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.

The less achievement,
The less defeat.
What's the point of shovin'
Your way to the top?
Live 'n' laugh 'n' love 'n'
You're never a flop.
So, when the walls are crumbling...