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Posted by ed_uk2010 on November 20, 2011, at 14:47:25
In reply to Re: Summer, posted by sigismund on November 20, 2011, at 13:00:35
Sigi, it sounds like you are in need of a handy man.
Posted by Dinah on November 20, 2011, at 19:20:29
In reply to Re: Summer » Dinah, posted by floatingbridge on November 20, 2011, at 10:50:35
Yup.
Posted by sigismund on November 20, 2011, at 20:40:59
In reply to Re: Summer, posted by ed_uk2010 on November 20, 2011, at 14:47:25
>Sigi, it sounds like you are in need of a handy man.
You're not wrong, Eddy :)
I have been trying for the tradie look myself. Cut off jeans (I can do that myself) and work boots.
Posted by sigismund on November 20, 2011, at 20:46:20
In reply to Re: Summer » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on November 20, 2011, at 13:22:20
> I am sorry I didn't take this more seriously, both the inconvenience of possible lack of shower water and a roof collapsing.
You may be too scrupulous :)
I heard a book lecture by this blind philosopher/psychologist who said 'I have a wonderful wife. If I said "Let's go sail a raft to America" she would say "OK". When we were discussing disabled parking permits she said to me 'You are NOT disabled. You are inconvenienced.'
So anyway, this man had reshingled his roof. But he was Hungarian originally.
Posted by sigismund on November 20, 2011, at 21:13:14
In reply to Re: Summer » floatingbridge, posted by sigismund on November 20, 2011, at 20:46:20
But there it is bubbling away on the roof again.
I feel so much calmer (than yesterday), and it is already 2.15 pm and I haven't had a drink.
'Man is a creature who gets used to anything and that is the best definition of him'. FD
Posted by floatingbridge on November 21, 2011, at 17:13:15
In reply to Re: Summer » floatingbridge, posted by sigismund on November 20, 2011, at 20:46:20
>But he was Hungarian originally.
So he was doubly inconvenienced.
I am hoping it has been handyman to the rescue by now.
Scrupulous is interesting. My therapist would agree in general. Do you know that leads to guilt :)
Posted by Phillipa on November 21, 2011, at 18:13:15
In reply to Re: Summer » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on November 21, 2011, at 17:13:15
What in interesting question? Phillipa
Posted by sigismund on November 21, 2011, at 23:00:28
In reply to Re: Summer » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on November 21, 2011, at 17:13:15
Hungarians have this reputation for being among the most depressed people in the world, which means they have great conversation.
Columbians might be good too. I read that in Columbia when you go into a hotel your host will ask you 'What do you think of the human condition?'
You feeling guilty for being scrupulous? Entirely appropriate.
Posted by floatingbridge on November 21, 2011, at 23:19:20
In reply to Re: Summer » floatingbridge, posted by sigismund on November 21, 2011, at 23:00:28
I think it is being scrupulous that induces guilt.
I was searching the origins of my surname. Apparently it may not Hungarian. An Hungarian remarked it was maybe Turkish.
Anyways, I ended up reading about Slovaks. Which led me to this fellow:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Operace_
Anthropoid_-_Jozef_Gab%C4%8D%C3%ADk.jpgAnd I thought I would love to share this with someone.
I might be Hungarian.
So about your solar pump. Update?
Posted by sigismund on November 21, 2011, at 23:34:49
In reply to Re: Summer » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on November 21, 2011, at 23:19:20
It is an electrical pump. What was happening was that the solar hot water system was boiling over while the pump was off. To confuse the issue I had mentioned solar photovoltaic panels.
There was not really a problem. I had just allowed to top tank to empty, and since the bottom tank had not been used for a couple of years due to our really wet weather, the line to the bottom tank could not be primed without more water in the top tank.
But we took the pump out and put it back ourselves. I am not one for practical things. Books make fewer demands. Really, I am too anxious to use a mobile phone. You don't believe me? well, not just anxious either. I am fabulously uninterested and more than usually hostile to these items. I try to calm myself by giving political analyses....privatisation of everyday life, more crap from the culture or what passes for it. And yet these days, especially with our kids, we need them because the kids have not learned how to make arrangements as we used to do.
Posted by floatingbridge on November 22, 2011, at 0:07:47
In reply to Re: Summer » floatingbridge, posted by sigismund on November 21, 2011, at 23:34:49
Paper and pencil is a pleasure. So is nice ink. I dislike phone talk anytime. Even if an old crank rotary appeared with a living operator somewhere to tell me the time.
I know so little about modern communications that I cannot not comment on its benefits. My husband can. He understands. Btw, have you read "White Noise"?
The 14yo chides when his father praises humanity's glorious advances what would he do if the power was gone? Could he even start a fire. So in fact, humanity has gone backward.
