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BBP - 15-5-2012 at 13:56

It works by what time your PC shows. Set yours to 19:55 and wait for the show!

BBP - 17-5-2012 at 09:58

More about the clock:
http://www.standard-time.com

I managed to get the job as pianist. First performance? Next Friday. Tomorrow. Eek.

aquagoat - 17-5-2012 at 19:07

Congratulations, Bonny. Everything will be ok.;)

BBP - 18-5-2012 at 21:10

Well, he did ask me to come play again...

Now my arms hurt from lugging the keyboard around, and not just a little bit either.

punknaynowned - 19-5-2012 at 04:03

bench press that keyboard Bonny! One and two and three and... :lol:
got the car and now tidy up here before I go.
listened to
1978 01 29 Frankfurt with a long Wild Love/Yo Mama
and a bunch of stuff from the 20 Years of... boot, like stuff from Run Home Slow/World's Greatest Sinner which is nice if you already know FZ

BBP - 19-5-2012 at 19:45

Am sore now, from lugging ma keys...

BBP - 22-5-2012 at 16:24

Not much happening here, practicing keyboard and bought some new shoes.

polydigm - 23-5-2012 at 01:24

I'm just slogging my way through this maths at the moment. I have one lecturer who's very organised and approachable so that course is going well. The other one is disorganised and very unapproachable for whom students are just an inconvenience, needless to say I'm having to work very hard to figure that one out. I have major exams in a couple of weeks which I'm dreading. Ho hum.

BBP - 23-5-2012 at 09:37

That's nasty, be sure to complain about him at evaluation.
Say you do have evaluation out there, do you? We had that after every class.

BBP - 25-5-2012 at 10:19

In passing, let's think of the man who has it very difficult right now, my father.

And all because I'm mad enough to watch Eurovision.

BBP - 27-5-2012 at 21:14

Summary of today:
"Man, it's hot."

BBP - 31-5-2012 at 11:41

Knit a green loop stitch wig for a friend, since he really wanted a hat like mine. He was happy with it.
Unfortunately things were a bit shaken at his give-away shop. They're trusting people, but my date who sees ghosts trusted the wrong one and he went off with all the restaurant money.
Bang on cue, another shop friend comes in. She was very sick, threw up in a bag and was taken home by the shop boss.

Knitted another loop stitch hat, in bright green loops. I can combine it with my blue dress for that lemming look.

KAPTKIRK - 1-6-2012 at 06:52

She's gone,but I don't worry,I'm sittin' on top of the world.:cool:

BBP - 1-6-2012 at 10:09

BBP - 1-6-2012 at 10:09

Aw,why isn't it working here? Anyway copy & paste the link.

Caputh - 2-6-2012 at 11:25

Trying to avoid marking exams while posting here - which is, I suppose, not particualrly noteworthy. How's the thesis going - with or without Gail's help?


[Edited on 2-6-2012 by Caputh]

BBP - 2-6-2012 at 14:20

I'm browsing through another enormous amount of articles on the website of the Dutch royal library. Hopefully that will give me some nice extra body, since I'm not confident about my current writing.

Caputh - 2-6-2012 at 16:45

Finished marking the exams - bored and satisfied at the same time, now.
What's the title of the thesis; did you mention it before and I missed it or are you reluctant to say?

BBP - 2-6-2012 at 18:35

I didn't start with the title. But Peccary and Cornfed grace the cover.

DED - 3-6-2012 at 09:52

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  


??? BBP the lemming



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BBP - 4-6-2012 at 09:13

Woke up way too early... was a terrible mistake...
Finished a terrific book I was reading about Bertrand de Guesclin.

polydigm - 4-6-2012 at 09:27

Quote: Originally posted by KAPTKIRK  
She's gone,but I don't worry,I'm sittin' on top of the world.:cool:

Who's gone?

polydigm - 4-6-2012 at 09:29

Bonny, that lemming thing is hilarious. (I don't mean that offensively, I assume you did it for a laugh).

polydigm - 4-6-2012 at 09:35

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
That's nasty, be sure to complain about him at evaluation. Say you do have evaluation out there, do you? We had that after every class.
Yes, we were asked to do evaluation. I think everyone in his class pretty much laid the boot in. It's become a lot worse since I mentioned it before. On the bright side, I've pretty much figured his course out on my own so I'm not as bothered as I was.

