https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6802400/
Coming 2 America (2021)
PG-13 | 1h 50min | Comedy | 5 March 2021 (USA)
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Yeah, there are a lot of errors and inconsistencies. But if you relax and suspend belief it was corny and funny.
I think Leslie Jones and Wesley Snipes steal the show.
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I watched on Prime Video and got some random German subtitles. A quick search reported that this was not unusual error.
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For anyone with Netflix, I recommend Queen’s Gambit. and not just because it was my favorite opening during my chess playing games. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
But that women are not big into chess is a sad fact of-life and I wonder why?
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https://www.google.com/photos/scan/
Google recently released a new free app called PhotoScan with the aim of letting you digitize all your old photos. If you’ve installed the app, you can access it by clicking the three lines at the top left of Google Photos, then clicking “Scan photos”. Going forward, simply search for scans whenever you want to see all the photos you digitized.
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https://www.google.com/photos/scan/
“Get the photo scanner from the future”
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OK, I’m a sucker for apps, phones, and all technology gadgets and tchotchkes (NB: I’ve been criticized all to often for using big and or strange words so now I am linking to their meaning. OK?) (NB: A “gadget” becomes a “tchotchke” when it: (a) doesn’t work as advertised; (b) breaks; (c) gets purplanted by a better gadget; or (d) I lose a part of it — usually the power supply. I have an old digital video camera waiting for me to find the power cord to it.)
I read about the app somewhere — I’d have thought Google would let me know about it … … personally — and downloaded it BECAUSE I have a ton of old framed pictures that I was considering HOW to digitize. It’d be a lot work to take them out of the frame — if they’d survive that — scan them and put them back.
So this holiday, I tried it on two framed pictures.
Judge for yourself the results.
and
Very impressive, no?
Anyway, I’m impressed.
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http://www.lifelock.com/refer/52005227/Ferdinand/
I use it. And, if you sign up, I get 10$.
Laugh!
Use offer code RUSH for a discount.
Argh!
Seems like a good service.
Given all the repeated hacks lately seems like common sense.
YMMV FWIW
“Bon courage a vous tous”
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I have the $12 per year premium account and it’s well worth it.
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I know the author and urge you to support him by buying a copy.
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Friends,
As a fairly new parent, it was a bit difficult for me to explain to my 3 year-old who Jesus Christ or God is, why we celebrate Christmas, the need for daily prayers and the concept of creation. This Children’s book was my attempt as guided by the Holy Spirit to begin this rather uneasy explanation. This short story has helped me a lot each time I am asked “daddy, tell me more about Jesus”. Hope you find the perspective interesting. For me it reminded me that I needed to return to my first love with our Lord Jesus. It a good read for anyone irrespective of religion or faith.
Jesus Loves Children
Title ID: 4607213
ISBN-13: 978-1494926861
Availability:
Electronic Copy Available at the Kindle Store and Amazon website at:
Book Print available at the CreateSpace Store at:
https://www.createspace.com/4607213
Book Print will be available at Amazon worldwide on 1/22/2014.
The Expanded Distribution to stores, Libraries and others in 8 weeks.
Please spread the word. 50% of the proceeds will go orphanages, the Poor and those in need.
Cheers,
Uche.
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http://www.prosofteng.com/support/support_thanks.php
PRODUCT: DRIVESLIM for MACOSX
Just thought of something that they could do to improve my experience. So I contacted their support.
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I’m a Mac noob.
Is there a set of automator script to run drive slim periodically?
So, for example, cache clear, monthly on the first monday and big files on the second monday. TO prompt those of us with old memories.
From time to time, the various tech site have stuff like this. For example, recently, there was one to delete the IPHOTO automatic copies.
Thanks for good product. No complaints. Just could use some help.
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Let’s see if I get a response or is it a “pump and dump”?
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AUTORESPONDER:
Ferdinand,
Your ticket number regarding this issue is 07-97528.
Please refer to this ticket number in any future correspondence.
Product: DriveSlim
Mac OS: Mac OS 10.6.8
Question: I\’m a Mac noob. \r\n\r\nIs there a set of automator script to run drive slim periodically?\r\n\r\nSo, for example, cache clear, monthly on the first monday and big files on the second monday. TO prompt those of us with old memories. \r\n\r\nFrom time to time, the various tech site have stuff like this. For example, recently, there was one to delete the IPHOTO automatic copies. \r\n\r\nThanks for good product. No complaints. Just could use some help.\r\n
Your question has been forwarded to a Customer Support Specialist who will be contacting you about this issue. Be sure and check out our Online FAQs, found in our Support Website, for answers to common support questions.
