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BBP - 26-1-2016 at 13:30

Had a letter from the hospital today - it turned out that my personal data, along with that of over 4500 others (name, birth date, patient file number and hospital speciality) has been out to see for people who don't have permission, for 33 days. There will be something on the TV about it tonight and the hospital installed a special number - that could be reached on three days only: specifically the 23rd, 24th and 25th. Website doesn't have any information.

BBP - 28-1-2016 at 18:00

Whelp, I'm set up for the microwave tomorrow...

On Wednesday I bought Bulky yarn, extra thick yarn that I had to buy 10mm needles for. But it was cheap, good quality and a great colour, so I got 3 balls weighing 200g each. I'm making a Celtic sweater with it.

The front of the sweater is finished, but it took almost one whole ball of yarn, meaning 3 balls of yarn is probably not going to be enough. Today I cycled to 4 different shops that sell it, but they're all out.
F...

aquagoat - 29-1-2016 at 14:26

Unemployed again. :swear::mad:

BBP - 29-1-2016 at 21:19

Sorry to hear that Aqua... (hug)

I missed the MRI scan, managed to knock over nasty soap on a wooden table and had a complaint from the papers... can't wait til tomorrow...

polydigm - 30-1-2016 at 16:53

Interesting job Ned, I'm not sure I could handle it. Although I have had some pretty tough classes teaching high school.

aquagoat - 30-1-2016 at 22:29

and now I'm sick, I've got fever, headache, I'm cold and hot at the sae time... gosh!!!

BBP - 31-1-2016 at 01:02

Poor Aqua!
(cuddles)

polydigm - 31-1-2016 at 15:41

Get better soon Mr Goat. How long did you have your last job? What's it like finding work in France at the moment?

Bonny, what happened to your MRI? Will you have to wait long for another appointment?

BBP - 31-1-2016 at 16:57

Well that was realy stupid - at some undefined moment in time, it got into my head that I needed to be there at 14:30 - I am kicking myself over not checking the exact time of the appointment. At 12:10 I had a phonecall that I missed it, the appointment was at noon.

aquagoat - 1-2-2016 at 09:22

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Poor Aqua!
(cuddles)
thank you Bonny.

aquagoat - 1-2-2016 at 09:35

Quote: Originally posted by polydigm  
Get better soon Mr Goat. How long did you have your last job? What's it like finding work in France at the moment?

Bonny, what happened to your MRI? Will you have to wait long for another appointment?
my last job lasted a bit more than 2 years. Finding a job can be quite difficult depending on your profession, but I'm quite optimistic, I'm pretty good at what I do and there's usually work for a good roofer, so we'll see.

aquagoat - 1-2-2016 at 09:37

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Well that was realy stupid - at some undefined moment in time, it got into my head that I needed to be there at 14:30 - I am kicking myself over not checking the exact time of the appointment. At 12:10 I had a phonecall that I missed it, the appointment was at noon.
ha, shit, when can you have another appointment?

BBP - 1-2-2016 at 10:00

Roofer? Do you use those screws with those disks around them, like I had to make when I was at WLB?

I'll be at the bottom of the waiting list again, so four to six weeks.

BBP - 1-2-2016 at 10:25

Okay it's on 26 February, 14:30.
(sets off notifications)

polydigm - 1-2-2016 at 22:36

aquagoat - 2-2-2016 at 09:55

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Roofer? Do you use those screws with those disks around them, like I had to make when I was at WLB?

I'll be at the bottom of the waiting list again, so four to six weeks.
hum, I don't really see the kind of screws you're talking about, bonny, any picture of them?

aquagoat - 2-2-2016 at 10:01

BBP - 2-2-2016 at 14:56

We had these lense-shaped plates (circles but with a round side) with a hole in the middle that we had to drill screws into. The supervisor told me they were used to keep down plastic foil during roofing. I don't know what they're called and failed at finding a photo.

