last post of 2022

Baby giraffe an hour old 

work

Sarus cranes, stood by the truck

Jimmy the hornbill, carried by Michelle, rescued from drowning by Laverne

Christmas with the chimps, first for me and Tonk

so far

Carol of the Bells is played most often.

Second Tier:

Do You Hear What I Hear?

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Winter Wonderland

Sleigh Ride

Jingle Bell Rock 

Third Tier:

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Santa Claus is Coming to Town 

Holly Jolly Christmas 

Fourth Tier:

Jingle Bells

Let it Snow

O Holy Night 

Rockin Around the Christmas Tree 

⛄🎄⛄🎄⛄ 🦌🎄🦌🎄

So, what are the significant points?

Obviously, less of an emphasis on history and Jesus.  Surprisingly, Carol of the Bells is not, to me at least; well it isn't actually a carol.  But I have to look up the definition.  And it's the only song anywhere on the list that mentions the name Jesus. There's one version that mentions Jesus and the others are instrumental.  Ironic that the list is noticeable for not much Jesus but the most prolific on the list uses it.

Free Covid test kits to take home, at the library 

how exciting

The former ghetto McDonald's now the Maritime McDonald's, no it's not as an inspection going on and there's at least seven people walking around looking at everything. Wouldn't they like to know!

Michael Buble

Holly jolly Christmas

Luther vandross maybe, just the most wonderful time of the year or is it al jarreau?  Lesbian somebody else. I've never mixed up those two before.

Nice harmonica and a smooth easy deal, with a little timeless quality.

Carol of the Bells with the choir and the first mention of Jesus name this season.

Amy Grant I'll be home for Christmas

Michael W Smith Christmas Pachelbel Canon.  I think if we take away 20% of the time the children's choir is singing we would have something really profound

Jose feliciano Feliz navidad.

Frank Sinatra jingle Bells reminds me of one more musical thing we don't get to hear but once a year, and that's the oompa pa

Beach boys jan and deen Crosby stills Nash and Young and the kitchen sink kidding Frosty the snowman.

Amy Grant it's the most wonderful time of the year

have yourself a

Merry Christmas

First Karen Carpenter Christmas listen

Brenda Lee Rockin again

sleigh ride ronettes

Winter Wonderland Air Supply?

Elvis Blue Christmas 

Jose Feliciano Feliz Navidad

Silver Bells Andy Williams?  Steve Lawrence?  

LeAnn again.

Have yourself a man little Christmas, baritone unknown at first, but it's Frank 

Amy Grant it's the most wonderful time of the year

Enjoying these string tracks and orchestras and so forth.

Bing Frosty

LeAnn Rimes Rockin Around

Have yourself a Merry little Christmas now, is that Barry manilow?

Burl Ives Holly jolly Christmas

Winter wonderland Martina McBride

Finally Andy Williams the most wonderful time of the year

O Holy Night

So there we have it, a real life hymn broadcast on the radio, we sing in churches all the time for Christmas but when you think about it it doesn't mention Jesus or why the night is holy? I guess I never thought about it before but the lyrics are not specifically Christian they're just about a holy night and you'd have to know why the night was holy in order to make it a Christmas song.

Kind of odd for me to realize that such a seemingly religious song is....

Jingle Bell rock, Bobby helms? Rudolph by Harry connick Jr with children's choir and the hot trumpet

Burl Ives again.

Eartha Kitt again 

jewel winter wonderland

Jingle Bell Rock

Dean Martin Rudolph 

Jackson 5 Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Peanuts Christmas Time is Here again

Hawaiian Mele Kelli something

Tony Bennett Santa Claus is Coming to Town (I don't remember this version.  Lots of strings.) 

Trans Mannheim Orchestra Carol of the Bells with God Rest Ye

Beach Boys Little Saint Nick

Eartha Kitt Santa Baby

more

Santa Claus is Coming to Town by Bruce Springsteen and Peanuts Christmas Time is Here.  Drifters White Christmas, Brenda Rockin again, Don Henley Please Come Home fir Christmas 

rockin around

Brenda Lee

First Christmas song on the radio for me, this year; started just before her first word.

Jesus on the roof

Today, in a part of town I don't usually go to, I saw light up, plastic nativity figures next to a really really tall Santa, on the roof.

