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Apr. 22nd, 2026 09:19 am
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Happy Wednesday!

I'm taking search offline sometime today to upgrade the server to a new instance type. It should be down for a day or so -- sorry for the inconvenience. If you're curious, the existing search machine is over 10 years old and was starting to accumulate a decade of cruft...!

Also, apparently these older machines cost more than twice what the newer ones cost, on top of being slower. Trying to save a bit of maintenance and cost, and hopefully a Wednesday is okay!

Edited: The other cool thing is that this also means that the search index will be effectively realtime afterwards... no more waiting a few minutes for the indexer to catch new content.

Shakespeare Rated

Apr. 22nd, 2026 08:30 am
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 Michael Billington ranks Shakespeare's plays in order of merit. These lists are great fun if only to prompt disagreement. He puts The Two Gentlemen of Verona at the bottom and Henry IV parts one and two at the top. Second to last is Cymbeline and the runner-up to Henry IV is Twelfth Night. He places Hamlet at number three with Macbeth rated just above King Lear. Coriolanus is the best of the Roman plays and he likes The Winter's Tale a good deal better than The Tempest.

Not much to quarrel with there. I've never read or seen The Two Gentlemen so I don't have an opinion on it but I'd put Cymbeline- which fascinates me- a little higher. As for the top spot, I'd give it to Hamlet....

The complete list can be found in today's Guardian.

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Apr. 21st, 2026 08:00 am
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I swiped this from [profile] howlin_wolf_66.....


1. Bagels or donuts?
Donuts

2. Bar soap or body wash?
Body Wash

3. Being afraid or being embarrassed?
I think I would go with being afraid.
I hate to be embarrassed.

4. Big bash or intimate gathering?
Agreed, Intimate Gathering is best.

5. Board games or video games?
Board Games.
Now to find somebody that likes to play them.

6. Bridgerton or The Crown?
I prefer Victoria.
I was so disappointed when they only did two of the seasons.
I don't remember now if Covid killed it or what happened. :(

7. Cardio or weights?
I should be doing both. :o

8. Carpet or hardwood?
If I had to choose just one, I would lean towards Hardwoods.

9. Clue/Cluedo or Monopoly?
Monopoly.

10. Cook or do the dishes?
Agreed, Cooking over cleaning. :)
The Rest of the Meme... )

Isn't It Punny.....

Apr. 21st, 2026 06:25 am
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April 18th/19th...

I Kept Wondering

Why The Ball Was

Floating Towards Me.


Then It Hit Me.

*************************************

April 21st...

I Sold My Vacuum Cleaner...


It Was Just Gathering Dust.

Epstein-Related

Apr. 21st, 2026 07:17 am
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 The British Prime Minister struggles to hold onto his job. He pretends he didn't know things he must have known and which it was his business to know. I'd be inclined to dismiss this as a headline-hogging distraction were it not for the Epstein dimension. Everything that's happening these days at the top level in politics and industry (including the entertainment industry) has an Epstein dimension- and it's this generation's business to get to the bottom of it. 

Monday At The Movies.....

Apr. 20th, 2026 09:12 am
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This Week's Movie Quote...

M. D. M.: Like most intellectuals, he's intensely stupid.


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Which Movie Does This Quote Come From?

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The Age Of Innocence
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Dangerous Liaisons
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Howards End
1 (25.0%)

I Don't Have A Clue...
2 (50.0%)




Last Week's Movie Quote...

Holmes: An occasional libation enables me to stiffen my resolve.
Mrs. Hudson: Your resolve should be pickled by now!

The Clue comes from the 1988 movie, "Without A Clue".
It was led by two great actors, Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley.

I've never seen it, but after watching the trailer, I want to. :)



Those Who Knew or Guessed Correctly...
[profile] sidhe_uaine42
[personal profile] meathiel
[profile] hoobird
[personal profile] chaquir
[profile] davesmusictank

Songs From The Movies.....

Apr. 20th, 2026 08:47 am
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This week's song comes from the 1955 movie, "Carmen Jones".
It's Pearl Bailey's "Beat Out Dat Rhythm On A Drum"...

Parent And Child

Apr. 20th, 2026 08:25 am
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 This should have been posted yesterday so it's out of sequence. I was too embroiled in an exchange of missives/missiles to remember to transfer it over from LJ......

Parent and adult child- that's such a difficult relationship. 

They may not even like one another but.....

.....The parent wants to control the child, the child wants to control the parent. 

Each finds it hard to accept that the other may have different values. Neither can quite accept that the other is a separate person on a separate life path.

 Parent says, "You're an actor in my play". Child says," No I ain't, you're an actor in mine."

Why must they carry on pushing and pulling until something breaks?

Blood On Blood

Apr. 20th, 2026 08:19 am
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 Big bust-up yesterday with a family member. I'm not going into details.

The pot has been simmering on the hob for years. It's a relief that it's finally boiled over.

They no longer have to make nice with me and I no longer have to make nice with them.

