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I hate Mondays. And according to FM4 it is Pfingsten (Pentecost) in Austria, appearantly a holiday over there. So all the music running today is chill out, exactly what I need on a Monday morning at work.

Anyway, the weekend was great. Better half went horse ridding on saturday, so I spent some time there as well, (playing with dogs, reading, talking to people, taking pictures). BBQ with a lot of beer and whiskey in the evening. We ended up spending the night in the back of the car.

On a different side note, we completely forgot that friends of us will be in Scotland next week and that it will be bank holiday over here. Now all the flights and ferries are ferociously expensive.



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the bank holiday is today, and its not a scottish bank holiday. mainly english. some places probably take it. but we are certainly still at work Frown


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the bank holiday is today, and its not a scottish bank holiday. mainly english. some places probably take it. but we are certainly still at work Frown


Ohh, I didn't know that. I thought that bank holidays apply to all of GB. Something to keep in mind.

In Ireland bank holidays are in on the first Monday of the month, while in GB bank holidays are on the last Monday of the month. That is usually good.



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we had a may bank holiday on the 7th, was GB wide, this second one is mainly english. similarly in august, there are two, but we really only get the one in scotland. we make up for it at christmas/new year, where we get the extra days.


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Well Noir, drooling won by a hair. If we had of stayed another half hour it would have been complete bastard. Spending a day with my parents is trying stuff.


Heh- you truly had my good thoughts yesterday- As I tell all little kids when you get older, the only reason family holidays exist is so you can remember why you live so far away-


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Tonight, while driving on a dark road, a lightning bug hit the winshield. It was beautiful and kinda tragic.


thank you for the amazing visual- I would never think some thing like that could go splat- At times I forget everything must know a downside-


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I took this Friday off and today was a holiday anyways.
My three day weekend was the best!
Les Arkans and Andreas came over.... and I just dropped them off at the airport a few hours ago.

Our Thessaloniki meat is over. Frown



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Real busy day.

I woke-up at 3;00 AM with what I thought was appendicitis. Then I remembered eating this Portoguese Chourico Burrito late last night, and realized it was probably monster indigestion.

I changed the oil in my ride. Hot oil always sluices over my hand, causing me to drop the slightly less hot metal plug into the dark murky catch pan. Sunday night, I'll commit economic terrorism and leave the jug of waste oil on the fron step of a garage tha overcharges me for repairs I can't do myself.

Rebuilt the bog in my flat for my landlord. He lets me go overdue on the rent in return for repairs. He's Indian, a nice fellow, but really has two thumbs on each hand. He explained that back in Karela, there were servants, and a wallah to rebuild the bog. Here, the wallahs are very expensive. I guess I'm a Bog-Wallah.

Its an easy job, however I'm always afraid of getting a staph infection that is resistant to super drugs and results on amutation.

I'm running diagnostics on my computer right now, before going to a BBQ. I'm bringing two very green tasting NZ Reislings and no food. There are supposed to be at least two newly divorced women there tonight. I think I'll shave.

For some reason, this strikes me as one of the best posts ever. I hope you got lucky with a divorcée, sir.


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memento picture with my brothers.
by the way, both of them were quite taken by the mamsel Arkan!



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Hey! You were visited by French hobbits, it seems.


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Great pic! It looks like you all had fun.


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Yep. we had three very piraty days!


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For some reason, this strikes me as one of the best posts ever.


Welcome to my life, Mate. (One was a very thin, Volvo wagon driving, Vegan with a 6-year old girl (Sasha). The other was inapporpriately dressed, over-eager, and with female pattern baldness.
 
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memento picture with my brothers.
by the way, both of them were quite taken by the mamsel Arkan!



So...tall....wow...middle....tall.....


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Picnic with the woman's family. There was a baby there, which provoked questions of when the woman and I would get married and create our own babies. "If you can spare the time and money it takes to raise them, I'll get started now," was my reply.


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Nono, Arkan is a tiny eurosquirrel. He might like everyone reminded, though, that she's *madame* Arkan. Wink


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Picnic with the woman's family....which provoked questions of when the woman and I would get married and create our own babies. "If you can spare the time and money it takes to raise them, I'll get started now," was my reply.


Her eyes shot open, wider than he had ever seen them.

"Oh..." she whispered, breathlessly, Sarandon-like. "Now?"

He locked onto her steel-grey orbs, hanging there in space like two shimmering pinatas crafted from Ziploc bags of dirty California ditch water. Her nostrils widened, once. And then, propelling the Gatorade jugs and the KFC bucket and the opened packets of Twinkies off the chequered oilskin tablecloth with one smooth sweep of his burly tattooed arm, he took her right there, right on top of the potato salad. Her uncle Elmo retreated, scurrying, with the three un-spilled PBRs as they moaned and writhed.

Later, in the afterglow, they drank the last two Coronas from the Igloo cooler and talked about their future together. And about NASCAR.
 
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Heh..... Wger's, reality gets hazard pay just to visit-


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Her eyes shot open, wider than he had ever seen them.

"Oh..." she whispered, breathlessly, Sarandon-like. "Now?"

He locked onto her steel-grey orbs, hanging there in space like two shimmering pinatas crafted from Ziploc bags of dirty California ditch water. Her nostrils widened, once. And then, propelling the Gatorade jugs and the KFC bucket and the opened packets of Twinkies off the chequered oilskin tablecloth with one smooth sweep of his burly tattooed arm, he took her right there, right on top of the potato salad. Her uncle Elmo retreated, scurrying, with the three un-spilled PBRs as they moaned and writhed.

Later, in the afterglow, they drank the last two Coronas from the Igloo cooler and talked about their future together. And about NASCAR.


ha


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I think Mean Old Man just might write for Prairie Home Companion.

It's the extremely well-placed "potato salad" that made me think of it.


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