We're casually mentioning moving in together - it's a bit problematic because the distance is going to leave at least one of us without
footing and the area where he lives is hardly known for its high employment rate.
As a compromise you could move to neutral ground.polydigm - 8-8-2017 at 14:03
Yes, it's me, after more than three weeks. Time flies! I've been busy working on these books. I didn't realise it had been that long
without saying hello.BBP - 8-8-2017 at 17:30
Hi Poly, how are you?
BF's niece (almost 7) asked me to make her a crochet rainbow unicorn.
BF's sister sent me a wedding invitation.
I'm getting a lot of family all of a sudden!BBP - 12-8-2017 at 13:27
Been down for a whle with food poisoning, 3rd case this week! Or is it one continuous case? I don't know anymore...
The rainbow unicorn is finished, niece liked it so much she mailed me a picture made with ironing beads.
BF's niece (almost 7) asked me to make her a crochet rainbow unicorn.
BF's sister sent me a wedding invitation.
I'm getting a lot of family all of a sudden!
That's good, if you get along well with one another, it can be lots of fun.
Crochet rainbow unicorn? Damn! I want to see one. Actually, I might want to have one...
Edit: well I didn't read our latest post before comment, Bonny, so now, I definitely want one. How much do you charge?
Edit 2 (the comeback!): What's with the food poisoning? Wht did you eat?BBP - 13-8-2017 at 10:07
Uni's most expensive part is the golden embroidery floss, that is 2,90 per pack, and I used more than half for the horn and the legs. Then the
eyes are about 20 cents per set, the cost of the rest is peanuts in comparison.
And then there's shipping, which means I'd better go to Belgium to post it... saves 60% in cost...aquagoat - 13-8-2017 at 12:34
Ok, could you make me one, please?BBP - 14-8-2017 at 08:17
OK!aquagoat - 14-8-2017 at 15:42
Cool!:bouncy:BBP - 14-8-2017 at 23:09
Working on it...
One nasty side effect of gold floss is it never is quite as soft as you'd like...aquagoat - 15-8-2017 at 07:24
Excellent!, how much do I owe you? And how do we deal with this?BBP - 16-8-2017 at 13:01
First off I'm going to need an adress. I already have a box. If you could help out with postage and gold floss support, I'd be grateful!BBP - 17-8-2017 at 09:52
This Saturday I'll be visiting my BF for about a week. BBP - 18-8-2017 at 14:36
Your hobby horse is on its way!aquagoat - 18-8-2017 at 15:53
Cool! Thanx a lot Bonny.
Have fun, you and your boyfriend.BBP - 18-8-2017 at 17:27
Ha haa... we will...aquagoat - 18-8-2017 at 17:50
have a drink on me. aquagoat - 19-8-2017 at 16:47
I'm bored. I shuld find new stuff to do, and new people to do it with. But I can't seem to get my ass off my seat cause I'm bored. :|BBP - 20-8-2017 at 13:16
I'm not really bored, luckily - great thing is I met my boyfriend on a small internet forum, not unlike this one (except with more visitors). We
haven't told the people there yet...BBP - 20-8-2017 at 14:55
It's so quiet in this tiny village here... there's a school and a church and a handful of roads... there used to be a baker's but they
went bankrupt.aquagoat - 21-8-2017 at 07:32
Haha, I met my ex-girlfriend on a little forum too, back in 2006.
Is the village quiet in a good or in a boring way?BBP - 21-8-2017 at 20:46
It's quiet in a way that could be both bad and good, but it's great to have BF all to myself!aquagoat - 22-8-2017 at 07:17
Hahaha, I understand.BBP - 22-8-2017 at 15:42
Beautiful sunny day here today! We celebrated by fixing things around this house. aquagoat - 23-8-2017 at 07:26
Good useful and agreeable occupation.BBP - 23-8-2017 at 07:43
This is truly a different environment. Here if I want anything I have to cycle or drive, there's nothing in the village...aquagoat - 24-8-2017 at 06:58
Reminds me of the little village I spent my summer holidays at, when I was young.BBP - 24-8-2017 at 12:58
Lovely!
