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

Happy Solstice for today I'll go copy/paste now. Bbird

Hi Waz! I am not taking chances writing on line. Not only h2, but also more of the pop up ads can wipe out everything.

It’s funny, that you got your car just before Xmas, like I got mine last year.
I did not mean literally “polishing the car”---- I just meant to be busy with a new “toy” with CD player and what ever else to explore in there.

The Nissan Sentra is the smallest car in this category. Long ago tin cans were here also but because of safety reasons they made them illegal on the road.

After 12 hrs spending in bed---7: 30 AM Today I worshipped in my Galileo Galilei bedroom the most beautiful rising sun, on the day of Solstice!
Glorious Sunshine!
The sky was clear, but the window had only a small spot to see through: thick ice covered the glass from the brutal cold of –15 Celsius from yesterday. But today we got a rapidly rising temp. And was able to feed the animals! what ever

I am involved with writing and soon posting at AWW a poem: “The voice of Tibet…” not a cheerful story about The Bad Karma biting a good part out of my Holiday!

The other is: “ Wilbur and Orville my love” (about flying and fun, and staying alive.)
Just be patient good things takes time.

But the holiday rush winds down this week, and lot of bad weather makes it sure that I will be with my beloved PC.
Enjoy your Holiday, whatever is there to celebrate. My personal fun was done this morning!
John the Gardener after 150 conversations started a new title: The chocolate season!
For the winter conversations.
Stay well, enjoy!Happy Holidays!

Hello Waz:
Because of the Holiday Christmas Spirit I am not going to post about Bad Karma.

This is the holiday of those people who are good willing, peaceful, loving, forgiving, helping and anything nice and kind things willing to do.


Enjoy and share! Happy Holidays! Good luck with your new car!

Hi BlueBird, I've named the new 'baby' the BlueBug . I am learning that it has a mind of it's own. It likes to have the radio on all the time, even when I don't. And it has a preference for Radio Stoke intead of the BBC's Radio 4 which is shocking really.

for the longest night being over. It's downhill all the way to Spring now. Well sort of. I spent Tuesday at work and then trying to catch up with house stuff. I'm way behind, as always, with getting ready for Christmas. So I'm in the middle of my holiday rush. And when I run out of time I still won't have much time to myself as family start arriving and we all head to my parents home, they're only a mile away.

I hope over the New Year holiday to have some 'holiday at home'. I'll put the 'to do' list out of my head and get up in the morning with a clean blank day ahead to do whatever I feel like at whatever pace I feel like. It'll be perfect after the family chaos (great fun but chaos) that will be Christmas.

-15 C that is cold. We had a -3 the other night, everything was covered with light frosting which was very pretty. Now we're back to mud everywhere.

Perhaps you're right - keep the Bad Karma piece for later. You can work on the flying one instead.

Enjoy your holiday too BlueBird, enjoy the writing and the animals and the start of the Chocolate Season. Why Chocolate? Christmas chocolate? The chocolate coloured mud that's all over the lanes around here?

Hi Waz! In the chocolate "mud" with the Blue Bug perhaps you have to be careful!

John the Gardener gave the "new" title : " Hot chocolare season" for our conversations after the "nights don't grow any longer".I asked him for new titles. He is good at that!

But it so happened that I am allergic to any kind of a chocolate: hot or cold. So I drink and now he really got a BIG snowstorm,
and he can stay inside and drink the hot cups of his favored drink!

20 feet of snow: is rather a lot for motor-vehicles! The entire middle of this country got hit like never before!

And here (for a great change) we got "heat wave" with 60 F! suddenly!
Something is really chaotic in the weather not only in Family life.
I have to continue Off Line! Watch-- they are up to no good! I'll be back copy/paste. bird

Xmas Eve: Hello there Waz!
(copy/paste.)

Hope you enjoyed what was happening on this Christmas Eve.

Here is quiet, like I was an island all alone! I think the entire neighborhood is somewhere else. Therefore
Voila:
The first chapter is done on my PC
“Wilbur and Orville my love”
With the title of a series about my flying carrier.

