Haines His Way
Haines His Way => Daily Discussions => Topic started by: bk on September 03, 2025, 12:05:26 AM
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Well, you've read the notes, the notes spoke of That's All, and now it is time for you to post until the deep dish deep dive cows come home.
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And the word of the day is: ICONIC!
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That's all, brother!
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Wednesday.
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Did Jrand watch Orphan - or is that today's viewing?
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I haven't watched it yet.....maybe this afternoon.
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John G, thank you so much for your Amazon review!
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Good morning, all!
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I slept well, but I'm very ache-y this morning. After several busy days, I have a quiet one, and that's nice.
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I have a Sept 15 deadline to submit a lot of info to a senior citizens program, so I must work on that today. I also have to book Access-a-Ride for Friday's colonoscopy, and print several address labels. At the moment, I'd rather go back to bed for a couple of hours.
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Good morning, friends.
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And others.
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The Mandela Effect. Fascinating. Thanks, DR Freddie.
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Good morning, all.
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Need to get ready for food pantry. But I want to sleep more.
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It feels cool this morning.
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Good morning, all.
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Do we all feel more achey now when getting up, as we age? I certainly do, and I feel it when getting up after a lengthy sitting session in a chair or on the couch.
But also, I've been very poor recently at doing any kind of daily exercising. I'm resuming that today. You read it here first, and you may alert the media.
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We will not break 70 degrees here today.
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We should be topping off at 78 or thereabouts today.
Here, we're in that kind of beautiful pre-fall weather in which I turn the furnace on for 20 minutes or so in the morning to take the overnight chill off, and then can open windows for the afternoon. I do not complain. This is incredibly beautiful weather, richly deserved after a horrendously crappy hot/humid summer and wet spring. No sirree, I do not complain.
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I had a ridiculous dream in which I was arriving at, I believe, a church for a rehearsal. Yes, it would be a church because it was a rehearsal with the vocal teacher and her students like for the concert I played in August. The place was all different, but that's what it was. I had to schlep keyboards and other equipment in, some guy was supposed to be helping me, and it turned out that everything got lost because neither of us ever got to where the stuff was supposed to go. I then realized that all I needed for that rehearsal was one keyboard, and I finally found it and began carrying it to the place to set up. But in this dream, everything got delayed for one reason or another, and it was about time to start and I still wasn't ready. Then somehow it was set up, and I kept going over and trying to sneak in a little bit of practice on some of what we'd be rehearsing, which turned out to be some Jason Robert Brown music I'd played long ago but now I looked at it and it was like seeing it for the first time. Nightmare. Then I got stuck going back to the lone chord in the first measure and trying to voice it correctly. It was "Moving Too Fast", a notoriously tricky song to master on piano and nearly impossible to sightread decently. At some point the dream mercifully ended, for which I opened my eyes and gave thanks.
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More coffee!!
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Last night I watched yet another Truffaut, The Story of Adele H. which I find extraordinarily lovely. It had been years, and I recall it didn't totally ring my bell so much back when I was seeing it in a theeder, but now I am bowled over by it. And aside from all the other elements, I was very taken with the music in one particular sequence, and I realized I hadn't caught the name of the composer in the main titles. Is it another Delerue? Then another scene with similar but different music, equally incredible. So, time to take a look. It not only isn't Delerue, it's music taken from various 1930s films composed by Maurice Jaubert who died in 1940. It's gorgeous stuff, and it turns out that other filmmakers have done as Truffaut did in using some of his music. All these years, and I never knew this. I'm gratified to know it now.
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Speaking of Jason Robert Brown, I was going down a rabbit hole with so many versions of this song from several years back by Jason Robert Brown and Ariana Grande.
Ariana Grande and Jason Robert Brown perform "Jason's Song (Gave it Away)" on Jimmy Fallon's show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mVNKK525rQ
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Ah, so DR Elmore has some "prep" coming up! Here are best vibes for a good trip there and back on Friday, and good results afterward.
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The Mandela Effect. Fascinating. Thanks, DR Freddie.
Google's AI brings up the darnedest things!
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I have a Sept 15 deadline to submit a lot of info to a senior citizens program, so I must work on that today. I also have to book Access-a-Ride for Friday's colonoscopy, and print several address labels. At the moment, I'd rather go back to bed for a couple of hours.
Hoping the preparation for the colonoscopy isn't too difficult.
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More coffee!!
That sounds like a very good idea! I may do the same.
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Page 2 before 9 a.m. (Eastern) might be a good start to the HHW day.
