Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on August 29, 2025, 12:11:17 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes captured the zeitgeist of the high speed chase and the baked potato, and now it is time for you to post until the high on speed cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: INCISIVE!
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Topic of the Day: I received three, count 'em, THREE CDs in the mail yesterday! One was the 1956 original London cast recording to Grab Me a Gondola (https://castalbums.org/recordings/Grab-Me-a-Gondola-1956-Original-London-Cast/1945) (in preparation for the new recording due to be released next month that I've also ordered!), the 1995 original London cast recording of The Shakespeare Revue (https://castalbums.org/recordings/The-Shakespeare-Revue-1995-Original-London-Cast/3286) (featuring a young Janie Lee), and Seth MacFarlane's brand new Lush Life: The Lost Sinatra Arrangements (https://www.amazon.com/Lush-Life-Lost-Sinatra-Arrangements/dp/B0F64M45RS/):
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What's really cool (because I had no idea when i ordered either cast recording) is that one of the songs in the Shakespeare revue is actually from Grab Me a Gondola, and is sung by the young Janie
Lee Dee, "Cravin' for the Avon." :D
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After coming back from the ocean, I wanted to fill my gas tank. One place, a new convenient store owned by a local native tribe had regular unleaded at $3.85⁹/gallon. Nice price for around here. I drove to Costco, and they were at $3.99⁹! Big difference, but I did, however, go ahead and get gas there.
As I drove home after filling up, I saw that Safeway gas was $4.09⁹, Fred Meyer was at $4.05⁹ (with a guaranteed 3¢/gallon off with their rewards card, so $4.02⁹). And just kittycorner from Fred Meyer was Chevron at $4.49⁹/gallon! Why would anyone go there when it's SO much more expensive?? :o
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George, it was fun seeing the photos from your day trip yesterday! Thanks for posting them.
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Hope your mom feels better, and sorry she had to miss the trip.
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Good morning, all!
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Two days ago, I managed to get my right side of my shoulder and back out of whack, and I am in a great deal of pain. I spent the evening reading and lying on a heating pad, but it did little, and I'll spend much of today lying on that damned heating pad in hopes it loosens things up.
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There may be a book waiting got me in the mail room. Because our lousy post office is managed by morons, our mail deliveries can run any time between 11:00a.m. and 7:00p.m. It's ridiculous.
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DR George are you sure that isn't Janie Dee and not Janie Lee? When I was sure in 2021 the recording funding for Jubilee was coming through, I had cast Janie Dee as the Queen.
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Good morning, all.
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Must get packed and ready to go to west Texas for the weekend.
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Must get packed and ready to go to west Texas for the weekend.
Travel safely and have a good time, John G!
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Good morning, all.
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DR Rodzinski:
One must never leave an incomplete Waffle House post.
You must tell us what you had.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.
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Last night I watched Truffaut's Day for Night for the first time, well, I actually think since the 1970s. I appreciated it more than I ever remembered from back then. I'd actually started a li'l Truffaut retrospective several months ago when I went through the Antoine Doinel films, but I fell off the wagon. I shall do better, starting now. I watched a few of the supplements on the Criterion Blu-ray, but it was getting really late. So I'll finish those up later today, then decide what the next film will be. If I take it out and put it on the to-watch stack, it won't get forgotten.
I have a few CDs in the to-listen-to stack, but what are they? I forget, but one is the Charlie Brown release that BK was just posting about finding.
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That west coast gasoline pricing is outta sight, man. Of course we think ours is, too, based on the past. But yikes! How do y'all live with that?
Yesterday I saw that our local BJ's price had suddenly jumped a nickel from the previous day. Usually it goes up and down in one- or two-cent increments. But: a nickel. That means something's afoot and more could be coming. It also puts us in near-$3.00 territory again, at $2.94 (or fifteen cents less if you're vixmom).
