A blinking cursor is driving me nuts but I tried the suggested tutorials and still can’t get it to stop. I wish I had some computer skills, but instead I’m at the mercy of this machine. It flashes pink like my eye that has only shown marginal improvement after three days of medication. The biggest problem is light sensitivity, solved with an eye patch when I run. The temperature was actually pleasant this morning as day #4949 of The Streak came and passed. I still have my sights on that 5,000 day mark that will happen in September – if the creek don’t rise. 

We’re headed to the movie theatre this afternoon for the 50th anniversary of Caberet starring Liza Minelli, Joel Gray, and Bob Fosse:

What good is sitting
Alone in your room?
Come hear the music play
Life is a cabaret, old chum
Come to the cabaret

Put down the knitting
The book and the broom
It’s time for a holiday
Life is a cabaret, old chum
Come to the cabaret

Come taste the wine
Come hear the band
Come blow your horn
Start celebrating
Right this way your table’s waiting

What goods permitting
Some prophet of doom?
To wipe every smile away
Life is a cabaret, old chum
So come to the cabaret

I used to have this girlfriend known as Elsie
With whom I shared for sordid rooms in Chelsea
She wasn’t what you’d call a blushing flower
As a matter of fact she rented by the hour

The day she died the neighbors came to snick her
Well, that is what comes from too much pills and liquor
But when I saw her laid out like a queen
She was the happiest corpse I’d ever seen                                    I think of Elsie to this very day
I remember how she’d turned to me and say

“What good is sitting”
“All alone in your room?”
“Come hear the music play”
“Life is a cabaret, old chum”
“Come to the cabaret”

And as for me, huh
And as for me
I made my mind up back in Chelsea
When I go… I’m going like Elsie

Start by admitting
From cradle to tomb
It isn’t that long a stay
Life is a cabaret, old chum
It’s only a cabaret, old chum
And I love a cabaret…

Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: John Kander / Fred Ebb
Cabaret lyrics © Trio Music Company, Alley Music Corp., Times Square Music Publications Company, Trio Music Company Inc., Trio Music Co., Inc.