anyway, you're from italy?????

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Originally posted by Bovaz:
anyway, you're from italy?????

No, no, no....I am FROM the UK but right now I am IN Italy.

LN

hunting olives...

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Originally posted by Bovaz:
hunting olives...

Hi B

Hardly 'hunting' them; they just sit & wait for us, I am not really collecting them; that would be too close to manual labour. My role is more like 'monitoring' the collecting of the olives; in other words I am in the same place as the collecting but I am only peripherally involved.

LN

so you're like on vacation?

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Originally posted by Bovaz:
so you're like on vacation?

Yes, we have a house here in Toscana.

LN

you lucky #@%&@£$

We are almost out of food. Well, almost out of breakfast food.

I had to make pancakes from a box mix, and the maple syrup is all gone.

This is tragic.

go berserk!

Thank you for the breakfast idea, SRu. Box-pancakes!

Man, party was OK. Wasted my money, though. As per usual.

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Originally posted by Bovaz:
you lucky #@%&@£$

That's the consensus!

i just bought knee pads and wrist guards to go skating (altough i don't have yet my skates, since they'll be shipped next week)


right now i'm having an hell of a time typing with the wrist guards on...

LOLOL! Good man. Make sure those suckers are well broken in.

Inline skating, I presume? Remember. The secret to initial success staying upright is to not hold your feet squarely under you. One should be a wheel-length or so in front of the other so that if you hit bumps, you don't hit them with both feet simultaneously. (I'd draw an ascii diagram and stuff, but then I'd feel too much like Osier.)

Oh, and practice braking on a level surface first... until you're proficient! I still recall skating by this one girl on the river path who then screamed a frantic question, "Hey, how do you stop on these things?!?" Luckily, it was a long gentle slope and I had time to go back and offer tutorial advice before she reached the really steep part.

I've temporarily solved the food problem.

In addition to milk, etc, I bought:

--A 22 lb turkey (very huge) for $.29 a pound. That comes out to approximately $6.50 to get leftovers for WEEKS>
--5 15 oz Hershey chocolate bars for US $1.00 each. I put them on a shelf in the basement so they wouldn't get eaten before Monday.

I now have a weird story.

I make a habit of checking all of the eggs in a carton before I buy it. Broken eggs are not food, and sticky besides.

The first 3 cartons of eggs that I checked all had one egg broken. I figured someone must have dropped the big cardboard box that holds the 20 or so little foam cartons, so I shifted the cardboard and found the next box behind it, which also had a broken egg in the first carton I checked.

I notice one of the employees stocking nearby, and mention that this is an awful lot of broken eggs.

He says "I'll have one of the Dairy guys come help you out." He vanishes into the back.

Then I start on the next shelf up, which has "extra large eggs" instead of "large eggs."

The first carton of extra large has a broken egg, but the second doesn't.

Finally, I've got an entire dozen eggs, so I go to check out. I'm thinking of all different sorts of reasons for the broken eggs. The only one that seems to account for it is vandalism. Some weirdo has been opening cartons and breaking one egg in each, in a deliberate attempt to annoy the store management. . .

I mention the problem of the broken eggs to the checkout clerk.

The bagger says "Oh, yeah. Todd was playing hackysack back there."

Heh - delightful story!

Inliners - is there such a thing as a toe brake for linline skates? I'm an old roller-skater from the 70s, used to using a brake on the toe of the skate, and that (as well as the one on the rear for more extreme forces) seems to me like it would be useful, but I haven't seen it. Lots easier for a beginner to drag one foot behind and brake than do the whole thing with the heel brakes...

Celebrated my 33rd birthday with my girl and my friends in Sweden.

Went out - ate sushi then hit the bar until 2. I laughed, I cried, it became a part of me.

Happy birthday, Crash!

Thanks. I actually turn "officially" tomorrow at 1:35 PM but since I couldn't get the time off on Monday, I celebrated it today. I appreciated the sentiment, nonetheless.

33 years. Who would have thought it.

Photos (of places and people) forthcoming.

Started working a broken shovel handle into a
bokken. That's going to take a while and knowing
my manual craft skills, won't turn out that well,
but I figure it's better to try to make something
useful out of the handle than to toss it.