BBP - 2-2-2016 at 15:35

Next hospital appointment is 8:40 on March 2.

BBP - 3-2-2016 at 21:56

Went out twice for groceries today - the second time to buy bread. Turned out we still had some.

polydigm - 3-2-2016 at 21:58

There are these special roofing screws, for corrugated iron roofs, that come with a rubber washer that helps seal the hole when screwed in.

BBP - 3-2-2016 at 23:39

Nope. It was a larger disk, about 5 cm diameter with a hole in the middle, and convex/concave shape like a gigantic robot contact lense. We'd drill regular screws through the hole in the middle, on the convex side. I enjoy working with power tools but 4 hours of screwing on end... Sometimes the robot lenses were badly produced and the screw'd go in crooked... sometimes I'd get bits of metal in my eye. Sometimes the drill slipped and hit my fingers.

(This was way after the start of my eye problems and the only eye accident I had there was with a dolly in a blister pack.)

aquagoat - 4-2-2016 at 09:54

Quote: Originally posted by polydigm  
There are these special roofing screws, for corrugated iron roofs, that come with a rubber washer that helps seal the hole when screwed in.
that I see and that I use, yes.

aquagoat - 4-2-2016 at 10:02

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Nope. It was a larger disk, about 5 cm diameter with a hole in the middle, and convex/concave shape like a gigantic robot contact lense. We'd drill regular screws through the hole in the middle, on the convex side. I enjoy working with power tools but 4 hours of screwing on end... Sometimes the robot lenses were badly produced and the screw'd go in crooked... sometimes I'd get bits of metal in my eye. Sometimes the drill slipped and hit my fingers.

(This was way after the start of my eye problems and the only eye accident I had there was with a dolly in a blister pack.)
Aren't you supposed to wear protection glasses when doing that?

You mean that kind of screw?

If so, yes I use them.

BBP - 4-2-2016 at 13:11

No, not those. Anyway the supervisor told me they got shipped to England, so you wouldn't have been in contact with my handiwork anyway.
After the incident with the blister packs I did start to bring my own glasses in. They had them there but maybe they didn't think there was so much risk.

aquagoat - 5-2-2016 at 08:48

Where I worked they always gave us glasses when we had to drill some metal stuff, I received bits of metal in my eyes once or twice so I always used them, probably ther only piece of protection I used systematically cause those tiny slags can really damage the eye.

BBP - 5-2-2016 at 11:06

I know. Dad had one of them in his eye and they had to drill it out. Eeeeeeeeow!

Because of that he's not allowed to go to the MRI chamber with me.

polydigm - 6-2-2016 at 00:26

14GX50MM CLEARFIX SCREWS FOR POLYCARB SHEETS

BBP - 6-2-2016 at 10:02

No, sorry... It's closer though, but the disk was much larger and you only drilled the screw in for one cm.

BBP - 9-2-2016 at 22:02

aquagoat - 11-2-2016 at 10:27

who's that good looking knight?

BBP - 11-2-2016 at 12:06

He was in the fanfare. His father asked if I wanted a picture with him.

BBP - 14-2-2016 at 09:53

A big hug to you all for Valentines!

aquagoat - 15-2-2016 at 11:01

A big hug to you too, Bonny.:grin:

BBP - 16-2-2016 at 15:27

Had a join request from a new member!

aquagoat - 17-2-2016 at 09:29

cool, a new member.

BBP - 17-2-2016 at 11:41

He hasn't signed in yet, though.

BBP - 21-2-2016 at 11:57

Hmm... looks like a bust...

Had a couple of nasty days with headaches...

polydigm - 22-2-2016 at 12:27

Sorry to hear you haven't been well Bonny.

