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aquagoat - 4-3-2017 at 08:36

Cool, let the money in.;-)

BBP - 4-3-2017 at 09:33

It's more than welcome!

I really love my boyfriend and think we can go far - but visiting him costs a chunk out of my budget every time...

aquagoat - 5-3-2017 at 08:40

Yeah, I know what it is, I was in the same situation when I met my ex-girlfriend, ten years ago, which prompted me to move from the south to the north of the country.

BBP - 5-3-2017 at 19:25

That must've been quite a change of climate...

It would be a huge change for me. Frizian is considered a separate language. Not sure if I buy that but it's going to take quite some time before I master it...

aquagoat - 6-3-2017 at 09:08

Ha, yes, it was, but I didn't mind the weather.
Well, maybe he could move?

BBP - 6-3-2017 at 09:45

He lives close to all his family and is the resident repairman. Gonna be difficult for either one of us...

BBP - 6-3-2017 at 13:40

Put some stuff on an auction site... bass and amplifier among them...

BBP - 7-3-2017 at 22:55

Here's hoping I sold the amp...

BBP - 8-3-2017 at 11:43

Sold it for a good price! To a rental company, so if I miss it I can rent it for a day.

aquagoat - 9-3-2017 at 09:19

Good news, Bonny.

BBP - 9-3-2017 at 09:52

:biggrin:
I do miss it, oddly. I used to play for three, four hours every day and had gotten pretty good when I snapped my finger with basketball in high school at 17. After that I barely used it, it may have been tucked away in its corner under the table for more than 10 years.

BBP - 10-3-2017 at 09:22

Chucked a spammer out...

polydigm - 11-3-2017 at 01:24

Sorry, I've been really busy. I'll try to drop in more often. Time flies, I haven't been here since February!!

aquagoat - 11-3-2017 at 09:10

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
:biggrin:
I do miss it, oddly. I used to play for three, four hours every day and had gotten pretty good when I snapped my finger with basketball in high school at 17. After that I barely used it, it may have been tucked away in its corner under the table for more than 10 years.
Yeah, I know that feeling, it's always a weird sensation when you get rid of something you've had for a long time, it's a bit of your life that goes away.

BBP - 11-3-2017 at 12:48

Hi Poly, nice to see you again! How's college?

Thanks Aqua! :bouncing:

polydigm - 13-3-2017 at 22:01

It's hectic. This is a whole new level of difficulty and it's freaking me out.

aquagoat - 14-3-2017 at 08:24

Don't worry, Poly, just a little time of adaptation and it's gonna be ok.

BBP - 14-3-2017 at 18:48

Good luck bud!

BBP - 14-3-2017 at 19:59

Pfff... posted a thread on the DeviantArt forum that's going like hot cakes!

It often happened to me that I thought "wow, I really thought I'd get more views for this artwork!" so I posted a thread inviting people to share the arts of which they assumed it'd do better than it does - and it's apparently a familiar feeling.

BBP - 16-3-2017 at 09:52

Counted votes last night until 12:30 AM, got up at 5:30... I'm pooped.

polydigm - 16-3-2017 at 13:28

I'm slogging away and some of it's starting to make sense.

Which votes are you counting?

BBP - 16-3-2017 at 14:04

Dutch parliamental election! Was a lot of work, didn't finish until 12:30 AM... and had to get up at 5:30 AM... zzz...

I'm all in favour of return to voting computers...

polydigm - 19-3-2017 at 14:16

Sitting up in bed late in the evening all sweaty after a hot day. This is crazy weather for the start of Autumn.

BBP - 19-3-2017 at 16:59

BF came to visit me this weekend, we went to my favourite theme park De Efteling. I had to since I'd gotten a gift card for my birthday three years ago and had less than a month left to use it, with 44 euros to go.

Initially I was going to buy my ticket at the till, the most expensive option but the only way with the gift certificate, but my father saw one of his former colleagues in trouble: she had bought 15 tickets for March 18th including parking, and had to sell them because hubby needed surgery. They were a lot cheaper than anything I could buy, without me knowing he bought 2 tickets instead of 1 for boyfriend.

