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[Ginny]

Mom's appointment went pretty well, considering she doesn't hear well, doesn't pay attention, and probably won't do what they tell her anyway.  She was thrilled to get a flu shot.

[Jane]

In the mail was a notice of new regulations for when I renew my driver's license.  I will need to take my passport, along with license, to prove legal US residence.  Odd is that anyone over 50 has to take a vision exam.  WHAT!  Shouldn't everyone have to pass that regardless of age?  I remember I was in my early twenties when the eye doctor looked at Keith and said "Don't let her drive until she gets her new glasses".

There was no mention of a test.  I wonder if they dropped that.  I hope so, otherwise I will have to study for it. 

They make you take a test to renew your license?  They probably should offer a stupidity test, but other than that, no.

A lot of states require a short test to renew your license.  I think California lets you renew it on-line, unfortunately we didn't know that before Craig went into the Peace Corps.  I remember having to take a renewal test but that, of course, was years and years ago.

[Ginny]

The population in our house has dropped by half, because Rob and I have both been left by our spouses.  Richard is in Illinois for clergy meetings and Mary Linda's in Indiana for work.  He just treated me to dinner at Applebee's.

[Jane]

That is nice of Rob and probably just what you need after a trip to the doctor with your mother, even if the trip went well.

[Ginny]

Yes, DR Jane, and Rob needed it, too.  He'd just taken a grizzly exam in his organic chemistry class.

[TCB]

Compare and contrast:

Is one supposed to recognize the person on the left?

Maybe it is suppose to be Ramin Karimloo?

[TCB]

So how far apart do DR George and DR TCB actually live?

Around 30-35 miles, I'd guess.

George is probably closer to being correct than I was.

It seems longer when you're in a wheelchair instead of a car.

Boy!  Have you got that right!

[TCB]

According to mapquest:

37.1 mi, 42 mins 
In current traffic: 46 mins

Are you using my actual address, Jane?  I live about as far north in Tacoma as you can get without being a salmon or a black bear.

[TCB]

Watching what is, despite the usual cheerleaders for this sort of thing, surely one of the worst movies ever made - well directed in certain ways, good effects, but a script that is beyond bad and a film trying so hard to be funny and failing and flailing so monumentally that it beggars belief.  I saw it at the opening show at the Dome and the audience and I sat there with our mouths agape at its awfulness.  This film, "critic" Jonathan Rosenbaum calls an Essential Movie, which tells you all you need to know about THAT guy.  It's called 1941.  The fact that they released an even longer version, with twenty-six more monumentally unfunny stuff is chutzpah of the highest order.  Sometimes it's just a fail. 

And how much money will they make off a longer version of failure?

[bk]

Actually, I'm watching the theatrical shorter version - I could never do the long version again.  I just keep hoping that time will reverse something as sometimes happens with certain films, but alas not with this film.

[TCB]

The population in our house has dropped by half, because Rob and I have both been left by our spouses.  Richard is in Illinois for clergy meetings and Mary Linda's in Indiana for work.  He just treated me to dinner at Applebee's.

And tomorrow night, just grab a pizza and a six pack!

[TCB]

Actually, I'm watching the theatrical shorter version - I could never do the long version again.  I just keep hoping that time will reverse something as sometimes happens with certain films, but alas not with this film.

I could never get all the way thru that movie.  And I sat thru SKIDOO!

[Ginny]

Good idea, DR TCB, but Rob works second shift tomorrow and my book group meets at Emilie's.

[TCB]

I can't think of any other movie where I have walked out.  Several plays, but I don't think any other movie.

[TCB]

There are a lot of movies that I should have walked out.

[George]

Well, I drove my car from my sister's house to the auto shop.  MOST fortunately, there was no smoke nor a bad burning rubber smell from my car while I drove it.  I explained to the auto shop person what happened yesterday, about the smoke when I got off the freeway, my adding the oil, driving all the way through town today to the auto shop, and they said that they'd be able to look at it tomorrow.  At first, the guy said that if the radiator was cracked, there would be a lot more smoke and smell while driving slowly through town, rather than driving quickly on the freeway, and since that's opposite of what happened, I would like to think that the radiator is not cracked.  Again, the more I think about it (in my completely uneducated mind...car-wise), I think that it just might be a simple belt problem and not a huge need-to-get-a-new-engine problem.

