It's been one of those mornings.
At ten to nine, I played a little Mahjong on my laptop.
Nine fifteen, I stop playing, thinking "it's time to go to the physiotherapist now." My appointment is at 9:30.
Then I realize I'm hardly dressed right. I change quickly, discocer it's almost 9:25. I remove the bags from my bicycle, jump on and scoot
towards my PT.
At 2/5 of the road, my chain comes off.*
So I raced back as fast as I could, stepping forward and doing even a little running, and then I used my dad's bicycle.
I was still on time! And exhausted.
*In my younger years, the city-bike I had used to have that problem all the time, and I eventually learnt to fix such problems without having to step
down. But my current two-wheeler is older than me. It's very retro and had all these neat old features, like old-timey stickers, oldfashioned
tyres, old saddle and a fabric chain cover.
The saddle and tyres have been replaced. The chain cover is an almost obsolete part of a bicycle, it makes sure your trousers don't get into the
sprocket or dirty from the chain. But it's a neat gizmo. It's wrapped tightly around the support that is around the chain, and it closes
with a shipload of metal rings and long iron pins.
Unfortunately that means that, if your chain comes off, putting it back on is a monstrous task.
I tried a hand at it myself this time. It took well over an hour, and my hands were (and still are, even after all the Hand Cleaner Red and white
spirit) jet black. My chain is in the right place again. It was badly stuck, and miserably rusty. But it's back up there.
However, I tore up the fabric pretty bad in the process. I could perhaps fix it with ducktape, or sew it, but it's lost that old-fashioned spirit
and I'm thinking of wrecking it off.Huck_Phlem - 7-6-2010 at 06:19
Sometimes I wish I had a chain guard for my bike. Never gets stuck but it dirties my pants sometimes.polydigm - 7-6-2010 at 23:51
The last line of drugs just kept me hovering and things wouldn't turn back so 9:00AM Sunday they started surgery for over three hours. There were
several possible complications with this, all of which turned out with the ideal outcomes. Sunday was a long, gruelling day, but by late evening,
things started to settle, with help from painkillers of course. Early Monday morning I was wondering how far I might be able push it that day and the
nurses appeared and almost dragged me to the shower. It was the best shower I've ever had in my life. Yesterday I ate three square meals and
relished in foods I haven't been able to eat in a long time. I'll get back to you later as it's 8:20 AM Tuesday and I'm about to
tuck into breakfast.BBP - 8-6-2010 at 07:41
That's good news Poly! I'm glad the surgery makes you feel better (well, eventually... I know what it's like now and I'm glad
I'm not in your shoes). Bon appetit!punknaynowned - 8-6-2010 at 22:51
great to see ya on the other side Poly!
Eat Drink and Be Merry!!Calvin - 9-6-2010 at 03:06
Did they implant a sense of humor? Hehe
Hope you feel better.polydigm - 9-6-2010 at 13:58
Well, it wasn't all smooth sailing. I had a setback yesterday, which was one of food management only, all physical signs of the surgery have
progressed well throughout, although that wasn't always clear to me, and I had a hell of a day and night yesterday. We got carried away with the
food and I got quite ill. That seems to be back on track and we're going a bit slower this time. I should be out within the week.
Thanks for everyone's good wishes. A sense of humour wasn't part of the surgery and I'm happy with the one I've got, thanks Cal,
just as I'm sure you're happy with yours.
[Edited on 9-6-10 by polydigm]MTF - 9-6-2010 at 20:57
Hey Bonny: aren't you glad you decided to use BBP as your user name, instead of just BP?polydigm - 10-6-2010 at 04:07
Coming up to lunch today and things are going well.BBP - 10-6-2010 at 08:59
Well... part of the reason why I didn't want to use BP is the link to the gas station, of course. I was very fond of BP because of their name,
and I was gutted they changed their old logo into that stupid flower "to give them a more environmental image". It's a PETROL company
for crying out loud!
