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[Laura]

Good morning.

[Laura]

Woo hoo! Page 2

[Laura]

Today is my dental appointment. I guess we'll see what's what.

[Laura]

If they do the work next week, I guess I'll be eating mashed potatoes on Thanksgiving. Along with mashed turkey and mashed pie.

[ChasSmith]

Oy!

Best of luck with the dental stuff, DR Laura!

[Ginny]

Thursday morning greetings!  After 3 days and evenings of being out and about, I'm really enjoying a stay-at-home day today.  Tonight is my book group's discussion of Hillbilly Elegy, but all I have to do is drive myself and 3 others out to Lynne's and back.

[Ginny]

Dental vibes to DRs Laura and Vixmom!

[Laura]

Thanks. I'm sure they will just look today. Other than a couple of crowns, this will be my first icky dental work. I'm thinking I may ask about the Xanax. I wouldn't mind being all loopy, like the kids were when they had their wisdom teeth out. Maybe I will get good drugs afterwards, too.

[ChasSmith]

Dental vibes to DRs Laura and Vixmom!

Woops.  DR vixmom, sorry to leave you out of that.  It's one heck of a day for dental adventures here, and may all of them be easy, painless ... and druggy in the best possible way! 

Best of dental luck today to the both of youse!

[John G.]

Dental vibes to DRs Laura and Vixmom!

A mouthful of vibes to you both.

[Jrand74]

Dentist!!!

His name isn't Orem, is it?

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up - had trouble falling asleep so I don't think I got more than about six hours at the most.

[Jane]

Listening to the Barber violin concerto, Andre Previn conducting, Gil Shaham playing - beautiful. 

This one?

[Jane]

TOD:  potato pierogies and potatoes gratin

Yum.

[Jane]

TOD:

There are few potato dishes I don't like. Too bad potatoes don't like me -- or they like my blood sugar all too much.

That said, you can give me mashed potatoes (from simple to loaded with everything from bacon to truffle oil to blue cheese), pommes Anna, pommes au gratin, potato salad that's not sweet and, yes, McDonald's hash brown patties.

On Crete, when we went to the raki distilling party, they grilled slices of potato, which they brushed with olive oil and salted, then grilled on both sides. When the potatoes were grilled enough, they were drizzled with a little olive oil and lemon juice, plus extra salt.

The potato dish on Crete sounds delicious.

I love good mashed potatoes with butter, milk and salt.  A real treat when we are out are garlic mashed potatoes.  I haven't seen them with green onions or scallions in a long time and I don't make them any more, just too fattening.

Keith's mother, and I later, made a baked mashed potato dish.  She added sour cream when mashing them and then baked them. 

[Jane]

I need to tidy up, do a bit of work on "Let's Not Talk About Love" before I head out to physical therapy.  I hope in this round we can resolve some of my current problems.

EXCELLENT VIBES IT DOES!!!

[Jane]

I obviously lifted this heavy box out of my car the wrong way last night.  I felt it a few minutes later, and by morning I was on the hunt for a position in bed that would ease it.  No such luck.  I'm in the recliner now, and will just have to let it run its course.

OUCH!  PAIN FREE VIBES!

[Jane]

We eat baked potatoes fairly often, without adding sour cream.  I add a little butter and then we top it with a variety of veggies, tofu, whatever we feel like that day.

[Jane]

Locally we eat at Beaches if we want french fries.  I don't know what they season them with but they are excellent.  For sweet potato fries we go to Lapellah.  They also make about the best artichoke/spinach dip I have ever had.  It is served with fresh cooked

[Jane]

The first time I had fresh cooked potato chips was at the Santa Monica Pier.  For years we enjoyed them until one day we were shocked to find the stand gone.  I have yet to experience chips like those though I continue my search.

[Jane]

Dental vibes to DRs Laura and Vixmom!

DITTO & DITTO!!

[FJL]

More dental vibes to vixmom and Laura!

[bk]

Here's a starter list of classical CDs, priced to move the HELL out of here and into a good home.

