Well, dear readers, I am sitting here like so much fish, listening to more John Williams – this time, The Eiger Sanction – a fun score to a very disappointing Clint Eastwood movie, save for the mountain climbing footage, which is terrific. I must also write these here notes in a hurry because Ripley’s Believe It or Not, I got a confirmation e-mail yesterday morning from the guy who’s assembling the barstool. I confirmed with his confirmation, told him where to park, and we should be good to go. His original estimated time of arrival was ten-thirty, but that got revised to eight-thirty, which is fine by me. I did manage to finally watch a motion picture last night, a new one released here earlier this year, entitled The Luckiest Man in America, based on a true story I knew nothing about. It involved the game show called Press You Luck from 1983, as I recall, hosted by Peter Tomarken, with whom I’d worked on the Playboy on the Scene cable show, which he hosted with Shannon Tweed. They must have aired around the same time. Anyway, a contestant from Lebanon, Ohio came to L.A. and auditioned and got on the show. What no one knew was he’d videotaped a bunch of episodes and figured out there were only five combinations on the big board, and he memorized them. It’s very well directed (I believe most of the behind-the-scenes folks are from Columbia), and the cast is terrific, especially the lead fellow, Paul Walter Hauser, and the always great David Strathairn. It runs a crisp ninety minutes, and I just really enjoyed it and therefore would recommend it – it’s six bucks to stream. It also has an interesting score, which I found on Spotify. Prior to that, I’d conked out for over two hours. The day part of the day was okay. I got about seven hours of non-consecutive sleep, got up, saw the e-mail form the assembly person, so that was good, answered a lot of e-mails, and got an e-mail later in the day, which, if I read it correctly, said the books are on the way – fastest turn around ever. So, that means I should have them next week at some point and we’ll get them shipped out right away. That made me very happy.

For food, I had penne in pink sauce with sausage, which was excellent, I worked on the manuscript and now only have under ten pages to go. Hoo and ray. I had some crackers and cheese for my evening snack, watched the movie and that was pretty much it.

Today, I’ll be up by eight, hopefully the assembly person will be here on time at eight-thirty, that will take however long it takes, hopefully not too long. Then I’ll go to the mail place and pick up whatever packages are there – I believe there are two, but I have no idea what they are. Then I may do a quick Gelson’s run for more English muffins and a couple of other necessaries, then I’ll come home, eat, do the final nine pages of the manuscript, and then the day is mine all mine and I’ll watch, listen, and relax.

Sunday is a ME day, then this coming week the big event is on Friday, when I see the neurologist. The only time they had was ten-thirty, so that means Laurel Canyon will be irritating, but nothing to be done about it unless I take Nichols Canyon instead, certainly an option. We shall see.

Let’s all put on our pointy party hats and colored tights and pantaloons, let’s all break out the cheese slices and ham chunks, let’s all dance the Hora or the mambo, for today is the birthday of our very own Vixmom. So, let’s give a big haineshisway.com birthday cheer to our very own Vixmom. On the count of three: One, two, three – A BIG HAINESHISWAY.COM BIRTHDAY CHEER TO OUR VERY OWN VIXMOM!!!

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up by eight, have bar stools assembled, go to the mail place, do a quick Gelson’s run, eat, do the final nine pages of the manuscript, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your favorite Clint Eastwood movies? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy that the books have shipped.