We've had elections here. Bad news for the left wingers, but at least prime minister Butterfingers bites the dust.polydigm - 11-6-2010 at 14:33
Late in the evening the following day and things have continued to improve. I have really been enjoying myself doing a variety of activities moving
toward full recovery. The food problem, as horrible as that was at the time, did not prevent my healing to continue at a very good rate. Thus my
proposed discharge date has only been delayed by one day and I should be home next Tuesday.
The really good news is that in the case of my disease, the surgery is a complete cure and I will be getting my life back in full with a bonus, which
is the knowledge that something which has plagued the majority of my life in progressively worse ways until the last attack which came very close to
killing me is now completely gone. It's probably genetic, my father has it, but he's 87 now and his never got serious.
This last attack began late March. I was trying the usual medications to deal with it and it was out of hand by the 9th May when I went into hospital
the first time for a week. Nothing really changed when I got back home and ended up back in hospital on 27th May where further drug treatments were
unsuccessful. Basically, my life came to a standstill on 9th May and stayed there until I accepted the decision for a very scary surgery with many
attendant risks of failure, which took place on the 6th June and I've come out the other side.
I'm still getting my head around it as you can imagine.MTF - 12-6-2010 at 02:39
That's pretty cool, Poly. Surgery is always scary, but to know that it's over and it worked is certainly a big load off your mind.
Congratulations! :bouncy::bouncy::bouncy::bouncy::bouncy::bouncy:aquagoat - 12-6-2010 at 21:31
recover well, poly! :roll:BBP - 13-6-2010 at 10:04
Been patting everybody's back here lately. A colleague of mine (that French cutie I used to train) has a brother who's just been operated on
a nasty tumor, and since I'm the only French-speaker at my work I'm the only one that can sorta talk to him. Poor guy, he must be so
lonely...
Mybest friend came over to visit yesterday, but he's going through some hard times too, and the same goes for my grandmother who phoned
yesterday... and there's my ownshoulder which often needs patting... geez. I need some smiles here.polydigm - 13-6-2010 at 16:38
Thanks for everyone's good wishes.
I came home yesterday, it was a very big day for me of course and the first thing I did was play the guitar. I've got a lot of strength to get
back which will happen soon enough but I was surprised at what I was able to play. I had a go at the piano this morning and that's coming back
too. The sax will have to wait a bit, I still can't do a full bodied cough let alone blow into a saxophone. It's good to be back home with
my family.BBP - 13-6-2010 at 17:28
Great to hear you're home, Poly! Enjoy your music!punknaynowned - 14-6-2010 at 06:18
the last couple weeks I have seen a lot more of my older friends than I have in a while.
One I hadn't seen in eight years, the other in almost two years.
One seems to be in a good place, though she was here on a kind of vacation and only for a day. Great to catch up again after so long.
The other looks to be a new friendship, or now perhaps a chance to more better get to know. Spent the whole afternoon running around and talking at
looking at this and that, let the random places in town get our attention. Fun. This also involves spending more time downtown which means running
into more people. So I run into many more people who say 'Hey! I haven't seen you in awhile. Can I come over and visit?"
So attendant days of guests. Conversation and eats and cigarettes and coffee. Like the olde days all over again. Conversation that zigs and zags.
I have a small downtown area within walking distance. Shops and streets, pedestrian traffic and people walking up and down on mild summer days.
People watching Saturday afternoons. Watching the bourgeois stream in a blue sky town.
My kind of 'Waterloo Sunset'BBP - 15-6-2010 at 16:49
Aw that's great Punky!
My friend of 13 years came to visit me on Saturday. At least my ankle has incited him to visit me more often!
Today I hit the town for a Father's Day gift. And I came home with three bras and three DVDs for myself.polydigm - 15-6-2010 at 23:07
Just passing and saying hi. Things are going well with me. Best wishes to everyone.
