Yes sir, quite a blow!
Don't regret it, and don't let's go to extremes.
It's called what's your choice?  It's called count to ten!
It's called burn your bridges, start again.
You should burn them every now and then
Or you'll never grow...

Because now you grow! — that's the killer, is:
Now you grow.

I took my car in for the snazzy new power steering pump, and it's going to cost $1700.  I'm hoping that by the time the credit card statement is due, I will have received one or both of my tax refunds. I also want to renew my theatre season tickets for next year, and I thought about doing it yesterday, but I then thought that it might be better to wait until after the car situation is over.

I have a loaner car that is much nicer that my current car (power seats, push-button ignition), but not as nice as the last loaner car I had. That one had a heads-up display at the bottom of the windshield. That one also had a radio I could figure out. With this current loaner car, I finally figured out how to get two radio stations, and I tuned to the more-appealing one (a public jazz station). I can't figure out how to tune to anything beyond those two stations. And I really miss my CD changer. I suppose I could hook up my phone to the Bluetooth, but I don't have much confidence that I'll figure that out.

As for the Denver Center theatre season next year, I'm not tremendously excited by it the way I was about this current season (which had ALNM and The Lehman Trilogy), but I still want to renew.

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You're either a poet
Or you're a lover
Or you're the famous
Benjamin Stone.
You take one road,
You try one door,
There isn't time for any more.
One's life consists of either/or.
One has regrets
Which one forgets,
And as the years go on...

 I can't find the radio station. The station that Google said would be broadcasting the game is instead broadcasting a sports talk show. 

The Frozen Four starts this afternoon, and I get to listen to the radio broadcast of the game, because I don't get the cable station that it's airing on, and I'm not in the mood to find a watch party at a sports bar. Not today, anyway--maybe on Saturday, if they make it that far.  

In other news, I made appointments to take the car in for that new power steering pump I've had my eye on, and to take the dog in for a routine checkup. Fortunately, those two don't overlap. I am getting a loaner car from the dealer, and they don't allow pets in loaner cars.

This is the world I meant.  Couldn't you listen?
Couldn't you stay content, safe behind walls
As I could not?

Theatermania:  Here We Are Cast Recording to Be Released Next Month


Specifically (at long last): May 17 for CD & digital.

For the double LP -- in baby-blue vinyl, if you please -- one must wait until September 6.

The sun was about 2/3 covered here in the Denver area. I'm wondering how it looked for people with more coverage. The New York Times had a photo of people in Mazatlán (in the path of totality) enjoying the eclipse, and I'm pretty sure I recognize that beach--that's the beach that was a block away from my friend's house when she lived there. The last time I went to visit her, we went out and watched the sunset every night. Unfortunately, she doesn't live in Mazatlán any more--she lived there for 18 years.

B and I went out during the height of the eclipse, but it was much lighter here than the last one in 2017 (I think we had around 80% coverage for that one), and I didn't have any eclipse glasses, so I was just watching the atmosphere and thinking that not much was happening. It got a little darker than normal and a little cooler than normal. It looked like it was around 7 am at 12:40 pm. Nothing extremely remarkable.