Heh, yeah. It would be absolutely too bizarre for it to be you. But my brain just went WTF!!! as soon as I saw it. Now whenever I see the actual painting I'm going to think of you!
That's a gorgeous picture. And I'm not just saying that because it's you; it's a lovely composition, the lighting is spot on, and the pose is perfect. It definitely appeals to my aesthetic preferences.
Thanks. I've googled, and it's apparently a pose exactly copied from an old painting. I remember it taking quite a lot of time to get it, and the lights, just right, so I suppose that's why - it was just a re-creation of another picture.
I don't know about "just". Lots of painters take certain liberties - artistic licence, I suppose - with the dimensions and flexibility of the human body. For you to be able to create that pose, and hold it, is no small feat.
Whatever, it's... yeah, gorgeous is the word that fits best.
It's lovely, yes. It may be terribly bourgeois of me, but I like pictures of you better when they're actually of you, showing your face and personality.
But when it cones down to it, i just like seeing aspects of YOU better. This is just your outside, not your inside. (Not that it's not a spectacular outside! :))
You are/were not being maudlin. You're entitled to feel whatever you feel. There, all done lecturing. For tonight. :P
Glad you had fun swimming! (See how I just assume you had fun? :)) I'm sure you'll see you go often enough for Sherlock to become proficient. Did John come too, or was it just the two of you?
Seems perfectly reasonable and understandable that you'd have a more complex reaction to the picture than we would. Just as understandable how that reaction manifests itself in the wee small hours of the night.
Sherlock has talked literally non-stop since I got home, about degus, the park, the pond, pigeons, bikes, John, cake, milkshakes, his bike, what it would be like to live in a block of flats, why some people are rich, dogs, rats, guns, murders, police cars, Molly and the list goes on...
Sherlock--"can't have everything you want" and "can't afford to have everything you want" aren't precisely the same. Also, "rich" kicks in somewhere between "can afford everything I need" and "can have everything I want", not after the latter--in fact, a good distance short of the latter.
(Me, I can't afford to have everything I need. That is a great deal more worrying.)
He wanted to know if you could put them on leads and walk them, and if you could train them t carry little cameras and search buildings/areas of crime scenes.
Rats are very trainable, it is true (they are used in a lot of experiments about learning) but I'm not at all sure you could train them to come back if you let them loose in a crime scene...they'd probably want to keep going.
You know how to kick a bloke when he's down, don't you? :)
(I'm amazed we're only fifth in the table. Feels like we never win a bloody thing!)
RR - he would if he could treat it like this place. He treats everywhere as his own. Luckily Mrs H doesn't mind the odd home-invasion-by-small-boy (and she can lock her door if she wants privacy), because he's in and out of all three flats here all day. Otherwise, no, he probably wouldn't enjoy it at this time of his life. I quite enjoyed it, when I lived in blocks.
SH - once saw a bloke down Soho with a ferret on a leash. He stopped to chat to someone, the ferret, unnoticed by him, started doing laps around a drainpipe. When the bloke noticed he couldn't unwind the leash as fast as the ferret could wind it up again. Was pretty amusing to watch...
I've never not lived in a mid-rise apartment house (6 story buildings, except a couple of 10-story buildings when I was in grad school), and I simply can't imagine a building like that where Sherlock would be welcome to wander in and out of everyone's flats--at least here, people tend to be considerably more stand-offish than that to their neighbors, even in the friendliest of buildings.
And while I definitely prefer living in a large building to having the headaches of home maintenance, I will never claim it doesn't have a lot of disadvantages, especially to someone with a lot of energy to run/jump/shout off... :)
OMG, that ferret story is HYSTERICAL! It makes the funniest little mental video... :D
Yeah, I can't imagine anywhere like that either. But he probably thinks everywhere would be like here, not really understanding that we all essentially one big family, albeit split into separate flats, whereas in a block of flats, no one would know each other, unless they made special effort.
Over here, if you own a flat in a block, you still do your own maintenance, or pay through the nose for it.
"What's that, Sir? Why has your entire block been evacuated? Well, you see that small boy and those two men over there, you'll need to ask them that, Sir...."
Yeah, we probably would get to know everyone, really quite quickly.
Heh heh heh! Well, that's one way to get to know your neighbors quickly!
