I'm Soooo Ashamed.....
I can't believe it has been 2 weeks since I posted last. I mentioned a few weeks ago I was doing some community theater and was starting to get busy. Well that was an ever so slight understatement, yeah you could say that.
The first show opens next Friday March 3rd. It's a adaptation of an Agathe Christie play called
Love from a Stranger. I've previously alluded to the fact that I'm the stranger. My character is named Bruce Lovell (some of you are listening to Homer Simpson in your heads right now aren't you ? "Oh why do you get all the really cool names like Lance and Bruce?") I play opposite mostly Cecily Harrington who becomes Cecily Harrinton Lovell. Much mayhem ensues.
Click Here for a synopsis of the movie that was adapted from the script by Frank Vosper. The charcter names are different but the story line is almost exactly the same......
I'm also playing Mr. Van Daan in
The Diary of Anne Frank. While in LfaS I play a psychopath in DoAF I play a self centered Dutchman. DoAF is done for public schools in the sense that the performances are during the daytime and schools bus in classes that are studying the book. SU is very gracious in allowing me to adjust my hours to accomodate the performances.
Click Here for info on DoAF.
I thought as a treat I'd take a panoramic view of my workspace and let you all (the 5 of you) see where'st I work. You'll have to clich the link this time as it won't fit easily on your screen.
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Park MUCH ?
Ever drive into a parking lot and find someone has straddled two parking spots with one car ? You know the guy who thinks his car is so special that he wants to make sure it doesn't get dinged. Well here's what happens if I can squeeze in next to them.
Yep if they leave before me they have to crawl in from the passenger side. It's much nicer owning a vehicle that has enough dings you don't care. Sadly this idiot didn't leave before I did but it's still fun imaging what a pain it'd have been to get in.
Park smart there are a lot of us out there.
ba
* * GRANPA KYLE NEWS UPDATE * *
Just got off the phone with Kyle and got a few more details though I'm not sure some of this isn't made up.
Weight - 8 Pounds, 7 Ounces.
Born - 6:30 PM February 9th
Name - Dylan Scott Fischer
Apgar Scale* - 9.0
He promised more pics and a maybe a video.
ba
* Click Here to find out what an Apgar Scale is.
Woot Wooot Wooooot - GEEZEPA KYLE !!!
Picture first...........
In typical guy fashion the only accompanying text was "
Got moms nose". He offered no time of birth, no weight, no other information. Sorry. I think I would have at least remembered the to add the weight. So there he is ladies and gentlemen, Dylan seen for the first time seen in a public venue. By all 8 of you that come here regularly.
ba
GEEZEPA KYLE UPDATE
Sorry no news. Just tried the cell # and got V/M. Left a mesage so we'll have to wait and see. In the mean time I offer this service.
ba
* * GRANPA KYLE NEWS ALERT * *
We interupt the normal (?) content of this blog to provide news and information regarding the impending grandfatherhoodness of Kyle. We will resume normal (?) blogging when the old guy is a granny.
I'm so loving this right after my birthdayAs of 1:15 PM Tuesday we are still awaiting the arrival. Labor which was generating contractions 2 mins apart stopped at about 5AM this morning. It has been agreed that labor will be induced tomorrow (Wednesday) if it does not spontaneously restart sooner.
Stay tuned for further updates as they are warranted.
ba
Super Bowl
In my case it refers to what held the
Carmel Corn my 1st wife made. mmmm goood. Too good ! Ate too much of it, the scallops wrapped in bacon, the spicy chicken, the hot wings, the chocolate bunt cake.......
Best commercial was the airport/servicemen and women/applause commercial by
Anheuser Bush. I don't mind admitting to having tears in my eyes before it was over. I can only hope it really happens or if it doesn't that it starts to.
Sir Paul put on a decent half time show for an old guy. The best comment of the night was offered by Frank
(not his real name) when Paul started singing Live and Let Die. Frank
(not his real name) offered up that the only reason he had to play LaLD was it was the only song they could fit pyrotechnics in. Frank
(not his real name) is pretty observant for a blind guy. Get it ?
I leave you with a link to a screen cleaner courtesy of my Brother Rich.....
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Attn Coffee Drinkers
Any coffee drinkers out there ? I'm a 2-3 cup a day kinda guy in the mornings mostly. 1st cup is in the Hot Tub or laying in bed. 2nd and 3rd cup is at work. One thing I hate about making coffee is when this happens.
Filter failure. You get down to a few filters and they are unable to sustain the proper pleatage. They fall inward in the coffee maker and you get grounds in your coffee. I hate chewy coffee.
Lately at work I've been making coffee. Dunkin Donuts jacked their prices up beyond that which I'm willing to pay. It has been this circumstance that has led me to discover the perfect coffee filter pleatage sustainer container. I give you the solution.
Get and old lid from those burnable CD's you've bought so your kids can save all of the illegal music they've downloaded and viola'. Put your filters in them and they'll be safe from pleatage failure.
ba
line.. Line... LIne - LINe - LINE
Okay, I want you to think...
'sNow think.
Now retain that memory and pretend your watching a rehearsal of a drama and the actors and actresses don't know their lines. Yep that's what I'm talking about.
I do some community theater (I'm sure I've mentioned it before) during the winter months. It gets me out of the house and helps me survive the CNY winters. I'm currently in rehearsal for the part of Bruce Lovell in Love From A Stranger. I think I'm the stranger and I'm supposed to love Cecily Harrington. I think I'll love her more if she memorizes more of her lines.
ba
Where Do You Live ?
While this blog is most often original thoughts and attempts at humor, some of these these comments attributed to Jeff Foxworthy about Upstate New York were new to me so I thought I'd share them with you.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 36 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in Upstate New York.
If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Saranac Lake is the coldest spot in the nation, and Syracuse gets more snow than any other major city in the US, you might live in Upstate New York.
If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you might live in Upstate New York .
If you instinctively walk like a penguin for six months out of the year, you might live in Upstate New York.
If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, you might live in Upstate New York.
If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Upstate New York.
If you have worn shorts and a parka on the same day, you might live in Upstate New York.
If your town has more bars than churches, you might live in Upstate NewYork.
If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in Upstate New York.
YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE UPSTATE NEW YORKER WHEN:1. "Vacation" means going South past Syracuse for the weekend.
2. You measure distance in hours.
3. You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
4. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.
5. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
6. You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including weddings).
7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
8. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend /wife knows how to use them.
9. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
10. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
11. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction.
12. You can identify a southern or eastern accent.
13. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce.
14. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.
15. Down South to you means Corning, New York.
16. A brat is something you eat.
17. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new shed.
18. You go out for a fish fry every Friday.
19. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
20. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
21. You find 10 degrees "a little chilly."
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