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Been doing some care-giving lately. Illness in the family. Also purging songs that apparently lost the license to be sung here in singsnap, which by the way continues to add only ten or so songs every week to ten or fourteen days, and none of them seem to be the kind I like to sing. No Broadway Musicals. Miss them, for I've sung most of the ones available here. But then again, I'm kinda particular about what songs I sing.

Interesting that I had already gone to as many as 1100 songs and after purging all the ones that lost the licenses---which I did today---I'm back down to having sung only 836. This will give me a chance to celebrate my 1000th song all over again...LOL...

;-) Makes me want to wink.

Makes me mad to delete songs I've sung and put effort into only to find out that they've lost the license now and can't be played. Oh well...

About weekly goals:

They get harder to accomplish.

I haven't accomplished any of the weekly goals listed below...but I will...even if takes me another hundred years. I plan to live five hundred more, if no asteroids or comets hit the earth before.

I love most Broadway music, and I sometimes get inspired to write fiction. Starting a novel (again) by seeing where several short stories I wrote actually fit in a longer piece of work.

I think Mario Lanza was the greatest singer I've ever heard.

I loved and love Joni James, Tony Bennett, Vic Damone, Frank Sinatra, Al Martino, Glenn Miller, Ray Anthony, and Harry James songs. Joni James, while I was in college, was like a sweetheart to accompany me in lonely nights.

My list of best five songs ever: Stardust, All The Way, All The Things You Are, Stranger in Paradise, With a Song in My Heart. There maybe others that may compete to get in that list. As I wrote this, those are the five that first came to mind. There is, for example, Again (Billy Eckstine), I Apologize (Billy Eckstine), This Nearly Was Mine (South Pacific), If I Loved You (Carrousel), and so on. September Morn, by Neil Diamond, is very special to me.

Doris Day has always been great, sweet, and lovely. She was the top draw of the fifties, and I'll always remember her songs for they remind me of great moments in my life.

Gordon McRae and Shirley Jones were the best couple for great musicals on the screen.

Sure wish SS would consider more ballads and Broadway songs.

Some contests are more popularity contests than anything else.

Plans for this week (I'll keep doing them for the rest of my llife, I think).

Today I'm going to try something different: sky diving. Talk to you when (and if) I get back...I've also got a list of things to do for the rest of this week:

1/ Take a ride in a new kind of flying saucer.

2/ Dive with a sperm whale to the bottom of the Marianas Trench.

3/ Ride the wave of a tsunami across the Pacific Ocean.

4/ Ride a laser guided bomb right into you know who's gut and wipe him out for good...but I get to live to tell..

5/ Make a trip to the past on my Time Machine (Borrowed it from H. G. Wells). Maybe I'll go back to Neanderthal times and recruit a few for the new TV series about them.

6/ Produce my own musical for the movies, a la forties and fifties.

7/ Discover human life in another solar system.

8/ Use seaweed to rid the atmosphere of CO2.

9/ Ride an elephant over the Alps.

10/ Take the Polar Express to wherever it goes.

11/ Travel into a Black Hole and live to tell...

12/ Fly a Star Wars fighter airplane around a Death Star.

13/ Have a light-sword fight with Darth Vader...I can beat him.

14/ Find Excalibur and pull it out of the rock...I just may be King Arthur.

15/ Meet Al Gore (and beat him, of course) in a debate about Global Warming. What a quack that guy is!!!!

16/ Find a gold mine under my house.