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OTD: Tue. 11APR2023
Apr. 11th, 2023 08:52 am*
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Coming to you live from Deeping St. Magma, County Gloamshire ...
Today is:
National Barbershop Quartet Day, National 8-Track Tape Day, & National Pet Day !!!
Classical B-Days:
1769 Johann Georg Lickl, Austrian organist/kapellmeister/composer
1926 Victor Bouchard, Canadian pianist/composer
Rock/Folk B-days:
1931 Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese video game composer [ group(s): n/a ]
1958 Stuart Adamson, Scottish rock vocalist/guitarist [ group(s): Big Country ]
WRR 101.1 FM ― MotD:
David Lovrien: "The WRR March of the Day" march (Yep - you read that right)
WWotD:
rogalian ― (adj) of or pertaining to a great fire.
QotD:
“Death is a tragedy . . . but only for the living. We who have died go on to other things.” ― Charles de Lint, Into the Green
Personal Commentary/Observation
RE: Today's Quote of the Day (QotD):
It is saddening to think that my friend Amanda Fisher, aka Cissa, has passed. I have some wonderful things from her, a beautifully designed bookmark of (and taken from) my favorite Charles de Lint novel and a couple of her triskell metal pieces - her wolves & her ravens medallions. I always thought that one day I might get to meet her. I waited too long.
RE: Medical:
I am finally showing some improvement with the insulin injections. I'm supposed to keep increasing the dosage every 3 days until I can get my fasting blood test down below 150. After increasing it 3 times now, it's finally dropped below 200 - 181 yesterday, and 173 today, so it looks like things are moving in the right direction at last. Maybe I can get control over this after all. Now about my blood pressure .....
RE: Entertainment:
I got to take an extra day off yesterday - "Star Performer" hours awarded last year that expire next month. So I got to be lazy in the morning watching old Lew Ayers "Dr. Kildare" movies I'd recorded.
Got off my butt and went over and scheduled an appointment for my truck's inspection.
I finally ran down to Half Price Books in Dallas and picked up the only copy of Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton, the second of the Commonwealth duology that started with Pandora's Star. I guess I'm playing catch-up as this is supposedly pretty decent and I missed it. That got me thinking that I needed to also take a second look at Gregory Benford ... maybe his Galactic Center series.
Finally - this is the final season of Masterpiece Theater's "Sanditon", based on Jane Auten's unfinished manuscript. Never cared very much for Austen, but this PBS series caught my eye early on. So having gotten hooked, but not having a lot of experience with Austen, I keep holding out hope that there will be a "happily ever after" for everyone. I know - probably a false hope, but then I'm a hopeless romantic anyway so I want everyone to be happy (and see the deserved get their comeuppance) by the end. If nothing else ... I am also working through a re-watch of The Expanse" on Prime - so there is that.
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Coming to you live from Deeping St. Magma, County Gloamshire ...
Today is:
National Barbershop Quartet Day, National 8-Track Tape Day, & National Pet Day !!!
Classical B-Days:
1769 Johann Georg Lickl, Austrian organist/kapellmeister/composer
1926 Victor Bouchard, Canadian pianist/composer
Rock/Folk B-days:
1931 Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese video game composer [ group(s): n/a ]
1958 Stuart Adamson, Scottish rock vocalist/guitarist [ group(s): Big Country ]
WRR 101.1 FM ― MotD:
David Lovrien: "The WRR March of the Day" march (Yep - you read that right)
WWotD:
rogalian ― (adj) of or pertaining to a great fire.
QotD:
“Death is a tragedy . . . but only for the living. We who have died go on to other things.” ― Charles de Lint, Into the Green
Personal Commentary/Observation
RE: Today's Quote of the Day (QotD):
It is saddening to think that my friend Amanda Fisher, aka Cissa, has passed. I have some wonderful things from her, a beautifully designed bookmark of (and taken from) my favorite Charles de Lint novel and a couple of her triskell metal pieces - her wolves & her ravens medallions. I always thought that one day I might get to meet her. I waited too long.
RE: Medical:
I am finally showing some improvement with the insulin injections. I'm supposed to keep increasing the dosage every 3 days until I can get my fasting blood test down below 150. After increasing it 3 times now, it's finally dropped below 200 - 181 yesterday, and 173 today, so it looks like things are moving in the right direction at last. Maybe I can get control over this after all. Now about my blood pressure ....
RE: Entertainment:
I got to take an extra day off yesterday - "Star Performer" hours awarded last year that expire next month. So I got to be lazy in the morning watching old Lew Ayers "Dr. Kildare" movies I'd recorded.
Got off my butt and went over and scheduled an appointment for my truck's inspection.
I finally ran down to Half Price Books in Dallas and picked up the only copy of Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton, the second of the Commonwealth duology that started with Pandora's Star. I guess I'm playing catch-up as this is supposedly pretty decent and I missed it. That got me thinking that I needed to also take a second look at Gregory Benford ... maybe his Galactic Center series.
Finally - this is the final season of Masterpiece Theater's "Sanditon", based on Jane Auten's unfinished manuscript. Never cared very much for Austen, but this PBS series caught my eye early on. So having gotten hooked, but not having a lot of experience with Austen, I keep holding out hope that there will be a "happily ever after" for everyone. I know - probably a false hope, but then I'm a hopeless romantic anyway so I want everyone to be happy (and see the deserved get their comeuppance) by the end. If nothing else ... I am also working through a re-watch of The Expanse" on Prime - so there is that.