I've been having a very good summer so far. The original major surgery I had in June 2010 not only saved my life, but after some recovery time, gave me much better health than I'd had for some time, but it was only the first stage of the process and there have still been some niggling problems. The surgery I had in March 2015 was the second and final stage of the process and seems to have taken care of the remaining niggles. By October 2015 and since I have been feeling very well. The bad news is that I have arthritis in both thumbs. Playing guitar and piano now routinely involve dealing with a certain amount of pain. Anyway, I'm back in lectures next week, having transformed our gardens during the summer break and I'm very pleased with the results. I haven't been this physically active for a long time.

Based on the last six years of my life, having said all that out loud, something will now go very wrong.

BBP - 22-2-2016 at 19:09

Good day in all. Found a Simpsons Season 3 Deluxe Edition DVD box at the charity shop and had a phonecall from my blind friend.

Stay healthy Poly!

polydigm - 23-2-2016 at 07:06

Staying healthy is the plan. The hardest thing I'm finding is losing weight. I can manage not to drink too much alcohol why can't I stop having eating binges? I just ate far too many Maltesers this afternoon and that was after a lunch that I could have well done without. I've lost some weight working in the garden but I'm back in academic mode starting next week. Let's hope riding the bike and walking between lectures will be enough exercise.

BBP - 23-2-2016 at 10:45

Oh I know that... it's why I stop buying sugary stuff. Just yesterday I was tempted into getting some chocolate waffles but I put them back, went home with an apple.

polydigm - 23-2-2016 at 23:08

My wife was given a gift of chocolates at work the other day. She's recently been diagnosed with diabetes, so I took one for the team. Then my son turned up with the box of Maltesers and wouldn't eat them. I have at least done my best to not go out and buy that crap myself, but when it's there in the fridge ...

BBP - 24-2-2016 at 10:40

...I understand...

We did get two boxes of Tofifee once, but that was so gross we only finished one. I've had Tofifee since, I don't know how I ate those knowing how foul it is. I hate caramel.

You may have heard Mars is taking back a lot of candybars?

polydigm - 25-2-2016 at 14:46

What's happening with Mars?

BBP - 25-2-2016 at 19:07

Still orbitting the sun at a speed of 24,077 km/s!

...
Anyway they found a mars bar with plastic in it in Germany. The factory is located in Veghel, not too far from where I live - they said that one chocolate pipeline had been replaced and one of the caps hadn't been removed. The chance is low that you'd find any plastic in your bar, but the edges could be sharp and could cause injuries.

aquagoat - 26-2-2016 at 11:04

I've probably found a job.

polydigm - 26-2-2016 at 13:17

Funny Mars joke, Bonny.

Good news Aqua!

aquagoat - 26-2-2016 at 16:25

yes it is, and it comes with a better pay.

BBP - 26-2-2016 at 21:54

Terrific news Aqua! Congratulations!!

I had my MRI-scan today. After I'd put on the special unflattering MRI-clothing, I was led to the bench into the machine, got a surgical cap on my head, laid down with my head in a brace and shoulders against the brace, got a pillow under my legs and an emergency button in my hand. Then my face was covered with a mask, with a little mirror in it so I could see out the tunnel, and headphones on. There was a radio in it, the assistant asked me if I wanted to listen to it. I replied yes, so music was put on. Terrible music but after I was slid into the machine and the photos started, I couldn't hear that anymore.

Man that's noisy! A lot of banging at all frequencies... at times so loud that the machine vibrated along. The nurse talked to me a few times if I was still OK, and to warn for a particularly loud photo.
I had a session of 40 minutes, since I got two researches at once: one of my brain, one of my eye socket. It was so noisy my head hurts. I was very dizzy coming out, still am.

And then I still had to fold papers. Luckily there were the newborn baby polar bears at the nearby zoo on the cover.

aquagoat - 27-2-2016 at 12:01

Thank you very much, Bonny.

Fuck! That MRI-scan sounds like quite an experience.

polydigm - 27-2-2016 at 23:31

I would have to take valium to put up with an MRI.