There are two different ways to own an apartment in the US--co-ops (mostly found in NYC, and still the most common type in the city) and condos (pretty much all there is everywhere else). In the co-ops, you don't actually own your apartment, you own shares in the building; the building board is responsible for maintaining the building and for all repairs in the physical structure, and shareholders are responsible for their own apartments. And yeah, you pay a lot for that. And if the building needs major repairs you likely will need to pay a whopping charge on top of that--an assessment, a fee per share.
With condos you own you own apartment, and you used to pay a lot less in common charges than co-op owners paid for maintenance and did more of your own caretaking, but I believe that difference is narrowing.
I'm dragging myself to bed in the hope I'll get more than a few hours kip tonight.
Apparently I can watch us being horribly beaten anytime...nothing special about today. So MOTD can be safely ignored.
RR, here there's Freehold (or share of it, in flats), Leasehold, Shared Ownership all sorts. I think in all of them you pay into some form of kitty for the maintenance, plus extra for big projects, but I'm sure the rates vary a lot, depending on the building and services you get.
See, at least where I am, there are four apartments per building and 25 buildings on th eproperty. They are all owned by the management company. We pay our rent, utilities and extras (internet, tv, etc.) But all maintenance - from blocked drains to structural repair, is the sole responsibility o fthe management company unless I do purposeful damage. So I would have to pay if I shot holes in the wall or if I didn't drip my faucets and the pipes burst. But if my air conditioner stops working, a pipe ruptures for another reason or anything like it, that is entirely the owners' bag. Texas is a very house ownership oriented state with pretty stringent laws about rental properties. It's nice. Toodles, Bronwyn
Morning folks, hope everyone has a good week and got some sleep last night.
L - hope you make good progress with your case today and that nasty Nameless will stop mentioning that your team lost again yesterday ;) Roll on the new Moto GP season.
Bronwyn - yeah, if you just rent here then it's the same - you pay your rent and bills, your Landlord is responsible for all the upkeep/maintenance. But when you get onto owning part of it yourself it gets all complicated.
RR - just woke up. Not for too long, though. Still got at least 5 hours sleep.
SH - thanks, and yes! Still, like I said, can't believe we're only 5th. Makes me feel a little better.
5 hours is like normal for you--although not for me, I prefer at least 6, which I'm short of at the minute, so I'm gonna try to go back to sleep myself. (mildly bad/definitely weird dream).
Lots of okay, then--that's good, definitely better than some of the alternatives!
I dusn't get more sleep, alas, but I'm in a good mood nonetheless. I'm meeting some friends from out of town this evening and going to hear a singer/songwriter I particularly enjoy. :)
We try to get both Sherlock and the goos to settle down and do quiet things at about 9. Given Sherlock goes to bed very late, for someone his age, it's best if he winds down for a bit.
The goos normally eat and sort out their bedding for the night.
How are the degus doing in their training regimen? Our dog is currently going through a bit of a shithead teenage phase. When he feels like it, he'll only listen to my lady, but not me, even when I use the teacher/scary voice. Apparently I'm not intimidating enough... >_>
Just home now from an absolutely lovely evening, good friends, good music--the artist was trying out some new music, so it was mostly core fans, I knew a lot of them, or more accurately a lot of them know meee, heh! and now trying the winding down thing.
(I gather from your time post you had some winding down issues yourself? Or did I miscount?)
I did think names would take longer than "dinner" but I have full faith the Sherlock will manage it... :)
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Uh, Lestrade ... http://www.flickr.com/photos/rileyo/4466362588/in/set-72157607021408394 I took the following picture in Melbourne ....
You're famous!
I like the last one John posted of you better. You look so sweet and happy in it.
That....is...very odd. But I'm certain it's a very common pose.
And yeah, I do too, thanks :)
Heh, yeah. It would be absolutely too bizarre for it to be you. But my brain just went WTF!!! as soon as I saw it. Now whenever I see the actual painting I'm going to think of you!
You look lovely, but I still like you better as you are now.
Mine too...
Bry has had shows all over the world, but not in Melbourne that I know of.
Thanks Danger.
That's a gorgeous picture. And I'm not just saying that because it's you; it's a lovely composition, the lighting is spot on, and the pose is perfect. It definitely appeals to my aesthetic preferences.
Thank you for sharing it.
Thanks. I've googled, and it's apparently a pose exactly copied from an old painting. I remember it taking quite a lot of time to get it, and the lights, just right, so I suppose that's why - it was just a re-creation of another picture.
(Apparently the artist made his name by being commissioned by the Chapel of St John. Which is odd, given I worship a certain Saintly John...)
