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BBP - 1-9-2018 at 10:18
At BF's, found some time to moderate forums. Had my first professional haircut in 18 years today!
aquagoat - 2-9-2018 at 07:19
Wow, 18 years, that's a long time! How did it go? Did you completely change your style? What does it look like?
Going back to work was really a pain. I realize more and more that I can't stand that roofing thing anymore. It's time I found something
else to do. Unfortunately, I'll have to save a bit of money, first, so I won't change job before a while.
BBP - 2-9-2018 at 22:45
It's shorter and rounded off at the edges. It's still definitely long.
The hairdresser is a very nice woman who likes to give me clothes she doesn't wear anymore, and this time was no exception! I also got new shoes
from my mother-in-law, and when BF took me for a walk I found 2 euros, not a bad day!
Aw Aqua, that's rough! Good luck to you!
aquagoat - 4-9-2018 at 06:01
BBP - 4-9-2018 at 21:12
Was a heavy day today. I had a phonecall from a woman who had only just booked a stay at a holiday park for this weekend like an hour earlier, had
only just paid and printed the documents, when she received a phonecall. Her mother had suddenly died.
She was beyond upset, as you can imagine.
Since the booking was completed, the stay was for this week and the booking was at a holiday, it was not easy for me to cancel this - we require
written permission from the holidaypark, which can be days underway and for which she'd first need to agree to the cancellation costs - 90% of
cancellation costs. We have a "rebooking" service which is cheaper, but it would still be way too much money going up in smoke for somebody
who needs to pay for a funeral. There is another option - asking the holiday park if it is possible to cancel without costs. The standard procedure
that has to be followed, is we have to write a mail to the park, and then they give us written permission. Process can take days.
I could hardly get permission for cancellation - she was so distraught she probably didn't catch very much from what I said - she said she was
going to call the holiday park, I told her I was going to do my best for her.
I informed my chef I couldn't get permission because of the state of the client, and asked about the best course of action. The sooner the
booking is cancelled, the better. I had permission to phone the holiday park to ask them to send us an e-mail - since if we send one out first, the
cancellation process is about 5 days, for such a short-term booking this is no solution.
Now the holiday park collective company is notorious for its long waiting times, phoning them took 10 minutes of listening to Spandau Ballet. The
attending customer service agent was nice, but referred me to the Touring Operator division, which I'm normally not allowed to call unless I have
Special Permission.
Touring Operators told me that when a cancellation is made within 24 hours, they'll always cancel - but I couldn't ask them for a
cancellation by phone.
I went to my senior for the third time with this case - told him that cancellation without cost within 24 hours is always possible. Senior called the
holiday parks division and then gave me permission to cancel the booking, without cost.
Called back the client, but couldn't reach her. Wrote down the story in her file, but before I was done, she'd called back and I got
interrupted by a colleague. I told her "I only just updated it, but it's been cancelled free of cost." Unfortunately I couldn't
hear her reaction to that, but fortunately our company allows to send cards to clients, which I frequently do when I have to cancel people after
they've fallen ill or if someone passed away (and once for a client who had ALS and wanted to surprise her family). So I got to send the client a
postcard.
The case did leave me perturbed, I had to take a break afterwards...
BBP - 5-9-2018 at 19:22
Bought a guitar amp!
aquagoat - 6-9-2018 at 05:53
Damn, Bonny, that's a pretty sensitive situation dealing other people's loss. I can't imagine the state of stress this person must have
been in. And your state of stress too.
What kind of amp? What brand?
BBP - 6-9-2018 at 20:52
There doesn't appear to be a brand. I'll post a picture...
BBP - 7-9-2018 at 17:09
Here it is!
Attachment: xxl_amp.jpg (100kB)
This file has been downloaded 315 times
aquagoat - 8-9-2018 at 07:11
Nice looking little practiceamp, you've got there, Bonny. But, does it djent????
BBP - 8-9-2018 at 07:14
It doesn't do much, it doesn't even have a microphone input like my old Guyatone did. There's a button "clean/drive", the
knobs are volume, bass, medium, treble. And there's a power on switch. It can run using a 12V adapter or using batteries.
ThreeHeadedMonkey - 10-9-2018 at 16:07
I didn't know you're musically inclined! What do you play?
As far as the call center story... sadly I can't say I've never heard similar things before. I don't mean to get political, but this
country's obsession with bureaucracy does get out of hand far too often. Prompting this type of result. Good for you for sticking up for this
customer!
