What Are You Doing In Real Life II - Page 287

Eichhörnchen · 12-17-24, 10:17 AM

^
Unless of course you get a tsunami

Aktungbby · 12-17-24, 10:54 AM

those are good for surfing...what CA's all about!

I actually did the security for the Chasing Mavericks beach scenes(hundreds of extras) in 2011 in Half Moon Bay.

Aktungbby · 12-22-24, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

...paid off our house on Saturday! I now own the shack after 32 years...but now we're helping the newlywed kids buy their 1st house; $o it never ends!?? The house is probably the most valuable item in my so-called 'investment portfolio'...past earthquakes and horrific fires notwithstanding??! It's been raining all over CA for 3 days straight and another atmospheric stream is inbound with more reservoir-filling, fire-preventing H²0; 12 inches in the last fortnight alone; so "alls to the good"!

Slight update to the aforegoing post: No sooner did we pay off our abode (bucketlist item #1!

) than we turned over a massive sum to the kids for their first house down-payment to
close the sale and get the keys

....and it's still raining due to 'atmospheric rivers' hitting the west coast off and on till Christmas day!

Eichhörnchen · 12-25-24, 05:02 PM

No booze for me today - apart from that it was another good spread

Sean C · 12-25-24, 10:51 PM

^Beautiful!

My family broke with tradition this year. We had steamed snow crab legs and shrimp with a side salad. It was delicious! And we had some nice quality time together.

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you all!

Aktungbby · 12-26-24, 11:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

No booze for me today - apart from that it was another good spread

Are those your Santa illustrations on the serviettes? https://medium.com/@gwvharrold/napki...e-dbb48193b174

Catfish · 12-26-24, 11:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

No booze for me today - apart from that it was another good spread

Beautiful indeed, but no booze ..

Skybird · 12-26-24, 12:00 PM

As usual, christmas for us, me and my parents, is more a family ritual of remembering good memories of past times and past christmasses. I have very, very kind and precious memories from christmasses when i still was small and young and lived with my parents, and we have a very good relation, until today. The christian context plays no longer a role for us, but its our family memory festival, so to speak. And who knows how much longer we can have that, my Mum is 76, my father 80. Maybe it was the last time for all three of us together, and we just do not yet know it.

So, it was a good christmas evening, with raclette as every year in the past 20+ years, to lengthen the time we sit together for dinner, and without christmas music and things, we all are a bit tired of these, it has become so commercial, so excessive and so - noisy. Its much better, we all agree, to relive how we had it done in my youth times, back in the days. All the joyful excitement. The warmth, the Christmas scents and colorful views of small details in all the colorful glittery stuff. Very, very precious and I am deeply and eternally thankful for the warm, living, never empty home my Mum created for us.

So, you may see - while we do not care for the Christian context of it anymore we nevertheless value christmas very much and defend it against anyone wanting to disgrace or relativise it. The world and things and our lives were much more "whole" (heile) for us back then than they are today, and we remember that and honor it together, as a family. We feel happy when we do, and feel very, very thankful for the way our lives have been and that we were allowed to witness those good times back then.

My Mum did these when we lived in Luebeck, in the mid 70s, she was around her mid-20s then, and I was in elementary school. Originally there are more figurines like this, the stones are from the Brodner Ufer, but this year she set up a small version of the set only.

Eichhörnchen · 12-26-24, 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

Are those your Santa illustrations on the serviettes?

No they aren't

Aktungbby · 12-27-24, 10:28 AM

Reading the morning WSJ, drinking coffee, and Whacking...TGIF!

Jimbuna · 12-27-24, 10:37 AM

^ Reverse the order of tasks and someone might believe you

Aktungbby · 12-27-24, 10:40 AM

...actually I'm out of the mancave watching the news, and texting this on my Verzon tablet. The rain is hitting all day.

Jimbuna · 12-27-24, 10:44 AM

Pinnochio

Aktungbby · 12-27-24, 11:15 AM

No seriously: you got in that 300 pt. whack during my 30 seconds walk from the familyroom back into the mancave!

Eichhörnchen · 12-29-24, 06:39 PM

Yes I enjoyed that one - a nice clean whack right off the centre of the bat - scratch one squirrel in a tree and no-one else got near it. Memorable

12-17-24, 10:17 AM	#4291
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 17,498 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	^ Unless of course you get a tsunami __________________

12-17-24, 10:54 AM	#4292
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,149 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	those are good for surfing...what CA's all about! I actually did the security for the Chasing Mavericks beach scenes(hundreds of extras) in 2011 in Half Moon Bay. __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

12-25-24, 05:02 PM	#4294
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 17,498 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	No booze for me today - apart from that it was another good spread __________________

12-25-24, 10:51 PM	#4295
Sean C Grey Wolf Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Norfolk, VA Posts: 988 Downloads: 16 Uploads: 2	^Beautiful! My family broke with tradition this year. We had steamed snow crab legs and shrimp with a side salad. It was delicious! And we had some nice quality time together. Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you all! __________________ If you have a question about celestial navigation ... ask me! Celestial Navigation Spreadsheet

12-26-24, 12:00 PM	#4298
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,796 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	As usual, christmas for us, me and my parents, is more a family ritual of remembering good memories of past times and past christmasses. I have very, very kind and precious memories from christmasses when i still was small and young and lived with my parents, and we have a very good relation, until today. The christian context plays no longer a role for us, but its our family memory festival, so to speak. And who knows how much longer we can have that, my Mum is 76, my father 80. Maybe it was the last time for all three of us together, and we just do not yet know it. So, it was a good christmas evening, with raclette as every year in the past 20+ years, to lengthen the time we sit together for dinner, and without christmas music and things, we all are a bit tired of these, it has become so commercial, so excessive and so - noisy. Its much better, we all agree, to relive how we had it done in my youth times, back in the days. All the joyful excitement. The warmth, the Christmas scents and colorful views of small details in all the colorful glittery stuff. Very, very precious and I am deeply and eternally thankful for the warm, living, never empty home my Mum created for us. So, you may see - while we do not care for the Christian context of it anymore we nevertheless value christmas very much and defend it against anyone wanting to disgrace or relativise it. The world and things and our lives were much more "whole" (heile) for us back then than they are today, and we remember that and honor it together, as a family. We feel happy when we do, and feel very, very thankful for the way our lives have been and that we were allowed to witness those good times back then. My Mum did these when we lived in Luebeck, in the mid 70s, she was around her mid-20s then, and I was in elementary school. Originally there are more figurines like this, the stones are from the Brodner Ufer, but this year she set up a small version of the set only. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.

12-27-24, 10:28 AM	#4300
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,149 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Reading the morning WSJ, drinking coffee, and Whacking...TGIF! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

12-27-24, 10:37 AM	#4301
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 191,357 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	^ Reverse the order of tasks and someone might believe you __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

12-27-24, 10:40 AM	#4302
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,149 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	...actually I'm out of the mancave watching the news, and texting this on my Verzon tablet. The rain is hitting all day. __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

12-27-24, 10:44 AM	#4303
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 191,357 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Pinnochio __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

12-27-24, 11:15 AM	#4304
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,149 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	No seriously: you got in that 300 pt. whack during my 30 seconds walk from the familyroom back into the mancave! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

12-29-24, 06:39 PM	#4305
Eichhörnchen Starte das Auto Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: The Fens Posts: 17,498 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Yes I enjoyed that one - a nice clean whack right off the centre of the bat - scratch one squirrel in a tree and no-one else got near it. Memorable __________________