Bonny, that's a very familiar shopping tale to me. BBP - 16-6-2010 at 08:19
You buy bras? :shocked:polydigm - 16-6-2010 at 18:29
I thought that joke would turn up. I meant that I've been shopping for others before and ended up buying stuff for myself instead.punknaynowned - 16-6-2010 at 23:06
hahahhahha
today I went to our local 'microbrewery' where I met up with an old friend to give them a dozen zappa cd's. I had burned a bunch of
things to give him a sense of the zappa world in the last ten years. And talked about zappateers.
I ran into a bunch of people I used to know and one of them gave me a pair of tickets to see a jazz combo Sunday at the place where zpz played last
week. He said he could have used my help running stage crew for that show!!!
So I missed out on that entirely :crying:
but get to see a free show next week. :bouncy:
Some people would say I need to get out more often,
but most of the time, I'd say I show up just in time.:biggrin:
[Edited on 16-6-10 by punknaynowned]BBP - 18-6-2010 at 07:31
Well,if you know the joke's coming, Poly...
Oh man, it wouldve been awesome to work on ZPZ! Hey, maybe I could do that! I still need a ticket to Melkweg btw.polydigm - 20-6-2010 at 02:05
Don't worry Bonny, it was obvious you were only joking. I wanted to say I related to your tale, I just forgot to specify which part.
Moving on, it's just after breakfast time here in OZ, another day after a patchy sleep which is none the less getting much easier now. I got
through yesterday without so much as a single paracetamol and I had a major epiphany about my piano playing early on before breakfast while
practicing. To attempt to progress with it, I've used a fairly classical method with all the attendant pre 20th C pieces thrown in and always
gave up after getting bored with the process. I don't know what made me think it was a good way to go about it. I don't want to push that
stuff into my head any more.
On the guitar, I've always been self taught and have only rarely ever played any pre 20th century stuff and mostly my own work as I've
developed as a composer. In fact my progress on the guitar has been integral with my progress as a composer. All this has been knitted together from a
fairly extensive personal library of books about music theory ranging from the rudiments through increasingly complex levels of diatonic composition
and then serial music and beyond into the rest of the 20th century. I eventually reached a point where the books became only reference material, as
carving out my own sonic domain became my main mode of operation. There's still quite a variety of musical discipline going on in there as well.
Anyway, it occurred to me yesterday, why am I not playing the piano using exactly the same methods in principle as I use on the guitar? That's
what I started doing fairly soon after I started the saxophone earlier this year. On the sax I only play my own stuff and a couple of Zappa tunes. The
upshot with the piano? All the classical books are now permanently shelved and my progress is taking my breath away. I'm already playing things
on the piano I wouldn't have considered possible previously and coming up with some new arrangements of my pieces. Right now I'm well into
working on an arrangement of, and playing, the Fillmore East version of Little House I Used To Live In. It's great fun and I'm now highly
motivated because the piano will do much more for me in the arrangement department than the guitar.
The only thing I don't do is sight read my instruments, but I can read music and pick up parts for them very quickly. I've also developed my
music writing ability to quite a high level, somewhat untidy with a pencil, but I love physically writing it. I do most of my work with scoring
software, but it's not always convenient to use and I've always got score paper, pencil and eraser about the place.
Well, that was a bit of a long one but I couldn't wait to tell people about it. Hope this finds everyone well.BBP - 20-6-2010 at 11:32
That's great news! I love the piano for all the same reasons,although with a guitar it's much easier to play in a different key. I primarily
play classical music on it though. But I love classical music so it's not a bad idea. Among the pieces I'm currently working on, is one of
my favourites: Chopin's waltz no 7 in C sharp minor.
(besides that, there's Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, the Ave Maria prelude, the infamous menuet, Mozarts Rondo Alla Turca,
Beethoven's 14th piano sonata op 27/2 first movement, Greensleeves, and maybe a few pop songs I play every once in a while. I'm pretty upset
now that I let my playing slip so badly. I've had to start over again, re-study songs I never had any trouble with.)polydigm - 23-6-2010 at 02:07
Quote:
Originally posted by BBP: That's great news! I love the piano for all the same reasons,although with a guitar it's much easier to
play in a different key.
