h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

That's the best place for it.

yes, I'm trying to keep it there it looks nice .. and white .. like froth on a fresh

yeah, driving yesterday was no fun

.. there's not much snow here today .. just a few cm

I'll try to drive if it doesn't w*rk out I'll be back early

i even rode a bicycle today, but only on some of the streets. the others were too dangerous

We have about half a meter snow. And it's snowing. Time to hibernate, methinks. I have been eating for it already.

we have half a centimetre .. well it's a start

Lucky you. Then again, half a meter looks nicer.

I'm sure it does .. but I cannot really roll over the floor laughing if there's 50 cm snow

Of course you can!

nah, i'm with hapi on this one

us home owners have to shovvel, you know

ah yes it's a hard life

tell me about it. i feel like i haven't done anything today but w*rk, w*rk, w*rk

oh well keeps you off the streets

Shoveling?

well, no.. not the shoveling the w*rk does however

not really. i had to walk over to p's (hati and hapi know). the roads were not fit for cycling

he was hospitalized today as he is in a very poor shape. so i walked over there again today to do some dishes and check out if there was anything else i could do. there was, of course, as hati can imagine...

.. poor shape?

he had polio has a newborn during the last epidemic in 1951 and only barely survived it

after years of different treatments he was able to live an almost normal life, but a handful of years ago he had to take early retirement because the 'substitute nerves' he built up during the treatments are giving up on him now

his drinking makes it worse, but on the other side it is the only painkiller that w*rks for him, plus it is his only pleasure in life (besides smoking, he hardly eats anything) so there

he must now face the fact that he is no good to neither others nor himself. he must accept help from others with nearly everything and he absolutely hates that after having struggled for himself and others for decades (he used to be a very skilled caretaker of a bunch of adult 'rainmen' who can't do anything whatsoever)

it doesn't help that he was tortured by a father who was deeply traumatized as a german soldier in WWII and wanted to 'harden' his sickly son to the facts of life

oh well, i hope he gets better enough to sit on the porch in a wheelchair and somehow enjoy what is left of his life

mm.. ..

.. sometimes things are so .. wrong ..