Well, that's one explanation
- so simple and yet so complicated in it's own confusing way

Good Morning Base Campers!

Hopefully most of you are in better shape than our captain adriverhoef – and possibly our new kid on the block: ultimaThule, who’s digging deep into his inventory of coffein tablets. I hope he’ll save a few for our captain.
Well, our captain is indisposed
I’ll try to take care of Grand Hotel, our guest, our statistics, our planning, our strategy, the silk sheets, your bath Adri, your ice cap – I’ll even pour all that charcoal you managed to bring home through inscrutable ways into that iron monster and char us some dinner.
You can decide on this tomorrow, Adri, when your sound judgement hopefully has returned, but Kraland … It ends simultanously with the
Christmas 2017 Race
#11 SeriousCrunchers are really kicking the hammer down below the floor boards. Kraland at #12 cannot find their way because of all the red dust left behind by them. #13 - that's us with that #13 - did a little bit better thanks to ultimaThule's back-up of back-up of back-up of the working computer. Captain adriverhoef is incommunicado for unflattering reasons, so I don't know how his machinery runs today. Better than he himself does probably. I can use it for whatever front desk chores we have, though, so it's still alive.

Then there is the matter of little brother. sujo1 - I read elsewhere - thinks we poached tanner2.
Now it's nice to have gone to George Washington University - incubator of the most shrewed lawyers of the nation, I have read

We can document through endless and miles of postings that we never did so [poaching], although we felt mightily tempted along the road. But we're proud that we abstained from foul play and kept sitting in the saddle of our high ethical horse
wonder how such one looks

tanner2 let everybody know that he fired up one more 'device', and he asked for Franklin Barbeque. I interpreted this as he would dedicate the work of this extra 'device' to us while remaining with his main force at SeriousCrunchers. I welcomed him as would do any sister her long-gone-and-gone-astray-fallen-by-the-wayside-brother, tsk, tsk, tsk
And of course I charred him a decent meal. To his liking. Pronto. And put up a sign so he could find this meal.
'Honorable jury, is that what you understand by poaching?'

See, tanner2 admits to not understanding himself. I tried to interpret his actions. And not seeing him on our payroll, I concluded I had made one more of my life's many, many blunders.
I admit to not understanding my own little brother, let alone all other men, with the possible exception of GeraldRube.
But I'm sure happy tanner2 is here

But the fact is that tanner2 moved into Grand Hotel, and he did so of his own free will, even as he did not himself understand why. Let me try to understand for both of us, Little Brother:
You just wanted to divide sun and wind equal, didn't you?
EDIT: out captain -> our captain - although 'out' might be ... ouch!

Sorry, Base Campers, I burnt our food.
There seems to be a reason why women don’t barbeque

Never mind, captain adriverhoef has a difficult day. He would not be able to face such a meal anyway
So, it will be take-out Franklin Barbeque for tanner2
and freshly picked seaweed from the Sargasso Sea for the rest of us
unless I hear well argued protests and suggestions for substitutes.

I decided on the
Bull Whip Kelp, Avocado and Basil spread
Serves 4-6
Ingredients:
2 ripe avocados, halved, pitted, scooped out of skins, and cubed
Large handful of fresh basil leaves
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
2 teaspoons fresh lemon or lime juice
1 garlic clove, peeled and minced
1 teaspoon or more powdered bull whip kelp to taste
A pinch of cayenne to taste (optional)
Directions:
1. Combine basil, garlic, and a pinch of powdered bull whip kelp and cayenne in a small
food processor and blend until ingredients form a paste.
2. Add avocados and process until smooth. Blend in the oil and lemon or lime juice, and
then season with the rest of the bull whip kelp.
Use this delicious bull whip, avocado and basil spread in place of mayonnaise - it's
particularly tasty on fresh raw veggies and makes a wonderful dip for crackers.

We shall have an outing tomorrow.
A seaweed safari beats a mudflat one any time.

tsk, tsk, tsk ....
Such Christmas parties can be so .... exhausting?
Try to nap some more, captain.
No, this is chamomile tea, not whisky,
And it's hot, not cold ....
I never thought I should see you like this, tsk, tsk, tsk
- and all that music whirling and twirling in you head and out of your fingertips.
Sorry about the inconsiderate way I closed the lid of that pill box ... sorry about that loud bang!
You fixed the front desk computer half?
In your condition!
A miracle!
After such a night!
Such nights are always better while they are nights, right?

Now, you count, count, count, count - and everythin's gonna be all right , captain
tsk, tsk, tsk

Wow, I like the trend of that graph!

Sorry I have not caught up on this thread for a while. In doing so I discovered several more things that Anne-Lise and I have in common - which are so unusual it must be more than just coincidence.

I also have a Crescent bicycle made in Sweden. Mine is a stainless steel racing bike that I raced in college in the late 1970's. It would definitely be a collector's item now, since they had very limited production due to the difficulty of assembling/welding/brazing the stainless steel tubing.

On the not so good side, I did get blood clots in my right leg after driving from Texas to Seattle twice in two weeks (each trip was 4 days of 9-10 hours of driving). Being so new to the area, I couldn't get in to see a doctor, and I didn't want to go to the emergency room. Luckily my wife is a very experienced nurse so I had her to keep an eye on me for any problems. After a week or so they went away.

Welcome to tanner2 and ultimaThule; it's nice to have reinforcements!

One thing for our temporary captain - we were on a river cruise from Budapest to Amsterdam last year; our cruise director was from the Netherlands, and while she taught various words in local languages, she did not try to teach Dutch, saying it was a terribly difficult and complicated language to learn.