Did some genealogical research into the Ploeg family that resided/resides here. They're not related and only got their name in 1811, which is
rather late.
Also did some plant surgery.BBP - 24-8-2017 at 17:05
Plant surgery became a massacre... BBP - 25-8-2017 at 14:53
We bought some new plants for sis-in-law to spice up her home. We had to throw away around 30 plants...aquagoat - 25-8-2017 at 16:50
Hey Boony, I've just received my rainbow unicorn! It's awesome! thanks again. As soon as I can take a picture of it I'll post one here.
:bouncy:BBP - 25-8-2017 at 18:42
Yay!
The other Uni is here up north now, and will stay here. I'll be off tomorrow. Was a terrific vacation!aquagoat - 26-8-2017 at 07:38
I'm glad to hear it, Bonny.
My unicorn is proudly standing on the mantelpiece in my living room. Among book by Zappa, Schopenhaur and many others. I think it's in good
company.
Spent the evening with my young neighbour, she prepared salty and sugary crepes for us to eat, and we talked till about 2 o'clock in the morning.
She's such an adorable lass.BBP - 26-8-2017 at 10:23
Lovely!
I'm preparing for the journey home...aquagoat - 26-8-2017 at 17:43
Just bought a silver chain, a wood secret ring and two rings made out of coins.
The wood secret ring should look like that:
BBP - 26-8-2017 at 20:40
Pic doesn't work for me I'm afraid...
Made it back home!
Was great to stay with BF for so long, especially because I didn't have to share him!aquagoat - 27-8-2017 at 08:14
Just edited the message, does that pic work?
Glad to know you had a great time.BBP - 27-8-2017 at 09:27
It does now! Looks pretty cool!
Downside is I miss him terribly now...
This is the local church: aquagoat - 27-8-2017 at 11:52
Nice little church.
Yeah, that's the excruciating counterpart of this kind of good moments spent with someone you love. But you'll see eachother again, soon.
:grin:aquagoat - 27-8-2017 at 15:34
Bonny, have you heard the brand new primus song? If yes, what do you think of it?BBP - 27-8-2017 at 17:31
There's going to be a new Primus record soon. And I don't know why, but I've got the feeling it'll be better than Green Naugahyde;
i hope so, at least. New record will be out on Septembre 29th.BBP - 28-8-2017 at 18:16
1: The quack and his tickle-machine. To understand these people's dedication, the parade lasts 2 hours - the actors on this float were being
tickled under their armpits for 2 hours.
2: Early aviation. Won an award for the little bike-plane behind the main float
3: Puppets
4: Haunted house
5: Amusement park
6: All Soul's Day
7: Gypsy cart
8: Biker's honking parade, (when biker groups have a parade with people with mental disabilities, who are invited to ride along and honk the horn
as much as possible)
Winner of the Press Prize and Audience Award
9: Freak Show
10: Flea circus and its demise due to improved hygiene
11: Charivari, specifically about an 1811 incident in Den Bosch when an adulterous woman was made to ride a donkey
12: Balance between the sweet/unhealthy foods and the health foods.
13: Hot air balloon festivals
14: "Mirror of entertainment" where the audience gets mocked by jesters
15: 19th century barrel organ vs 21st century dance party. You'll notice the barrel organ tune is the same as the dance tune. Also features
dresses made of vinyl, CDs and cassette tapes.
16: Circus Salto Mortale, circus where everything goes wrong: the clown's car crashed in the lion cage, the lions have escaped and the clowns in
the Beetle try to lure it back by calling "here puss...", the bearded lady has her beard trapped in the cart wheel, numerous performers
hobble past with broken limbs and there's even one with a chainsaw juggling incident going horribly wrong... and then there's the human
cannonball...
