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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
NAP2614, e-mail friend of many years, what a pleasant surprise!
You signaled that you may be willing to join me on future treks by joining Base Camp HQ today. Thank you so much, NAP. I look forward to discuss Base Camp plans with you  Where would you like to go? Your reward: - the virtual flu shot. I hope you have the real world one already or will get it soon. As for the køkkenmødding visit, please come along, nap. These guys really liked oysters   |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Base Camper nap, we're waiting for news from Bearcat before we can move on.
----------------------------------------I suggest that our first trip will go to Georgia, USA. As you know, there is a Georgia that once belonged to the former USSR. That caught me on the wrong foot when a Brighton Beach man explained which above ground subway train* to take back to Manhattan from Coney Island with everything but a southern accent. Then I saw all the shop signs with the cyrillic letters and remembered the movie "Moscow on the Hudson". The defected Russian (Robin Williams) lamented that noone wanted to read his writings in the USA. At least the KGB read them in Russia. Did you see that?  Back to Georgia, USA. That's where "The Survivors" live. Not peach tree blooming season, I admit, rather electricity outings season. But, nap, rcc survivor wrote the dearest post, which was too dear to be a bribing attempt, and it made my knees go Jell-O. Also, we both have a slot with that team, into which we can slide unconspiciously when wearing our invisibility cloaks. So once, we hear news from Bearcat , we can plan our move if you agree, nap *That train moved so well, that I contemplate trying an airbnb in Brighton Beach to cut down on hotel expenses should I ever get another chance on NYC. Plus it is a mere four hour walk from John F. Kennedy International Airport so I shall not depend on the above ground subway and miss my flight ......  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Oct 8, 2017 11:06:59 AM] |
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The back surgery is on hold for now. Surgeon wants me in a brace that will show my limitations if I were to get the 4 discs fused but also has helped other in the past to skip surgery. Will give it a try and see. After 6 weeks I will decide. Have to go get fitted for this brace.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Suffering from a serious case of the fear-of-missing-out syndrome, I instantly put recovery from my trip to NYC and DC on hold and thanked yes when a friend invited me to go along on a quick business trip to Germany by car.
On the way back from the Ruhr area, I got the chance to patch a hole in the plan for a previous trip where I ran late and found myself shaking the sturdy gate to Deutsches Panzermuseum in Munster at 4:01 pm. A truly interesting place for people fascinated by tanks and related items, which that day statistically was 2% female and 98% male - the low age limit for those being some 14 months. Younger than that, they seemed to prefer pacifiers. They had an enormous Minenräumpanzer "Keiler" (mine sweeper nicknamed "Boar") painted in the UN white color, and a video showed how the "elephant feet" were lowered and snouted and beat the soil furiously.  Bearcat, I think the suggestion from you surgeon sounds like good practise and common sense. Better try out what the result of a disc fusing operation will do to your mobility and hold that up against your habitual pain picture before making an - I suppose - irreversable intervention, especially as the brace treatment has showed to be beneficial in many cases. Good luck! I wonder: is medical cannabis oil available as a pain killer in Minnesota? I shall move to "The Survivors" for a while, and when/if you will undergo surgery, I shall return to "Minnesota Crunchers". Please let me know when/if you may need a long distance cool hand on your forehead. Capt. Joe, some of those iron monsters on tracks were given names similar to the airplanes during WW II. One of them happened to be named Sgt. Joe. NAP2614, you told me you are caught up in important domestic chores and caregiving these days and will not be able to go Base Camping until you feel rested. That is pure good sense. I wish you the best of luck, my friend, and thank you for your initial support for which I'm grateful. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Base Camp trekked from Minnesota to Georgia.
Where in Georgia I'm not sure of. I think rcc survivor told me at some point ages ago, but I forgot. Where am I? Since most of what Base Camp does is fictive, I may as well make a choice, and the choice is: Macon Why?  Because I read this book many years ago: "The Accidental Tourist" by Anne Tyler. It takes place in Baltimore, Maryland, which of course is not Macon, Georgia. But, you see, the main character's first name is Macon. That is enough for me. The book was turned into a movie. I don't know about you, but I never, never ever watch a movie based on a book I want to read, before I read the book. The characters must develop unrestrictedly and untainted in my imagination as I read. Sometimes they turn out to be somewhat like this imagination when I see the movie, but often they are not. In this case Macon was fine, whereas the young woman who turned his life around was far from my picture of her, but in fact she was a quite good substitute when I erased my erstwhile constructed brain child. This, I find, is an interesting process. Sometimes, I admit, the movie characters turn out to fit the book far better than my imagined ones. Before I lose my way, rcc survivor, grumpygrampy or some other The Survivors team member: Where am I? If you contemplate trying Base Camping for one day, one week or forever - and I should be pleased to have your company - The Survivors is an excellent entry team. You may even decide to join them in earnest. They work well, steady, dedicatedly, and determined, and they stick together. Actually, they want to see cancer - not only the renal variety but all varieties - erased. Period |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
 Someone just made a bathroom fanish whoosh .....  deltavee, it's wonderful to know you're out there  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Lacking a sensible issue, I have decided to bring forth an old pet peeve of mine - which could easily count as sensible.
