Monday, May 11, 2026

Monday, Monday

 



                        A bit under the weather here, but tell me what you're up to. 

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24 comments:

Jerry House said...

Patti, you really must get over the weather. I insist.

What I have been getting up to this week is not very much.

Things are very quiet in the house. Christina';s hours for May are 4:00 PM to 2

6:34 AM
George said...

From the many text messages I received this weekend, Diane and Carol had a wonderful Mother's Day Weekend in New York City with Patrick, Katie, and Carol's granddaughter, Annie. They saw RAGTIME, CHESS, and FALLEN ANGELS and loved all three.

I, meanwhile, was home busy catching up on overdue Library books. I'm all caught up now--for the first time in 2026! I listened to a lot of music. And bought the prep for my colonoscopy. Can't wait until that's over later this week! My doctor told me it would be my Last Colonoscopy. I'm holding him to it!

I'll be driving to the Airport later this afternoon to pick up Diane and Carol. I'm sure they have many many stories to tell about their time in NYC.

The tree pollen has been falling like snow here. I feel okay, but my allergy symptoms act up each day lately so I have to take my Zyrtec. Hope you feel better soon.

7:14 AM
Jerry House said...

(Hmm. I just posted mid-sentence. Strange.)

(Continuing)

:00 AM, so she has spent most of the week either working or sleeping. No idea is this shift will be a permanent thing. Amy came down with the ugly, ucky sneezing and feeling terrible work crud. She and Jessie and Yavin isolated themselves for most of the week. The family (minus me, the sane one) had planned to go camping this weekend but that had to be cancelled. Erin and Walt took Christina out for a Mother's Day lunch and Christina received a red rose. The Pensacola branch recovered enough to take Jessie out also, followed by a good coma nap.

No word yet on the finance manager job for the country transportation authority, although the director has started copying Jessie on Financial Management e-mails, so that should be a good sign. But as I said earlier, this is a county job, so politics may be lurking behind the scene in the hiring process, and nothing should be taken for granted.

Christina reported that a police officer's cat just had kittens so he is asking around if anyone wants one. The general response was NO NO NO NO NO...then Amy said, wait, are any of them orange? We'll see what happens.

Because I'm always late to the part, I finally saw the latest JURASSIC WORLD MOVIE -- the one with Scarlet Johansson. It was a typical JW flick, but this time the dinosaurs were mutants so the CGI was pretty cool and inventive. Also watch the typical shows. WILL TRENT had (another) heart-wrenching death. DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN ended the season with a lot of questions hanging; they may or may not be answered when it segues to THE PUNISHER this week. The second season of AFTER THE FLOOD continues to add mystery after mystery, while Mackie remains as oleaginous as ever. The late-night comics continue to do a brilliant job, and I will really miss Colbert as he ends his eleven year run. Colin Jost continues to nail Pete Hegseth's war-mongering twelve-year-old personality.

Books read include C. S. Cosby's prize-winning KING OF ASHES and Amanda Eyre Ward's THE LIFEGUARDS, which I read the upcoming Erin's Family Book club. THE LIFEGUARDS was about three mothers and their absolute devotion to their teenaged sons, family secrets (every family in this type of book has secrets, often very juicy), and a dead body that changes everyone's life; a fast easy read that held my attention, while also belong filled with plot holes and inconsistencies. My FFB was Lawrence Block's early BORN TO BE BAD, z time capsule of a book (first published in 1959) that displayed Block's gifts as a journeyman writer. Also read Jean (Marie) Stine and Forrest J Ackerman's anthology I, VAMPIRE, which (unsurprisingly) contained a number of LGBQT stories (before she transitioned, Stine was Hank Stine). The week was capped with Loren D. Estleman's collection of crime stories, EVIL GROWS AND OTHER THRILLING TALES.

Today is National Eat Whatever You Want Day, Patti. Go wild. And stay safe.

7:23 AM
Jerry House said...

George, several years ago, my doctor told me I had graduated from colonoscopies, which meant either I am too darned old for colon cancer, or they no longer give a damn when and if it comes. Either way, I was glad to see the end of that test.

7:29 AM
Jeff Meyerson said...

Sorry to hear you're not feeling well. After some weeks of up and down health I'm feeling a lot better now (knock on wood).

The weather has felt more April than May for the most part, with cool, breezy and rainy periods, and only occasional warmer days, but they claim the 70s will be here starting next weekend.

Hey, we saw a show! Went to the theater for the first time since (can it be?) last June yesterday, to see the Bobby Darin jukebox musical, JUST IN TIME, now starring Jeremy Jordan (who did a nice job), with Isa Briones of THE PITT (the obnoxious Dr. Santos) as Connie Francis. The Circle in the Square is a great venue, intimate and cozy (we saw FUN HOME there in 2015, as well as the 2009 revival of THE NORMAN CONQUESTS). They turned it into a nightclub, complete with tables down front. Unlike Darin, I am not a "nightclub animal," but it's well worth seeing. Jordan has been in a dozen Broadway musicals over the last 15+ years - three in the last two years -and he makes the most of the juicy role.

While in the city, we took advantage of the time to buy tickets to see THE BALUSTERS before it closes next month, and saved over $30 in Teletron fees.

Jackie has been having a lot of trouble with walking lately, and she's stubborn about taking her cane (for balance, mostly), so we ate at the nearby Junior's on Broadway and 49th Street, rather than walking from 42 Street. She is going for a consultation about a possible second knee replacement next month, and if she decides to do it, she's hoping she can get it done in September. We'll see. My cousin Larry had a knee replacement in Florida, for some reason, and it went well - he went home the same day - but he's had trouble sleeping, as did my other cousin Nancy when she had hers done last year. Yet, he and his wife left for a trip to Japan yesterday, which seems insane to me.

7:53 AM
Jeff Meyerson said...

Good luck, George. We're with Jerry. Our doctor has told us we don't need no steenkin' colonoscopies, but we'll see in August if that still holds. There was just a Times article recently saying they do NOT recommend them for the 70+ crowd, and that ship has sailed for all of us.

We saw and enjoyed the original production of RAGTIME. Saw CHESS years ago in London and did NOT like it much. No chance of ever sitting through it again. As for FALLEN ANGELS, I've heard mixed things. It's certainly not a favorite of Noel Coward plays. Glad they enjoyed them all.

7:58 AM
Jeff Meyerson said...

Nicholas Gleaves, who plays Mackie in AFTER THE FLOOD, is married (in real life) to Lesley Sharp, the Scott in SCOTT AND BAILEY, a show Gleaves was in too. We're only getting one episode a week, so are waiting to watch it.

8:40 AM
Jeff Meyerson said...

TV. We finished the last (for now, and for several years, probably) CALL THE MIDWIFE last night. RIP Sister Monica Joan. Judy Parfitt really is 90.

The second series of MADEMOISELLE HOLMES is back (PBS/Walter Presents), with Lola Dewaere (from ASTRID) as the supposed great granddaughter of Sherlock Holmes, who was a real person here. Finished series 4 of THE BUREAU, which ends with the apparent death of the protagonist Paul Lefevre, but which I can guarantee isn't the end of him. One series to go. Started the next series of FOR ALL MANKIND and THE MORNING SHOW (the last, to date).

We watch one 90+ minute episode of SILENT WITNESS every Saturday night, but the last (series 23 #5/6) was truly terrible. Every woman is in a relationship/marriage with an abuser, and none ever leaves them ("But he loves me"). Even the one lesbian couple has one in prison for abusing her partner, who takes her back when she gets out, to her regret. Plus, all these powerful, important men (you can tell because they belong to a "club" - we called it the He Man Woman Hater's Club, President Pete Hegseth) are whining about being victims of unfair accusations by vengeful harpies, who had consensual sex but now are accusing them of abuse. One is Michael Maloney (whenever I see him in a show I immediately yell "Murderer!"), who plays a judge in charge of a custody case at the center of the show, who seems to hate all women, threatens to lock one up if she doesn't let her abusive husband have her kids, and - of course, duh - is the guy "unfairly" accused of rape. In the end the woman in the custody case (Sian Reese-Williams of the Welsh show HIDDEN) is killing the men and framing others. It was the least subtle and believable thing I've seen in years.

9:05 AM
Margot Kinberg said...

Feel better soon, Patti!

1:11 PM
Todd Mason said...

I also hope for your full recovery, soon, with no hotlinks. I am under the weather as well, and just lost a long comment. May redo later. Better health to us all.

1:51 PM
George said...

Jeff, we saw RAGTIME in Toronto years ago. This new version on Broadway is supposed to be a lot better. And CHESS has been "modified" from the original (some new songs) and is supposed to be better. When I learned Diane and Carol were going to see FALLEN ANGELS, I read the 1925 play. For a 100-year-old play, it was pretty funny. The Broadway version is 90 minutes, a lot less than the original 3-Act play Coward wrote.

1:52 PM
TracyK said...

Very sorry to hear that you are not feeling well, Patti. My digestion issues are improving but it was still difficult to find something I could eat at the restaurant we went to after my late morning medical appointment today. At some restaurants I would fall back on a breakfast in that case, but the restaurant we went to did not have that option.

Glen is continuing to read THE SIEGE by Ben Macintyre. He doesn't find the 1980 hostage crisis at the Iranian embassy in London as interesting a topic as others he has read by the same author. He prefers the books related to World War II. He will pass it on to me when he is done. I want to read more about the topic, I think.

I have read a mix of novels lately. Finally finished THE IVY TREE, by Mary Stewart, which I read on the Kindle. I liked it so much more than I thought I would. I finished the last two stories in THREE FOR THE CHAIR by Rex Stout, and liked them both.

Then I read AN ORDINARY DECENT CRIMINAL by Michael Van Rooy. (He was a Canadian author and wrote three mysteries before he died in 2011 at 42.) I will say first that I liked the book a lot and could hardly put it down. But, it was the most shocking, violent mystery I have read in a long time. The first two chapters were so violent I nearly quit reading it. Has anybody else read this?

5:37 PM
pattinase (abbott) said...

I will try to get back to all your comments tomorrow. I spent two days in the hospital but hopefully on the mend. Or at least diagnosed.

7:19 PM
TracyK said...

Patti, two days in the hospital. That is a lots. I do hope things are improving for you and your health.

7:41 PM
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11:44 PM
Todd Mason said...

Indeed, yikes. Glad they felt you were on the mend, though.

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1:26 AM
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The coloscopy preparation I have difficulty with is drinking a gallon of the liquid. That is a huge volume for me to handle.
I just finished to listening to WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM THEIR FRIENDS. A telling of The Beatles from acquaintances, friends, relatives, etc. A fun read. Narrated by the author, Stuart Maconie, who I love to listen to on BBC 6 Music.
I learned the somewhat bizarre story that Pete Best's nightclub owning mother had an affair with Beatles associate and employee Neil Aspinell, seventeen years her junior, and they had a child together. All in the midst of Pete getting the heave-ho from the band.

4:03 PM
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