This week, the Sunapee Kearsarge Intercommunity Theatre group present John Patrick's delightful comedy "The Curious Savage" in Warner, New Hampshire.

Performances are:

• Thursday, May 1st - 8pm
• Friday, May 2nd - 8pm
• Saturday, May 3rd - 8pm
• Sunday, May 4th - 2pm
• Sunday, May 4th - 6pm

Tickets are $10 each and can be purchased at the MainStreet BookEnds in Warner.

There!   That's my part done.   A wee bit of advertising.

My Dahlin' husband Georg, however, Has a Lot More to Do!   Nightly rehearsals followed by 5 performances.   His acting debut.   A planned announcement regarding his retirement from acting.   His farewell speech.   Then, no doubt, maybe months from now, maybe sooner, an announcement that he is coming out of retirement.   All with dramatic flair, of course.

Life with the AckTOOR (not to be confused with a common actor) has been interesting at best.   I have witnessed a transformation.   The highly regarded & respected Sun Microsystems Senior Staff Engineer & business man has shown a new side.   He is learning stage presence.   He is applying dramatic effects and nuances to his speech & movement.   He has picked up "AckTOOR Speak" and concerns himself with "blocking", "technical reviews", notes, set & lighting, and of course getting into character and having a back story for his character.   Georg IS Judge Samuel Savage.   And, maybe because it is a comedy, Georg has been a bit more goofy than usual.

Life is a drama.   And a huge giggle.   That's cool.

Break a leg, Georg!   And have fun!

Sitting at a desk all day can be a real pain.   Literally.   Sitting for hours without moving more than the mouse and the coffee mug only helps to create a stiff back.

For someone like myself who wants to be able to jump onto a dressage horse in the evening and float around an arena in sychronised motion with the horse, a stiff back can swiftly become a painful back.

In August 2004, I wrote about the exercise ball I was using as a chair in the Bagshot office in the UK.   It was a joy.   However, since moving to the USA, I have not found a ball big enough to use with my new desk...   and I'm not likely to buy another new desk.   So, I guess I allowed my back to get ouchy.   Until....

....Fed up, I started looking for a solution and lo and behold, I learned that the concept of using balls as chairs has become more widely accepted.   Others had found the joy of ball chairs.   And new designs had been dreamt up.   Browsing the web, I found one design that looked simply perfect.

In the end, I selected BIndependent, a company that specialises in "Solutions from the Net's only store created by and for brain injury survivors & families", as my supplier.   They sell this ball chair as well as tons of other cool things.

My new ball chair arrived last week, Georg assembled it quickly, and today, for the first time in 3 years, I am truly sitting comfortably again.   I am raised up to an ergonomically correct height while sitting on a flexible ball that allows me to wiggle, lightly bounce, and simply keep my back moving a bit.   And, I'm on wheels as well!

My back is already happier.   What a relief!