Barbara

[BeH]

Happy birthday to you, wherever you are...

--
BeH

" We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to
formulate insight is a play on words." - Niels Bohr

[BeH]

On 09.09.2023 22.51, Merlyne wrote:
> BeH <beh.on...@gmail.com> wrote in news:udfmd1$3im32$1...@dont-email.me:

>
>> Happy birthday to you, wherever you are...
>>
>

> Arizona?

Possibly, bud it's not relevant... the birthday happies applies wherever
she is.

[BeH]

On 17.09.2023 19.50, Merlyne wrote:
> BeH <beh.on...@gmail.com> wrote in

> news:ue47d3$3qo44$1...@dont-email.me:

>
>> On 09.09.2023 22.51, Merlyne wrote:
>>> BeH <beh.on...@gmail.com> wrote in
>>> news:udfmd1$3im32$1...@dont-email.me:
>>>
>>>> Happy birthday to you, wherever you are...
>>>>
>>>
>>> Arizona?
>>
>> Possibly, bud it's not relevant... the birthday happies applies
>> wherever she is.
>>
>

> You said 'wherever you are'. So I told you.
> Geez!

Actually... *pushes glasses back up on nose* you asked me if she was in
Arizona. A fact I do not have.

I concede (with some satisfaction), that it's a real place in the world...

[BeH]

On 23.09.2023 23.14, Merlyne wrote:
> BeH <beh.on...@gmail.com> wrote in news:uek5o3$8sbf$3...@dont-email.me:

>
>> On 17.09.2023 19.50, Merlyne wrote:
>>> BeH <beh.on...@gmail.com> wrote in
>>> news:ue47d3$3qo44$1...@dont-email.me:
>>>
>>>> On 09.09.2023 22.51, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>> BeH <beh.on...@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>> news:udfmd1$3im32$1...@dont-email.me:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Happy birthday to you, wherever you are...
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Arizona?
>>>>
>>>> Possibly, bud it's not relevant... the birthday happies applies
>>>> wherever she is.
>>>>
>>>
>>> You said 'wherever you are'. So I told you.
>>> Geez!
>>
>> Actually... *pushes glasses back up on nose* you asked me if she was
>> in Arizona. A fact I do not have.
>>
>> I concede (with some satisfaction), that it's a real place in the
>> world...
>>
>

> It was less a question and more an offering.

Well, thank you then - but no thanks. I don't want Arizona. I understand
that it's full of elderly Americans... Not really my thing.

[BeH]

On 26.09.2023 14.11, Merlyne wrote:
> BeH <beh.on...@gmail.com> wrote in

> news:uesfj4$217ik$1...@dont-email.me:

>
>> On 23.09.2023 23.14, Merlyne wrote:
>>> BeH <beh.on...@gmail.com> wrote in
>>> news:uek5o3$8sbf$3...@dont-email.me:
>>>
>>>> On 17.09.2023 19.50, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>> BeH <beh.on...@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>> news:ue47d3$3qo44$1...@dont-email.me:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 09.09.2023 22.51, Merlyne wrote:
>>>>>>> BeH <beh.on...@gmail.com> wrote in
>>>>>>> news:udfmd1$3im32$1...@dont-email.me:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Happy birthday to you, wherever you are...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Arizona?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Possibly, bud it's not relevant... the birthday happies applies
>>>>>> wherever she is.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You said 'wherever you are'. So I told you.
>>>>> Geez!
>>>>
>>>> Actually... *pushes glasses back up on nose* you asked me if she was
>>>> in Arizona. A fact I do not have.
>>>>
>>>> I concede (with some satisfaction), that it's a real place in the
>>>> world...
>>>>
>>>
>>> It was less a question and more an offering.
>>
>> Well, thank you then - but no thanks. I don't want Arizona. I
>> understand that it's full of elderly Americans... Not really my thing.
>>
>

> I think you'd fit in perfectly.
With a bunch of old people who most likely drive around in golf-carts
and complain about everything? And eat dinner at 17:00? I think not...

> Also, there's no winter there.
I don't mind winter - it's the cold I can't abide.

[BeH]

On 04.10.2023 16.13, Merlyne wrote:
> BeH <beh.on...@gmail.com> wrote in

> news:uffa8s$348kf$2...@dont-email.me:

> Okie dokie.
> {Nope. Won't fit in at all}
Well I certainly don't eat dinner at 17:00... that's about the time I
might grab a bit of lunch if I feel peckish.

