BladeD came and went so fast that you cannot believe it ...
He's so much of a numbers man that I trust he put in what is necessary for a hippo badge.

acpartsman promised to alert Dave when he sees him tonight.

Thank you for being there and, sure, you're welcome back any time.
I think you calculated accurately
- but it never hurts with a cat flap

Yes. I like the simplicity.
Easy to make and easy to load.
Those 'heavy' websites with lots of ads take forever to download
.... this one is so fast that's nice

Flodisar, I’m glad you’re all right after having been in my meat grinder.
Ever so often a lack of normal inhibitions make me overstep other people’s limits.
But you and I seem to understand each other pretty well in writing.
Thusly having been given the green light I shall happily proceed on a personal line.

Perhaps it’s so that you have some very well developed tentacles for the emotions of others
because you try to please your parents and fulfill their wishes even before they are expressed?
I guess that living with a man for 45 years who remains a mystery to me to this day
– actually most men do to a larger or lesser degree
has turned parts of my brain into some monitoring super instrument
– sonar, radar, scanners, you name it –
that has not even been invented yet,
honed and tweaked in order to enable it to try to gauge a mood – pick up even the weakest of signals.
Something similar may have happened to you even as you are so very young.
On the other hand you have been around your parents from birth, although they were healthy to begin with.

Being so much focused on other people and their needs tend to drain you.
You neglect your own needs, or you do not think you deserve to get those needs satisfied.
The name I gave the condition made people roll their eyes:
Love deficiency.
As we need vitamins we need love.
Often we go to extremes to get what we need without knowing what drives us.
And some need it more than others, but nobody is immune except for very rare cases.

My mentioning keyboards as a favorite hardware was an attempt of joking.
I write around the clock … I have a laptop with no choice of a keyboard per se
but I see beautiful ones – backlighted and sleek ….
A keyboard is as important as a set of lungs

No, I don’t want to know about overclocking … another attempt of joking pulverized, flodisar …
If anything, I would like to know how to keep my Sony Xperia M5 a little cooler
without stopping computing Wus and this is meant somewhat seriously.

Thank you for putting up your e-mail. You will hear from our Base Camp friend,
so I’ll skip the Parkinson’s part – not that I don’t care,
but since we have a specialist on board …

Your father’s back is a horror story of pain.
Another friend here, Bearcat of Minnesota Crunchers, has gone through his second surgery
for fusing more discs in his spine not long ago.
What has been done about your father’s spine? Can more be done?

It’s good that you live close to each other so you don’t waste time on transport.

My sister has luckily managed to get a real life with a fiance

Well, I hope somehow you will, too, flodisar. Not that your life isn’t a life – it’s fulfilling in many ways –
but let’s face it: You long for something more, something different, and you deserve it.

Yes, municipality is a better word. Denmark is divided into 98 ’kommuner’/towns/municipalities
which cash in taxes and which governs schools, roads, a lot of things
inclusive of care for the sick, old, and disabled
- home care, rehab, food service, personal hygiene, laundry, cleaning,
anything that helps keeping people out of the much more expensive nursing homes.
In the principle it is good, but rather restrictive, and you have to fight your way.
Tell me, does this happen in many families all over Sweden as far as you know?
You must have some kind of assistance system.
Well, they talk about ’involving family’ in Denmark, too ….

I’m sorry to hear about the decline of the standard in Sweden
which used to be at Denmark’s level – or better.
Being short of money doesn’t help either.
In between all you do, I’m glad you find joy in walks, talks, eating together and plain being together.

The downside is of course, I am not really "out there".

Yes.
You could play soccer, cricket or go to a strip-tease bar, go to museums,
make friends of both sexes in language classes, join a reading group, be active in politics,
anything that could give you and your brain a distraction and a rest by doing something else.
Could you in any way rationalize and systematize your chores
so they leave you some breathing space reserved for yourself?
Sometimes a new look at things and how they are organized – or not
can free up some time.
And it is not a sin to care for oneself.
I realize it is much easier for me to suggest everything,
and that you would have to jump a lot of hurdles to do follow just one of them.
But what do you have to lose?
And if you don’t succeed with one thing, you could go on to the next. No harm done.

… but at least I'll have something to look forward to

I hope you’ll find that in real life, too. You deserve that (cannot be repeated too often).

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I think I try to read not only the lines but between them as well, flodisar.
Often I’m wrong in my conclusions, but in contrary to many people
you have been brave enough to talk openly, and that makes everything a good deal easier
– and then there is my 45 years of training as earlier mentioned.