It turned out to save the day: Rabobank had rented the park for its customers and I wouldn't have been able to get in otherwise.

With BF I did a very different tour than I'd usually do; he'd downloaded an app where you can see the waiting times and used it a lot in deciding where we'd go next. With this specific event luring a lot of young families, the rougher rides were low on waiting time. And so I did their dive coaster Baron 1898 5 times.

The Dutch word "ploeg" doesn't just mean plough, it can also refer to a team or group of people. As you are about to enter the ride, you're given a ticket based on where in the cart you want to sit (front row typically lasts longer to get there, and there's a single riders line to max out the capacity). You're divided into team A and team B, and as I went in for the first time through the regular entrance, I was pleasantly surprised to receive a ticket that said "PLOEG B".

And of course I had to hand that ticket back.
Next time we went in, I got another ticket for team B, BF talked a bit to the guy taking back the tickets - and I got to keep mine!

Here's the Baron 1898 Experience:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRQNMWribCI

polydigm - 20-3-2017 at 09:03

That's quite a drop!

BBP - 20-3-2017 at 10:18

At the stop before you drop, you can hear one very loud expletive!

BBP - 25-3-2017 at 13:10

Wow, that theme park visit took it out of me!

BBP - 26-3-2017 at 09:26

Why oh why do I always get sick on weekends?

BBP - 29-3-2017 at 20:41

Guy phones, offers me a job and sends me the details.

I reply that I applied for the same vacancy nine months before that.

I get a rejection.

Some people...

BBP - 30-3-2017 at 11:53

Had a trade with Slime-oofy.tvset off the Zappa forum. Turns out I had a magazine he didn't have yet.

BBP - 1-4-2017 at 22:31

Survived another April Fool's... Anyone else been pranked here?

aquagoat - 2-4-2017 at 07:11

No, fortunately. I don't know why but I really don't like that day. I think it's the day of the year I like the least.

BBP - 3-4-2017 at 09:26

Dad said the waste paper collectors came in that day because next Thursday would be White Thursday, sister and I spent some time hurrying to get the waste paper ready to put on the side of the road when he informed us it was April Fool's. Should've guessed since White Thursday is not next Thursday and it's not a bank holiday either.

It is the national Boekenweek, a week in which book sales are stimulated extra. If you spend 15 euros on Dutch-language books, you get a book for free that's been especially written for the occasion.
It is my birthday tomorrow, Dad's present for me had been delayed so much he had to cancel it and get a book instead, so he also got the free book.
The Dutch railways sponsor the Boekenweek - with your free book you can now travel by train for free for one Sunday. The plan was for my father to go to Amsterdam and visit my sister - she however came to us because of my birthday, and so we had one free book ticket.

So, of course, I made a quick round-trip to my special someone who lives quite a way away. Took three-and-a-half hours to get there, three-and-a-half hours to get back, spent six hours there... Was good fun! Among others he showed me the new Zelda-game.

BBP - 4-4-2017 at 16:47

Celebrated my birthday by knocking a large mug of tea over my freshly-gotten books. :duh:

aquagoat - 5-4-2017 at 07:41

So, Happy Birthday Bonny, I hope it was a good one.:bouncy:

BBP - 5-4-2017 at 10:32

It was, sister and I went out for ice-cream!

BBP - 8-4-2017 at 17:16

Pfff... finally week-end...
With the cleaning job and the brochure delivery I now work 6 days a week...

aquagoat - 9-4-2017 at 07:58

Went from 80kg to 68kg in about 6 months of working out and diet. It feels pretty good being in a better shape. Now let's stabilize that for a few months. I can see my abs!:bouncy:

aquagoat - 9-4-2017 at 08:00

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Pfff... finally week-end...
With the cleaning job and the brochure delivery I now work 6 days a week...
feels good, doesn't it?

BBP - 9-4-2017 at 09:10

Wow, great job Aqua!

aquagoat - 9-4-2017 at 14:07

Thank you, Bonny.

