In a few minutes I will be heading to the Island to go shopping at Wal*Mart, pick up a scrip and a birthday present for Rick, whose birthday we are celebrating tonight. I am thinking he is 30 this year or maybe even 31...hmmmm, used to keep up with this stuff.
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While waiting for "aparture", as Timmy used to say, I am watching and listening to PBS, a show about Yanni. He is on tour right now and since I will not be attending the concert when he comes through Jax, why not watch it now? His hair is cut and his handsome moustache is shaved, he is not the same anymore! And what is with that weird thing he does as he plays keyboards----is that supposed to air violin??? He always did that type of thing in his concerts but for some reason I now find it quite annoying. He has added singing to the show now, some wonderful tenors and female singers, and it is really quite a fine concert to listen to. I just do not like the little pretend orchestra conducting or arm antics...
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The sky is a brilliant blue, criss-crossed with the white trails from jets and wispy clouds. Boats are traveling the river, some sailing while others scream from one end to the other. Earlier I heard big splashy noises so went to the patio doors to investigate, expecting to see someone walking in the water. But, no, it was the giant fish again! Joanne and I had seen them already last week, needle-nosed looking things, so big that at times their fins stuck up out of the water like sharks. Oh, Yanni is now playing his encore and it is one of my favorites from his early days: Santorini! Go figure! And I loved the song long before I set foot on the island....back in our "Street of Dreams" days in early Eagle Harbor, 1995. Wow, a long time ago!
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There is an announcer lady prompting the viewers to call in their pledges for PBS and I thought, "Man, she looks so familiar!" It has now occurred to me where I think I know her from-----"Seinfeld", of course! The episode, I think it's called The Trip, where Kramer seeks his fame and fortune in Los Angeles as an actor and has a strange woman in his apartment building who is a "has been". She had been in a movie in the 30's and still thinks she is in the movie, complete with painted on eyebrows, just like the lady on PBS! All alone on the house and I am laughing out loud! Not only that, they are showing the people taking phone calls in the studio, also from a "Seinfeld" episode when Uncle Leo put Nana in the nursing home, Jerry was a host of the telethon and Kramer took calls, thinking he got a piece of the action. Not even a gift bag! Poor Kramer! All roads lead to Rome, all of life leads to "Seinfeld"!
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