the servers just don't have the space to hold it.

difficult, long-term good byes.  i've been crying on and off all afternoon!

glassbuteo's journal.  again. 

amazing.  life is good

 Coaxial wrote: 

 ndg wrote: 

Indeed.

 The murder of two innocent people in my country by terrorism Irrational of ETA =Hijos de la gran puta

In addition to the loss my friends here are experiencing, I have a group of friends who lost a dear friend yesterday (I didn't know her personally but I have many friends who were very close to her) and another friend is on her way to put her 14-year-old cat down at this moment. 

 cptbuz wrote: 

My Dad died eventually from vascular dementia, symptoms the same as alzheimers.  I'd catch him staring at himself closely in the mirror.  When I asked him what he was doing, he said he didn't know who the person in the mirror was.  The horrors leading up to that moment I'll spare everyone.

He'd pretend to read the paper, watch TV and stuff but I knew he didn't know even who I was or his wife (my mom) of 50 years. 

He died from complications to a hip injury he got while out walking the family dog.  He broke his hip, walked home in the dark, went to the ER, then a nursing home and eventually gave up eating.

In the movie "2001", HAL gets his "brain" unplugged bit by bit and loses his mind a memory board at a time.  At first he's still talking about the mission, then all he says for a while is "I'm afraid" over and over.  My Dad was afraid when it was happening to him too. 

When he finally did die in the nursing home, my Mom was relieved I think.  We all were. 

In the end, all we have left are memories to play back in our heads.  If those go, there's just nothing.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
Sure he's not using freetranslation.com? He probably thinks if he does "half" the work for you, you'll give him half off the price.

 cookinlover wrote: 
You can very crudely categorize foreign speakers into three groups:

those who don't have a clue and can't remember the words
those who remember the words but still haven't clued on to the fact that you actually have to think differently in a different language
those who do have a clue and are variously successful at remembering the words.

We are looking at a category two here. Past treasures from this category were phrases like

"sorry I can't come to class because I divided my bed with a virus" and
"equal gets loose" or
"I am standing on the wire"

uff.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote:  The good news is there seems to be no chance he'll ever find out. Have fun with it!

 cookinlover wrote: 
if it weren't so confidential I'd give it to you to clean up..

half the time I can't even figure out what he wants to say so I'm just making it up for him. Grief.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
Ich stimme überein. Sie sollten wissen was sie besprechen, wie mich. 

Non-native speakers who wildly overestimate their ability at writing in English .. goddam it.. why don't they just let me translate it... we'd all be better off.

 bokey wrote: 
I understand.  We all have to just turn away sometimes.

 Prodigal_SOB wrote: 
I switched to the O's-White Sox, it's much more pleasant.

 bokey wrote:
 
Are you still watching?