Final lectures this week, swot vac the week after followed by exams. I'm now starting to feel a lot more positive about getting into honours next semester so it seems my plans are on track.

BBP - 5-6-2012 at 11:31

Thanks! I was kinda worried about that lemming thing. Hope I can make a few more, but I need a red/yellow brolly first.

BBP - 6-6-2012 at 11:22

It seems like I've just lost my bi-weekly gig at the book cafe. I've also probably lost my rare Philicordia organ with 2 manuals. And worse.

This night, the book cafe, which was located right next to the give-away shop and which gave shelter to tons of books, plus many articles (mainly clothes) for the give-away shop, plus any equipment that was there (turntables iirc), plus the green hat I made last week (see lemming gif), plus the lodgings of my ex-date Julien, went up in flames.
Causes are still unknown, but I'll be going over to have a look, make a few photos, and see if I can talk to some of my friends. Hopefully Julien is OK, he was taken to hospital with respiratory problems.

BBP - 9-6-2012 at 17:15

Funny how little interest there is in the fire... I'm heart-broken personally. It was such a lovely place, it's awesome not just to have a lot of bookshelves to nose through, but also to have the possibility of finding something real nice, and to not have to worry about the cost, since it's all for free.

punknaynowned - 10-6-2012 at 07:03


sounds like a mistake that went horribly wrong. sounds familiar enough but happening not long after you met them and went there, it would ! = strike me as out of the ordinary. Hope your friend feels better.

tonight after a long absence, I listened to burnt weeny sandwich and a 1984 07 21 LA, California "Let's Move to Cleveland" that has a mighty fine Tommy Mars kybrd solo and a ripping Frank.
In honor of efforts I listen to
1973 11 23 E Toronto show: even the 4 min+ intro and tune up, a long Pgymy Twylyte, Idiot Bastard Son, Cheepnis, Innca Roads, Penguin, T'mershi, DogMeat, RDNZL, Montana, Dupree's and the Green Genes medley with King Kong and Chunga's motifs! then the late show,
1973 11 23 L Toronto which is shorter at 44 min but whose sound improves,,, they do Eat That Question and Big Swifty...

BBP - 11-6-2012 at 20:34

Phoned them yesterday. They'll start again next month and do their best to pay off the damage.

Visited the second-hand store and met a lady at the coffee corner who just kept on talking to me for over an hour. I didn't catch her name, but I do know pretty much everything else that is to know about her.

polydigm - 12-6-2012 at 14:32

Sigh.

BBP - 12-6-2012 at 16:31

You know, that's what I was thinking.

BBP - 12-6-2012 at 22:16

There's been another fire in the neighborhood. Will put up the photos later.

BBP - 12-6-2012 at 22:17

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY28mzhigpA

BBP - 13-6-2012 at 17:06

Went into town, shot photos, went to visit the local alternative CD-store for the last time... sniff. :spin:

Bought a bowl of instant noodles. It came with three packets, none had any info regarding its contents and only one was seethrough. Opened and added the first one. The second packet was a lot more resilient, I couldn't tear it open. So I hold it between my teeth, and pull... and it's sambal.

punknaynowned - 13-6-2012 at 20:23

the other day was driving to the store with my brother and stating how difficult it was to get others to make more healthy choices in diet, exercise. Then reminded myself out loud how I know that I may not be the best trumpeter of that being a cigarette smoker. This is something he has always wanted to see me quit. So instead of saying what he usually does, he said, 'Yah, there is the one about the log in one's own eye."
Yesterday, back home, I bicycle to the store to get filters for my cigarettes. Cycling down the street, a bug flew in my eye.
It still bothers me today. I must have scratched it too vigorously.
And if Calvin reads this, the advice he gave on the cig topic, is still valid for me. I use it in other areas of life.

polydigm - 13-6-2012 at 23:51

The sigh is to indicate presence if nothing else. You know, how when you're physically in a room with a group of people, you don't always have to be saying something. It seemed to me at the time that if I was reading the conversation and sighed that although I wasn't moved to words I should indicate that I had participated at some level.