>>> Also, there's no winter there.
>> I don't mind winter - it's the cold I can't abide.
>>

> There is no cold there, then.
It's still filled with 'merkans though.

[BeH]

On 18.10.2023 13.55, Merlyne wrote:
> BeH <beh.on...@gmail.com> wrote in

> news:ug8rts$2gsqe$2...@dont-email.me:

> Which is lunchtime in their time zone.
> This is all working out well for you!
That will only work as long as the jet lag persists.

>>>>> Also, there's no winter there.
>>>> I don't mind winter - it's the cold I can't abide.
>>>>
>>> There is no cold there, then.
>> It's still filled with 'merkans though.
>>

> And?
> You make some new friends.
Eeekk!
I don't know how to drive a golf cart.

[BeH]

On 25.10.2023 16.26, Merlyne wrote:
> BeH <beh.on...@gmail.com> wrote in

> news:uh0uhm$1rgvu$2...@dont-email.me:

> And then what happens?

Then I will want to have dinner at eight and everywhere will have
already closed down. And locked up the golf cart parking, one assumes.

>>>>>>> Also, there's no winter there.
>>>>>> I don't mind winter - it's the cold I can't abide.
>>>>>>
>>>>> There is no cold there, then.
>>>> It's still filled with 'merkans though.
>>>>
>>> And?
>>> You make some new friends.
>> Eeekk!

> It will be good for you.
I have rodents on the loft, what more could I want. Also the neighbours
dog is very friendly - very helpful with the garden work.

>> I don't know how to drive a golf cart.
>>
>

> You new friends can do that.
But should I trust an ageing american in a rush to make the 5 o'clock
dinner time?

> (also, I don't expect its hard)
(Most things are hard until you know how to do it...)

[BeH]

On 08.11.2023 14.11, Merlyne wrote:
> BeH <beh.on...@gmail.com> wrote in news:uibdb4$j60l$2...@dont-email.me:

> You'll have to change your habits. Or go to IHOP for dinner.
Point one: NEVER! Point two: pancakes are for breakfast (or sometimes
for dessert, preferably with ice cream). Pancakes are not proper food
for a growing boy.

>>>>>>>>> Also, there's no winter there.
>>>>>>>> I don't mind winter - it's the cold I can't abide.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There is no cold there, then.
>>>>>> It's still filled with 'merkans though.
>>>>>>
>>>>> And?
>>>>> You make some new friends.
>>>> Eeekk!
>>> It will be good for you.
>> I have rodents on the loft, what more could I want. Also the
>> neighbours dog is very friendly - very helpful with the garden work.
>

> True, true. Everyone needs to be adequately supervised when working.
> It is also my understanding from tv shows that if you have an accident,
> the dog will run to the neighbours. "wroof" "wroof"
> What's that Lassie? BeH is on the roof?
I would hate to leave my life and well being in the paws of someone so
easily distracted by a stick...

>>>> I don't know how to drive a golf cart.
>>>>
>>>
>>> You new friends can do that.
>> But should I trust an ageing american in a rush to make the 5 o'clock
>> dinner time?
>>

> Of course.
> You don't want the soup to get a skin on it.
Isn't that more a porridge thing - skin? Also do they eat a lot of soup
in Arizona - one would think it would be a little hot for soup.

>>> (also, I don't expect its hard)
>> (Most things are hard until you know how to do it...)
>>

> (some things are still hard after that)
(those are the things I elect to not do)

[BeH]

On 22.11.2023 14.33, Merlyne wrote:
> BeH <beh.on...@gmail.com> wrote in

> news:uje300$3vrc7$2...@dont-email.me:

> I've had pancakes for dinner.
Yea, but you're an exotic canadian. No telling what strange customs you
have...
> You can get them at any Chinese food restaurant.
That's for spring (or otherwise seasoned) rolls. This is strange but
acceptable.
> A lot of restaurant serve chicken and waffles.
Not around here they don't. Waffles are for ice cream.