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Between the Munch Box research, some Coffee Dan's research before that, and a couple of other things I've looked up based on posts in a couple of the L.A. groups, I've been down a sinkhole-size rabbit hole this week. It's addictive.
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How about the cost if a regular letter by post office jumping up 5 cents last month - to 78 cents?
Didn't that (maybe long ago) used to be by a penny or two at a time?
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I wonder what the gas prices are in west Texas. Will they be lower than in the big cities? DR John G. must give us a full repor!
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The book has indeed arrived at 202 West 82nd Street.
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DR George, I love the beach photos.
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I am going to make the bed, turn on the heating pad, and lie down.
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Last night I watched Truffaut's Day for Night for the first time, well, I actually think since the 1970s. I appreciated it more than I ever remembered from back then. I'd actually started a li'l Truffaut retrospective several months ago when I went through the Antoine Doinel films, but I fell off the wagon. I shall do better, starting now. I watched a few of the supplements on the Criterion Blu-ray, but it was getting really late. So I'll finish those up later today, then decide what the next film will be. If I take it out and put it on the to-watch stack, it won't get forgotten.
I have a few CDs in the to-listen-to stack, but what are they? I forget, but one is the Charlie Brown release that BK was just posting about finding.
I need to do that.
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I wonder what the gas prices are in west Texas. Will they be lower than in the big cities? DR John G. must give us a full repor!
If I remember.
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The consumption of spirits will take place this weekend.
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Time to finish packing.
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But first ….
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Two!
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Post Number 66 on Wednesday I did indeed write:
The book has arrived in Mooresville, Indiana!
I am on a publicity deadline so I will begin reading this evening.
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I think I may watch the Gina Lollobrigida version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame.....well I guess it is actually the Anthony Quinn version.....it's subtitled so I stopped watching it when it was on late at night.
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The doctor's office called yesterday. He is not worried about any of the numbers except the LOW platelet count.
So I will redo the labs on 11/28.
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The hardcover RICHARD AND ME is retrieved from the package room, and it's noted on the package that the package mom got it on 8/27.
The special gift is really really nice, and the fish-related inscription quite delightful!
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DR George, I'm sorry your mother wasn't able to join you yesterday. I hope she is feeling better today.
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I enjoyed reading about your trip.
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I enjoyed the photos.
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There is always candy in beach towns. Was there an old style shop?
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You didn't get any salt water taffy?
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Nice keychain.
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The creamy drink bottles are pretty.
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Jane - Millstone Alert: You're getting very close to 145,000
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From Bruce:
How did I ever get through the 1970s without even looking at a single drug?
If Alcoholic wasn't a drug I too could say this.
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After coming back from the ocean, I wanted to fill my gas tank. One place, a new convenient store owned by a local native tribe had regular unleaded at $3.85⁹/gallon. Nice price for around here. I drove to Costco, and they were at $3.99⁹! Big difference, but I did, however, go ahead and get gas there.
As I drove home after filling up, I saw that Safeway gas was $4.09⁹, Fred Meyer was at $4.05⁹ (with a guaranteed 3¢/gallon off with their rewards card, so $4.02⁹). And just kittycorner from Fred Meyer was Chevron at $4.49⁹/gallon! Why would anyone go there when it's SO much more expensive?? :o
Understandable when there aren't other stations around, totally unfathomable when next to lower priced stations.
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DR Rodzinski, enjoy your family visit.
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The doctor's office called yesterday. He is not worried about any of the numbers except the LOW platelet count.
So I will redo the labs on 11/28.
Mega vibes your LOW platelet count improves!
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Jane - Millstone Alert: You're getting very close to 145,000
Thanks for the alert.
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The doctor's office called yesterday. He is not worried about any of the numbers except the LOW platelet count.
So I will redo the labs on 11/28.
Sending lab test redo vibes three months in advance!