With the first fire, Bonny, are you sure it wasn't a failed insurance thingy?

BBP - 14-6-2012 at 11:33

I have no idea how insurance works with squatters, or what that particular policy looks like; but Julien told me he has to pay them back. Sad because the fire wasn't his fault, he wasn't even in the building. I thought he was, since it was his bedroom where the fire started, but he'd been staying with friends and another Portuguese guy was inside with a lit cigarette.

polydigm - 15-6-2012 at 15:44

I didn't mean to suggest that the squatters would have had anything to do with it. Obviously only the owner would be able to cash in. There must have been some difficulties that led to the place becoming "squattable" in the first place.

BBP - 15-6-2012 at 18:04

About 13% of offices in Eindhoven is empty, and not every owner is eager to rent a company to seek out temporary inhabitants. As my sister can tell you, such companies don't always take lodger's rights into account.

DED - 16-6-2012 at 11:10

Probably they catch money from both sites. As I understand from articles in the papers it was first squatterd, but afterwards there was an agreement to use the building as long it was empty. If there is some sort of contract, they are tennant and as a good "housefather" you have to insure the property.
But having your house insured in Holland is quite a costly business. It is combined burglary and fire. Altough your wallpaper will burn, it is not certain that burglars will steal your wallpaper :-). When you are underinsured, the insurance cost money but will not pay everything. If you are overinsured you have the same problem and when you are on target you have to prove a lot, since only what you have can burn.

BBP - 16-6-2012 at 18:44

I'll talk to Julien soon, see if I can get more information. And I'll suggest a benefit concert, maybe even bring my blind friend in (we'd already agreed we'd do something together at a cafe night).

BBP - 17-6-2012 at 10:04

Neighbor's dog ate all our strawberries... :crying::swear:

polydigm - 17-6-2012 at 23:22

That would anger me to say the least. I'm generally an animal lover but that dog would have to be converted to cat food.

BBP - 18-6-2012 at 16:10

Is there a substantial difference between dog food and cat food, or is it the same smelly goop with different labels?

Woke up early due to a heavy thunderstorm. It caused much delay with the trains.
Visited second-hand store, bought two Muppet-puppets, Gonzo and Statler.

BBP - 18-6-2012 at 19:38

One of the people affected by the train trouble was my sister. And she got on the news! Go sis!

polydigm - 19-6-2012 at 00:20

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Is there a substantial difference between dog food and cat food, or is it the same smelly goop with different labels?
It's not about the difference per se. Cats hate dogs. Dogs hate cats even more. It's about the ultimate humiliation for a dog being to end up as cat food.

punknaynowned - 19-6-2012 at 08:08

hahahha poly! never heard that before!
ZP! don't get washed away in the flood!
tonight:
1969 07 08 Boston, MA: a favorite. A bit longer than the rhino-boot, 'The Ark' without those glorious skips! But the tape ends in the same place, I'm pretty sure. Hot in kansas. Crazy politics these silly people are yelling, huh? Nice to see gas prices have dropped again.

BBP - 20-6-2012 at 21:37

Home of the ill today. Neither one of us had been feeling well, and in the evening we both contracted stomach flu.

Yesterday I managed to score a massive allergic reaction from our conifers: I was tying these little wooden racks to them to keep the dog out, but unfortunately the work covered my hands with huge white bumps, like mosquito bites.

polydigm - 21-6-2012 at 01:09

I've got my first big exam tomorrow and this morning I'm just coming out the other side of a migraine which triggered off at 3:00AM overnight. I feel like crap but needs must when the devil drives.

punknaynowned - 21-6-2012 at 13:54

hurrah! we had a storm here last night and a measurable amount of rain!
we've had it very dry here this year, so any we get is welcomed.
I even turned off the air conditioner and opened the house.
Boy that was a mistake. It'll take hours to cool back down to what it was.
All the humidity filled up the air in here in a matter of minutes, raising the temperature 5F.
I would let it equalize and then remembered there's all these books and things out...
they'll warp and get wobbly from the wet!
Gotta keep my priorities straight!

