Good Mornin Base Campers!
It was supposed to be a well planned and orderly day.
A walk to the doctor for a consultation, have drawn blood at their lab, pick up something at the pharmacy, and then later on a walk to get a haircut. It turned out a bit differently.
In the first place a heavy downpour of rain and sleet made me choose Rosie over walking.

My doctor – my wonderful new doctor – didn’t like my legs and wanted me to use my compression stockings, which I don’t think is good. They are knee stockings and cut into the tissue below the knee like a tourniquet, and she could see I had a point and wanted me to have a more specialized bandage/stocking fitted and installed by the nurse. She talked me into showing up in two weeks to have it done. My optimism as to it clearing up by itself bought me some time there.

My doctor – my wonderful new doctor – liked my bloodpressure figures after she doubled my dose. She didn’t like the side effect of me being utterly drowsy. I don’t mind. I can catch up on sleep owed to me without sleeping pills which my doctor and I agree we are not in favor of. Only thing is that I have to be very careful when driving. It will pass.

My doctor – my wonderful new doctor – thought I should see the ear-nose-throat specialist about my ’Bermuda triangle’ pain and discomfort. No referral is needed for that. Never was. I wonder why.

My doctor – my wonderful new doctor – said the change in the surface of my ’beauty spots’ into some rough suedelike to the touch skin was nothing to worry about. It was basal cell papilloma for which she had quite a few names. 'Senile warts', ’wisdom warts’ and a few others. I settled for the ’wisdom’ part.

My doctor – my wonderful new doctor – didn’t like that pimple that bleeds so easily at my nostril. She used her magnifying glass and said she suspected a basal-cell carcinoma, but not to worry. She would not make a surgery at that location herself but referred me to a dermatologist instantly.
Such an referral is sent into ’the sky’ so any dermatologist can pick it up or I can go to one of my choice who will look it up and we’ll make an appointment.
Brave New World! I love it!
My doctor – you know the wonderful new one - e-mailed me a list of the local dermatologists. Just called up my e-mail with a pinkie and off it rushed! She’s a disciplined wunderkind on the computer, and she runs a tight ship with all of her notes which is very important in this new age of IT. More and more health sector business in Denmark is conducted via the internet. It’s good and exciting – and it’s scary, for what if?
Not long ago the British National Health Service was toppled by a malign attack.

So far so good.
Waiting for my number to be called for the blood sample to be taken – routinely they seem to want to make sure that lowering your blood pressure don’t kill off your kidneys, and the test is run twice about one month apart – I thought I could make appointments with the specialists down the hallway. The ear-nose-and-throat could see me in 1½ hours! A couple of cancellations had been called in, and they wanted to fill up the empty spaces. The dermatologist could look up that referral in the sky in the time it had taken me to go down two flights of stairs! She was not as fast as the internet, though. 10 weeks! No problem. I suppose.

More good news.
Because I eat rat poison to keep a high viscosity of my blood due to a DNA mutation I always need to ask the vampyres to use lots of BandAid in order to keep the blood from running down my arm. But now they have little Vitamin K BandAids! Vitamin K is the agent that helps blood to coagulate. Mamma mia! That was a first.

Good compression stockings news
Met one of my dancing friends who buys tons of support panty hose at ALDI (a German discount chain) yesterday. She has recommended them to me. They were in stock. So I bought three pairs of black ones with a nice shine to them on my way back from my wonderful hairdresser – she understands me like my doctor and my dentist – so important to have these kind of people around you. And are they good! Support all the way from toe to waistline. They feel good and look good. Stilettos are within reach, and compression bandage fading in the horizon, I think.

The very good news.
Two years ago I couldn’t have cared less. I did not return any samples for the first comprehensive intestine cancer preventive exam of all people over a certain age in Denmark. I didn’t want to know if anything was wrong. It could just run it’s course if there was anything wrong. Just give me the painkillers and get it over with. I just didn’t care and would rather die.
Not so any more.

Little Mermaid

T'es obligée de rester en bonne santé ! Même que j'ai la meilleure raison possible : Tu n'as pas encore fait un câlin à mon chien, alors !
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You have to stay healthy! Even though I have the best possible reason: You have not hugged my dog ​​yet, so!