BBP - 28-2-2016 at 12:35

It's not the kind of MRI that they show on House, no. The doctors do talk a bit to you inbetween photos, the "how are you holding up?" and in one case the note that the next photo would be very loud but only one minute long. Looking back I'm kinda proud I didn't panic too much but I definitely hope that was my last MRI.

Head still hurts.

BBP - 2-3-2016 at 17:38

The neurologist said that my scans were clean, as in no infections or growths. She puts my pain down to muscle tension and now I get pain killers. Which in higher doses are used as anti-depressants.

BBP - 4-3-2016 at 13:17

Went to The Hague yeserday for archive research, visited the beach afterwards... Slept for more than 12 hours. Medication makes drowsy.

polydigm - 4-3-2016 at 14:17

My doctor wanted to discuss pain relief for my arthritis, but I told him I wasn't interested.

BBP - 4-3-2016 at 20:43

One side effect of these meds is they blur your vision. Considering I went to the hospital because of blurred vision, I'm finding this a bit weird.

aquagoat - 5-3-2016 at 08:45

haaa, the mysteries of medicine...

BBP - 5-3-2016 at 19:07

They're not doing too much so far... although I do feel drowsy...

BBP - 7-3-2016 at 22:10

Very drowsy indeed. Today was the second time I slept around the clock.

polydigm - 7-3-2016 at 22:33

Sleeping is good if you really need the rest, but pain killers can make you drowsy even if you don't need the sleep. I probably will give in eventually and use them if the arthritis gets really bad but in the mean time I need to be alert. I'm back in the thick of it at uni and I mostly don't even drink during the week. One or two beers is enough to significantly reduce one's concentration.

BBP - 8-3-2016 at 11:48

I don't drink, so I wouldn't know that...:bald:

BBP - 10-3-2016 at 18:10

Bought two tickets to the Jeroen Bosch-exhibition!

aquagoat - 11-3-2016 at 18:24

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Bought two tickets to the Jeroen Bosch-exhibition!
One of my favorite painters, are you allowed to take pictures?

BBP - 11-3-2016 at 21:25

Don't know... I'll bring my camera just in case!

(This is the kind of exhibition that happens once or twice in a lifetime and that is worth a long journey - tickets are a hefty 22 euros but a lot of these paintings are normally in the States, or in Spain or Italy... if you're interested please don't hesitate to go there. The tickets sell like hot cakes!)
http://boschexpo.hetnoordbrabantsmuseum.nl/en/

BBP - 14-3-2016 at 21:51

Three days without a post Bon...

Managed to get up a bit earlier than before today...

BBP - 16-3-2016 at 22:33

Scoured the town looking for a smartphone...

polydigm - 16-3-2016 at 22:34

I'm snowed under back at uni. It's the usual madness of balancing assignment deadlines and staying on top of the content. I was up past 1:30AM over night and up early again this morning. On top of that I'm dealing with a combination of hay fever and common cold and my nose has been running like hell since yesterday morning.

Sounds worse than it is though, the nose is really bugging me, but I'm quite fit now and staying pretty much on top of things. I am kind of enjoying all four of my courses.

BBP - 16-3-2016 at 22:48

HOoo sounds like a tense time... Good luck!

BBP - 18-3-2016 at 23:24

Pfff.... long day of folding brochures...
Played lots of Zappa! Played all of CD2 of Uncle Meat - normally I skip through the long excerpt after a while.

polydigm - 20-3-2016 at 22:55

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
HOoo sounds like a tense time... Good luck!
The day before I wrote that message, when the illness started, I rode my bicycle to uni and back 3 times and had several handkerchiefs with me to survive the lectures. It's 4k away, so that's 24k total and I ride as fast as I can go. That night I'd taken antihistamines and so the following day my nose ended up settling down but my throat was on fire. After writing that message I rode to uni and back twice. That was Friday and by Saturday morning it was already starting to clear up. I've just spent the weekend clearing out my upper respiratory tract - you don't want to know the details.