BBP - 10-9-2018 at 17:52
We work mostly with private home owners.
Let's say you have one home you let for several months per year. If a person rents it for two weeks a year in advance, and then has to cancel his
stay a week before the time he rented, your home was off the market for almost a year and the chance you get it re-let afterwards is slim. It can be
very costly to put up a home to rent for the tourist industry.
In this case it was a holiday park - parks have a lot of costs since they're always open and staffed, no matter how many people come to visit.
We're always bound to contracts.
Today I had a call from a man who had to cancel after his mother-in-law passed away. There wasn't just a death in the family - he also had a
nasty lung infection that left him bed-ridden for 4 to 6 weeks. Luckily he did have insurance. As he hung up I heard a horrible cough through the
phone. Poor guy.
BBP - 14-9-2018 at 20:18
Bought my bus ticket to the concert. Asked for the last time if BF could come with me, but he said no. Since the last concert I'm worried I might
faint.
aquagoat - 15-9-2018 at 07:18
Don't worry, Bonny, it's gonna be ok. Have fun. 
BBP - 15-9-2018 at 17:17
BBP - 20-9-2018 at 08:52
Sister's birthday, baking a cake...
Unfortunately she'll wake up with the horrific news of a freight bicycle getting stuck on the Dutch railroad tracks, killing 4 children. :crying:
aquagoat - 21-9-2018 at 04:29
Hooo, that's very sad news. But happy birthday to your sister anyway.
BBP - 21-9-2018 at 19:43
Thanks! It was fun!
My father has unfortunately gotten sick... I hope he'll be allright...
BBP - 25-9-2018 at 20:33
Dad's getting better, which is good to hear...
BBP - 27-9-2018 at 16:54
I really need to pick up posting pace...
Was home early from work. Yesterday at work was the first day I was put on senior tasks, which was pretty exciting, not to mention a voice saver.
Went to the second hand shop and came home with a Japanese film music book. Lots of Hisaishi of course!
aquagoat - 28-9-2018 at 16:41
Glad to know Ded is getting better. And glad to know you're doing a fine job.
Yesterday evening I went to see a show at a local venue. I had a very good time but had a bit too much alcohol. Today's work was a bit difficult.
BBP - 28-9-2018 at 20:16
Ooh careful! Wouldn't want you to stumble on the roof!
aquagoat - 29-9-2018 at 06:58
Don't worry, I stayed at ground level. I didn't take any risks. I never do, before the week-end.
BBP - 29-9-2018 at 20:33
Went on a survival weekend with work... my team won (close call though) but I'm exhausted... Will type a bigger report...
BBP - 30-9-2018 at 22:12
I had asked my colleagues if one of them was able to take me to the place of action in Best, around 16 km and too far to cycle in combination with
survival. A nice woman was able to pick me up.
Besides general clumsiness I have some other nasty flaws - mild prosopagnosia has made it difficult for me to recognize people, and complete horror
trying to find my way. I discovered I'm not alone - the colleague I went with was equally bad. Luckily she had GPS - unfortunately her app
wasn't always 100% clear. At one particular crossing we had to turn left on a bridge to end on the right side of a canal, but we turned left too
early, ended on the left side of the canal and had to drive in a circle, which cost us ten minutes.
Ten minutes late, but we were on time for the course. I had brought a T-shirt and legging and a towel, since we were warned things might get dirty. We
had formed 2 teams - team South was 10 people of which 3 were male, and I was in team North, 9 members with only 1 man. One person would occasionally
have to run an extra loop.
We started with a walk through the woods towards an obstacle race. Treading through tires, diving through tires, climbing a net, climbing over and
ducking under cables and poles, and ending with a 2 cable walk, you know the deal, walk over one cable and hold the other. The higher cable was way
overhead rather than chest hight, which makes walking difficult.
It was a relay race, and one of our runners would have to go a second time.
My team was in the lead for some time, but unfortunately the two less sportive individuals, myself and a nice colleague, were right after each other,
by the time I finished after getting a mouthful of sand at the tire ducking, getting my foot trapped in the rope ladder and nearly losing balance on
the rope bridge, we were 20 seconds behind. Fortunately after me came The Guy, who made up for most of it. A fast girl who began the running did the
last lap, but it was getting all too much. Totally exhausted, we lost the first race.
We went back to the central terrace to have a short pitstop.