>>>>>>>>>>> Also, there's no winter there.
>>>>>>>>>> I don't mind winter - it's the cold I can't abide.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> There is no cold there, then.
>>>>>>>> It's still filled with 'merkans though.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And?
>>>>>>> You make some new friends.
>>>>>> Eeekk!
>>>>> It will be good for you.
>>>> I have rodents on the loft, what more could I want. Also the
>>>> neighbours dog is very friendly - very helpful with the garden work.
>>>
>>> True, true. Everyone needs to be adequately supervised when working.
>>> It is also my understanding from tv shows that if you have an
>>> accident, the dog will run to the neighbours. "wroof" "wroof"
>>> What's that Lassie? BeH is on the roof?
>> I would hate to leave my life and well being in the paws of someone so
>> easily distracted by a stick...
>>

> Sometimes you have to take what you can get...
OR - and this is the correct choice - stay off the roof.

>>>>>> I don't know how to drive a golf cart.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You new friends can do that.
>>>> But should I trust an ageing american in a rush to make the 5
>>>> o'clock dinner time?
>>>>
>>> Of course.
>>> You don't want the soup to get a skin on it.
>> Isn't that more a porridge thing - skin? Also do they eat a lot of
>> soup in Arizona - one would think it would be a little hot for soup.

I have no idea what they eat in Arizona. They could be eating pancakes
for supper for all I know. Also even chicken soup will develop skin
given enough chicken fat (or ageing I suppose).
> They make cold soups too, like gazpacho.
> It's also not hot inside in the air conditioned comfort.
So I'll have to bring a sweater as well? Maybe a cardigan in festive
colours.

> Really eating soup when it's hot is no different than eating ice cream
> in the winter. Right?
Not quite. Who even eats ice cream in winter. But hot drinks is what one
should really drink when it's hot. Too much (or too cold) drinks will
hurt one's stomach and also confuse the body's heat regulation. I expect
soup is similar.

>>>>> (also, I don't expect its hard)
>>>> (Most things are hard until you know how to do it...)
>>>>
>>> (some things are still hard after that)
>> (those are the things I elect to not do)
>>

> (Okie dokie)

[BeH]

On 29.11.2023 15.31, Merlyne wrote:
> BeH <beh.on...@gmail.com> wrote in

> news:uju66s$30a7v$1...@dont-email.me:

> Sounds like a yummy custom to me!
Perhaps, but strange. Dinner is potatoes and meat and such... Or soup.

> Like there are no weird Danish customs.
Of course there aren't. On account of us not being foreigners.

>>> You can get them at any Chinese food restaurant.
>> That's for spring (or otherwise seasoned) rolls. This is strange but
>> acceptable.
>

> You should have the Mooshu pancakes.
I would need to find a chinese restaurant first.

>>> A lot of restaurant serve chicken and waffles.
>> Not around here they don't. Waffles are for ice cream.
>>

> Waffle cones are thinner and crispier.
Obviously. If they were all soft an wobbly the ice cream would fall out.

>>>>>>>>>>>>> Also, there's no winter there.
>>>>>>>>>>>> I don't mind winter - it's the cold I can't abide.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> There is no cold there, then.
>>>>>>>>>> It's still filled with 'merkans though.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> And?
>>>>>>>>> You make some new friends.
>>>>>>>> Eeekk!
>>>>>>> It will be good for you.
>>>>>> I have rodents on the loft, what more could I want. Also the
>>>>>> neighbours dog is very friendly - very helpful with the garden
>>>>>> work.
>>>>>
>>>>> True, true. Everyone needs to be adequately supervised when
>>>>> working. It is also my understanding from tv shows that if you have
>>>>> an accident, the dog will run to the neighbours. "wroof" "wroof"
>>>>> What's that Lassie? BeH is on the roof?
>>>> I would hate to leave my life and well being in the paws of someone
>>>> so easily distracted by a stick...
>>>>
>>> Sometimes you have to take what you can get...
>> OR - and this is the correct choice - stay off the roof.
>>

> Agreed. Stay off the roof, it upsets the dog.
Reason enough for me. Any reason is enough for me to stay off roofs,
really. Ladders too.

>>>>>>>> I don't know how to drive a golf cart.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You new friends can do that.
>>>>>> But should I trust an ageing american in a rush to make the 5
>>>>>> o'clock dinner time?
>>>>>>
>>>>> Of course.
>>>>> You don't want the soup to get a skin on it.
>>>> Isn't that more a porridge thing - skin? Also do they eat a lot of
>>>> soup in Arizona - one would think it would be a little hot for soup.
>> I have no idea what they eat in Arizona. They could be eating pancakes
>> for supper for all I know. Also even chicken soup will develop skin
>> given enough chicken fat (or ageing I suppose).
>>> They make cold soups too, like gazpacho.
>>> It's also not hot inside in the air conditioned comfort.
>> So I'll have to bring a sweater as well? Maybe a cardigan in festive
>> colours.
>

> The kind with leather elbow patches so you look scholarly.
Obviously. And if at all possible also cast metal buttons with floral
patterns. Pewter maybe.

