Headed to work shortly after the album ended. Work continued to be overwhelmingly busy. We're getting warnings for anything from 1 to 4 inches tomorrow. Yeah, it's not a lot, but it's still enough for some people, particularly those living in areas where they don't plow the streets well, panic. The customers didn't abate even when the Eagles-Giants game began. The Sunday morning bagger helped me early on; that high school kid replaced him for the last hour. I fell behind with the carts when I had to clean up two broken containers (of gravy and butternut squash soup) in a row, but mostly got caught up when I made it back outside.
(Oh, and the Eagles finished their season on a high note. They played their third-string guys and still managed to wallop the Giants 20-13. They'll be taking on the Green Bay Packers in the first round of the play-offs next Sunday at 4:30.)
Though it was sunny today, it also remained bitterly cold and gale-force windy. I called Uber. That was probably a wise decision, and not just because of the weather. The driver going to work took 6 minutes to arrive; the one going home didn't even take a minute. No traffic either way. (The driver going home lamented that he was a school bus driver in Cape May and he'd probably have commute to work in bad weather. Um, Cape May County is supposed to be getting more snow than we are. They're calling for 4 to 8 inches down there. Considering they already canceled school tomorrow for the kids here, it's more than likely they'll cancel it for them, too.)
Put on the soundtrack from The Little Mermaid while changing and getting organized. I've had a cassette copy of this for years, but it's currently in storage, and I'm trying to replace as many cassettes as I can with records or CDs anyway. This isn't my favorite Disney soundtrack, but it does have some fun songs. "Under the Sea" won the Oscar, but that one always seemed kind of random to me. My favorite number from this is the adorable and hilarious "Kiss the Girl" as Sebastian, Scuttle, and every animal on the lake encourage Eric to give Ariel that all-important smooch! Side two is all of the instrumental music. The bouncy "Tour of the Kingdom" and darker "Eric to the Rescue" are the stand-outs here.
Finished the night with today's Match Game marathon. Loretta Swit, Hot Lips on MASH, was one of the earliest semi-regulars. She appeared frequently from 1973 through 1975 and more sporadically thereafter. Her last weeks were early in the 1979 syndicated run. She was there for the week in 1973 with Jack Klugman and Brett Somers sitting next to each other and "Mama" Cass Elliot in the ingenue seat, the only rock star to ever appear on the show. The others all handed around hard hats during a Syndicated episode in honor of the woman contestant who worked on a construction crew.
She sat next to her fellow 4077th alumni McLean Stevenson during another week in 1973 and put up with his hair-brained answers, finally claiming at one point that they intended to buy him a new Brian and was around for Brianne Leary's last day as a contestant in 1976. Her funniest nighttime episode was the one from 1979 with the little old man who claimed to be a humorist and was so adorable, the young woman contestant next to them claimed they were engaged.
You'll have a hot time in the old studio with the head nurse of the 4077th in this sweet and silly marathon!
(Oh...and at press time, it still has not snowed. I don't think it's supposed to start here until very early in the morning.)
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