It's now Monday morning and I'm feeling pretty good. Hopefully I can now just focus on my studies. Although, it's the time of year when weeds start to go mad, so at some point very soon I've got to get out into the garden with weed spray and a hoe.

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Played all of CD2 of Uncle Meat - normally I skip through the long excerpt after a while.
Originally I discovered you could fit all the original parts of that on one CD, so I didn't have to put up with the movie excerpts. But I had to micro edit a little bit of noise from the start of King Kong I. Then the Universal version came out without that little bit of noise.

BBP - 21-3-2016 at 01:33

A few days ago I spent hours programming a silly march into NoteWorthy Composer. Now I only have the demo of NWC, which doesn't allow you to save or export. Since the sonic version was all I needed, and NWC worked best because I still have all the shortcuts memorized, I decided to program this sheet music for my father in NoteWorthy Composer, then record it with my screen recorder to keep the audio, and then make our merry ways with it.

Just found out I recorded without the sound.

Rookie mistake that cost hours. So this is what it must've felt like that time Dad put a freshly programmed cassette on the TV.

BBP - 22-3-2016 at 18:32

Quite a shock, Brussels... I hope our Belgian friends and family are all OK...

BBP - 26-3-2016 at 01:23

Bosch tickets are sold out now.

polydigm - 27-3-2016 at 06:17

The Brussels thing was frightening, but my wife and I undeterred, we still want to move to Europe.

Isn't it exciting that the save the vault thing has gone past $500,000?

I've had two migraines since I last posted, which is unusual for me. Not sure what's going on. I free pretty good in general though.

BBP - 27-3-2016 at 13:40

I don't understand what's going on with the vault... why does it need saving? Inheritance cost?

BBP - 29-3-2016 at 10:54

Hope the migraines stay away Poly!

polydigm - 30-3-2016 at 23:11

I'm not sure what you mean by why does the vault needs saving. There are four inheriting children so they will obviously want the house sold and the proceeds divided and I imagine they would want this sooner rather than later. Where will the contents of the vault go then? Having it all digitised solves that problem, because then it just goes on a hard drive. Either that or eventually it all ends up on a dump. It would be sad for it not to be saved, but very expensive to do so. Rock and a hard place.

BBP - 31-3-2016 at 19:40

I have a hard time imagining Dweezil would let it go that far with the vault - and I assumed one of them would take over the house... guess not. Sad...

Am checking out what else to do in Den Bosch on my birthday. Maybe a boat trip on the Binnendieze.

polydigm - 2-4-2016 at 03:27

Just imagine you're one of four siblings inheriting a house worth four million dollars. Your share is one million dollars. Do you want to forego one million dollars while one of your siblings lives in the house? I know I wouldn't.

I'm not sure what you mean about "go that far with the vault".

So you're going to Den Bosch on your birthday. Is it far from where you live? Is the name just a coincidence given that you were talking about the Jeroen Bosch exhibition above?

BBP - 2-4-2016 at 10:21

The painter named himself after the place he came from. He was born as Jheronimus van Aken. It's great to have the works back in the place where Bosch made them!
's-Hertogenbosch, as the city is officially known, is about 20 minutes by train for me. It's a beautiful old town that got rich in the late Middle Ages over wood-trade with the Swedes. The abundance of water made it an easy town to defend.

polydigm - 4-4-2016 at 07:55

My wife and I are planning on moving to Europe eventually and we will definitely be visiting the Netherlands again.

BBP - 4-4-2016 at 23:31

The exhibition was amazing!!!!!! !!! !!! !!! !!!!!!!!

BBP - 8-4-2016 at 10:27

Aqua, you're in luck: the Bosch exhibition is lengthened again!
I have to stress - this is an awesome exhibition. In spite of it being busy, you can get real close to the paintings, up to 30 cm.
http://boschexpo.hetnoordbrabantsmuseum.nl/en
(try a couple of times until the tickets are on sale again)

aquagoat - 8-4-2016 at 17:44

I wish I could go, that would be great, but I've got other plans for that period of time. Thank you anyway, Bonny.