If you look at my SNURK sign and in the the "Author" field, you'll be able to see that Denmark is my country. So you know where I come from. Maybe you don't care, but I hope your mind will stop for a fraction of a moment and at least try to process some "Denmark": Socialized health care, Vikings, polar bears in the streets, decriminalization of pornography, Hans Christian Andersen, welfare state, Maersk Shipping, blue eyes, lactose crunching enzymes, The Ugly Duckling, The Little Mermaid, The Emperor Has No Clothes, Queen Margrethe - whatever. When I read a post from you, I always take a look to the left: France, nothing, nothing, nothing, Australia, nothing, USA, nothing, nothing, Texas Hill Country (thank you), nothing, Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind (maybe it's about time I put that on my list of places to visit), nothing, Crab Nebula, nothing, Germany, United States, nothing, South Africa, nothing but the SNURK sign says UK, and the name has a certain ring of Sweden to it, Sandvika  nothing, Texas (far better than just USA), Venezuela, nothing, nothing, Bulgaria, Mexico, CANADA, Chile, USA, Canada - now we're talking Some further specify their location in the Forum Profile. For Americans a State will be mentioned, for Germans a city, for the UK which part. In a dangerous digital world, most want to protect themselves to some degree, but how dangerous would it be to list your country, your state, or even your city? Well, I warn you, because I have a feeling that this will not be the last time I bring this issue up. Please bear with me - the geography buff/afficionado - afficinoada? Being in Macon, Georgia, USA, I enjoy 21C/69F smack where I want it right now. It's not even daybreak yet, so we will expect it to heat up a little, and showers are expected for late morning. How about joining me here and give The Survivors a boost? Georgia, Georgia ....  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
The world is full of good books. One that I cannot forget is Konstantin Simonov's "Days and Nights".
It's about the Battle of Stalingrad. Two things in that book fascinated me: The gentleness, and the force. The gentleness bordering to love is expressed in the way the men deal with each other. They communicate laterally and horizontally as if nobody was above or below themselves. Towards the women they are gentle and protective. The force when the Soviet counter attack is launched is described so vividly that I felt the vibrations of all that powerful hardware firing and on the move in my bones. That is some good writing. Right now I'm studying "The Law of Life" by Jack London for my English reading club. A short story, which is good, because so much goes into those few pages that you couldn't handle it as a novel. Simply put: It's heartbreaking. I know, because it's my second reading, and I almost cannot ... It probably takes place in Canada. Tundra is mentioned, and snow and bitter cold. This brings me to where I want to take my tent in a few days - not Canada but close. I, and those who wish to join me, shall be going to Idaho - the best kept secret in the USA - to visit my old friend NAP2614. He lives in Boise, the low lands, but I promise we'll make an excursion to the Sawtooth Mountains while we're there.  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I run Windows 10 on my laptop. I'm checking for updates myself, because something went wrong at some point in the Life of Windows 10 with her Windows Update Manager, never to be fixed ... so I check manually, which I don't mind, and when there are updates, I have to click the button saying "Get them!". This I think is some kind of disclaimer, because then I have agreed to pay what it may cost me to download these updates and will never stand a chance in court if I sue Microsoft for spending my money.
So far so good. She gets them. She prepares the installation of them. She installs them. And then: I freeze.  She demands a restart! Four times out of five, all goes well. But each time it's like laying your neck under the guillotine. This morning the blade stopped a few inches above my throat. She choked and the blade was just sitting there. What to do? Am I killed if I press that on/off switch? Will I lie here forever under the sharpened steel if I don't? I restarted. With a shaking finger. It turned out to be a one-out-of-five times reboot. She didn't. Where in the process she stalled, I don't know, because I left her alone in labor ... I have no idea what takes place whatsoever. I'm absolutely powerless. Well, I put on my gloves and did cesarean. And pressed her start button again. And she decided to live and let me live. We live in interesting times ... Life in Georgia is a great deal calmer. Crunching along with this peachy team .... You're welcome to join me here |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Carlton will probably never get that photo ....
 I can understand people can be too busy to address a request like the one I think should have reached the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Or can I?  Last year I noticed the Danish flag decorating a building at the Palmaille in Hamburg/Altona, the fashionable boulevard with many of C.F. Hansen's buildings still standing and in good repair. This was one of them. I wondered what the Danish flag did there - after all a couple of centuries had passed since this was Danish soil. I e-mailed the company whose brass name plate shined next to the door and asked what the story might be. I can understand these lawyers can be too busy writing invoices to address a question like this. Or can I? Sorry. It looks like it's just one of those days. Hey, finally some food arrived in Macon, Georgia .... you are invited   |
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