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Last night I watched Truffaut's Day for Night for the first time, well, I actually think since the 1970s. I appreciated it more than I ever remembered from back then. I'd actually started a li'l Truffaut retrospective several months ago when I went through the Antoine Doinel films, but I fell off the wagon. I shall do better, starting now. I watched a few of the supplements on the Criterion Blu-ray, but it was getting really late. So I'll finish those up later today, then decide what the next film will be. If I take it out and put it on the to-watch stack, it won't get forgotten.
I have a few CDs in the to-listen-to stack, but what are they? I forget, but one is the Charlie Brown release that BK was just posting about finding.
Ooh, I need to watch more Truffaut films too. All I know from Day for Night is the cat scene, which was hilarious! Based on that scene, I expect I'll enjoy that film more if I see more of the earlier Truffaut films first.
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DR John G, my limited experience is that community productions of Sweeney Todd tend to self-select good singers. So it's probably worth going to support your local companies doing Sondheim.
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Good morning.
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Last night I watched Truffaut's Day for Night for the first time, well, I actually think since the 1970s. I appreciated it more than I ever remembered from back then. I'd actually started a li'l Truffaut retrospective several months ago when I went through the Antoine Doinel films, but I fell off the wagon. I shall do better, starting now. I watched a few of the supplements on the Criterion Blu-ray, but it was getting really late. So I'll finish those up later today, then decide what the next film will be. If I take it out and put it on the to-watch stack, it won't get forgotten.
I have a few CDs in the to-listen-to stack, but what are they? I forget, but one is the Charlie Brown release that BK was just posting about finding.
Ooh, I need to watch more Truffaut films too. All I know from Day for Night is the cat scene, which was hilarious! Based on that scene, I expect I'll enjoy that film more if I see more of the earlier Truffaut films first.
I usually follow that logic when I'm doing a binge of a director's movies. I was thinking that when I watched 400 Blows, but the rest of the Doinel films interceded, and somewhere in there I watched Mississippi Mermaid and now Day for Night. So I've been all over the place with Truffaut, and I'll be stricter about it henceforth. Reset! Next up for me will be Shoot the Piano Player and I'll move forward from there.
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We got our lab draws this morning and are awaiting our results. Remember when you got it done two weeks before your appointment so the doctor would have them when you got there?
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Now we have the results before the doctor even sees them, within hours.
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We got our lab draws this morning and are awaiting our results. Remember when you got it done two weeks before your appointment so the doctor would have them when you got there?
Yes, and that doesn't happen for me now, either.
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We had rain overnight. Just a little bit. But I heard it.
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Wow, that's some blurb the new book by the Viertels got from Emma Thompson. Will she be involved with the movie version?
"I loved every bit of The Glass Eel: It’s part The Overstory, and then also a bit Mare of Eastwick, with a wondrous female lead. It is so absorbing to feel oneself there [on the Maine Coast] and surrounded by these very gritty people. I liked them so much. [The Viertels] write about [the natural world]―the tiny changes―the exquisite complexity and beauty of it all―all mashed over and tragically corrupted by man’s greed and ignorance. The battle between nature and human greed is beautifully and horribly well realized. The book is great. It’ll make a helluva film, too!"
― Emma Thompson
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Since page 3 is so close -
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PAGE THREE!
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Now we have the results before the doctor even sees them, within hours.
Yup. I like it so I can process the information and be prepared with questions.
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We got our lab draws this morning and are awaiting our results. Remember when you got it done two weeks before your appointment so the doctor would have them when you got there?
Yes, and that doesn't happen for me now, either.
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I usually do the labs first, certainly before I see my endocrinologist. I've gotten lazy with my primary and just wait to see what he decides to order.
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We had rain overnight. Just a little bit. But I heard it.
That is something.
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George, it was fun seeing the photos from your day trip yesterday! Thanks for posting them.
Thanks, Freddie, and you're welcome!
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Something posted on Twitter (currently known as X) that I just randomly came across:
Kurt Vonnegut talking to his wife about going out to get an envelope:
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(Assuming that it really was by Kurt Vonnegut.)
