[tsa]

Hi Bloggie!

Yesterday I had Casper, the three year old owner of Mr. Rabbit on the phone.

"Hi Willem, you have Mr. Rabbit don't you?" he asked me. Luckily he doesn't call me Lillem anymore.

"Yes," I said. "I guess you don't want him back, do you?"

But he really wanted Mr. Rabbit back, unfortunately. So tomorrow the whole family will come to pick him up, and leave me behind, alone and devastated. Mr. Rabbit has been a real joy in my life the past two weeks. OK, he bit me a few times in his enthousiasm, and he also almost chewed through two cables, but hey, that is in the nature of rabbits. It's amazing how much attention you need to give a rabbit. It's really cruel to keep a rabbit in a small cage on his own, only feeding him and cleaning the cage every now and then, like many rabbits are held (in my youth we also had a rabbit somehwere in the back of the garden in a small cage ). If I decide to get me a rabbit for myself I will get two of them, together in a BIG cage so they have each other and a bit of space when I am at work. And they may run around the house as often as possible. A bit of excersise is good for them. But before I decide to get myself a pet I will think about it for a few weeks. I'll keep you informed.

[Hammerite]

Our first rabbit was always allowed to walk around the house (though he tended to stay in a corner, chewing the bookcase) - the second one liked to go to the toilet in the house though, so she was in the garden more often than not.
It's funny to see the peculiar things they do with the open space.

[Squinky]

If I ever get to name a rabbit, I'm calling it Rabbi Stone.

[Fantasysci5]

I'm sorry you had to give back your rabbit, tsa!!

[tsa]

Originally Posted by Hammerite

Our first rabbit was always allowed to walk around the house (though he tended to stay in a corner, chewing the bookcase) - the second one liked to go to the toilet in the house though, so she was in the garden more often than not.
It's funny to see the peculiar things they do with the open space.

I was very much in luck with Mr. Rabbit. He's very clean and only does his things in the special rabbit litter box in his cage.

[Starflux]

Dear Adventuregamers Blog,

Over the years I've kind of become more of a lurker here, since I rarely play adventuregames anymore and I find the Idle Forums a much more manageable place. That's nothing against this place, of course, and to illustrate that, just this night I had an Adventuregamers Forum Dream.

This was right after the World of Warcraft dream, and the Catching The Joker dream before that. In the dream we were having an AG gettogether with people all over the world. We appeared to have these regularly, though it was my first attendance. At every meeting, there would be another instalment of some self-brewed adventure game, and the series was already up to somewhere in the tens, sequelwise.

During the meeting, I was rather overtly flirting with a girl, which I believe I figured to be either Jazhara or Greenjeanz (from days yore; I used to chat with her a bit). The rest of the group apparently fell silent at this, being socially awkward, maybe. To be fair, I'd never practice such behaviour in real life, I'm much too socially aware for that (). At one point I wanted to get things going again (I mean, conversations), so I threw aloud a question about the adventure series everyone was making.

The reply was: ,,Here's a puzzle for you!", and then everyone together chucked a pink, wet laundry basket at my feet.

I ask you... who throws a wet laundry basket? Honestly.

[tsa]

Cool, Jelena and me talked about an AG gettogether when I visited her. We were discussing the seating for the Big Dinner we would have. Who do we put next to whom? We figured out some interesting combinations of people

[Starflux]

I could easily come, since I live in the Netherlands too. Oh wow, could my dream have been prescient? Apologies for my future conduct, in that case!

[Hammerite]

Originally Posted by tsa

We figured out some interesting combinations of people

Divulge!

[tsa]

No, sorry, that remains between Jelena and me.

[Squinky]

...which means we're not invited. Poo.

[tsa]

Nonono, it just means that the table setting is secret until the start of the dinner

[tsa]

Dear Blogsie,


I had a strange day. Today Mr. Rabbit went home again. The kids came with their parents to pick him up. Casper had a cute gift for me: a Lego Wookie! He said "Thank you for taking care of Mr. Rabbit so well," which I found very sweet of him (and well drilled by Mom and Dad)! Mr. Rabbit had grown quite a bit bigger and stronger in the two weeks I took care of him. We had a lot of trouble keeping him in the small cardboard box he came in. Eventually he calmed down a bit (he was very angry to be put in a box; that was way below his dignity), and mother could keep the box on her lap whilst father drove home.

After Mr. Rabbit was gone I took my TV to the repairman. The thing makes strange noises after having been switched on for more than an hour. The repairman said he'd look into it "during the week", which I didn't find very helpful. I guess I will have to live without a TV for a week. Actually the man offered me a temporary replacement but I declined.

When I got home I felt lonely. No more Mr. Rabbit. No more TV to lose yourself in. I called Casper's mum to find out how Mr. Rabbit was. He was happily hopping in the grass, she told me.

I managed to mess up my whole dinner tonight too. The chicken liver I bought today stank when I opened the package. And I wanted to make mashed potatoes but I poored on much to much milk, so I had a sort of Milk and Fruit but then with potatoes . The only thing I managed to cook right was the green beans. I love green beans, so that's a plus.

During cooking I also got the apples from my trees. I now have two buckets full of apples, from two small trees! I guess I'll be making a lot of apple compote this weekend! You can keep that in the freezer for a long time, so I can enjoy my apples during the whole year.

[Squinky]

Dear Forum Members,

Every time you call me "Blogsie", all my friends at school make fun of me and beat me up. Could you find a more masculine name for me instead?

Sincerely,
The AG Community Blog

[tsa]

But Blogsie, you are so cute!

[Not A Speck Of Cereal]

Blogster!

[Squinky]

Dear Blogsie Blogster Blogbert,

I've started investing in music lessons, specifically, to learn to play jazz on the euphonium. I'm at this place in my musical ability where I can come up with nice melodies in my head, but they don't always come out the way I'd like them to. I also play several instruments but am pretty mediocre at all of them. So, I figured, it would be nice to try and actually get good at one of my instruments for a change. I picked the euphonium because I've always loved playing brass instruments the most, even though they're the hardest to just pick up and play (as opposed to guitars and keyboards). I'm hoping this'll be less and less the case, with practice. I'm also hoping my musical composition will benefit from some actual jazz theory, which I've never been trained in before.

One of the guys I work with hates jazz and pretty much all jazz-influenced music and can't stand the sound of brass instruments. He also hates short stories. And he's a rather hardcore programmer type. Pretty much my opposite in many ways. Ah well, at least he's interesting to talk to.

[Squinky]

Dear Squinky,

Blogbert?! Now you're making me sound like some kind of nerd. Thanks a lot.

The AG Community Blog

[Not A Speck Of Cereal]

Originally Posted by Squinky

Dear Blogsie Blogster Blogbert,
[...]
One of the guys I work with hates jazz and pretty much all jazz-influenced music
[...]
Ah well, at least he's interesting to talk to.

Hate is strong word. He really hates jazz? He hates the swing on the beat, the influence that jazz has had on some of the best blues, rock, rhythm and blues, country, and basically most non-classical genres there are? He must be one of those death-metal assholes.

[tsa]

The 'death metal a******s' that I know are very friendly people.