BBP - 1-9-2017 at 13:33
BF's come over for a surprise visit! Yay!aquagoat - 1-9-2017 at 17:29
Great news!aquagoat - 1-9-2017 at 21:07
truest words I've ever heard:
All stars in the sky are for you
All songs in the world are for you
Everybody is for you
Everything s specially for you
All the Universe is just for youBBP - 2-9-2017 at 09:48
You could squeeze 42 in there...aquagoat - 3-9-2017 at 07:42
Definitely, haha.BBP - 3-9-2017 at 09:37
He made me read it... :bald:polydigm - 3-9-2017 at 09:56
I'm still around. I've just been really busy. You'd think now that I'm back on my own schedule I'd be putting my feet up a
little but I've got lots of shelved projects that I've been getting back to. Hope you two are well.BBP - 3-9-2017 at 17:16
Nice to see you again Poly!
BF left, he intended to go home today so that was not a surprise... it was annoying that he had a terrible night. He couldn't sleep properly and
eventually went down to drink water and read Donald Ducks until he could fall asleep. BBP - 3-9-2017 at 23:34
Apparently Tim Curry had a Q&A session at a convention in Toronto, which yielded an hour-long video of the man showing just how funny he still
is...
The weekly second-hander trip was interesting! I bought a pack of DVDs to give to my sister for her birthday, a magazine and a CD for me, and I saw
three things that caught my eye.
The first was an Asian band with Chinese script, called JTL.
Second was a CD by a group called Medieval Baebes.
Third was a highly unusual musical instrument.
Checking out JTL (cheesy Hong-Kong hiphop) and Medieval Baebes (celtic choir) I was happy I left both of them in the store.
But then there was the musical instrument. A Crumar Panorgan X-76.
It was huge, yet in a portable case (as in: has a handle), and had all the switches of an electronic organ, but the keys were knobs like that of an
accordeon.
It was 99 euros, so on the expensive side: we already have a 70s electronic organ which doesn't sound too hot and which is so heavy it's
busy rotting away in the garage. These instruments tend to sound poor, be unwieldy and not to have much value, so I left the panorgan at the shop.
Wouldn't be able to carry it home anyway.
It sounds like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZs32IgkHg0
(fast forward a bit)aquagoat - 5-9-2017 at 17:53
Sounds pretty cool, very tangerine Dream like.BBP - 5-9-2017 at 19:45
Those buttons... sure love all those buttons!BBP - 5-9-2017 at 22:32
Those Dir En Grey managers sure know how to line their pockets! For 6000 yens, some 42 euros, I could be the owner of a Dir En Grey trash can!BBP - 6-9-2017 at 10:34
And this morning I got drilled out of bed by the neighbors removing a garbage container and leaving a truck run stationary for fifteen minutes. polydigm - 6-9-2017 at 16:13
Bloody neighbours! The family over the road made use of our garbage bin last week without asking.BBP - 6-9-2017 at 19:38
What a jerk move... they could ask...BBP - 8-9-2017 at 16:44
I'm in full Curry swing now. I noticed Stephen King's It was on TV last night, and decided to watch it in full.
Considering I already knew that once the spider comes on, the film becomes pure shite.
Considering it lasts 4 hours including commercials and I sat up until 2:45 AM...
... considering I have it on VHS.aquagoat - 9-9-2017 at 15:25
Young neighbour and I will eat at my place, tonight. I spent most of the morning cooking stuff, but it looks pretty good. If it actually is good,
I'll post pics of it. Wish me luck. aquagoat - 9-9-2017 at 15:28
I'm in full Curry swing now. I noticed Stephen King's It was on TV last night, and decided to watch it in full.
Considering I already knew that once the spider comes on, the film becomes pure shite.
Considering it lasts 4 hours including commercials and I sat up until 2:45 AM...
... considering I have it on VHS.
I only very recently watched that movie, maybe last year, and I found it soooooo lame, I
don't understand how one can be scared by this thing, unless you're 5 year old or you've got a phobia of clowns...BBP - 9-9-2017 at 17:21
Not lame, no, at least not until the giant spider and the tacky ending. The sections with the kids I enjoyed a lot, they were acting better than most
of the adults. Jonathan Brandis (young Bill-with-the-stutter) is very good!
