I was out of town all week for work.  I spent a very pleasant time in Charlotte, NC.  The weather was cooler than in Texas.  In fact, the days were beautiful.  If the hotel had not had a busy street nearby I would have sleep with the window open.  I'm sad to leave (I tried and failed to finagle another week there next week.) but am glad to be home.  The weekend should be nice and I am hoping to be motivated enough to consider cleaning my apartment a little bit.  

Thst is a very cool looking lamp!  What a story to go with it.  I also have a lamp I wish to some day get rewired and find a replacement shade.  It is not nearly as fun as your lamp.   When I get home I will post a photo of it.  (I am in Charolette, NC fir work this week.)

I'm trying to get excited about having jury duty at 7:45 am on the day before my birthday. The excitement hasn't happened yet.


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This is a lamp that I was given in 1988 because the owner was moving out of state and he wanted it to have a good home. I haven't used it in 15 years or so because it takes light bulbs with a mogul base that are difficult to find, and that burn quite hot. The lamp also has a scary plug with exposed wires. This week I located a source for mogul-base LED bulbs.   I wanted to find out more about the lamp, so I did a reverse image search on Google, and the same lamp came up on 1stDibs.com for $1900. (Which makes it the most expensive piece of furniture I own.) This is a lamp that I got for free and almost donated to Goodwill a couple of times because the mogul-base bulbs were so much of a pain. So if it's worth anything close to that much, I figured it was worth getting it fixed up so that I can actually use it without worrying about burning the house down. It is really heavy.

That's it for Wednesday.




https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/lighting/floor-lamps/french-art-deco-torchiere-floor-lamp/id-f_4260033/

Thank you for that! I'm seeing the Denver Center's production of Little Shop on April 27.

YouTube's algorithm recommended this — a rather baggy but reasonably interesting potted history (pun intended) of the show's creation, as well as of what might indeed be considered its starring role:

...and, following up:

The Exterminating Angel
A guide to the film that inspired Act II of Sondheim's Here We Are

I celebrated Sondheimas by seeing a production of Guys and Dolls, (I need to look up what SJS had to say about Frank Loesser; I seem to remember it being fairly complimentary) then coming home and listening to Here We Are and Color and Light: Jazz Sketches on Sondheim.

Right now I am cleaning several rooms of my house so I can vacuum them, which is in preparation for the carpet cleaners coming tomorrow afternoon.

From 2014, I found this nice rendition of "Me And My Town" from the annual 54 Below birthday revue:


(A playlist of that year's 54B tribute, Three Wishes For Sondheimas, can be found here — 16 videos totalling about an hour overall).

All the curses have been ended,
The reverses wiped away.
All is tenderness and laughter
For forever
After!

I was hoping to be able to say whether I owed or whether I was getting a refund, but when I went to my scheduled appointment at my accountant's office today, he was having computer issues and was on the phone with Geek Squad. So I left all my tax documents with him, to be picked up later. I have a buttload of medical expenses for 2024, so many that I might be able to itemize. I paid for a lot of occupational therapy sessions out of pocket because insurance stopped covering after a certain number or amount. (They only covered 50% anyway.)

And somebody got sick from the food that she wasn't supposed to eat, which I didn't put away. She got sick in multiple places mostly over the carpeted stairs, but also in the bedroom and in the living room right in front of her crate. The carpet would definitely benefit from a cleaning. There are a number of carpet cleaners having specials like "three rooms for $xxx," but stairs are extra.

So that has been my Thursday. Frustrating and it will most likely end up being expensive.