Then: game 2, Cow Milking. A more complex game with the opposing teams playing at the same time.
Both teams have one bucket. One team starts milking a fake cow. While that team milks, the other team runs a small lap using a very tricky pair of
clogs - they're attached by a metal rod, no lateral play and if you walk with them you have to lift your knees up high. The clogs are big,
painful and unwieldy, and since they have no lateral play, you have to jump with them to turn.
Once a runner finishes his lap, he starts milking, and continues to milk while a member of the opposing team runs.
It was close, but my team won!
Straight on to the third game, the Tire Game. Two posts with 5 tires numbered 1 to 5. The explanation was a bit tricky, but some members of my team
were quick to realize it was the Towers Of Hanoi, with the small handicap that you could never see more than one pole at the time and only one person
is allowed to run at a time.
At some point in the game, the Game Master mentioned that my team had made a thinking error and that the opponents should take advantage. Oh no!
With a pit of a pow wow we could correct the issue and fortunately some of my colleagues managed to keep oversight, and on occasion I even got to run.
By the time we had tire 5 and 4 on the target pole, we looked at the opponents - and they had tires 5, 4, 3 and 2... on the STARTING pole! "Are
you guys starting again?"
GameMaster decided to give them tactical advice. Too late since we were down to the last tire - which we brought to the finish, all together in a
polonaise (= conga line without the sidestep),and there was much cheering.
We took the tires back to the starting poles for the next users and took our lunch break.
Except well, I didn't have lunch, but I did get a roll from a colleague.
During the break, the Game Master announced we were allowed to use the slide. The company organizing the challenges is part of an entertainment
complex by a lake, with a pool, a little kiddie park and a surf company. They had a tower with base jumping and sliding options - the water slide is
one of those steep things that goes up towards the end, launching the slider. Worth a thought, but with no swimming gear, no change of underwear or
socks and since, well, I hadn't swum in 17 years, maybe not the best idea.
After that it was time for the Bungee Run. An inflatable installation with two narrow running lanes - players are tied to a big elastic and get three
attempts to place a ball to a velcro line as far as possible. 2 people run at the same time, and for competitive value, these would be people from
opposing teams. One of us had to run an extra time, and we'd wait to see who was best of us.
It wasn't going well by the time I got to start, as 4th, we'd lost the first three tiers. But, what do you know, bungee run is one of those
rare things where packing extra weight is actually an advantage, so I scored much better than the opponent, and that got me some high fives. Felt
good!
Our best runner was the only male of the group, he got to go twice after each other.
In the end, our scores would be added up and then calculated, we wouldn't know the results of this game until the prizes were handed out.
The fifth was also inflatable, and we had to first get a couple of buckets of water from the lake for that. It was a steep run up, and then a steep
slide down, basically we had to take a spunge and carry it through the course, run up, slide down and then back to the starting point, to put the
spunge in the team bucket.
Our tactic was "get BBP up, so she can help other people up from the top", but my body weight thought otherwise, I couldn't make it.
Eventually my team found a rhythm, but still, we lost.
Two for two, results were to come later, big question: do we go down the slide?
Since the inflatable track from the last game is wetted with water from the lake, which is all collected at the bottom of the slide, I was already wet
and very dirty. So I thought "I might as well, may be last chance and I'm not going to get much wetter." And since we had to wear a
helmet and flotation devices, I was secure. We went up the tower, 10 metres high, looking down the wetted slide, all steep...
Game Master gives us instructions to slide on our backsides for the first slide, and to pull up our knees after the launch. Reason: because of the dry
summer, nearby farms use the lake for watering crops, which meant the water level was like a foot lower than usual.
Oh SHIT.
I watched one colleague after the other go - oddly the one flirtatious guy who's normally always ready to try to impress the ladies and the lady
who begged for the slide to open in the first place - were struggling themselves. As second-last I decided to take a plunge, set myself feet first,
buttocks on the edge, watching a colleague trying to get well out of the way. As she is clear, I cross my arms across my chest, curse myself for being
such an idiot, and lift my buttocks. The slide commences at a very untheatrical pace, I almost worry about halting in the middle of the slide, but
then...
I don't remember much of it - at some point I hit the water in the dip, before the slide goes up, and water splashes everywhere. Then I'm
launched, it's an eternity before I feel the water under me. I land, and sure enough, I feel the ground. I re-emerge, water all up my nose and
disoriented.
