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[John G.]

Three!

[John G.]

This page is just begun.

[John G.]

While I getting my CT scan done, I discovered that I missed Prince Igor was the opera on metopera.org.

[John G.]

So, I've been listening off and on to it this afternoon. So far, I'm more than 2.5 hours into it. Have about 35 minutes left.

[John G.]

The music is just glorious. And what little I caught of the staging of the scene in the poppy field, it's the reason why people go to the Met. The spectacle practically matches the music.

[John G.]

It's been interesting to hear what Wright and Forrest appropriated for Kismet.

[singdaw]

I'm glad, DR John G.

And all it took was a bunch of bucks.

[singdaw]

That's BoB, for short.

[John G.]

Crossword clue of the day: Doolittle who identifies the location of Spanish precipitation.

[John G.]

That's BoB, for short.

And BoB is your uncle.

[singdaw]

I always loved the Forbidden Broadway variation (regarding Speed-the-Plow):

We strain in vain to train Madonna's brain.

[singdaw]

And BoB is your uncle. 

Yes, indeedy!

[George]

That's BoB, for short.

And BoB is your uncle.

...from pennies to guineas,
The two-sided mint is the rule, not exception,
And would you not quite feel quite the fool of deception
To find the same face on both sides of the coin?

[George]

Got most of the Indiegogo stuff all tagged - all sitting on the floor at the moment, but now I can take it all over to storage. Can't find two things at the moment, so the hunt is on.

~~~Hunting and FINDING Vibes for BK!!~~~

[George]

The director demanded a Princess Telephone - so brought him down a Princess phone for Jan and a regular black dial phone for Brad.

He deigned to tell me he guessed the black one would work for Brad but that he wanted a PRINCESS phone for Jan.....I told him he had one....but he informed me that what I had given him was a SLIM LINE phone....

Which it was not...the SLIM LINE phone has the dial in the receiver....I finally realized what he wanted for Jan is a French style phone.....which he for some reason calls a Princess Phone....which it is not.....I really don't think Jan would use a French phone....but whatever...

It's going to be a long couple of months.....

I loved my baby blue princess phone, I was so sad when they made me give it back

Right, back when we rarely owned our phones.

I remember reading an article in the paper (the actual paper newspaper that my parents got) back in the 1980s, or maybe the early 1990s, about this woman who had rented a phone from her local phone company, and her adult son had figured that she had paid more than $29,000 for all the years that she had rented the phone!  Yikes!

[George]

   This is true, even on a Princess phone:

[bk]

Caesar was great. I cancelled Factor.

[bk]

Listening to Bernstein conduct Stravinsky.

[John G.]

After three hours, Prince Igor is over. But what a listen. I'd love to watch it some day.

[Jane]

The CT scan is done.

Continued good result vibes!

[Jane]

The director demanded a Princess Telephone - so brought him down a Princess phone for Jan and a regular black dial phone for Brad.

He deigned to tell me he guessed the black one would work for Brad but that he wanted a PRINCESS phone for Jan.....I told him he had one....but he informed me that what I had given him was a SLIM LINE phone....

Which it was not...the SLIM LINE phone has the dial in the receiver....I finally realized what he wanted for Jan is a French style phone.....which he for some reason calls a Princess Phone....which it is not.....I really don't think Jan would use a French phone....but whatever...

It's going to be a long couple of months.....

I loved my baby blue princess phone, I was so sad when they made me give it back

Right, back when we rarely owned our phones.

I remember reading an article in the paper (the actual paper newspaper that my parents got) back in the 1980s, or maybe the early 1990s, about this woman who had rented a phone from her local phone company, and her adult son had figured that she had paid more than $29,000 for all the years that she had rented the phone!  Yikes!

 

[Jane]

I can't be sure which state we lived in, maybe Pennsylvania, we went to the AT&T store & purchased two replica antique wood phones.  Below are photos of similar styles.

[Jane]

One phone was a rotary dial that hung on the wall.  I remember having to teach visiting children how to use it.  Their expressions when they attempted to use the phone were priceless.

[Jane]

The other was a table phone, however, it had push buttons.

[Jane]

At one point the wood receiver broke on the standing phone, and since we had moved and didn't have a place for the wall phone, we switched out the receiver.

[Jane]

At one point the wood receiver broke on the standing phone, and since we had moved and didn't have a place for the wall phone, we switched out the receiver.

[Jane]

Every time the power went out we still had phone service, unlike with the new phones.

[Jane]

I still miss the phones.

[Jane]

This afternoon Keith helped the neighbor decorate the mailboxes for a retirement surprise for our postman.  She went to the party store and picked up a few things and they look great.

[Jane]

Once we were done we went for a walk up the road to a neighborhood that had balloons lining the street with "THANK YOU" and our mailman's name on them.  It was heartwarming to see.