BBP - 9-4-2017 at 19:49

Seriously, amazing job! I couldn't do that!

polydigm - 10-4-2017 at 00:56

Quote: Originally posted by aquagoat  
Went from 80kg to 68kg in about 6 months of working out and diet. It feels pretty good being in a better shape. Now let's stabilize that for a few months. I can see my abs!:bouncy:
How tall are you? If I weighed 68kg, I wouldn't be well. I am however 88kg at 178cm tall and would be much better off at 78kg.

polydigm - 10-4-2017 at 00:58

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Celebrated my birthday by knocking a large mug of tea over my freshly-gotten books. :duh:
Sorry I missed your birthday. Sounds like you had a good day.

aquagoat - 10-4-2017 at 08:17

Quote: Originally posted by polydigm  
Quote: Originally posted by aquagoat  
Went from 80kg to 68kg in about 6 months of working out and diet. It feels pretty good being in a better shape. Now let's stabilize that for a few months. I can see my abs!:bouncy:
How tall are you? If I weighed 68kg, I wouldn't be well. I am however 88kg at 178cm tall and would be much better off at 78kg.
I'm 173cm. The main purpose of that diet is to get pretty lean, just to lose my belly fat and see my abs again, hadn't seen them for more than 20 years, actually. Then in a few months, I'll start eating more again and work out more intensively, to gain muscle, and be around 70 kg. The main goal is to look like Brad Pitt in Snatch or Fight Club, the body, at least, cause concerning the face, it's fucked up beyond any possibility of improvement. :lol:

aquagoat - 10-4-2017 at 08:19

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Seriously, amazing job! I couldn't do that!
I'm sure you can, it's bit tough in the beginning, but it's just good habits to acquire.

BBP - 10-4-2017 at 09:20

I'm really very broad for a woman - the average shoulder length of a woman is 11cm, mine is 16. Due to my broad body build I'm often mistaken for a man. I'm not likely to fit into the Quetelet index.

aquagoat - 10-4-2017 at 09:42

Well, I don't care about arbitrary indexes, all I care about is: Do I look good and do I feel good with my body? I clearly didn't a year ago, so I did what was necessary.

BBP - 10-4-2017 at 16:09

Very good of you!

aquagoat - 15-4-2017 at 07:45

Happy Easter, everyone. And lots of chocolate to you all.:D

BBP - 17-4-2017 at 16:14

Thank you!

BF came over on Friday, it did put a dent in my schedule! He's just left. We had a great time going on walks!

aquagoat - 19-4-2017 at 07:05

That's a good way to spend the day.;)

BBP - 19-4-2017 at 09:07

We also went to Evoluon together. The exhibition wasn't much but the building's gorgeous as ever!

Unfortunately on the way there I got lost and we cycled way in the wrong direction.

aquagoat - 21-4-2017 at 08:20

Haha, that reminds me when I was 18, with a bunch of friends we were supposed to go see a show in a local town, and we arrived elsewhere cause the shortcut one of us knew wasn't really a shortcut, so we had to make a few more kilometres on our mopeds to reach the final destination.

BBP - 21-4-2017 at 08:24

Ah, mopeds, then you have gasoline.

aquagoat - 22-4-2017 at 12:59

Ha, yeah, less effort involved, that's true.

BBP - 24-4-2017 at 09:24

But not as cost-effective!

I spent the weekend over at BF's - they do their Christmas at Easter. Was a lot of fun! We kicked off with presents and snacks, then had lunch and put up the ping-pong table in the living room!

polydigm - 24-4-2017 at 09:32

Where does the time go? Last time I was here was two weeks ago. I've been so busy it's ridiculous. Hope you guys are well.

BBP - 25-4-2017 at 18:00

Hi Poly, great to see you again! Good luck at uni!

I got a temp cleaning job at an office building way out of the way, started today... Getting there wasn't easy but I managed without getting too lost (miracle considering how confusing the Flight Forum is) but unfortunately one of the places I had to clean was the smoker's room, and that took too much from my lungs.

aquagoat - 28-4-2017 at 07:11

Quote: Originally posted by polydigm  
Where does the time go? Last time I was here was two weeks ago. I've been so busy it's ridiculous. Hope you guys are well.
Yep, time flies like a mofo, and it accelarates with age. Or maybe WE slow down?

