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[ChasSmith]

Checkup at the dermatologist tomorrow, first thing in the a.m.

(9:30 is "first thing in the a.m." for me.) 

[elmore3003]

OMG, DR singdaw, that Amazon review for Annabelle & Thatch is a wonderful surprise this morning! Thank you

[singdaw]

I'm not sure which is scarier...   DR ChasSmith's story, or the fact that I was able to follow it.

[singdaw]

You are welcome, DR elmore3003. Well-deserved.

[ChasSmith]

OMG, DR singdaw, that Amazon review for Annabelle & Thatch is a wonderful surprise this morning! Thank you

Boy, it sure, is, DR singdaw. THAT will be a tough act to follow.

[ChasSmith]

DR Elmore - I hope you or the publisher can get Amazon to (once again) adjust "Reading Age" to (whichever number you want) AND ABOVE. "A Children's Story for Adult Readers" is such a beautiful description, and anyone reading the publishing details below could be thrown off by that age designation, which would be a shame.

[elmore3003]

DR Elmore - I hope you or the publisher can get Amazon to (once again) adjust "Reading Age" to (whichever number you want) AND ABOVE. "A Children's Story for Adult Readers" is such a beautiful description, and anyone reading the publishing details below could be thrown off by that age designation, which would be a shame.

He tried. He said it was 16-18 or 18+, which I would prefer since I don't want any god-fearing Christians to panic that I'm converting children to a shameful, godless life style. Perhaps some future review will explain this is not exactly a "children's book."

[vixmom]

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[Jrand74]

Travel vibes for DR RODZINSKI.

[Jrand74]

I mowed the yard yesterday - or as I call it finished threshing the back forty.

I am still out of it and not feeling too well.

I may lie down a lot today.

[ChasSmith]

I must needs mow my own north forty today. (It's actually more westerly, but west forty just doesn't have that "ring", ya know what I mean?)

Feel better, DR Jrand74!

[Rodzinski]

Jack Douglas! Yes I read my dad’s 3 Woody Allen story collections and all his Jack Douglas books of which Benedict Arnold Slept Here was my favorite.

[Rodzinski]

Travel vibes for DR RODZINSKI.

Thank you. Day I travel and it’s the first storm we’ve had in months.

[Rodzinski]

Crazy computing tale, Chas!

[Freddie]

I mowed the yard yesterday - or as I call it finished threshing the back forty.

I am still out of it and not feeling too well.

I may lie down a lot today.

Sending feel better vibes.

[singdaw]

Coming September 9th:

[Freddie]

Travel vibes for DR RODZINSKI.

Thank you. Day I travel and it’s the first storm we’ve had in months.

More safe travel vibes!

[singdaw]

~~~SAFE & EASY TRAVEL VIBES~~~ for DR Rodz!!!

[singdaw]

~~~FEEL BETTER PRONTO VIBES~~~ for DR Jrand74!!!

[ChasSmith]

Jack Douglas! Yes I read my dad’s 3 Woody Allen story collections and all his Jack Douglas books of which Benedict Arnold Slept Here was my favorite.

I remember some Jack Douglas, but I was crazy about the Woody Allen collections that, as memory has it, started appearing in my first year in L.A. with "Getting Even".

[John G.]

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Congratulations!

[ChasSmith]

I didn't answer yesterday's TOD either. Any answer I give will be guesswork, but my best guesses are that I at least read portions of my mother's copy of Gone With the Wind and Helen Keller's The Story of My Life that I know we always had in the house. Then a few of my parents' Reader's Digest Condensed Books, notably The Haunting of Hill House and Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris, in addition to a few other titles. I started getting movie tie-in paperback editions of various classic novels, a few favorites of which were To Kill a Mockingbird, Dracula, and Doctor Zhivago.

[ChasSmith]

I'm looking at Wiki's list of the RD Condensed Books, and the selection of titles is rather amazing. Abridged or not, I should have dived into more of them than I did. And look, there's Marnie in the Winter 1961 edition, along with The Light in the Piazza. I always enjoyed the illustrations, and I held onto those images from the Shirley Jackson in my head in those years before the 1963 film was released.

[Freddie]

I'm thinking that if Condensed Books count for yesterday's TOD, I probably read the Reader's Digest condensed book of AIRPORT even before I read THE GODFATHER.

[Jane]

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Very good.

[Jane]

From there, I discovered the Jack Douglas books - Never Trust a Naked Bus Driver and My Brother Was an Only Child. I read those over and over again.

My Brother Was an Only Child is a great title

[Jane]

~~~ARRIVAL VIBES~~~ for BK's new Mac mini!!!

DITTO!

[Jane]

Yesterday evening I had the weirdest experience as I was preparing to let both the iPad and the app forScore update. I never allow automatic updates, nor do most savvy musicians I know who use the various music-oriented apps. Keep everything stable, and wait till after any critical rehearsals or any performances at all to do that, because you NEVER know what unexpected oddities will occur.

Anyhoo, I did my backing up and archiving (it's two processes) of all the musical scores in my library and moved those files to a different folder in case the whole thing explodes on me. Then I updated forScore, which took all of half a minute or so.

I then looked at my current operating system and didn't see a notice about there being an update, which seemed weird because I'd been getting their warnings about that. I'd forgotten that that's in a specific place. At that point I got sidetracked with a couple of emails that needed replies. In so doing, I found a HUGE LAG in the typing. It would take half a minute for the keyboard to even come up, then a similar amount of time for typing to catch up. I restarted a couple of times, which didn't help. Then - while blaming the iPad update, but forgetting that I hadn't even done that yet (are you following along here?) - I thought I'd better also update the apps themselves in case the "Typefinity" keyboard I use needed it. That didn't help matters either, so I just experimented to see which apps I could type normally in, and which had the huge lag. Gmail was a disaster, as was this site, but I could type okay on Facebook and a couple of other things. At that point I closed the thing and put the problem off while getting a little food.

When I came back, I was reminded that I, in fact, had NOT yet updated the iPad. But suddenly, now everything was working normally. So what in the holy HELL caused that? Talk about yer coincidences. Anyway, now feeling better about the whole thing, I finally went into the system stuff and selected the OS update. It began, but it's weird how the "preparing the update" process takes, like, half an hour before it begins its multiple shutdowns and restarts. But when the process was finally done, everything worked gloriously once again.

And that was my evening. And I know that, having followed along in detail, your lives are enriched beyond all expectation. You're welcome.

Wow, I didn't realize updates were so complicated

[Jane]

Checkup at the dermatologist tomorrow, first thing in the a.m.

(9:30 is "first thing in the a.m." for me.) 

I had an 8:15 "first thing in the a.m." for me this morning.

[Jane]

I'm not sure which is scarier...   DR ChasSmith's story, or the fact that I was able to follow it.