>>> Really eating soup when it's hot is no different than eating ice
>>> cream in the winter. Right?
>> Not quite. Who even eats ice cream in winter. But hot drinks is what
>> one should really drink when it's hot. Too much (or too cold) drinks
>> will hurt one's stomach and also confuse the body's heat regulation. I
>> expect soup is similar.
>>
>

> My body regulator is already broken.
You probably need to have it serviced. It may just be the thermostat
that's stuck. It happens sometimes.

> I bet tons of people eat ice cream all year round.
I bet tons of people jump off bridges each year.

[BeH]

On 18.12.2023 20.45, Merlyne wrote:
> BeH <beh.on...@gmail.com> wrote in

> news:uktifv$1ed2j$1...@dont-email.me:

> Dinner is based on the people eat, not the food itself.
But but but... different foods belong at different times of the day.
Think of *breakfast* cereal and *lunch* meat and sunday roast *dinner*
where all the family reluctanty interacts. Clearly pancakes are a
dessert - or possibly for afternoon coffee instead of cake.

> Anyways,I don't think there are rules about what you have to eat.
There are loads of rules. Just ask your doctor. Also for example there
are rules for the sequence of what you eat if it's a multi course meal.
Dinner is soup - fish - poultry - steak - dessert - cheese or how many
of those you wish to include.

> Part the benefit of being an adult is you can eat what you want when you
> want. On the downside, it seems unwise to eat 2000 calories and then go
> to bed.
Clearly. One will obviously need a cigar and a couple of glasses of port
after. And then maybe something a little stronger for a nightcap.

>>> Like there are no weird Danish customs.
>> Of course there aren't. On account of us not being foreigners.
>>

> So I need to ask a tourist if there are any weird Danish customs.
> Years ago, when I was on Reddit a lot, one the threads concerned
> Americans who had a Swedish immigrant friends growing up. A lot people
> posted that they would be playing at the Swedish kids house and when the
> mother called the kid for lunch, the American kid was not invited to
> eat. they had to either wait outside on the doorstep or stay in the
> Swedish kids bedroom while the family ate. Weird.
Yes well - that's the swedes for you. Weird. Or maybe they served
something strange that they didn't expect the other kids to want to eat
anyway. Like lutefisk or surströmming.

> My mother would have fixed a plate for the visiting kid. And we were
> poor.
I have no idea what would have happened in my home. I never had friends
[over].

>>>>> You can get them at any Chinese food restaurant.
>>>> That's for spring (or otherwise seasoned) rolls. This is strange but
>>>> acceptable.
>>>
>>> You should have the Mooshu pancakes.
>> I would need to find a chinese restaurant first.
>>

> Google is your friend.
Not if the nearest chinese restaurant suggested it 100Km away...
(I don't know I didn't check but there isn't one in Bigtown so likely
quite far anyway.)

>>>>> A lot of restaurant serve chicken and waffles.
>>>> Not around here they don't. Waffles are for ice cream.
>>>>
>>> Waffle cones are thinner and crispier.
>> Obviously. If they were all soft an wobbly the ice cream would fall
>> out.
>>

> I feel like you would have consumed it before that happened.
That would depend on the wobbliness of the cone. It could all end up on
the ground. In any case I only eat one ice-cream per year.

> I have a sweater with those. We could repurpose them.
You would give up your pewter sweater buttons for me? I'm touched.

>>>>> Really eating soup when it's hot is no different than eating ice
>>>>> cream in the winter. Right?
>>>> Not quite. Who even eats ice cream in winter. But hot drinks is what
>>>> one should really drink when it's hot. Too much (or too cold)
>>>> drinks will hurt one's stomach and also confuse the body's heat
>>>> regulation. I expect soup is similar.
>>>>
>>>
>>> My body regulator is already broken.
>> You probably need to have it serviced. It may just be the thermostat
>> that's stuck. It happens sometimes.
>>

> Is this where you fix it but thumping it with your fist?
Lard no. Thermostats are delicate and sensitive instruments. You have to
carefully wriggle them back and forth a tiny bit. Repeatedly.

