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

No thanks, it's a bit early still. Glad to meet you on this thread since I cannot PM you. Funny business... You have been on the Forum a long time; is this uproar a normal thing ? Hope we can keep charing instead of competing !

6:06 pm, Melbourne.

Sorry, I forgot about the time. No wine for you till later, then, Pepi.

Is the "uproar" a normal thing?

(You understand that this is my view & no one else's OK? And that I'm not a moderator, or anyone important ..? )

The circumstance are different. The things that have actually occurred feel different. Mergers involving existing groups into A2K haven't exactly happened on a regular basis over the years & PF was a big group, with a very strong identity. PF members have made a big impact on this site. So, what's happened in the last day or so is certainly feels quite different to anything that's happened here before. We certainly have had various internal dramas about changes to the site before, but (I think) things settled down pretty quickly after.

I hope things will settle down. I like the people I meet on A2K, but now my friends from PF are leaving again... I think the merger should have been prepared better but understand the decissions made.

I hope you (& quite a few others, too) decide to stick around, Pepi.
I'll miss you if you don't.

Besides, there's no reason why you can't belong to a number of different different forums. If you want to. Up to you guys.

I am not so familiar with the internet remember ? I am quite a loyal person but have been banned, sold, bought and blocked the last few months. I like the A2K forum too, but there was something special about PF. About it's members...

I know exactly what you're saying, Pepi.
I feel exactly the same about quite a number of members here.
Sigh.
I really do understand that this is very difficult for you.

6:57 pm, Melbourne:

Three minutes till the ABC news.
Gotta watch tonight.
"Significant developments"

11:00 Amsterdam

Ready for something to eat (boiling eggs) and ready to go fix my boat. The bottom needs a new coating which is a horrible job involving poisenous paint. I hope to get it done today. Tomorrow and Thursday I could lack the deck and sides of my boat Desire. Desire for what I wonder ?

A street car?

11:17 Eastern
Back to work after a great -- but exhausting -- long weekend.
I'm reading low on the Fun-O-Meter right now.

8:45 am in not so sunny San Diego

Slowly recuperating from the cold I got while sitting in a plane for far too long.
It's nice to travel, it's nicer to be home again. Now I am waiting for the carpet
cleaners - Lilly is finally housebroken!!! (famous last words)

5 pm in Charlottesville. 101 degrees. It was even hotter midst the sun and hot asphalt at the busy bus stop just 10 yards from the front door of my shop. A lot of older folks, kids and pregnant women wait there after visiting UVA hospital. There are buttons you can push that tie into GPS showing when the buses will arrive. We put up a little sign inviting folks to wait inside while a volunteer spotter punched the button, signaling when the bus was a minute away.
Clever, eh?

101 *F I hope ?

What's thât in Celsius name ?

Around 38 C; 104 F = 40 C
way too hot for my taste!

Maybe handy for this thread -

http://www.onlineconversion.com/temperature.htm


Here in Albuquerque it's 95 F. The good news is that I don't have to go out and water.
What am I doing? avoiding paying bills.

Handy ! Do U also understand why my oven doesn't have this build in ?

That's a good conversion site, osso, thank you.
When I first came to the United States I just remembered the big ones
32F = 0 C; 56F = 10 C; 68 F= 20 C; 86F=30C; 104 = 40 C; anything in between
I just have a wild guess.

-32 *5 / 9

101 -32 = 69
69 * 5 = 345
345/9 = 38,3
I just remember how to calculate again !

That took way too long, Pepijn. I guessed 38 and was almost right..

I recently said guessing to be more important than calculating...

sweltering in Toronto at 18:15

43 celsius with the humidex (109.4 Fahrenheit)

made it home before I turned into a schvitz puddle