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interesting response.. "Smeg Off" Meanwhile my Russian lessons have slowed down.. due to limited time and w*rk. Spring cleaning.. my Russian appartment includes a friendly lady who comes to clean a few times a week. All I do is get up in the morning, shower, dress and get out.. Now there's my own house in the Netherlands... well.. yesssssssssssssss... six hours Red Dwarf tape eh??

At first, I tried to be nice..."No thanks, not interested." They would badger with "And, can I ask why?" Which only makes me angrily reply "Well, NO!". Then I tried just hanging up... they would call again and again. Finally, it reached the point of "Who are YOU?!!!, WHAT are you selling? NO! and DON'T call again EVER!!!" It's a great way to vent, but still.

There is a drawer full of six hour tapes: Red Dwarf, Star Trek, The Simpsons and various movies... There are even some Bugs Bunny marathons in there too. The dvd collection is still a bit small.

.. I often react like that.. few months ago there was this very shy woman on the phone, asking if she please could ask me about ..... so we had a great conversation.. I knew all the answers so I asked what the prize was ... well, nothing but we had a good series of laughs
Usually it's about finances (), mortages () or buying tropical forests ()

Bugs Bunny! .. I got caught last week wearing my Daffy Duck socks to a -rather serious- meeting (3piece suit, white shirt, tie).. I usually do that but colleague's wife said I shouldn't

I'd almost bet that tropical forest was in the middle of a desert.

Why not Daffy Duck socks? Several men around here wear Tabasco ties with three piece suits. I have seen those ties at banks, restaurants, and the symphony. What's the point of working so hard to earn money if you can't have a sense of humor about it?

Have you seen the Mardi Gras parade at the Campsite?
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why not Daffy Duck socks .. indeed.. certainly no use being serious all of the time and Mickey Mouse, Jungle book (bear socks!).. Southpark, whatever! I'll wear it
Mardi Gras..

I have Snoopy socks and Goofy(the dog) socks. I even have a pair of Bugs Bunny slipper socks(with rabbit foot prints on the bottom).

Granted, I'm not very serious most of the time.

Ah, but I am always serious.. no.. let's rephrase that.. I am always expected to be serious.. no.. sorry.. some of my colleagues are serious every once in a while
Well.. let's be serious for a change.. I get annoyed by all these dombos with too expensive suits, ties, acting serious and all the while just talking
so I have Disney socks .. just to remind me not to be too serious

I wear a very nice, subtle, Snoopy watch for that very reason.

watch..



Right! ! I should have thought of that

Dignified leather band, gold bezel, picture of Snoopy and the words Super Beagle in a real dignified font...

Right! I like the idea
and I think I can imagine what the dignified font looks like

One of my friends has the Garfield model...can't remember what it says, though.

something with lasagna??

Can't remember, and that's going to bug me for a while...

The same friend has a dignified Snoopy watch that plays music (Linus and Lucy)...

a Snoopy watch playing music.. ..

not *that* is something to have in a boared meeting

How about a game or two for the handheld computer, for those bored, I mean board meetings.

... been there.. done that

*looks at date at the top of previous post*
Was it really that long ago?

How have you been?

a year..?? ah well
life goes on, I have a house in Moscow now, few days in Netherlands, rest of the month in Moscow.
so how are you?

I'm ok, same house, same job, same brothers.

Trying to breathe a bit more life into the campsite. I'm talking to someone about a campsite crawl possibly in a week or two. would you be interested in such an event?