Oh, Niels. You write the exactliest most neededly apposite things. Will do, doc.

Dank u wel.

I'm moody cos those one-time havens of All That Is Decent, Denmark and Canada, are falling into the hands of Right Wing Xenophobes. Canada's Harper is described as "Bush without the brains" and a mad Danish granny named Pia wants furriners ejected.

I won't elaborate and'd like to join you at this point and go with your succinct <The old system was based on the idea that when it gets cold it's good to be nice.> analysis. I said the other day to Jess that I was "not a happy camper"...

But thank goodness there are those precious alleviating moments and personal endeavors.

Zum Beispiel: a positive byproduct recently is that I am starting to master the Blues, you know, that twelve bar thing, on piano... really applying myself, these last few days, weeks; it's as if I finally, after all the practise, am feeling completely at home in the magical 12 bar cubicle with all its inner structures that can be laid out, switch from one room to the next without fear of what's behind the door, walking casually into the kitchen and nose around to see what's there, opening this and that cabinet... Quite a blessing as I see it to be able to <escape into music on my 'Acoustic'> Upright, heh, as I slowly peel away at the layers, and venture into some new ones of my own, expanding the vocabulary, grammar, accent....

I actually recorded a number of bass note patterns yesterday afternoon that really got my juices flowing, to (later, one really has to repeat them over and over to fully internalize in different keys, then fugget about it) then move on to complement them with appropriate right hand melodies and harmonies. The possibilities and variations are endless. I record them to later perhaps write them down in music notation. It's basically what I live for these days, together with my little canine pal, with whom I intend to spend "another good seven years" which are before us, prior to him reaching the canine late autumnal days of his life... I want to make those years count triple for us, as it were. I think "we" deserve it, need it, badly. As in "very much". Funny btw that in dutch the same deceptive (for a furriner) figure of speech is used: bad(ly) - erg.

I need it (a nice vacation) badly = Ik ben erg toe aan een heerlijke vakantie

May 5th, 6am here, and Holland is slowly waking up for <Bevrijdingsdag>. Liberation Day, and as I notice from this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor... we are a few days earlier than most countries. They capitulated first in "Holland on Stilts" of course.

So if you're hunting Public Refrigerator #1, bring choppers.

What am I rambling about?

Regards,
Anon Sequitur

(I think that means secret admirer, or stalker... is there a difference?)

hmmm

Note that while your birthday is a prima donna, it's mirror is not due to 5 and 7. If you vertically mirror that it, looks like a 21 in a distortion mirror.