I don't know about "just". Lots of painters take certain liberties - artistic licence, I suppose - with the dimensions and flexibility of the human body. For you to be able to create that pose, and hold it, is no small feat.
Whatever, it's... yeah, gorgeous is the word that fits best.
Well, re-creation or not, I think it's a lovely picture. It looks much warmer than the illustration of the painting I found.
It's lovely, yes. It may be terribly bourgeois of me, but I like pictures of you better when they're actually of you, showing your face and personality.
How was the swimming?
(And why does it have tomorrow's date on the post?)
Same reason the comment times are all messed up, I think.
I'm very glad my face isn't really in any of them, given what's happened since
I can absolutely understand that. And, yeah.
But when it cones down to it, i just like seeing aspects of YOU better. This is just your outside, not your inside. (Not that it's not a spectacular outside! :))
I hope that makes sense.
Yeah, it does. Just not what those pictures were about. I was just an object then. Which was a sort of message about the future, really...
Now is where I offer *hugs*.
Although I imagine John is already on it, if he's still awake---and come to think of it, isn't it a bit late? You have work tomorrow, yeah?
Work in a while, yeah. John's asleep.
I was just an object then
I hadn't thought of it like that. I look at that picture and see a work of art; you look at it and see... all sorts of other things.
Was today at least fun, with swimming--did you go in the end?
Sorry, shouldn't have posted it just to get all maudlin. Blame it on being the middle of the night. Sorry.
Yes, RR, we went swimming, it was good. Sherlock should go more often, he's improving all the time.
(Rats--I hoped you'd fallen asleep.)
You are/were not being maudlin. You're entitled to feel whatever you feel. There, all done lecturing. For tonight. :P
Glad you had fun swimming! (See how I just assume you had fun? :)) I'm sure you'll see you go often enough for Sherlock to become proficient. Did John come too, or was it just the two of you?
All three of us. And yes, we just need to make the effort to go more often.
com backe to bed its cold wihthout you
There, Lestrade, you can hardly not go back to bed with a request like that! G'night...
And good morning, L! Did you get any sleep in the end?
A bit, thanks. Sorry, work's busy.
Seems perfectly reasonable and understandable that you'd have a more complex reaction to the picture than we would. Just as understandable how that reaction manifests itself in the wee small hours of the night.
Glad to hear you got some sleep, at least.
John - are you and Sherlock having a fun day?
What Nameless said.
Hope work is busy in a not too stressful way.
No apologies, Lestrade--I fell asleep about then myself. :) I hope work is good busy!
Thanks. Yeah, busy. Boy was shot in the early hours.
Not-good bust, then--unless you're making progress busy. Best of luck with it.
Made some progress, I think. Not enough for an arrest, though. Maybe in the next few days.
Thanks, Nameless. I didn't think I would. I don't know, odd how brains work, right?
Progress is better than no progress. You'll get there.
Sneaky thing, the unconscious mind.
Heading home soon?
Hope so.
Heading home right now, in fact.
Here's hoping you have a relaxing and cheerful evening, then...
Sherlock has talked literally non-stop since I got home, about degus, the park, the pond, pigeons, bikes, John, cake, milkshakes, his bike, what it would be like to live in a block of flats, why some people are rich, dogs, rats, guns, murders, police cars, Molly and the list goes on...
Oh, hahahaha! Scratch "relaxing", then! (But it's nice to be wanted, even as an audience, no? :))
(If he knows why some people are rich, with personal application to me, I'd be really most interested... ;))
Worryingly he doesn't consider us 'rich', because he 'can't have everything he wants'... trying to explain that one to him.
What did he have to say about rats?
...
Good luck with that one!
For what it's worth...
Sherlock--"can't have everything you want" and "can't afford to have everything you want" aren't precisely the same. Also, "rich" kicks in somewhere between "can afford everything I need" and "can have everything I want", not after the latter--in fact, a good distance short of the latter.
(Me, I can't afford to have everything I need. That is a great deal more worrying.)
He wanted to know if you could put them on leads and walk them, and if you could train them t carry little cameras and search buildings/areas of crime scenes.
Ah, of course.
I told him I preferred the Goos.
*blinks*
Rats are very trainable, it is true (they are used in a lot of experiments about learning) but I'm not at all sure you could train them to come back if you let them loose in a crime scene...they'd probably want to keep going.
