Woldan

That made me smile. Almost.

Why is it that the elementary backstroke (or as I like to call it, the kraken stroke) is such an unpopular swimming style? Its my favorite stroke, also when the swimmer is strong its faster than any other swimming style including freestyle crawling because you can dump all your muscular power into that movement, you can glide fast and long (I can glide 7 meters with one repetition) so its also very energy conserving. And on top of it its so easy you don't even have to learn or practice it. Its also one of the most comfortable strokes for people that have super negative buoyancy like me. But still, people prefer doing less effective awkward strokes and I wonder why? (Elementary backstroke = float on your back and do scissors with your arms and legs simultaneously, keep your legs and arms at your side when gliding making a very hydrodynamic shape. Keep air in the lungs to glide further, only breathe when pushing. Its pretty much the way cephalopods swim. )

How was she besides her obvious troubles with math?

I worked the switch really hard several times, I don't think thats the cause of the problem. And the light at the entrance door outside -which is hooked to the staircase circuit- did work. So there was power. ****.

Yes, a circuit breaker for the staircase only. It engaged automatically with the typical sound of a light bulb exploding. I disengaged the circuit breaker and none of the lights worked except one lamp outside next to the entrance door. Tried the switch several times, nothing happened. I assumed that all the light bulbs went to hell. Now everything works fine, the bulbs and the lamps too. What could cause a temporary electrical problem?

Only the lights in the staircase were affected, everything else had power. I could imagine one possessed light bulb or lamp going crazy for a few minutes but I have two lamps in the staircase, one with 5 light bulbs. None of them worked when I deactivated the safety switch. But I've witnessed many very very strange electric failures in the past couple of years, especially with clocks and lamps. I already have the nickname ''bulb buster'' because I'm holding a record (with a huge lead) in busting bulbs when turning on the lights. Once I walked past a lamp and all of a sudden the light bulb shot out and hit the floor right in front of my feet, missing me by mere centimeters. The bulb socket was still in the lamp. Guess I'd never get a job in a power station.

Something strange just happened. Yesterday just before going to bed I turned on the lights in the staircase and it went ''POPP'' and the lights were out. The protect switch engaged automatically. Disengaged the safety switch, lights didn't work anymore, I assumed that an electrical surge killed the light bulbs and/or wiring. Happened before. Since it was late I didn't bother, grabbed a flashlight and went to bed. Now I wanted to change the light bulbs and check for damage and ta-da! - they all work. What the hell happened yesterday?

Oh yeah, thats a good idea. Also don't forget to cross your arms and stare at walls like an upset schoolgirl when the love happens.

Haha, Moby, what the hell?

You know there is more than just one kind of relationship? What I did and I am still doing: ordering stuff for the impeding adventure tour on Iceland. Still need a sleeping bag, the zipper of my old doesn't close properly anymore. The problem is that I can only take essential stuff with me, cabin luggage only! Weight AND space is very limited. This is more challenging than I anticipated. Can't wait to get there, I want to see lava how it flows into the ocean, I want to see geysers and sulfur wells, I want to take a bath in hot springs, see subarctic vegetation and experience ''white nights''! Maybe I even get to see a polar bear. So much awesome.

I was thinking about asking her out but to be perfectly honest, I'm simply not interested in a perusing a relationship at the moment and I don't need anybody to waste my time with.

Got my hair cut. Nothing unusual happened until the hairdresser decided to flirt the living hell out of me. She asked me tons of stuff about my holidays and what I do for a living, several times she stroked my head in a totally unmistakable manner and just awkwardly smiled and stared at me when swapping scissors/trimmers. It was obvious even to me. Then later at the counter a few other hairdressers gathered and just gazed and smiled. Unfortunately I was stuck in WTF-mode so I was kind of wooden and didn't take advantage of the situation. Fortunately my hair grows really fast.... Don't know what happened, never happened to me before in that particular shop. Must have been my new aftershave. Or my new exercise routine.

Resistance is futile, give in to the jealousy, desperation and frustration! Those berries were so good, I ate them with cake and a glass of milk! Your cannot imagine the incredibly tasty refreshing berry flavor! It tasted of sweet fruit sugar, tons of Vitamin C and sunshine. Give in, be angry, despair, feel the pain! (I need to recharge my negative-energy batteries dammit )

She is so beautiful. And her eyes (color, arrangement) look like 1:1 copies of mine.

Collected about 500 grams of redcurrants from my garden. Tasty! I feel so sorry for him, I've been a great Schumi fan but the latest news about his condition is that he ''reacts'' to his wife with his eyes. Lets stay realistic,he suffered from severe brain damage and he was in a coma for 6 months, he will be mentally disabled for the rest of his life and probably never speak, communicate or walk again.

DM-Phantom, what a great map. Still one of my favorite video game music tracks.

I like latex.

I wouldn't go to the party, in my experience when friends come to parties with their partners they're completely different people (less fun), and if you are the only single you're going to get kind of sidelined which then becomes boring and/or awkward. YMMV What I did: Made ammo for my precision rifle, this time I wanted absolute perfection so I took my time to make every round as perfect as possible. Weighed each powder charge three times on my mechanical scale, weighed the brass cases, when resizing I turned the cases 1/3 and resized them again to get a perfectly uniform shape, I cleaned the flash holes and primer pockets, I trimmed each case per hand, polished each case with fine steel wool, used extremely uniform benchrest primers, de-burred and funneled case necks so that the projectiles jackets didn't get scratched during seating, used the stablest and cleanest powder commercially available (Swiss reloader). According to my calculator the load has 4000 bar of pressure with a 168 BTHP at 815 m/s. It was marvelous.

Eat every damn chicken in da house.

So what are you gonna do when they start making out? Hug a pillow? Make a sad face?

I'd say the best way to go is the other way around, to penetrate light and medium armor and walls and concrete which are typically found in urban environments you need hard and FAST projectiles. Instead of decreasing the velocity thus decreasing their ability to penetrate and increasing the projectile size making ammo heavier and even larger I'd recommend downsizing a existing 140mm gun by at least 50% or so, keeping its sectional density and velocity so it can still be of great use against buildings and reinforced concrete. This way you can also carry more ammunition so the vehicle can stay in the fight longer, you can also design a gun that is able of burst fire to increase the probability of hitting targets/several targets at once. I'm a fan of the 40mm gun in the CV90. A 140mm main battle tank is like a larger sniper rifle, slow to reload, cumbersome, heavy, extremely powerful, very long range. But you wouldn't want that kind of weapon system in close quarter combat zones like the center of a city.