KELLY'S DOING BETTER BUT THERE IS NO TALK OF COMING HOME

 SNAPPED A FEW QUICK PICS OF AN OLD SCHOOLHOUSE ON MY WAY HOME FROM LONDON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON

Kelly's blood pressure when taken Wednesday evening was 99/60.  Her hemoglobin level was 89.  It dropped to 79 in the night and 69 this morning which meant she underwent another blood transfusion.  And, there are signs she is bleeding internally again.  They have been checking her vitals hourly.  She said in a 7 a.m. email this morning that she was feeling better (anti-nausea medication) but weak.  

I don't know why but I woke up at 4:38 this morning and spent the next 35 minutes trying to wrestle myself back to sleep.  It didn't work, so my long day began early.  And, it was still dark out.  We did later have a cool sunrise before the day once again became hot and sticky.

A short drive into Bayfield and back for the furry Kid and I this morning with a stop at the Library to drop off some books for Kelly, and a stop at the beauty saloon to make a haircut appointment for Friday.  

THIS WILL BE HAPPENING RIGHT OUTSIDE OUR PARK

Pheebs and I were back on the road at 11 heading to Zurich where she had an appointment at the South Huron Veterinary Clinic  to have her nails trimmed.  Following that it was a quick stop at Jerry Rader Homestyle to pick up a turkey salad sandwich which we split on our way home.  Due to the oppressive heat and humidity it was another inside day.  But, given the choice of a hot humid summer's day compared to a freezing cold winter's day, I would take the Summer day because at least it looks nice outside and there's no salt on the roads to rust our vehicles to pieces.

 'YOU SAID WE WERE GOING OUT FOR ICE CREAM DAD AND HERE WE ARE AT THE VETS'!!!!

 ON THE WAY HOME PHEEBS AND I STOPPED TO SAY HELLO TO SOME COWS

LOOK CLOSELY AND YOU WILL SEE THAT ALL THESE COWS ARE HUDDLED TOGETHER UNDER A SHADY TREE STANDING IN A GREAT BIG WATER PUDDLE

 THEY ARE ALL PUSHING AND SHOVING TO STAY IN THE PUDDLE

Kelly called several more times later today and she was feeling much better than yesterday.  Her voice was stronger and her bounce was back.  In the morning they are going to do an in-depth colonoscopy as well as some kind of electrocardiogram thing possibly in the afternoon.  They may also install something called a 'pic-line' which would be inserted somewhere in the neck/shoulder area.  It's for liquid food I think.  A sample of the fluid in her abdomen has been sent to the lab for analysis.  She is still bleeding internally and not all of the blood is dark colored.  All in all, Kelly is back to her positive good spirits (a big change from yesterday when she was so sick) and there has been no talk this time of 'being in a hurry to come home'.  I think she is going to be undergoing a lot more tests this time.  

Late this afternoon, 'BANG' our power went again!!!!  And, that is why tonight's post is a bit later.  Kelly right away phoned me from London to let me know our power was out.  What!!  How could she know that??  She has a smartphone that's how.  Every time our power goes out she gets an alert on her phone.  So there Pheebs and I sat, no A/C, no computer, and no TV, etc.  If I'm not surrounded by music I have to get to a place where I am, so Pheebs and I piled into the Subaru and away we went.  Figured I might as well get my Friday morning shopping done Thursday night.  I was in Walmart's frozen foods aisle when my cell phone rang.  It was Kelly calling me to let me know our power was on.  Modern technology eh.  From Walmart I decided to take Pheebs out for supper so we headed to Wendys.  I got a very juicy burger and I judge juicyness by how much of it ends up on my shirt and pants while eating it in the car.  Let me just say....it was a very juicy burger!!  Can you spell L.A.U.N.D.R.Y.      

 ON THE WAY TO GODERICH THIS EVENING WE CAME ACROSS THIS FIELD OF BACKWARDS SUNFLOWERS

Al's Music Box:))Blue Side Of Lonesome is most famously known by the posthumous 1966 single by Jim Reeves. Reeves had previously recorded this song on his 1962 album, The Country Side of Jim Reeves. The single was Reeves' fifth posthumous release to reach number one on the U.S. country music chart. "Blue Side of Lonesome" stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of nineteen weeks on the chart.  Jim Reeves died in a plane crash on July 31rst near Brentwood, Tennesee while at the controls of his Beechcraft Debonair aircraft.  His business partner/manager, Dean Manuel also died in the crash.  In a rain storm, they were only a short distance southwest of the Nashville International Airport.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A couple had been debating the purchase of a new auto for weeks. He wanted a new truck. She wanted a fast little sports-like car so she could zip through traffic around town.  He would probably have settled on any beat up old truck, but everything she seemed to like was way out of their price range. "Look!" she said. I want something that goes from 0 to 200 in 4 seconds or less.  "And my birthday is coming up. You could surprise me."  So he thought and thought then...For her birthday, he bought her a brand-new bathroom scale!!

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- Why is the letter B so cool?  Because it’s sitting in the middle of the AC.

- A police recruit was asked during the exam, "What would you do if you had to arrest your own mother?"  He said: "Call for backup."

-The prime minister of India was at the White House.  One embarrassing moment was when President Bush said to the prime minister, 'Could you take a look at my computer?'  'I'm having some problems with it, I can't seem to get through on the tech line.'

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KELLY WENT DOWNHILL THIS MORNING AND SHE'S BACK IN LONDON'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

 PHEEBS HAD ON HER LITTLE PUPPY FACE THIS MORNING

Kelly had an okay night and didn't feel too bad when she first got up but then she went down hill fast.  She became very nauseous and weak.  We knew she was bleeding internally again.  The signs were there.  Her appointment at London's University Hospital wasn't until 1:45 but it was imperative we get there early.  If I had to call an ambulance I wanted to at least get as close to University Hospital as we could because that is where the ambulance would come from.  If I call an ambulance from the Bayfield area the ambulance would take Kelly to Goderich or Clinton where valuable time would be lost waiting and waiting, plus a later ambulance transfer to London would have to be arranged.  We've been through that scenario too many times before.  She thought if she could just throw up she would feel better and held a barf bag all the way to London.  We made it in record time and luckily I found a parking spot right out front of of the main entrance.  We didn't want to go to Emergency because she would have got lost in the long wait shuffle there.  It was important to get her up to the 4th-floor liver clinic.  Another piece of luck happened when I found an empty wheelchair in the hospital's lobby.  Minutes later I got her into the wheelchair, through the lobby, up the elevator, and into the blood clinic.  She wanted to get that done first because she knew the liver people would need that.  Minutes later I wheeled her into the liver floor waiting room which luckily is on the same floor as the blood clinic.  I told a medical person right away Kelly was very sick.  Two nurses came out to attend her.  In the meantime, I went back down the elevator, out through the lobby, and retrieved the car moving it away from the hospital entrance to an adjacent parking garage.  With Subie safely parked on the 5th floor of that Parking Garage I headed back over to the hospital and headed back up to the 4th floor.  Kelly was still where I had left her and she had a plastic bin to throw up in if she needed it.  Now began the waiting.  It was hard for Kelly sitting there because she just seemed to be getting sicker and sicker.  Finally, we got into an inner examination room.  More waiting.  Finally a Dr. Hudson came in and as soon as he saw Kelly he told her she did not look good and immediately made the decision to admit her.  I liked Dr. Hudson.  He is a 'take charge' kind of a guy  Awhile after Dr. Hudson left  Kelly could not take sitting in the wheelchair anymore.  She was in pain and feeling terribly nauseous.  A nurse came in and started an IV site in her left arm.  There was an examing bed in there so after the IV nurse left I helped Kelly to get up on that bed and lay down.  As soon as she laid down she felt a touch better.  I found some hospital scrubs on a table and put them behind her head.  There were also a couple blankets in the room so I covered her with one of those.  About 20 minutes later a porter came in and we got Kelly back into the wheelchair and away we went.  Kelly kept her purse with her on the wheelchair and I carried her overnight bag.  From the 4th floor we took a medical elevator to the 8th floor where they had found a bed for her.  I was surprised at how busy that 8th floor was and the number of medical machines, etc in the hallways.  A nurse wheeled Kelly to a room with me following.  Into a room that seemed as busy as a bee hive.  It was a 4-bed ward and 3 of those beds were already occupied by men.  Medical things were going on behind the hastily closed curtains and I immediately sensed I was in the way.  With a few adjustments to a bed a nurse got Kelly settled as another nurse came in to the small bedside space.  Things were about to happen and I knew it was time for me to get out of there.  A hasty goodbye and I was on my way down the hall trying to find out why somebody must have moved the elevators.  Long story short.....I found my way out of the hospital to the parking garage, managed to figure out the 'pay for parking' machine,  elevatored myself to the 5th floor, amazingly found the car, and somehow got myself through the maze of floors and out into the street.  What a relief, I was now back in my element.  No trouble handling the 5 o'clock rush and soon I was out into the countryside heading home.  Slipped through the Tim Hortons drive-thru in Lucan and snagged a small coffee and a carrot muffin.  It was 6 o'clock when I pulled into our driveway.  I sure had a happy little doggy waiting for me.  I called Kelly's daughter Sabra right away to give her an update.  So, that's where we are right now.  At the time of posting this tonight, I hadn't heard from Kelly so we'll see what happens tomorrow.  Pheebs has an appointment at the Zurich's Vet to get her nails trimmed in the morning so I'll be sure to get her there.

