Spent the next hour finishing out my training. Thankfully, neither the licensing tests nor the CPR course took that long. The online CPR course didn't even take 15 minutes. I might see if I can find a more hands-on course locally later in the summer for better training, but this will do for now.
Worked on writing for the rest of the morning and early afternoon while a shower fell softly behind me. I decided to try something a bit controversial. I ran Once Upon a Time In the Land of WENN through an AI Chat, just to see what I'd get. Actually, I got a lot of great suggestions. As long as I don't let it write the whole thing for me, I think this might be useful. I'll go back over it tomorrow and take some of those ideas down.
Began the second season of Remember WENN while I worked. "Radio Silence" reveals that Victor died in the London bombings and Jeff was injured. Hilary grapples with balancing her delight in Jeff's return with her remorse about Victor's death. Betty takes her grieving even further. She sequesters herself in the writer's room, pounding out script after script where nothing bad happens and everyone is happy, and insists on a minute of silence every hour for Victor. It's a frustrated Scott Sherwood who reminds the heartbroken young woman that we can't honor anyone by drowning in despair.
Hilary and Jeff are gladly saying "I Now Pronounce You Man and Wife Again"...and being nauseating about it on the air. The others, especially Betty and Scott, are starting to get sick of their baby talk. Meanwhile, Mr. Medwick and Scott devise their own late-night show and get organist Eugenia to host it, but it's leaving her too tired for her daytime organ duties.
I forgot new episodes of Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood just debuted. "Daniel and Max Visit the Farm" and learn to not only take care of the animals there, but take care of each other when the ducks overwhelm autistic Max. Prince Wednesday is delighted to introduce "Prince Wednesday's Pet," a cute guinea pig named CiCi, to Jodie. The kids learn how hard it can be to care for a pet...and how it can be even harder to watch a little one when Jodie's toddler brother Leo gets upset because CiCi is napping.
The weather was still bad when I got off the computer, so I took Uber to the Thomas Sharp School again. No trouble either way. The one going there arrived in 7 minutes and there just in time. The one going home didn't even take 4 minutes. No traffic or trouble on the road.
Needless to say, the kids were inside the entire three hours. The weather was just too humid and rainy for running around playgrounds. They honestly behaved better than I figured they would. The only time they got really antsy or noisy was waiting in line for the bathroom. There were 35 kids today, more than double the amount we had yesterday. They also got pretty fidgety while one of the older elementary school kids read them a story...but in their defense, she read two and a half picture books, and The Lorax is pretty long and complicated for Dr. Seuss. The kids spent the rest of the afternoon happily playing with Mega Blox, giant Lego-type building toys. One sweet boy even gave me the picture he drew of Roberts Pool in Collingswood to "bring me joy." I will treasure it.
Once I got in, I had dinner and watched Song of Norway at YouTube. I go further into this kitschy operetta on the life of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog.
Finished the night while going over the AI chat and writing my review with some great memories. Tiffany's Hold an Old Friend's Hand was one of my favorite cassettes from 1989 through 1991. I rewound "All This Time" over and over, and even now, I nearly cried at how achingly familiar it was. "Radio Romance" was the other hit, but I preferred "It's the Lover (Not the Love)" and "I'll Be the Girl."
Likewise, I had at least three Mariah Carey cassettes I listened to frequently in the early and mid-90's, during the height of her initial success. If I wasn't listening to them, I hear #1s like "Vision of Love," "Dream Lover," and "I Don't Want to Cry" constantly on the radio. I thought "One Sweet Day" was impossibly romantic as a melodramatic 14-year-old and her "When You Believe" with Whitney Houston was beautiful (though I wouldn't see Prince of Egypt until I was an adult).
Oh, and it's a good thing we didn't take the kids out, and I had no outside plans for today other than work. It's continued to rain off and on, sometimes heavily, for the rest of the night.
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