Well, dear readers, I’m guessing in the big book of November it is written that the last few days of the month shall be known as UWD – aka Unnecessarily Wacky Days. Who wrote the damn book of November, because I’ve pretty much had it up to here, there, and everywhere with the damn UWD. And I don’t care who knows it. I also don’t care who knows that I’m listening to the Prokofiev third symphony – it’s fiery and very exciting. I started over with the first so I could hear Neemi Jarvi’s entire cycle and I have to say sometimes I love Jarvi and sometimes I don’t, but this is a great cycle in great sound. In fact, Mr. Windbag, Dave Hurwitz, the doyenne of classical music, thinks this cycle is the best of ‘em all and there are quite a few. Thank you, Apple+, because I never would have thought to have this cycle. Are there better performances if you want to not have one cycle – absolutely, but these can stand tall amongst any that I’ve heard. Before I get to the damn UWD malarkey, I did watch a motion picture last evening, a documentary written, produced, and directed by one Andrew Stevens, about his mom Stella. My first Stella sighting was, of course, in 1959, with Li’l Abner. I thought she was a knockout and absolutely hilarious as Appassionata von Climax. After that, it was The Nutty Professor and Too Late Blues. I met her a couple of times at the signing shows I used to do – very nice, always. The documentary is a bit hit and miss – way too much Leonard Maltin – don’t know what his issues are, but he’s clearly reading off a prompter, never looking in the camera because the prompter is to the side. He sounds weird so I’m thinking he may be having some health problems. And there’s an actress playing Stella, reading her words from interviews. She’s pretty good, but it’s really an odd choice. My other little issue is I can’t stand Andrew Stevens. It’s his show so there’s no avoiding him, but ever since The Fury I just never wanted to ever see him in anything else. But Stella was one of a kind and learning things I didn’t know was fun and a bit sad at the end. It runs about an hour and a half. Otherwise, I did get a good night’s sleep – eight and a half hours – need a few more of those and I’ll be back to rights. Once up, I had so much Black Friday spam it wasn’t even funny. And the spam kept arriving, from five to ten every two minutes. Fortunately, today is Green Saturday, so hopefully no more endless spams. I made Wacky Noodles, and it was a very good batch. After that, I did stuff on the computer, but mostly just rested. For the afternoon snack I ordered two cherry chocolate chip cookies that I’ve had before – they always arrive warm and they’re wonderful. Not these two – these had been sitting somewhere for a day or two – hard as a rock and stale as can be. Into the trash they went, and I got a complete refund. Then I ordered some rice pudding and chocolate pudding from Uncle Bernie’s deli – that arrived, and I had the rice pudding – not bad at all. I saved the chocolate pudding for today.

Then I watched the movie. After it is when the UWD really kicked in. I launched Zoom to set out Zoom Event for this Sunday. It told me my password was wrong, which it wasn’t because I had it written down. So, I reset it. Then it told me THAT password was wrong. I reset it. It told me that password was wrong. I finally got it done and was able to get in but it wasn’t my usual Zoom window, this was something wholly other. So, I called and got an AI thing on the phone, yelled at her, she told me she could hear I was frustrated and so she got me to a human. By that time, I wanted to eat the head of a chicken. I told him I wanted my usual Zoom window that I’ve had for five years – he talked me through things, and I finally got it back – apparently, when you have a new Mac, it makes you do everything over. Genius. Anyway, it was really irritating. See what I mean?

Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, I’ll do whatever needs doing, I’ll go to the mail place and hopefully pick up two important envelopes, I’ve got to organize things in the house – there are things everywhere from trying to figure out what I want to list on eBay, so I have to get all the stuff I’m not going to do back out to the garage. I also have to locate some CDs out there, but I’m pretty sure I know where they are. I’ll eat, but mostly I’ll watch, listen, and relax.

Tomorrow, I’ll rest until it’s time for our Zoom Event for the new book and the past few books that we haven’t done an event for. Hoping all you dear readers will be there. Of course, vixmom hasn’t been with us for a few days so she may not know it’s even happening. But everyone else – let’s make that a big yes and have questions ready about the latest – Richard and Me and Vegas Can Be Murder, plus Kritzer World and Preview Harvey, etc. As most know, I’m an open book about my books. I haven’t decided where to post the link, but probably the discussion board on Sunday morning, so that it’s easy to find. I’ve already set everything up on my end. Monday is our first Kritzerland rehearsal, but I’ll hopefully do banking before it so that I don’t have to go out after, unless I go out for a bite. Tuesday we’re back rehearsing the play and I’ll begin assembling the show so we can begin run-throughs as soon as possible. Wednesday is our second Kritzerland rehearsal followed by the play rehearsal, then we’re off on Friday, back Saturday morning, Sunday is a short Kritzerland rehearsal, Monday I’m even older than I am now, Tuesday is our stumble-through, and Wednesday is sound check and show.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up when I’m up, do whatever needs doing, go to the mail place and hopefully pick up two important envelopes, organize, locate CDs, eat, then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your favorite performances of Stella Stevens, both film and TV? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, hoping there will be no further UWD.