I disagree, because even though the guitar presents you with symmetric key changes, they still sit
differently within similar pitch ranges, give you a wide variety of different possibilities for pull offs to open strings, etc and you still need to
know them very well individually ti get the most out of them. I know certain keys really well like E, F, F# G, A, Bb, B, C and D in many of their
major, minor, modal, chromatic scale variations and chord progressions but when I go to other keys I lose track. I'm talking about improvisation
there, with fixed compositions that I learn it's no problem, I can do that equally well in any key, which is where I would agree with you.
On the piano, there's a logic with the pattern of black and white keys, which, even though the keys are very unsymmetrical makes them easy to
pick out. Okay, having a black key as a root note is more difficult than having a white one, but there are techniques you can develop to minimise
that.
Quote:
Originally posted by BBP: I'm pretty upset now that I let my playing slip so badly. I've had to start over again, re-study songs I
never had any trouble with.)
I know exactly what you mean, that's my main reason for changing the way I go about it from the
bottom up, because I don't intend ever to give it up again. I started playing about 17 years ago in order to help my daughter who was 8 at the
time and having piano lessons and then after she gave up I continued only to fall into a pattern of giving it up out of boredom. My current level of
playing certainly does not indicate even a third of that time in experience.polydigm - 23-6-2010 at 02:12
Anyway, yesterday's noteworthy was me driving our van around the the block, exciting hey? I won't be driving on main roads yet for some
time. Today is just unfolding, I'll probably go for another walk at some point and do some guitar and piano practice in the mean time. At some
point I have to start getting my head back around what I teach at school and do some preparation in advance to help ease my way back in.polydigm - 23-6-2010 at 02:20
Now for the momentous post. This one's noteworthy right now.
Ta!! Da!! Geoff reaches 500 posts on the
Goose!!BBP - 23-6-2010 at 08:15
Wow Geoff! (APPLAUSE)
In the mean time therapy is going well, although my ankle gave me some trouble last week. And I'm trying to get a game to run, with help from a
programming friend off the Sierra forum. He's great!polydigm - 24-6-2010 at 02:09
So, Bonny, how much time do you think from today until total recovery? And, please remind me of the date of your operation. I hope it's going
well.BBP - 24-6-2010 at 07:38
The tumble and the operation were on February 3rd. Prognosis is it won't be as flexible as it used to be, but we're already diminishing the
physical therapy. Maybe a month but I really can't be sure.BBP - 26-6-2010 at 08:36
Yesterday I uploaded the zip file of the game I'm trying to get to run, so my scripting friend can help out. Isn't that nice? Okay, so
uploading the first disc took two hours.punknaynowned - 26-6-2010 at 09:13
That IS nice. I would volunteer but, of course I have no idea how to do that.
Spent 152 minutes on the phone with the IRS -- our tax collection service here.I talked to 5 people and was on hold for nearly 60 minutes. 152
minutes equals about $30 worth of minutes on the phone. And now I have to wait two more weeks to get more paper work, fill that out and then they will
bill me. It may be $1200 or more. First time that's ever happened. I guess I must live and learn.BBP - 26-6-2010 at 19:10
Dad and I went to visit an architecture day in Eindhoven. Five normally closed buildings would be open. Besides the old textile building (OK, the tour
sucked, he knew next to nothing and let us all try to find the exit ourselves, although it was a total maze) and the old art museum, it was rather
disappointing. We went to get icecream afterwards.
And I just narrowly avoided a disaster. I slipped down the stairs. But I escaped with just a few scratches.BBP - 27-6-2010 at 15:20
Dad'll be gone for the next three days... hum.aquagoat - 28-6-2010 at 17:15
Party tiiiiiiiiiiiiiime !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:bouncy::bouncing::roll:BBP - 28-6-2010 at 20:21
Oh you bet! (makes a jump to the left...) Cooked myself a nice meal today. And I had therapy again, chatted with ma therapist about football. And he
gave me advice on how to improve my running, as I can't run while using my regular foot movement yet. That hurts like hell.
