I would like to purchase the full score of Follies, but at $800 for the two volumes, it's not in the cards at the moment.
DR John G, your package arrived yesterday. Thank you!
I would like to purchase the full score of Follies, but at $800 for the two volumes, it's not in the cards at the moment.
Et moi aussi!
Thank you dear folks. Mrs R had a much better day yesterday. All seems good. Just some jaw pain remains.
Thank you dear folks. Mrs R had a much better day yesterday. All seems good. Just some jaw pain remains.
My son and his classmates had such a love for their teacher last year, she agreed to meet up with some of them for ice cream yesterday because she misses them too. I think teacher and kids both know odds are next year can’t be as good as what they had.
Feel better, JRand.
Ha a bit on the queasy side today for some reason.....
I have Flonased. It does open up the sinuses quickly.
The revision is done. The book is back with the editor.
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I paid $550 for a copy of a very limited privately printed book dealing with a branch of my family - the pharmaceutical Upjohns - that was out of print. I found it on eBay and snatched it up. This was years ago now.
I thought it seemed pretty warm yesterday. This morning I read that we hit 118 degrees.
At 5:25a.m., it's 96 degrees. I'm skipping my walk today. Too hot.
So, DR Laura... is it a dry heat? 8)
My new insurance has me frustrated.
I came home yesterday and sat with the heating pad on my back. I can walk for miles, but standing several hours seems to be harder.
Thank you dear folks. Mrs R had a much better day yesterday. All seems good. Just some jaw pain remains.
My son and his classmates had such a love for their teacher last year, she agreed to meet up with some of them for ice cream yesterday because she misses them too. I think teacher and kids both know odds are next year can’t be as good as what they had.
I’m having tomato sandwiches for lunch. A friend gave me a loaf of homemade bread and I picked up some tomatoes that taste like tomatoes. Mayo, salt and dill.
The revision is done. The book is back with the editor.
DR Laura - we have a cushioned runner in our kitchen (are they called fatigue mats?) that helps a lot with sustained standing.
TOD:
I paid $550 for a copy of a very limited privately printed book dealing with a branch of my family - the pharmaceutical Upjohns - that was out of print. I found it on eBay and snatched it up. This was years ago now.
I've told this before, but DR JRand74 mentioned his, so...
The One That Got Away
I bought my 1st printing of Atlas Shrugged in great shape with a wholly intact dust jacket for $1 at a Goodwill while on a visit to Miami in 1980. I wasn't into collecting books at all then, but I knew even then that it was a prized volume. I also knew very little then about protecting valuable books, but I was a careful person and it was with me in good shape for a couple of years ... when one of my best friends at the time asked if he could borrow it. And then I moved east, a tumultuous time when we all literally lost track of each other and I had plenty of other things on my mind.
Folks, never loan a valuable book. :)
Years later I found another copy of it, also in great shape, 9th or 11th printing, I forget (it's in a box where I can't get at it to check right now), and I keep it just as a reminder of that lesson and as an angry fist shaken in the general direction of the universe.
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TOD: Autographed and numbered "My Passion for Design" by Barbra S. Suggested price, I think, was $500 but I got it from Barnes and Noble for something like $270.
I'm up, I'm up - nine and a half hours of good sleep - weird dreams having to do with The Three Stooges. I mean, REALLY?
Yes DR JANE. Originally the main bathroom and the furnace room/laundry were two room....main bathroom entrance in the hall, laundry entrance from the kitchen.
In our remodel we took the wall down between them - then extended the kitchen wall and put in French exit doors to the deck.
So now you can sit on the convenience and look at your reflection in the dryer door.
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I would like to purchase the full score of Follies, but at $800 for the two volumes, it's not in the cards at the moment.
Goddamned Amazon! When I put together my Amazon Fresh order, Amazon posted a charge of $87.47 to my credit card, stating the fee included possible additional item. After the order was delivered, Amazon posted an actual charge of $76.06, but the $87 charge is still there and I am now over my credit limit.
I called the card customer service to get the charge removed; they tell me I need t seal to Amazon cistomer service. So I did, and they tell me I need to speak to the credit card people. WTF?
I came home yesterday and sat with the heating pad on my back. I can walk for miles, but standing several hours seems to be harder.
My son and his classmates had such a love for their teacher last year, she agreed to meet up with some of them for ice cream yesterday because she misses them too. I think teacher and kids both know odds are next year can’t be as good as what they had.
Good morning! Last night I finally got to see I Confess on the big screen as part of the Stanford Theatre's Hitchcock festival. That was way better than watching it on my iPad.
This was the last of the 3 Hitchcock movies that my 2nd cousin once removed was involved with. He started out as co-producer, as with Rope and Under Capricorn but left midway through and took his name off the credits.
The revision is done. The book is back with the editor.
I don't think I've paid a fortune (or anything much over list price) for a book or score, but I definitely have a few things that are worth much more now.
One of my better book "holdings" is a huge 3-volume Chinese-American dictionary published early in the last century. We have some Chinese artifacts in the family and it attracted my interest at a library book sale where it was priced at $100. I went home, did a bit of research on it, and decided if it was still there the next day, which was to be their half-price day, I'd buy it. It was, and I did. It flew right under the radar. For my $50 I got what seems to be an exceedingly rare volume, a lessor edition of which was priced at $2K-$3K online, and this was a good 15 years ago. I should check it again.
I came home yesterday and sat with the heating pad on my back. I can walk for miles, but standing several hours seems to be harder.
I think standing is much harder than walking.
I've told this before, but DR JRand74 mentioned his, so...
The One That Got Away
I bought my 1st printing of Atlas Shrugged in great shape with a wholly intact dust jacket for $1 at a Goodwill while on a visit to Miami in 1980. I wasn't into collecting books at all then, but I knew even then that it was a prized volume. I also knew very little then about protecting valuable books, but I was a careful person and it was with me in good shape for a couple of years ... when one of my best friends at the time asked if he could borrow it. And then I moved east, a tumultuous time when we all literally lost track of each other and I had plenty of other things on my mind.
Folks, never loan a valuable book. :)
Years later I found another copy of it, also in great shape, 9th or 11th printing, I forget (it's in a box where I can't get at it to check right now), and I keep it just as a reminder of that lesson and as an angry fist shaken in the general direction of the universe.
That was a hard lesson to learn. At one point I stopped lending books as people didn't return them or lost them. Later I began lending them again, if I didn't care if it was lost.
I just received a pair of shoes from Amazon, except it wasn’t a pair. The box was open and one shoe was missing.
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TOD: Autographed and numbered "My Passion for Design" by Barbra S. Suggested price, I think, was $500 but I got it from Barnes and Noble for something like $270.
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Good for you, DR George!
Most expensive books I ever got were college textbooks.
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Keith also got it in six. His 3rd, 4th, & 5th lines were only missing the first letter.
Good morning! Last night I finally got to see I Confess on the big screen as part of the Stanford Theatre's Hitchcock festival. That was way better than watching it on my iPad.This was the last of the 3 Hitchcock movies that my 2nd cousin once removed was involved with. He started out as co-producer, as with Rope and Under Capricorn but left midway through and took his name off the credits.
Oh, my! :o
Hoping Claritin-D arrives soon before I have a full-blown allergy attack.
I might stay to watch the whole show this time. We'll see how I feel in the moment. I am ushering a couple of time in the next couple of weeks, so this isn't my last chance to see it. :)
Claritin-D has arrived and been taken.
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Do not lend your books to others, because they will not return them to you.
The books in my library are those that have been lent to me by others.
- Anatole France
So far I think I'm liking each week's film better than the next, but this week and last week's were mighty close.
Next week also wraps up the Hitchcock festival at the Stanford Theatre, so I'm hoping to see Marnie and The Birds both for the first time - and maybe the other films in the double bills, we'll see. I'll probably see The Trouble With Harry since I'm not sure if I've seen it before, but I'll likely skip Vertigo as I've seen it pretty recently.
Jrand, I've written about Artur Rodzinski here many, many times - one of my favorites and who I named the Creature Wasn't Nice character after.
I thought of my most expensive book. A Joel Whitburn reference book of every song to ever make the Billboard Hot 100 from 1955-2005.
I thought of my most expensive book. A Joel Whitburn reference book of every song to ever make the Billboard Hot 100 from 1955-2005.
Very cool, Rodzinski.