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BBP - 16-1-2015 at 18:28

Heard today there was another hostage taking in Paris - news said it was a confused man with love troubles.

You okay Aqua?

aquagoat - 17-1-2015 at 10:51

:lol: Hahaha, no it's not me, don't worry, I'm not gonna kill anyone, I'm at my workmate's house having coffee. Feeling pretty okay, talked to my psychiatrist yesterday, it was pretty interesting, I'm in a more positive mood now in spite of the difficulty of the situation, I'm pretty confident I'l get out of it. So no killling from me.:lol:

polydigm - 17-1-2015 at 11:33

I considered making a joke there Aqua, but I'm always putting my big foot in my mouth, so I'll keep it to myself. Good to hear you're making progress. I imagine, being a guitarist myself, that playing helps a lot as well. My music has often taken me out of a down period.

aquagoat - 17-1-2015 at 12:31

yeah, I play quite a lot, it keeps my mind and hands busy. i'll probably make somethig with all those riffs and parts written everywhere some day.

BBP - 17-1-2015 at 14:38

That's gonna be great! If the shadows of the Zappa Forum band wasn't such a cast-over I'd consider starting a group here.

Piano playing really helped me a lot when I had broken my ankle - I couldn't leave the house on my own and didn't get many visitors, was alone for twelve hours each day. The most interesting thing I'd seen in the first week was a squirrel - the most interesting thing I'd seen in the second week was a car that lost its exhaust in front of my door. I was happy when, after the first week, I was finally able to make it up the stairs scuffling on my butt. I couldn't yet walk on crutches and bringing my walking rack up was too much of a hassle, so I basically crawled upstairs to my CD-player. And then I started playing keyboard again, really playing, hours on end.

BBP - 21-1-2015 at 14:53

Out on a cleaning spree today - decided to try to stay on top of it before I have to get into one of them multi-week cleaning sessions again.

aquagoat - 21-1-2015 at 18:55

well, there'll be no more Us, there's only me now. :(

KAPTKIRK - 21-1-2015 at 23:36

Quote: Originally posted by aquagoat  
well, there'll be no more Us, there's only me now. :(

Hi Aquagoat! Just popped over to see how your doin'? So, you're on your own and fancy free. Thats a good thing, it's always fun to run the show yourself. Ya know now ya can come and go without having to "check out & in" and that stuff. You can do things your way and not get a guilt trip laid on ya for doing it.
Well, you know music is the best, so thats what I'd be doing if my hand didn't have permanent nerve damage. It even hurts to play the piano! My rt. thumb & forefinger are tingly and numb and I'm rt. handed.
I'm glad you seem to be handling (the breakup?) as well as ya are. Time will heal ya, it just takes time...d'oh! Darn time! Stay crazy my friend. ;)

polydigm - 22-1-2015 at 03:36

Back in OZ in shorts and a teeshirt.

BBP - 22-1-2015 at 14:11

Sorry to hear that Aqua... here's a hug! {}

aquagoat - 22-1-2015 at 22:37

Thanks for the hug, bonny... well, perhaps it's better that way.:umm:

aquagoat - 22-1-2015 at 22:42

Quote: Originally posted by KAPTKIRK  
Quote: Originally posted by aquagoat  
well, there'll be no more Us, there's only me now. :(

Hi Aquagoat! Just popped over to see how your doin'? So, you're on your own and fancy free. Thats a good thing, it's always fun to run the show yourself. Ya know now ya can come and go without having to "check out & in" and that stuff. You can do things your way and not get a guilt trip laid on ya for doing it.
Well, you know music is the best, so thats what I'd be doing if my hand didn't have permanent nerve damage. It even hurts to play the piano! My rt. thumb & forefinger are tingly and numb and I'm rt. handed.
I'm glad you seem to be handling (the breakup?) as well as ya are. Time will heal ya, it just takes time...d'oh! Darn time! Stay crazy my friend. ;)
Yeah, music is the best, I'm gonna concentrate on that, I think, as soon as I've got a new home, and find a new girlfriend a bit later.:)

polydigm - 24-1-2015 at 01:30

Hang in there Aqua. I've got all kinds of advice that ends up looking real corny as soon as I write it down. The main thing: be yourself and don't let anyone else try to change you unless that change suits you as well. Don't just change to please someone else.