Update:: With a weak voice, Kelly called around 8 o'clock tonight.  She will undergo another endoscopy in the morning as well as an ultrasound of her abdomen.  She mentioned another possible procedure as well but I can't recall what is was..................

 IN THE WAITING ROOM OF THE BLOOD CLINIC

 ON OUR WAY FROM THE 4TH FLOOR TO THE 8TH FLOOR

 DESPITE A DIFFICULT DAY, KELLY, IN HER ROOM FLASHES HER ONLY SMILE OF THE WHOLE DAY

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'Earlier Today'::  Each night we watch the Kitchener news channel at 6 o'clock.  Last night they said there was a good chance the Aurora Borealis would be visible after dark.  About 10 o'clock last night I headed off out into the countryside hoping to see some colorful northern skies.  Nope, after waiting about twenty minutes, nothing happened.  With all the moisture (humidity) in the air I had to occasionally turn on Subie's intermittent windshield wipers to flick the gathering moisture off the windshield.  

 A FARM CAT OUT ON THE PROWL FOR MOUSES THIS MORNING

 A BABY BUNNY FEEDS ON SOME GRASS

Under a morning's cloud cover and heavy air, (98% humidity) Pheebs, Subie, and I wandered down to the end of Bayfield River Road, turned around and came right back home.  With Subie's front windows down, Moonroof open, and the A/C on we were quite comfortable.  Kinda like being halfway between the Arctic and the Tropics.  But, when we returned home from our short 20-minute drive, Kelly's condition had rapidly deteriorated.  She was suddenly feeling very weak and nauseated and she had abdominal pains.  We knew the nausea was not a good sign and probably meant she was bleeding internally again.  We quickly headed for London's University Hospital.

