Well, dear readers, I am going to try something radical for these here notes, based on the kind of day yesterday was. Isn’t that exciting? Well, no, it’s not, because yesterday was a completely boring day from start to finish. So, I thought it would be radical to write completely boring notes from start to finish. Of course, there are those who think we already do that on a daily basis, but we know who those people are and they WILL all be featured in an upcoming book entitled We Know Who You Are and You WILL be Featured in This Book. That will, I’m quite certain, be my biggest selling book. Oh, what fun it will be to write that book – it will be boring, naturally, but that is the nature of the beast. These here notes are already putting me to sleep, that’s how boring they are. So, here are some non-highlights from the yesterday known as yesterday. I almost got eight hours of sleep, arising around ten-thirty. I answered e-mails – that was mostly boring but one must. I ordered Popeye’s for lunch. I’d seen a YouTube video about their flounder fish sandwich and they raved about it, so I got one of those, and they had a BOGO (either Buy One, Get One free or Bruce Obviously Grossly Overweight) – four pieces of chicken – breast, thigh, leg, wing – so you get double that. I only wanted the two breasts and that’s all I ate from that box, plus one biscuit. The flounder fish sandwich sadly floundered in my expert and boring fish opinion. One bite and into the trash it went – it made the cardinal sin of tasting fishy, which is what you don’t want fish to taste like. Anyway, the breasts were filling and very good. I forgot to take pills, but I rectified that later when I got some chicken soup from Art’s Deli – that used to be one of the only things they did well, but I guess those days are now gone because it was terrible. I got a side of coleslaw and thankfully they still do that well. I took my pills and that was boring. I dozed off for a bit and that was boring. I did listen to the first two acts of a four-act opera by Nadia Boulanger – very attractive music in the French impressionist style. It’s on Apple Music for anyone who does that. Looking forward to the final two acts. I also listened to a live recording of a 1969 flop musical entitled Come Summer with Ray Bolger. It has a couple of very nice songs, but a terrible book, and a ballet every five minutes, thanks to whoever hired Agnes DeMille to DIRECT and choreograph. She was replaced by Burt Shevelove, who lasted a couple of days, then she was brought back only to finish choreographing but there was no other director. I don’t know how I managed to miss all these amazing flops of 1969, when I was living in New York. Go know.

In the evening hours, I made an attempt to watch a movie but the Firestick wouldn’t load anything properly. I restarted it twice and that didn’t help so I’m trying to find the thing where I can clear the cache – I’ll have to Google to see where that is. Otherwise, I’ll have to unplug and replug and see if that helps. Oddly, it has no trouble with YouTube, just Prime and HBO. Go know. All that was VERY boring, so I kept falling asleep. I wrote a note to the ENT Barry Pearl recommended but haven’t heard back yet. These days, you cannot get anyone from a doctor’s office to actually respond – it’s all automated and completely irritating. Then I had a telephonic conversation and that was it. A completely boring day topped off by completely boring notes especially tailored for those who find the notes completely boring – never fear, your boring time is coming and it’s coming sooner than later.

Today will hopefully not be a boring day. I’ll be up when I’m up, I’ll hopefully hear from the ENT and be able to make an appointment, I’m hoping I’ll see a galley and covers to approve, I’m hoping the package with the Applause charts arrives, I’m hoping some other little packages arrive, too, I’ll eat something light, then relax until it’s time to shave and shower and attend an opening night. First though, I’ll stop at the mail place so I can ship back my old phone as a trade-in. I haven’t been to the mail place in a week, so I’m hoping my replacement pension check from AFTRA is there. There’ll be a little after partay I’ll attend very briefly.

Tomorrow, my only plan is an early dinner with Kay Cole to discuss some things she’s doing or wants to do. We’re going to an old haunt of ours – haven’t been to this old haunt in at least three years. Then next week hopefully the book will be off to the printers, hopefully, the My Fair Lady print will be on its way to the pressing plant, hopefully we’ll announce our new CD release, and lock in audition dates for Applause and finish casting the recording. We do have a really good group so far.

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

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, have a not boring day, be up when I’m up, hopefully hear from the ENT, hopefully get the book stuff to approve, hopefully get the Applause charts, hopefully get other packages, eat, relax, shave and shower, go to the mail place, attend and opening night and partay and then come home. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/Blu and Ray/streaming player? I’ll start – who knows? Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, thankful that this bore of a boringly boring day is done.