Rent Rocks (a weekend in a downtown city)

Saturday:
3PM: While looking at movie listings, considering the possibility of seeing one, I mention that RENT is showing across the street. I assume GT wouldn't qualify to see it. GT says she may, G affirms it. We go online; there is a show at 4PM. GT thinks we should drive. And worries that we are not dressed appropriately. I don't care. P's old red sweat pants, a Purdue sweatshirt, black Reboks, a bushy head of uncombed hair; this seems to me perfect RENT. It is.
We get tix in the 10th row center on the floor, fabulous wonderful seats.
Okay, I was going to go on and on and on about all the cool details of this experience, but I just told them to OML on the phone and now they have been expressed and are out of me.
However, it was a great, memorable happening from conception to review and I told GT she had to remember it forever. P & G watched tv or whatever and when we got back we ordered in Chinese and for a while there I was living Seinfeld and Mad About You.
The set was created like my kind of art, with junk and trash and lights and shadows and the musicians were on stage and visable and the sound was great and...oh well, maybe you needed to be there. And we got t-shirts. "NO day but today" on the back of mine sold me.
There was a bar in the lobby, just like in old Broadway theater movies.
WEll, I had a good time. So did GT.
GT spent the night and G picked her up at 9A and they will be back later to watch the Colts with P...and me.

Thanksgiving will be at ECHO, as will we all

We move to ECHO next Wednesday, 11/08/06. The movers are scheduled.
Shower in, floor down. Plumbing incomplete, but should be done by then.
Tower notified. Need to get a letter from P's doc to break lease & get $ back.
Work on ECHO still in progress, but the time has come.
Now I gotta change all those addresses again, Yuck.

A few from the funeral weekend

KOF and JoJo were good enough to provide some photographic evidence of the weekend's proceeding. Because Blogger is being persnickity about uploading them inline, I've uploaded many of them to flickr.

Thanks for sending them, JoJo!

Perfect Gift for the Geezer in your life

I check this site for info

http://www.wemove.org/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi

It helps me to know what others deal with and what to expect--somewhat.

Armageddon Is Near? Or Paradise, Perhaps?

1. Amazon is selling groceries, including ice cream. I got an e-mail this morning. (ice cream?)
2. Ivy, who never gets up before noon, called and woke me at 10:00 am.
3. High here today predicted to be 75.
4. Colts now 7-0. Ditto Da Bears.

Entries anyone?

Granny Has Passed

Sometime this evening. Ken & Rog will arrange. P says he won't go, but I think he will. I think he needs to and I plan to push him to do it. Don't know details yet. Will let you know. Location is at Akins Funeral HOme on Highway 5 in Blue Ridge. (7871 Blue Ridge Drive Blue Ridge, GA)

Campaign Season Disclosure

My car is at Goodyear, right around the corner, having it's passenger side mirror repaired. This will take one day and I will pay the total cost from private funds.

In the interest of full disclosure, I did it. I swiped a support pedestal on the out ramp of the apartment parking lot. P had nothing to do with it. I accept full responsibility.

In my defense, I was watching a guy who was going to be in my path after I reached the bottom of the ramp and must have inadvertantly leaned a little to the right. This is no excuse, though, and I will continue to accept any repercussions. No public funds will be used to allay the pain and embarrassment caused by this incident.

After consulting with my advisors, it is possible I may enter a recovery program, perhaps an Eve Arden Spa, to deal with my problems.

Thank you for your compassion and support.

Why, Oh Why, Don't You Get A Manual????

with Photoshop 4.0 or whatever. Can one get a manual someplace? I can't figure out how to even get a picture side by another picture so I can play with them. Waaa! My new bicycle has two flat tires and I got no pump.

if buying flat panel monitor...

is 'analog only' okay? any must haves? do de come with cords and plugs?
RSVP pr favor

Gene Janson - RIP

Career highlight: Worked with one OML in "Blink"

P's ma cared for by Hospice

Still in the nursing home, but the care is oriented differently, as she wanted. They say she is comfortable, in no pain, sleeps well, and it may be a few days or less.