So today I don't go to work, I listen to zappa!

aLways a favorite are the early mothers for me and today, one's I haven't heard in a while,
1968 10 06 Bremen - great recording after a little panning and distortion at the start, a blue suede/all night long kinda jam that falls away after three minutes into the middle section of king kong (which I think is only on record, aka officially released as a part of littlehouseiusedtolivein from 'bws') - followed by directed weirdness for a minute and then a nice pound for a brown, but short and direct, then sleeping in a jar a la 'ahead of their time', but for over 12 minutes - really a very balanced mix. A little bit in the red from the organ and bass but that's not bad and easily eased out. Drums sound great! And Roy, and Frank's guitar, then Don goes all Deep Purple, before they existed. Definitely an on-stage recording! Uncle Meat slides into Lohengrin, then they play Let's Make the Water Turn Black and a surprise Octandre ending. Exciting show that shows off the talents in great sound. But way too short. They probably had to open for somebody else.
the Amsterdam show is longer at 93 minutes, but is also a keeper
1968 10 20 Amsterdam: mostly great sound with definitive mothers songs;
a 13 minute song that starts out like 'Help I'm a Rock' and has some of the transylvania boogie in it and ends up with some very gypsy-sounding, aelian mode things, I think in a funny time sig. followed by a nearly 7 minute drum duet. after that comes the piece that sounds like prelude to 'what' - with an umlaut - on the rhino-boot on electric aunt jemima. Maybe I'm all wrong but it goes into that 'dog breath' too.
It's already been a long time since I heard this. Another great recording. Why it made my list.
there's got to be a dozen at least 1968-69 live recordings that I think are must haves for mothers fans. Maybe fifteen hours. Plus the radio shows for sure.


[Edited on 21-6-12 by punknaynowned]

polydigm - 21-6-2012 at 15:25

I'm not ignoring you Punky I'm just distracted. Now it's coming up to midnight and I have to find a way to get to sleep if I'm going to cope with tomorrow's challenge.

BBP - 21-6-2012 at 17:14

If you'd like to write your boot reviews for the site sometime...
Hope you feel better, Poly. Good luck on the exam!

polydigm - 22-6-2012 at 13:58

Yoo hoo!! It went well. One more to go.

BBP - 24-6-2012 at 11:51

I've volunteered for blind-dog again. This time it'll be paid for me, but it's short term: 7 and 8 July. Just had the form I needed to fill in: turns out I have to give up my length from shoulder to ground, my chest size, and shoe size. Oh dear, what have I gotten myself in to?

polydigm - 25-6-2012 at 02:05

I'm going to a funeral. A lecturer I first met when I first studied at Adelaide Uni 25 years ago. We'd been chatting quite a bit since I came back this year and he was very encouraging. I thought it was his age, he's 72, but apparently it was a car accident when he was visiting New Zealand. Sad.

punknaynowned - 25-6-2012 at 05:53

sorry to hear poly,
caring for others Bonny is maybe the best thing we can do!

tonight I'm listening to the recent deluxe version of the rolling stone's 2 disc version of 'some girls' on youtube. The new material is better than the original in many cases and maybe *because* the original was so overplayed.

BBP - 25-6-2012 at 10:34

Sorry to hear about that, Poly...

punknaynowned - 26-6-2012 at 12:08

"Outside Now" has always been one of my very favorite Zappa songs.

First, of course I heard it and fell for it on Joe's Garage. The lyrics in that point of the story I could relate to and on top of that was way better than what David Gilmore or Eric Clapton could even think of doing. A bigger deal I guess when I was 20. Ha!
The Guitar version was great and I got into the '84 and '88 version in my twenties. Figured I was 'target audience' in a way, too, but didn't think about that at the time, only later. The bedeviling part for the conscience brain will do it's thing.
But of course I wanted more eventually.
Turns out the song's genesis was neat too as displayed in the live recordings from early 1979.
There's half a dozen of those early 'Outside Now' solos that were structured as part of , that is, inside a 'City of Tiny Lights' solo. Complete with the rhythm backing - that ascending and descending lyrical line, that Frank would improvise over. And these have that sound effect/gizmo box of sounds played live as intro.
And also the same background rhythm was later used on synclavier in part of 'Outside Now' Again on The Perfect Stranger'.
There is also a rehearsal piece from December 1978 with the same background with the band working it out and Frank playing over it. This for me acted as a bridge, musically between the 'original' outside now and the 'again' version on The Perfect Stranger which seems very different because of the instrumentation.
Last night I listened to a bunch of these versions:bouncy:

polydigm - 26-6-2012 at 18:36

In 57 hours time I will be seeing what's it like on the outside.