Hurricane Nicole 

lots of

Holiday decorated housing developments

mmm mm

first Halloween decorations

In the gift shop there is a Halloween tree, and yesterday I noticed the first deflatables in someone's yard; baby Yoda, a sheet ghost and a purple spider.

something to do

with circa 15 year olds.  Standing in line, waiting, but lean and walk a little backwards.  Hello, there is someone behind you.  We're all slowly and sporadically moving the other direction; you know, forward.  

text to speech with no corrections

Today, I am at the ghetto McDonald's. I decided to call it this again, even though I was calling it The Maritime McDonald's. Because, they covered the electrical outlets trying to keep the homeless or nearly homeless from motel 6 next door, out of this store. Miss Cooper, or Mrs Cooper at Maritime academy told me that a big company was buying this McDonald's and for a while it was not as ghetto. There used to be free entertainment starting Yolanda wanting to pull out a coworker's hair and asking someone to hold her wig. While she would take off her too, know that is her shoe. And then for a while it was Yolande doing something similar. Now, instead of a big McDonald's with a lot of TVs it is a little or mcdonald's, not really but it feels like it with a constant beeping. Right now there are two buzzers going off and both are loud. They have been out of Coke the last three times I have been here. And they suggest diet coke, unhelpfully. They do not put napkins out and the drink machine is off as it is for most McDonald's these days and also most McDonald's are beeping nearly constantly. Now, one beeper went off but another one has started. There is a mop bucket out and the cleaning rag on top of one garbage receptacle. And a bottle of cleaning solution on the top of another garbage receptacle. And the sound of an electric drill from the kitchen. And that is all for today. Actually, no. There was someone here, who in holding the door for a moment let in a lot of marijuana smoke, so I changed tables. They had previously asked me for a dollar and the woman had been basically whining for an ice cream cone from her man and calling up her ride to the behavioral health Center and telling them she was at motel 6, although she was not. I'm wondering why they couldn't find her. They left to go Little Caesars across the street after his mother called in a pizza for them. And left a bag full of belongings here while they got the pizza and came back and she would loudly. It smelled like cheese and green peppers. And I think I am done with this entry now.

LCS

Will you accept nine something?

I was expecting a little more. I was actually expecting a lot more.

10

10.50

11

11.33

11.50

13.50

15.00 today

2 raises were secret!

this fast

Food lady, like takes her sweet time getting orders together and then calls out the number like you better run and says it three times like she's going to kill you if you don't get up there real quick and get that food.

belvedere twice

TTB

Give us a king!

Ok

Better Call Saul

Sometimes you get what you ask for 

1 Samuel 9:1-10:27

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TTB

J. Vernon McGee today:

Memory plays upon on the keyboard of the past- who said that? 

Ebenezer stone of remembering

Dynasties not necessarily appropriate, Eli and Samuel's sons ad examples but people still reject leadership and beg for King like other nations.

The United States, with its glorification of rebellion notwithstanding, understood the principle that dynasty meant something.  J Q Adams was elected, not installed.  So, rather early in our history that presidential precedent was made.  Recently, with the Cheneys and the Bushes and the Clintons, there are examples of diagnostic successions and failures. When it seemed like Clintons and Bushes would alternate, it seemed to me as if the false left/right paradigm would be exposed.  But then a never before elected someone was in the job.  And what a distraction.  They had to postpone the plans for five wars.

1 Samuel 6:1-8:22

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purple alert

I saw this for the first time, where Amber and Silver Alerts are generally posted.

1st pumpkin of the season

The first thing I remember pumpkin flavored something that wasn't pumpkin pie, was at Carvel ice cream around 19 83. They had pumpkin pie flavored ice cream and I remember I liked it right away. Now, we got a lot of things flavored pumpkin, which really means cinnamon and something else which may or may not have pumpkin at all. Aldi pumpkin ice cream actually has a lot of pumpkin in it. But most things don't. Today I had a pumpkin spice iced coffee from Dunkin'. I stood in line a couple days ago and got a year's full of free coffee. Which really means four coupons each month for a medium coffee or ice coffee. It was good too! The first 20 sips were filled with brown sugar and gritty like I was sopping up the plate from some crumb streusel or something or another. And then the rest of it was good. And of course, not gritty. Surprised she didn't put in sugar syrup, but must have put in real sugar and I was not complaining even though it didn't blend in.

new phone

I just noticed the first little scratch on my new phone screen, which reminds me of my first phone.  The plastic protective cover, placed to protect it during shipping, was so smooth I didn't know I had one.  A tiny bubble appeared and I thought that bubble was in the screen until one day the edge of it came a tiny bit loose and when removed, the bubble came off too.

pumpkin

Yes, DD billboard seen for pumpkin August 16.  Kk donuts in RaceTrac last week.  Pumpkin Spice cake, and Pumpkin glazed.

the me inside of me

this girl

be 300 lb up in here, talking about "You create the world that you want around you with your thoughts." Hello.

A Prayer for Kindness

God, thank You for continually showing me Your steadfast love and mercy. You are so good! Lord, I frequently find myself easily angered, hurt, or offended. Please change the way I think and behave. It is through Your Spirit that I am forgiven and empowered. So today, I invite You to guide me, direct me, and show me how to display kindness to others as You have displayed kindness toward me. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

 YouTuber Franchot Pearson saying Biden might resign in three days.