BBP - 24-1-2015 at 21:29

Had snow today, got to deliver papers in that...

polydigm - 24-1-2015 at 23:22

I'm back in Adelaide summer and even though, due to the current neutral state of the ENSO cycle, which involves El Nino and La Nina effects caused by various major ocean currents, it's a mild one, I would still prefer to be in English/French winter. I'm lucky it's not one of our extreme summers. I'm not sure how I would cope with it if it was.

We returned last Tuesday to low thirties temperatures but it's since settled down to mid twenties which is not too bad.

aquagoat - 25-1-2015 at 09:01

Quote: Originally posted by polydigm  
Hang in there Aqua. I've got all kinds of advice that ends up looking real corny as soon as I write it down. The main thing: be yourself and don't let anyone else try to change you unless that change suits you as well. Don't just change to please someone else.
thank you for the advice, Poly.

BBP - 25-1-2015 at 23:57

Any tips for total losers like me Poly?

polydigm - 26-1-2015 at 05:36

My first bit of advice to you Bonny is to stop being so self deprecating. Who or what has made you feel that way?

BBP - 26-1-2015 at 10:21

Been single since 2007, when I had a relationship for less than four months, the only one I had to date, and now when I meet new family they start getting worried about me not getting any children...

BBP - 26-1-2015 at 16:45

Took over a year of searching, but I finally found a pair of shoes that fit, that actually have a decent sole, that don't have high heels and that are actually designed for women. Yay!

polydigm - 26-1-2015 at 23:39

I had a series of failed relationships until the age of thirty five (never simultaneously - I'm a monogamist at heart). By that stage I was resigned to being a bachelor. I had been living alone for a long time and was very happy being my own person. Yes, when alone I missed female company, but I wasn't going to have it at the expense of being myself. A partner should enhance your life not diminish it or make it difficult to be yourself, which is also a reason not to search for your clone. You already have yourself in your life and you would be much better off with someone with a different skill set (a poor abbreviation of a much more complicated point - two heads are better than one but not if they're the same head). I'm sure you don't only like people exactly the same as yourself.

At the age of thirty five when I first met my wife, I wasn't looking for a partner, it just happened. I'm not a very easy person to live with but I've been lucky to find someone who accepts me as I am. We are dependent on, and independent from, each other in equal measure. Remember that whoever it is you think you're looking for, you have to be the person they are looking for. Step one is to know who you are yourself, to maximise that person and have the courage of your convictions.

DED - 27-1-2015 at 18:24

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aquagoat - 27-1-2015 at 19:21

Quote: Originally posted by polydigm  
I had a series of failed relationships until the age of thirty five (never simultaneously - I'm a monogamist at heart). By that stage I was resigned to being a bachelor. I had been living alone for a long time and was very happy being my own person. Yes, when alone I missed female company, but I wasn't going to have it at the expense of being myself. A partner should enhance your life not diminish it or make it difficult to be yourself, which is also a reason not to search for your clone. You already have yourself in your life and you would be much better off with someone with a different skill set (a poor abbreviation of a much more complicated point - two heads are better than one but not if they're the same head). I'm sure you don't only like people exactly the same as yourself.

At the age of thirty five when I first met my wife, I wasn't looking for a partner, it just happened. I'm not a very easy person to live with but I've been lucky to find someone who accepts me as I am. We are dependent on, and independent from, each other in equal measure. Remember that whoever it is you think you're looking for, you have to be the person they are looking for. Step one is to know who you are yourself, to maximise that person and have the courage of your convictions.
These two points are extremely important, I think, that's what we found when my girlfriend and I met, we were very different but we accepted each other as we were, that's why it was so great the first five years, then routine interfered ... Now I hope it's not gonna be too long before I found someone like that again.

KAPTKIRK - 28-1-2015 at 02:40

There will come a time when everyone will have a lover that loves them as much as they love them.

BBP - 28-1-2015 at 17:35

Hit the town today, am freezing. There's a local cheepo books & crafts shop that has taken to sell stuff to make condolance cards. Weirdest stuff I've seen in a long time, silver and gold "our deepest sympathies" stickers.

BBP - 29-1-2015 at 17:52

Whoa, how long's it been? I finally managed to find women's shoes that fit in a Schoenenreus in Geldrop on Tuesday, the day after, as I'm about to leave the house I hear they had to shut down, and today the chain's declared bankrupt.

BBP - 3-2-2015 at 12:59

Went to my blind friend in Utrecht yesterday, we'd arranged to meet at 12:00 and go to the cinema at 14:30. I woke up about an hour early so I'd have time to do some PC stuff, but ceased that, sent an emergeny mail to Hedda and ran off to try and catch a train. Utrecht is the central big city of the Netherlands and as such the core for all train traffic - and there was a massive technical problem, so no train could enter or leave.
At 9:10 I arrived at the train station of Eindhoven - which would mean that at 10:30 I'd be on Utrecht Central - but all travellers to Utrecht were advised to go to Rotterdam. That's an hour and a half of travel extra, not including waiting for trains.

Fast forward to Rotterdam - I spoke to one aide who told me to give up. Of course he should have told me to give up when I was still in Eindhoven, not in Rotterdam. I almost called my friend to cancel, but decided to go for a second opinion - and that guy told me to travel to Rotterdam Alexander station, from there buses go to Gouda and from there I could take the bus to Utrecht.

Had to wait for 40 minutes for the train to Alexander - where I arrived after ten minutes and got in the bus to Gouda. My seat was broken, so I couldn't rest my back. D'oh.
In Gouda I got onto a disco bus with cute lights, but unfortunately during this trip I got very seasick.
Finally, at 14:10, I arrived in Utrecht Central, and from there I could walk the rest to my friend. We had to give up on the cinema but it was very cosy all the same. She currently has 2 pianos.

aquagoat - 3-2-2015 at 18:39

the joys of travelling by train. lol.;)

BBP - 3-2-2015 at 20:38

Here's the thing: she has a new and a very old piano - the old one is untunable, but very dear to her - she'll give it away to a friend but it'll be some time before that friend can fit it in, so my friend has had two pianos in her home for over a year now.

The old one cannot be tuned, and the new one she gets tuned twice a year - in fact she has a contract with Bechstein for this maintenance. Both my friend with absolute hearing and her piano tuner noticed the new Bechstein got unusually badly out of key for a brand new instrument - at the same time my friend notices the old one gets a little more into key. Is that possible?

aquagoat - 5-2-2015 at 16:55

I started packing my stuff, threw quite a lot of stuff to the garbage can, gave a few things away, just one or two more trips to my former home and it should be all packed and ready to move in my new flat. It's a weird feeling going back to your house after one month of absence, some details are really difficult to stand. :umm:

BBP - 6-2-2015 at 13:17

Poor Aqua,good luck!

aquagoat - 7-2-2015 at 08:40

Thank you, Bonny.:)

BBP - 7-2-2015 at 16:05

Got to deliver again, could time me at 2 hours 15 minutes.

aquagoat - 8-2-2015 at 00:16

Is it better or worse than your average time?

BBP - 8-2-2015 at 12:49

It's hard to put an average time on it since the amount of things I deliver varies from time to time - this time I could bring everything in one go but often I have to go back for the rest.

polydigm - 10-2-2015 at 12:21

My wife and I back in the UK. Almost two weeks ago one of my wife's aunts died, which was sad, but we were expecting it because she had cancer and was very ill. A day later my wife's mother had a massive stroke and died soon after in hospital, which was almost totally unexpected. We are here to help with the family and attend the two funerals. It's been exhausting only two weeks after returning form international travel.

BBP - 10-2-2015 at 16:17

Goodness, Poly... that's a lot for your wife and the family to cope with, poor dear... My sincere condolances to you...

aquagoat - 10-2-2015 at 18:55

My sincere condolences to you and your wife, Poly, that's really sad news.

polydigm - 11-2-2015 at 08:21

Thanks Bonny and Aqua. We're bearing up.

BBP - 12-2-2015 at 17:36

News in my inbox this morning Dir en grey are playing Eindhoven in May. Rushed to buy a ticket, already too late for the first buyers meet & greet but I am going all the same. So today I'm experiencing pleasure overload!

Caputh - 12-2-2015 at 21:07

Quote: Originally posted by polydigm  
My wife and I back in the UK. Almost two weeks ago one of my wife's aunts died, which was sad, but we were expecting it because she had cancer and was very ill. A day later my wife's mother in law had a massive stroke and died soon after in hospital, which was almost totally unexpected. We are here to help with the family and attend the two funerals. It's been exhausting only two weeks after returning form international travel.


Very sorry to hear about the deaths in your family, Poly. It must be a trying time for you both.
However, I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but wouldn't your wife's mother-in-law be your mother? Or was your wife married before and you both kept up contact with her ex-husband's family?

polydigm - 13-2-2015 at 10:46

Yes, I'm an idiot. I had started by writing "my mother in law" and then changed it too hastily. I've edited the original post. Thanks for your concern.

My wife's name is Julie. Julie's dad has two sisters. It was his youngest sister that died. He has three children, she has four and the other sister has six, which is thirteen cousins on that side of the family. Several are married with several children and there are some great grand children in there as well. In contrast I grew up in Australia in a family of five. Julie finds all those relatives a bit claustrophobic, which I get, but I grew up in a very compact family which was very claustrophobic for me. Grand parents, aunts and uncles and cousins can provide you with different perspectives on your own immediate family that I missed out on. I've been kind of making up for it spending time with my French relatives which is a similar situation to Julie's.

The aunt's funeral was yesterday and so as you can imagine there were lots of people there. It went well. We're now preparing for Julie's mum's funeral next week. It's still a bit unreal.

Caputh - 13-2-2015 at 22:45

You're not an idiot - everybody mistypes now and again. I can understand your wife finding things a little claustrophobic vis a vis family matters. I used to have a grandmother (from New Zealand) who was the Archbishop of Claustrophobia. She used to spin little "amusing" tales, play family members off against each other, invent stories etc, etc. Plus, she used to have dogs that you had to take out for a "pull".
When she was alive, I was the one "stood up to her". Now, I regret having stood up to her and yearn for the good old claustrophobia of yonder year.
Anyway, all he best to you...

polydigm - 14-2-2015 at 01:21

This time not a typo, but a misunderstanding about numbers of children. Thirteen cousins not ten.

Hey Bonny, my post doesn't show that I edited it. A new feature?

BBP - 14-2-2015 at 08:47

Yeah, turns out you can switch it off. I always thought it was a bit of a nuisiance.

polydigm - 15-2-2015 at 10:26

Sounds good, just don't let The Trendmonger in here. :lol:

BBP - 15-2-2015 at 11:56

:D Fortunately he wouldn't come here if you paid him.

BBP - 18-2-2015 at 01:55

Writing an article about Eindhoven, spent hours today making photos.

polydigm - 19-2-2015 at 10:55

The funerals have passed and we're heading back home on the weekend. My next ordeal is major surgery early in March. 2015 is already well off to an auspicious start.

BBP - 19-2-2015 at 11:25

Goodness Poly... that's a trying time to be in. Be strong!

BBP - 19-2-2015 at 11:43

Just heard Oliver Sacks has terminal cancer... :(

BBP - 21-2-2015 at 12:45

All go now at the Zappa forum, this time with KUIII. Poor guy...

polydigm - 24-2-2015 at 00:55

To what are you referring Bonny? I see a post from earlier in February about his flatmate, but nothing else of concern.

BBP - 24-2-2015 at 19:56

Yah his flatmate... can imagine that's quite a shock. He's on my ignore list, I'm not sure why, so it took me a while to notice.

I'm still making photos of Eindhoven and writing a little guide of the city, hope it's finished by March since I keep thinking of things I really need to include.

polydigm - 24-2-2015 at 21:43

Why did you have him on ignore?

BBP - 25-2-2015 at 17:31

I don't know, possibly politics, possibly an argument that got out of hand, possibly because of an oversized sig pic.

polydigm - 25-2-2015 at 23:49

I remember thinking some time ago that he was a bit of a redneck so I'm pretty sure your objections would have been political. I can't remember exactly what bothered me about him but his opinions are a bit like pedro's only maybe not as backward. He seems like a nice enough guy but I probably couldn't be real world friends with someone like that without arguing all the time.

