Sunday 20070513 - Chris Rice - Finished; Lunch and a conversation of "cabbages and kings"; CVS and Levacet; Planting grasses; Headache; Carpenter; Changing chest hardware; Chris again
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Christopher Rice Thinking

At last, the Chris Rice section of the "pensive guys pages is finished. I think. I keep finding errors in everything else, so there may be some here I've missed.

I especially like this photo of Chris because it captures the quintessential nature of pensiveness. I wonder where and when the photo was taken. Is that an old TV in the background? What is the pin Chris is wearing on the upper left of his coat?

(There's a series of juvenile books about a character named Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo. In looking at the list, she obviously writes several different series, and I think six are devoted to Charlie. Of course, in all such fantasy books, characters have special powers; Charlie has the ability to "hear the thoughts of people in photographs." Certainly a power that I've not encounter before, and one that is very clever. The obvious extension of this would be someone who could enter a photo. That would be the kind of power that I would find most useful and, I fear, most terrifying.)

So many of the shots of Chris are very small, so I've had to increase the size without making them too grainy. and there's so few of them. I deviated from my rule about pensiveness to include several outside the category. (By the way, contrary to all the crime TV shows, you can only do the zooms and clean ups and resizing and sharpening IF you have a photo of super high resolution. And you ain't going to get those from a camera in a convenience store or ATM or traffic cam or even casino camera.)

However, the next person I'm working on is Rufus Wainwright, and I have yet to find a photo in which he is not pensive. It's been a while since I searched for photos, so I need to re-do that, and I need to list the origin, if I can find them, of the ones I have.

A friend and I had a leisurely lunch at Macaroni Grill. We always opt for the two-person booths in the smoking section, since they are first-come-first-serve. The mother's day groups were exactly that - groups: most likely three generations needing seating for eight or such.

Our conversation was of "cabbages and kings," like comfortable old clothes. Causal items of mutual interest. Discovery is of the utmost importance. I quoted earlier in the week parts of a review from the March 26 issue of "Variety" about the play "Tea and Sympathy." When I read the review, I thought about how perceptive it was. As an amateur performer, who knows far more about the play than I do, said that it gave him an entirely new perception of the work.

His newly acquired kitty, I think he's had him for about three months, had disappeared. And this kitty "took the place" of a previous friend that also vanished. The loss of a beloved pet, under any circumstances, can be a terrific emotional shock. Even after two years, I can weep thinking of Grae.

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My one stop was to CVS to pick up my prescription for Levacet. I'd make a comment on 20070514-2100 as follows: "By the way, I seem to be the only person in the world taking Lavacet. If I do a Google, I get all of 12 hits; five of which are references to my site." Well, yes, if you spell it "Lavacet,":when in actuality the correct spelling is "Levacet."

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I did one thing outside and that was to put two more plantation grass plants into the bed. I've had to force myself to do these because you have to do so much stooping and twisting, after five minutes I'm drenched in sweat.

I could tell Saturday that I had done to much, because I began to have headaches. And at lunch, I took one Levacet, and after I got my refill, I took two more. Then I tried to take a nape, but that can be problematic with Levacet which contains Acetaminophen / Aspirin / Caffeine / Salicylamide. So it may relieve the headache, but it 's also going to make you a "tad" wired.

I threw in a G.E. Alprazolam (xanax) and that helped to balance the brain's chemistry. And I was able to doze lightly until the phone rang. It was the carpenter asking if he could stop by to examine the front door that I'm desperate to have replaced. I said fine, come on.

He showed up in about 30 minutes and measured up and down and left and right, etc. I'm asking him to install the new door; replace the door sill which has rotted in several places; remove the outer door; and dispose of the replaced door. As I've mentioned before, I've never encountered another door like the outside one. It is a regular size screen door with a non movable louver attached to the outside covering the screen. Maybe this was a standard item years ago. But the louver would have to be custom-made now and cost a fortune.

As I was waiting for the carpenter, I thought I'd start replacing the hardware, I'd bought Saturday, on the other living room chest. AS USUAL, I'd miscounted the pieces needed AGAIN.

I'm sure it's because each piece is different. The chest in the bedroom had five full-width drawers with pulls at each end. The first chest in the living room has two full-width drawers at the bottom with pulls at each end bottom, and two half-width drawers at the top with pulls in the middle. The last piece has a single full-width drawer in the middle, vertically, with pulls at each end, two half width drawers at the top with knobs at each end, and a cupboard with two doors with a single knob each at the middle center, vertically of each.

After finishing with the carpenter and cursing about the hardware, I was back on the laptop finishing the Chris Rice section. I'd forgotten how intricate and intertwined the files were. And how an error could ripple throught 20 files. Maybe the Rufus section will be easier

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