Okay.

 Today we have the first performance in front of an audience.  Maybe 30.  Didn't pay.

Not sure what tomorrow qualifies as- the day before Opening Night.

And then Friday- Opening Night.

We'll see.   I predict laughter in the wrong places.  It's hard to coax laughter from these serious subjects and then communicate when the audience shouldn't laugh.  Well, it's obscene.  And in a public place laughter is a common response to obscenity.  "Did they really just say that?"   Think I'll jus chortle to fill the silence.

just kidding

It came upon a disappointment 

A Step

 It's nice typing again; feeling the keys between my fingers rather than speaking to text-to-speech and wanting to edit it three times before moving on.

I always want to read what I wrote before leaving the app, or sending the message and I don't always but it just happens so often that the reader really has no idea what the sender has meant.  And it just seems like writing should be as clear as we want it to be.  Sure there are times when a little is written and holes are deliberately left unfilled, but if I'm trying to say something, I want that thing to be understood.  

In the lieberry, listening to the chatter, I think how unlikely it was for me to have had the job that I had at the Dr. Phillips branch in Orlando.  But it worked out.  Apparently I was a long shot for a couple people who didn't mind going out on a limb and trying something, and at that time- making a lot less and driving far, and working outside and not being particularly good at a lot of the job- I was willing to try anything.  And thank goodness it wasn't just another office drone job.  I think those people- by which I mean me- lose their soul so slowly that they don't know it.  And the OCLS job, and the Disney job before that were steps to me regaining it.

I just remembered how at church once, somebody was speaking to us; maybe a group of 20 or 40, I think a guy's Bible study before we split into smaller groups- and I felt something physical like electricity in my arm and it was concerning getting a new job at CNA which was then working for The Hartford.  It seems like I was there so long and why?  What came of that, and was it a step up or down or in or out- I guess not every step needs to be evaluated and there is always a mixed result.

For NOW, we see through a glass, darkly; but THEN, face to face: NOW I know in part; but THEN shall I know even as also I am known.

For NOW, we see through a glass, darkly; but THEN, face to face: 

NOW I know in part; but THEN shall I know even as also I am known.

https://youtu.be/gjX0qJAuOjg

 Back in the library after an absence.

Feels weird not to have a script in hand.  Rehearsals have started but I haven't been needed yet: small role.  Third time playing a coach.  Second time playing a coach with this director.  Pretty sure that's just because both coaches were kind of small roles- not that the lady thinks I am athletic.  She is intelligent after all.

Car repairs, termites, other things.

 

Look back and laugh I suppose.

 

As Fester, it was a great help to have one of the parents hand me ice packs whenever I got backstage since it was stifling there. Didn't even think about weather conditions until we got there.

It's over.

dessert

Mini pastries- fruit tart, Napoleon, chocolate tart, something else

Wedding cake strips, lots of filling, white and  chocolate, chocolate strawberries, strawberry mousse, champagne with strawberry on the rim

Choice of two wines

Orange sangria upon entrance

Bananas Foster ice cream

choices

Appetizers

Blue Cheese Souffle 

Mushroom Ravioli

Something else

Salad 

Caprese with rich fresh mozzarella, red grape tomatoes, balsamic vinegar

Or

Ceasar

It looked like every leaf was painted with the dressing, and lots and lots of grated cheese.

Filet Mignon

Chicken

Salmon

Potato brick (tiny scalloped layers, looked like baked potato cut into brick shape.

Whole roasted carrot

Green beans

Roll with butter shaped like flowers, onion roll

Open bar 

buffet, serve yourself

Stir fry

Chicken and rice

Another hot dish

5 salami type meats

Little pickles, little onions, minced opions, minced egg, capers

Two soft chheses, brie and ?

Two types cheese chunks -Gouda?

Apricots, pecans

Salmon, buttered bread small slices

Circulating app I forgot

Tiny Reuben open face with sauerkraut

circulating appetizers

Fried shrimp, w remoulade

Chicken fingers

Meatball in a shot glass, sauce, grated cheese and ricotta

Crab cakes, w edible flowers

Tiny hot dog in a bread wrap

Stuffed mushrooms

Mozzarella sticks

Probably more

that's not Dorothy

he knows

Fester Addams

Executioner in Alice in Wonderland

Interesting

 Easter meant the library and copy centers were closed but not drug stores.

