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[KevinH]

Page 3!

[TCB]

I received my line notes from last night's performance.

[TCB]

My definition of kicking butt, and that of our stage manager, are apparently two different things.

[Jane]

There was an older couple there with a coal-black poodle clipped and coiffed in classic "poodle cut."   I really think it's the most humiliating and ugly look for such a pretty dog.

I record dog shows so I can speed through these dogs.  I get shivers just looking at them.

[Jane]

DR George re: your dead kindle

Have you tried contacting amazon customer service?  There are usually a few tricks that they suggest. Plugging it in and charging is one. And a hard reboot is another.  They also usually let you send back your dead kindle for credit towards your new one (if you buy from amazon). My guess is that they will have some good sales this Friday.

Jennifer, I did try plugging it in to try and charge it.  Nothing happened at all. And I can't send it back to Amazon because I bought it used for only $10.  So, I'm not really that sad about it...more annoyed than anything else.

Did you ever try to reactivate the other one after you found it?  You can reactivate phones.

[Jane]

My definition of kicking butt, and that of our stage manager, are apparently two different things.

 

[Jane]

DR TCB did you find any comments from the stage manager of value?

[Jrand74]

More foolishness from DR TCB's production staff....now I am not sure - but my first guess would be that some if not all of them have recently been through theatre classes at some kind of learning institution and know exactly how EVERYTHING should be done.

[Jrand74]

My last experience of this is from a young man - recently married to one of the worst stage managers I ever worked with, and who both graduated in the last year from a Theatah Prograhm at a local college  NOT DePauw....

She is working in a newly formed "professional" company in a town a couple of counties over.  He was talking to me during the intermission of BAREFOOT IN THE PARK saying dismissively that he could never work at my theatre because we don't do serious stuff.....and all we do is "toy" theatre.

I asked him what he was doing next.  His family owns what is left of a restaurant somewhere in the middle of the woods somewhere, and he is doing - or wants to do - WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? - and set it at the restaurant where George and Martha are vacationing.....

I said the setting of the university is pretty endemic to the plot, and he didn't seem to think it would make any difference, and that his idea is the best and smartest ever to have come around...I think he is playing George as well....he is 24, I think....

I asked his wife what she thinks of the idea, and in her own dim way all she said was:  Where will I find a gun that shoots an umbrella?

I almost want to go see it....ALMOST....

[Jane]

[George]

My definition of kicking butt, and that of our stage manager, are apparently two different things.

Well, nobody said that stage managers were perfect.

[George]

DR George re: your dead kindle

Have you tried contacting amazon customer service?  There are usually a few tricks that they suggest. Plugging it in and charging is one. And a hard reboot is another.  They also usually let you send back your dead kindle for credit towards your new one (if you buy from amazon). My guess is that they will have some good sales this Friday.

Jennifer, I did try plugging it in to try and charge it.  Nothing happened at all. And I can't send it back to Amazon because I bought it used for only $10.  So, I'm not really that sad about it...more annoyed than anything else.

Did you ever try to reactivate the other one after you found it?  You can reactivate phones.

I can still read the e-books that are already on it, but as far as I know, I can't reregister it as the "Kindle #2" that it was before and continue to download e-books onto it.  I could reregister it as a new Kindle to my account, but that would make all the library books go away, and I don't want to do that.

[Jane]

My definition of kicking butt, and that of our stage manager, are apparently two different things.

Well, nobody said that stage managers were perfect.

[Jane]

DR George re: your dead kindle

Have you tried contacting amazon customer service?  There are usually a few tricks that they suggest. Plugging it in and charging is one. And a hard reboot is another.  They also usually let you send back your dead kindle for credit towards your new one (if you buy from amazon). My guess is that they will have some good sales this Friday.

Jennifer, I did try plugging it in to try and charge it.  Nothing happened at all. And I can't send it back to Amazon because I bought it used for only $10.  So, I'm not really that sad about it...more annoyed than anything else.

Did you ever try to reactivate the other one after you found it?  You can reactivate phones.

I can still read the e-books that are already on it, but as far as I know, I can't reregister it as the "Kindle #2" that it was before and continue to download e-books onto it.  I could reregister it as a new Kindle to my account, but that would make all the library books go away, and I don't want to do that.

It sounds like you have more than enough books to read on it.

[George]

DR George re: your dead kindle

Have you tried contacting amazon customer service?  There are usually a few tricks that they suggest. Plugging it in and charging is one. And a hard reboot is another.  They also usually let you send back your dead kindle for credit towards your new one (if you buy from amazon). My guess is that they will have some good sales this Friday.

Jennifer, I did try plugging it in to try and charge it.  Nothing happened at all. And I can't send it back to Amazon because I bought it used for only $10.  So, I'm not really that sad about it...more annoyed than anything else.

Did you ever try to reactivate the other one after you found it?  You can reactivate phones.