Thank-you!
WE WILL SEE?
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Fedinand,
Your ticket number regarding this issue is 07-97528.
Please refer to this ticket number in any future correspondence.
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Hi Ferdinand,
There is no script to automate DriveSlim.
Contact us if you have any further questions.
Regards,
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Jeremy
Prosoft Engineering Customer Support
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“Go away, you Customer, you. Stop bothering us.” YMMV.
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Hello, welcome to a little thing called 750 Words
I’ve long been inspired by an idea I first learned about in The Artist’s Way called morning pages. Morning pages are three pages of writing done every day, typically encouraged to be in “long hand”, typically done in the morning, that can be about anything and everything that comes into your head. It’s about getting it all out of your head, and is not supposed to be edited or censored in any way. The idea is that if you can get in the habit of writing three pages a day, that it will help clear your mind and get the ideas flowing for the rest of the day. Unlike many of the other exercises in that book, I found that this one actually worked and was really really useful.
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Amusing little site that has a way of getting under your skin.
I’m using it to write my course and my next book.
It sort of fits my early morning persona.
Maybe like Sudoku, it too will ward of the dreaded Alzheimer’s?
No one can see what you write but you can share the automated analysis of that writing.
See me at: http://750words.com/entries/share/174852
ROFL, yeah, I’m that nuts!
Now all I need is a tshirt declaring that I’m an ITSJ and a fat old white guy injineer. (But then I repeat myself.)
LOL!
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http://emilychang.com/ehub/app/750-words
Blog | eHub | Stream | Tags | Photos Projects | About | News | Contact
750 Words
By Kim Lau
— May 12, 2010 at 10:02 am
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Motivate your writing by committing to 750 words a day. Log in with Facebook Connect, Google or Yahoo, and earn points and badges the more you write.
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We’ll see if it helps.
RECOMMENDED!
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The first lie ever told: “$800”!
Theology on two pizza boxes?
Stephanie March demanding sex. (Every boy’s dream?) “When he tests his discovery of lying by telling a woman that the world will end unless she has sex with him at that very moment but backs out at the last minute by claiming to have a phone call from NASA telling him the world is not going to end now.” ROFL!
“Let me know if you’ve lowered your standards.” (Too hot for me?)
“Man In The Sky forbid!”
Unfortunately, it’s a law of Nature that “hot” girls look down on fat old white guys with or without a “snub nose”. Sigh!
Hey, for a $1 from redbox and two hours of my life, recommended.
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Hmmm!
Sweet and the bird steals the show.
Seriously, was it debunking self-help gurus (i.e.: the guru’s realization that he practices none of the principles he teaches)? Tony Robbins came to mind.
Hey for a dollar from redbox. How bad could it be?
I found it funny.
And, took a good message away. “A-OK”?
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OK, maybe I’m a sucker. I went to the movies last night. Yes, it was a (poor quality) movie. Not the live remote performance that I was expecting. I felt suckered. The previous night, I went to the Senior Showcase, EB Vo Tech, where aspiring high school seniors displayed their talent. One of their presentations was a better quality than the “professional” one I watched last night.
Now, I understand that weather in Norfolk prevented the live performance. But I felt cheated. It was supposed to be “live”!
The film was obviously edited. I paid for the full performance and I think some of the good stuff was left on the cutting room floor. And, if it was edited, why is there a twenty minute “intermission”. Sorry, that could have been cut. Maybe it was for the old folks to tap a kidney. But, I suspect it was to allow the theater to push some over-priced “refreshments”.
On to the content, I was again disappointed:
* Beck spent to much time mocking Nancy Pelosi’s physical characteristics. At first it was funny, but after a while it got boring.
* O’Reilly was “abbreviated”. He got in some great points about was NOT in Obama’s SOTU, but it seemed like, in his head, the TV timing bell went off and he’d truncate his thought.
The audience was obnoxious. It addition to being mostly old and lilly white. The guy next to us was a fidgeter; guy behind us dropped a big tub of popcorn; and the old lady behind us kept commenting to her party about what the guys were saying. Argh! A chorus of cellphone conversations would have been less distracting.