That book is a hoot.
Posted by sigismund on November 22, 2011, at 12:03:48
In reply to Re: Summer » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on November 22, 2011, at 0:07:47
Don de Lillo?
A while ago now.
Yes, I enjoyed it as I recall.
More, I finished it.
I am currently reading "Everyman Dies Alone", about life in Germany for ordinary people 1940-45. Very claustrophobic. I don't get this problem I often do which is 'why am I reading this?'
The author finished the war in a Nazi insane asylum for alcoholism and died of a morphine overdose a few years later.
Posted by floatingbridge on November 22, 2011, at 15:25:57
In reply to Re: Summer » floatingbridge, posted by sigismund on November 22, 2011, at 12:03:48
Have you read any other novels by him, like The Drinker?
I can understand why you would read him.
I recently read that every war begins with words.
Fallada. I am wondering about the origin of that surname.
How is the human condition where you are?
Posted by Phillipa on November 22, 2011, at 18:29:14
In reply to Re: Summer » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on November 22, 2011, at 15:25:57
You guys are so deep!!!! PJ
Posted by floatingbridge on November 22, 2011, at 21:56:11
In reply to Re: Summer, posted by Phillipa on November 22, 2011, at 18:29:14
I need waders :)
Posted by Phillipa on November 22, 2011, at 22:14:46
In reply to Re: Summer » Phillipa, posted by floatingbridge on November 22, 2011, at 21:56:11
I need Summer!!! PJ
Posted by Dinah on November 22, 2011, at 22:34:37
In reply to Re: Summer » floatingbridge, posted by Phillipa on November 22, 2011, at 22:14:46
(But I'll keep my winter.)
Posted by floatingbridge on November 23, 2011, at 9:29:08
In reply to Re: Summer » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on November 22, 2011, at 15:25:57
Oh boy, Phillipa, our winter is just starting and I am hoping we do not get slammed with rain. Some rain is good. It's been cold, too. Early frost.
Imagine the early spring of New England. The part no one seems to call spring. Extend that over four months.
It's raw and cold, but not cold enough to drop the humidity. No snow. I like snow. I liked MA outside of Boston where the snow could lay for months. Dry and amplified the light. Very cheerful.
Posted by floatingbridge on November 23, 2011, at 9:30:57
In reply to Re: Summer » floatingbridge, posted by floatingbridge on November 23, 2011, at 9:29:08
All mixed up this a.m. :)
Posted by Phillipa on November 23, 2011, at 17:49:10
In reply to Take my summer. Please. » Phillipa, posted by Dinah on November 22, 2011, at 22:34:37
Oh Dinah we have a firm deal. Anytime now how do we do the switch of weather? Phillipa
Posted by Phillipa on November 23, 2011, at 17:51:13
In reply to Re: Summer » floatingbridge, posted by floatingbridge on November 23, 2011, at 9:29:08
FB I liked to shovel show when younger after it fell at night. But the snow always got so dirty in a day or two from both cars and remember yellow snow? Phillipa
Posted by sigismund on November 23, 2011, at 18:11:38
In reply to Re: Summer » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on November 22, 2011, at 15:25:57
Fallada is not his real name. He used a nom de plume because of an interesting event in his youth.
A friend of his and the young Fallada had a duel in which Fallada survived. There is some evidence that it was a suicide pact. I imagine they were in love. That was around 1910.
I had never heard of him before my sister recommended him. The German people are nothing like the Russian people at the same time in "LIfe and Fate". I would describe the Germans as spiteful and the Russians as brutal, but there is a great heartedness (I think) in the Russians despite everything.
Everything is alright with me. I am down seeing our kids. I get such pleasure from them. Part of the pleasure comes from what follows when you allow them to be themselves. I had never wanted to have kids. The usual thing...life is a mistake, consciousness worse, who would want to bring children into this world and so on....and my kids have given me delight after delight. I don't know if this speaks in favour of pessimism?
Posted by 64Bowtie on November 24, 2011, at 4:27:46
In reply to Re: Summer » floatingbridge, posted by sigismund on November 23, 2011, at 18:11:38
The four of you were quite entertaining during this thread... I must admit, I sensed your deeper familiarity with each other that added color to the posts... It was great conversation... Thanks for the listen...
Rod
Posted by floatingbridge on November 24, 2011, at 14:19:05
In reply to » sigismund » Re: Summer, posted by 64Bowtie on November 24, 2011, at 4:27:46
Hi Rod,
I'm glad you joined in :)
Posted by sigismund on November 25, 2011, at 16:42:37
In reply to » sigismund » Re: Summer, posted by 64Bowtie on November 24, 2011, at 4:27:46
Isn't that nice :)
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