TAN #203: TANese New Year - Horsing Around (Page 44)

That is part of the reason that I love the pretzel ones.

Mostly they are delicious though

Gullible rhymes with orange.

It does!?

Well, it just changed from a steak dinner to Japanese food and it's an outdoor performance when it's 50 degrees and 20 mph winds...

Maybe this a big April Fools joke and she is taking me out for pizza and a movie instead?

Doubt it.

Would be epic though.  Tala would earn my highest level of respect and fear.

TW

Nothing rhymes with Orange. But make it juice and add vodka, and now we are talking.

Hello TAN strangers

I've heard this many times, but I think "syringe" rhymes.  You can add the vodka to the orange with a syringe, or so I've heard.

How's it going, Samyg?

TW 

It was Japanese and the Tempest. 

However, a VERY good production with a few modern injections.  It was Co-Directed by Teller (of Penn and Teller).  Since the story has a lot of magic in it, they had about a dozen well placed illusions.  Traditional dialogue, but "rough magic" was singing a modern score.   The production is touring and for sure they will be in around NYC in May.  They spent a lot of money on it so the talent, set, and costumes were top notch.

Oh, and their version of Caliban the monster was unique.  It was two semi gymnasts.  They would be "connected" the entire play (they really just held on to each other) so they looked like they had two bodies, heads, 4 arms and legs.  They recited the lines in perfect unison to give an interesting voice.  I'm not sure if I could explain it well, but they did a lot of double cartwheels and flips and rolls.  Maybe short video to show what I mean.  These are just kids, but Cirque type guys in the show were cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rccr1lZWiGk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4elmkYP5mHo

So yesterday morning I am skiing down the mountain at Snowmass  in sunny 40 degree weather with a fresh dusting of snow and now I am sitting at my desk in Memphis with thunderstorms heading my way.

sighhhhh

Did you stay in Aspen or Glenwwood Springs?  Ever hit the hot springs in Glenwood after a day on the slopes?  Some of the best days I ever had was riding all day on Aspen Mtn, Snowmass, or Sunlight, then dinner at the Italian Underground in Glenwood, then hit the hot springs pool...

We stayed in Snowmass, at the base of the Village Express lift. It was so nice to ski in/out from the condo. I did see the hot springs in Glenwood and it looked awesome, but we never made it there.

I like it.  Some creativity and entertainment to go with the Bard's poetry.  I will look to see the show is coming to Atlanta.

TW

I looked for a touring schedule.  In the process, I learned lots more good stuff about the production.  Tala gets huge props from me for getting you into the pre-opening show. That is special.  Way cooler than your low-key rant suggested.  Great job, Tala.

Unfortunately the only scheduled performances are at the Smith Center in Las Vegas and the Loeb Theatre at Cambridge, MA.  Maybe it will go on the road in a few years.

http://americanrepertorytheater.org/media-room/press-releases/american-repertory-theater-announces-cast-and-design-team-william

I like to complain, but she has connections and does a good job for us!  And it's rare that I don't enjoy myself.  However, pretty tired today.  Nothing that a half gallon of coffee can't cure.

They had some SLIGHT audio problems and miscues, but that's what a soft opening is for, I suppose.

Happy Wednesday, y'all!

Booked my TriBike Transport for Alcatraz this morning, and then followed that up with booking my hotel for a week in Bermuda this September.

Expensive, but fun, morning.

At least you got to ski............zero ski days in the last 3 years.

Only one ski day in my life... but, it was fun!

this is one of those days I really miss BT chat. bored boredboredbored.   I hate having to sit here just for the sake of sitting here and 1/2 my pts are not showing up.  My schedule is just SO inefficient it makes me want to shoot myself and trust me I dont' need another reason.  AND I have a one  hour gap in the afternoon between my last and second to last pt.  AND the lady who is last is a MOST unpleasant specimen.  She thinks she is dying from her ankle sprain.  I mostly want to slap her and tell her to suck it up. 

What's the worst that could happen?   She gets offended and doesn't come back to you?

I like my skiing with boats and warm sun.  Pretty sure I will be kicking up a wall of water this weekend.  Jford, you are almost close enough to join me some weekend.

TW

She gives me a bad evaluation it goes on some random website and I don't get more pts or worse medicare dings me for not being perfect.  I kid you not if you do not get PERFECT scores on medicare they ding you.  Its impossible. She is impossible. 

And just to be more of a ray of sunshine in the medical world......they are about to switch us from ICD-9 codes to ICD-10 codes.  These are diagnosis codes.  An ankle sprain is not ankle sprain its 845.00  Mostly I think so they have a reason to not pay us.  As evidence insurance companies are telling docs to take out a loan to cover their expenses for 3 months because they will not get paid when ICD-10 goes into effect because they haven't updated their systems.  Its only been coming down the  pike for about 4 years now.  Just a reason to NOT PAY and argue about it. 

Kill'em with kindness and move on.  You can't change people, but shame sometimes works.

TW