Then I see the steps and sort of swim out of the way, but swimming is slow. Since the water's not deep, I turn to wading. Soaked thorougly, I
emerge from the water. I'm allowed to go again but decide against it, and hit the showers.
There are only five showers per gender and our group was 4 men, 15 women, so that was tricky. Plus some have brought their soaps and shampoos from
home. I begin with washing out my socks, and put them in a plastic bag a colleague picked up. When the middle shower gets free, I take it. It's a
camping shower with a knob you have to push occasionally, but the water is hot and welcome. I put my soaked clothes in the plastic bag, and enjoy.
After I've warmed up sufficiently I dry off, shuffle through the room to my clothes bag, get dressed but without underwear or socks in the
clothes I came in with.
We finished off with a barbecue. I'm exhausted and find it hard to socialize.
Then the Game Master comes with the score - all colleagues are rounded up, the organizer brings a trophy and medals. He announces that the score was
incredibly close - only 2 points, equals 5 cm on a game with 10 runners each, 665 to 667 - and the winner is my team!
We all get a medal and take a picture where I'm holding the trophy (yeah), some stay to party but my colleague drives me home (she has another
party!).
Back home I took another shower.
Piccies to come...
Up to the fourth game
BBP - 2-10-2018 at 20:01
And now I've been named Employee Of The Month, who could've guessed? :bald:
polydigm - 4-10-2018 at 04:07
Whoops - I haven't posted here for more than a month! I hope you two are okay.
That survival weekend sounds like it was pretty hefty, Bonny. You definitely were not riding a bike there as well!!
BBP - 5-10-2018 at 06:28
I've recocered enough to visit BF... up north I go!
aquagoat - 5-10-2018 at 06:51
Congratulations for the Employee of the Month title, Bonny. Keep up the good work.
Wow, that looked like a pretty epic week-end indeed.
BBP - 7-10-2018 at 21:33
This one was also intense: went to BF. We celebrated his birthday which tired us to the extent we just sat around until it was time for bed.
BBP - 8-10-2018 at 21:25
Booked place to stay in Cologne today!
aquagoat - 9-10-2018 at 05:35
Got an intense pain in the right elbow, assembling the scaffolding, yesterday afternoon. As if it was fractured. And it still hurts, this morning.i
can barely move my right forearm. So I think I'm gonna go see my doctor. I hope it's nothing serious.
Also, I've got a date with a very good looking 50 something blonde woman. We'll see how it goes.
BBP - 9-10-2018 at 06:29
Sorry to hear that... is it related to the break you had a few years ago?
aquagoat - 9-10-2018 at 17:37
I don't know. I didn't see my doc. I remember, at the time, the surgeon said I might have some after-effects, though. I think it's due
to the repetition of the same movements. Plus my hammer is quite heavy.And I did some sports the day before, so maybe my tendons were a bit weak and
got inflamed. It seems to be better now. I'll see how it goes tomorrow morning. I think it should be ok.
BBP - 9-10-2018 at 19:53
Careful you don't develop RSI!
aquagoat - 10-10-2018 at 18:48
Yes, that's what I fear. I'll see how it develops.
polydigm - 11-10-2018 at 04:46
I hope that arm doesn't become a problem for you Aqua.
One of our dogs is sick and it's not clear yet how that will turn out.
I'm okay - business as usual and very busy.
I designed and built some wine racks and upgraded the kitchen garden roof recently, but other than that, it's all music and studio work.
BBP - 11-10-2018 at 21:24
Aw, poor dog...
aquagoat - 12-10-2018 at 17:22
Yep, that's what I hope to, Poly.
Sorry about your dog. I hope it'll get better quick.
Tonight, second date. Hope it will work out well.
polydigm - 14-10-2018 at 04:58
Fitz has improved noticeably, but he's not out of the woods yet.
BBP - 14-10-2018 at 19:44
Poor dog, how old is he?
polydigm - 15-10-2018 at 01:23
He and his brother will be eleven in December. Beagles tend to have long life spans and the vet doesn't think it's age related. He has
kidney and liver damage caused by something toxic - bacterial, not poisonous. He seems to be rallying. The second blood test showed some improvement,
but still wasn't too good. We'll see how he goes this week. He's been having fluid infusions pumped in under the skin, rather than
intravenously, which achieves the same result.
BBP - 15-10-2018 at 17:46
Aw, they're cute...