So he adviced me to run slowly, touching the ground with the front of my feet only. Unfortunately it means running gets rather "springy",
and I don't have any underwear that can... ahem... soften the blow, so it'll be an indoors activity. Ho hum.
And I cleared the piano. Man it's off-key! Beethoven's op 27/2 sounds much better on piano, though. Even if it's off-key.polydigm - 29-6-2010 at 00:35
Hey Bonny, I can relate to the stair fall, I fell off a step ladder a week back and bruised my wrist and ankle and luckily managed not to damage any
of my surgery. An overconfident momentary lapse of reason. That snapped me out of it I can tell you. What was I doing up a step ladder only two weeks
after surgery, well .... ?!
Anyway, had my first checkup at the hospital yesterday and as I've been driving to local shops for a couple of days now and dropped my sons off
at their Saturday sport games, I drove into the hospital. When I got there, I found what should have been a perfect park but some dick head had parked
right across the line into the space and there were motor scooters parked right up against the other side. I was driving our Volkswagen Transporter
Van and just squeezed in so the dick head would have to get in through his passenger door, a minor inconvenience after what he'd done.
When I came back, having realised earlier I'd forgotten to pay and display, I saw something blowing in the wind under the windscreen wiper and
thought I'd been fined. But, when got to it, I found a scrap of paper with a note scrawled on it, "Are you a dick head, mate?".
Hilarious.
Anyway, they were very happy with my progress at the hospital and happy for me to be driving again, with a warning to avoid activities like gardening
and any heavy lifting until at least 6 weeks after surgery and even then I'll have to wear this special elastic waste band when playing tennis
and so on, which is cool by me, 19 days to go and counting.
On the music front, my guitar speed is back and I'm now playing the fast parts of Echidna's Arf fairly accurately on the electric. The
acoustic is still a bit hard on my fingers, but getting better. The piano's coming along in leaps and bounds and I've started working on a
book of Cool Jazz tunes. Still no saxophone, it's killing me.
And, I've started learning French again, with a vengeance this time, but not using text books, just reading books, starting with a fairly
advanced young person's book about Monsieur et Madame Curie along with a comprehensive pronunciation guide using sound samples and a
comprehensive Grammar guide, both downloaded from the internet and a French - English dictionary which also has pronunciation and grammar guides to
cross check with. Similar principle to how I'm approaching the piano now. I did do four years of French at high school so the foundation is in
there already and I'm having a lot of fun with it. It's a damn complicated language, though. I want to able to speak to my Mum in French and
also email my French relatives.BBP - 29-6-2010 at 07:53
Tee hee! That's fun... then again, the "asshole" is also parked at the hospital. Maybe the passenger needed much space for a wheelchair
to roll up the side.
The thing about French (which I did for six years in high school, I was great at it but barely half a year after I graduated I found it had slipped
very badly) is that grammatically it's a lot easier than Dutch or German. With possible exception of verb conjugation, but that's pretty
nasty in the Germanic languages as well.
My problem is with listening. It goes very, very fast, and half of the letters you read are swallowed by the speaker.BBP - 1-7-2010 at 08:03
Today? Dad's coming back. I promised I'd try to clean the living room a little, but it didn't work.BBP - 2-7-2010 at 17:10
:bouncing:Netherlands beats Brazil!aquagoat - 3-7-2010 at 07:17
yeah, congratulations!!MTF - 3-7-2010 at 08:39
Uruguay beats Ghana!!!
(well, somebody cares...)polydigm - 4-7-2010 at 00:54
Germany annihilates Argentina!!!!aquagoat - 4-7-2010 at 09:17
I beat my wife. :devil:BBP - 4-7-2010 at 10:29
Hey! Did you get married without telling us?