BBP - 8-4-2016 at 21:11

Pity... it was such an amazing exhibition!
The Ship Of Fools is in the Louvre. It was once part of a triptych: the panel was detached from the back and then sown in two, the bottom of the ended up in Yale's art gallery in New Haven - it's known as Gluttony and Lust. At the other end of the Ship of Fools would have been one half of the Wayfarer, which is in Rotterdam. The back of the other half of the Wayfarer was Death And The Miser. Four places, three countries, two continents, one triptych.
Now they're all in one section of the room, the parts of the Ship of Fools reunited, with informative screens showing how the triptych would've looked, showing details and showing the infrared photography, which shows how Bosch worked and what changes he made.

Here's the website of the Bosch Research Project, for a good time:
http://boschproject.org/

aquagoat - 9-4-2016 at 07:48

That must have been an awesome exhibition... I'll have to go see The Ship Of Fools when it's come back to the Louvre, I haven't been there for a long time. It must be great to see all the different parts all gathered together in one room!

Thanks for the link, Bonny.

BBP - 9-4-2016 at 11:05

If you're going to the Louvre for just one painting: remember there's another part of the Louvre in Lens now. When we went to the Louvre my sister wanted to see Liberty guiding the People, but that turned out to be in Lens. I'm not sure where they put the Ship of Fools when it comes back (and IIRC it may spend some months at the Prado).

aquagoat - 10-4-2016 at 07:56

Thanks for the info, I totally forgot that Lens thing.

BBP - 11-4-2016 at 18:57

Found an awesome book at the secondhander today:
https://40.media.tumblr.com/9dd4936df01aee756611ae4436a7bebf...

BBP - 12-4-2016 at 22:45

And here's a picture!

aquagoat - 13-4-2016 at 17:12

looks good, what is it about?

BBP - 14-4-2016 at 10:36

It's a fairy tale book. This one is about four brothers, one a thief, one star gazer, one hunter and one tailor...

Wait wait I typed it in yesterday for somebody:
http://www.sierrahelp.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=58050#p5805...

aquagoat - 15-4-2016 at 08:24

That's cool!

Going to Thailand from April 25th to May 11th.:bouncy::bouncing::grin:

polydigm - 15-4-2016 at 09:19

Thailand? Is that something you've wanted to do for a while, or have you been there before? I've not been myself but I've noticed it's very popular with a lot of Aussies living there on the cheap apparently.

BBP - 15-4-2016 at 09:54

In this region of the world Thailand's known for its loose attitude towards sexual criminality - it's the holiday destination of pedophiles.


Aaaaanyway... Great Aqua, hope you'll get to see elephants!

aquagoat - 15-4-2016 at 15:27

Quote: Originally posted by polydigm  
Thailand? Is that something you've wanted to do for a while, or have you been there before? I've not been myself but I've noticed it's very popular with a lot of Aussies living there on the cheap apparently.
It's one of the countries I've wanted to go to for a long time, with Brazil, canada and Egypt. I intended to go to Mauritius or the Seychelles, in the first place, but I couldn't get what i wanted for a reasonable price, so I thought why not go to Thailand? It's beautiful, people are nice, etc, etc...

aquagoat - 15-4-2016 at 15:29

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
In this region of the world Thailand's known for its loose attitude towards sexual criminality - it's the holiday destination of pedophiles.


Aaaaanyway... Great Aqua, hope you'll get to see elephants!
I think I will, it's one of the things I want to do, that and eat lots of food I don't know yet, lol

BBP - 16-4-2016 at 15:11

Happy birthday DED!

aquagoat - 16-4-2016 at 16:15

Yes, happy birthday, DED!
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