I read up a lot on dogs nowadays since sometimes people want to bring one or more extra dogs to a holiday home, for which we require permission of the
home owner. In such cases it helps if you know the breed and height of the animal. When I have to ask a French homeowner, I invariably have to look up
the breed name, which is often quite different from what you'd expect.
3 more nights of sleep till the concert...
and I'm coming down with fever. Nooooooooooooooooooooo!
aquagoat - 16-10-2018 at 17:28
BBP - 16-10-2018 at 18:23
Actually I'd recommend dealing with such cases on the phone. Make sure you don't get overly angry, write down the name of the people you
speak to and use it in conversation, and repeat the questions they ask.
polydigm - 16-10-2018 at 23:33
Bonny: Which concert is that? I checked the previous five pages and the only mention of a concert relates to a bus ticket and fainting, but nothing
about what the concert is.
Aqua: Dealing with providers on the phone is also one of my least favourite chores. I'm generally pretty good at getting what I want, but it
requires considerable patience and I just ended up paying for the last problem I had because I just wasn't in the mood for the tussle.
aquagoat - 17-10-2018 at 05:03
Thanks for the advice, Bonny. I usually tend not to be angry when dealing with hotline people cause I know it's useless.
Poly: yeah, these problems would be dealt with without having to use the phone, it's 2018. And they're internet providers, after all.
BBP - 17-10-2018 at 18:23
Today I had a guy on the line who apologized for his behaviour earlier. 
BBP - 17-10-2018 at 18:58
Poly: Dir en Grey. Considering I missed out on Primus last year due to lack of funds ( AND they played Southbound Pachyderm at that set :crying: ) and
a number of ZPZ concerts I'm going to make amends to myself.
Bought the trip there, bus ticket - bought the concert ticket itself, reserved a bed at the local hostel, but haven't booked the trip back.
Because the buses all leave way too early and I did want to spend some time in Cologne, I'm going back by train.
BBP - 18-10-2018 at 07:05
I'm getting really excited now!! It's tomorrow!!!!!!
polydigm - 18-10-2018 at 15:53
Bonny: Have a good trip.
Aqua and Bonny: What are your internet upload and download speeds? Mine are 8.5Mbps down and 0.9 Mbps up. Ridiculous.
BBP - 18-10-2018 at 20:20
29.8 MBPS down and 23.6 MBPS up.
Still looking for reasons for moving to Europe? :bald:
BBP - 19-10-2018 at 07:00
So excited! :bouncing:
aquagoat - 19-10-2018 at 15:40
Have fun and enjoy the show, Bonny.
Date number 4 was the good one, apparently. I spent the night at her place and only went to work around 11 Am.
Now going to spend the whole week-end at my ex-girlfriend's place, in Lille.
BBP - 20-10-2018 at 22:38
Nice going!
I'm back, the Dir En Grey concert was awesome and it AWESOME and it was A-W-E-S-O-M-E and Kyo did a dance where he pretended to tear his heart
out of his ribcage and catapult it into the audience and then he did a dance where he held the microphone at the height of his belly button and pulled
at the cord in such a way so it looked like he was disembowellig himself and then stomped on it and at the final song he took off his shirt and...
(goes off to take a shower)
Anyway here's Rinkaku:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xousnWIEhFY
aquagoat - 21-10-2018 at 19:04
I'm glad the show was great, Bonny. You seem to have had a great time.
As for me, I spent an awesome week-end.
BBP - 21-10-2018 at 22:27
I put a review of the show in the Music section and on my Tumblr (latter has pictures) and a report of my trip without pictures in a separate topic
here.
Nice to hear you had a good weekend!
BBP - 24-10-2018 at 15:22
My apologies for letting the spammers get out of hand...
Still a cold here...
polydigm - 26-10-2018 at 15:10
Bonny: Your download speed is four times faster than mine and your upload speed is twenty four times faster.
Aqua: You still haven't told me your internet speeds. My understanding is that internet speeds in France are pretty spectacular.
aquagoat - 27-10-2018 at 15:57
Poly: 1.77 Mbit/s for download and 0.50 Mbit/s for upload. I plan to subscribe to fiber soon.
Tonight I'm going to have diner with my, I suppose, girlfriend, she's going to introduce me to her 26 year old daughter and a few of her
friends. I've got a bottle of Nicaraguan rum for me and a bottle of Sauternes for her daughter, it should be ok.
polydigm - 28-10-2018 at 00:08
Aqua, your internet service is terrible, why do you put up with it?
