didn't realize people are crossing by boat, which is why the vet is so upset. He posted a short translation of his video.
"Isaccea border point -crossing is too slow and people freeze waiting to get to Romania. I have spoken to people that have been waiting for two days to cross the Danube to safety. Pls share!"
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I'm thinking if we were exposed to covid we'd start feeling sick today or tomorrow. So far so good. Which amazes me, frankly.
Did you wear masks inside? From what I am reading things are getting better. I suspect mask requirements will be greatly reduced. I hope not too soon.
We wore N95 masks from the time we got to security until we were walking back to the motel. Inside and out.
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Did others do the same, or at least wear some kind of mask?
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One person made a comment about our wearing masks.
She said she was a PA and noted that it's difficult to wear an N95 for so many hours straight. She appreciated our seriousness about the situation. She was also wearing one.
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Did others do the same, or at least wear some kind of mask?
Very few people wore masks at all.
We did notice that most Asian people wore masks. They seem to understand the concept of protecting the health of the public.
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We were lucky that Omicron peaked when it did. Otherwise we would have rescheduled again.
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I cut short my participation in visitation. I had already had lunch with the family at the church, so the visitation is for others to pay their condolences to the family.
Frankly, I do not require any condolences, but it was very good to see the turnout at the stroke of 3 p.m. My back has been giving me fits and starts all morning. I have done all the medicating I dare do, and I just needed to sequester myself in a comfy chair where I could sit for as long as I like.
So, I said my goodbyes and headed home. Now that I am here, I want nothing more than to lie down and nap.
Ah, me.
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Other members of the family expressed their thoughts that our last two big get-togethers were for deaths of my aunt and this one for my uncle. We don't foresee many, if any, opportunities to gather us all together again.
It might happen, but no one is currently stepping up to the plate to make it happen. This may come, in time, and I'll be happy to help.
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Did others do the same, or at least wear some kind of mask?
Very few people wore masks at all.
We did notice that most Asian people wore masks. They seem to understand the concept of protecting the health of the public.
I suspected as much. Supposedly they lifted the mask requirement for vaccinated visitors. I am sure all those people were vaccinated ::)
I now feel guilty for not wearing a mask in Asia when I had a cold.
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We were lucky that Omicron peaked when it did. Otherwise we would have rescheduled again.
Very lucky.
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Duck musings...
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Next week is the church spring picnic.
;D
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So, this morning we had a paper tech for The Bold, the Young, and the Murdered.
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Then at noon, we started the first full run with lights and sound...which I just finished (mostly) this morning.
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This is where I sit in the tech deck:
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Back to rehearsal!
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a cinnamon roll
Speaking of same, a work colleague just told me the other day that when she was growing up, a traditional school lunch pairing in South Dakota was a cinnamon roll and a bowl of chili.
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~~~RUN-THROUGH VIBES~~~ for DR George and Company!
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Is this the equivalent of using your treadmill as a clothes hanger?
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~~~RUN-THROUGH VIBES~~~ for DR George and Company!
Thanks, Singdaw! Act one went well...for it being the very first time!
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It's in a good place. :)
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~~~RUN-THROUGH VIBES~~~ for DR George and Company!
Thanks, Singdaw! Act one went well...for it being the very first time!
Good.
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Just finished act two. It was a little rougher, but it'll get there.
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The NYC Ukrainian chorus, Dumica, opened SNL last night; moving and very beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjE4_h0t7qI
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The NYC Ukrainian chorus, Dumica, opened SNL last night; moving and very beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjE4_h0t7qI
I saw that. It was.
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And now, we're running the show again.
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~~~RUN-THROUGH VIBES~~~ for DR George and Company!
I read that as Fun-Through. So fun-through and run-through vibes for DR George and Company.
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I'm almost through with episode three of Peaky Blinders. Don't think I'll put in the second disc. Though it is well acted, the series is cold to the point that I don't care about any of the characters. I don't even feel like putting on the last episode to see how things work out.
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~~~RUN-THROUGH VIBES~~~ for DR George and Company!
I read that as Fun-Through. So fun-through and run-through vibes for DR George and Company.
Thanks, John!
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Just made a huge crock o' chili. Trying a new (to me) Instant Pot recipe.
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I haven't bought an Instant Pot or an air fryer. Or a microwave. Or a mini-waffle maker in the shape of Texas. Or really much of anything kitchen appliance wise since I replaced the electric kettle.
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Onward!
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Four!
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Watching Baz Luhrmann's version of La Boheme at the Sydney Opera House. Amazing how all of these poor starving artists can afford clean clothing in the brightest colors imaginable.
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I bought that cast CD for $1.25 DR JOHN G at the Dollar (25) Tree last month.
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That's a nice set up DR GEORGE.
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I bought that cast CD for $1.25 DR JOHN G at the Dollar (25) Tree last month.
Did you overspend?
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The singing is effective. The orchestra sublime. The staging overblown.
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I forgot Radio Days from my lists yesterday. I consider it a musical and it may be my favorite Woody Allen movie.
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That's a nice set up DR GEORGE.
It is!
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And now, we're done!
