A2K time zones: What's the time where you are & what are you up to?

Oh, and to get on topic:

2:13 AM, CST

I'm working with a data center on a failed hard drive for a client (that we consult for) while also getting some odd work done when I wait for them to do stuff.

I had hoped to get the preference to not put unread topics above the read ones done tonight but am many hours late now due to the PM spam issue.

Well PepI, I have a cold already, so I'm resisting the additional imposition of a headache (like mad!).

But I gotta admit, I feel more than a little saddened by the behind the scenes stuff that's been going on here, apparently. Call me Ms Gullible, but I thought we'd all settled down & had made friends ... kinda.
Ah well ...



Kokkie cannibalized PepI ?
AND slowly?
Good grief!

Thinking about dinner now.
Any brilliant ideas of what I can create from 180g of "premium Tasmanian smoke roasted salmon"? I was thinking maybe a pasta sauce of some sort?

6:16 pm, Melbourne.

I know it's winter in Oz but the only thing coming to mind is a salad with mango and smoked salmon... Nice with a simple pasta, maybe just pasta & pesto & extra cheese ? Can you bake a foccachio ? Fresh bread really makes a meal complete I think. Do you want a simple but good receipy ?

It's OK, PepI

I know you've already got a headache & all ...

I might simply follow the suggested recipe on the (salmon) package. It looks rather reasonable.

It's very kind of you to concern yourself with my dinner when so much is going on for you. You're OK, you know.

Thank you for responding to my out-burst. Funny how I get upset about PM's being read and then sign off real live. I can see everybody putting his/her best effort to reach their goal, but I happen to be not happy about the tensions. Excuse about the outburst...

I like the new contacts on A2K; I also like the old contacts from PF... For me it's not a dillema, it's different people with different interests. I hope to keep in touch with all of them.

There's room for more than one forum on the internet, the drama will go away eventually (it really had been actually, for most of those other than the ones doing the spamming).

And don't worry about it, it's a common accusation for forums but the truth is that if I read PMs I would have known about it long ago (they started weeks ago).

I'm not exactly good with tensions or conflict myself, PepI.
Actually, I'm disastrous.



That sounds perfectly fine to me.
Why should you feel obliged to choose between one or the other, if you aren't inclined to?
It's the people you care about more than anything else, right? And the interactions.
That's what's kept me here for so long, anyway.



That wasn't exactly a major outburst.
And you have nothing at all to excuse, as far as I'm concerned.
OK?

6:49 pm, Melbourne.

And now I'm off to cook dinner!

For my it was. Sadly enough I am usually more shy and do not stand up for myself. Always afraid to hurt some-one's feelings.

Well, in this instance, you spoke firmly & expressed your concerns very clearly, PepI. And I don't think you hurt anyone's feelings in the process. I hope you're feeling OK after having done that.

8:48 pm, Melbourne:

Just finished dinner. It was surprisingly good, given the recipe was so simple. (I must post it on one of the food threads here.)
Suddenly I feel quite weary after all the running around I did today.

I want to run an advertisement for my Bed & Break-fast in Amsterdam. I called it Hermes House. Thought of Hera's Temple but choose for a male Name, again.
e ijn

Aaaah! What's a little drama...it'll put hare on your chest.

Drama on the net is kind of hypnotic. I am the last thing from an ambulance chaser in real life, but, as long as I am not involved, and nobody I care about or consider innocent is getting hurt, it's almost fun, in a horrible way.

This one isn't fun because of the canard about Robert reading PMs and all that.

1:16 pm, Tuesday 6th July, Melbourne, Oz:

I just got the call from the fellows & the garage.
The parts for my car have arrived early.
So I'm just about to head off & deliver it (again!) & have the work done.
The walk back home should be much more pleasant this time. It is an absolutely exquisite, sunny winter day day out there!

6:15 AM AMS

Ready for a first coffee. Checking out the messages. C who is still talking... Feels like a tribal affair this PF/A2K thing. Making friends / loosing them at a high speed. Can hardly keep up...

Ya, I think at this point we have pretty much chased everyone who does not like change out of a2k....this has been constant for a couple of years....

Protestant churches behaved like thât 4 Centuries and look where this got them ! I am glad I am not informally banned because I like people I've met so far. I feel very strange about the un-philosophical way things go. A good thing Ken is butting in. Finally some logic lightening the skies.

2.30pm behind the Black Stump msolga, weather like yours, but we set a reord this week, 7 days below 5 degrees! Just threw a few whiting fillets on the barbie and having a few munchies in the sun. Life doesn't get better.

Sounds great, Dutchy.

5:42 pm, Tuesday 6th July, Melbourne:

I feel as though I've been walking for most of the afternoon. Well actually I have ..
Deposited car at the garage (north of my place).
Then headed of south (toward Brunswick) on foot.
Lovely weather for a good long walk & a bit of op shop (thrift shop) hunting, I thought ... and it was. Gorgeous day!
4 km south of home & Mark from the garage rang me. (I feel I know him very well now!) My car was ready. (What? Already? I thought it would be tomorrow. )
So I turn north again, at top peed, to reach the garage before it closed at 5 pm.
Home again now.
That was quite a work out!

(Wasn't that interesting? )

Good you have your car back ! It is 1/4 to 10 AM and I am having a coffee...

Am I still welcome ?

about all intriges and immoral philosophy ...

What a question!

You are ALWAYS welcome, Pepi!

Here, let me pour you a nice glass of wine ...

... besides, there's all those damn raisins I must offload onto you!