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Page Two!
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I just bought The Story of Adele H, ChasSmith. Gotta do those Truffauts.
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On the subject of lively MAME numbers -
Remembering what some of us like to call "MAME On Ice" -
Mitzi Gaynor ice skating to "We Need a Little Christmas" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBBRJs6YCE4
I'm guessing Jerry Herman didn't do those lyric changes.
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John G, reading your Amazon review and thinking: When I die, if rather than a eulogy, someone would just read your review of my book, that would be a happy mourning event indeed. (except for the dying part, of course, which I'm hoping is thirty or more years away).
Thank you again!
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Elaine Elias has a pretty nice rendition of "That's All":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ej0zAdZDKo
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Elaine Elias has a pretty nice rendition of "That's All":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ej0zAdZDKo
Really nice rendition! I'd never heard of her before. Thanks for posting that.
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Too busy this morning, way too busy.
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Be extremely careful not to fall, though, however busy you are! Falling and breaking something can be terrible at our age.
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I think it's DR George who has the B&O turntable in storage? I found which one I had. It was one of their more basic ones, a Beogram 1700. The reason I had it is that back in the early 1980s another turntable I had was dying and it wasn't worth it to me to have that one fixed. I went into a nice high end store and asked what's good but not too expensive. They carried all kinds of great stuff, but they said I should try a B&O for its reliability and musicality, and its simplicity in coming with its own perfectly matched cartridge.
I liked it very much, and it would have served me far beyond the point when I sold it and replaced it with an AR ES-1, but by then I was craving a traditional turntable design and flexibility, and I'd always remembered the charm of the original AR a college roommate had. I'm still playing that ES-1, and I've supplemented it with another college favorite, a Dual 1019 that I was lucky to find in as beautiful condition as the KLH 20. It now needs some attention by a good tech because there are a couple of parts that tend to wear out, and it will absolutely get it.
But I digress. I was just going to say that I could well understand if B&Os are expensive to repair, or perhaps even to replace a cartridge. But if it plays well, you should have it out and be enjoying it.
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Lady Gaga's new song, video directed by Tim Burton -
Not sure if "I'm dancing until I'm dead" as a hook would have gotten me on the dance floor, even in my Brooklyn yute, but watching the video seems pretty safe.
Lady Gaga - The Dead Dance (Official Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGaZBfJOyAc
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I think it's DR George who has the B&O turntable in storage? I found which one I had. It was one of their more basic ones, a Beogram 1700. The reason I had it is that back in the early 1980s another turntable I had was dying and it wasn't worth it to me to have that one fixed. I went into a nice high end store and asked what's good but not too expensive. They carried all kinds of great stuff, but they said I should try a B&O for its reliability and musicality, and its simplicity in coming with its own perfectly matched cartridge.
I liked it very much, and it would have served me far beyond the point when I sold it and replaced it with an AR ES-1, but by then I was craving a traditional turntable design and flexibility, and I'd always remembered the charm of the original AR a college roommate had. I'm still playing that ES-1, and I've supplemented it with another college favorite, a Dual 1019 that I was lucky to find in as beautiful condition as the KLH 20. It now needs some attention by a good tech because there are a couple of parts that tend to wear out, and it will absolutely get it.
But I digress. I was just going to say that I could well understand if B&Os are expensive to repair, or perhaps even to replace a cartridge. But if it plays well, you should have it out and be enjoying it.
B&O: whenever I see that, I immediately revert to my childhood, sitting in the back seat of the car at a train crossing, watching the Baltimore & Ohio train cars run past.
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I think it's DR George who has the B&O turntable in storage? I found which one I had. It was one of their more basic ones, a Beogram 1700. The reason I had it is that back in the early 1980s another turntable I had was dying and it wasn't worth it to me to have that one fixed. I went into a nice high end store and asked what's good but not too expensive. They carried all kinds of great stuff, but they said I should try a B&O for its reliability and musicality, and its simplicity in coming with its own perfectly matched cartridge.
I liked it very much, and it would have served me far beyond the point when I sold it and replaced it with an AR ES-1, but by then I was craving a traditional turntable design and flexibility, and I'd always remembered the charm of the original AR a college roommate had. I'm still playing that ES-1, and I've supplemented it with another college favorite, a Dual 1019 that I was lucky to find in as beautiful condition as the KLH 20. It now needs some attention by a good tech because there are a couple of parts that tend to wear out, and it will absolutely get it.