>>> I bet tons of people eat ice cream all year round.
>> I bet tons of people jump off bridges each year.
>>

> I bet more people eat ice cream in the winter than jump off bridges.
Possibly. Jumping off bridges is more of a once-in-a-lifetime
experience. Eating ice-cream in winter just requires that the ice-cream
shop is open. And money. And thermostatic misalignment.

[BeH]

On 07.01.2024 23.21, Merlyne wrote:
> BeH <beh.on...@gmail.com> wrote in

> news:un6ant$3ll6m$1...@dont-email.me:

> I can eat pancakes whenever I want.
> Try and stop me.
Barbarism!

> What if someone works the night shift and their breakfast is at the same
> time as other people's dinner? Pancakes cover all the bases.
Breakfast is the first meal after sleeping no matter how someone's 24
hour cycle is organised. That's when you want some high carbohydrate
foodstuff to get the motor running, so to speak. Dinner is when the high
protein food should be ingested to regenerate muscles while resting
after a day of toil.

>>> Anyways,I don't think there are rules about what you have to eat.
>> There are loads of rules. Just ask your doctor. Also for example there
>> are rules for the sequence of what you eat if it's a multi course
>> meal. Dinner is soup - fish - poultry - steak - dessert - cheese or
>> how many of those you wish to include.
>>

> Or waffles and chicken.
> What does the order of food matter?
Tradition! It's how it has always been done.

> Here we eat the entrée last. I heard in some cultures they eat the
> entrée first and the salad last.

>
>>> Part the benefit of being an adult is you can eat what you want when
>>> you want. On the downside, it seems unwise to eat 2000 calories and
>>> then go to bed.
>> Clearly. One will obviously need a cigar and a couple of glasses of
>> port after. And then maybe something a little stronger for a nightcap.
>>
>

> I can hear your arteries closing from here.
I doubt that. The sound will be drowned out by the teevee...

>>>>> Like there are no weird Danish customs.
>>>> Of course there aren't. On account of us not being foreigners.
>>>>
>>> So I need to ask a tourist if there are any weird Danish customs.
>>> Years ago, when I was on Reddit a lot, one the threads concerned
>>> Americans who had a Swedish immigrant friends growing up. A lot
>>> people posted that they would be playing at the Swedish kids house
>>> and when the mother called the kid for lunch, the American kid was
>>> not invited to eat. they had to either wait outside on the doorstep
>>> or stay in the Swedish kids bedroom while the family ate. Weird.
>> Yes well - that's the swedes for you. Weird. Or maybe they served
>> something strange that they didn't expect the other kids to want to

>> eat anyway. Like lutefisk or surströmming.
>>
>
> Maybe. It seemed to happen to a lot of people.
The swedes eat a lot of lutefisk and surströmming. They are weird like that.

>>> My mother would have fixed a plate for the visiting kid. And we were
>>> poor.
>> I have no idea what would have happened in my home. I never had
>> friends [over].
>>

> Poor you.
Quite.

>>>>>>> You can get them at any Chinese food restaurant.
>>>>>> That's for spring (or otherwise seasoned) rolls. This is strange
>>>>>> but acceptable.
>>>>>
>>>>> You should have the Mooshu pancakes.
>>>> I would need to find a chinese restaurant first.
>>>>
>>> Google is your friend.
>> Not if the nearest chinese restaurant suggested it 100Km away...
>> (I don't know I didn't check but there isn't one in Bigtown so likely
>> quite far anyway.)
>>
>>>>>>> A lot of restaurant serve chicken and waffles.
>>>>>> Not around here they don't. Waffles are for ice cream.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Waffle cones are thinner and crispier.
>>>> Obviously. If they were all soft an wobbly the ice cream would fall
>>>> out.
>>>>
>>> I feel like you would have consumed it before that happened.
>> That would depend on the wobbliness of the cone. It could all end up
>> on the ground. In any case I only eat one ice-cream per year.
>>
>

> I avoid it like the plague.
How come? Ice cream is delicious.

> Stop touching yourself.
I wasn't. It was metaphorical touching. By your kindness and sacrifice.

