COLD DARK ROOM

[Tidgy's Dad]

@AZtortMom
Good night !

Doing anything interesting Bee ?
I'm Adam by the way.
AZtortmum is Noel, nice lady from Arizona.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Herzlich willkommen, Bee62!

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

Evening, Bea!

 

[Bee62]

Hello Moozillion,

you were in a university in germany ?

 

[Moozillion]

Several of us are here in America, so it's not really late. Right now it is 5:15 pm for me. I think Tidgy's Dad is at 11:15 pm? Am I right, Adam? Or does Morocco have its own time?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Several of us are here in America, so it's not really late. Right now it is 5:15 pm for me. I think Tidgy's Dad is at 11:15 pm? Am I right, Adam? Or does Morocco have its own time?

We're sometimes different, but the same as the UK right now.
Yes, 11.15 pm.

 

[Bee62]

Hello Adam,

what is interesting for you ? Ask me if you like.

 

[Moozillion]

Hello Moozillion,

you were in a university in germany ?

No, I took several German courses when I was in university over here because I have German heritage of which I am very proud. My ancestor names include Pfeiffer, Koch and Boehringer.

 

[Big Charlie]

The worst for me was on call work when I was in technical support for a big insurer.

One week in six I had to be sober enough to drive to work if I got called in the middle of the night. It was the days of mainframe computers before mobile phones were common and before the internet allowed remote logins.

I had to work by day as normal, unless I'd had a very bad night, but regularly got calls in the night if things went wrong which I'd try to solve over the phone if I could. Not good trying to remember computer instructions at 2am without a keyboard and screen in front of you.

Today's technology would make that kind of work much easier.

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.

Another time, there was a woman who didn't have a car and walked 2 miles at 2 AM when she was called in. She didn't know the company would pay for a cab.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Hello Adam,

what is interesting for you ? Ask me if you like.

I love cheese, books, science, cheese, fossils, tortoises, cheese, wifey, Doctor Who and cheese.
You ?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

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.

Another time, there was a woman who didn't have a car and walked 2 miles at 2 AM when she was called in. She didn't know the company would pay for a cab.

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

 

[Big Charlie]

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

Hi!

 

[Bee62]

Hi Bea,

yes, you sure can be proud of your ancestor names !

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Hi!

Good day so far ?

 

[Bee62]

@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:

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

@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:

Yes, I love all animals.
Except camels.
I used to love horse riding, but never owned one of my own. But I did have an elephant when I lived in Thailand.
Cars, I'm afraid i know nothing about and for the last 11 years have lived here in Fes medina, the largest urbanized pedestrian zone in the word, 9,600 streets and only a few on the outskirts are accessible to cars. Donkeys and horses here!

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Golly!
Hi, Ed.
Luck wished for you.
Back and busy.

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.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

@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:

An Opel?
That would be very cool to see here in America

 

[Bee62]

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

 

[Bee62]

Hi ZeroPilot,

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

 

[ZEROPILOT]

No, I took several German courses when I was in university over here because I have German heritage of which I am very proud. My ancestor names include Pfeiffer, Koch and Boehringer.

Some Mueller here.
Renamed Miller. After the war.