(18 seats per row, 50 rows, pretty much sold out, 900, time 25$, 225 * 100, 22500$ per theater, times 200 theaters, !!!4,500,0 00!!!, over a million a piece for two hours of work? Hmmm!)
As far as the content was concerned, I had the following observations:
* Beck is NOT a libertarian. No self-respecting libertarian would have a demonstration planned for 8/8/10 in from of the LINCOLN memorial.
* O’Reilly is an interesting amalgam of professed small government but pro-war guy. Interesting, but dangerous. He did correctly identify that OBH44 ignored the Iran threat in the SOTU and has potentially by ignoring them made the world a more dangerous place. If israel has to take Iran on, we are in a world of hurt.
* O’Reilly pointed out that in the SOTU address OBH44 avoided the whole “War” topic. (And, neither mentioned OBH44’s failure to praise the troops. I can’t imagine any President missing that point.)
* Beck makes a good case that the Progressives are the problem.
* O’Reilly was funny in his description of how the folks will wake up and right the ship. Hope he’s right. I’m not so sure.
* Beck portrayed OBH44 as evil; O’Reilly characterized him as an inexperienced unprepared Chicago corrupt politician. (O’Reilly was especially on point with his: comparison of Chicago’s South Side with Haiti; Reverend Wright’s 2M$ mansion in a all-white suburb, AND the KSM terror trial in NYC. He reminded me of Judge Judy when she says “If it doesn’t make sense, it’s not true”, when O’Reilly says that the “folks” can feel when the politician isn’t telling the truth. (Like when their lips move!)
Sorry, but I can’t recommend this.
I shoulda went to see Avatar; it’d been cheaper.
Yeah I know, violating my own dictum, “Shouldas, wouldas, and couldas” will kill you.
It was: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Desi and Lucy, and probably more physically accurate Abbot and Costello or Laurel and Hardy.
But not as timeless, or not as funny.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/01/the_beckoreilly_bold_fresh_tou.html
“15 minute intermission” live in Tampa
Why was ours 20 minutes?
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Carla Howell and Michael Cloud
Alliance to Roll Back Taxes
Small Government News
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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Just Do the Signature Drive With Volunteers?”
Virtually every statewide political campaign in Massachusetts hires petitioners to collect signatures.
Senator Kennedy, Senator Kerry, Governor Deval Patrick, former Governor Romney, former Governor Cellucci, and the rest paid for signatures. For at least the last 40 years.
Why?
Because the petitioning requirements have been made so hard, the time for petitioning so short, the ability of opponents to block petitioning, and the ease of removing valid voters signatures from the ballot.
But it gets worse. Massachusetts requires 6-1/2 times as many signatures for Ballot Initiatives as they do for U.S. Senate and Governor candidates – and they give us 1/3 less time to collect them.
We have to collect over 96,000 signatures in 49 days. In the fall, when rainstorms or snowstorms can and do prevent petitioning for 1 day or 3 or 7 days — or more. Cutting petition time by 10% or 20%.
We have to print 351 DIFFERENT petitions for our initiative — one for each town and city in Massachusetts.
Our petitioners have to carry dozens of DIFFERENT petitions at each petitioning location – a mall, a store, etc – to make sure that we have the right petition for that voter.
If a voter mistakenly signs the Natick petition, while living in Framingham, his signature is disqualified.
If a signer or petitioner accidentally makes a “stray mark on a petition”, every one of the valid 12 or 15 voter signatures on that petition are disqualified.
Then we need to sort and separate the petitions into the 351 towns and cities, pre-validate 10% to 20% of the signatures, deliver them to 351 different town clerks all across Massachusetts – many town clerks offices are only open part time; if you can’t show up them…too bad for you. The town clerks physically check each petition signature against the each voter’s signature. Many are conscientious. Some are sloppy and disqualify valid signatures.
Next, we have a 7-day window to collect 351 petitions from the 351 towns — when clerks’ offices are open.
Then, if the town clerks have validated enough signatures to move us toward the ballot, we have to deliver the signatures to the Secretary of State’s Office — where the signatures are tallied.
While this is going on, the Teachers Unions and Government Employees Unions can challenge any or all of the validated signatures for any of a dozen different legal reasons.
This is why virtually all statewide political campaigns and ballot initiatives hire paid petitioners. So they can get on the ballot.