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Hope your mom feels better, and sorry she had to miss the trip.
Thanks, again. I'll find out tonight when we play cards at her house.
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It reminds me of that review of HELLO DOLLY as if written in the style of then attorney general William Barr - :)
"A woman enjoys a night out at her favorite restaurant."
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DR George are you sure that isn't Janie Dee and not Janie Lee? When I was sure in 2021 the recording funding for Jubilee was coming through, I had cast Janie Dee as the Queen.
AARRGGHH!! You're right, Larry! Damned autocorrect. >:(
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That's my story and I'm sticking to it. ;)
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I updated my original post. :)
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(Assuming that it really was by Kurt Vonnegut.)
;D
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Must get packed and ready to go to west Texas for the weekend.
Travel safely and have a good time, John G!
~~~Ditto and Ditto!!~~~
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Last night I watched Truffaut's Day for Night for the first time, well, I actually think since the 1970s. I appreciated it more than I ever remembered from back then. I'd actually started a li'l Truffaut retrospective several months ago when I went through the Antoine Doinel films, but I fell off the wagon. I shall do better, starting now. I watched a few of the supplements on the Criterion Blu-ray, but it was getting really late. So I'll finish those up later today, then decide what the next film will be. If I take it out and put it on the to-watch stack, it won't get forgotten.
I have a few CDs in the to-listen-to stack, but what are they? I forget, but one is the Charlie Brown release that BK was just posting about finding.
I still have my copy of the Charlie Brown, too. And I think I even know where it is...I hope.
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That west coast gasoline pricing is outta sight, man. Of course we think ours is, too, based on the past. But yikes! How do y'all live with that?
Yesterday I saw that our local BJ's price had suddenly jumped a nickel from the previous day. Usually it goes up and down in one- or two-cent increments. But: a nickel. That means something's afoot and more could be coming. It also puts us in near-$3.00 territory again, at $2.94 (or fifteen cents less if you're vixmom).
Washington state has some of the highest gas prices in the country. There are a lot of sales taxes attached to gas sales.
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DR George, I love the beach photos.
Thanks, Larry!
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DR George, I'm sorry your mother wasn't able to join you yesterday. I hope she is feeling better today.
Thanks, Jane. So do I.
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I enjoyed reading about your trip.
I enjoyed the photos.
Thanks, again, Jane.
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There is always candy in beach towns. Was there an old style shop?
I don't think any of the shops could be considered "old style." They were all fairly modern...but then we didn't go into every shop.
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You didn't get any salt water taffy?
I actually got some S'mores taffy, but that's the only kind. I did get five kinds of fudge, though. I can take a picture of them when I get home. ;D
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Nice keychain.
Thanks! The colors are quite vibrant in person.
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The creamy drink bottles are pretty.
That was what first caught my eye, so I didn't get them just for the booze. ;)
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Thanks!
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The doctor's office called yesterday. He is not worried about any of the numbers except the LOW platelet count.
So I will redo the labs on 11/28.
Mega vibes your LOW platelet count improves!
~~~SUPER DITTO!!~~~
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Wow, that's some blurb the new book by the Viertels got from Emma Thompson. Will she be involved with the movie version?
"I loved every bit of The Glass Eel: It’s part The Overstory, and then also a bit Mare of Eastwick, with a wondrous female lead. It is so absorbing to feel oneself there [on the Maine Coast] and surrounded by these very gritty people. I liked them so much. [The Viertels] write about [the natural world]―the tiny changes―the exquisite complexity and beauty of it all―all mashed over and tragically corrupted by man’s greed and ignorance. The battle between nature and human greed is beautifully and horribly well realized. The book is great. It’ll make a helluva film, too!"
― Emma Thompson
Very cool!
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Larry, I hope it doesn't take anything away from your publisher's publicity plans, but not posting to castrecl about Annabelle and Thatch seemed odd -
If ever there were books of interest to castrecl-ers, there are your new book and BK's new book, so I posted the Amazon links to castrecl.