 AN OLD WOODEN MAILBOX

Al's Music Box:)) Drivin' My Life Away is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Eddie Rabbitt. It was released in June 1980 as the first single from the album Horizon. The song was written by Rabbitt, Even Stevens and David Malloy.  The song is a look into the life of a truck driver and the long periods of time they spend away from home.  Although many of Rabbitt's successful songs were country-pop material, "Drivin' My Life Away" began his peak popularity as a crossover artist.  In 1981, "Drivin' My Life Away" was certified gold for sales of half a million units by the Recording Industry Association of America.  It was featured on the soundtrack of the 1980 movie Roadie starring Meat Loaf and Art Carney.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( After giving the man a regular check-up and running some tests, the doctor eventually returned with three bottles. One with blue pills, one with green pills, and one with red pills.  "This is a month's supply of pills." The doctor explains. "Every morning, take one of the blue pills with a large glass of water. Every lunchtime, take one of the green pills with another large glass of water. And at bedtime take one of the red pills with another large glass of water."  Concerned with the number of pills he's going to be taking, the man asks "What's wrong with me, doctor?"  "You're not drinking enough water."

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- What is unique about Humans?

Humans are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

- Mike just found out he's colorblind and in Mike's world the diagnosis came completely out of the purple.

- What is a Pessimist?  The real-world dictionary defines a 'pessimist' as an optimist with no experience.

The district attorney stared at the jury, unable to believe the "not guilty" verdict he'd just heard. Bitterly, he asked, "What possible excuse could you have for acquitting this man?"
The foreman answered, "Insanity."
The attorney responded, still incredulous, "I could understand that, but... all twelve of you?"

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 IF NOT FOR THE DARKNESS WE WOULD NEVER SEE THE STARS

JUST IN CASE SOMETHING GOES SIDEWAYS

A better day for Kelly.  The swelling of her abdomen has not gone down but her overall discomfort has lessened and she slept a big part of the afternoon.  Our plan for today was to make it through until tomorrow when Kelly has an appointment at London's University Hospital.  At that time 'we're hoping' they will 'tap' that fluid out of her abdomen.  Why they didn't do that a week ago when she was already there in the hospital is an unknown to us.  We do know that tomorrow they will do blood work, check her hemoglobin level, and blood pressure, etc.  And, we'll take Kelly's 'overnight' bag along just in case something goes sideways and she has to remain in the hospital.

Pheebs and I again remained close to home this morning with only a short drive into Bayfield and back with a quick walk around the quiet roads of the Village's cemetery.  We narrowly escaped getting thoroughly soaked by about 30 seconds when a huge deluge of rainwater suddenly tumbled out of the sky.  We had just got back into the car and closed the door when it struck.  It rained so hard we had to have the windshield wipers on high.  The cloudburst, moving north along the coast lasted about 10 minutes.  For the rest of the day with our indoor weather station showing 91% humidity in the outside air, I wisely stayed inside!!

A Blast From Our Past:)) Received word a few days ago that a long-time blog reader and commenter we met back in early October of 2014 has passed away.  Don Sherwin was 86.  Louise, his wife wondered if we remembered meeting them nearly 10 years ago and we sure did.  I went looking for my post for that day while on our way to our house in Arizona, and here it is..... Winkler to Brandon Manitoba and on to Weyburn Saskatchewan  Every time I post one of these 'blasts from our past' it almost brings tears to my eyes because I miss our traveling winter season to the Great American Southwest so much.  Through those 13 years, we considered the United States our second home, even buying a house on an acre and a half of land in Arizona back in 2012.  It brings a sadness upon me now knowing that we will likely never again return to all our favorite spots in New Mexico, Arizona, and California.  Yes, I'm thankful we had those great years we did, but it doesn't lessen my constant yearning to return to a land and the adventurous lifestyle we so loved and looked forward to each and every one of those years.  And, just a week ago we received an email from a couple in Yuma Arizona that we've never met offering us the use of an RV pad at their new home should we ever make our way to the Southwest again someday.  We've had a number of offers over the years like that from our friendly American neighbors along the way.  Well, I had better get myself off this topic or I'm going to get myself depressed all over again.......................:((

Al's Music Box:)) Cry is a song released by the English music duo Godley & Creme on the 11th March 1985. It was included on the duo's album 'The History Mix Volume 1'. It was  Godley & Creme's lone top 40 hit in the US apart from their former band, 10cc. It reached No. 19 on the UK Singles Chart. The duo also directed the song's music video, which featured faces blended into each other using dissolving and wiping effects.  After Godley & Creme left their former band 10cc after the group's fourth album, they began writing songs for their own albums but became better known for producing music videos for other bands. Within the music video producing process, they met producer Trevor Horn, ex of the 'Buggles' and now heading his own label ZTT Records.  Godley & Creme asked Horn to produce their album but had very little material that was recording studio ready. After their first track failed to produce the required effect, Horn asked what else they had. The pair had already written the first verse of "Cry", and much as though the song came from a position – a man in a relationship where his partner lies and cheats on him – unlike 10cc's 'I'm Not in Love', it did not come from real-life experience. The three hence sat down and started writing down words and phrases that could be associated with the first verse, and then Horn put Godley in the recording booth to record them. Godley later described the song's creation process as "patchwork-like", but it worked due to its envisaged simple production.  The basic sound of the track was provided by electronic music specialist J.J. Jeczalik who used a Fairlight CMI synthesizer. Godley & Creme then created the full backing track, which was mixed and produced by Horn.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A man is dining in a fancy restaurant, and there is a gorgeous redhead sitting at the next table. He had noticed her since he sat down, but lacked the nerve to talk with her.  Suddenly she sneezes and her glass eye comes flying out of its socket towards the man. He reflexively reaches out, grabs it out of the air, and hands it back.  "Oh my, I am so sorry," the woman says as she pops her eye back in place. "Let me buy you dessert to make it up to you."  They enjoy a wonderful dessert together, and afterward, the woman invites him to the theatre.  "You know," he said, "you are the perfect woman. Are you this nice to every guy you meet?" "No," she replies...."You just happened to catch my eye.

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- Victim: "Hey, that wasn't the tooth I wanted pulled!" Dentist: "Calm yourself, I'm coming to it."

- In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence.

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A little boy greeted his grandmother with a hug and said, "I'm so happy to see you, Grandma. Now maybe Daddy will do the trick he has been promising us."  The grandmother was curious. "What trick is that my dear?" she asked.  The little boy replied, "I heard Daddy tell Mommy that he would climb the walls if you came to visit us again."

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AND, SOMETHING I WISH TO CLEAR UP

How relieved I was to see Kelly feeling a touch better first thing this morning. Her stomach was still extended but she said her weight had gone down a bit meaning the water pills were working. Her voice is still scratchy but we think it might be from both the Endoscopy and Endoscropy tubes down her throat last week. I asked her this morning what was bothering her the most and she said, weakness. Her hemoglobin numbers might be low again and she spent part of the afternoon sleeping.  A blood pressure check early this afternoon was 115/70.

 The first thing Kelly did this morning was to contact her liver transplant liaison lady, Amy at University Hospital. Amy said unless Kelly's state worsens she has made an appointment for her to see a Dr. Hudson this coming Wednesday afternoon on the liver transplant floor. Kelly has seen this doctor before and likes him. So, that's where we are today. 

 A RARE PEAR TREE ON BAYFIELD RIVER ROAD

And, there is something I wish to clear up here because I didn't make it clear in last Friday's post. Kelly didn't just walk out of University Hospital last week, she was officially discharged. As soon as she had her discharge papers in hand she didn't want to wait around until a porter was found to bring her down in a wheelchair. She was anxious to go home so she walked out under her own steam. And the reason she came out with hospital scrubs on was because she didn't have any clothes to wear. The clothes she was wearing when taken by ambulance to the Clinton hospital last Monday afternoon were ruined and she told the staff to just throw them away.  I could have taken clothes to her but she didn't want any visitors while in the hospital.

I called Aunt Jean late this afternoon and she is holding her own.  She still has no appetite and says her biggest problem is tiredness and feeling weak.  Jean's new and larger room at Sunnyside is now ready for her and she awaits notification to move in.  It could be as early as this week.     

Not straying far from home this morning in case Kelly needed me, Pheebs and I slipped out to our country road walking spot for a quick walk.  It was shortly after 9 a.m. with the heat and humidity for the day already building. Surprisingly, Pheebs popped out of the car and led the way up the road and back.  Nice to see her happy energy walking out front of me instead of her older tiredness walking behind me.

Al's Music Box:)) I'm Not In Love (a lot of time, effort and complicated production can go into a song and this one is a good example of that) I'm Not In Love is a song by British group 10cc, written by band members Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldan. It is known for its innovative and distinctive backing track, composed mostly of the band's multitracked vocals. Released in the UK in May 1975 as the second single from the band's third album, 'The Original Soundtrack', Stewart came up with the idea for the song after his wife, to whom he had been married for eight years at that point, asked him why he did not say "I love you" more often to her. Stewart said, "I had this crazy idea in my mind that repeating those words would somehow degrade the meaning, so I told her, 'Well, if I say every day "I love you, darling, I love you, blah, blah, blah", it's not gonna mean anything eventually'. That statement led me to try to figure out another way of saying it, and the result was that I chose to say 'I'm not in love with you', while subtly Having abandoned "I'm Not in Love", Stewart and Gouldman turned their attention to the track "Une Nuit A Paris", which Godley and Creme had been working on and which would later become the opening track on The Original Soundtrack album. However, Stewart noticed that members of staff in the band's Strawberry Studios were still singing the melody of "I'm Not in Love", and this convinced him to ask the other members of the group to consider reviving the song. Godley was still skeptical, but came up with a radical idea, telling Stewart, "I tell you what, the only way that song is gonna work is if we totally mess it up and we do it like nobody has ever recorded a thing before. Let's not use instruments. Let's try to do it all with voices." Although taken aback by the suggestion, Stewart and the others agreed to try Godley's idea and create "a wall of sound" of vocals that would form the focal point of the record giving all the reasons throughout the song why I could never let go of this relationship." Stewart wrote most of the melody and the lyrics on the guitar before taking it to the studio, where Gouldman offered to help him complete the song. Gouldman suggested some different chords for the melody and also came up with the intro and the bridge section of the song. Stewart said that the pair spent two or three days writing the song, which at that point had a bossa nova rhythm and used principally guitars, before playing it to Godley and Creme. Stewart recorded a version with the other three members playing the song in the studio on traditional instruments – Creme on guitar, Gouldman on bass, and Godley on drums – but Godley and Creme disliked the song, particularly Godley, as Stewart later recalled: "He said, 'It's crap', and I said, 'Oh right, OK, have you got anything constructive to add to that? Can you suggest anything?' He said, 'No. It's not working, man. It's just crap, right? Chuck it.' And we did. We threw it away and we even erased it, so there's no tape of that bossa nova version." Having abandoned "I'm Not in Love", Stewart and Gouldman turned their attention to the track "Une Nuit A Paris", which Godley and Creme had been working on and which would later become the opening track on The Original Soundtrack album. However, Stewart noticed that members of the staff in the band's Strawberry Studios were still singing the melody of "I'm Not in Love", and this convinced him to ask the other members of the group to consider reviving the song. Godley was still skeptical, but came up with a radical idea, telling Stewart, "I tell you what, the only way that song is gonna work is if we totally mess it up and we do it like nobody has ever recorded a thing before. Let's not use instruments. Let's try to do it all with voices." Although taken aback by the suggestion, Stewart and the others agreed to try Godley's idea and create "a wall of sound" of vocals that would form the focal point of the record. Stewart spent three weeks recording Gouldman, Godley and Creme singing "ahhh" 16 times for each note of the chromatic scale, building up a "choir" of 48 voices for each note of the scale. The main problem facing the band was how to keep the vocal notes going for an infinite length of time, but Creme suggested that they could get around this issue by using tape loops. Stewart created loops of about 12 feet in length by feeding the loop at one end through the tape heads of the stereo recorder in the studio, and at the other end through a capstan roller fixed to the top of a microphone stand, and tensioned the tape. By creating long loops the 'blip' caused by the splice in each tape loop could be drowned out by the rest of the backing track, providing that the splices in each loop did not coincide with each other. Having created twelve tape loops for each of the 12 notes of the chromatic scale, Stewart played each loop through a separate channel of the mixing desk. This effectively turned the mixing desk into a musical instrument complete with all the notes of the chromatic scale, which the four members together then "played", fading up three or four channels at a time to create "chords" for the song's melody. Stewart had put tape across the bottom of each channel so that it was impossible to completely fade down the tracks for each note, resulting in the constant background of vocals heard throughout the song. Composer and music theory professor Thomas MacFarlane considered the resulting "ethereal voices" with distorted synthesized effects to be a major influence on Billy Joel's hit ballad "Just the Way You Are", released two years later. A basic guide track was recorded first in order to help create the melody using the vocals, but the proper instrumentation was added after the vocals had been recorded. In keeping with Godley's idea to focus on the voices, only a few instruments were used: a Fender Rhodes electric piano played by Stewart, a Gibson 335 electric guitar played by Gouldman for the rhythm melody, and a bass drum sound played by Godley on a Moog Synthesizer which Creme had recently purchased and learned how to program. The drum sound that was created was very soft and more akin to a heartbeat, in order not to overpower the rest of the track. Creme played piano during the bridge and the middle eight, where it replicated the melody of lyrics that had been discarded. The middle eight is also the only part of the song that contains a bass guitar line, played by Gouldman. A toy music box was recorded and double-tracked out of phase for the middle eight and the outro. Once the musical backing had been completed Stewart recorded the lead vocal and Godley and Creme the backing vocals, but even though the song was finished Godley felt it was still lacking something. Stewart said, "Lol remembered he had said something into the grand piano mics when he was laying down the solos. He'd said 'Be quiet, big boys don't cry' — heaven knows why, but I soloed it and we all agreed that the idea sounded very interesting if we could just find the right voice to speak the words. Just at that point the door to the control room opened and our secretary Kathy Redfern looked in and whispered 'Eric, sorry to bother you. There's a telephone call for you.' Lol jumped up and said 'That's the voice, her voice is perfect!'." The group agreed that Redfern was the ideal person, but Redfern was unconvinced and had to be coaxed into recording her vocal contribution, using the same whispered voice that she had used when entering the control room. These whispered lyrics would later serve as the inspiration for the name of the 1980s band Boys Don't Cry.

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A Texan was taking a taxi tour of London and was in a hurry. As they went by the Tower of London the cab driver explained what it was and that construction of it started in 1346 and was completed in 1412.  The Texan replied, "Shoot, a little ol' tower like that? In Houston, we'd have that thing up in two weeks!" Next, they passed the House of Parliament - started in 1544 and completed in 1618.  "Well boy, we put up a bigger one than that in Dallas and it only took a year!"  As they passed Westminster Abbey the cab driver was silent.  "Whoah! What's that over there?" asked the Texan.  The driver replied, "I don't know, it wasn't there yesterday."

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I just changed my Facebook name to 'No one', so when I see stupid posts I can click like and it will say 'No one likes this'.

- A local church built a new sanctuary. They moved their very fine old pipe organ from to the new sanctuary. It was an intricate task that was completed successfully.  The local news heralded . . . "St. Paul Completes Organ Transplant."

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This is a true story of the late Irish author Brendan Behan who one night collapsed in a diabetic coma in a Dublin street. It was at a time when he was at the height of his drunken notoriety and passers-by naturally thought he was dead drunk. They took him to the nearby surgery of one of Dublin's most fashionable and respected doctors. The doctor decided to take a cardiograph and, somewhat nervous of his patient, thought to humor him. He explained the workings of the cardiograph needle as it registered the faint heartbeats of the very sick and semiconscious Brendan.  "That needle there is writing down your pulses, Mr. Behan, and I suppose, in its own way, it is probably the most important thing you have ever written."  To which Behan replied: "Aye, and it's straight from me heart, too."

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