But I digress. I was just going to say that I could well understand if B&Os are expensive to repair, or perhaps even to replace a cartridge. But if it plays well, you should have it out and be enjoying it.
B&O: whenever I see that, I immediately revert to my childhood, sitting in the back seat of the car at a train crossing, watching the Baltimore & Ohio train cars run past.
Ha! Yes, exactly!
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Also, the railroads in Monopoly: Reading Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, B&O Railroad, and Short Line Railroad.
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Hmm, that could have been four posts, one for each railroad.
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Maybe songs about trains and railroads could get us to page 3?
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"Love Train": by The O'Jays
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"The Locomotion": by Grand Funk Railroad
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"Folsom Prison Blues": by Johnny Cash
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"Freight Train Blues": by Freddie King
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"Wabash Cannonball": by Roy Acuff
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"Midnight Train to Georgia": by Gladys Knight & the Pips
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"Mystery Train": by Elvis Presley
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"Downbound Train": by Bruce Springsteen
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"Last Train to Clarksville": by The Monkees
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"500 Miles": by Hedy West
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"Ramblin' Man": by Hank Williams
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"Take the A Train": by Duke Ellington
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"Rock Island Line": by Lonnie Donegan
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"Long Black Train": by Josh Turner
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Is the train pulling in to page 3 yet?
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Page Three!
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DR John, did your pie taste as good as it looked and smelled?
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Congrats! :)
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I watched ORPHAN and shall write more later.
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DR John, did your pie taste as good as it looked and smelled?
Yes. I forgot how good it really is, and easy too.
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It’s sticky today.
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Looking forward to Jrand's thoughts - not a movie for everyone, I'm guessing, but I recommend it to everyone :)
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I'm up, I'm up - ten hours of excellent sleep. Got up at noon and had a good telephonic call.
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Had an English muffin and pill one.
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Thinking I'm not feeling The Cheesecake Factory today.
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Thinking I'm not feeling The Cheesecake Factory today.
Will the gift card allow you to call in an order and take it home?
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I could call in and pick up but not really wanting to drive over there today. I'm thinking tomorrow.
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DR John, did your pie taste as good as it looked and smelled?
Yes. I forgot how good it really is, and easy too.
:)
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It’s sticky today.
Is that a good thing?
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Kids are back at school. Can’t believe I’m sitting out here waiting to pick them up. Too soon!
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I always found it too soon when my kids were young.
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Nice job with the locomotion getting us to page three, DR Freddie.
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Many interviews today. I like being the interviewer much more than being the person interviewed.
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I don't like scary movies, but perhaps I will give Orphan a try.
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Nice job with the locomotion getting us to page three, DR Freddie.
I've studied the HHW page turn work of true masters of the craft.
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:)
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It’s sticky today.
Is that a good thing?
No.
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Many interviews today. I like being the interviewer much more than being the person interviewed.
I can understand that.
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It’s sticky today.
Is that a good thing?
No.
Sorry. How did you store it overnight?
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Keith got Wordle in three.
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Well, I've watched Orphan. :)
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While I can say that it is definitely not a genre I like, this was very well done.
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I admire the craft of it.
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I see Leonardo DiCaprio was a producer.
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The lead (chiild) actress is excellent.
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PAGE FOUR
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I admire the craft of it.
"admire the craft" are words many writers hear with doom and trepidation. :)
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Maybe fill up page 4 with polite expressions after seeing a show?
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"Your dedication to the role was so enjoyable".
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"It must be so rewarding to bring a performance like that to life. What was your favorite part of the process?"
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"It was a really unique performance."
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"Theater [or film] is such an interesting medium."
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"Thanks so very much for inviting me."
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"You looked like you were having so much fun up there."
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"You looked beautiful. Your costume was amazing!"
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"I know how much hard work went into this. You should be really proud."
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"It was great to see the performance."
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"It was so great to see you up on stage tonight!"
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"Good just isn't the word for it!"
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"Superb just doesn't describe it!"
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"You have such a powerful stage presence."
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"You were really in your element."
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"It looked like you were all having a great time on stage."
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"That was certainly a show!"
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"I'm glad I got to see it."
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Hmm, that's enough of me on this page!
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That's a great collection, DR Freddie.
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After a musical performance: "So many notes!"
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After a musical performance: "So many notes!"
:)
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Once again, I hadn't seen this happening here until very recently, but where there used to be maybe 1 or 2 Guests at most in the current day's posts, these recent weeks there have frequently been 5, 6, 7 or 8 Guests at a given time in the current day's posts.
Wondering if BK's new book is drawing people here to the current days.