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I enjoyed DR GEORGE's photos yesterday and the KV quote today.
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I am eating a couple of hot dogs with Duke's Mayonnaise - although some folks say mayonnaise should not be consume with hot dogs.
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I'm up, I'm up - seven hours of sleep, up around ten-thirty.
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Had my English muffin and pill.
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This is such an interesting way of looking at, or maybe looking toward, retirement that I saw in Quora. Clearly not everyone's outlook, but it was this teacher's outlook:
"As year 5 of retirement begins with the start of the new school year, I continue to experience a most profound thought each morning when I arise…I don’t HAVE to do anything today, just what I want to do. All options and no obligations. Not sure you can appreciate that feeling when you’re young. Took me four and a half decades of hard work to reach than mental state.
Everyone should work as long as they want. Such a personal, individual decision and honestly, not for everyone. But, Oh the places you may go when it comes. Such as, into the kitchen to absolutely have fun playing with food…"
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And just dove into proofing, after sending out an eBlast about A Boy Named Charlie Brown, which is now live again at Kritzerland.
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I then posted about Charlie on some of the theater groups. We've gotten about forty orders so far - not bad.
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And the day is young, which is more than I can say.
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As I suspected, proofing the final twenty pages is utter insanity.
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She was so bored or impatient to be done with it, there isn't even a semblance of coherence or care about punctuation and clarity. There are six mistakes in every SENTENCE. Run-ons go on and on and on and on and on. Fixing each of those and trying to have it make sense is just so time consuming.
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Ridic.
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Don't feel like hot dogs, so I think I'll order something in.
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I then posted about Charlie on some of the theater groups. We've gotten about forty orders so far - not bad.
Yay!
Champion Charlie Brown, indeed!
Darrel Karl posted about it on castrecl.
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BK - One of the castrecl-ers wrote to me that there's a much simpler link to the Amazon page for "Richard and Me," if anyone needs the simpler link.
https://www.amazon.com/Richard-Supercalifragilistic-Friendship-Bruce-Kimmel/dp/B0FKT5VHZQ/
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That west coast gasoline pricing is outta sight, man. Of course we think ours is, too, based on the past. But yikes! How do y'all live with that?
Yesterday I saw that our local BJ's price had suddenly jumped a nickel from the previous day. Usually it goes up and down in one- or two-cent increments. But: a nickel. That means something's afoot and more could be coming. It also puts us in near-$3.00 territory again, at $2.94 (or fifteen cents less if you're vixmom).
Washington state has some of the highest gas prices in the country. There are a lot of sales taxes attached to gas sales.
Yup.
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Good morning, friends.
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And others.
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Good afternoon, friends.
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And others.
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BK's new book haz arrived in the Midwest!!!
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It's a beauty.
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Thanks for sharing your trip and the photos last night, DR George.
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Hope you have a great family visit, DR Rodzinski.
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~~~SAFE & EASY TRAVEL VIBES~~~ for DR John G. Have a great weekend!
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~~~FEEL BETTER VIBES~~~ for the DM of DR George!!!
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~~~FEEL BETTER VIBES~~~ for DR elmore3003!!!
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And now I think I'm caught up.
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Listening to the new Seth McFarlane album (of Sinatra). It's delightful.
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I got a suction cup grab bar for the shower as added insurance. This is a pretty expensive one. It is of very good quality and works great.
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Rodzinski - Hoping the trip is going well.
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I would love a good baked potato right about now.
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Has anyone here ever cooked them with potato nails? They're supposed to transfer the heat to the inner part of the potato. Don't know if they really work or if they make a difference.
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PAGE FIVE! AT LONG LAST!
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Page four was endless.
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That was nice of you to post the book links, DR Freddie.
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I need to knuckle down and finish reading DR John G.'s book and yours.
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She was so bored or impatient to be done with it, there isn't even a semblance of coherence or care about punctuation and clarity. There are six mistakes in every SENTENCE. Run-ons go on and on and on and on and on. Fixing each of those and trying to have it make sense is just so time consuming.