I hope your dinner goes well.
aquagoat - 28-10-2018 at 08:21
I know, I guess it's due to my laziness.... I'm gonna fix that problem soon.
Dinner went perfectly. The food was good, so were the wines. And everybody was nice and fun.
polydigm - 28-10-2018 at 14:22
Excellent!
(On both counts)
BBP - 28-10-2018 at 18:45
Lovely Aqua, nice going!
aquagoat - 29-10-2018 at 19:06
Thank you very much.
BBP - 31-10-2018 at 19:49
Biggest story today was an unfortunate customer who has a reservation for tomorrow for 15 people - then the home owner called because there's a
power failure in the entire village.
polydigm - 2-11-2018 at 06:06
Ouch!
BBP - 2-11-2018 at 09:05
Unfortunately my father's caught my cold... Will be doing a 13:00 to 21:00 shift today. Not a fan of those...
polydigm - 4-11-2018 at 05:01
Ouch!
BBP - 4-11-2018 at 11:34
Hmmm. do you have a macro for that?
Sorry I've been off so much... been a bit sickly for the past month...
polydigm - 5-11-2018 at 22:00
Ouch!
polydigm - 5-11-2018 at 22:07
Just kidding, of course, but right after the first one you made an other ouch worthy comment. And, I came back just now to find another ouch worthy
comment.
I hope things start looking up again soon.
I've just been really busy with some significant extra work on top of everything else in the garden. I'm not complaining and I'm
looking forward to the results, but I've got a lot of music work that I would like to get finished before Christmas.
The sad news is that we will probably lose one of our dogs later this week.
BBP - 6-11-2018 at 20:40
Aw, poor Fitz...
Today was interesting. One of our new colleagues got to listen in. I called a (French) home-owner, but as soon as I said I was from Belvilla, the guy
got furious. No fun.
Was more fun when I had a client on the line whose toddler discovered the piano.:bald:
punknaynowned - 7-11-2018 at 09:56
just checking in,
making sure the internet is still connected to europe.
Looks good!
Now to go link to pacific rim...
BBP - 7-11-2018 at 18:53
Hey Punky, how are you?
BBP - 8-11-2018 at 20:13
Had a wonderful free day today!
BBP - 9-11-2018 at 16:06
The news (fire) from Paradise, CA is not good - and one Zappa.com resident, KillUglyIII, lives there...
polydigm - 12-11-2018 at 07:03
We just had some idiot bastard fruit loop set fire to his car and stab a few people, killing one in Melbourne.
BBP - 12-11-2018 at 09:20
Sorry to hear that Poly...
GLOW Eindhoven has just started. This year has the catch that I'm actually working in one of the buildings that is part of the route, meaning
they'll project stuff on our outer wall. I've had the instructions to start working on the river side of the building after18:30. Since I
have to work until 20:00...
Calvin - 12-11-2018 at 12:51
Hey Bonny, I saw your response about the US having a gun control problem, and I'm not sure if people appreciate what gun control people are
against in this country. The National Rifle Association is probably one of the most powerful lobbies in the government, plus we were
"guaranteed" by the constitution to be able to carry guns. My own brother has lots of guns to "protect him in case somebody tried to
break in to his house or come after him". There's thousands and thousands just like him and worse. That's why I don't think
we'll ever get rid of the problem. (I didn't want to discuss this on the Zappa forum.)
BBP - 12-11-2018 at 13:13
And are you aware that Australia had exactly the same problem but they managed to get rid of it after only one mass slaughter?
Calvin - 12-11-2018 at 16:07
Yes, I'm aware. Did Australians threaten to shoot anybody that tried to take their guns away? That's what is happening here. As long as they
think they have a constitutional right, ain't nobody takin' their guns away. Nothing gets done here and nothing will. It's depressing.
punknaynowned - 13-11-2018 at 15:13
I'm fine these couple days,
It's cold here,
the ground is covered
here in day-old snow.
Sky is clear and
bright with new sun
perched just above
near-distant roofs.
Caught up with a little mail,
tried to start some fiction reading.
Made the coffee,
changed out loads of laundry.
Looked at internet:
twitter, mail, news:
four hours pass.
It's morning now.
Sky aglow with winter-bright.
:bouncy:
Calvin's right of course, but I try to avoid those arguments by simply refusing to
go down the rabbit hole of 'what might happen'.
