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Re: ICNY 2018 - New Yearsss Travel & Sleeping Plans (RSVP)
I believe Bobby, Bug and I will be attending. That is, if it's cool for Bug to come.
Re: SwissMiss is gone
Thank you @Thrax! Option 2 in your list did the trick using Audacity. The recordings are faint but audible as she was nearing her end. I will cherish these final moments with her for as long as I draw breath.
adarryl
Re: SwissMiss is gone
- Install a visual voicemail application and try to save the message. Both the phone and your carrier+plan must support visual voicemail.
- Connect to headphone jack of your phone to the line in jack on a computer and record the audio on the PC while checking the messages.
- Install a call recording application on your phone and record the voicemail call. This requires phone support.
- And a suggestion via @NiGHTS: try contacting Verizon CSRs and see if they will assist.
Thrax
Re: My first sixty days after quitting the drink
@GnomeQueen said:
I've officially taken a month off! This is an extremely small accomplishment, but since that month covered Halloween, a three day weekend, and the midterm elections, I think I did okay. I'll likely have some wine tomorrow for Thanksgiving.
I have had just a four beers since this post. I had a work outing that went to the new Baltimore Guinness taphouse where the Blonde is brewed now. I have to say, it's better coming out of Baltimore than the Latrobe brewery. I was there, I tried two different beers, and I had enough. I also had a couple pints of Miller High Life with some Grotto Pizza on a trip to DE for a few days. I was just with my wife and Kid and just wanted to taste a boring American domestic beer with some good Pizza. It was a treat.
I'll be curious once you have your first couple if you find yourself like me. First, you kind of really enjoy the drink as a treat. Taking time away kind of re defined my relationship with the booze. Those two times, it was a total treat to have a beer vs. a habit. Also, I had no pressing desire to have anymore after that. It wasn't like... okay, I'm drinking again. It was more like, oh, it was nice to have a drink, I'll see you again next month. Beer has become someone I like to visit from time to time, but not someone I really want to live with. I don't think I could have gotten to that without conscientiously abstaining from it for a good period of time.
Re: My first sixty days after quitting the drink
I've officially taken a month off! This is an extremely small accomplishment, but since that month covered Halloween, a three day weekend, and the midterm elections, I think I did okay. I'll likely have some wine tomorrow for Thanksgiving.
Re: Bohemian Rhapsody - Ded
I caught the movie a few nights ago, absolutely fantastic. Malek's performance was outstanding. Couldn't agree more with your analysis.
I was 2 when Freddie died but my parents loved Queen. I put on A Night at the Opera and immediately realized I know every song on it already just from listening growing up. I remember driving my embarassed, then 13 year old step brother to school while singing all the words to Bohemian Rhapsody which he claimed to never have heard before. Wild.
It was really cool to see all of the pieces of the story come together and fully capture how iconic he really was, having pretty much always lived in a world without him. I have always loved their music, but I think it holds more powerful meaning now. I found myself thinking about too, how much of a loss he really was to the world.
I think it was a lot better for not doing full on sex scenes, that was super not the point of the movie and it would have very much changed the tone. It was just a really good emotional story I think they did it great justice. I'd like to talk spoilers, but so far this thread is spoiler free so I won't. ;-)
Definitely get out and see it, this is fully worth it for the theatre. Prepare to dance in your seat.
Re: Bohemian Rhapsody - Ded
I'm now at the point where I've audited their discography and picked the order in which I will be purchasing and exploring it. I now own 1974-77 (4 albums: Sheer Heart Attack, A Night At The Opera, A Day At The Races, News Of The World). Next is '77-80 (Jazz, The Game), then backup to Queen & Queen II, then press on into the 80s.
Linc
