Using my $110 Amazon gift certificate and trying out Amazon Prime. All arrived in two days except Agent Zigzag and a Laura Nyro CD. They arrive Monday. I e-mailed Amazon customer service, they apologized and gave me one more month of Prime. That makes up for the delay.
Amazon Prime has books for free and the Kindle reader app for PCs and I-Phones is free too. I downloaded the free The Fellowship of the Ring and 1984. I like to read the printed version but the digital one can be searched in seconds.
My youngest received a letter from the IRS stating he owed $204. The explanation was hard to understand but it seemed to be about tuition credits. We sent back a letter and proof the tuition was paid in the taxable year. Just received a letter from the IRS: "never mind", you owe 0.
Expecting my 1984 stuff today. Going to be a Broadway show shortly. In reading Chapter one, saw Bluebottle, didn't know it was a fly:
"In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol, snooping into people's windows."
I am very tired of the "Snow Date" Mercedes Benz TV ad but I was captured by the music playing in the background:“Make You Feel My Love” by Sleeping At Last.
Here's the full song, Adele also does a fine version. Written by Bob Dylan.
Had Strozzapreti ( "priest-choker" or "priest-strangler") at Baita last night. Wiki explains:
There are several legends to explain the name.
One is that gluttonous priests were so enthralled by the savory pasta that they ate too quickly and choked themselves, sometimes to death. Another explanation involves the "azdora" ("housewife" in the Romagna's dialect), who "chokes" the dough strips to make the strozzapreti: "... in that particular moment you would presume that the azdora would express such a rage (perhaps triggered by the misery and difficulties of her life) to be able to strangle a priest!" Another legend goes that wives would customarily make the pasta for churchmen as partial payment for land rents (In Romagna, the Catholic Church had extensive land properties rented to farmers), and their husbands would be angered enough by the venal priests eating their wives' food to wish the priests would choke as they stuffed their mouths with it. The name surely reflects the diffuse anticlericalism of the people of Romagna and Tuscany.
Another possible explanation is that the pasta resembles a clerical collar, commonly referred to as a "Priest Choker".
Gift cards from above, will have to hit the internet.
1984 DVDs from Amazon. In the 1956 version the character O'Brien( Played by Michael Redgrave) is re-named O'Connor, possibly to avoid confusion with Edmund O'Brien.