Happy Birthday Tommy Boy

I think Tommy took offence at the Padres' Kurt Bevacqua for calling him a "fat little Italian" which elicited the provided clip.

Grab My Balls

A Bouquet for Acting Boy

Make 'em feel the blood in their stools!

Pert & koAla to Compound before Labor Day, etc.

We will leave here Thursday or Friday, be there for the w/e, stay till the 12th or so. P can see his pals. I can get hair done. P is on blood draws once a week now and we can carry our order to the compound and do it while we are there. Still see play on Friday the 8th.

We are having ECHO (the 719 house has a new name, dubbed by GT only) fixed up.

New, 36 inch wide back door and storm/screen.

All new windows, where they aren't already done.

Wooden, 10 x 12 deck in back, with railings, level with kitchen floor, with wheelchair ramp toward back and steps to sidewalk, toward front.

New shelter over back door to replace the old metal awning.

New, psuedo wood (golden oak, wide boards) floors in living room, dining room, downstairs bedroom.

Chimney has been repaired and bathroom vent pipe fixed so no more leaking in.

New shower, wall to wall, walk in, with molded seats on both sides, in downstairs bath where washer and dryer are now.
W and D will be moved to kitchen, somewhere tbd later.

New electric furnace and a/c, now or later, depending on what furnace person says tomorrow. (AC has stopped working.)

Sometime after all this is done (except furnace) we will move there. We hope to be able to do Thanksgiving dinner there this year, even if we haven't moved in yet. We hope with many dogs.

We hope this doesn't give anybody hark attacks. This is not an overnight decision and we both ('we' and 'both' are redundant, I know, but makes the point better) agree on it.
Love to all

Boys Beware

Wow. Remember this?

Rainy Days and Sundries

A few pieces of news, or at least information from the Southern front. First, some housekeeping:

• Thanks go to koALa, who figured out the source of her problem posting to the blog: Google has decided to try to tie your GMail ID (if you have one) to your Blogger ID. Therefore, if you decide to create a new post, you might get the sign-in page, with your GMail name and password pre-loaded on the appropriate lines. If you try to sign in that way, you won't be recognized, and it will merely invite you to create a new page. So, you may either (1) log back in with the appropriate user name, or (2) if you want to avoid that trouble in the future, I can send an invitation email to your current GMail address, and you can sign up from there. Let me know if you want to do that, and I'll test it out before trying it on one of you.

• The good news is that this is the beginning of a pretty major upgrade to Blogger (the first since Google bought this POS). The changes aren't available to us yet (unless we create a new blog), but I'll post more when it's time to switch over. I may try to transfer over the pics we have over on EvaPictures, then use that site as a guinea pig before risking all of our data (or whatever it is we have here) in an upgrade, and consolidate the two sites at that time. (If you listen carefully, you can almost hear the entire family struggling mightily to give a damn.)
  

On a more personal level:

• T3 is now in the employ of Hollywood "Hey, at least we're not Blockbuster" Video. He found that restaurant work wasn't to his liking (most of us can relate to that). He started this week, and one of his perks is that he can have three movies out at a time for no charge. This may be the best thing that ever happened...to me.

• The EvaDewer will also be working in a different position soon, though it will be with his current company, in a different group. This may not mean much to the rest of you, but it's a godsend for him. Among other things, this will mean a few trips to India a year. With any luck, some stops along the way might be possible.
  

• Gock has been quiet about it, but he is working again, as well. I'm sure he'll update us as he sees fit. Or maybe I'm not sure, so I just wrote that to be on the safe side.

Ink for the new play

The might Gwinnett Daily Post has some stuff in today's Arts and Leisure about Lionheart, the new play, and other doins.

The print version has the cast names in it, and another picture of me. But you'll have to trust me on that. Because it's all about me.

August 14, 2006 Many Happy Returns, Dear OML

I accidentally posted this message on pictures. Go there for the whole message. Happy Birthday, OML. We love you and miss you.