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In the Pepuls Republik of Taxachusetts, there is a band of crazies that are trying to repeal the tax law.
(Regardless of where you live, if they succeed, it will help everyone. You may want to consider sending them a few bucks. Would you have sent money for munitions to the Militiamen at Lexington or Concord? Repealing the sales tax in MA would be modern day equivalent of “the shot heard round the world”! https://www.fbs.net/csg/RBTdonate.html)
It interesting to see how the political elite have insulated them selves from the peons. Why bother have petitions at all? You can’t practically impact the politicians.
Argh!
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1135503/
Julie & Julia
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Julia Child (Meryl Streep) and Julie Powell (Amy Adams) are featured in writer-director Nora Ephron’s adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell’s Julie & Julia and My Life in France, by Julia Child with Alex Prud’homme. Based on two true stories, Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who, though separated by time and space, are both at loose ends…until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible. Written by Columbia Pictures
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It was “funny peculiar”; not “funny haha”.
Maybe it resonated so well for the mid-life crisis aspect.
Not a chick flick, it had a poignant tone to it. Sadly funny.
I liked it; Frau didn’t. YMMV
p.s., especially funny; who would ever write a 700 page book? rofl!
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https://www.warrantyelephant.com/html/howitworks.aspx
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In addition, you can even upload a copy of your warranty itself and your invoice, so that you don’t have to search through stacks of paper to try and find the documents needed to exercise your warranty rights.
We will send you reminder emails at 3 months, 1 month and 1 week before your warranty expires. This will remind you to check your item and ensure it is in good working order. If it is not, you will have all the information needed, right in front you, to arrange for warranty service. You will never again spend money to purchase a warranty on an item only to have it break down and not be able to remember whether the warranty has expired or if you had even purchased the warranty in the first place.
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Seems like a good idea to me.
Warranties, especially extended ones, seem worthless.
Maybe an organized approach would change that opinion.
I view stuff I buy as a “used car”. Caveat emptor.
Maybe saving this information might make it easier to return stuff.
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A few interesting points:
If you are interested in buying it, save yourself the 30% markup going to Amazon and go buy it directly from Lulu.
Easiest way to get to the book on Amazon is by searching for “church 10?19?62”.
Cheapest way to get the book is on Lulu directly: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=638039
p.s., On Lulu, the download version is only a few dollars. Unless you need a big bug killer, I’d go for the download.
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tiny
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The Best-ever Freeware Utilities List
“A kind of Wikipedia® for Freeware”
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There are a lot of great freeware products out there. Many are as good as or better than their commercial alternatives. This community-based site features our pick of the “best of the best.” If you disagree please add your suggestions for the benefit of others.
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From:
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 10:08 PM
To: Reinke’s Catch All Email
Subject:
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Are you happy with using the Kodak page as a way to send pics? I bought a new Kodak camera and the upload/set up a photo gallery the Kodak page looks pretty simple.
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Kodak is a name brand. There is one hidden trap. It’s dead drop simple to put the pics in, print, and share. BUT to get hi rez out, you have to join their “premiere gallery” for 25$ year. (50$ if you want a discount on reprinting I don’t print that much.) Then, you can DOWNLOAD a high rez version of the pics you put in. Otherwise, you’re uploading say a 5meg version, but can only download a 5k version. And, they do promise to keep your pics archived for an annual purchase of some number of dollars (One print order of $10? I think)
So I think Kodak sums up: (1) cheap photo archive; (2) cheap prints (probably cheaper than doing it yourself); (3) a neat one button fix of pics; (4) a central place for all your pixing activities. On the theory that you should never depend upon any ONE point of failure. I suggest that one should upload photos, fix ’em, hirez download them, and then send them to a gmail account (i.e., one message per “album”) with the album name in the subject line.
Also, since scanners are so cheap, old pics should be “captured” in the same way.
I’m thinking of the NOLA flood and SanDigo fires. Bet those folks wish they had such.
Plus, Kodak handles ANY jpeg. So, any important docs can be put into a jpeg and put on the Kodak site. (Cute huh?)
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http://lifehacker.com/software//lifehacker-code-texter-windows-238306.php
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Windows only: Text substitution app Texter saves you countless keystrokes by replacing abbreviations with commonly used phrases you define.
