Last week I showed you an old Sunday from 2009, featuring Ludwig at the game console. Since then, I ran across this one from 2008, which I like better. I think it has run on the Web site before, but here it is again. Apparently, Ludwig was just learning to play. He made a lot of progress in a year.
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Let me think. Already have a Disney thing in Orlando. A beerstro with none import beer, chitlins, grits, and crawdaddys; over done already.
emb, I thought at first it was, but then the “Yes. There was a woman at Arlo’s office once.” threw me off a bit. But now I remember the arc in which one of Arlo’s female co-workers was rather seriously crushing on him. She had a dud husband, and Arlo looked a lot better to her by comparison, as I recall.
OH, thanks for the clarification. Makes me feel a little better about my NOT going to France. And yes, Paris is only a part of my soul’s calling to go to France. Sigh.
Sorry, I haven’t driven away yet and snuck back in to peek!
It has always been an observation of mine for last 55 years of eating out that diners, drive-ins and dives or dumps could be totally successful with owners/cooks who made money and craved to be “upscale and respected” and opened white table cloth menu “divine seating only” places that failed spectacularly.
Or the maître-D wanted to be the owner/chef instead of the help and took his life’s savings and put into such a property, to have it plunge like a rock. We used to joke that everyone would be COD for at least first year to see if they stayed open that long.
My opinions of restaurants are based on years and years of being in the industry. And believe me, the spouse of anyone whose marriage lasts in the restaurant business is in it too, whether they want to be or not!
And in a family owned business, like Gus’ the kids, the grandkids and anyone else connected. I had a couple of friends who moved their dogs OUT of food service areas during meals or if a health inspector might be around!
Love, Jackie
Ginger, my big regret lately on France was not being able to go with a group of my friends who built quick canoes in Loire Valley and went down the Loire by canoe, camping along the way and eating on local economy. Not a glamorous trip in bistros, but sure an adventure! Their host was a boating friend who lives there, my Aussie friend who designed a fast built canoe to be done with local materials and a group of free wheeling senior citizens who never lose their zest for life. Well, a couple were under 40 maybe?
Love, Jackie
Yesterday, yet another A&J strip was reproduced on CIDU (and a royalty payment sent to J.J., I’m sure.) The strip was from 8/30 and featured Arlo singing The Coffee Song.
A poster included a link to a YouTube video of Frank Sinatra singing this song. You won’t see Old Blue Eyes as this was just a recording with a picture of the record label. That is the most interesting part. Columbia promoted the use of their needles (later to become styluses) for “perfect tone.” RCA Victor did the same thing on their recordings of the era. I thought the village might enjoy seeing the label and hearing the song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E-Y9eLUOHw
Yes, Jackie, I’ve seen eateries tank when they moved to a new location, or simply because they over-renovated their original location. I recently mentioned Goldie’s Trail BBQ of many years ago in Vicksburg, which moved from their “shack” on the river to bluff to a modern building across the street and somehow the ribs never seemed as good. I haven’t been there in a long time and I understand they have moved again. I hope the ‘que is now like it originally was.
Here is Frank Sinatra live on stage at Maracana Stadium, Rio Janeiro, Brazil in front of 175,000 people singing “The Coffee Song”.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DDOkLd3DrWE
And I hope that went right? It was largest group to ever assemble in Brazil for a solo performer. I guess soccer games get more people!
Why don’t people understand JJ’s humor? That was a totally hilarious strip. That was my point about the comment from Maya Angelou about people trying too hard to be “normal”. Arlo is not normal but I love him. I would have a crush on Arlo too, were he real. Oh wait, I had a crush on the “Mystery Man” for years and he wasn’t real either, was he?
Love, Jackie
Jackie, I have been to France, twice, the first time three years ago for just a long weekend in Paris (stayed at the George V) the second for nine days, where we spent two nights in Paris and a week meandering through Burgundy on a lovely barge staffed with wonderful people. They would gather to see me off for my morning run (one of them called me “ma petite chien”) and applaud when I got back, especially when I got lost and had to catch the barge at a later stage. The waiter said, “Surely, ma petite, you will have a brioche today? It is for the honor of the kitchen!”
