Happy Birthday Bilbo and Frodo Baggins and Enjoy the Autumn Equinox

Started by mongers, September 22, 2020, 03:58:01 PM

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mongers

September 22, 2020, 03:58:01 PM
Autumn officially begins here today.

And for once the equinox did signal a change, from unusually warm and sunny weather this morning/lunchtime to cloudy, cooler prevailing winds from the Atlantic by 1pm.   :bowler:

Also since one's getting less light to do things in I thought I'd mark the events by re-reading LOTR, haven't done that in a good few years.

Anyone got any plans for the Autumn/Winter/Lockdown 2.0?
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Sheilbh

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September 22, 2020, 04:01:42 PM
Quote from: mongers on September 22, 2020, 03:58:01 PM
Anyone got any plans for the Autumn/Winter/Lockdown 2.0?
Thinkng about doing some exercise to work off the weight I gained in Lockdown 1 :(
Let's bomb Russia!

PDH

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September 22, 2020, 04:04:17 PM
I plan to wake up and have be exactly the same, day after day, until the magic cure comes along.


So my 2021 is filled up too.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

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-CdM

merithyn

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September 22, 2020, 04:22:11 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on September 22, 2020, 04:01:42 PM
Quote from: mongers on September 22, 2020, 03:58:01 PM
Anyone got any plans for the Autumn/Winter/Lockdown 2.0?
Thinkng about doing some exercise to work off the weight I gained in Lockdown 1 :(

Right?? :weep:
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

garbon

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September 22, 2020, 05:00:54 PM
Am I the only one who lost weight in lock down?
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Barrister

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September 22, 2020, 05:07:13 PM
Quote from: garbon on September 22, 2020, 05:00:54 PM
Am I the only one who lost weight in lock down?

Not the only one, but there weren't many.

I don't think I gained more than 5 pounds, but the lack of hockey and other exercise was a negative for me.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

PJL

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September 22, 2020, 05:09:57 PM
Actually Bilbo's birthday was last week, since the Shire Reckoning calendar starts on the Winter Solistice, so all dates are shifted about 8-9 days compared to ours.

Malthus

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September 23, 2020, 02:07:31 PM
Quote from: garbon on September 22, 2020, 05:00:54 PM
Am I the only one who lost weight in lock down?

I did! But as a conscious effort. I've lost 40 pounds. Another ten to go and I'll reach the weight I want to sustain.

Mainly because in lock down it is easier to control what I eat.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Eddie Teach

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September 23, 2020, 03:58:53 PM
Quote from: PJL on September 22, 2020, 05:09:57 PM
Actually Bilbo's birthday was last week, since the Shire Reckoning calendar starts on the Winter Solistice, so all dates are shifted about 8-9 days compared to ours.

Actually, Bilbo doesn't exist.   :P
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Malthus

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September 23, 2020, 04:28:51 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on September 23, 2020, 03:58:53 PM
Quote from: PJL on September 22, 2020, 05:09:57 PM
Actually Bilbo's birthday was last week, since the Shire Reckoning calendar starts on the Winter Solistice, so all dates are shifted about 8-9 days compared to ours.

Actually, Bilbo doesn't exist.   :P

Leonard Nimoy lied to me?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LR-MSZSLC5w

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

The Brain

#10
September 23, 2020, 04:31:29 PM
It's not really a lie if you are convinced it's true.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Barrister

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September 23, 2020, 04:35:21 PM
Quote from: Malthus on September 23, 2020, 04:28:51 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on September 23, 2020, 03:58:53 PM
Quote from: PJL on September 22, 2020, 05:09:57 PM
Actually Bilbo's birthday was last week, since the Shire Reckoning calendar starts on the Winter Solistice, so all dates are shifted about 8-9 days compared to ours.

Actually, Bilbo doesn't exist.   :P

Leonard Nimoy lied to me?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LR-MSZSLC5w

But Vulcan's cannot lie!
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

mongers

#12
September 23, 2020, 08:36:51 PM
Started to read the first book, for some reason my nice edition has in the intervening 40 years since bought, turned into unreadable yellowed faded copies of LOTR  :(

Any one know of a good quality paper, compact, three volume edition to buy?

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