BBP - 26-2-2015 at 10:49

Some people seem to argue for the sake of arguing, don't they?

aquagoat - 26-2-2015 at 18:16

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Some people seem to argue for the sake of arguing, don't they?
I don't think so.;-)

BBP - 27-2-2015 at 19:23

Aren't you nice and positive! :bald:
Sister's come round to visit today and I phoned my friend last night. They're both doing very well, great!

polydigm - 28-2-2015 at 01:33

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Some people seem to argue for the sake of arguing, don't they?
What I meant was that his opinions are different enough to mine for us not to be able to be compatible friends. He's a very conservative American.

polydigm - 28-2-2015 at 01:35

Quote: Originally posted by aquagoat  
Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Some people seem to argue for the sake of arguing, don't they?
I don't think so.;-)
I get your joke. ;)

aquagoat - 28-2-2015 at 21:41

Quote: Originally posted by polydigm  
Quote: Originally posted by aquagoat  
Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Some people seem to argue for the sake of arguing, don't they?
I don't think so.;-)
I get your joke. ;)
cool.:D

And now for something completely different, Today I moved into my new flat and I've already got the internet. Now i'm having a glass of 10 years old Talisker with a bit of fried chicken and potatoes, listening to Monsters & Robots. That's pretty cool. Still a lot of cleaning to do though, but it's ok, there's enough room to cram all my stuff into, it's quiet, I feel pretty lucky, actually.:forumsmiley111:

aquagoat - 28-2-2015 at 21:44

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Aren't you nice and positive! :bald:
Sister's come round to visit today and I phoned my friend last night. They're both doing very well, great!
I'm always nice and positive, bonny.;-)
It's cool your sister and your friend are doing great.:)

BBP - 28-2-2015 at 22:02

Quote: Originally posted by aquagoat  
Quote: Originally posted by polydigm  
Quote: Originally posted by aquagoat  
Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Some people seem to argue for the sake of arguing, don't they?
I don't think so.;-)
I get your joke. ;)
cool.:D


(runs off to feel stupid)

aquagoat - 2-3-2015 at 18:38

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Quote: Originally posted by aquagoat  
Quote: Originally posted by polydigm  
Quote: Originally posted by aquagoat  
Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Some people seem to argue for the sake of arguing, don't they?
I don't think so.;-)
I get your joke. ;)
cool.:D


(runs off to feel stupid)
don't! ;)

BBP - 3-3-2015 at 11:53

Dental appointment in one hour...

polydigm - 3-3-2015 at 16:22

I take a couple of valium before visiting the dentist.

BBP - 3-3-2015 at 17:12

My dentist is a nice man who usually has good news, so usually hairdresser appointments freak me out more.

polydigm - 4-3-2015 at 00:03

Long periods of time with my mouth jammed open getting my teeth descaled are hardly freak outs, but they're very trying and a sedative enables me to care less.

BBP - 4-3-2015 at 20:31

Yah descaling is no fun... fortunately I'm usually done in a snip, but when my father had a major procedure he had pretty bad neck pain that needed chiropractor's assistance.

aquagoat - 7-3-2015 at 23:11

I've just shaven my hair, it's a weird sensation having a bald skull after 17 years of long hair. :freak:

BBP - 8-3-2015 at 12:15

I can imagine that... Do you like how it looks? :bald:

aquagoat - 8-3-2015 at 12:34

Well, it's not as bad as I remembered (I already shaved my head when I was 22), actually I don't really know if I like it or not, I'm not used to this new look yet, but I think I'm gonna stay that way for a while. :)

hey, I look a bit like that, only a bit younger:

so you decide: good or bad?

BBP - 8-3-2015 at 19:36

If you're getting cold, let me know and I'll drop a hat in the mail!

