Ravis si la visite improvisée de Toulouse vous a plu. C'est de parler des grandes villes, ça m'a rappelé que celle-là je l'aime. A mon avis, c'est justement parce que quand on est dans le centre, on n'a pas l'impression d'être dans une grande ville. C'est comme si on passait d'une place de village, à une autre place de village, sauf qu'il y a beaucoup de monde. Et comme d'habitude, les photos que j'ai montrées, représentent des endroits que je connais. Si on devait s'y retrouver, c'est là que je vous amènerais, et en gros, à pieds depuis le Capitole (le centre névralgique de Toulouse), il faut 30 min pour être dans un de ces lieux.

Et si vous avez aimez, surtout n'oubliez pas de cliquer sur le lien de la chanson de Nougaro. Vous ne comprendrez peut-être pas les paroles, mais il y a plein de belles images qui les accompagnent. Et il est en quelque sorte considéré comme un 'ambassadeur' de Toulouse.
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Delighted if the improvised tour of Toulouse pleased you. It's about talking about big cities, it reminded me that that one I like it. In my opinion, it's precisely because when you're in the center, you do not feel like you're in a big city. It's like going from one village square to another village square, except that there are a lot of people. And as usual, the pictures I showed, represent places I know. If we were to meet, that's where I would take you, and basically, on foot from the Capitol (the nerve center of Toulouse), it takes 30 minutes to be in one of these places.

And if you like, especially do not forget to click on the link to the song Nougaro. You may not understand the lyrics, but there are plenty of beautiful pictures accompanying them. And he is sort of considered an 'ambassador' of Toulouse.



Litlle Mermaid,

Je n'ai pas de nouvelles d'Urden, c'est surtout ici qu'il en donne. Mais comme on dit chez nous : 'Pas de nouvelles, bonne nouvelle'.

Et oui, comme un peu partout dans le monde, les gens vont vers les villes pour le travail. En Aveyron, beaucoup partent pour faire leurs études, et ne reviennent que pour la retraite. C'est un peu caricatural dit comme ça, mais c'est pas loin de la vérité.
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I have no news of Urden, it is especially here that he gives it. But as we say at home: 'No news, good news'.

And yes, like everywhere in the world, people go to cities for work. In Aveyron, many leave to study, and only return for retirement. It's a bit caricatural said like that, but it's not far from the truth.



flodisar,

Le trek démarre demain, alors, consignes de sécurité : Est-ce que tu as bien attaché ta ceinture ?

Je ne sais pas si tu connais bien le Base Camp, et les SeriousCruncher, mais ça décoiffe ! Et là, je vois Eric, acpartsman, etc ...
Pour te donner une idée, les stats de la Team Kraland, lors du trek Kraland II :
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The trek starts tomorrow, so, safety instructions: Have you secured your belt?

I do not know if you know Base Camp well, and SeriousCruncher, but it's funny! And here I see Eric, acpartsman, etc ...
To give you an idea, the stats of Team Kraland, during the Kraland II trek:

Hours by day :


Pour l'occasion, on avait organisé le défi Kraland IX : Renvoyer autant de résultats que possible, en une semaine. Pour la 1ère fois on fini premier.
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For the occasion, we had organized the challenge Kraland IX: Return as many results as possible, in a week. For the first time we finish first.



Bienvenu au Base Camp !
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Welcome to Base Camp!

stefada:
Those numbers look great, I am strapping my belt on as I write!
(I have emailed WCG, so hopefully I will become team captain soon enough). Also, very nice Toulouse pictures!

At least the weather should cool down a bit after the weekend, so that's something to look forward to :)



little mermaid:
You're welcome, please tell me a bit about yourself too and your daily life. I've read up a bit, but right now my picture of it is very fragmented. A summary would make the pieces come together a bit.

Thanks for the kind words, and I must say that the alias "little mermaid" also was an indication to me that you are a kind person <3

I love my parents so I wouldn't consider any other option as long as they feel that I am helping them more than the opposite. We help eachother out, basically :)

Had no idea about the "pepper virgin" things in Denmark, I am not aware of such traditions in Sweden though, but the conventions in Sweden seem to be the same with regard to being settled down when turning 30.

I guess you are right, maybe I am still young (my guess is that you are older than me, since you said I am young, but it is impolite to ask women for their age so I won't) :) But I have never had someone of the opposite sex looking my way in my life so far, and I can't blame anyone either - IRL social interactions especially are not in my favor, and yeah that part of my life is a mess so it is what it has always been.

Oh, I do actually have a sibling, a sister. How about you, any siblings?

An International Team 2.0 Trek? Yaay! :) I hope that I'll be a Team Captain by then at least ;)

"Hey, flodisar, it's so nice having met you and getting to know you!"
Thank you for such heart-warming words. I'd like to tell you the very same - it is not very often that I get to meet such nice people like you and all the other Base Campers.


Oh, on the Samsung picture:
It is an old phone that I removed the battery from, and then I used an old 12V DC adapter from a router, connected it via a Buck converter (the red circuitboard on the right) to get the voltage down to 4V (to mimic a battery) and connected the output directly to the battery terminals in the phone instead. Then I installed BOINC app and could crunch WUs without having to have a battery there taking a beating from it. A fun project :)

Whoops, time is almost 2AM so sleep is imminent. Good night everyone!
/flodisar

please tell me a bit about yourself

'a bit?' You'll regret you ever asked, flodisar.

right now my picture of it is very fragmented

Good. My smokesceen, hat and blue glasses work – I need absolutely no help protecting my privacy from the EU whatsoever

A summary would make the pieces come together a bit.

A summary? No novel?
OK, a summary might do.