The problem is that these articles have many photos, and drawings what I cannot post on AWW.
Only Shazz can publish these in for complete presentation.
I don’t know when will come out in the Happy New Year?
bbird

Morning Bluebird, the chocolate mud now has a sprinkling of icing sugar - I shall talke the BlueBug out for the first time in snow soon. Enjoy the day! My Christmas Eve was spent helping my brother with a project of his, being late to tea at my parents, spending the evening with them and getting home just in time to get the decorated before midnight. Having been late I MUSN'T be late for lunch today . So I need to get off and finish wrapping parcels.

20ft of snow . About 2mm here, but more's forecast.

I think the Post is having a two week break, so should be back 2nd weekend of 2005. It's good shazz can post pictures - there used to be none at all expect from the Community Artists but still frustrating I know.
Dashing off, enjoy the writing and take care - see you later,
LLLWaz

Here we go! To Waz and for the popular demand:

I am posting in AWW the FIRST CHAPTER from a great big Love-Story slowly developing on these pages. ( my flying carrier)

The fine contribution from is not only include the pictures, but the EDITING of my text as well.
Please disregard the grammar misfits for now though spelling seems to be corrected in WORD. When Office opens I will be able to include the visual part now missing.

bird

That's it If you want to have fun, just go and do some copy/paste from Word via Internet to destination AWW.
Than remove it and start everything all over.
Honestly Wilbur name is written with Capital W. on my copy.(Shuxx!)

in the pages of would never happen this mess.
bird

Waz, I don't feel like saying anything now. Went through a lot of photos from the devastation in South-East-Asia.
There are 2 people from h2g2 who went on vacation to India: Rowan from Collective went to Bombay and somebody else I don't know.
There are no words to say anything.bird

No adequate words, no.

For my own reference I've written up this Christmas in my journal. The joys of this season and the awfulness of what's happened are impossible to balance but I'm not prepared to give up the good things - they exist too, however impossible that is to rationalise. If we didn't hang on to the good things and enjoy those we'd lose ourselves in the sadness that there is out there all the time.

I have an h2g2 friend in India on holiday too - thankfully in the north east. Bombay's north east too - let's hope she and Rowan went straight there and stayed there and are well away from danger.

Take care Bluebird.

Dear Waz: I am back to the computer this late afternoon.
The first is always the E-mail.No new mail.

Second is the New York Times photo reports! Just getting worse behind believe.

BUT One event is well outstanding: They don't find dead animals though Sri Lanka has a huge wildlife refuge!
They went on higher altitude before the waves struck!!
From a California earthquake I heard from a friends that the cat was sensing before the shaking started and became very restless wanting to go out!
It seems Nature provide the animals with senses what we don't have!!!
There are significant large animals like 200 indian elefant and all other big once: non of them is dead!
You see: you should listen to Boris rather than stupid people.
Boris would lead you out of trouble! Amazing!
Yesterday I joined a conversation about the "tidal-wave" in english.
I will find it and tell you where is it, because I made a few notes what comes into consideration.
bird

Also Ran 1 is the name of the member who started the thread on his journal the title: " Tsumianis in the Indian Ocean" F1655725 is the thread number. If you can find it.Blue Bird

Hey Bluebird, don't fall off your chair, it's me. Sorry about the long silence. I've found it very difficult to find words and gave up trying for a bit there. Beyond belief and beyond words.

I was reading though. I saw AR1's thread. And the discussions about giving - who to and what.

You're right that people should take care who they give donations to. There are fraudsters out there and there are charities which are not well run and others whose goals might not match donors' intentions. But there are many more which are run with integrity and can be trusted. The best of these have expert and local knowledge and employ local people. Just a case of sorting out which are which.

I'm not unbiased in this though. I have an interest to declare - I earn my living being a charity overhead. Of the worst kind!

I saw the story of the animals on the BBC site too. I'd like to know more of that. Looks like there is a warning system if we're only tuned in to it.

