Floquenbeam

Even more MEH than usual

Probably only checking in occasionally. Could be tomorrow, could be never, it's not a real plan or anything. Combination of busy IRL and kind of tired of this place.

Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield! Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain. --Friedrich Schiller

June music

story · music · places

I bet you would have liked our concerts! Ngokujabula! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:17, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

Today's song is based on the same Psalm 100 as that Jubilate Deo, a quite opulent setting in 7 languages (and musical styles) that one friend who listened to our concert described simply as the best concert he ever heard. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:11, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

Yesterday was the former German Unity Day, installed when unity was just a dream. I had a story to match, and today, it's another one, with music by Bach and Mendelssohn to match, - a DYK hook 15 years ago, which seems like from a different world. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:57, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

soo great music if you click on music! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:27, 30 June 2026 (UTC)

Rheingau time again already? I am afraid to try to figure out how many years it has been. --Floquenbeam (talk) 13:14, 1 July 2026 (UTC)

I like (places) the view from the open-air place called "Kingdom of Heaven" on 17 June and can't believe that Windbeutel has no article yet, and would it be same in English or is there an English name for it? Rheingau: which time? The festival: 1987. We going together: would have to check, would guess 2018. Dr. Blofeld and Amakuru had different favourites in the musical offering, and how about you? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:38, 1 July 2026 (UTC)

going together: you said in your archive 14 that it was in 2016. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:48, 1 July 2026 (UTC)

... and you were right. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:53, 1 July 2026 (UTC)

I suppose I'm keeping a June thread alive another month by posting here, but: Hi Gerda! Hope Summer is going well and you're staying as cool as possible. --Floquenbeam (talk) 12:59, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

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Math

It's 1/3, by the way. Three supports to every oppose keeps things over the crat-chat level. In solidarity, asilvering (talk) 15:38, 14 July 2026 (UTC)