Me, too…I think.

Cheers–

MRE 

Hey Jimmie–

Thanks for the support.  I really appreciate it.

Best–

Mike 

(They’ll give a morgage to anybody these days.)

Love your blog, Dr. Eades! Please keep it up!

Thanks, Lindsey–

I’ll keep plugging.

Best–

MRE 

Thanks, Dan.

That was probably the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. I saw it early in the morning after not sleeping for a day. It brought tears to my eyes and I figured that it was just from the lack of sleep. I watched it again later on and my response was still the same.

I can’t imagine the feeling he must have had to overwhelm an enormous crowd like that.

I did notice that he had messed up teeth and that his head looked too big for his face. I thought for sure that he was going to face a huge embarrassment on the international scale. But when he hits those notes and goes from zero to hero in 20 secs. it was mind blowing and it turned my scorn into amazement and suddenly I hated myself for initially feeling that way.

I felt that I was a government employee that had missed the world’s greatest violinist. If I had seen him on the street I would have overlooked him and never known that behind that facade resided such a beautiful voice and presence.

I posted that on my own myspace account and I’ve received more letters than I ever have from people thanking me for showing that clip.

All of this, and I’ve never really had much appreciation for opera and I’m not ashamed to say as much. I just never really acquired the taste for it. However, this still moved me in a way that was indescribable.

Hi Scott–

The opera post is back up.  I somehow had made it ‘Private,’ which happens from time to time without my knowing it.  I don’t know what key I accidentally hit or if there is a gremlin in the software, but occasionally one of the posts makes a transition from ‘Published’ to “Private’ without my knowing.  Problem is that they’re never ‘Private’ to me: I can always see them.  The only way I figure it out is if someone else tells me.  Only one other person mentioned it, and I misunderstood.  I thought he said the video didn’t work, not that the entire post was gone.  When I clicked on the video it worked fine, so whatever was wrong I figured was fixed.

Anyway, thanks for bringing it to my attention.

And thanks for the nice comment.

You wrote:

…I’ve never really had much appreciation for opera…

And I thought we brought you up better than that

Love–

Daddo 

Hi Victoria–

Thanks for your support.

Cheers–

MRE 

Another item I wanted to comment on, but can’t find it anymore, what happened to your post on the British Opera hopeful, it seems to have disappeared? The semi-final has just completed, which I watched. Both the public and the judges had to choose which two were going to make it into the final. The public vote was the first and it was Paul, so he has made it into the final on Sunday and with another superb performance. I will be watching his career with much interest and hope to be able to see him perform at some stage.

Glenice

Hi Genice–

I don’t think the post disappeared.  It should be here.

Best–

MRE

I’m glad you decided to stick with this one and I appreciate the effort you put into it to keep us informed, entertained and just plain aware of a lot of issues that otherwise we wouldn’t even consider discussing.

Keep it up!

Gabe

Thanks for the support, Gabe. 

I put i to you Sir that i am full of shite and actually have a very antithetical viewpoint to the one expressed above.

Congrats to you on this deeply auspicious day (for me 2 too as am 42!)
And thanks for the breadth of subject matter, pithy wit and alround good eggedness.

Hi Simon–

Happy Birthday!  I can remember when I turned 42…barely.

I may be a good egg, just a little scrambled.

Cheers–

MRE 

Hi Theresa–

I’ve just recently heard of Ketasyn.  Our neurosurgeon friend, Larry McCleary, has a book coming out in September about – among other things – the use of ketones for treating Alzheimer’s. 

Cheers–

MRE