Just finished a knit-crochet jumper. I measured the sleeve length but they turned out to be too long anyway. :mad:

aquagoat - 9-3-2015 at 17:55

That would be nice. It's ok for now but if it gets too cold I'll let you know.;-)

BBP - 9-3-2015 at 22:11

In the mean time, we're partying over the departure of Dutch secretary of justice Ivo Opstelten and secretary of state Fred Teeven.

polydigm - 11-3-2015 at 14:50

Quote: Originally posted by aquagoat  
Today I moved into my new flat and I've already got the internet. Now i'm having a glass of 10 years old Talisker with a bit of fried chicken and potatoes, listening to Monsters & Robots. That's pretty cool. Still a lot of cleaning to do though, but it's ok, there's enough room to cram all my stuff into, it's quiet, I feel pretty lucky, actually.:forumsmiley111:
Good News!

polydigm - 11-3-2015 at 14:54

Hey Aqua, so that picture is not you? I often cut my hair quite short. I use a number 2 clipper in Summer. I've often wondered what it would be like to shave my head.

polydigm - 11-3-2015 at 14:56

Day six in hospital just ending. It's been a roller coaster ride but I should be home by the weekend.

BBP - 11-3-2015 at 16:19

Are you allright Poly?

aquagoat - 11-3-2015 at 18:11

Quote: Originally posted by polydigm  
Hey Aqua, so that picture is not you? I often cut my hair quite short. I use a number 2 clipper in Summer. I've often wondered what it would be like to shave my head.
no, it's Christoph Waltz in The Zero Theorem, but I actually look quite a lot like that right now, just a bit younger.:D you should try shaving your head, it's a weird sensation in the beginning, but it's quite funny.

BBP - 11-3-2015 at 20:24

Primus now has a show in Utrecht on the 16th, two weeks after Diru.

BBP - 14-3-2015 at 00:43

Had to visit my sister in a bit of a rush today, she was having a bit of a crisis.

punknaynowned - 14-3-2015 at 21:05

I love that they are calling this pi day, as in
3/14/15
happens only once a century...
:bouncy:

BBP - 14-3-2015 at 22:39

Will be a riot at 9:26...

aquagoat - 15-3-2015 at 11:11

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Had to visit my sister in a bit of a rush today, she was having a bit of a crisis.
What's wrong, if you don't mind my asking? I hope she'll get better soon.

BBP - 15-3-2015 at 11:27

Hard to explain.

Enjoying lazy Sunday with a back ache.

punknaynowned - 17-3-2015 at 05:30

This was sent to me today.
Dee-light-full.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/27/robert-macfarla...

BBP - 17-3-2015 at 11:27

That looks like a wonderful volume!

polydigm - 17-3-2015 at 12:45

Yes Bonny I'm okay. Came home last Friday March 13th. It's a long road yet but the operation was a success.

aquagoat - 17-3-2015 at 20:53

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Hard to explain.
No problem.:)

BBP - 18-3-2015 at 01:59

She needs a bit of regularity in life, as in sleep. Sleep deprivation got her bad.

aquagoat - 19-3-2015 at 17:57

Ha, I understand. I hope she'll get better soon.

BBP - 19-3-2015 at 23:40

She called today, she's much better. We both suffer from periodical migraine with many of the not-so-well-known symptoms of migraine, recommended to her to start using a calendar.

aquagoat - 21-3-2015 at 07:52

ha, migraine, it's a real pain, I had a workmate who regularly had migraines, he had to go back home and stay in the dark for hours, you could see sometimes he hadn't slept a lot at night because of that. I'm glad your sister's feeling better.

BBP - 22-3-2015 at 00:05

I don't have the headaches and the visions much, but my poor sister does have them.

polydigm - 24-3-2015 at 15:03

I have about ten migraines per annum. Starts with kaleidoscopic vision followed by all kinds of weird symptoms which last a couple of hours and ends up with sudden massive pain which lasts a couple of hours. I'm usually okay after about five to six hours, but I can still feel the residue of it for a couple of days afterwards.

BBP - 24-3-2015 at 22:10

Poly: Have you read Oliver Sachs's book on migraine? Was an interesting read but it did give me a headache.

Had a bit of a spell today but that was just me going to bed way too late.

polydigm - 28-3-2015 at 10:58

That's very funny if that was intended to be a joke. No, I haven't read Oliver Sachs's book. I'm 59 and I've been getting migraines since I was 13. None of the usual medications seems to work and then recently a locum doctor recommended that I see a neurologist, which I will be doing soon.
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