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Humans? In spite of our imperfections we still manage to achieve some remarkable things. It's those that believe they're perfect that are a big part
of our current planetary woes.
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Ah, how true.
Walked to the second-hand shoppe and came back with a bicycle. Pictures to come.
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Is this bike better than the last one?
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It's significantly smaller, which is what you have on older women's bicycles.
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Is that good or bad?
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It's smaller than what would be ideal for cycling at high speed, but it's still manageable. It's about as big as my old brown bicycle. You can always
put the saddle higher, of course.
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Bonny,at least now you'll be closer to the ground when you crash.LOL!
My Elbow has finally healed all the way except for the nerve damage.I'm doing exercises to get the feeling and dexterity back.Slow process. {-
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That's good to hear, Kirk, I hope you'll be allright!
Yesterday, Dad and I went to Enschede, to visit a museum that might have to close down due to budget cuts. It was quite beautiful, but the 3 hour trip
was exhausting.
One of our stops was in Deventer, which we've visited on a few occasions since it has Europe's biggest book fair (if you start at 11 you might just be
finished by 6). But we'd never seen the pretty little train station.
The museum building dates from 1929 and was designed after a monestary.
Museum has a pretty mosaic floor.
A pretty drawing by Jan Toorop that's not on-line or appeared in postcard form:
This glass got damaged in the Enschede Fireworks Disaster on May 13, 2000. It killed 23 people. The museum got damaged and was in repair for a
year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_etfXcbguZw Dutch newsreel summary shows the footage that was repeated over and over at the time. Eventually the
camera succumbs to the pressure.
Discovery Channel on the disaster will not teach you how to pronounce all those Dutch names, but it has good footage.
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Oh, and here's the roof footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNeBv3zTVNk
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I hadn't heard of that fireworks thing before - that's terrible.
I had a migraine on Friday and my weekend's been a bit up and down but it looks like I'm getting off to a good start this week.
I've started practicing the sax again but I'm about to bugger off for five weeks and can't take it with me. I suppose I could hire one.
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Sorry to hear about your migraine, hope you're feeling better! And great that you picked up the sax again, it's a great instrument!
The fireworks disaster, man that was something. I was 17, that evening was the night of the Eurovision Song Contest. The broadcast of that was
terminated out of respect and televoting banned to make room for emergency phonecalls. I remember the list of missing persons on Teletext. There was
one name that never got off there: it was a girl who was five days older than me. That scared me.
I'm busy working on my sister's St Nicholas present, it's taking forever so it seems.
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This last migraine wasn't as bad as they can be but it still left me feeling a bit shitty for couple of days after. I'm feeling pretty good today.
I've just been busy taking care of my Mum's business and now I'm going to get down to some maths after checking out zappa.com.
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I'm glad my sister liked the book a lot!
I'd made 100 gags of my series "The Adventures Of Fred The Flea And Derek Dustmite, For Entertainment Before, During And After Class". My sister loves
them, but had a hard time reading my handwriting, so I made her a new copy, with larger drawings and letters. Took hours, lost sleep and keyboard
practice.
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That was real nice of you to do for your sister Bonny.
I'm glad you're migrains managable this time and is going away Poly. I rarely get headaches,but I've got empathy for any kind of serious pain.
I just wrapped up the latest Egyptian Revolution segment I'm doing at the local media access station.It's been real interesting following this
revolution through Egyptian eyes and not western news media.
Ah! Plook just phoned from Milwaukee,he wants me to try and get him into a soldout sound check for DZpZ on the 8th in Madison Wis. ( I know Megan and
DZ in a casual way and did them a favor last N.CA tour,the one with Scot Thunes) His wife just had a partial masectomy and when that heals it's chemo
time for 6 months.So maybe this will keep his mind off home and on work after a little "live" Zappa music.
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It sounds ghastly; but are you talking about Mrs Plook or Megan with the partial masectomy?
We're having much snow here. Photos to come.
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Quote: Originally posted by BBP  | It sounds ghastly; but are you talking about Mrs Plook or Megan with the partial masectomy?
We're having much snow here. Photos to come. |
Mrs. Plook just had the masectomy.(poor Mrs. Plook) Mr. Plook called all bummed out,so I used what very little influence I have to see if I could get
Mr.Plook into the sound check back in Madison,Wisconson on Sat..He has tix for the show itself.No answer back yet and I doubt if I'll get one.
So it snows in the Nederlands! Next you'll tell me there's windmills and dykes and wooden shoes there too! Ha,ha. LOL! I enjoy your pix Bonny,cant
wait.
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I'm waiting for the first snowy pictures of Kinderdijk this year. Just google that one for images, it's the stuff of which you'd think it only exists
in paintings.
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My Mum has adapted to her new circumstances like a duck to water. Whatever we had to try and convince her before when she didn't want to leave her
house she's now scared we'll take her away from the care home. Now I have the uphill climb of dealing with the financial side and shooting down the
circling vultures. It's all good, though. As depressing as it can be sometimes, things are falling into place. I should potentially have a good year
of focussing on my own plans for 2013 ... before I get any older ...
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That's good, I hope your mother is well.
DED and I went out for the groceries. We had to, since last week because of the snow I only got to do some emergency stuff. Now it was raining, not
exactly ideal circumstances for heavy cycling. I'm frozen. Suppose dad is too.
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We're now on holiday. I'm sitting here right now, jet lagged in a Paris flat right in the middle of many of Paris's high lights, within walking
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