Dad had organized a BBQ with some 120 former employees of one of his old companies. I came along to help out and make some photos. So we're both
totally exhausted today.aquagoat - 4-7-2010 at 12:34
no, no wedding.BBP - 5-7-2010 at 18:08
Every person performs a part in the play called Life.
Today my part was The Git Who Forgets To Weigh His Apples At The Supermarket.BBP - 7-7-2010 at 09:28
Having a hard day today... and yesterday too... discovered I didn't just miss out on Les Claypool and Pat Metheney and Mozart's Requiem, but
also on another of my favourite groups, DAAU. I was so looking forward to seeing them again, their 2006 album Domestic Wildlife was on every day for
ten months.
And now it looks like I can't make ZPZ either. I definitely can't get the day off.punknaynowned - 7-7-2010 at 10:34
the first thing I thought when I realized I could not go this year was, "Well, I can't do everything I want to."
and the next was, "I should get a show via bittorrent any day." And I did.
Depressed thoughts of not 'being with the others' floated away.
:umm:punknaynowned - 7-7-2010 at 10:36
If I lived there and had a way to go, you certainly would not miss it.BBP - 7-7-2010 at 13:37
I guess I'm going to take up a suggestion by SabreTooPhairy. Yes, shoot me. I'm going to bring my bicycle on the train with me.
The thing with that OV stuff I'm nagging about on the Zappa-forum: It's an awful system, currently it's only obligated in Rotterdam and
Amsterdam. You buy this plastic credit card, load it with money.
If you want to travel by bus or streetcar, you have to wave the card past the reader until it beeps, then there's 4 euros taken from your credit,
and at the arrival point you check out, and the money minus the travelling fee is restituted on your account. Travelling fee is 78 cents per kilometer
(roughly 0.65 miles).
The Melkweg is not that close to Amsterdam Central Station. It's 2.1 km.
OV will round that up to 3 km.
If I want to go to Melkweg by public transport, I will need E 6.34 at least. The trip costs E 4.68 altogether, and the remaining money will probably
stay on that card for the next five years.
Plus buying an anonymous card costs E 7,50 anyway.punknaynowned - 8-7-2010 at 11:43
:drums:BBP - 9-7-2010 at 11:53
Off in a few minutes... Whee!polydigm - 11-7-2010 at 06:22
Oh well, I'm back at work in a week. That's kind of awesome, exciting and dreadful all at once. I'm sure I'll be fine, but it
crept up real quick. Everything else is going well with me, I've got my guitar chops back. I'm regaining some muscle definition and looking
less like a starving refugee with every day.BBP - 11-7-2010 at 11:21
That's great news Poly! Hang in there!BBP - 12-7-2010 at 11:06
Had several gallons of rain poured over me. Tonight Dweezil is playing an open-air venue nearby. Hmmm?
(contemplates on going)BBP - 12-7-2010 at 17:17
Too late to leave now...
Bought the new DAAU last Wednesday, but it turned out to be a let-down. Only listened to the first two tracks so far. That took 25 excruciating
minutes. Man, I
was looking forward to that album, considering DAAU's 2006 album didn't leave the CD-player for ten months, but to have spent a large amount
on a fancy wooden jewelcase...BBP - 14-7-2010 at 12:47
I've tarted to miss Peccary, so I've knitted him a little brother.BBP - 18-7-2010 at 10:06
This place is getting a little quiet now... I've discovered some files on my favourite game, Gabriel Knight 3, that are on the disk but not in
the game, and these files suggest that a large section was cut. So I've been puzzling that out. It's very rewarding!DED - 19-7-2010 at 17:35
On the flea market where BBP did not bought the painting I bought a old 45
Somewhere in the eighties it was a tophit in Holland.
Sometimes we as a nation fell for a stupid song.
This one is called Bloody Mary. The title suggests that you can understand the lyrics, but then you are in error.