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Some of you Guests, maybe think about joining the discussion here!
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singdaw, have you seen this twinsauce short video? Pure joy.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6kG-_K1hQV8
Makes me want to jump up and move along; well, at least I might if it were 40 years ago and I were 25. :)
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Some of you Guests, maybe think about joining the discussion here!
It would be nice if they joined.
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Terrific, DR George!
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Keith got Wordle in three.
Great!
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As for me: Wordle: 4/6
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Page 5!
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Thanks, DRs George and Jane, for the nice comments on Wednesday's Wordle
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Keith got Wordle in three.
Great!
Thanks.
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As for me: Wordle: 4/6
Still pretty good :)
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Thanks, DRs George and Jane, for the nice comments on Wednesday's Wordle
You are welcome.
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singdaw, have you seen this twinsauce short video? Pure joy.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6kG-_K1hQV8 (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6kG-_K1hQV8)
That was fun! I can't move like that. I don't know if I ever could have.
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I don't think we're ever going to get to page 17, so I'm just gonna drop this here. A variant of the one I posted last week.
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Not something I would want in my house, but... whatever.
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It’s finally beginning to cool off.
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I went back into the Notes archive to try to find what BK wrote originally about Orphan, but searching on "Orphan" returned so many results that it is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
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I have started the latest Galbraith mystery. I’m hooked.
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And we know how hard that can be.
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I have started the latest Galbraith mystery. I’m hooked.
I have been pondering over the past few days about how (and whether we should) divorce artists from their political/social beliefs. Many issues, and no easy answers.
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Everyone has to come to terms with this on their own, I think.
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But I know personally I look at an actor and their performances differently once I know they support the current regime.
As an example.
Rightly or wrongly.
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I am tired.
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You are old. Father William.
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So sayz Lewis Carroll.
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And who are we to argue with him?
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Good night, friends.
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And others.
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I have started the latest Galbraith mystery. I’m hooked.
I have been pondering over the past few days about how (and whether we should) divorce artists from their political/social beliefs. Many issues, and no easy answers.
I have a problem with Polanski, just as I have a problem with our president for their actions. I have less problem with someone who is expressing their (odious) opinion.
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I finished another of the early Ingrid Bergman movies. It was interesting. But not great. A great premise (a thug shoots his girlfriend and she accepts the blame),but it then played out too formulaically.
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I am halfway through this set now.
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I may hold off on the next for awhile.
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Up next is a Japanese flick called Before the Sunset. It’s about an 80-year-old who is granted his wish to be 20 again.
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But the book is more interesting.
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Shall we move on?
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In one …
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Six!
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Good night, all.
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Cooling down the house again - a bit too stultifying at eighty-three degrees.
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Haven't watched a damn thing.
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Maybe I'll give it a whirl.
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Watching-wise.
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Had main meal and took pill two. Pill three in an hour.
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Stultifying.
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Truly, Madly, Deeply.
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Do we all feel more achey now when getting up, as we age? I certainly do, and I feel it when getting up after a lengthy sitting session in a chair or on the couch.
But also, I've been very poor recently at doing any kind of daily exercising. I'm resuming that today. You read it here first, and you may alert the media.
I certainly feel achey more often than I used to, but fortunately, it's all the time.
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Pretty warm day here (now night).
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Today, my friend Margo asked if I could help her friend Sammy take some heavy items to the dump.
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She said that she'd pay me, and I said yes.
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I probably would've helped even if she hadn't offered to pay, but it was nice that she did.
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Sammy took one load (mostly bags of stuff) before I got there, and then I helped move two couches, two fairly heavy stuffed chairs, a box spring mattress, a big board of plywood and a headboard into his truck.
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Here's one picture I took:
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And here's from the back driver's side:
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Sammy was able to tie down everything very securely, and thengetting it out of the truck at the dump was much easier than loading it...as usual.
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Oh, and there was a treadmill, also.
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After my part was done, Sammy had one more (fairly light) load that he could take by himself.
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Then I got a giant Club Sub (https://www.jerseymikes.com/menu/cold-subs/8-club-sub) from Jersey Mike's, half for me and half for Shelly.
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That's pretty much what I get there. It's really my favorite.
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Then I came home and napped for a bit. 8)
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Now, to ketchup on the posts.
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Oh! I got a text from Michelle who is on the board of Evergreen Playhouse, and starred in both Mamma Mia! and A Murder is Announced at EP that I was also in.