I've been hearing Boris's voice for a long time . Only recently realised it though. I think if I listened better he would keep me out of lots trouble. I know part of who he is. He was a real rhino. It's a sad story - tell you later but it's well after midnight now.

Hope you can find the for your name again soon,
Waz

Hello there my dear Waz! I understand that you did not feel like writing. I got off from h2g2 conversations and went on to FEED BACK to the N.Y. Times Editors by E-mail.
Mainly elaborating on establishing WARNING SYSTEM! I can see now all over popping up the GLOBAL warning system "idea".
But I also searched Indonasia and Thailand! Estm. 9000 sweedish vacationers were killed. Guess I'll go off line to continue. bird

To Waz:
Here is your copy/paste. How secure!
Certainly the devastation is unparalleled, so they say the visitors from the US.

You have to take into consideration that it is a tropical land where generally people can get away with much less. Not much clothing is needed, shelter to build is minimal, there is no need for heating system and life can be so easy when the Ocean also provide lot of food.

Than there is a great opportunity to produce children and extend poverty behind limit!
My donation would concentrate on contraceptives! THey can have all the sex BUT less children for better and happier life!

When Nature speaks up on his most brutal way: this is what you get! Humans not using their little brain! Because perhaps we had that instinct long ago what guards the animals, but we lost it. The brain supposes to do the job to get on higher elevation when the tidalwavwe comes. How did the animals “know” it?

Anyway: so much for this.

I am writing about my flying carrier. Next week will bring the first Chapter.
If you follow the experiences I had, you’ll see is all about being humble and just follow Nature’s rules.
Nature is so very big and does what he wants; little humans like us should not fight against his forces, because will end up on the shorter end mostly dead.

Flying a small aircraft will teach you what is the weather, what is chaos, and how to use the human brain?
Will talk about my admiration to Wilbur and Orville. My sad loving memory of Amelia Erhart. Have many photos and Shazz can show a lot what was I doing in and out of clouds and much more.

About Boris: I know he is rhino! I saw one was pregnant in the San Diego zoo, but also a sad story once on a documentary film. So much for today. And You don’t think about “overhead” in a charity organization. The word stands for people who work to do good things.

Bbird

I will read about Wilbur and Orville in the Post version with the pictures rather than the AWW version.

Build on flood plains is what they do around here. Then campaign for flood barriers. Then when barriers go in the people further downstream campaign...The river's got to have room to spill over somewhere. There are some new luxury apartments that I pass driving to work. 'Superb river side views they advertise. I'll say! They're right where that side of the river floods.

Did you see the story from the 1880 Krakatoa tsunami? The man who rode the crest of the wave on an aligator to safety?


I know you know Boris is a rhino - but I meant my fascination with rhinos, and therefore Boris, started with a real one. I was about five, in Kenya. We were out with rangers who went to see what was attracting the attention of some vultures. A rhino had been caught in a snare. I went to see, not knowing. It was one of those things that influence you as a child that you're not aware of 'til years and years later. The awfulness of such an imposing living creature brought down like that. They cut his horns off. I think Boris is some kind of spirit of that rhino.

Sometimes drawing, or writing gives a voice to something that seems to want to be heard. I've done both with Boris but whatever I've done hasn't been enough.

Back to the drawing board
Waz

Waz you are up late again! I'll write to you tomorrow, if I'll find the time. You go to sleep. Bbird Zzzzz

Hey, for a lover of flowers I just found this http://spiky_one.tripod.com/flowers/flowers.html


Off ,
later,
Waz

Sorry! I am late! Was very busy. You can find some answers under the "sitting comfortably" in which JTG also got involved.
I wrote to you on the Cartoon corner" also!
Thanks about the flowers! The "tripod" I know about from a h2g2 member: DoctorMo used it!
Anyway tripod cost money, but Geocities are more resonable. I'll get to finish my Web Page. My help is a real "pain in the n**ck.)
The week end is over, but here is a holiday for tomorrow.
It is getting cold here and perhaps will get some
How is your behaving? BB