The song is made and performed by 2 Dutch streetmusicians and is about the female pirate Bloody Mary who can drink and fight like a man. At the end
of the song it will be clear that she can drink and fight but was unable to swim. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_ARWZPkGtspolydigm - 20-7-2010 at 02:08
Oh well, sorry folks, but I'm back in hospital again. This time it's a post surgery complication that can occur five to six weeks after the
surgery. Basically it's a blockage in my small intestine. I've been back in here a week now. I'll skip the details, but apparently in a
reasonable majority of cases these blockages sort themselves out so we're waiting to see at the moment.
This up and down thing is getting a bit weary but I'm trying to stay positive.
I hope everyone else here is doing well.BBP - 20-7-2010 at 07:47
Oh dear, dear Poly! I hope you'll be back on your feet soon... (hugs)aquagoat - 20-7-2010 at 10:17
recover well and come back soon, poly! :bouncy:polydigm - 21-7-2010 at 04:32
Thanks for your wishes Bonny and Aqua. I'm able to keep fairly busy while I'm in here, I've got my laptop and my French books and so
on. The thing is that I'm actually quite healthy besides the blockage so at least I'm not laid out feeling sick like I was before the
surgery. I go for several walks and sit up in a chair working in between. It's driving me mad not being able to eat though.
Anyway, I'm trying to maintain a positive demeanour and succeeding fairly well.BBP - 22-7-2010 at 07:48
I'm sure glad to hear you're feeling OK... poor Poly!
There was a huge fire not far from here, at a plastic disposal factory. It caused a huge black cloud that could be seen from tens of kilometers away.
Trying to get life to go on as hard as it is, so I went to my physical therapist today. He's a lovely guy. He told me he had a problem with the
cruise control and as a result, bumped his car into a tree. He decided to buy a new one instead of getting repairs, as that would be too costly.Huck_Phlem - 30-7-2010 at 07:49
A new cruise control? :PBBP - 31-7-2010 at 07:20
Jokes like that are beyond me. I know nothing about cars. Except that the brake is in the middle.
I'm off to The Hague again, to bring my dad the steamer. Unfortunately if he'd done that a day later I could've used the coupons the
Dutch Railways sent me, but noooo.BBP - 1-8-2010 at 18:52
Dad and I are back home and back in business.
My neck hurts. I think it was from yesterday's bird-watching extravaganza.BBP - 4-8-2010 at 07:13
I just had a very creepy mail in my in-box. Looks like a love letter from somebody who watched my Frankenstein: Through The Eyes Of The Monster
playthrough. Help!!BBP - 5-8-2010 at 08:30
Went to Youtube and saw that my video count of yesterday was over 700 views! :shocked:
Went to see how. It was caused by the video "Chloe Gets Murdered" from my Voyeur walkthrough.
Went to check out the site but decided to go no further than the welcome page. :shocked::shocked::shocked:punknaynowned - 5-8-2010 at 14:19
hi!
I didn't go thru farther than the front page either
but if the front page is any indication
AND if your game walkthrough's title 'Chloe gets murdered' is any indication,
maybe they used the game scenes for some game they were playing amongst themselves. A plausible and harmless guess.
Secondlife advocates are found a lot in graduate school as well. You said at the other place that the person that emailed you was both a teacher and
a student. That usually means 'graduate student' here. Learning higher level stuff in their discipline while teaching lower level students
in same discipline.
Never heard of a 'dying girl' fetish, most people here can't wrap their head around the idea of "Dead Girls of London",
either.Calvin - 6-8-2010 at 05:21
Well, I went beyond the front page to see if I could find why your video got so many hits, but couldn't find anything. It's definitely weird
stuff and I don't think I'll be visiting it again.BBP - 6-8-2010 at 08:01
That's the Google cache.Calvin - 10-8-2010 at 01:08
Ah, it was the youtube link only. That's why I couldn't find it.BBP - 11-8-2010 at 07:07
Absolutely nothing extraordinarily happened over the past few days. On one hand I can use my rest, but on the other hand it's ****ing boring.DED - 11-8-2010 at 21:01
If you areboard you can scan hundreds of pictures.