Oh my. Maybe she should rewrite it before you continue to fix everything.
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Has anyone here ever cooked them with potato nails? They're supposed to transfer the heat to the inner part of the potato. Don't know if they really work or if they make a difference.
I've never tried them.
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Keith got Wordle in four.
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You didn't get any salt water taffy?
I actually got some S'mores taffy, but that's the only kind. I did get five kinds of fudge, though. I can take a picture of them when I get home. ;D
And here they are:
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The upper left is milk chocolate with walnuts. The middle left is (I think) pecan praline. The middle right is cookies-and-cream (a.k.a. Oreo), and I don't remember what the other two are.
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I enjoyed DR GEORGE's photos yesterday and the KV quote today.
Thanks, Jrand!
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I then posted about Charlie on some of the theater groups. We've gotten about forty orders so far - not bad.
Very cool!
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You didn't get any salt water taffy?
I actually got some S'mores taffy, but that's the only kind. I did get five kinds of fudge, though. I can take a picture of them when I get home. ;D
And here they are:
Little wrapped squares. I like that.
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I then posted about Charlie on some of the theater groups. We've gotten about forty orders so far - not bad.
Just ordered mine!
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DR singdaw reading plams is a specialized talent that I have never explored.
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I need to knuckle down and finish reading DR John G.'s book and yours.
Thanks, singdaw!
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Hoping to beat the weekend stampede, I have procured groceries from the getting place.
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The store was deserted.
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But it was past 9:00pm.
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So not a surprise.
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There was an ENTIRE AISLE of Halloween Candy.
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Just, no.
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No, just.
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No jest.
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I could do this all night.
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But I won't.
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As is my wont.
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Hey, it's a post.
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A paltry post.
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But not a paltry pastry.
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Oy!
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PAGE SIX!
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Quoth the raven.
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I'm ready My Lucky Star. I think it was John G. who mentioned Joe Keenan last week. Fun, and very well written. My first time with this author.
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I have absolutely no plans for this long holiday weekend except naps, reading, and laundry.
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Not necessarily in that order.
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And that's the way I like it.
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It will be fun going through the hard copy of BK's book. The photos will be much more satisfying than on the Kindle.
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And that ain't no lie.
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Good night, friends.
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And others.
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DR John G, my limited experience is that community productions of Sweeney Todd tend to self-select good singers. So it's probably worth going to support your local companies doing Sondheim.
That was my thought. Thank you.
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I'm ready My Lucky Star. I think it was John G. who mentioned Joe Keenan last week. Fun, and very well written. My first time with this author.
I don’t remember mentioning him recently, but I did enjoy his novel My Blue Heaven.
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Hey, Rodzinski, are you hungry for a short piece on funeral pie? Yes, there is such a dish. Funeral potatoes, too.
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She's not rewriting anything - she is quite done. If I had my druthers, I'd cut fifteen pages out of the final chapter. I had the same issue with There's Mel, There's Woody, and There's You, where I just went on and on at the point when you just want to get to the end - we ended up cutting twenty-seven pages out of that chapter.
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Making a hot dog for pill three.
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I'll definitely finish tonight - about ten pages or so to go but I'm not stopping until it's done.
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No posts in two HOURS.
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Unbelievable.
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See what happens when George gets a roommate?
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He completely abandons us.
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Gone with the wind.
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Absent.
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Not here.
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Left us in the lurch.
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Disappeared.
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Just weird.
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What I feared.
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Maybe he's growing a beard.
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All this was engineered.
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And not cleared.
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Nor cheered.
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Nor revered.
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Whatever.
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Wherever.
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What can one do?
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Such behavior is an abomination in the eyes of the gazelle and The Randy Vicar.
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New notes are up.
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Up are new notes.
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I've seen them.
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I've read them.
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I wrote them.
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And still no George.