Having to print (or write) out a script in order to read it while recording it on my phone, I used the photo center in a CVS to print out some screenshots of the script.  It took awhile for me and the CVS employee to figure out how to do it.  The phone I had didn't register with the photo print kiosk when it was plugged in.  So that meant downloading the app.  The app didn't work without wifi but the Wi-Fi wouldn't connect so we tried bluetooth.  The screenshots wouldn't take unless after a few tries.  The phone is set up to take a screenshot when you push two buttons but it mostly thinks you're trying to lower the volume when you do that.  Many of the screenshots took a picture of the volume lowering even when the screenshot function was taking place.  So I got some 4 by 6 printouts of my script, read them while recording and got the file to my agent maybe an hour before deadline.  And this time she didn't tell me the first one or two times that the file had no audio.  (And then when I send the same thing four times there is magically audio.)  But I did manage to send an email with no attachment.  The different ways to do the same thing really matter.  Some attachments are too big for certain procedures but then sometimes you can send a link- and then this new problem- recent links to Google Drive videos lead to the video but it can't be played.  So sometimes a link to YouTube works.  Anyway, I sang in a choir in the morning and due to a misunderstanding, missed the first part of the rehearsal.  I know they were worried because I am "never" late.  Pretty sure i didn't get the film because it started shooting already.  Sometimes I want to see a tally of my auditions and success rate, and sometimes I don't.  There's getting to be more and more- for once, at least for once since 1996, I had 4 events in the pipeline.  So the customary down phase after a project coupled with rehearsals for the next one.  So far, LCS very lenient, but I am giving them a new list of dates I can't work on tomorrow.  SO that will be interesting.  

Also, my Uncle  Henry/Emerald City Gate Guard note cards came back to me.  The velvet jacket is being used in Alice in Wonderland for the Frog Footman.  I don't really know what  a Frog Footman is, but it seems like a jacket one would wear. 

I Missed You

So much to do, so much time.

Funny.

Aspen

Beech

Cherry

Dogwood

Elm

Just realized today this alphabetical list of the roads behind Saranac and just now remembered my Dad liking Cherry wood for furniture and smoking Cherry tobacco in his pipe.

Mansfield Monroe

Just read a quote on a YouTube video that said Jayne Mansfield felt that Marilyn Monroe had abandoned the ordinary man by fleeing to New York and the Actors Studio and working with Olivier.  I have to admit that The Prince and The Showgirl isn't a big part of the Marilyn legend. It always seems sad to me that Clark Gable would get a new woman for Mogambo (Trading Harlow for Ava Gardner) and Olivier would trade in Vivian Leigh from The Sleeping Prince theatre for Monroe in the movie.  So many important details are left out of the Monroe legend, especially the fact that she was rehired for the movie and given a raise at the very end of her life that it's clearly a deliberate deception.

Uncle Henry/Guard

an entire month

 So, back at the lieberry and time to work on the blog.  Or noteblog.

Been uploading YouTube videos.

Both that and this seem a little off target.  A lot off target.

 Well, I can't say that my dream for this blog came true....

but talking a moment to reflect upon it, here at a newly reopened library...   It's loud in here.  What kind of library is this?

Working in an area of a library with no walls, I realized I was talking and lots of people around; particularly at the  computer area, didn't want to hear me.  But here, Lantana Road, Palm Beach County, not Southwest Branch, Orange County... the kids squeal and the reference helpers talk loudly and people play their videos with sound, etc.

As current Uncle Henry, and already cast as Uncle Fester, what would I be doing if still in O Town?  I had no intention of leaving the library.  Pretty sure my last review was a 1.  How long would I have been there?  Boss Bethany gone at some point, so maybe would have had to do things above my ability, but couldn't I have learned?  I suppose so.  Why not audition for Disney entertainment again?  Would I have?  And ironically, now working in a department called Entertainment which is a better name than, what should it be called?  Flunkies?

Today I found out I got a raise on December 29.  Uh.... this is the second raise I didn't even know about.  So here's the trajectory for my record books:  They offered me 9 something.  I said, "I was expecting a little more" which was a lie, I was expecting a LOT more.  They said I would start at $10.  Then $10.50 then $11.00.  One was due to passing the 45 day mark, or was it the 90 day mark... and one was a secret, given to all of us because Blake complained, wanting more money.  Then in the yearly November review they brought me up to $11.33 and since then, well they pretended like nobody made more but we knew they did, and then I found out today that since 12/29 that's been true- except for boat captains and lifeguards... Well, maybe it's true, but who gives a raise without telling?  

I know y'all think y'all fancy

But melty McDonald's cheese with mustard, plain old yellow mustard, is good.

sky stripes

At work often.  

Gymuary

Is this the first Gymuary that I haven't gone to the gym at all?

I don't think so.

sky stripes

Tons of them, north and west of work about two to four and then many of them East all the way to the turnpike, at least until five, Criss crossing like tic-tac-toe boards.