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[ChasSmith]

So there's this bunch of old Tony Award shows on YouTube and I was just clicking around to get a feel for what's there. I started the 1961 show and was stunned to find Metropolitan Opera soprano Eleanor Steber coming out to sing the Star Spangled Banner. I hadn't heard that voice in a long time, and OMG this is powerful. One of the truly great voices, and it's so sad that she ... um, burned herself out while in her prime. She still sounded pretty magnificent in the late 1960s and early 1970s when I was around her in Cleveland and accompanying some of her students, but my God, what she had in the years before. And the Star Spangled Banner don't get any better than this.

https://youtu.be/qHJLbLYck0c?t=0m1s

EDIT:  If that link doesn't start the video right at the beginning, just put it there.

[elmore3003]

Dr Aronoff's office called.  The surgery is still on for Monday, but he may move it up to this week!

Yikes!

Exactly.

[ChasSmith]

I made one "last" trip into Shop Rite for the additional two packages of corned beef I want to make tomorrow. It's unbelievable how empty the shelves are of more and more items. I was told the bread aisle was depleted yesterday afternoon, and it had been pretty well replenished this morning. But less than an hour later (I did something in between walking in twice), it was halfway down.

In the meantime, workers are constantly opening boxes and putting items on shelves. But it can't very well be ANY of the "hot" items. I have absolutely no idea whether the paper and drug supplies are getting replenished at all since the run on them days ago.

We're set for a good couple of weeks, and without hoarding anything at all. It's just lucky we'd bought PT and TP a little before this happened. I really wonder how this situation is going to be corrected.

[John G.]

Are you ready, Elmore, if they move it up?

[John G.]

Today is my sister Linda’s birthday, too.

[John G.]

Went to the store. The produce options were better. There was some pasta snd even a few canned beans. But no dried beans. No canned tuna. No rotisserie chicken.

[John G.]

Idris Elba has tested pos for covid-19.

[elmore3003]

Are you ready, Elmore, if they move it up?

Emotionally, no, but I'm no coward, and I will be glad to get it over.  The good thing is I have two days before it happens: the day they call me to begin the prep work and the day of prep work.  It's like the prep for a colonoscopy but more intense with antibiotics and, if needed, anti-nausea pills.

[elmore3003]

I need to go into the surgeon's office tomorrow morning to pick up the Suprep.  They will give it to me for free.  If I go to my pharmacy, it's $150!  Taxis and buses are cheaper.  My biggest fear is that I will pick it up and they'll tell me to begin it as soon as I get home.

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up - about seven-and-a-half hours of sleep. 

[bk]

I am so actively bored of people on Facebook right now.  All they can do is talk about how they can't find eggs, or they had to endure the market with 200 others (some social distancing, that) to not find what they want, or hand sanitizer, and when you say something like "Anyone ever hear of this thing called soap?" they unhumorously pile on you and that includes two former dear readers this very day.  Here's the deal: If you've lost your sense of reality and/or humor, stay far away from me.

[bk]

I suppose I'll go to the mail place, then come back here.

[John G.]

I am so actively bored of people on Facebook right now.  All they can do is talk about how they can't find eggs, or they had to endure the market with 200 others (some social distancing, that) to not find what they want, or hand sanitizer, and when you say something like "Anyone ever hear of this thing called soap?" they unhumorously pile on you and that includes two former dear readers this very day.  Here's the deal: If you've lost your sense of reality and/or humor, stay far away from me.

Soap is said to be more effective than hand sanitizer. It’s just not as convenient.

[John G.]

I recently sent Mom a copy of Where the Crawdads Sing. She stayed up sll night resding it because she couldn’t put it down. So, what do I send her next?

[Jane]

DR JANE it turns out that my cousin's son Joey had passed away a few years ago.....when I read that, I remembered it.....

 

[John G.]

I was thinking either Gerald Durrell or A Gentleman in Moscow.

[Jane]

Dr Aronoff's office called.  The surgery is still on for Monday, but he may move it up to this week!

That would be good as you seem to have done everything you need to do. 

[Jane]

Dr Aronoff's office called.  The surgery is still on for Monday, but he may move it up to this week!

Yikes!

Exactly.

The sooner you have the surgery the faster you are out of there, before there are more virus patients.  Other surgeries have likely been postponed.

[Jane]

Are you ready, Elmore, if they move it up?

Emotionally, no, but I'm no coward, and I will be glad to get it over.  The good thing is I have two days before it happens: the day they call me to begin the prep work and the day of prep work.  It's like the prep for a colonoscopy but more intense with antibiotics and, if needed, anti-nausea pills.

I always take anti-nausea pills.  They work better if you take them before getting nauseated.

[Jane]

I am so actively bored of people on Facebook right now.  All they can do is talk about how they can't find eggs, or they had to endure the market with 200 others (some social distancing, that) to not find what they want, or hand sanitizer, and when you say something like "Anyone ever hear of this thing called soap?" they unhumorously pile on you and that includes two former dear readers this very day.  Here's the deal: If you've lost your sense of reality and/or humor, stay far away from me.

Except, Dear Bruce, you aren't joking when you mention soap.  It is appropriate if someone needs a ton of it for their home, however, when shown a small amount in a travel size bottle...sorry, not funny

[Jane]

I am so actively bored of people on Facebook right now.  All they can do is talk about how they can't find eggs, or they had to endure the market with 200 others (some social distancing, that) to not find what they want, or hand sanitizer, and when you say something like "Anyone ever hear of this thing called soap?" they unhumorously pile on you and that includes two former dear readers this very day.  Here's the deal: If you've lost your sense of reality and/or humor, stay far away from me.

Soap is said to be more effective than hand sanitizer. It’s just not as convenient.

You can't take it outside with you, which is the reason for hand sanitizer.

[Jane]

After we told Craig to lock up the hand sanitizer in his class room he picked up a small travel size for himself.  He now carries it with him and really needed it on Saturday.  He befriended a teenager who shook hands with him.  They walked together awhile and talked.  But as soon as Craig separated from the kid he used his hand sanitizer  

[Jane]

I recently sent Mom a copy of Where the Crawdads Sing. She stayed up sll night resding it because she couldn’t put it down. So, what do I send her next?

Such a good book.  I have to think on this.  What other books does she like?

[Jane]

This morning we worked out.

[Jane]

Then we stopped at Trader Joe's and I stocked up on my artichoke hearts I like there.  Not hoarding, just buy extra jars like I normally do as we don't go there very often.

[Jane]

I was able to purchase a head of cabbage

[Jane]

Then we went to Chucks which is small market.  There are two locally and they are great for produce and other items we can't find elsewhere.  There also had plenty of cabbage.  I don't know what the craziness at Fred Meyer was on Sunday.

[Jane]

Chucks was very busy but we found almost everything we were looking for.  Missing was plain tofu and a canned Loma Linda veggie soy product.

[Jane]

Now that I am done posting we are off for a walk.

[John G.]

She loved Pat Conroy’s Beach Music, except for all the freaking profanity, five or six Trollope novels, Jane Austen, Balzac, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, except it was so sad, Elizabeth Gaskell, the Lark Rise to Candleford books.