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But it “hides” it’s “bundles” (what it subs for you) for transport elsewhere and backup. You can find it. It’s just not obvious.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
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The Kodak Gallery provides you with free online storage for an initial period of 12 months from the date that you first upload an image to your account. To maintain free storage, you need to make at least one purchase from the Gallery every 12 months (the 12 month period will restart with each purchase). If you do not purchase any product or service from us during a 12-month period, we may delete the images stored in your account. In addition, if your account becomes inactive for a period of 60 months, we may terminate access to your account altogether (including deletion of any account information held by the Gallery).
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I had some snaps from a party that were pretty good. And, as usual, I put them up here to order some prints. Just before I pressed the order button, I noticed a new (new? new to me) option by the edit button. (I was there to crop one pic.) So, hey, I tried it.
Wow.
It did a fantastic job. So I tried it on all the “roll”. It was a minor miracle. Shots that I had written off as too dark were magically transformed into better than the event in real life.
So, I’m punching this one with the RECOMMENDED button. Right after I blow the cobwebs off of it.
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If you are in Vegas, they have “The Price Is Right” show. (It’s NOT the TV program and tix ain’t cheap.) But it’s fun.
Tip: If you’re called as part of a foursome to bid on an item (win and you get up on stage), the THIRD player must bid UNDER the next higher bid. Else the Fourth (Last) Bidder will always go over you by a dollar. So for example, without this tip, when #1 bids $100 and #2 bids $200, you can’t bid $300. The fourth player will bid $301 and the only shot is if you hit it on the head. In the example, with this tip, you’d bid $150 and the fourth player would bid $201. You’d at least have a shot. If you want to be nasty, you could bid 101 and take the whole number space, but I believe The Universe would see that and make the right price exactly $100 to rub your nose in your immoral behavior. (But that’s just me.) For the second bidder, I’d always bid a dollar, and take the under. In the five showcases, I saw taking the under would have won at least one.
Tip: If you get to the final showcase, take care not to “overbid”. In my visit, both contestants overbid. My recommended strategy for the second contestant is to ALWAYS bid a dollar. They have the wrinkle that if you come within a dollar you win the showcase. If you are the correct bidder, you win a prize. Not the showcase.
As always YMMV!
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For perspective, I am the ‘luddite’ friend that John refers to and makes fun of on his blog. But what I wanted to tell you about was the best ‘free’ show in Las Vegas. John and I, along with our ‘fraus’ (a Johnism), were vacationing in LV last week and we went to Bill’s Gambling Hall & Saloon (for LV old-timers this is the old Barbary Coast Casino, behind the Flamingo). In the lounge area where there is a small stage they have an Elvis impersonator act that is the best I have seen (The Las Vegas Review and Vegas.com agrees with me as they voted him ‘Best of Vegas; and Elvis Impersonator of the year in 2006). The guy sits in a huge specially built chair, since he is probably 450 lbs. But the good news is that he has lost over 400 pounds in the past couple of years, all on his own without surgery. So you can imagine how big he was when he started to diet. But his size has nothing to do with the experience, this guy has a great show that runs for an hour, takes requests, involves the audience, and here is the best part….he sounds fantastic. He has a superb voice with great range, and you come away feeling ‘entertained’….and all for free, or the price of a beer if you want one.
Here is his website, which lists the day/time when he performs.
If you ever appreciated Elvis’ music, don’t miss this one! Enjoy.
P.S. And thanks to my friend John for letting me ‘post’ on his blog.
On recent trip, Frau and I decided to stay at the EWR Marriott on the return trip.
We wanted to go to the city the next day to visit Mom. So rather than trek an hour down the turnpike to home at some late hour — with the potential for being really late if the gooferment FAA decided that weather was involved — and then back up the turnpike an hour the next morning, we bunked over at the airport hotel. It wasn’t cheap. But, having a accident is much more expensive. And, if the flight was ever delayed badly, we could have been going to the city REAL early. :-)
Anyway, it was basically a good decision. Not cheap. But good.
I was moderately wrankled that they charge 27$ to park to go to their hotel.
But, it was clean, neat, and comfortable.
The highpoint was that the restaurant was open for dinner until 11PM. So we had a very nice dinner that was modestly priced. I recommend the restaurant there and the staff that was also very good.
I’d rate it as an “I’d stay there again”! My highest rating.
:-)
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Reinke Faces Life 