BBP - 26-6-2012 at 21:35

It's been a strange day out here today.
An employee of a delivery company walked up to our house, looked, walked away and came back. My father opened the door to him and asked what he was up to: he was just busy writing a note that he delivered the package next door. He walked away, but didn't give us that note.
I went to the neighbors to pick it up. It was a set of helium tanks, enough to inflate 60 balloons. We weren't expecting anything at all, so I had a good look and found it was intended for the people at 35, not us.
So I grabbed the parcel and went up to deliver it myself: not easy. Helium may be lighter than air but those tanks certainly weren't. #35 wasn't easy to find, but I managed and delivered it. Came home. Mail had arrived: for the people at #21.
Hallucinogens in the coffee? ;)

Anyway, the graffiti festival Step In The Arena was last weekend. Unfortunately Sunday was quite rainy, so there wasn't as much superb stuff as the previous years, but I made a few nice shots anyway.

And this sheep at the petting zoo, of course. The key to a good petting zoo photo is to be quick taking a snapshot, before they realize that you didn't bring any food and lose interest.


Here and there I tried to add things so you can realize the scale: a pavement tile is about 1 foot long.

















aquagoat - 27-6-2012 at 17:10

cool artwork here, thanks for sharing Bonnie.

DED - 27-6-2012 at 17:37

i love the one at the stairs with the line ho to cut. The paint on the road can be very slippy on rainy days.

polydigm - 28-6-2012 at 02:52

Nice pictures Bonny.

24 hours to freedom and counting.

polydigm - 30-6-2012 at 06:08

The exam was a disaster. He put a question in there worth ten marks out of a total of 60 that was a single undivided question, unlike the rest of the entire paper. One page out of 119 pages of notes plus 5 rather long assignments and 6 tutorial question sets to learn, and he puts an example I hadn't worked through in the exam and I worked my ass off for this subject. Four months of my life fizzled away by a one line question.

Anyway, I complained to the head of Maths and he put me at ease and it seems I will be starting Honours next semester. I'll know for sure within ten days. I'm now trying to relax and enjoy my break.

BBP - 30-6-2012 at 15:18

And now: enter the chill zone! Hope it works out...

Hot out here today.

polydigm - 1-7-2012 at 01:29

BBP - 3-7-2012 at 19:02

Drew a lot, got a big project going.

[Edited on 3-7-12 by BBP]

polydigm - 5-7-2012 at 01:48

Lazing around. Enjoying not having any deadlines for a while.

KAPTKIRK - 5-7-2012 at 04:09

Your exams all over Poly?

polydigm - 6-7-2012 at 03:47

Yes, until the next time of course. I'm awaiting the decision to let me into honours. There will be at least five big exams and a massive project involved during that course when I finally get there.

BBP - 6-7-2012 at 10:33

The big wait...

Stepped on something today, got a gash in my foot. Ouch.
Tomorrow, of course, I'll be visiting the Archeon (historical museum) for a guided tour. Ouch!

BBP - 6-7-2012 at 20:42

I'll be off in a few hours. Will have to go to bed early and rise very early, curse you Dutch railways!

Dad, please don't forget my lavender and The Killing.

polydigm - 7-7-2012 at 09:02

You're probably there by now. I hope it goes well and your foot doesn't hinder you too much.

I now know my results unofficially and they weren't too bad but I'm still awaiting their decision.

BBP - 8-7-2012 at 20:37

This weekend I played blind guide again, overnight for the first time. 7 people, two guides, five visually impaired of whom three need guiding, went to visit the open air historical museum Archeon, in Alphen a/d Rijn. There were several problems, (among others sanitary conditions were bad, unclean and unfortunately located quite a bit away from our rooms) but in spite of that we had a fantastically fun time. The staff was great. And the food was fantastic. And I'm exhausted now.



