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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Good Afternoon Base Campers!
----------------------------------------This will be a poor update. I only have this tiny phone keyboard, which doesn't work for my usual novels. Waiting for results of bloodstock at a hospital 30 miles from home. Referred here from my local emergency ward on suspicion of a blood clot in the leg. I haven't been able to scrutinize our standing in our two challenges, but a quick look looks good. Your dinner will be e e cummings inspired again. Mosquito pie. I have finished his fairy tale book. Better food to come. Edit: Bloodstock should be bloodwork  all this help from built in dictionaries, tsk, tsk [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Dec 10, 2017 4:40:18 PM] |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Now I have had the opportunity to look at how we're doing at the two races:
Christmas Race 2017 SeriousCrunchers still behind us at #13 and the distance to us is pretty much a constant at 332.598 points top40.nl is still at a pleasant #12 and we have once more gained on Kraland at #11 with a reduction of the distance by 49.005 points – still 406.755 to go ~ 8.3 days I think I have been a little too optimistic in my calculations, but eight days from now is 18th or 19th December well ahead of the end day of this race of Christmas Day. Kraland - Challenge III Uh-oh #4 is SeriousCrunchers at 273 days is way in front of #5 Kraland at 209 days with us at #6 at 177 days. The good news is that #7 TerraCaching.com is not all that close at 127 days My car was snow covered when I left the hospital, and it snowed more or less all the way home but it was wet snow. However, frost is predicted this night so we may have icy roads tomorrow. I have to make the trip again; the bloodwork showed no infection; the test for the blood clot was obscured by the fact that I already eat rat poison as a blood thinner, so the working theory is it may be a blood clot. I'm really impressed by the speed at which the results of the blood tests are produced and the general effectiveness of the entire show. Often our health service is critisized. I have no reason for that. They also told me it was a smart move to take action on a Sunday* because they were not all that busy  whereas General Practitioners normally are Mondays.* The singer is Melina Mercouri, an actress, who also served as the Minister for Culture in Greece |
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yodap
Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 19, 2011 Post Count: 18 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Wishing you the best possible results little mermaid. My apologies for tuning out on the Christmas Race, but a hectic folding race is going on as well. Make sure you are getting enough fish oil, natural preferred!
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Thank you, yodap. I like fish better than fish like me, I think
 And thank you very much for having been here - even with more power than you had initially inteded. Good luck with the hunt for red rowan berries and cute critters elswhere.  We look forward to seeing you again some day  - what do we do now, captain?  |
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adriverhoef
Master Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Apr 3, 2009 Post Count: 2218 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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- what do we do now, captain? Thank you for waving yodap goodbye for the moment, mevrouw Little Mermaid. We can of course |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I was lucky. No blood clot. Fluid seeping out where it cannot get back by itself easily. I'll have to put it under pressure to lead it back into the lymphatic system and will need some custom made compression stockings at times when I choose to be real close with my computer for hours on end.
That was what the young male doctor would recommend his own mother, he said  Good Morning Base Campers! We have lost yodap to pretty badges with badgers and other cute animals. Our captain suggests we lure new temporary crunchers with music .... Phew! Finally that 'Traffic' took off. For quite some time it sounded as an old clunker in need of new fan belts and with at least one flat tire. Doop-doop?  Well, you are the music manager of our Grand Hotel; I just change the silk sheets, man the night desk, cook, and prepare mosquito pies, sweep the camping ground, keep the bats at bay and other odd jobs, so I'll trust your choices.Propper? I ran it through Google Translate, but didn't get much wiser for it. I know these nice young people trying to sell you time share property (you pay for 12 months in order to use it for two weeks or so ...). It could also be 'confidence builders' who hang out in bars, discoteques, whatever in order to make them look popular. But I'm not sure at all. From this you'll probably read that I have a skeptical, if not to say downright distrusting mind ... but I may be a party popper, let's try it out by Going to Ibiza Whigfield will get us customers, adriverhoef! She will drive us all crazy May I suggest we add Lorilee to the mix, Adri? For dinner I have listened to yodap We shall have salmon. Nice fat fish with lots of omega3 fatty acids. I contracted with a pack of grizzlies to get us the freshest possible fish. I'm making a sauce mousseline to go with it and on the southern hemisphire it must be the season for new potatoes and aspargus. I'll have those flown in with Venga Airways. Enjoy |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Captain adriverhoef, this may be premature, but did you ever meet a mermaid capable of keeping her mouth shut for any length of time?
 We may have a dinner guest for one meal, maybe two. He’s picky as far as farmed salmon goes, but would go with the grizzly caught. He can think of worse things than mosquito pie He will match Punchy@BC perfectly and go for the same diet in many cases. He’s a polarbear. He has ’dj’ at the end of his name. Whether this should mean DJ as in disc jockey, I don’t know. But you’ll find out if you meet him. Music is you   |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Good Morning Base Campers!
