COLD DARK ROOM

[ZEROPILOT]

Hi ZeroPilot,

yes it is an Opel Manta B. I`m very proud of my oldtimer.

I'd be proud of it too.
I actually owned a '72 Buick badged Opel Manta. And a non running Opel G.T.

 

[Bee62]

Good night ! See you later ...
@ ZeroPilot I enjoy talking about cars

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Yep.
I took the Scion.
Used the cruise control and my radar jammer.
I averaged 84 mph and 31 mpg.
Only two stops for gas and restroom.
Total drive 7.5 hours.

Pretty good going.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Good night.
I've taken off of work for tomorrow but Kelly wants to ride her red Honda to work. So I've got to make sure it's road ready. And it's quite buried in the garage.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Now it`s time for me to go to bed. It is late at night here 00:50 AM.
To own an elephant ! Wow....
I think there are many intersting things we could write. But ... later...

Sabine

Night, night, Sabine.
Sleep well.
Won't see you in the morning (it's too Dark in here.)

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Good night Adam.
Take care, buddy.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Good night.
I've taken off of work for tomorrow but Kelly wants to ride her red Honda to work. So I've got to make sure it's road ready. And it's quite buried in the garage.

So day to yourself, tomorrow ?
Planning to build new enclosures, I guess.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Good night Adam.
Take care, buddy.

No, just saying goodnight to Sabine, it's far too early for me.
And I've got some translation from Swedish to English to do.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

So day to yourself, tomorrow ?
Planning to build new enclosures, I guess.

An addition at least.
One that can house the new tortoises if I get them.
I already have a very large spare pen that used to house Bertha. The old hospital unit.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

An addition at least.
One that can house the new tortoises if I get them.
I already have a very large spare pen that used to house Bertha. The old hospital unit.

Helpful start.
I imagine four redfoots would need a fair bit of space, are they not wanted anymore, circumstances forcing them to be left behind ?

 

[Momof4]

I wanted to come say hello!
I was on an anniversary trip and then we headed out to the desert for some riding and camping!
I can't read all the posts I've missed but try to skim through!

Glad everyone is doing well and I'm sad I can't participate in the card exchange I'm just too busy these days. I won't even be sending out x-mas cards this year to my family.

I found out the other day my grandma has cancer and has about a month to live. I swore she was going to out live us all because she's so sour! I'm going to try to help my aunts and uncle during this time.
I can't believe the holidays are here!! I love them but it can get overwhelming.

We got so much rain the past 2 days do I'm going to be planting seeds and pasture seed tomorrow while the ground is soft!! My torts will be happy to munch on some green stuff!!
Good night!! I miss you guys so much!!

 

[Kristoff]

Good morning, roommates!
A gloomy day here in Western Turkey. The rain season has finally arrived. It rarely snows here in winter -- literally, if it does, it makes the news -- but the rains keep coming until it's spring again in mid-February.
Hope everyone has a wonderful start of the new week.

 

[Kristoff]

At least it was good exercise for her.
Hello there!

Tut-tut, somebody used the e-word in CDR again!

 

[Kristoff]

Herzlich willkommen, Bee62!

And that is about all of the German I remember from university, which was 40 years ago!!!!

Welcome to the CDR, Sabine! @Bee62

In Turkey when people joke about being able to speak German, they say, "Ich möchte drei köfte" (köfte being meatballs in Turkish). For some reason the phrase really stuck with me. I spent about a year studying philosophy and art history in Berlin. It's still one of my favorite cities. The program was in English though. Ich will gerne gut Deutsch sprechen.

 

[Kristoff]

I've just offered to take on four more Redfoot from a local member.
Wish me luck.
Maybe another large pen is in the works.
I'm back in town.

Dear Ed, how many redfoots do you have?

 

[johnandjade]

good mornooning cold dark room mates hope we all had a great weekend. only a half day at work for me today, dentist appointment

 

[JoesMum]

I used to be a manager/ supervisor / trainer : quality controller at various times for various call centres and remember calling in tech support at all hours.
Sorry.
Though sometimes I was on call, too.

Ah so it was you! That explains a lot. Our Operators took particular delight in being ultra cheerful when they called you at 2.30am.

Bleeper goes off, call in, voice on the other end in ultra cheerful manner "Good morning Linda! How are you? We called your bleeper by mistake! While you're here ..."

I remember having to do that in the 70s. Once I had only been on the job for 2 weeks. I had no idea what I was doing. I had never seen the programs before.

Back then, you had to wait at least a half hour, maybe longer, to see if your changes worked. Nothing was instantaneous as it is now.

I was doing it in the 1986-1997 ish Still very slow, but at least we mostly had terminals and continuous flow paper.

The first year of my computing degree was entirely on punch cards. We spent a lot of time in the bar waiting for our jobs to compile and run. Computer people had to have a social life whether they wanted one or not in those days

The insurer I worked for had punch card output for some things and finally got rid of the machines in the mid 90s and gave one to the London Science Museum. Our fail-safe site couldn't get rid of its punches as it had two other clients that still needed them

 

[JoesMum]

@adam

Cheese is fine. Books are too, and music and animals. Not only tortoises. Dogs and cats are lovely pets. Horses I love too. For many years I owned 2 horses. That was a great time.
I am interested in many things. Old cars for example. I have an old car. It is 40 years old. Look:

Opel Manta. That takes me back!

 

[Big Charlie]

Ah so it was you! That explains a lot. Our Operators took particular delight in being ultra cheerful when they called you at 2.30am.

Bleeper goes off, call in, voice on the other end in ultra cheerful manner "Good morning Linda! How are you? We called your bleeper by mistake! While you're here ..."


I was doing it in the 1986-1997 ish Still very slow, but at least we mostly had terminals and continuous flow paper.

The first year of my computing degree was entirely on punch cards. We spent a lot of time in the bar waiting for our jobs to compile and run. Computer people had to have a social life whether they wanted one or not in those days

The insurer I worked for had punch card output for some things and finally got rid of the machines in the mid 90s and gave one to the London Science Museum. Our fail-safe site couldn't get rid of its punches as it had two other clients that still needed them

Ah, remember dropping the deck and trying to get the cards back in order?

 

[JoesMum]

Welcome to the CDR, Sabine! @Bee62

In Turkey when people joke about being able to speak German, they say, "Ich möchte drei köfte" (köfte being meatballs in Turkish). For some reason the phrase really stuck with me. I spent about a year studying philosophy and art history in Berlin. It's still one of my favorite cities. The program was in English though. Ich will gerne gut Deutsch sprechen.

I studied German in secondary school. I wasn't very good at it. I think it was my teacher as I found learning French easy.

Years ago JoesDad, who speaks no German, and I went to stay with friends living in Munich. He challenged me to recall some words without looking them up.

For some reason the first noun that came to mind was Kugelschreiber - ball point pen. He burst out laughing and told me that it wasn't going to be much use.

Then we were stood on a platform of the train station looking at timetables and a man spoke to me in German "Bitte. Haben sie ein Kugelschreiber?" (Please. Have you a pen?) I wanted to laugh, but couldn't have explained why it was so funny. I just lent him my pen