The little Inn by the wayside

[Chroelle]

Raillo. I really hope you get a good one with lots of presents and friends and family around you. You deserve it afteer your recent run of hardship.

[Pater Alf]

Ice hockey world order stays more or less untouched. But it was a great match and I think we gave Russia more than just a good fight as it took 58 minutes before they were able to take the lead. I hope the young German team can win the bronze medal today (which would still be a very big sensation).

[Pager]

Anyone heard from eMTe?
Apparently the situ in Krakow a few days ago wasn't too good due to flooding...

PA, good luck to the German team today. Being that is my country's "official" sport, I can totally agree with your stand on the subject...

[Chroelle]

Perhaps phone lines got flooded and his net quit on him...
Hope he is just taking a break though, as he just moved into his new flat.

[eMTe]

Ive been busy running, gathering powers for playing games.

[Railwaymodeler]

Had a good birthday, my dad cooked me a ribeye steak that had to have been over 20 ounces!

Just came back home from a walk around the block. Tomorrow is trash pickup day, and what did I find on the curbside but an HP Vectra PC with an 800 MHz P3 CPU and 512 MB RAM. Someone had installed THREE DVD burners in it. All three look close to new.

Took it apart already and found a pair of 120 GB hard drives inside. Someone was probably copying movies with it. One drive was on a Promise ATA100 PCI IDE card, even.

[Chroelle]

Sometimes one mans trash is another mans gold.
These last weeks I took quite a few trips to the local recycle center, and there are some more or less gypsy type people who hang out there. They were almost on firstname with me after my innital trips down there, because I was throwing out a lot of good stuff that I had hung on to for way too long, and now didn't have space for anymore.
I could always go over to some of them with a box, and more or less ask them to take what they wanted and sort the rest in the right containers, as they would be happy to empty my boxes to get at the good stuff first.

@eMTe - I got the invitation to this years annual Eremitagerun, which was my first real big run, and which I swore to run every year from then on, and I am really having a hard time whenever my phone or computer reminds me to sign up, as my knee is still bothering me. The run isn't until October, but if I dont sign up now I loose my place in the run, and with 19.000 runners, it means quite a lot to get your spot from last year as it might mean 3000 people less to take over on a small and muddy wood-path.

[eMTe]

We had another set of rainy days, so my running is now a bit on hold. Moreover, Ive been on a 4day trip (explaining my another disappearance) in Pieniny mountains with a little 70 kilometres bike trip through Slovakia. 3 hot days without lotion + one stormy day to forget and looots of hiking.

[Zyx]

I was on a sick leave the past two days, which might explain my sudden activity in fixing things around here. Had a nasty flu and would've loved to stay indoors, but the puppy doesn't care...

In other news, the little fluffball is starting look like a real dog.

[Chroelle]

The dog looks really cute Zyx. I still miss having a dog some times, but Tanja is allergic, so there is no hope for me there.

I've had monday home sick with Anna, which explained my time there, and today I am home with my own back. I had a physio take a look at my spine (I have a backproblem as some might remember me going on about), and he did an adjustment - yes that is as painful as it sounds - and yesterday I was walking in the woods for 4 hours with a lot of kids, and that meant no rest for my back and so at the end of the day I was busted. Today I stayed home to relax it, and later today I am going for my second physio appointment.

[Chroelle]

Happy Birthday DV!!!
Hope you have a good one with friends and family.

Thanks for all the hard work you do here. It's really appreciated!

[Drasir-Vel]

Thanks.

[Pater Alf]

Happy belated birthday, Drasir-Vel!

Hope you had a great day!

[Pager]

Happy B-Day Drasir-Vel! Hope you have a wicked awesome day!

[Drasir-Vel]

Thanks to you too.

[Chroelle]

I simply wanted to welcome Moogle as the newest member of the crew. He is enlisting in the Gamehunter Squad, so he is really welcome, and needed.

So cheers to Moogle, and beers are on the house.

[eMTe]

Im here to simply say that my relationship is breaking down, so Im outta here and it's hard to say when Ill be back, I have little power to do anything except going to work. Ill spare you the details, in short it is one of these relationships that should be over, but we both dont know if it truly is and we still (two months, eh) live together and I cant leave because it will probably end in severe hysteria attack, anyway that's what happened the first time Ive said "Im leaving". And I really wasnt sure. So Im here, stuck, playing boyfriend/friend waiting for something to happen or maybe Ill decide to break it once and for good. Hard times, but good things can only come of this, in long term. It's just another stage in the life.

How are things going here? Playing games? Validating? People watching World Cup?

[Pater Alf]

Im here to simply say that my relationship is breaking down, so Im outta here and it's hard to say when Ill be back, I have little power to do anything except going to work. Ill spare you the details, in short it is one of these relationships that should be over, but we both dont know if it truly is and we still (two months, eh) live together and I cant leave because it will probably end in severe hysteria attack, anyway that's what happened the first time Ive said "Im leaving". And I really wasnt sure. So Im here, stuck, playing boyfriend/friend waiting for something to happen or maybe Ill decide to break it once and for good. Hard times, but good things can only come of this, in long term. It's just another stage in the life.

Sorry to hear that. It's always hard if things like that happen. My best wishes that something good will finally come out of it no matter what you decide to do.

How are things going here? Playing games? Validating? People watching World Cup?

All three things. I'm on vacation so I have a little time to play games and validate them. I hope to add some games to the database within the next few days as well. And is there anyone who isn't watching the World Cup? I'm really looking forward to the quarter final with Netherlands - Brasil and Argentina -Germany. I think our young German team is playing a pretty good tournament so far. And after 44 years we finally got our revanche for the 1966 Wembley goal...

[Chroelle]

Oh yeah - I didn't think about the Wembley goal. Congrats on the revenge.

And sorry to hear that life is treating you hard eMTe. I join voices with PA, and hope thigs work out for you.

[eMTe]

Well, I sent Anna to her parents for a weekend to release tensions a bit. The problem is not over though and my suggestion that I should leave for a while and she should find the flat empty when shell be back ended in tears again. That's what happens when somebody loves you, but something in her past bothers you and hurts and you think of leaving to break the problem, while you love too. Life isnt treating me hard, it's me treating me hard and not understanding that one should live for somebody, not for himself. Or maybe understanding, I just cant feel it and overcome it and it hurts.

Without giving details, because they are too personal, Ill give you an example, far from the problem I have, but psychologically similar. Imagine that you're a woman and you fall in love in a man and everything gets better and better with time and you love him more and more and suddenly you find out that many years ago he committed a serious offence, killing a person driving under the influence and he was sentenced. Now the picture you had in your mind breaks into pieces and no matter how deep your love is and how great times you experience the past of your love starts tormenting you, because you suddenly see the different person. You still love, but you simply cannot accept this "new" person.

The problem is, I can easily describe what state I am in and advice others that it is wrong, but I cant convince myself to feel like it. I think this is the psychological problem, not the real one and maybe can be easily overcome by some, Im just not the "take everything easy and keep smiling" kind of person. Weltschmerz is the expression that could always describe my personality better.

Still, I think good things can come of this. Pretty strange, eh?