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18 Oct 2007, 7:46 pm

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I have heard it thought out loud here, that some seem to think there might be a genetic link to this. I tend to think that indeed maybe the case.

As far as I'm concerned a test was just done in the Cafe and it was about taking the test to begin with. I really don't need any other at this point. Just the pleasure of conversing with people on Skype has left me with little doubt about myself. That I could relate so easily, have things in common with a fervor that others just don't give a hoot about. My general wonderings around here and things that I can relate to so much. I just feel the shoe fits. I won't hold my breath waiting for some fail safe test. I'd rather hold my breath hoping The Wife will buy me candy. She gets nervous when I hold it till I'm blue in the face and ready to pass out. NT's are just so easy.


And that is why I don't need an Aspie test! I'd watch and time you to see how long it took and what shade of blue you'd end up and then wait to see how long it took for you to wake up, while writing down my observations. Then maybe I'd give you candy! :wink:

I scored high on that test when I was being honest and even higher when I tried to sway it to the NT side. :? As you said, I've learned everything I need to know by hanging out with the people here. Here fits me.

(Been nursing a nasty infection and the antibiotics and painkillers are messing me up big time. Going back into lurky mode now! Have a good evening!)



Cranberry Juice, Mom. Just keep slurping it down. Hope you feel better soon!


Would vodka make it taste better? Vodka is a good antisceptic! :twisted: :wink:



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18 Oct 2007, 8:11 pm

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[list]It's that time again... courtesy of the *nix "fortune" system:
[*]economist, n: Someone who's good with figures, but doesn't have enough personality to become an accountant.


i think i just hurt myself.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:



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18 Oct 2007, 8:12 pm

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Would vodka make it taste better? Vodka is a good antisceptic! :twisted: :wink:


It'd help you sleep. And sleep is good when you're sick. :wink:

If I didn't have to pick up Daughter Person from work in about a half hour, I'd be into the zinfandel for sure. Have to write a newsletter tonight - much better done buzzed. Ah, well. Sober is ok, I guess. :lol: But it's duller reading and there's more spelling errors. {sigh}



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18 Oct 2007, 11:02 pm

krex, thanks for the Cafepress link. I recognise the T-shirt design with the Australia map as being from the Flash animation The End of the World. That's a well-loved favourite in our house. Xan is able to recite it verbatim!

They got everything there, don't they? Except where's the chemical formula for ethanol? (Thinking of Nan and the newsletter-writing process here). Caffeine, chocolate, THC, aspirin, hemoglobin, no alcohol. Maybe they figure it's widely-enough publicised elsewhere.

ETA: Language Warning! The Flash vid of The End of the World doth contain verbiage both noxious and vile. Those with sensitive ears, beware.



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18 Oct 2007, 11:48 pm

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Haven't heard a coyote in a long time.




I have.

and I was going to write a long story about my cat Slinky and how I loved him and we comforted each other and how I lost him to the coyotes. But I come home from work and read page after page of the Cafe and ten o'clock creeps up on me and I am heading bed.

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19 Oct 2007, 1:56 am

it's not my picture,
we live in a village even smaller than the one you see,
a few miles from the road in the picture, back to where the picture is taken from

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here is a picture taken from the viewpoint of my frontdoor,
last winter, with the closest neighbours the ones who's wall around the frontgarden is on the left of the picture.
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no coyotes, never seen one




do you speek afrikaans too, saphir?
i'm dutch speaking, (although i live in the frenchspeaking part of my country for 12 years now)
so can understand most of it.



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19 Oct 2007, 4:02 am

ok, today i'll destroy the vista,
it gets me so nervous with its multiple maps, options, tricks, connections and all that stuff i don't need nor never asked for and that gets me entangled as to not find what i really need

so the colourless yellow lemon doesn't sleep furiously but is in full action ! !! !

hm i'm so very present now, aren't i , well ...

i never mentioned but when i start feeling a bit at home somewhere, i get that ... :roll:
jumping, laughing, acting and all

hope you don't mind :?

a bit of electronic music has already chased hub, haha,
Ubuntu here we come ! !
today is mine ! !!

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19 Oct 2007, 7:52 am

well i didn't mean it that literally ...


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19 Oct 2007, 7:58 am

How's it going then?


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19 Oct 2007, 8:09 am

lemon wrote:
ok, today i'll destroy the vista,
it gets me so nervous with its multiple maps, options, tricks, connections and all that stuff i don't need nor never asked for and that gets me entangled as to not find what i really need

so the colourless yellow lemon doesn't sleep furiously but is in full action ! !! !

hm i'm so very present now, aren't i , well ...

i never mentioned but when i start feeling a bit at home somewhere, i get that ... :roll:
jumping, laughing, acting and all

hope you don't mind :?

a bit of electronic music has already chased hub, haha,
Ubuntu here we come ! !
today is mine ! !!

:twisted: :twisted: :twisted:


oh, Lemon, you are so much like I am. . how could I mind at all?? :wink:
it is lovely we all live in the countryside. How could we have ever met if not for the internet and Alex's brilliant idea?

feeling grateful,

Merle



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19 Oct 2007, 8:23 am

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How's it going then?


it's at 83% but i have to leave now, going to take my son to the fencing lesson,
i hope i can leave it a couple of hours on its own,
ow, 90% now,
but really have to go,
ow, 95%
ow, 97%
will be continued...

see you later.

yeah merle absolutely right



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19 Oct 2007, 9:06 am

Laughable?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy5KjaAS7nY[/youtube]

Impressive?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot8KBcPzAsw[/youtube]

Don't watch this?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2d43ie9Mx0[/youtube]


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19 Oct 2007, 9:17 am

lemon wrote:
do you speek afrikaans too, saphir?
i'm dutch speaking, (although i live in the frenchspeaking part of my country for 12 years now)
so can understand most of it.


No, I don't. Refused to learn it when I was at school because it was the language of the then-government. I've grown up a bit now and realised that I can NEVER generalise, but that was the reaction I had as a child. Perhaps, if I had a choice to learn a language, I might have chosen it. But I tend to become stubborn when my choices are removed :)

I've travelled through Belgium, and Holland. Love the trees, and something about the crisp air excited me.



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19 Oct 2007, 9:20 am

PS. I dug about a bit the find the lyrics to that last thing.


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19 Oct 2007, 9:22 am

Rolf Harris? :lol: :oops: I have an album of his that I recently put on CD :oops: . My father bought it at the army surplus store when I was 9 years old and I still listen to it. :oops: It makes the teenagers clear the room so the little one and I can dance around the kitchen. I've never heard him do that song, though. I could have lived with that. :lol: