A premature congrats to you! As the Doctor would say, "This is a positive development". I admire your SPUNK. This makes almost two positive posts for you, in a row! Granted you have years ahead of you as the nice guy, to create the true impression of your fantasy, and yet, hey, you gotta start somewhere - don't let us down, and glad to see you pushed into this corner of your mind - Please, for God's sake, stay there.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > > > > > So it's Friday, and the End Of The World to boot. Cool. > > > > > > So I finished all my work for the week a few minutes ago, and then > > > chose to celebrate it by taking a walk around the 'hood I live in, > > > prior to celebrating it by going out to dinner with my extended > > > adoptive family. > > > > Barry, just wondering if you took that photo of the light on water > from > > the location pictured below. > > Yes. It's a couple of hundred meters from where I live. Good Googling! > > Haarlemerstraat, at the upper left of the ariel view, is Leiden's > main shopping drag. I went shopping on it today, with Paris and > Pippin in their Christmas attire. The photo below shows them in > their little reindeer antlers and Santa hat, but from an earlier > Christmas in Paris, the city. The dogs are a bit greyer around the > muzzle now, as am I. :-) > > [Barry';s Christmas Dogs] > > We were quite a hit. Stupidly, I forgot to bring my iPhone (same > camera that took the other photo of the canal) with me, so I don't > have any "reaction shots" of the often-dour Dutch cracking up and > smiling. A few even laughed out loud. I consider that a win. > > Even though no one asked, dinner was smashing. We went to a > Thai restaurant called Buddhas (http://www.buddhas.nl/ > <http://www.buddhas.nl/> ) and > it was delightful -- one of the few Dutch restaurants I've found in > which the food was worth what they were charging for it. Spain > and France spoil you when it comes to eating out. > > After dinner we walked around and looked at the Christmas lights > and at the skaters on the rink they have erected over the canal in > front of the town hall. Not Rockefeller Center, but cool. Then I let > the others walk home and I climbed up to the Citadel (a castle > from the 11th century that is one of the oldest (and interestingly, > since it is in the center of Leiden, one of the most silent areas of > the city) and meditated for a while. > > [http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2071/2115542556_1343492e48.jpg] > > Not because of the so-called Apocalypse, not because I wanted to > tune in to some grand global W00 Woo Fest...just because I felt > like meditating. It was an OK meditation, just your normal, every- > day stuff like seeing visions of Shiva dancing Gangnam style with > an unidentified Hindu goddess almost wearing the sexiest see- > through sari I've ever seen, followed by God herself coming down > for a chat, sharing a champagne glass full of soma with me and > commending me for my infinite patience in dealing with FFL > stalkers. > > Oh wait. That didn't happen. I must have been channeling that. > That's what TMers might consider an OK meditation. :-) > > Mine was just silence. Pure, infinite silence. >