We are getting sqeezed  Christmas Race 2017 SeriousCrunchers gained some 50,000 points on us. They are still 287,513 points behind us. But for how long? Our gain on Kraland was very small yesterday. A mere 4,846 points. And now yodap said he has a new job - and the polarbeardj is up in the air. We are badly in need of more temporary members here at top40.nl - wouldn't mind permanent ones either Kraland III Challenge It's not good, Adri. Even as they tried to squeeze the competitive genes out of us Europeans, we still have some left. Both SeriousCrunchers and Kraland are running further away from us. I think we have to concentrate on covering our back, where we are still comfortably ahead of TerraCaching.com. Who are TerraCaching.com? 101 members of a team that ’is a world wide community of outdoors enthusiasts, using GPS technology to have more fun.’ Geocachers.  Yes. It is fun. Found one disguised as a magpie up in a tree once … Today's free lesson at adriverhoef’s Grand Hotel – sorry, captain, this I cannot do in Dutch  – we shall have a close look at three different words dealing with the finer aspects of communicationIrony A statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of, what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, often in a humorous context. Satire A literary device of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. Humor, irony, and exaggeration are often used to aid this. Sarcasm Use of acerbic language to mock or convey contempt, often using irony and (in speech) often marked by overemphasis and a sneering tone of voice. Which of the above do you think is the most hurtful? As KliK wrote here : it’s not an easy playing field at all Facial expressions mean so much |
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adriverhoef
Master Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Apr 3, 2009 Post Count: 2218 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Captain adriverhoef, this may be premature, but did you ever meet a mermaid capable of keeping her mouth shut for any length of time? So you have a scoop, mevrouw Kleine Zeemeermin! Did you meet him at the restaurant or was I only dreaming? Is he a futuristic Polar Bear? We may have a dinner guest for one meal, maybe two. He’s picky as far as farmed salmon goes, but would go with the grizzly caught. He can think of worse things than mosquito pie He will match Punchy@BC perfectly and go for the same diet in many cases. He’s a polarbear. He has ’dj’ at the end of his name. Whether this should mean DJ as in disc jockey, I don’t know. But you’ll find out if you meet him. Music is you BTW, Punchy@BC is one we have to keep, he's good, he's certainly doing good! |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Captain adriverhoef, there is something I need to tell you.
While you sleep, and the front desk is sleeping too, I sneak out and go to a speakeasy in a dark basement called ”Hello, trying to beat some life into a 4/5 dead horse”. Yes, that’s the very idiomatic name of it. There I meet the EVGA boys. They are old friends. Some of them are new ones. Many of them I have talked with. Both the old ones and some of the new ones. Some of them I have not, but hope to get to know OlddanIT and ipkh. and learn where they are from. I find geography such a good ezelsbruggetje - hey! You didn't count on me to remember that one, eh? for those not as fluent in Dutch as I evidently and to my own surprise am:'ezelbruggetje' is a little Dutch bridge where donkeys pass and make the connections you need in order to remember things. Mnemonics There our Grand Hotel guests had a completely unexpected dose of free Dutch class I met the EVGA boys back in 2012 when they blazed into WCG with all their top tuned computeres and jumped around like that litter of puppies. Puppies or kittens. Anyway, they were so agreeable and funny. I had the good luck to be able to give them a few pieces of directions – how to get a SNURK sign and such. We became friends. Good friends. A lasting friendship, you could say. I was away for four+ years, but they remembered me. So: 1. All EVGA boys are good and good crunchers. Dedicated. Regardsless. 2. Punchy@BC (what do you think BC means?) is an EVGA boy, and so is ipkh, OlddanIT, and yodap. 3. EVGA boys are migrant workers. You don’t get to keep them (I shall not swear that there cannot be an exeption to this, but it's the rule of thumb. So don't get your hopes up with Punchy@BC). 4. It is a privilege to have EVGA boys visiting. EVGA boys are busy boys. They roam the entire Distributed Computing World, sometimes as an individual lone wolf, but most often as a pack of wolves. 5. You will never know the full fire power capacity of any of them. They split their commitments all over the place. 6. You have to love them like you would love your own kids. Equal distribution of love adapted for and respecting each kid’s individual make-up. - oh, and they run their own team here on WCG: Crunching@EVGA polarbeardj is a very real polar bear. From cold to hot. Born and raised in Alaska – therefore he has strong opinions about salmon farming – and now living in Texas. I’ll keep the light on for him. I value these visits from the EVGA boys at our Base Camp treks, as it seems to be very hard to drum up interest inside these Forums. John Irving of 'Cider House Rules' fame called this 'to be nailed down for life' in another of his books. I don’t know what we’ll have for dinner yet. The theatre season is October – April. I have two tickets five days apart  the same theme dementia, and shall eat the show menu which I hope will not be the same. The duck was OK, but I don’t really fancy fowl of any kind. We’ll see.I’ll speak with the cook.  |
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