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With age wrinkles are born
Jan 11, 2006

Indeed, these last few years I sometimes look in the mirror in passing and last December I hardly recognized myself. The hair on my head had turned green, hairs were growing out of my ears and nostrils, and the amount of wrinkles around the eyes were innumerable.

That was on the day of my 38th!!!! birthday and I want to commemorate the non-eventful day that 39 years ago I did peep out in the deepest hours of the late afternoon of one winterday in a hospitalward of an insignificant provincial town and said to myself 'oh, no'! My mum, the doctors and nurses were without pity. Why, they said among themselves, should I deserve a better fate as they were suffering? They pulled me out into the world, cut the cord and there I lay naked crying my lungs out in protest.

Why did I get born? I've asked myself this question several times over the years. What is it good for? I never found adequate answers. My guess is, it was just a fluke of bad and, or, whatever, good luck.

But. But, being born under the sign of Saggitarius, the Optimistic, the Fool, the ... <you can fill in here what you think is suitable> <bows towards Hati in acknowledgment> I think it would be fun to organize a birthday party.

You are invited to join me for a drink at Sam Maguires, A1105732, for a drink tomorrow evening from 8 pm onwards until the wee hours of time.

Don't forget to bring your music instruments.

(16 replies, Latest reply: Jan 29, 2006)

2006
Jan 1, 2006

<comes in from the kitchen holding a glass of water and an asperin.>

I am not feeling very well. I guess that is what happens if one drinks four bottles of sparkling bubbly white wine from Spain and a bottle of Pinot Grigio to celebrate the beginning of a new year.

<stirs mixture of water and medicine absentmindedly with a red plastic longdrink tool>

Hootoo'ers, friends and fellow Earthlings, I hope the new year will bring us health, prosperity and love ... and for C's sake let it be a peaceful one.

<holds glass to mouth and drinks greedily> Cheers!

Now if you will excuse me, I think I have lie down again.

(14 replies, Latest reply: Jan 5, 2006)

... and off course everything went wrong from the moment I got back
Oct 16, 2005

Not that thing didn't go wrong before I got back but it seems to be more superfluous and irritating when things go wrong when you're at home.
So wednesday evening around half past nine in the evening I rang the frontdoor bell of my dad's house after a good days trip through Flanders Belgium. I had spent most of the late afternoon and early evening in the company of a young family of five. The parents had decided to sell their family car because their three kids were getting spoiled and discontented when taken out on a trip it. Whilst the mother, sitting on a chair in the garden, explained the reason for the sale of the car, I could watch the father cooking the evening meal in the kitchen and the kids stuffing themselves with the chocolate cookies that were laid out on the table in honour of the unexpected guest, ME taking advantage of the momentarily lack of attention by their parents. I declined their invitation to stay for dinner which was a hard thing to do since I was starving and well lets face it, I didn't get invited to stay for dinner in France as much as I would have fancied. I got asked to participate in a boozer many a time, but food NO!
So I left the carles but beautiful Flemish home in the conviction that everything is well in the world, and golly was I glad to be less then twenty kilometres from home.
Anyway, as soon as I entered my dad's house, my stepmum went to the kitchen and got out all the goodies and put them into a bag to take home with her. I got a glimps of cheese, mars bars, and gourmet desserts. My dad was downstairs in the flat, busy bringing in my lugagge. I exchanged courtesies with my stepmum in the kitchen while she stuffed her goodies in her bag and related one of the more outrageous adventures that had happened to me in France like spending an evening at a Gendarmerie where my fingerprints were taken for I was being accussed of trying to con the patron of a bar out of two beers and three packets of Marlboro I'm innocent, off course.
I noticed how bad she looked, huge bags under her eyes. I haven't talked to her since. She left half an hour later and I haven't talked to her since. I have the clear impression she's angry with me.
Next day I logged in on H2G2 and first things first, I searched out my old friends to say 'hello'. And, damn it, I found out that I forgot again how to spell 'off course'. I have looked it up in the dictionary one hundred times in the past and for some obscure reason I subsequently forget it again. I'm fed up with it, from now on I spell 'off course' as 'off course'. And yes, from next thursday on the dutch spelling of words is going to change again and I can't be bothered with that anymore as well. Just fuck it.
The good thing is my dad bought a brand new computer, everything I've written on the old one has been neatly transported to the new one. No problem there. So this evening I opened a nice story with the wish to add some more information and put it into PR. So the new computer asked me to store it into another programme because it doesn't have Windows '96 and so I did. Guess what, everything is lost apart from some odd sentence here and there.
I flew into a rage. Calmed down I rummaged through the drawers of the desk and ... found the notes I took. Now I have to start all over again.

(35 replies, Latest reply: Oct 26, 2005)

Just for the heck of it.
Jun 5, 2005

Another Sunday
What is there more to say
Without much further ado
Lets leave it that way.

(33 replies, Latest reply: Jun 8, 2005)

Secret
May 21, 2005

The good news is that I dreamt last night. The bad news is I discovered the secret of the actor Harvey Keitel.

The question is, should I go public?

I think better of it, he might be he's susceptible to blackmail ... If that is the case, I could earn of fortune.

(64 replies, Latest reply: May 29, 2005)