Good Afternoon Base Campers!
I got movie ticket for all of us. A newletter from
one of my two local movie theatres sold me on – what-do-you-call-it? a pre-premiere showing of ’Backstabbing for Beginners’ dealing with a whistleblower’s meeting with the UN diplomacy during the Oil-for-Food Programme based on the book ’Backstabbing for Beginners: A Crash Course in International Diplomacy’.
The whistleblower, Michael Soussan himself will be present at the show and take your questions afterwards. Luckily, the library had his book. I heard of a lot going wrong, but never heard of the whistleblowing part.
Ben Kingsley, who was Ghandi in ’Ghandi’ has a main role.
The popcorns are on me

I went to Elgiganten, the store that sold me Saphir12-Nathalie. I tried my best to make the manager understand that they were inconveniencing me no end. I might as well have started negotiations with the Supreme Soviet General Assembly. There seems to be no other way than shipping her to the Sony Hospital in Sweden again. That garage would not even replace the battery to compensate for their shoddy work even if Elgiganten asked them to do so unless something was wrong with it, because ’they are authorized and use genuine parts’.
So how come their sealant paste doesn’t stick then?
Unauthorized sealant paste?
Authorized sealant paste that doesn't stick?
Any construction worker worth his caulking gun could have fixed that.
But I have to bite the sour apple. I have set her to ’No New Tasks’, will back up tomorrow and borrow their SIM card adapter and try to turn Mr Jones into a telephone once more – he hates and I hate it.
But, but, but a somewhat acid letter to the uber Elgiganten who just recently established their Scandinavian customer service center in Copenhagen is brewing in my head … I completely forgot to enquire about a Lenovo tablet a certain discount on such one could be a BandAid.

Hmmm ...

Maintenant, on a un problème Little Mermaid ... Mon Louloup est bien élevé, si tu lui fais un câlin, il doit te faire une léchouille ... Mais je n'ai pas encore réussi à lui apprendre comment on fait avec facebook, que moi même j'ai déjà du mal ...
Alors, j'vais être obligé de t'inviter à venir pour de vrai chez moi, qu'il puisse répondre ... Et puis qui sait, t'as tellement une bonne énergie, si ça se trouve, tu lui expliques comment on Crunch ! T'imagines ? Mon chien qui Crunch et qui va sur FB ?
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Now, we have a problem Little Mermaid ... My "Little Little Wolf ?" is well raised, if you give him a hug, he must make you a lick ... But I have not yet managed to teach him how we do with facebook, that I'm already struggling ...
So, I'll have to invite you to come for real home, he can answer ... And who knows, you have so much good energy, if it is, you explain to him how we Crunch! Do you imagine? My dog ​​who crunch and who goes on FB?

I have a dream, everybody make Research, my dog too ...

Good Morning Base Campers!
Hungary trek
Former captain adriverhoef, Speurneus, if you by any means need to take a break from the 400 OCR pages and more to come plus the 100 pages increase and do some specialist sniffing, I have a job for you:
How much would you estimate it would take to make a spike of the graphs of Team Hungary? - something in the order of what Base Camp did at our trek to your team top40.nl?
My reason for asking is that we shall probably launch a Base Camp trek with Team Hungary around January 15th.
Since they are so many crunchers, I would think it could be difficult to make the opposite of a dent with them - that must be a bulge - but suppose every Base Camper who would like to participate for any period of time, made sure to be there at
one particular day – say Saturday January 20th
– if at all possible, this coordinated effort might be able to make a difference. Kind of like when PecosRiverM suddenly remebered he is a Base Camper and gave you a boost, adriverhoef. After all, it would be nice if we could leave some kind of greeting behind. So your best estimate from Speurneus's intelligence operation would be welcome.
I'm unable to judge such things myself.
Your reward will be any quantity of free tickets for the
Grand Galla SNURK trek
which probably shall take place in September, by which time I'm sure you have found a way to turn some crunching into Base Camp crunching. If not, please pass on the tickets.

The Sony Saga
Saphir12-Nathalie had to abort some of her WUs but finished a bunch. I want to get her off to Sweden today.
We have a saying in Danish
Nød lærer nøgen kvinde at spinde ~ necessity will teach naked woman how to spin ~ necessity is the mother of invention
The dread of having to turn little Mr Jones into a phone and the ensuing wrath from him made me remember my very old classic, Finnish, Nokia
I even found the charger.
Now we’ll see about the SIM card size. Nano to maxi!