Ghost, I have had that said to me often. Once right before Fourth of July night where there was going to be a big party, an elderly patient asked me, “So, sweetie, you gonna get fancied up and go to the party and pick yourself out one of those cute guys? I know one of them that said he was dying to ask you.” She was talking about her grandson, I knew, and he had asked me. It embarrassed me, so I just said, “No, I am just going to stay home and read,” even though I was going out to dinner with my adopted family. She looked at me with surprise, and said, “Oh, if I was your age and looked like you, I wouldn’t get home till dawn. You are wasting your youth, honey.” Then she stumped off.
Indy Mindy….you still afloat????
I must confess to some disappointment. Having not heard that song before, I assumed that Arlo (JJ) had come up with it himself!
I can never hear “George V” in French without thinking of a many-years-ago TV episode of McCloud, who was in Paris and needed to remember the name of his hotel. He said (to himself), “Did George swim? No, George sank.” And nodded with satisfaction.
Lily, dearest, I must point out to you that you are living a fantasy life unknown and unavailable to the average person or member of this forum. The George V is one of grandest of the grand hotel. The barges down the French rivers fall into same category. It is wonderful you are getting to do this, unfinanced by yourself.
But what will happen when the ball ends and Cinderella has to go back to the reality?
My guess is you will say you want to end your life at that point when your adopted family is either gone or no longer enabling your escape from personal responsibility. That is of course, totally wrong but what I’d expect.
The rest of us are working in convenience stores or chicken farms or whatever but no one is taking care of us, much less providing the luxury of such a life. I say this because among many of my “lost friends” were women who traded their lives for similar “care and luxury”. It doesn’t matter if such an arrangement is with a man, a woman or a duo/couple. A woman or a man should be responsible for themselves. And go on with life.
Love, Jackie Monies
@Jackie Monies,
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Debbie – Still afloat. Will see what comes of tonight. How goes it your end of the state? Got a nice, disgusting shower at work with all of our roof leaks. We finally found a use for all of those plastic corrugated signs corporate keeps sending that we have no use for. 🙂 You should see the jerry-rigging.
Speaking of jerry-rigging, the metal dryer vent that goes outside is a mangled mess. I added an end piece to “standardize” the end, but ended up with the same end for both wall and dryer, and less than three inches to bridge. I had one last little piece that would work with one end, but not the other. I got mad and popped the rivets, wrapped the piece around both ends and duct taped the silly thing. Ha!
Jackie: Maybe. I am loving it so far. I don’t plan to live past fifty anyway. What would be the point? 😀
I do have a backup, you know. A degree in Lab Science. But I don’t want to go to work for the hospital, I just wanna live here and be happy
Indy Mindy…glad to hear from you…we’re under a tornado watch…..
JACKIE…WELL STATED……
OF due to blow in 20-40 min.
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Forgot this: http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
” I don’t plan to live past fifty anyway. What would be the point?”
Wife lived 30 yr. beyond that, full of joy and other stuff for both of us, and I’ve lived another 4, with > to be thankful for > not.
Why not?
No offense, emb, that’s great for those that like it, but I just can’t see myself as old and saggy. Not worrying about it, though. Heh, I don’t worry about much 😀
You know, Jackie, and Lily, and others in this forum, that we cannot make *specific* plans for the future. We do the best we can: taking good care of our health, saving money, buying insurance, making good choices in schooling, friends, and employment. We just don’t know what the future will be like, but it will come gradually, and we’ll be able to get used to it and deal with it.
If we had known in past years that illness, hard luck, all those bad things, were waiting, our hearts would have sunk past no return. But we got through them one day at a time.
Ghost: What’s clear to the writer isn’t always clear to the reader. In “Does JJ do triangles? Yes. There was a woman at Arlo’s office once.” As soon as I mentioned triangles, the office bit came to mind, so the “Yes.” was a one word answer to what had been a real question.
Lily: Some old and saggy women are the neatest people. The ones I know tend to be still happily married. You won’t be as saggy as “Jennifer 44D”, subject of a song in the ’60s, I believe.
And it may well be that Lily’s predictions for her life will change a little here and there as the days and years go by, and she will find unsuspected feelings; growing older can be pleasant and happy, in spite of our doubts about it.
Heh, maybe after The Boss Of My Life passes into that Great Surgeon’s Lounge In The Sky, I’ll convert to Romanism and become a nun. That way I wouldn’t have to look at myself 😛