Good Afternoon Base Campers!
Thank you for having created such lively trafic in this thread
A special thank you to you, Fossaw, for making far more post than we usually see,
and also for being frank about what happened to you and which effects it has had on your life.
No doubt, there are many more, and I hope you’ll keep posting. We are all ears and eyes
– also, I hope you’ll mark where your limits are, so we don’t walk all over you with our clumsy clogs.

Minnesota trek
It ended in the best possible way. Bearcat returned home, and has posted
in Minnesota Crunchers’ team thread. He seems to be in good spirits to judge from his post,
and Base Camp wishes him a speedy and successful recuperation. We’ll check on him how it goes.
Your well deserved badges for the trek are up in the Base Camp Hall of Fame
and everyone but yodap@BC have returned to their home teams. I’ll notify him.
I’m not sure he comes here on a regular basis.

Idle days
The SeriousCrunchers’ faction of Base Camp talks about paying a visit to Kraland
during their upcoming Kraland Challenge IX that runs from May 12 to May 20.
It may turn into a mini-trek, a half-trek, or a full fledged trek, or just be a personal matter.
That will depend on participation and what we want.
If both tanner2 and Fossaw come, stefada will have his wishes
of forking them as members fulfilled for at least part time.
We could hope that BladeD would come, too. I have anticipatingly
[can you even say that???]
bought a ticket for Queen Mary II arriving at Plymouth, England, a little late,
but you'll have plenty of time to earn the badge if we decide to make one, BladeD.
You'll ride the train from there to France. Do you prefer tunnels over ferries?

Selfcentered chit-chat
I think I need to go into a detox facility for wordgaming addiction.
I did succeed in taking a walk today in this weather that continues
to bless us with sun and pleasant temperatures.
I made an album on Facebook
with several pictures in addition to the Japanese Cherries posted this morning
from my outing Sunday to some of my favorite places, that
I would like to share
if you care.
I'm afraid there is not much of a Shakespeare in me

That sounds very nice, thank you.
Is it a permanent place on Langeland or a summer/leisure place?
Let us show the visitors to this thread where Langeland is, Fossaw
oh, and Langeland means 'Longland' - kind of like Long Island


and to put it into perspective,
Denmark is the tiny red thing in this map of Europe
- a peninsula attatched to Germany, and a lot of islands,
the biggest of which is called Zealand.
That is where is where Fossaw and I live
some 100 km/65 miles apart.

Thank you for my birthday greeting, there are drinks in the bar.

The house where Lotte and Christian live is a full time house, they have lived there since 1998 if memory serves, I helped with the move soon after I moved here. The island is connected to the larger island, Fyn, by a bridge. They were in a smallish flat in Valby, Copenhagen and wanted somehwere better for their young daughter to grow up. I think they paid six carrots and three boxes of matches for the house. A nice detatched house, one of three in farmland, North of Tranekær. I like it there very much. Christian has a vegetable patch, (which is larger than our garden), in a corner of their ground. I am allowed to help when we are there.

The phrase is that "the sun is over the yard arm", sometimes yard arm is spelt as a single word yardarm. These are horizontal timbers leading out from a mast. In olden times, they held square sails. The yardarms could typically be turned to a certain extent around the mast to best utilise the available wind. It has been a while, but I recall the horizontal elements of rigging are referred too as spars.

Their house is one of three set on a small gravel lane about 200m East of the North-South road which runs the length of the island.

I intend to finish preparing our vegetable patch and plant our onions and probably some beetroot in the fine weather today. The weather forecast is for a bit of a change, with some rain expected, maybe tomorrow.

The basic concept of Base Camp is fine for those of us with enough common sense to undrstand credit is worthless. There have been numerous attempts to have a new credit system which gives the same amount of credit for a fixed amount of work across projects, I don't bother following, but it interests some.

Another old example is processor ratings. These were given in "MIPS", which officially stood for "million instructions per second", in the business we used the alternative "meaningless indicator, processor speed". Processors work on clock pulses, but a simple opcode instruction may take several clock pulses to perform its job, so a shift left instruction may take one clock pulse, whilst a floating point multiply may take 20 or more. It is worthless.