Minimal contact is now called for. Not hostility but a merciful agreement not to go on causing one another discomfort. I don't know how this will work out in practice. 

Conversation isn't really an option. We talk different languages.

A Day In The Life.....

Apr. 19th, 2026 08:28 am
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Two days ago we had tornados.

This morning, this is what greeted me as I came home from work...


April Snow

Update.....

Apr. 18th, 2026 08:52 am
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So yesterday I slept through the storm warnings...

At work last night I was telling one of the nurses that I did that and she proceeded to tell me...

We apparently had FOUR tornados in the area yesterday and apparently one of them hit the northeast corner of Stewartville, aka my town. :o :o :o

Here is a video of the activity from yesterday...

Signs?

Apr. 18th, 2026 07:55 am
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 According to the astrologers these are the days when everything changes. All those planets piling up in Aries for the first time in many thousands of years. This is the Shift, the watershed, the dawning of the Age of Aquarius- all that kind of thing.....

I look for signs. It seems like American hegemony is ending. Victor Orban loses the election. A British P.M. wobbles......

And in myself? A growing acceptance of things as they are, less resistance to change, a whittling away of ego. Or are these just passing moods? Dunno. Self-analysis ain't really my thing....

There was a new moon last night. New Moon in Aries no less. I looked for it. There were clouds.

In one of last night's dreams the US president turned up late for a meeting. I sniffed the air, wanting to know if he really smelled as bad as everyone says he does. It was a very boring meeting- no-one had anything to say- so I slipped off into the woods to build a bonfire......

A Day In The Life.....

Apr. 17th, 2026 08:02 pm
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Well, a couple of days.....

After sleeping pretty well earlier in the week despite all the appointments I had, Thursday I had to get up early.
I had a show, "Sleuth", up at the Guthrie Theater to see with my friend Neil, [personal profile] mrdreamjeans.
First alarm went off at 3 pm. I laid there until the second alarm went off at 3:30 pm, and then I got up and started getting ready.
I opened the medicine cabinet to get my toothbrush, and a bottle of shiny gold nail polish fell out and shattered in the sink. It splattered every where.
I cleaned up some of it, but I had to get ready to get out on the road.
Uneventful drive up to the show, until I got to Minneapolis.
I was sitting at a red light and I was looking over at something on the other side of the intersection.
The *itch behind me laid on her horn. I flipped her the bird and drove on.
She whipped over to the middle lane of the road, pulled up beside me, and purposefully swerved into my lane nearly hitting me.
I slammed on the brakes and hit my horn.
She then pulled across two lanes to the far right side of the road and took off.
So that *itch didn't even want/need to be in the lane I was in.
If I had an old junker of a can, it would have been so tempting to swerve back at her and hit her. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I went on my way to the theater.
The show was okay. I enjoyed the first act much more then I did the second act. So the second half was kind of a let down.
Thankfully the drive home was uneventful.
When I got home I headed for the bathroom and started cleaning up the rest of the spilled nail polish.
Some how during that process I managed to cut the tip of my right index finger.
Talk about sore and makes typing or really doing much of anything with that finger so much fun.
This morning I fell asleep on the couch shortly before bedtime. I woke up about 1 1/2 hours later and crawled into bed.
I woke up some time later and looked back at my alarm clock and it was blank, aka no power.
I got up to go find my phone and no power in the whole house.
I picked up my phone and there was a weather alarm showing. We had been in another tornado warning and hour or so earlier. :o :o :o
I set my phone alarm and crawled back into bed.
Eventually got up and showered.
Checked the mail box and one of the things I got was a graduation party announcement for a neighbor boy.
This is from the family who a couple of years ago when I was without a car gave me a ride to work a couple of times and then told me that this situation was going to work for them, and I started spending a fortune on rental vehicles.
I haven't spoken to them since and vice versa, and now I am expected to give their child a graduation gift?

So how has your day or two been? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Isn't It Punny.....

Apr. 17th, 2026 03:40 am
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April 17th.....


The Inventor Of The Throat

Lozenge Has Died...


There Will Be No Coffin

At His Funeral.

Modern Dentistry

Apr. 17th, 2026 08:45 am
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 We were talking about dentistry and how expensive it is.

Those of us who grew up in the middle of the last century believe we should still get free treatment on the National Health.

One friend was saying how he has to keep politely turning down procedures he doesn't really need. He thinks his dentist is trying to recoup some of the money she spent on all the high tech equipment she has installed in her surgery.

One of the things she bought is a 3D printer that makes crowns while-you-wait.

Pipeweed

Apr. 17th, 2026 07:43 am
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 I've never been a smoker. On the one or two occasions when- as a kid- I took a drag I thought, "But this is disgusting".....

I've tried weed. It makes me cough.

But last night I dreamed I had bought myself a pipe and was smoking something mellow and fruity. It was an expensive hobby but what the hell! I can't think where that came from- unless it's just that I've seen one portrait too many of J.R.R. Tolkien......

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