(On the other hand, tiny little robot cameras...I wouldn't be surprised if someone weren't working on that.)
(Oops, double negative. I wouldn't be at all surprised if someone WERE working on that.)
I think small robot cameras already exist. but probably not ones as agile as rats.
I was just looking on Google--apparently you can buy robot cameras already. But they do look very tippy!
I'd think ferrets would be more useful than rats - didn't they use them way back when to help build planes by carrying wires through?
I've no idea, Crafty Quagga (and hello :), don't think I've seen you around before?) but it sounds sort of sensible...
We just tend to use cameras we can slid through small holes, rather than send animals/robots in anywhere.
*Looking at Sherlock's list of topics*
I don't think he'd like living in a block of flats much.
You can certainly put ferrets on a lead and take them for a walk, but like you, I'd stick to the goos.
So... Sherlock didn't ask about football then?
*runs and hides*
You know how to kick a bloke when he's down, don't you? :)
(I'm amazed we're only fifth in the table. Feels like we never win a bloody thing!)
RR - he would if he could treat it like this place. He treats everywhere as his own. Luckily Mrs H doesn't mind the odd home-invasion-by-small-boy (and she can lock her door if she wants privacy), because he's in and out of all three flats here all day. Otherwise, no, he probably wouldn't enjoy it at this time of his life. I quite enjoyed it, when I lived in blocks.
SH - once saw a bloke down Soho with a ferret on a leash. He stopped to chat to someone, the ferret, unnoticed by him, started doing laps around a drainpipe. When the bloke noticed he couldn't unwind the leash as fast as the ferret could wind it up again. Was pretty amusing to watch...
I've never not lived in a mid-rise apartment house (6 story buildings, except a couple of 10-story buildings when I was in grad school), and I simply can't imagine a building like that where Sherlock would be welcome to wander in and out of everyone's flats--at least here, people tend to be considerably more stand-offish than that to their neighbors, even in the friendliest of buildings.
And while I definitely prefer living in a large building to having the headaches of home maintenance, I will never claim it doesn't have a lot of disadvantages, especially to someone with a lot of energy to run/jump/shout off... :)
OMG, that ferret story is HYSTERICAL! It makes the funniest little mental video... :D
Yeah, I can't imagine anywhere like that either. But he probably thinks everywhere would be like here, not really understanding that we all essentially one big family, albeit split into separate flats, whereas in a block of flats, no one would know each other, unless they made special effort.
Over here, if you own a flat in a block, you still do your own maintenance, or pay through the nose for it.
By the time Sherlock was done, we probably would know everyone, whether they liked it or not.
"What's that, Sir? Why has your entire block been evacuated? Well, you see that small boy and those two men over there, you'll need to ask them that, Sir...."
Yeah, we probably would get to know everyone, really quite quickly.
Heh heh heh! Well, that's one way to get to know your neighbors quickly!
There are two different ways to own an apartment in the US--co-ops (mostly found in NYC, and still the most common type in the city) and condos (pretty much all there is everywhere else). In the co-ops, you don't actually own your apartment, you own shares in the building; the building board is responsible for maintaining the building and for all repairs in the physical structure, and shareholders are responsible for their own apartments. And yeah, you pay a lot for that. And if the building needs major repairs you likely will need to pay a whopping charge on top of that--an assessment, a fee per share.
With condos you own you own apartment, and you used to pay a lot less in common charges than co-op owners paid for maintenance and did more of your own caretaking, but I believe that difference is narrowing.
I don't know what you mean... *innocent face*
You should've never left Highbury, you know, it's all been downhill since then :-p
If Sherlock's safely tucked up in bed, you've just hot time to settle down with a nice cuppa to watch MOTD :-)
I'm dragging myself to bed in the hope I'll get more than a few hours kip tonight.
Apparently I can watch us being horribly beaten anytime...nothing special about today. So MOTD can be safely ignored.
RR, here there's Freehold (or share of it, in flats), Leasehold, Shared Ownership all sorts. I think in all of them you pay into some form of kitty for the maintenance, plus extra for big projects, but I'm sure the rates vary a lot, depending on the building and services you get.
It's all very complicated, owning a bit of a building instead of a whole building, isn't it?
Sleep well--and enough, I hope!