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She asked:
Hey, are you doing anything theater-wise between now and the last weekend in October? We have a need for a male in Jekyll.
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Jekyll and Hyde is the first show of this season, and they already started rehearsals.
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I don't know if they lost someone, or just hadn't been able to cast the role, but other than ushering for a local production of POTUS (Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive) tomorrow night, and working barback for the comedian Brad Williams (https://www.bradwilliamscomedy.com/) at the WCPA on Wednesday the 19th, I have no other plans.
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I just need to get the official e-mail from the director, who was the lighting designer for Into the Woods that was directed by Jed!
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I have a Sept 15 deadline to submit a lot of info to a senior citizens program, so I must work on that today. I also have to book Access-a-Ride for Friday's colonoscopy, and print several address labels. At the moment, I'd rather go back to bed for a couple of hours.
Hope everything goes well, Larry!!
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Elaine Elias has a pretty nice rendition of "That's All":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ej0zAdZDKo
One of my favorite versions was the Duet between Laurie Beechman and Sam Harris:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8GWUHvBSYYw
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PAGE RUPERT LAURIE BEECHMAN DANCE!!
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71VCVXmaxbL._SL1500_.jpg)
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I think it's DR George who has the B&O turntable in storage? I found which one I had. It was one of their more basic ones, a Beogram 1700. The reason I had it is that back in the early 1980s another turntable I had was dying and it wasn't worth it to me to have that one fixed. I went into a nice high end store and asked what's good but not too expensive. They carried all kinds of great stuff, but they said I should try a B&O for its reliability and musicality, and its simplicity in coming with its own perfectly matched cartridge.
I liked it very much, and it would have served me far beyond the point when I sold it and replaced it with an AR ES-1, but by then I was craving a traditional turntable design and flexibility, and I'd always remembered the charm of the original AR a college roommate had. I'm still playing that ES-1, and I've supplemented it with another college favorite, a Dual 1019 that I was lucky to find in as beautiful condition as the KLH 20. It now needs some attention by a good tech because there are a couple of parts that tend to wear out, and it will absolutely get it.
But I digress. I was just going to say that I could well understand if B&Os are expensive to repair, or perhaps even to replace a cartridge. But if it plays well, you should have it out and be enjoying it.
Thanks for the info, ChasSmith! I'll try to find it and see how bad it is...and what version it is, too. :)
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I’ll dance to that!
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I think it's DR George who has the B&O turntable in storage? I found which one I had. It was one of their more basic ones, a Beogram 1700. The reason I had it is that back in the early 1980s another turntable I had was dying and it wasn't worth it to me to have that one fixed. I went into a nice high end store and asked what's good but not too expensive. They carried all kinds of great stuff, but they said I should try a B&O for its reliability and musicality, and its simplicity in coming with its own perfectly matched cartridge.
I liked it very much, and it would have served me far beyond the point when I sold it and replaced it with an AR ES-1, but by then I was craving a traditional turntable design and flexibility, and I'd always remembered the charm of the original AR a college roommate had. I'm still playing that ES-1, and I've supplemented it with another college favorite, a Dual 1019 that I was lucky to find in as beautiful condition as the KLH 20. It now needs some attention by a good tech because there are a couple of parts that tend to wear out, and it will absolutely get it.
But I digress. I was just going to say that I could well understand if B&Os are expensive to repair, or perhaps even to replace a cartridge. But if it plays well, you should have it out and be enjoying it.
B&O: whenever I see that, I immediately revert to my childhood, sitting in the back seat of the car at a train crossing, watching the Baltimore & Ohio train cars run past.
I don't think I ever knew what the B&O train name stood for. ;D
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Hello, Rodzinski!
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Also, the railroads in Monopoly: Reading Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad, B&O Railroad, and Short Line Railroad.
Yup! That's my reference point!
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Maybe songs about trains and railroads could get us to page 3?
Choo Choo Ch'Boogie (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_YOoA7gok2M) by The Manhattan Transfer.
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A little past page three, but I love the song!
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And FYI Freddie, YOU'RE heading to a momentous millstone! :D
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Congrats! :)
Thanks, Jane! It's ALWAYS surprising to get it in less than four guesses.
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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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I'm not kidding.
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You MUST believe I wrote them.
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Not AI.
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Many interviews today. I like being the interviewer much more than being the person interviewed.
Which was a major reason why I actually put in for my retirement so early. ::)
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I wonder what these here notes would like like in ChatGPT.
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Gratuitous Post #201!!
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On second thought, I don't want to think about these here notes written by ChatGPT.