Part of the deal was we got/had to wear these medieval clothes. Unfortunately Archeon does not allow people in costume to wear anachronisms: no wrist watch,mobile.... or camera. It didn't stop me from coming home with 120 snapshots.
Long dresses proved to be clumsy for the ladies, particularly getting up the winding staircases. I don't have pictures of the men's outwits: they had to wear a really silly white cloth on their head.




After closing time, middle right is where us ladies stayed on the top floor.










One of the murals in the ladies'.


Our room at long shutterspeed.



I considered faking poor vision to be able to touch this guy's chest.


It was pretty rainy on Sunday, this legionnaire looks really unhappy.



Some more photos:
http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Album=7S86ZARH

polydigm - 9-7-2012 at 07:37

I'm in!!

polydigm - 9-7-2012 at 07:37

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
I considered faking poor vision to be able to touch this guy's chest.
You didn't consider just asking him out on a date?

BBP - 9-7-2012 at 10:36

Quote: Originally posted by polydigm  
I'm in!!


Congratulations Poly!

aquagoat - 9-7-2012 at 19:05

yeah, congratulations, Poly.:bouncy:

DED - 10-7-2012 at 08:07


Gratulations Poly.

[Edited on 10-7-2012 by DED]

polydigm - 11-7-2012 at 02:56

I'm on to a whole new level of stress now. This last semester was to convince them to let me into honours. I didn't just have to pass I had to get distinctions, otherwise they would have kept me at third year level for the rest of the year, even with credits. With honours I have to get some high distinctions in course work and I need to produce a very good project because I'm aiming to get a PhD and that will be very difficult without an allowance. They don't hand many of those out, as you can imagine.

Anyway, I'm not complaining. I really feel after all these years that I've found myself. In between bitching about this that and the other I really am enjoying my life.

BBP - 11-7-2012 at 11:17

Glad to hear it!

polydigm - 11-7-2012 at 13:25

Well, 2010 was a very tough year. It led me to reconsider a number of things. Then, although being quite well again, 2011 just seemed to go nowhere. So now, in 2012, here I am, doing something I should have done a long time ago.

punknaynowned - 11-7-2012 at 15:38

Congrats poly!
It's a great feeling when things seem to fall into place, especially after lots of hard work!
In my world, my mom has made something like a miraculous recovery. My 60 year old brother is staying with her this month and last, cooking and organizing her day, trying to encourage her to do more for herself - laundry, dishwashing, cooking etc. as she seems ready to. She wants to return to her normal self but she grows tired more easily. She's signed up for services to help her and so she has many visits that she needs to weather this week and last with all the people showing up and calling. Something she would not get as exhausted over before. But she's still with us and is still very much herself. Notable to us anyway. :D

polydigm - 12-7-2012 at 01:48

My mum's 85 and has slowed down quite a lot over the last year or so. She gets readily bothered by some pretty trivial things and spends all day mainly just looking after herself. She's also becoming more isolated as friends get too old or die. She's too proud and too private a person to get involved with government provided services and activities. I'm not sure what to do about her situation but we visit regularly.

KAPTKIRK - 13-7-2012 at 08:26

Have you tryed BINGO or a mixer with a band playing the tunes from her day?

BBP - 13-7-2012 at 10:30

It's been a little quiet out here: Dad and I went to The Hague yesterday, left early and stayed late. We visited the Royal Library, the antique market, the Bredius museum, a book store, Grandma, and the beach.

polydigm - 13-7-2012 at 13:27

Quote: Originally posted by KAPTKIRK  
Have you tryed BINGO or a mixer with a band playing the tunes from her day?
If only it was that simple.

The good news is that I'm talking to my father again. I got sick of the impasse and just dropped in out of the blue. It seemed to go well. He's turning 90 this year and still seems to have a pretty rational head on his shoulders. I've certainly had a weight taken off my mind.

BBP - 14-7-2012 at 12:10

That's good news.

Am taking a rest from this week, it was pretty intense, The Hague.

polydigm - 16-7-2012 at 08:17

Had a migraine this morning which wiped out half the day but I'm back in flight. Tried a new medication which seemed to do a good job.

BBP - 17-7-2012 at 12:16

Oi is this place quiet.
Anyway, been clearing my bedroom lately.