See, at least where I am, there are four apartments per building and 25 buildings on th eproperty. They are all owned by the management company. We pay our rent, utilities and extras (internet, tv, etc.) But all maintenance - from blocked drains to structural repair, is the sole responsibility o fthe management company unless I do purposeful damage. So I would have to pay if I shot holes in the wall or if I didn't drip my faucets and the pipes burst. But if my air conditioner stops working, a pipe ruptures for another reason or anything like it, that is entirely the owners' bag. Texas is a very house ownership oriented state with pretty stringent laws about rental properties. It's nice.
Toodles,
Bronwyn
Yeah, you're right, it's probably on iPlayer :-p
Hope you get a good night's sleep. Hope everyone does, given the prevalence of bad nights around here.
Thanks. Already had more than last night.
Oh, dear. Bad dream? Or just woke up? Either way, I hope you can get back to sleep again...
Morning folks, hope everyone has a good week and got some sleep last night.
L - hope you make good progress with your case today and that nasty Nameless will stop mentioning that your team lost again yesterday ;) Roll on the new Moto GP season.
Bronwyn - yeah, if you just rent here then it's the same - you pay your rent and bills, your Landlord is responsible for all the upkeep/maintenance. But when you get onto owning part of it yourself it gets all complicated.
RR - just woke up. Not for too long, though. Still got at least 5 hours sleep.
SH - thanks, and yes! Still, like I said, can't believe we're only 5th. Makes me feel a little better.
5 hours is like normal for you--although not for me, I prefer at least 6, which I'm short of at the minute, so I'm gonna try to go back to sleep myself. (mildly bad/definitely weird dream).
Hope you're having a good day!
The day is going okay, yeah. Lots of legwork.
And yes, could have done with a bit more sleep, to make up for the night before, but I feel okay. Hope you got a bit more.
Lots of okay, then--that's good, definitely better than some of the alternatives!
I dusn't get more sleep, alas, but I'm in a good mood nonetheless. I'm meeting some friends from out of town this evening and going to hear a singer/songwriter I particularly enjoy. :)
SH - I am totally innocent! :-p
Nameless, I assume this is the same definition of "innocent" that the Lestallion uses ;)
SH
(Didn't! I don't know what "dusn't" is...)
Can't be, because mine means that I'm innocent...Nameless is entirely guilty.
SH - might be ;-)
Lestrade - oh, I hope you were blushing when you wrote that...
Moving along... :)
You were at the surgery this morning, weren't you, John? How'd it go? And did you and Sherlock get anywhere with that map yesterday or this afternoon?
takes more than that to make me blush, Nameless.
John looks tired... think he probably deserves a nice dinner and to put his feet up.
Oh, dear. Was it the surgery or the after? :)
(And how tired do you look?)
Both, I think.
And he looks about as bad as I do probably.
Don't know whether to be insulted or not...I mean, you do always look stunningly handsome... so I could pretend that's what you meant.
Sherlock is now doing some serious degu training, so it's almost peaceful in the flat. As peaceful as it ever gets.
I'm sure you both look stunningly handsome and also like you could use a nap. The two are not incompatible!
Oh, well, too peaceful can be boring and/or a bit sad. I'm sure it's never boring in the Holmes/Watson/Lestrade flat, anyway...
never, indeed.
As it's almost 9:00pm your time, I assume degu training is over for the day?
We try to get both Sherlock and the goos to settle down and do quiet things at about 9. Given Sherlock goes to bed very late, for someone his age, it's best if he winds down for a bit.
The goos normally eat and sort out their bedding for the night.
How are the degus doing in their training regimen? Our dog is currently going through a bit of a shithead teenage phase. When he feels like it, he'll only listen to my lady, but not me, even when I use the teacher/scary voice. Apparently I'm not intimidating enough... >_>
This actually sounds lovely--the winding down thing. I need to do that more, have a real transition between whatever and bed.
Good night, Sherlock!
Lestrade - and yet you insist that you're innocent :-)
N'night, Sherlock.
Winding down doesn't always work... but it helps, when it does.
The goos training seems to be going well. He's still teaching them their names. They've got the 'dinner' command perfectly, now.
Just home now from an absolutely lovely evening, good friends, good music--the artist was trying out some new music, so it was mostly core fans, I knew a lot of them, or more accurately a lot of them know meee, heh! and now trying the winding down thing.
(I gather from your time post you had some winding down issues yourself? Or did I miscount?)
I did think names would take longer than "dinner" but I have full faith the Sherlock will manage it... :)
Yeah, "dinner" seems to be an easy one for most animals to pick up. ^_^ I'm sure the rest will come in time.
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