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Now now, she did say "Extras off the menu", but we'd all like to see the menu! :P Not those kind of extras.. hm, what kind of extras then? ..nibble on some strawberries?:chef:

Good to see you got to enjoy two great concerts! Bad is a wonderful song, something I hadn't heard much of during my college years, but discovered a few short years ago, it's a fantastic song!!

welcome to Coldplaying, Tyler! Nah, no problem - we've got a wide range of tastes here, U2 is a great band too! :cool:

Welcome Luca, glad you could join in here!!:sunny:

Sounds like Debs is for dinner!:) I'll bet I could nibble on her :p.

Hello Matt of Brisbane, welcome to Coldplaying.com!

Peaceful

Greetings to you! & Peace to you as well. I listen to Arabic songs on occasion, the music is good!! Glad you like Coldplay, and happy to see you join in here. :)

Fascinating - I didn't know U2 performed this ballad. Says on Wiki they picked it up from Luke Kelly of The Dubliners, and where they picked it up I am not sure - could be from Ewan McColl and Peggy Seeger, or Peter, Paul, and Mary. Truly pays homage to the hard work, risks, and tragedies endured by workers in these dangerous jobs - through their toil our world is built, they deserve respect, good pay, and better safety at work, and honor for their bravery. Maurice Ruddick, may he always be remembered. That must have been a fantastic concert, mud or no mud!!:)

The Smurfs. :P

Traveling by foot out onto the great desert plain.

> Some dreams can be fulfilled, some cannot be fulfilled, some cannot be fulfilled in this lifetime, but the results will resonate on with others, and sometimes our dreams change. Sometimes we are sold on a career option which when we get closer to the end of our education, we either see some serious flaws with it, or find ourselves in a field which is super saturated with applicants. But there's always options, other directions to be heading in, other applications for what we've learned. And some do get lucky (chance favors the prepared mind, but there's always the element of chance) - so we play the odds, adapt, press for change if things aren't right, work in the next best fit, or patiently hone skills for the day to arrive when more jobs open up. I think of the medical professionals waiting tables in Cuba - the pay is better waiting tables, the field is too full, but they will find a better spot eventually, or put their energies elsewhere, such as family, for another generation to arise and achieve what they were forestalled on. But yes, there are those who repress others, since they either accept things as static, or cannot or will not achieve more than you are willing to do; beware of the lobster pail!;) ..and compliment them for what they excel at - consistency in work is often underrated in our modern world, and those who are consistent are the glue that holds it all together, the base of the pyramid. Just don't let them keep you from rising to higher heights, if you have the abilities and put forth the effort. The "only one life to live" thing kind of pushes us a little to much in the "live for today, live for oneself" mode I think. Try and see it as achieving a higher sense of things, pulling others up with you, striving to be your best in concert with others, competing not with others but to better your own abilities, and to share in that process. Some of the modern problems we are faced with arise from hyperindividualism, when we need more growth of shared success and cooperation, compassion, appreciation.

Sounds good to me, David. And in 25 years, the panels are all yours!!! :wacky: Not a bad deal for someone who's staying put, even for someone who's not - either way, the electricity is free! If we go with grid solar, I'm happy to have learned that thermal storage has become a viable method for storing daytime power for evening and night use. A 50 MW parabolic trough facility in Granada can store 7 hours of heat sufficient for electric generation. Molten salt, hot liquids, or graphite are commonly used, will have to do a little research into which it is in Granada. So the future for the grid sources looks bright too! Sunny Spain will be cruising on the sun soon!:sunny::sunny::sunny:

Random thoughts regarding songwriting: Stream of thought when in a frame of mind or when some moment in life presents itself. Immerse yourself in reflection upon an emotional memory, something that finds common ground or universal concepts, universal experiences of currents in anyone's life. Or go with the mystery theme, or something else. phrases with meanings on several levels, forget proper grammar, go with what flows smoothly, emotionally with the song, mood of the times, or be a change agent and break that mood. keep some twists in it, surprises, and connect the natural to the ethereal, the common everyday to the existential, the surreal. Go for raw feelings, stripped bare of all pretenses, language which reflects pure emotion, dreamy qualities, that captures a moment. Poetry simplified, or prose, loosely structured, that expresses your inner child in purest form. Art through music and song takes us somewhere outside the realm of the ordinary, into a state of mind, a dreamstate, transcending and imaginative, emotional, intimate, and universal.

Sounds like fun! :) :laugh3: Did that once with kite string (wire, sheesh, what are you a Franklin or something?) But here, the string broke in the middle, and the kite few off to the north along with the string, and oddly the string got caught in the top shingles of the neighbors barn roof, kite still flying! It was the strangest thing to see, of all the luck.

That really is cool:cool:, but is that moss or some exotic plant? :inquisitive: (I really dig moss, great choice!)

:laugh3: Do you have sufficient Willpower to save the cake for him?:P I just bought fair trade chocolate chips!! :cool:

Happy Birthday Will ! :drummer::sunny::flutterby: :cool: Keep the beat strong in the Brisbane Sun!! Belltone too.:cool:

~*bump*~

Hmm.. :thinking: Well anyhow, the idea went to good use at least! :laugh3: Nevahmind, yous woodn't understand.

may peace be with you

It's strange when anyone denies a crisis, it's either out of pride and insensitivity, or out of a desire to punish those who are suffering. What I am hearing is that it is from wounded pride or an unwillingness to admit to a serious problem. So maybe our approach has been too rough and dismissive of the region under Al Shabab control, compounded by the past incursion into Somali territory by US forces. To offer help is difficult to regions controlled by those with extreme views; for them it's only their brethren who may enter such places, any outsiders are viewed with suspicion or as godless people. So when disaster strikes hard, these are difficult places to get aid to, because of who's in control. So the question then is how best to approach the matter? Perhaps protection is in order, due to the desperate nature of those who choose banditry in such a place; a place which offers little hope of getting ahead any other way.

Chicken and Vegetables sounds so good right about now. Yes, funny name to pick, one might confuse you with a fellow cheddarhead from the land here. ;) Aaaand, Viva La Mexico!!! :sunny: :sombrero::sunny::sombrero::sunny:

Obviously with cheese then too?;) Well, there you go! It's not only good for you, but it's tasty too!:P:laugh3: Just be thankful you didn't grow up here, and had to listen to Wibur's cranberry story..;):laugh3: trust me, you don't want to know...

I understand that cranberry juice is good for alleviating bladder infections, but any biochemical anti-cancer properties I am unfamiliar with. She was an older lady, a greenhouse owner-operator as I recall hearing, and apparently little by little she claimed the cranberry juice did the trick. Maybe she applied it as a poultice, come to think of it.. But then it could be just coincidence, or something unexpected (like the "bloom" or yeast on the wild cranberry skins having this effect). Anyhow, what's your thing with cranberry juice?