The Planets - Steinberg - I have an extra copy of the more recent release with Also Sprach Zarathustra.  Great performance.  $7 SOLD
The Planets - Steinberg - the first pressing (second is slightly better sound, but nothing most would notice - this is the one with Lux Aeterna $4 SOLD
The Planets - Stokowski (with Transfigured Night) - first stereo recording - $4
Malcolm Arnold conducts his Symphony 1, Concerto for Two Pianos, and Tam O'Shanter and more - $5
Sibelius - The Symphonies (3 CDs) - Lorin Maazel all seven in really good sound.  Not my fave conductor, but they're good. $10
Sibelius - Symphonies 1 and 5 Ormandy and Bernstein - great CD.  $3
Sibelius - Symphony 7 and more Beecham great performances $4
George Antheil - Symphonies 4 and 6 and McKinley's Ferry - for the adventurous.  $4  SOLD
Mahler - Symphony 5 Barbirolli - Many people's favorite version.  $5
Mahler - Symphony 2 Klemperer/Schwarzkoff - $4
Mahler - Symphony 10 Slatkin - world premiere of this version - $5 SOLD
Mahler - Symphony 7 - Bernstein - the BEST! - $5 SOLD
Mahler - Symphonies 1 and adagio from 10 - Mehta and Szell - really fine. $4
Mahler - Symphony 6 Szell - great performance okay sound - $4
Rachmaninov - Symphony 2 (my favorite) Ormandy (with Scriabin Poem of Ecstasy - this is his later version on RCA) $4
Rachmaninov - The Three Symphonies (2 CDs) - Ormandy (the Columbia recording - doesn't get better) $7 SOLD
William Walton, John Ireland, Frank Bridge - Piano Concertos - $4
Randall Thompson - Symphonies 2 and 3 - Andrew Schenk - $5
Randall Thompson - choral works The Testament of Freedom/Frostiana $4
Shostakovich - Bernstein/Previn and Ormandy - Piano Concerto/Cello Concerto $5
Shostakovich - Symphonies 9 and 10 Mitropoulos Classic 1954 performances $4 SOLD
Shostakovich - Symphony 5 and Scriabin Poem of Ecstasy - Stokowski - amazing $5 SOLD
Shostakovich/Prokofiev - Violin Concerto Oistrakh $4
Prokofiev/Saint-Saens/Britten - Peter and the Wolf, Carnival of the Animals, Young Person's Guide - $4
Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending and other pieces Richard Hickox (beautiful disc) $4 SOLD
Vaughan Williams - Job and Partita Boult $4
Vaughan Williams - Job and Variations for Orchestra Hickox $4

Part two below.

[George]

Nice new avatar, John G!

Yes, it is!

[Jane]

This morning I woke up and, as usual, picked up my tablet to read.  It did not go on and nothing I did worked, including plugging it in. Keith did an on line search.  One suggestion on how to fix the problem worked.  He held both the on button and the volume button for over 14 seconds.  Why that turned it on, or why it went off to begin with, we have no idea.  I am very grateful it worked.

At least I slept until 7:45 this morning.  Had I woken up during the early morning hours I would have been very frustrated without my book to read.

[bk]

Part two:

William Alwyn The Chandos Collection Five Symphonies and other great stuff (7 CDs at an amazing price) $30
Howard Hanson The Delos Collection Gerard Schwartz Seven Symphonies and other great stuff (5 CDs at an amazing price) $20
John Alden Carpenter Adventures in a Perambulator/Two Symphonies great stuff $4
Arthur Bliss A Colour Symphony/Metamorphic Variations Wordsworth $4
Arthur Bliss Pastoral/Music for Strings Hickox $4
Scott Joplin Piano Works Dick Hyman $4 SOLD
Gerald Finzi Cello Concerto (plus a Kenneth Leighton piece) $4

and now - drum roll - the Dave Brubeck Collection 

Japanese imports - mini-LPs all with their OBI strips.  You will never find these at these prices - these can go as high as $40 each or more

Angel Eyes $10
Bossa Nova USA $10
Time Out $10
Jazz Impressions of Japan $10 SOLD
Brubeck Time $10
Jazz Impressions of Eurasia $10 SOLD

These next are regular CD jewel cases - some domestic, some import

Jazz Impressions of New York $4 SOLD
Take Five (Japanese compilation with all classics) $5
Dave Digs Disney (Japanese Import) $5 SOLD
Time Changes $4
Jazz Impressions of the USA $4
Time Further Out (Japanese Import) $5
Music from West Side Story and some Rodgers and Hart and Cole Porter $4 SOLD
Time In (French Import) $5

[bk]

PM me if you want any - first come, first served.

[George]

PM me if you want any - first come, first served.

PM sent!

[George]

thanks for the reminder about the Julie Taymor Tempest, George. I never saw that.

Quite a few years ago, Theater Artists Olympia did a production of The Tempest, and my friend pug played Prospera.  The concept was that it was set in the Star Trek universe, so they had their uniforms and a sci-fi set.  It was a sight to behold...in a good way.  But I hadn't had much exposure to Shakespeare at that time, so the story itself went a bit over my head, at the time.

Last year, I ran sound for another (more traditional) version, and being able to see it multiple times really helped me to understand it all.

[George]

I obviously lifted this heavy box out of my car the wrong way last night.  I felt it a few minutes later, and by morning I was on the hunt for a position in bed that would ease it.  No such luck.  I'm in the recliner now, and will just have to let it run its course.

~~~Feel Better Vibes for ChasSmith!!~~~