I'm more sensitive to horror I suppose. As a kid I couldn't sleep at night because I was afraid of ghosts - which I didn't believe in
by day. IT doesn't work much for me however: I'm both not-scared-of-clowns and only-watching-because-I-liked-that-clown-in-fishnets.aquagoat - 10-9-2017 at 10:33
My neighbour took a pic of my Rainbow Unicorn on my table:
BBP - 10-9-2017 at 22:12
Teehee, cute!
I went to visit my good friend Hedda today. Was so cosy it was 18:45 by the time we realized we also needed to eat!aquagoat - 11-9-2017 at 18:16
Cute indeed. I like it a lot.BBP - 11-9-2017 at 19:24
Glad he's got a good home!
There's a nearby sunflower field I've been making photos of:
BBP - 14-9-2017 at 09:57
Feeling puney...aquagoat - 14-9-2017 at 18:58
Why? What's the deal, bonny?
Been working on the roof of an arabian family since the beginning of the week, they're so nice and typical arab people, you won't get out of
there without having an extreme amount of coffee and homemade bakery, which I've always really liked. Plus, the younger girl is really pretty and
we seem to get along well...BBP - 15-9-2017 at 10:16
Nothing to worry about...
Your job sounds cool!aquagoat - 15-9-2017 at 17:39
If it was always like that, it would be cool, indeed. It's pretty cool when the weather's fine, which is n't quite often. But I must say I've quite
liked going to work this week.BBP - 15-9-2017 at 19:53
Ha! We'll keep our weather a little longer then...
It's been raining cats and dogs here. Yesterday it rained all day. To the extent that the Swim Against Cancer-event in Den Bosch was moved to
Vught, because the sewers in Eindhoven have so much water to deal with, that water will be in Den Bosch in the channel by the time the swimming event
takes place. So they moved it to Vught. BBP - 18-9-2017 at 09:21
Not much going on here, besides my sister's birthday rolling up and a temp job tomorrow...BBP - 19-9-2017 at 11:15
Temp job went well!
Yesterday's second-hand shop was a bit of an eye-opener.
If there's one thing I rarely see it's books by Roald Dahl in the second-hand children's section. Yesterday, the shelves were
chock-full of quality Dutch teens and young adult literature, those books that were never available at the school library because they're so
widely known to be good... and the complete biography of Dahl's children's work!
However the weather had been so appalling I was totally soaked, I went to the coffee corner to warm up. When I came back half an hour later, they were
all gone. All of them. Chocolate Factory, Glass Lift, Giant Peach, Magic Finger and all the minor titles. And the major ones they still had of course.
Then again, I had taken Matilda, The Witches and The BFG off the shelves, so I have those now. And am feverishly reading them!aquagoat - 19-9-2017 at 17:37
Excellent, Bonny!BBP - 19-9-2017 at 22:45
I've just read 4 novels by Roald Dahl, and two of his Revolting Rhymes, in 24 hours.
