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Sorry to hear about that Aqua...
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Still stuck with a bad cold but I'm beginning to settle: fever's diminished, voice sounds a little better, not as slimy...
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Today was a busy day!
I woke up real early, thinking it was the alarm clock. I was so sleepy so I don't remember much, but I put the light on, fiddled with the alarm to
turn it off, then realized it wasn't time yet, checked the alarm to see if it was still set, then went to bed.
Woke up at the sound of the alarm. Stood up, got dressed, walked down, about to turn on the light in the kitchen when I noticed the microwave clock at
4:18, one hour earlier than my usual wake time. In my sleep I had advanced the clock one hour. I grumbled, went back upstairs, set the alarm forward
23 hours and went back to sleep.
On my way to work I notice an awkward guy standing still with a blue plastic bag. Paranoid as I get with too little sleep I continuously repeat every
detail to myself.
Work goes as normal, except it's the last day of the receptionist. We shake hands.
Home for the weekend.
On the way I pass a now nefarious crossing that has only been re-constructed a few months back, but that has since seen a number of near-accidents,
and unfortunately one major accident with one casualty. Apparently an accident had just happened there. A young female cyclist was sitting by the
roadside in the grass, obviously in pain, the young male driver and quite a few other people around it.
Later in the afternoon Dad does two things: one is starting to repare the pinball table again. It says justage fehler - means something's wrong with
the batteries. When measuring it appears one battery is not giving out any power, but it is full enough, and sanding of the holder's edges doesn't
help. Couldn't fix that, but Dad did solder two loose wires and I removed a dead spider from the headboard glass.
Otherlong-term project we were working on: a radio cabinet my dad had gotten for free at an auction, somebody didn't want it but it came with the lot.
Dad took it home, but it turned out to have woodworm.
Over the past two years he's tried the ammonia in plastic bag trick, which caused a woodworm massacre but there were still more than enough in there.
Last time he filled all the holes to be sure they were gone, but there were quite a few new ones.
There's something to be said for looking a gift horse in the mouth.
On the way to buy cheese I see a guy, rather intoxicated, walking his dog and kicking and hitting it to make it behave - a woman speaks up and an
unpleasant conversation follows.
I am really looking forward to going to bed...
Goodnight guys!
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Ha, quite a busy day, indeed, Bonny. Hope you slept well after that.
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And by the way, Happy Easter, everyone.
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BBP
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Merry Easter!
Too many chocolate eggs...
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Lately I've spent a lot of time on this site:
http://boschproject.org/#/
It's the site of the Jheronimus Bosch researchers who, in the vein of the 500th year since death anniversary in 2016, have been working on restoring
and researching the paintings of one of the greatest Dutch artists. You can view a lot of the man's works in intensely high resolution (Garden of
Earthly Delights is 156547x89116 pixels, zoom WAY in!!) and the X-rays and infra red images if applicable, using curtain view for easy comparison...
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That's awesome, Bonny, I like Bosch a lot. I'm gonna check this out.
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BBP
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How many characters do you reckon there are on Garden of Earthly Delights?
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Recovering from the flu, unfortunately Dad's just caught it. I decided to call off the visit of my BF and his mother because of it...
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I have no idea. I should know,
since I studied Art, but it was such a long time ago.
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Really? Cool!
35 today...
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Happy birthday , Bonny. I hope it was a good one. And you got rid of that darned flu.
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Not really, BF and his mother were supposed to come over, but I called them off. Dad's not well. I'm still in bad cold mode with stuffy nose, headache
and elevated temperature.
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4 days since my last post?! I must do better!
I'm currently hosting a Cluedo game at the Cluedo fan forum.
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Sorry I missed your birthday Bonny. I hope you're feeling better. I've been really busy. I'm back working on my music almost full time. I got a really
amazing deal on a new trumpet from an auction of stuff from a closed down music shop about a month ago, which I'm teaching myself to play. I also got
a really amazing deal on a second hand drum kit about a week ago, with the help of an old drummer friend, which I'm also teaching myself to play. I'm
also working on my alto sax again and have a new baritone sax arriving later today.
I've cleared out all the junk from my studio and I've been spending a lot of time in there, practicing various instruments and reacquainting myself
with Logic Pro and my 8 track digital audio interface. To start things off, I'm working on an arrangement of one of my compositions for drums, piano,
acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar, trumpet, alto and baritone saxophone. It's been a dream of mine for some time to play all the parts on one
of my pieces. I'm also getting a Roland Integra synthesiser, but won't be using that until I've achieved this first piece with all live recording and
no programming (but probably with lots of editing).
My first main goal is to put a demo tape together and then I'm going to advertise for musicians for my second main goal, which is to play some live
gigs. This has been a long time coming.
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Wow, that's so cool! Good luck to you Poly!
We're all under the weather now, which is nasty since I really need to get to my inlaws tomorrow.
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Get well soon!
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Great news, Poly, I'm already looking forward to listening to some of your stuff!
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At the inlaws, we had dinner yesterday which was great fun!
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