You have not touched upon any subjects that don’t belong here.
Everything belongs and can be said here
– except for a few 4-letter words the Americans otherwise use a lot

Come as you are, say what you want, you’re welcome and accepted.
Even as nobody else might answer, I know they read and think
- and they may wish they had your courage.
You are no burden here.
You need to vent.
sujo1 of SeriousCrunchers needs to vent when people occupy his home.
You are under a good deal of pressure.
Emotions are more than welcome – said by she who is characterized as
’being too emotional/feeling too much’.
What would we be without emotions and feelings?
Zombies …

I used the Sara Norén character from ’Broen’ to illustrate that
I think you’re far from Asperger’s and autism.

Yes, why not order a Roman Holiday from a travel agency?
Contract with your sister and her fiancé and a home care company and
take a plane to Rome … and join all the excursions they offer.
Have you ever travelled?

C'est parce que j'ai appris l'informatique 'à l'ancienne', quand les disques durs faisaient la taille d'une barrette de Ram actuelle. En fait, mon premier ordinateur n'avait même pas de disque dur. Donc j'ai toujours fait attention que ce que je code soit rapide. C'est un peu ridicule de nos jours, mais je ne sais pas faire autrement. La simplicité, c'est pour faciliter la maintenance (les mises à jours). Ta demande c'était pas d'avoir une super jolie page pour le Base Camp, mais simplement d'être sûre de ne pas perdre les badges. Bah hop, j'ai pris dix minutes, et c'était réglé. Si tu es un peu curieuse, fait un clic droit pour regarder le code source de la page, pour voir comment c'est tout simple. Les meta balises, c'est juste un copier/coller (on voit d'ailleurs le lien au .css qui sert à rien), que j'aime que ce que je fais soit un minimum propre. Et ensuite la liste des images, avec l'url complète (et pas relative), la taille des images, et le texte alternatif, que c'est comme ça que l'affichage est le plus rapide.
Je pense qu'avec ce modèle, tu pourrais toi même rajouter les lignes pour les nouveaux badges.

Pour moi, une page ou un programme ça doit avoir un but, et il faut l'atteindre avec le minimum de ressources possible. Je n'aime pas les sites qui 'clignotent' de partout'. J'en ai fait un quand je passais mon Bac+2 (je ne connais pas les équivalences étrangères pour ce diplôme). Il explique aux débutants ce qu'est IRC (le plus vieux système de tchat), et sert de pense-bête à ceux qui connaissent déjà (liste des commandes les plus courantes). Alors qu'il est tout simple, j'ai quand même optimisé le code (du PHP), pour qu'une fois la première page chargée, ça aille plus vite pour les autres. (Pour ceux qui aiment la technique : Il y a des instructions pour que les tableaux qui servent de menu restent en mémoire dans le pré-processeur du serveur, ce qui accélère grandement la génération de la page)
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That's because I learned 'old-fashioned' computing, when the hard drives were the size of a current Ram. In fact, my first computer did not even have a hard drive. So I've always been careful that what I code is fast. It's a bit ridiculous nowadays, but I do not know how to do otherwise. Simplicity is to facilitate maintenance (updates). Your request was not to have a super nice page for Base Camp, but simply to be sure not to lose the badges. Well, I took ten minutes, and it was settled. If you're a little curious, right click to look at the source code of the page, to see how simple it is. The meta tags, it's just a copy / paste (we also see the link to the .css is useless), I like that what I do is a clean minimum. And then the list of images, with the complete url (and not relative), the size of the images, and the alternative text, that is how the display is the fastest.
I think that with this model, you could even add the lines for the new badges.

For me, a page or a program must have a purpose, and it must be achieved with the minimum of resources possible. I do not like sites that 'flash' everywhere. I did one when I passed my Bac + 2 (I do not know foreign equivalents for this diploma). It explains to beginners what is IRC (the oldest chat system), and serves as a reminder to those who already know (list of the most common commands). While it is simple, I still optimized the code (PHP), so that once the first page loaded, it goes faster for others. (For those who like the technique: There are instructions for the tables that serve as menu remain in memory in the pre-processor of the server, which greatly accelerates the generation of the page)

If you want to look : http://stef.bzh.free.fr

Et si vous voulez venir sur IRC, vous pouvez me trouver sur le réseau : irc.langochat.net , sur le salon #biere-entre-potes. Mais en temps réel, vous risquez d'être déçus par mon niveau d'anglais.
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And if you want to come on IRC, you can find me on the network: irc.langochat.net, on the room #biere-entre-potes (beer with friends). But in real time, you may be disappointed by my level of English.