Last Person #5

[Gerry Seymour]

You know...after making steal cut oat meal and currently baking barbecue tempeh and ginger tofu....with piles of branched in need of lashing together, a AC unit in need of installation and a tractor and a mower in need of oil changes I am beginning to wonder why I log on my computer at all on the weekends

Because if you didn't, you'd have to do those oil changes?

 

[CB Jones]

Sweet - sounds like he had a great season!

He did.

With trying to balance baseball, Basketball, and karate it is a non stop schedule but he kept grinding.

 

[Steve]

EXACTLY! And it always drives me nuts when I see a couple at a restaurant - apparently on a date, but one of them had clearly made an effort to dress up for a special occasion and the other clearly doesn't give a damn. And it goes both ways - regardless of gender.

Lol. I was talking about MS Word, but I agree.

 

[Steve]

Alright. Ribs and German potato salad today. Kids are coming over. Might grill some corn, too.

Making a batch of soap now, though.

 

[Gerry Seymour]

Alright. Ribs and German potato salad today. Kids are coming over. Might grill some corn, too.

Making a batch of soap now, though.

Dinner sounds good. I'll pass on that dessert, though.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Because if you didn't, you'd have to do those oil changes?

Well...as far as the oil changed go...why put off till tomorrow what you can put off until next Saturday

 

[Buka]

Indeed! Only real men can survive the heels.

The photo from Some Like it Hot really blew my mind. Big time. I know it was shot in black and white and was never colorized. And Marilyn Monroe had a contract that all of her films would be shot in color. And I saw Some Like it Hot when I was a kid, on the day of my first Communion.

I had to google around. They were from a handful of promotional pics. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon appeared ghoulish in color screen tests, so Billy Wilder decided on black and white, and Marilyn agreed.

My mom was close friends with Jack Lemmon's mother, Millie, which makes me.....really fricken old.

 

[AngryHobbit]

Lol. I was talking about MS Word, but I agree.

That too. I am still trying to figure out what I get more guff about - document consistency and readability or actually getting dressed after one rolls out of bed in the morning.

 

[AngryHobbit]

The photo from Some Like it Hot really blew my mind. Big time. I know it was shot in black and white and was never colorized. And Marilyn Monroe had a contract that all of her films would be shot in color. And I saw Some Like it Hot when I was a kid, on the day of my first Communion.

I had to google around. They were from a handful of promotional pics. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon appeared ghoulish in color screen tests, so Billy Wilder decided on black and white, and Marilyn agreed.

My mom was close friends with Jack Lemmon's mother, Millie, which makes me.....really fricken old.

So, what you are saying is - it runs in the family.

Some Like it Hot is one of my dad's favorite movies. Whenever they brought it to the movie theaters in town, we always went to see it. Which... I suppose... makes me really freaking old too - because I still remember when the only way to see an American movie in Ukraine was to wait for it to be allowed at the movie theaters. That's how I watched The Godfather and Gone With the Wind. Oh, and How to Steal a Million.

 

[Buka]

So, what you are saying is - it runs in the family.

I don't know. Jack Lemmon was born just outside of Boston and my folks knew his folks. He went to Harvard and was president of the Hasty Pudding Club. My dad, a bartender for fifty two years, used to work unauthorized parties for Jack and his hasty Pudding classmates at Harvard.

Years later, when I was seven, I met Jack Lemmon at my house. It was right after after he made the film Operation Mad Ball, which is still one of my favorite, old, black and white movies.

He was just another friend of your parents, one you nodded to and hoped would go away so you could go out and play.

 

[hoshin1600]

me and the family went to the Thai Buddhist temple yesterday. got sucked into sitting in seiza while my wife and others sat chatting with the head monk in Thai so i couldnt understand a word spoken, then we all did a meditation session with him. i should mention my knees are very against seiza or any type of kneeling. so i woke up this morning with my knees feeling their best (sarcasm if you couldnt tell) having a hard time walking today. and my office is up a flight of stairs from the shop floor....wonderfull.....

 

[AngryHobbit]

me and the family went to the Thai Buddhist temple yesterday. got sucked into sitting in seiza while my wife and others sat chatting with the head monk in Thai so i couldnt understand a word spoken, then we all did a meditation session with him. i should mention my knees are very against seiza or any type of kneeling. so i woke up this morning with my knees feeling their best (sarcasm if you couldnt tell) having a hard time walking today. and my office is up a flight of stairs from the shop floor....wonderfull.....

Ow.... Would it have been a violation of protocol if you sat some other way? I am not being facetious - I honestly don't know.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Good news/bad news

Good News
Youngest did good in her piano eval and has been invited to play her Rachmaninoff in a concert at a local college

Bad News
My youngest tested positive for strep

 

[CB Jones]

Good News
Youngest did good in her piano eval and has been invited to play her Rachmaninoff in a concert at a local college

Awesome...congrats

Bad News
My youngest tested positive for strep

Not Awesome...hope she bets better soon.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Awesome...congrats



Not Awesome...hope she bets better soon.

Thanks, I am leaving soon to pick up her script that the MD sent in...

 

[hoshin1600]

Ow.... Would it have been a violation of protocol if you sat some other way? I am not being facetious - I honestly don't know.

well for starters its a wood floor, no chairs as the Asian culture doesnt use them. the monks sat on a carpet and everyone else gets a thin cushion. but i like yourself am not overly familiar with Thai manners. i do know your not supposed to sit with the bottoms of your feet showing or aimed at other people i would assume the bottoms of your feet pointed at the Buddha and the monks would be a really big no no. so i didnt want to do anything to disrupt the flow of the visit or offend anyone. i just sucked it up and went with it.

 

[AngryHobbit]

Good news/bad news

Good News
Youngest did good in her piano eval and has been invited to play her Rachmaninoff in a concert at a local college

That is amazing! There aren't a lot of people who can play Rachmaninoff.

Bad News
My youngest tested positive for strep

That's not good. And not conducive to playing Rachmaninoff.

 

[wingchun100]

Good afternoon, all.

Did I miss something? Was a thread deleted? I notice my post count is lower than I remember.

 

[granfire]

me and the family went to the Thai Buddhist temple yesterday. got sucked into sitting in seiza while my wife and others sat chatting with the head monk in Thai so i couldnt understand a word spoken, then we all did a meditation session with him. i should mention my knees are very against seiza or any type of kneeling. so i woke up this morning with my knees feeling their best (sarcasm if you couldnt tell) having a hard time walking today. and my office is up a flight of stairs from the shop floor....wonderfull.....

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[Xue Sheng]

That is amazing! There aren't a lot of people who can play Rachmaninoff.


That's not good. And not conducive to playing Rachmaninoff.

She appears to like Russian composers, she did rather well with a piece from Shostakovich in a competition.