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The director liked all the music and sound effects choices that I made, so that was nice to hear. :)
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Gratuitous Post #100!
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I just need to get the doorbell sound (I forgot to to add that to my flashdrive), combine a thunder sound with a gunshot so that they're one cue, and find more music for the pre-show and intermission, then it's all done!
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Apple Music is promoting the soundtrack to Harold and Maude. I don't remember seeing this on CD before. I wonder if they released one when the movie first came out (1971?).
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And now, I'm heading home.
Be back later!
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Come back, come back, DR George! :-*
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Hello, 5 Guests!
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Do you have a pet?
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DR John G., have you continued to watch The Guilded Age? So many Broadway actors.
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Lucky #108
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Superfluous #109
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Spontaneous #110
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Furtive #111
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Guileless #112
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Smarmy #113 (see the Randy Vicar for details)
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Surreptitious #114
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Superstitious #115
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Elliptical #116
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Oblong #117
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Vituperous #118
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Clandestine #119
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AT LAST! PAGE FIVE!
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I feel your pain...
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Here's to the media - stoking fear and panic twenty-four hours a day when anything is negative - but mask mandates in LA go away as of last Friday - crickets. I would not have known if I hadn't looked it up.
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I pain your feel.
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I fain your peel.
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The chili came out OK. It's not terribly strong. Despite dumping in what I thought was an inordinate amount of chili powder that the recipe called for. I guess I could still add more. I used tempeh instead of beef.
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And lots of beans. I think many Texans frown on that.
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:)
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It is taking forever for my phone to recharge.
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Here's to the media - stoking fear and panic twenty-four hours a day when anything is negative - but mask mandates in LA go away as of last Friday - crickets. I would not have known if I hadn't looked it up.
Last Friday :o
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'night
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Good night, friends.
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SNL did another of its musical spoofs last night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJJEW2q2F50
For better or worse.
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Hello, 1 guest!
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Good night, all.
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Come back, come back, DR George! :-*
I'm back.
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I'd been working on more pre-show and intermission music, but I need to edit the WAV files...that's what's taking so long. ::)
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I have decided to give up anchovies for Lent.
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Did others do the same, or at least wear some kind of mask?
Very few people wore masks at all.
We did notice that most Asian people wore masks. They seem to understand the concept of protecting the health of the public.
The last time I was in Asia (like maybe 15 years ago) the majority of Asians were already wearing masks.
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I think a lot of it was because of air pollution.
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a cinnamon roll
Speaking of same, a work colleague just told me the other day that when she was growing up, a traditional school lunch pairing in South Dakota was a cinnamon roll and a bowl of chili.
That was our standard Thursday lunch in the Tacoma school district - Chili and a big cinnamon roll. At my grade school, we had great cinnamon rolls.
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a cinnamon roll
Speaking of same, a work colleague just told me the other day that when she was growing up, a traditional school lunch pairing in South Dakota was a cinnamon roll and a bowl of chili.
That was our standard Thursday lunch in the Tacoma school district - Chili and a big cinnamon roll. At my grade school, we had great cinnamon rolls.
I don't remember ever having cinnamon rolls when I was in school. :(
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But, I'm old now...I can buy one whenever I want!
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I just need to get the doorbell sound (I forgot to to add that to my flashdrive), combine a thunder sound with a gunshot so that they're one cue, and find more music for the pre-show and intermission, then it's all done!
The overture from GYPSY is always a good addition to pre-show music.
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I just need to get the doorbell sound (I forgot to to add that to my flashdrive), combine a thunder sound with a gunshot so that they're one cue, and find more music for the pre-show and intermission, then it's all done!
The overture from GYPSY is always a good addition to pre-show music.
That is great music, Tom! But Katelyn, the director, had the idea of using actual soap opera theme music for the pre-show and intermission. I've got more than 20 minutes or so of music (so far), but some of it is from very long YouTube videos and I need to manually break up the tracks and raise the volume on some. It's easy, but cumbersome.
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I'm figuring to use the same music from the pre-show in the intermission (and maybe in a different order), so I should be safe if can get at least another 15 minutes of music.
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Ariana DeBose was popping up everywhere this evening. First I watched her win the SAG award for WEST SIDE STORY. Then I watched more of that musical sitcom SNICKERDODDLE, and she was playing the schoolmarm.
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Did anyone watch the SAG Awards? I totally forgot that they were on tonight. ::)
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Obviously, I did.
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Tomorrow, I'll look up who won what at the SAG Awards.
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Page six!
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PAGE SIX SAG AWARDS DANCE!!
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Page six!
What he said. ;D
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Amazon has a whole bunch of soap opera theme CD’s!
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Amazon has a whole bunch of soap opera theme CD’s!
I looked, but they're mostly physical CDs and wouldn't get here for a week or two.
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I did find one that had downloadable MP3s, and I liked the 30-second samples, so I actually bought it. HOWEVER, what they were selling and what I got was only those 30-second samples!! :o
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It cost me $9.00+ and the actual tracks that were sold were the samples that anyone can listen (a Stephen Sondheim reference) to for FREE!! :P
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I left a one star review, but it hasn't shown up yet.