BBP - 28-4-2017 at 08:43

Both!

polydigm - 28-4-2017 at 10:32

I'm still hanging in there, Bonny.

Time passing? That's another four days - ridiculous!

It could be age that makes it go faster, but I think it's more likely to be a growing concern with time that makes it seem to go faster as you get older. When you're young, you want to be older, so you can be more free and you feel like you'll live forever and don't care much about time. Then you get older and become more concerned about the fact that you won't live forever and time just seems to go faster the more you care about it.

Being occupied makes it go faster as well - time flies when you're productively occupied with something interesting. Now - I'd rather be productively occupied with something interesting than not - so there's a catch 22 for you. It is what it is.

BBP - 28-4-2017 at 12:06

Baking a chocolate cake...

BBP - 28-4-2017 at 20:49

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Had a trade with Slime-oofy.tvset off the Zappa forum. Turns out I had a magazine he didn't have yet.


The package he sent arrived today. Man has he spoiled me! Now I have 4 extra dictionaries in my collection, in Swahili, Sanskrit, Welsh and Dari (spoken in Afghanistan).

polydigm - 29-4-2017 at 01:09

Squeak!!

aquagoat - 29-4-2017 at 07:34

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Both!
Haha, probably, yeah!

aquagoat - 29-4-2017 at 07:42

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Baking a chocolate cake...
Want some! Please?

aquagoat - 29-4-2017 at 07:44

Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Quote: Originally posted by BBP  
Had a trade with Slime-oofy.tvset off the Zappa forum. Turns out I had a magazine he didn't have yet.


The package he sent arrived today. Man has he spoiled me! Now I have 4 extra dictionaries in my collection, in Swahili, Sanskrit, Welsh and Dari (spoken in Afghanistan).
That's great. I think the dictionary is the best book in the world, kind of the REAL bible.

aquagoat - 29-4-2017 at 07:45

Quote: Originally posted by polydigm  
I'm still hanging in there, Bonny.

Time passing? That's another four days - ridiculous!

It could be age that makes it go faster, but I think it's more likely to be a growing concern with time that makes it seem to go faster as you get older. When you're young, you want to be older, so you can be more free and you feel like you'll live forever and don't care much about time. Then you get older and become more concerned about the fact that you won't live forever and time just seems to go faster the more you care about it.

Being occupied makes it go faster as well - time flies when you're productively occupied with something interesting. Now - I'd rather be productively occupied with something interesting than not - so there's a catch 22 for you. It is what it is.
That's totally right.

BBP - 29-4-2017 at 18:02

Sure, come quick it's almost gone!

aquagoat - 29-4-2017 at 18:13

Ha, by the time I get there it'll be completely gone. Well, I guess I'll have to content myself with some pastries I bought this afternoon. :D

BBP - 30-4-2017 at 13:13

I could give you the recipe:

Chocolate Pound Cake:

Takes:
6 eggs, split
150 g butter
125 g sugar
125 g self-raising flour (or flour and baking powder)
150 g pure chocolate

Oven set to 160 deg C
Buttered form
Mixer
Pans with water to melt the chocolate.

Melt the chocolate au-bain-marie and take it off the fire to let it cool a bit.
Mix the butter and sugar to a mass, then add the 6 egg-yolks and the chocolate.

In another bowl, beat the egg-whites stiff.
Sieve the flour.
Mix the flour and egg-whites in with the chocolate mix, beat until it's properly mixed, then put it in the form and smooth it out.
Put the cake in the oven for 60-65 mins. Then let it cool in the form for 10 minutes before taking it out and munching it all.

Calvin - 1-5-2017 at 02:00

That might take me a while, I've got the 150 gallons of butter, now I have to wait until I can afford the 150 gallons of sugar.

aquagoat - 1-5-2017 at 08:34

Thanks a lot Bonny, I'll have to test that soon.

BBP - 1-5-2017 at 20:46

Quote: Originally posted by punknaynowned  
wopps forgot the link!

saw this at Doonesbury's website and thought, 'O Wow! The Dutch have got it together!'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwyV9o5ILF0&


It's been a while since Punky posted that, but I actually got to go there today:



It's really frightening to cycle over that - the barriers are cycle-steer high, so it'd be easy to tip over.