I can still read the e-books that are already on it, but as far as I know, I can't reregister it as the "Kindle #2" that it was before and continue to download e-books onto it.  I could reregister it as a new Kindle to my account, but that would make all the library books go away, and I don't want to do that.

It sounds like you have more than enough books to read on it.

True...very true.  But it's especially nice to be able to collect books in a series and not have to wait until I've read them to be able to get the next ones.

[bk]

Back from a fun rehearsal.  I got everything up on its feet and did the final bit of staging on the last two group numbers, so tomorrow we can assemble everything and then run it straight through.  It feels long to me.  One medley is really long and I think I got the writer to agree to some cuts, including one whole number in the medley - that will help.  And Kerry and I feel two other numbers could go without hurting anything.

[bk]

Stopped at Taco Bell and came home and ate that all up.

[bk]

Page three?  Really?

[Jennifer]

DR George re: your dead kindle

Have you tried contacting amazon customer service?  There are usually a few tricks that they suggest. Plugging it in and charging is one. And a hard reboot is another.  They also usually let you send back your dead kindle for credit towards your new one (if you buy from amazon). My guess is that they will have some good sales this Friday.

Jennifer, I did try plugging it in to try and charge it.  Nothing happened at all. And I can't send it back to Amazon because I bought it used for only $10.  So, I'm not really that sad about it...more annoyed than anything else.

I don't know that they care where you got the kindle from. I thought it was just a way to send in old kindles that didn't work and to exchange for a new one. I would still contact customer service. 

At least it was only $10. But I agree it is super annoying. Although I would be very upset. I probably should have a back-up because I use my kindle every day and would be very inconvenienced.

[Jennifer]

DR George re: your dead kindle

Have you tried contacting amazon customer service?  There are usually a few tricks that they suggest. Plugging it in and charging is one. And a hard reboot is another.  They also usually let you send back your dead kindle for credit towards your new one (if you buy from amazon). My guess is that they will have some good sales this Friday.

Jennifer, I did try plugging it in to try and charge it.  Nothing happened at all. And I can't send it back to Amazon because I bought it used for only $10.  So, I'm not really that sad about it...more annoyed than anything else.

Did you ever try to reactivate the other one after you found it?  You can reactivate phones.

I can still read the e-books that are already on it, but as far as I know, I can't reregister it as the "Kindle #2" that it was before and continue to download e-books onto it.  I could reregister it as a new Kindle to my account, but that would make all the library books go away, and I don't want to do that.

This is what I would do (re-register it). Read the few library books you want to read first.

[Jane]

DR George re: your dead kindle

Have you tried contacting amazon customer service?  There are usually a few tricks that they suggest. Plugging it in and charging is one. And a hard reboot is another.  They also usually let you send back your dead kindle for credit towards your new one (if you buy from amazon). My guess is that they will have some good sales this Friday.

Jennifer, I did try plugging it in to try and charge it.  Nothing happened at all. And I can't send it back to Amazon because I bought it used for only $10.  So, I'm not really that sad about it...more annoyed than anything else.

Did you ever try to reactivate the other one after you found it?  You can reactivate phones.

I can still read the e-books that are already on it, but as far as I know, I can't reregister it as the "Kindle #2" that it was before and continue to download e-books onto it.  I could reregister it as a new Kindle to my account, but that would make all the library books go away, and I don't want to do that.

It sounds like you have more than enough books to read on it.

True...very true.  But it's especially nice to be able to collect books in a series and not have to wait until I've read them to be able to get the next ones.

That I very much agree with you.  Even worse is when the last book takes forever to be completed-lol

[John G.]

Good evening, all.

[John G.]

TOD:

I saw 2001 as the second half of a double bill with Ridley Scott's The Duellists, a movie based on a Conrad short story. Let's see, 19th century-set fiction or a sci-fi epic? Well, I loved The Duellists, it almost goes without saying, and I was initially not overwhelmed with 2001. Through the years, though, the tables have turned. While I still love The Duellists, I realize it wasn't the mindblower that 2001 has proven to be. 2001 has stayed with me -- images have appeared in dreams -- even if it's not a movie I've warmed up to. 

[John G.]

Tonight's noir has the delicious title of Kiss the Blood Off My Hands.

A topless Burt Lancaster is about to be whipped with a cat o' nine tails.

[John G.]

Weird day at work. Plenty of work to do, but no one was in to get it done. So, I left at 1 p.m.

[John G.]

Got five emails after leaving. I can handle them tomorrow.

[John G.]

Thankfully, I'm working from home tomorrow.

[John G.]

Went to Trader Joe's and Whole Foods looking for duck fat, which Bonnie wants me to bring to help with Thanksgiving dinner.

Got the duck fat, but the crowds were too hard to deal with.

[John G.]

then went home and napped for a little while.

[John G.]

let's move on ...