Hmmm... I still have that one story collection by him...BBP - 20-9-2017 at 10:19
Baking a cake while thinking of what to pack when I go to BF after visiting my sister...BBP - 23-9-2017 at 18:16
On the way back from BF... unfortunately he was unwell the last day, so basically we didn't do much this weekend, except I took a turn at the
family's Annoying Jigsaw and watched Great British Bake-Off.BBP - 25-9-2017 at 22:13
I'm quite a busy little bee right now. Saturday I came home from BF, Sunday I delivered the first round of papers and volunteered at a block
party selling drink coupons, today I delivered the second round of papers (heavy books with toy ads, 250 g each and over 200 of them, you can do the
math...), then tomorrow I'll have a third batch to deliver, and on top of that my father is planning a visit to The Hague for Wednesday.polydigm - 26-9-2017 at 09:03
I hope you guys are well, I'm doing okay. Just dropping by quickly. I've been busy with family stuff, work, music and the garden.BBP - 26-9-2017 at 15:51
Hi Poly, how are you?BBP - 2-10-2017 at 08:57
Just had BF's birthday...BBP - 5-10-2017 at 11:27
Absolutely nothing of interest happening here. Which is great since after the business of the past 2 weeks, I could use a break...BBP - 6-10-2017 at 22:01
I'm increasingly thinking of closing down the Goose... there's not much here anymore...aquagoat - 7-10-2017 at 09:59
I would understand that decision, with only three of us coming more or less regularly. Even though I would sadden me.BBP - 7-10-2017 at 11:10
Membership has been opened up for about a year or two, but people don't find us. Spammers do, hoo boy.BBP - 8-10-2017 at 09:51
I'm rather stiff after yesterday's rain stroll...BBP - 8-10-2017 at 15:47
Hey I haven't told anything about our trip to The Hague...
Well it was exhausting. Dad had rented bicycles to get around (dead cheap, less than 4 euros for a whole day) and we went to places that feature in a
book he's writing. Also means I visited 3 cemeteries.
I hate cemeteries.aquagoat - 9-10-2017 at 18:55
Went to watch Blade Runner 2049, it was really good, much better than I expected.BBP - 9-10-2017 at 20:39
That's great!
I turned down the captcha settings, it had gotten really hard to read!punknaynowned - 11-10-2017 at 10:52
hi, I'm sorry it's been so long since I dropped in to say hi.
I have been busy the last couple, or three years.
I'm still tired. Tonight I have a hedache.
Such joy I bring :duh:
I was surprised when I put packardgoose into googlesearch and this site didn't come up.
Lots of FZ links but not the goose.
It worked only when I typed 'packardgoose website'.
And yes, duckduckgo is far better in that regard.
Ah yes! Here: I found a lovely 200Motels promo the other day. Enjoy!
Google bans sites that aren't 100% mobile compatible, I guess that's the problem...BBP - 12-10-2017 at 08:30
Good morning everybody!aquagoat - 12-10-2017 at 18:29
Good evening, Bonny!BBP - 12-10-2017 at 22:43
Had a bit of an adventure at DeviantArt.
Somebody had started a Ponzi scheme - hopefully unwittingly - to buy DeviantArt premiums at a discount price. (We're talking about a cake badge,
a picture of a cake on your profile page that costs 80 points per cake. Points are dA currency and 80 points are equivalent to 1 dollar.) They'd
arranged that you'd pay 20 points to get you on a waiting list, and when you reach the top, you get a cake badge.
Some other accounts were made, by people who did leave their name, for other premiums - Golden Membership (more expensive, several thousand points
depending on the length you chose) and llama accessories (basically pictures of bow ties and sunglasses on a Llama badge, which is a picture of a
llama on your profile picture).
I'd been warning against this type of activity for weeks, both to the staff and to the admins, but it took a bit of a shock for things to finally
get noticed. The Cake Badge account had taken a run for it, leaving numerous people without cake badge, and was inactive for months.
Finally the Golden Membership owners realized their mistake, apologized for their actions, blaming them on lack of math skills, and repaying every
dime.
In total I spent a lot of time writing tickets to the support desk of dA, writing forum posts, comments, reports to help desk etc etc... Now I've
joined the repay club and wrote a hopefully helping article on why you shouldn't contemplate starting one of those schemes.
The Gold Membership admin is now busy gathering funds for the $163,75 she owes.punknaynowned - 13-10-2017 at 16:26
:crying:
BBP - 13-10-2017 at 18:00
It's hard work... I'm using what I can with my excess points and my account to help fill in the financial gaps for them... I don't want
to pay dA money for points, since they should've banned that illegal activity early on instead of letting it run for months.BBP - 14-10-2017 at 22:56
And now that I've lowered the captcha settings, the bots can read it and are logging in en masse. :swear:
