{"id":9826,"date":"2020-08-17T13:17:45","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T13:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/?p=9826"},"modified":"2020-08-25T13:50:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T13:50:40","slug":"august-17-august-23-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/august-17-august-23-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"August 17 -August 23 (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:calc( 1250px + 0px );margin-left: calc(-0px \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-0px \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:0px;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:0px;--awb-spacing-left-medium:0px;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:0px;--awb-spacing-left-small:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><h3>RANDOM PIC OF THE WEEK<\/h3>\n<p>While sorting through my old slides this one came up. Back to that time when our radio station got a group of people to show up to the Sioux Falls airport to welcome Cheap Trick back to town for a concert. Good times!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ww_20200817_00.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-fusion-600 wp-image-9827\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ww_20200817_00-600x805.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ww_20200817_00-200x268.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ww_20200817_00-373x500.jpg 373w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ww_20200817_00-400x537.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ww_20200817_00-500x671.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ww_20200817_00-600x805.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ww_20200817_00-700x940.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ww_20200817_00-763x1024.jpg 763w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ww_20200817_00-768x1031.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ww_20200817_00-800x1074.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ww_20200817_00.jpg 894w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/humming\/humming.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"54\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">While listening to AM oldies this past weekend, while working on my negative and slide project, the station played the full, unedited version of Peter Frampton&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;Do You Feel Like We Do?&#8221;<\/span> I loved this album as a kid, and this song is a masterpiece. I only wish I could have been there to see it being performed live. I saw him perform in 1979 in Sioux Falls, but I don&#8217;t really recall the concert all that much. Here&#8217;s a more sedate version of the song on the classic TV show &#8220;Midnight Special.&#8221; Amazing!<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"Peter Frampton Do You Feel Like We Do Midnight Special 1975 FULL\" width=\"1250\" height=\"938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y7rFYbMhcG8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Monday the 17th \u2013 \u201cSLIDING\u201d INTO THE WEEK! \u2013<\/span> Overall it was a pretty lazy day. I spoke with my 93 year-old \u201cadopted grandma\u201d Shirley for a while, and recorded some auditions. I worked around the house, picked out 10 more movies for Shirley to watch (I bring her a new batch when she finished up the previous batch I brought her), and typed out Wally\u2019s Week. Later in the night I walked and fed Roxy, then enjoyed some hammock time on the Tranquility Annex. As soon as I got settled in I saw a shooting star \u2013 a nice way to get started! After decompressing and relaxing, I went inside to get ready to call it a day. But before bed, I spent a little time organizing my slides from my days in Sioux Falls and organized them into categories. Then I\u2019ll decide which ones to scan, along with the many negatives I\u2019m going through. But before I work with the negatives I need to get more glassine sleeves to store them in. I\u2019m waiting for the shipment to arrive which will contain about 200 sleeves.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Tuesday the 18th \u2013 VISITS???? \u2013<\/span> Well, it\u2019s the final two weeks of August, and as expected it\u2019s summertime hot! But I love it! I keep thinking of all those sub-zero freezing days from my South Dakota life and suddenly the hot weather doesn\u2019t seem too bad. I stopped by Shirley\u2019s residence to bring her another bag of movies, and noticed two elderly ladies sitting on chairs on the patio and chatting. Then they got up and headed for the front door. One lady went in, and the other lady left. At first I thought they were visiting a resident who was seated inside the building on the other side of the glass. That\u2019s the way they HAD been doing visits with residents; seated behind glass and chatting on the phone (kind of like prison). I started to think that maybe this was an in-person visit; which up to this point had been forbidden at the residence. I\u2019m going to call the residence and inquire about this. Maybe the residence decided to allow in-person visits and Shirley didn\u2019t get the memo? I drove over to my mailbox to pick up my packages, and then went over to the Ford dealership to see why my car was still creaking when I turn the steering wheel. Odd, that when it\u2019s warmed up, it doesn\u2019t do it. It only occurs when I haven\u2019t driven the car for a few days. My pal Sara met me at the dealership to pick me up and we went to Paty\u2019s to have a late lunch on the patio. It was late enough in the day where the weather had cooled off a bit. Plus the restaurant had the misters going and it felt good. It reminded me a lot of the good times in Palm Springs. Sara dropped me off at home and I spent some time on the phone with my folks and my sister Bonnie. Later I did my nightly auditions, worked around the house, and fed and walked Roxy on our late-night stroll through the neighborhood. I saw a spider catch two moths in his web right in a row! He was a busy little guy! He almost had a third one, but it escaped from the web within micro-inches! My negative sleeves still haven\u2019t arrived yet, so I spent the evening working on my slides; cataloging them and organizing them. I made hot dogs on the grill and watched another episode of \u201cThe Mod Squad.