Esp picture of the period 1977 upto 1984BBP - 12-8-2010 at 13:47
Ehm... no... I just watched that Hitchcock BBC aired, called Stagefright. And I went to the physical therapist.BBP - 14-8-2010 at 21:23
Life's normalizing slowly here. Today I had a flat tire on my newspaper round. :freak:
Anyway that's repaired, and while we're waiting for the car to get fixed, we often have to go grocery shopping by bicycle.
It's been a long day... time for bed!aquagoat - 14-8-2010 at 23:11
bed is always good, it's the safest place out there.BBP - 15-8-2010 at 10:06
Not from the nightmare I had, though. Was on my way to school with classmates when we were apprehended by Norwegian terrorists.aquagoat - 15-8-2010 at 21:13
ooohh, Norwegian terrorists? creepy!!!!BBP - 16-8-2010 at 08:56
Yes, they made us take suicide pills.BBP - 18-8-2010 at 07:29
And Dad's back to The Hague again. Reminds me of how I missed him when he went out to take care of Gran back in '06.polydigm - 19-8-2010 at 08:55
Hello!! Sorry I haven't been by for a while, but my situation is so complicated with all the ups and downs I've had that I end up not
wanting to say anything in case it might jinx my situation. I'm not really superstitious but I'm battling to keep a positive frame of mind.
Anyway, two days after my last message, because the block wouldn't clear itself naturally I ended up having surgery again on 23rd July and it
seems to have done the trick. I've been back home since 1st August.
I'm playing the guitar and the piano again but the sax is still on hold unfortunately, it's been ages.BBP - 19-8-2010 at 09:04
Aw dear Poly! Glad you're back home and all-right! And it's great to see you again!DED - 24-8-2010 at 11:31
Poly, keep on going.BBP - 25-8-2010 at 07:50
DED is off to The Hague again. I'm not sure if he noticed, but I was doing my newspaper round and nearly cycled into his car when I came out of
one of the other houses in our street.BBP - 26-8-2010 at 09:39
Read Dweezil's blog about his daughters painting. That's ten seconds of my life I'll never get back.polydigm - 27-8-2010 at 01:32
Thank you DED. I will definitely keep on going. Things are coming along okay so far. If I can get through the next two or three weeks without another
blockage then you will be hearing from a very happy bunny.BBP - 28-8-2010 at 17:36
Finished knitting my sweater today, I finally put all the pieces together.
I'll post pictures of it soon.BBP - 29-8-2010 at 16:35
Made pictures of me and my new home-knitted jumper!
I put them on Sierra Help Pages, which allows you to upload attachments, but you can see them here: http://www.sierrahelp.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=35&p=19...polydigm - 31-8-2010 at 10:03
You can't view anything there, Bonny, unless you're a member, so that counts me out. Why don't you post your pictures here?BBP - 31-8-2010 at 10:40
Darn, I forgot about that! I posted the attachments there so I could show them without having to turn to our Vista.
Anyway I uploaded them onto ploeg.ws:
polydigm - 1-9-2010 at 04:26
Nice jumper. It's normal size too (tee hee).punknaynowned - 1-9-2010 at 13:28
I like the blue color. Some of my favorite hats have been woolen. I think wool would not work well with lots of rain however. Snow yes. Rain, not
so much.BBP - 2-9-2010 at 16:03
Thanks guys!
Had a nasty pervert phonecall today. Felt sick afterwards.
So when the garage phoned to tell our car has been fixed:
I pick up the phone, hear a sigh and a raspy male voice in the distance, and smash the phone on the hook.
Man, I
was looking forward to that album, considering DAAU's 2006 album didn't leave the CD-player for ten months, but to have spent a large amount
on a fancy wooden jewelcase...
