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Thank you for the birthday wishes folks.
Oo, missed that in Cora's post. Glad you had a good one. Ants make good horror. E.g. Them is possibly the best of the 50s atomic mutant giant movies. Just sayin'.
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We saw Mean Girls the Musical Saturday night. It was really fun.
When I heard that existed, I was a bit baffled. Doesn't seem like material for a stage musical. But then, neither did Les Miserables at the time, I guess. If anything, Les Miz was probably more likely to become an opera prior to Boublil and Schoenberg working their magic.
Today's coffee come from Jamaica, some medium roast from the Blue Mountains.
For tea, we are offering Original Earl Grey and Scottish Breakfast with hot water on hand for other fine teas.
Cold drinks are mixed up fresh and filled to the tippy top.
Have a nice one! Hot and muggy here (groans).
Gojira is not a metal band I have paid much attention to but with them becoming the first metal band to play an Olympics last night, they are now on my radar. Metal and rock fans seem uniformly pleased with their performance and even some mainstream reviews are citing it as a highlight.
Here's an audio of the performance. It's a metal version of a song that goes back to the French revolution.
And one of their own songs, from the 2005 album From Mars To Sirius, which seems to be widely regarded as their best work.
Good day (almost afternoon here)!!
Putting on some dark roast Nicaraguan, fresh ground, in the coffee pot. For teas, we've got Darjeeling and Buddha's Blend. Pitchers are washed and refilled with unsweet iced tea and lemonade. Sodas are stocked up.
Lovely weather here, but that temperature is inching upwards. 30C by Monday with the humidity starting to rise by then, too.
Hi, all. In a gap between meetings. Sorry i didn't have time to do the setup this morning. Have not had a crazy meeting day like this in a long time, actually. One more work meeting to go, then I have a personal one. gasps for breath
Sad news in Canada today. A wildfire is raging in Jasper National Park, just North of the more famous Banff National Park. Houses destroyed in the town of Jasper and the town and park have been evacuated. I was there with my wife back when we were dating pre-marriage. Lovely part of the country.
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I wrote a VERY dark story last week, so dark even Talia hated it.
At least she's not the editor reviewing it, eh. 😊 My darkest story is gone now (from here, might have it stashed in my writing archive still). Good story but, yeah, dark.
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a Presidential address to watch
Should be an interesting one. Might even be more interesting than the game, though an NY crosstown game should be run.
Good morning. Kind of grey and blah here. Cloudy, muggy, light showers. And my mood is similar so once I get the coffee going, I'll just go be the grump in the back corner.
For coffee, I'll just put on some Tobermory Grotto. Teas shall be English Breakfast and Raspberry Royale. Cold drinks looking good in the fridge.
Years ago, 2017 IIRC, I discovered Faouzia. Born in Morocco but raised on the Canadian prairies, she first came to my attention in a guest appearance with the Canadian duo Whitehorse. Since then, I have watch her career on and off with interest. While her style of music isn't ways my cuppa, her deep, resonant alto voice is gorgeous and keeps me coming back. She recently appeared on the Chinese TV show The Singer and while she was in China, shot a video for her latest single in Shanghai.
Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood morning!!!
Fresh and bright this morning!!!
We gots Fire-Roasted Fireside medium roast coffee. In the teapots, we have some Red Rose and Russian Caravan teas. Cold drinks are refreshed so there's lemonade and unsweet iced tea ready. Sodas are stocked up.
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I was talking about Trump getting shot, the IT outage, and Biden stepping down, all in the space of under two weeks. The pace is simply insane.
True enough. Biden alone is a once in a lifetime thing, it would seem. Last Dem to step aside from seeking re-election was Johnson and that happened when I was 3.
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Sara, I am writing about the Braves! Specifically the Mets/Braves 1999 NLCS. You guys won it but I still went to two of the best games I’ve ever seen. If you like I will send a link tomorrow when it goes out in the newsletter.
That's brave. (flees as the groans begin)
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We have weekly “once in a lifetime” events occurring now.
Actually, Friday's "once in a lifetime" event was more than just the USA, believe me. Chaos all around. And I am not yet convinced it will be "once in a lifetime". Sucky programming has been with us as long as I have been in IT. This was just the worse to date. Who knows what AI will manage to do?
I frequently watch videos by music YouTuber Nahre Sol, a classically trained pianist and composer who explores music from a variety of styles. And last night, she introduced me to Tigran Hamasyan, an Armenian jazz musician and composer with myriad influences from the folk music of his own culture to metal (Meshuggah specifically got name-checked).
And the profile from Nahre's channel:
Well, it's late but it is also Sunday. There's Don Rey's French Roast from Las Chicas brewed for the coffee set. Teas are Darjeeling and Sangria White. Cold beverages also available in the fridge.
I went back to an old project to see how it stood up after a few months and realized that I totally f-d up a plot point. The protagonist inherits a house but then in the next chapter, I have her visiting the wrong house. It was supposed to be one her late, estranged mother inherited from the protagonist's maternal grandfather. But then I describe the place as being built only a few years ago and describe it as a fairly modern house with a huge master suite and that sort of thing. D'oh. Some major rewriting needed to fix this one. Maybe just jettison that second chapter and start over.