BBP - 1-5-2017 at 20:49

Quote: Originally posted by Calvin  
That might take me a while, I've got the 150 gallons of butter, now I have to wait until I can afford the 150 gallons of sugar.


Ooh that's going to take a large whisk!

BBP - 4-5-2017 at 09:26

BF is coming over for the weekend. So I'm cleaning here.

BBP - 5-5-2017 at 07:58

And deleted another spammer.

BBP - 7-5-2017 at 16:52

Was a great weekend!

polydigm - 7-5-2017 at 23:14

Nobody wondered about the squeak? Bonny was talking about all those dictionaries and I was demonstrating that although my main language is English and I can speak a little French, I can also speak mouse.

BBP - 8-5-2017 at 16:47

Squeak-squeak!

polydigm - 10-5-2017 at 12:47

That's very good Bonny. Although, there aren't too many words in the mouse dictionary.

BBP - 10-5-2017 at 16:26

Yup, very easy language!


Went to the second-handshop yesterday. They had a big Revell-model kit of a 1953 Corvette car. I know those kits, getting them brand new will set you back quite a bundle of around 30 euros, more than I'm willing to spend on a craft kit since I'm lousy at crafts and likely to break such things. Checked to see if it was complete. There seemed to be a missing wheelcase, so I left it there.

But I did tell my father, he was immediately interested and told me to buy it. So I went out to get it today...

And came home with something else I bumped into at that place: an Angel glockenspiel.

polydigm - 12-5-2017 at 01:15

A chromatic one with 25 bars? Did you get it cheaply?

BBP - 12-5-2017 at 08:13

polydigm - 16-5-2017 at 08:29

If it's in good condition, that's a good price. I think G to G is standard. I would have thought Eat That Question was a good choice, given that it only ranges a major ninth.

Try the Cosmic Debris riff.

BBP - 16-5-2017 at 16:41

It fits, yes... it's a bit fiddly though but then again I'm new at this...

BBP - 16-5-2017 at 19:48

My T-shirt caught fire while I was making tea. Sustained minor burns.

It was my "Me, sarcastic? Never!" T-shirt. Bummer!

polydigm - 18-5-2017 at 15:54

Does that mean nobody believed you were on fire? :wink2:

BBP - 19-5-2017 at 19:27

:biggrin: You can tell from the smell...

The theme to Lumpy Gravy sounds great on glockenspiel!

BBP - 20-5-2017 at 17:21

On the train right now... hoping the battery'll last a while. This journey has been pretty troublewome. I'm off to BF again, but there was railway maintenance on the way so I had to get off someplace else - lengthening my route by a lot. Making it worse, my first train left the station so late I missed the connection and had to wait half an hour in Den Bosch.

On the way to BF...

polydigm - 22-5-2017 at 15:08

Transport hassles!!

Hope you're alright Bonny.

BBP - 24-5-2017 at 11:37

Weŕe alright and having fun! I did forget my laptop cables (I even disconnected them back home so that was NOT a smart move) but Iḿ now borrowing his laptop to jot this down and delete all the spam.

Cheers!

BBP - 25-5-2017 at 17:35

Back home again, laptop plugged in and charging...
Road back was NOT pleasant!

polydigm - 27-5-2017 at 15:50

Having a spell of rain at the moment. The garden needs it anyway.

Exams are coming up soon. Squeak.

BBP - 27-5-2017 at 22:31

Good luck with the exams!

We're having unseasonal heat- 33.4 C here, if it gets over 25 C tomorrow we could have a heatwave in May.

aquagoat - 28-5-2017 at 08:06

Good luck for the exams, poly. I'm sure it's gonna be ok.

BBP - 28-5-2017 at 20:42

Hot weather's got me off... nauseous a lot...

polydigm - 30-5-2017 at 14:49

Thanks Aqua. Haven't seen you for a while. I was wondering if you were okay.

Over 30C in your part of the world in May does seem a bit much, Bonny. Hope you're feeling better today.

BBP - 30-5-2017 at 22:32

Things have been cooling down a bit. There was a big set of waves in The Hague causing damage though.
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