I am a peace child, born in 1945. Let me do the math for you. 72 years now.
Only child.
No children of my own.
Lived with ex for 45 years, married for 40 of those. Doomed from the beginning. 'Till death do you part'.
Talk about stubbornness.
Short technical assistant education.
Worked within many fields – the longest at Holmegaard Glassworks and as an octopus with a consulting engineering firm.
All the while also the octopus at ex’s and my small building/carpentry business, designing houses, bookkeeping, what have you.
We went belly up in 1982 – interest rate 25% - bad for construction. Very bad.
Were employed with a Danish couple in Poughkeepsie, NY, who owned a Danish design furniture store on Main Street.
Ex was to install a Danish line of office furniture they were to begin to importing. I should do accounting and such.
Hourly pay $3.25
I almost died the first time I was to report weekly payroll to ADP. English! on the telephone!!!
Their filosofy and ours differed a lot so our ways separated very soon.
We moved to Rhode Island where I had a pen friend who had a friend who was a builder and hired ex.
Being a tradesman of Danish apprenticeship framed houses were a breeze for ex,
and he started his own business and I read the tax code – thicker than the Bible –
and imported raingear from Denmark hoping to make a wholesale business. How do you compete with Taiwan?
We bought a building lot. Designed a house. My eyes crossed. Did you ever try designing a house in feet and inches?!
Or for Americans: Meters and centimeters?
Built a house. Well drilled into bedrock. Leach field, one and a spare area.
Everything very different.
We did 2x6 framing insulation in walls, floors and ceiling - everything very different to the Chepachet building inspector.
All ex's gear was a ladder he had hammered together himself, and when I passed with my raingear,
we raised one more framed section.
We lived as illegal aliens. Didn’t go to Canada or Mexico.
In spite of all attempts
- you wouldn't believe how many lawyers they have in Rhode Island! Some of them with flaky ideas
we could not change our status. Received a voluntary departure order. Did go to many places of the USA, though.
Ex was revered. Installed kitchens for two dealers and did whatever work resulted.
Geezz! The customers paid deposits in advance!
The banks closed in Rhode Island. Our money was frozen.
Everybody’s money was frozen. Rhode Island was frozen.
We had built a large house with another builder and had that for sale along with our own.
We needed to go back to Denmark.
Old parents – you know that, flodisar
Finally, it all came together, and on a cold and dark January night
we handed our voluntary departure order to the clerk in Logan Airport, Boston.
She rushed to her backoffice … very pale.
We later approached the US Embassy in Copenhagen and told we overstayed our visas,
but would like to visit in the future and they hammered new ones into our passports.
I found an indention in my right breast in 2002. It was a cancer they found when it was removed.
They checked the lymph nodes on the first day of 2003
– a blizzard almost keeping us from reaching the hospital
Nothing had spread.
I looked around on the internet and found UDGrid.
They way people spoke to each other on the Forum was so soothing for me. I looked and read often.
Especially Scribe (Alan) was my favorite. I joined.
Ex didn’t like this. I left. Ex didn’t like any of me. We divorced.
I moved to my present condo found WCG and a lot of old friends,
but after a while my mood deterioated to a point where I had to leave.
The divorce cost four years of miserable mood – but all of a sudden
- and it was so sudden I cannot believe it to this day
it was a new day. The next one was, too.
I began to live because I wanted to live – not because of forcing myself to do it.
I joined the WCG again and it’s a major part of my life – I feel all the crunchers are my chosen family.
Some I know pretty well and have even visited. When I visited Guitar Man i Poole, Dorset, England,
I had the good luck to say hello to Scribe (Alan) who said his long goodbye while I was away.
You must remember Scribe, flodisar.
I had a blood clot of the heart in January. I was lucky. All went technically far better than I could imagine.
I have traveled a lot with ex and after ex on my own.
My life is very rich these days. My ’family’ here, good real life friends, actually more than my payload of fibromyalgia
can handle the way I would like to be honest, many activities, ex has a new female, but we can speak.
I sounds like a cliché, but it’s the truth:
I have never been happier in my life.
I hope your picture of me is less fragmented now, flodisar

Thank you, tanner2. 72 years are a lot of years lived. There may have been some gaps.
Maybe there still are - but they are not thigh gaps … ... I'm a mermaid.
Have you planned to join this trek, lil’ brother?
Good Morning Base Campers!
Shop talk
TLD has joined the crew. Welcome, Ted
Sorry about the MREs – fire hazard, you know – you have to eat them cold …


- but if you catch something we could make sushi
The good news is the M&Ms
I always found it so cute, so cute that American service men get to get sweets – chocolate, cookies, what have you
So cute and in many ways juxtaposed in my brain to their trade - I don’t think they do that in Denmark
Fits so fine with this, picture – I have used it before. Isn’t it lovely?
I keep thinking of it and have saved it for future use.

- he has surely given all of his cookies and candy to that little French girl
- at all that from his comrades’ rations as well
acpartsman welcome
We cannot make hot coffee or hot anything. How about a coke?
We have MREs to eat cold. I hope you like sushi in case TLD catches some good Swedish fish

I picked up Saphir12-Nathalie. They erased everything in Sweden
I just switched the SIM-cards and memory cards from D to her
and downloaded BOINC. I'm not up to doing it all over again just now
And I'm such a lucky woman in many, many respects.
That's why my key operated differently - it was about to break.
Lightweight aluminum doesn't last forever. It could have broken on the outside or worser:
It could have broken inside the lock and blocked that. But it broke on the inside before I inserted it ... lucky me!

flodisar, I have not addressed what you have told us properly.
I’m working on it.

Sure, stefada, if I understand you correctly.
This is the run time for The International Team as of this morning:



It was nice of you to clear the way for your dad's lawn mower I wish you well recovering from the battle with the axe