[Cillaliz]

You didn't like the movie when it was originally released yet you wasted your time watching the longer version!?!?

[John G.]

I do my best proofreading after I hit "send."       

So do I.

[Jane]

Yes, DR Jane, and Rob needed it, too.  He'd just taken a grizzly exam in his organic chemistry class.

I'm sure he did well enough.

[Jane]

According to mapquest:

37.1 mi, 42 mins 
In current traffic: 46 mins

Are you using my actual address, Jane?  I live about as far north in Tacoma as you can get without being a salmon or a black bear.

That was using both of your addresses.

[Cillaliz]

I need to go buy a furnace filter but just can't get up out of the recliner...

[Jane]

Actually, I'm watching the theatrical shorter version - I could never do the long version again.  I just keep hoping that time will reverse something as sometimes happens with certain films, but alas not with this film.

And yet you continue to watch it

[Jane]

Good idea, DR TCB, but Rob works second shift tomorrow and my book group meets at Emilie's.

When does Rob go to classes?

[George]

In the mail was a notice of new regulations for when I renew my driver's license.  I will need to take my passport, along with license, to prove legal US residence.  Odd is that anyone over 50 has to take a vision exam.  WHAT!  Shouldn't everyone have to pass that regardless of age?  I remember I was in my early twenties when the eye doctor looked at Keith and said "Don't let her drive until she gets her new glasses".

There was no mention of a test.  I wonder if they dropped that.  I hope so, otherwise I will have to study for it. 

They make you take a test to renew your license?  They probably should offer a stupidity test, but other than that, no.

A lot of states require a short test to renew your license.  I think California lets you renew it on-line, unfortunately we didn't know that before Craig went into the Peace Corps.  I remember having to take a renewal test but that, of course, was years and years ago.

I was able to renew on-line the last time I needed to renew my license.  However, you can only do that once, then you need to go in.  Then, the next time you can renew on-line again, then you have to go in again.

[John G.]

In 1941, Spielberg managed to make Wendy Jo Sperber unfunny. That took a lot.

[Cillaliz]

Since we had a concert on Sunday there is no band rehearsal tonight.  I'm going to practice the new music anyway...I had several hints from those who think they are brilliant in our section that they want to rearrange things before the next concert (read as they want their friends who just joined us to be in the front row playing the first part with them).  I would have agreed even last year, but not this year.   Both our director and our music librarian told me I should be playing first and just let the new ones sit in the back row and play second.   So, I'm going to stand my ground.  I'm also going to practice a lot this week so the first run through of the new music I can play it better than they can

[Cillaliz]

think I'll practice.....as soon as I sit down and move the music stand the cats tear out of the room.  It's pretty funny

[Ginny]

Good idea, DR TCB, but Rob works second shift tomorrow and my book group meets at Emilie's.

When does Rob go to classes?

Monday and Wednesday evenings.

[TCB]

George!  She knows where you live!

[TCB]

In the mail was a notice of new regulations for when I renew my driver's license.  I will need to take my passport, along with license, to prove legal US residence.  Odd is that anyone over 50 has to take a vision exam.  WHAT!  Shouldn't everyone have to pass that regardless of age?  I remember I was in my early twenties when the eye doctor looked at Keith and said "Don't let her drive until she gets her new glasses".

There was no mention of a test.  I wonder if they dropped that.  I hope so, otherwise I will have to study for it. 

They make you take a test to renew your license?  They probably should offer a stupidity test, but other than that, no.

A lot of states require a short test to renew your license.  I think California lets you renew it on-line, unfortunately we didn't know that before Craig went into the Peace Corps.  I remember having to take a renewal test but that, of course, was years and years ago.

I was able to renew on-line the last time I needed to renew my license.  However, you can only do that once, then you need to go in.  Then, the next time you can renew on-line again, then you have to go in again.

By that time, I will be too old to renew.