>>>>>>> Really eating soup when it's hot is no different than eating ice
>>>>>>> cream in the winter. Right?
>>>>>> Not quite. Who even eats ice cream in winter. But hot drinks is
>>>>>> what one should really drink when it's hot. Too much (or too
>>>>>> cold) drinks will hurt one's stomach and also confuse the body's
>>>>>> heat regulation. I expect soup is similar.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> My body regulator is already broken.
>>>> You probably need to have it serviced. It may just be the thermostat
>>>> that's stuck. It happens sometimes.
>>>>
>>> Is this where you fix it but thumping it with your fist?
>> Lard no. Thermostats are delicate and sensitive instruments. You have
>> to carefully wriggle them back and forth a tiny bit. Repeatedly.
>>

> So I need to get a professional in to fiddle with my knobs?
If you aren't an experienced thermostat wiggler that is probably the
best course of action.

>>>>> I bet tons of people eat ice cream all year round.
>>>> I bet tons of people jump off bridges each year.
>>>>
>>> I bet more people eat ice cream in the winter than jump off bridges.
>> Possibly. Jumping off bridges is more of a once-in-a-lifetime
>> experience. Eating ice-cream in winter just requires that the
>> ice-cream shop is open. And money. And thermostatic misalignment.
>

> Can't you buy ice cream at the grocery store there?
Yes, but I think that's just left-over stock from summer. The Ice cream
stalls with the freshly baked waffle cones and the extensive selection
of ice cream flavours for scooping close for winter, I'm pretty sure. It
might have changed nowadays what with all the foreign tourists and their
strange dietary habits.

[BeH]

On 14.01.2024 16.02, Merlyne wrote:

>>> I can eat pancakes whenever I want.
>>> Try and stop me.
>> Barbarism!
>>
>

> Yelling isn't going to make me stop.
I'm not yelling. I'm not a great fan of yelly...

>>> What if someone works the night shift and their breakfast is at the
>>> same time as other people's dinner? Pancakes cover all the bases.
>> Breakfast is the first meal after sleeping no matter how someone's 24
>> hour cycle is organised. That's when you want some high carbohydrate
>> foodstuff to get the motor running, so to speak. Dinner is when the
>> high protein food should be ingested to regenerate muscles while
>> resting after a day of toil.
>>
>

> If I have chicken and waffles for dinner, the chicken part is protein.
Yes. And the waffles are incongruent.

>>>>> Anyways,I don't think there are rules about what you have to eat.
>>>> There are loads of rules. Just ask your doctor. Also for example
>>>> there are rules for the sequence of what you eat if it's a multi
>>>> course meal. Dinner is soup - fish - poultry - steak - dessert -
>>>> cheese or how many of those you wish to include.
>>>>
>>> Or waffles and chicken.
>>> What does the order of food matter?
>> Tradition! It's how it has always been done.
>>

> then it's time for a change.
Do you know what change leads to? Communism, that's what. And total
collapse of society. Cats and dogs living together, people marrying
box-turtles and women wanting to vote...
Is that what you want!?

>>>>> Part the benefit of being an adult is you can eat what you want
>>>>> when you want. On the downside, it seems unwise to eat 2000
>>>>> calories and then go to bed.
>>>> Clearly. One will obviously need a cigar and a couple of glasses of
>>>> port after. And then maybe something a little stronger for a
>>>> nightcap.
>>>>
>>> I can hear your arteries closing from here.
>> I doubt that. The sound will be drowned out by the teevee...
>>

> Does the tv need to be so loud?
I can't hear it over the sound of my arteries closing otherwise...

>>>>>>>>> It's also not hot inside in the air conditioned comfort.
>>>>>>>> So I'll have to bring a sweater as well? Maybe a cardigan in
>>>>>>>> festive colours.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The kind with leather elbow patches so you look scholarly.
>>>>>> Obviously. And if at all possible also cast metal buttons with
>>>>>> floral patterns. Pewter maybe.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I have a sweater with those. We could repurpose them.
>>>> You would give up your pewter sweater buttons for me? I'm touched.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Stop touching yourself.
>> I wasn't. It was metaphorical touching. By your kindness and
>> sacrifice.
>>

> You're lucky I'm such a nice person.
Truly blessed, indeed. Did you mail the buttons?

>>> Can't you buy ice cream at the grocery store there?
>> Yes, but I think that's just left-over stock from summer. The Ice
>> cream stalls with the freshly baked waffle cones and the extensive
>> selection of ice cream flavours for scooping close for winter, I'm
>> pretty sure. It might have changed nowadays what with all the foreign
>> tourists and their strange dietary habits.
>>

> You need to be more open-minded about food.

I'll have you know I'm very open-minded about food. I once ate a
plateful of calamari.

--
BeH

"No nation can be free if it opresses other nations" - F. Engels