'Nobody can predict the future,' I say,
'In fact, you might be surprised by WHO's disallowed
ANY research into what has actually happened. Today, ER and Trauma-unit doctors are pointing out they are the ones to combat this lack of awareness as
to what's been happening, cleaning up this plague of people with inexplicable bullet-holes in them ...
Until very recently when the Washington-Post teamed up with a number of other houses to figure out what has actually transpired, where they can get
the data, on their own. Because as Laws have been passed by lobbyist enducement to ensure not just their narrative... but an actual lack of evidence
from which to compile their own conclusions. They say GOV should not spend money to find out how harmful which guns or their accesories, or their
users are actually dangerous! But actually, so far, the only consistent data we have about their widespread use are with practice-range sheets for
cops who get on avg.18%-21% at best accuracy rates...".
But they want to predict the future :duh:
etc.
It is depressing.
That's why I go for questioning the lack of evidence, because that means widespread opinions can be shown to be really based on ignorance.
That is, when I feel compelled to. :grin:
punknaynowned - 13-11-2018 at 15:20
I'm listening to the Mothers 13 Nov 1970 (late) Filmore East, NY show: Paladin Routine, Call Any Vegetable, The Sanzini Brothers, Does This Kind
Of Life Look Interesting To You?, A Pound For A Brown, Sleeping In A Jar, Porko The Magnificent (incl. Johnny's Theme, Raindrops Keep Falling On
My Head, I Can't Give You Anything But Love), Sharleena, The Air, Dog Breath, Mother People, You Didn't Try To Call Me, King Kong,
Improvisations
:bouncing:
Calvin - 14-11-2018 at 00:23
I didn't want to start a political discussion, just wanted to answer here instead of there.
I'm hoping for something new from the ZFT, I'm not going to the hologram stuff.
BBP - 14-11-2018 at 07:50
I doubt the hologram will make it across the ocean...
Had adreadful night's sleep. Woke up in the middle of the night thinking it was 7AM already, turned off my alarm, found I was so sleepy I set my
alarm to7:30 and went back to bed, only later realizing that it probably wasn't 7AM when I got up to reset the alarm. After that I became
restless not knowiing what time it is. I sure wish I could curl up right now...
BBP - 15-11-2018 at 07:25
Anyone else digging through their closets for KU? He lost his house in the Camp Fire.
Calvin - 19-11-2018 at 03:29
I have a couple I might be able to send him, I really don't have many duplicates.
BBP - 19-11-2018 at 07:51
I have a couple... thinking of adding YAWYI to the list.
BF came over this weekend, which is why I have been quiet.
polydigm - 20-11-2018 at 08:38
The last post that I thought I'd posted here is absent. That's weird.
Anyway, I'd said I was sorry to hear about KU's plight, but wouldn't be offering any material help. I talked about Darwin being
depressed now that his brother Fitzroy is gone. He's finding it difficult being a lone dog, they'd been together since birth, almost 11
years. He's getting better now, but he's a more needy dog on his own. I forget if there was anything else.
My latest news Bonny, as hinted at some time ago, is that plans are now firming up and my wife and I will be passing through Eindhoven around 12th
July next year in a camper van. It would be nice to meet up with you and DED somewhere you could recommend for lunch or dinner. We're thinking of
visiting the modern art museum there, but you might have something else to recommend that we shouldn't miss.
We haven't heard from Aqua for a while, I hope he's okay.
BBP - 20-11-2018 at 09:39
Oh that would be lovely!
BBP - 22-11-2018 at 10:33
Unfortunately they've started building right near my house... 
aquagoat - 24-11-2018 at 17:50
Been pretty busy recently, but it's ok. I hope everyone is doing fine.
BBP - 26-11-2018 at 18:05
I'm fine! Busy doing St Nicholas shopping
BBP - 29-11-2018 at 10:43
Busy bee still... worked a 12 hour shift yesterday...
aquagoat - 29-11-2018 at 19:11
12 hours? That must be exhausting!
BBP - 29-11-2018 at 22:55
Well technically there were breaks and there was 45 minutes between end of worktime and start ofworkshop... and at the workshop it was listening and
eating pizza. And we had a quiz and I won. Prize was chocolate.
The chocolate has already been processed.
Calvin - 2-12-2018 at 06:54
When you can't win money, chocolate is good.
aquagoat - 2-12-2018 at 08:28
Haha, chocolate is always good.
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