\u201d I LOVE summer and I\u2019m not quite ready to let this one go quite yet. I know everyone is longing for fall, but I LOVE summer!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Wednesday the 19th \u2013 VISITS!!!! \u2013<\/span> It had gotten slightly cooler out and was fairly pleasant for a summer day in late August. I called Shirley\u2019s residence and told them about the two elderly ladies on the patio. Kendra, the gal who works the front desk, said that in-person visits were approved about a month ago. WHAT?!!! Kendra gave me the rules for visits (once a week, a half hour at a time, outdoors, socially distanced \u2013 no hugging) and I hit my e-mail chain to let my friends know they can start booking time to visit Shirley! I called Shirley and told her the news, and she was shocked! Nobody had said anything to her or her family! I\u2019m not sure where the communication breakdown occurred, but at least my detective work paid off. The Ford dealership called and said my car needed a part that was on backorder, and it wouldn\u2019t be in until next week. So I had them come pick me up to take me to the dealership so I could have my car in the meantime. Of course the car didn\u2019t recreate the problem I was having, so the mechanics were guessing about the remedy at best. I hit Taco Bell to get some food, and then went home to do an interview on a podcast. My pal Brittney Powell came over later to hang out. I did some auditions, continued working with my slides and cataloging them, and I had a lot of fun. I\u2019m finding some hidden treasures!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Thursday the 20th \u2013 GIVE ME THOSE SLIPPERS! \u2013<\/span> The day started with a visit to my chiropractor\u2019s office for an adjustment. Since I\u2019ve been having problems with a pinched nerve for the last five months, I\u2019ve been seeking chiropractic treatment. But it would seem that I\u2019ve plateaued for now. I called a nerve M.D. in Culver City and arranged for an appointment next week to have a medical determination made to see if there\u2019s any remedy for this situation. I stopped by my mailbox to pick up my packages, and I received the newly released replicas of the Ruby Slippers from \u201cThe Wizard of Oz.\u201d They\u2019re amazing, and constructed based on the pair that are in the Smithsonian. BONUS! I got my negative sleeves! So I can start back in on my negative cataloging project! I went to the hardware store to buy some new filters for my air conditioner vent (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/august-10-august-16-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">see last week\u2019s Wally\u2019s Week<\/a>), and then headed home to unpack all my stuff and feed the pets. I set up the Ruby Slippers in my Puppet Room and they looked fantastic. My Dorothy bust is going to go on top of it for two reasons\u20261) it elevates the bust so the eyeline of the Scarecrow (who\u2019s right next to her) makes it seem like he\u2019s looking right at her, and 2) the way the lighting hits the area really illuminates the slippers nicely. I did put some stretch velvet on the underside of the fiberglass bust so it wouldn\u2019t scratch the top of the Plexiglas case that contains the slippers. Then I started in on cataloging my negatives and putting them in the sleeves. Later I did my nightly auditions, and then typed out all the catalog info for my negative collection. I made a pizza and hit the hay.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Friday the 21st \u2013 AND POOF! THEY\u2019RE GONE! \u2013<\/span> My maids arrived early in the afternoon to clean up Planet Wallywood. I organized some of my slide collection and discovered I have pages and pages of promotional slides from the movie \u201cBatman Forever.\u201d I also called Shirley\u2019s residence to make an appointment for next Tuesday morning. My pal Luke is a storyboard artist who\u2019s creating an animatic for one of the kid\u2019s stories I wrote. It\u2019s turning out VERY nicely and he\u2019s adding a lot of really great elements to it! I started in on cataloging and \u201csleeving\u201d my negatives, but sure enough I started to run out again! I have a lot of sleeves that I bought that are individual sleeves, but in a set of 9 or 10 negatives that would mean I need to splice the sleeves together to keep them all together. I don\u2019t necessarily NEED to do it that way, but I\u2019m a perfectionist. I still have a long way to go before I\u2019m finished. I\u2019m assuming that by 1983 the photo labs started including the sleeves with the negatives. But since I\u2019m only up to 1981 I still have a ways to go. I hope I can find more for sale on eBay. I fed and walked Roxy, and then came back inside to do more work with the negatives. I turned on AM oldies and listened to them while looking through my memories. It was a fun way to spend an evening! I found several negatives I want to scan because I don\u2019t have companion prints for them. One set was from a radio promotion I shot. Apparently I must\u2019ve given the set of prints to the station back in the day, and didn\u2019t keep a set for myself. So I\u2019m going to scan all of those. I made some Buffalo Mac and watched the final episode of \u201cThe Mod Squad\u201d from the final season.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Saturday the 22nd \u2013 BLU RAY BLUNDERS! \u2013<\/span> My stylist Andie came over to give me a touch up on my color (the salons STILL aren\u2019t open in California), and then I started working on my negatives again. Once I ran out of sleeve sets I decided to hold off on splicing the individual sleeves together for the nonce. I\u2019m going to see if I can find more sleeve sheets on eBay first before I start wasting a lot of Scotch tape splicing the individual sleeves together. I hopped on Instagram and chatted with a few friends. Later I decided to count the number of remaining \u2018unsleeved\u2019 negatives I still had remaining. That way I would know exactly how many more sleeves I needed to order. The last thing I wanted to do was order too many and have a lot of them left over. I counted a total of 482 negatives strips left that are unsleeved. I have 165 individual sleeves. But I found 400 sleeves sheets on eBay and ordered them. WHAT LUCK! That way I only have to splice together 82 strips at the end of the project. Instead of my usual Saturday Night Super Salad and \u201cSpace 1999,\u201d I decided to have another evening of \u201cLaurel and Hardy Theater\u201d (if you remember my ritual from 1974 watching them on TV while living in Aberdeen, South Dakota.) It was a blast watching three shorts from the \u201cLaurel and Hardy Definitive Restorations Blu Ray.\u201d I watched \u201cCome Clean,\u201d \u201cOne Good Turn,\u201d and \u201cMe and My Pal.\u201d A few pieces of fun trivia for you&#8230;.One of Laurel and Hardy\u2019s regular female foils was a terrific comedic actress named Mae Busch. The Blu Ray transfers are so clear, that in one scene featuring a close-up of Mae, it becomes very obvious that the studio in which they were filming must\u2019ve been very chilly\u2026if you take my meaning. Never saw THAT on TV as a kid! Also, I remember a piece of trivia from one of the Sons of the Desert meetings; about why Stan turns violent against Ollie at the end of \u201cOne Good Turn.\u201d Normally it\u2019s Ollie who is pushing Stan around. But because Stan\u2019s daughter Lois never liked to see Uncle Ollie pushing her daddy around in the movies, they promised her that Stan would get the upper hand in one of the films. So at the end of \u201cOne Good Turn,\u201d when you see Stan take off after Ollie and back him into a woodshed, it\u2019s all for \u201cLittle Lois.\u201d And it\u2019s hilarious!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Sunday the 23rd \u2013 EVER HAVE ONE OF THOSE DAYS WHERE YOU JUST WANT TO BEAM OFF THE PLANET?! \u2013<\/span> I always hate having \u201cradio nightmares;\u201d awful dreams about being back on the radio and nothing is going right. In these dreams I can\u2019t read the labels on the commercials, I don\u2019t recognize any of the music, I don\u2019t know how to work the controls, and other \u201clive radio\u201d chaos. This was a bad one that included a live, UNCOOPERATIVE studio audience. I got up and fed Spook, but Roxy didn\u2019t seem interested in eating. That always means she\u2019s not feeling well. But Spook ate too fast and had too much water and puked all over. Then, I found out my dryer gave up the ghost. It started THUMP THUMP THUMPING and there wasn\u2019t any heat coming out. I\u2019ve had my house 20 years this month, and the washer\/dryer combo came with the house. So the set of Kenmore appliances have put in MORE than their fair share of work. I feel that I got a good additional 10 years out of them anyway. Oh well, time to go shopping on Monday. There\u2019s a neighbor kid who loves screaming at high frequency, ear-piercing levels. Not sure why her parents don\u2019t tell her not to do that, but I can only figure that they must be hearing impaired. But her high pitched screams penetrate into the very core of my brain and rattle me. What a day. Having not eaten anything all day, Roxy puked later in the day. I tried to get her to eat something but I could barely interest her in some food. I tried to scan some slides with my photo scanner but it wasn\u2019t talking to my computer. I need to contact my computer guy to see how to get the drivers installed so I can start using it. This day could not end soon enough. Luckily my auditions went pretty well, and one audition required me to update my resume; something I hadn\u2019t done in a very long time. It was difficult remembering all of the credits I had acquired since the last resume update, but IMDB was a big help! After getting Roxy to eat a little bit, I took her out for our late-night walk. She had diarrhea again, just like a few weeks ago, so that was the perfect end to a really dopey day. But, there\u2019s a new week ahead and things will get better!<\/p>\n<p>And how was YOUR week??!!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">PIX FROM THE WEEK<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9828\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ww_20200817_01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9828\" class=\"size-fusion-600 wp-image-9828\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ww_20200817_01-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ww_20200817_01-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ww_20200817_01-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ww_20200817_01-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ww_20200817_01-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ww_20200817_01-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ww_20200817_01-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ww_20200817_01-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ww_20200817_01-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/ww_20200817_01.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thanks to my pal Sheriff John in Florida, who first made me aware that these replicas were coming, I have a groovy pair of Ruby Slippers now as part of my Oz display in the Puppet Room.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wallysweek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wallyontheweb.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}