Say Poly, you're good at math, can you help me out?
I had an X amount of stuff lying on and in my bedside table. I cleared this all away, browsed through it and discarded some of it, so I had less than X items to put back...

and then it doesn't fit. How did that happen?

aquagoat - 17-7-2012 at 19:03

you don't play enough tetris, bonny.:D

BBP - 18-7-2012 at 11:07

There's been an assault on the town hall of Waalre, of all places. Waalre is a small and green town just south to Eindhoven. And that's where two burning cars drove into the town hall last night. It's... bizarre.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q...

polydigm - 18-7-2012 at 14:55

I'm not sure that's a pure maths problem Bonny, it just sounds like you momentarily lost your conceptual continuity, or perhaps you found a Higg's boson.

KAPTKIRK - 20-7-2012 at 05:42

Quote: Originally posted by polydigm  
Quote: Originally posted by KAPTKIRK  
Have you tryed BINGO or a mixer with a band playing the tunes from her day?
If only it was that simple.

The good news is that I'm talking to my father again. I got sick of the impasse and just dropped in out of the blue. It seemed to go well. He's turning 90 this year and still seems to have a pretty rational head on his shoulders. I've certainly had a weight taken off my mind.

That's great Poly.You might of been real bummed if something was to happen and you didn't square things.Ya just never know and then it's too late.I hope you can get Moms outta her funk too.Maybe some spunky 70 year old? Ha,ha! Before my folks passed they used to dance alot.It seemed to keep them more alive and healthy.In attitude too! I'm following in they're footsteps sort of.I'm a Dancing Fool too! LoL!

polydigm - 21-7-2012 at 05:51

The news with my mum is not so good. She's losing it a bit lately and I think we're going to have to look at some kind of alternative housing situation or at least getting some kind of regular visitor. It's getting a bit sad.

KAPTKIRK - 21-7-2012 at 07:11

I'm so sorry to hear that Poly.As time goes on and the young become the old we switch places and take care of them.I had to agree to let my dads wife put him in a home.She started to work there on the same ward.He died a week later.I was the last person who he knew right away,and I had taken him out for a outing that same week.I was lucky I got to do that.
If you have to go that way with your mom,check on the place as you would normaly,but keep visiting on irregular hours,visit and talk to the more lucid folks in a home just to listen about they're complaints.They'll let you know right quick whether she's in a good place or not.It's damn hard but if you wait and she forgets the stoves on and goes to bed.....well you can fill in the rest.My dad had Alzhiemers and was going blind.If I didn't visit and make DR.'s appointments he would of gone sooner without sight.He had a wife 20 years younger "taking care of him". At least he didn't know what he had gotten himself into in the end.
That was back in the early '90's,they've come along way in medications and education about alzhiemers and dementia.I wish you both the best Poly.It's a tough spot for anyone to be in.

BBP - 21-7-2012 at 10:26

Terrible news, Poly, I hope she'll be allright...

In the mean time, we're having an encore episode of the jackdaw in the chimney. Now there's another one in there: he's been stuck for three hours and we've been trying to get him down, but no such luck.

polydigm - 21-7-2012 at 11:44

I may have exaggerated a little. It's hard to put into words. I don't think she's got dementia or anything like that it's just that she gets easily overwhelmed when things go wrong. We've just come back from there and for about four days now she hasn't been using the hot water because it ran out on her one night and she went on to assume the worst about it.

Then she didn't explain what happened very well even though today there was plenty of hot water coming out of the tap and got all upset because we didn't understand. Anyway, I got up into the roof and made like a possum for a while and struggled to where the water was and eventually discovered that the float valve needed some adjustment. It was still heating up the water but the replacement process wasn't keeping up so she still could have been using it just not getting as much as usual.

Anyway, the upshot is that I've fixed it for now and she's back on an even keel for a while until the next drama. But I couldn't live like that.

BBP - 21-7-2012 at 14:51

It took seven hours but I finally managed to get the jackdaw out of the chimney with a bit of violence and we ushered him out. Then I cleared some bird droppings he left behind on the carpet.

KAPTKIRK - 22-7-2012 at 01:33

Ah! I assumed the worst,sorry 'bout that Poly.Glad you got her settled for now.


How big are these things Bonny?
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