Good morning Lounge

[MissHoneychurch]

How are you today?

I had a nice long weekend with my brother at a comic convention (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaik)

Today it is back to work x( But the week will be kinda short. Wednesday and Thursday I am going to a training about a new pay scale, which will be starting in January. Since I am a member of the workers council, I am attending the training.
So this week you won't see much of me :(

Picture of the Day (me and my brother at the convention on Saturday)

[kentauros]

1. Good Morning MissHoneychurch!

Oh it can't be that early (late) already?! I better get to bed soon...

So, were you two selling or buying or what? I've never been to any of the big comic cons, just one or two of the local ones. Do you collect comics? :hi:

[MissHoneychurch]

2. Good morning kentauros

:hi: :hug: :loveya:

It is 11am here (already???).

The comic in question is a comic from East Germany (see the link I posted). I am not much of a big comic fan myself. I do read some comics, but not many. The Mosaik is one of them. The others are Calvin and Hobbes, FoxTrot, Asterix and Obelix. My brother more than me is a lot into the Mosaik. But I enjoy it to. He is a member of a comic forum and a version of Wikipedia for the Mosaik. So what we did at the convention was showing the "Mosapedia" and also buying stuff from sellers. My brother mainly background informations and fanzines, me some Mosaik comics I am not owing yet.
I hope I kinda explained it in a way that is understandable :)

[kentauros]

3. You explained it quite well

:D

I'll have to look over the wiki link in more detail later. I do like many of the European comics (thanks to the publication of Metal Hurlant over here) but I have to read translations. I would love to find the works of Pierre Seron, translated or not ;)

Enjoy the rest of your morning, and soon-to-come lunchtime

[MissHoneychurch]

7. Phew

:D

I admit I haven't heard of Pierre Seron. :hide: But as said, I am not really that much into comics. I still think Calvin and Hobbes is the olymp of the comic world :)

[Call Me Wesley]

24. You can get some used ones on amazon,

although not in English:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=pierre+seron&x=0&y=0

[clyrc]

4. Hi MissHoneychurch!

I'm doing pretty well, just slightly more incapable of getting off the computer than usual today. I'm baking and I should be cleaning, since my cleaning lady has been sick for a week. Instead I'm hanging out on the computer wasting time!

[MissHoneychurch]

8. Good morning clyrc

:hi: :hug: :loveya:

Sounds like me except that I don't have a cleaning lady :) But spending time instead of cleaning ..... oh yes :D

And what are you baking?

[clyrc]

9. Pumpkin bread for a bake sale

I've been making it a lot lately, and I today I used the favorite of my recipes. I just had a bite of the bread, and it turned out well.

I hate cleaning about as much as I love cooking, which is quite a bit!

[MissHoneychurch]

14. Hmmmm yummy

I am thinking about trying to bake a pumpkin pie from the scratch for Christmas. Any good recipes?

[clyrc]

42. JCMach1 is the guy to ask for pumpkin pie

I like just about every pumpkin product but pie, but he loves it. He makes the holiday pumpkin pies around here.

[MissHoneychurch]

43. Could you

please ask him to send me a recipe? :D

[cwydro]

5. Good morning Miss H.

:hi: :loveya: :hug:

For some reason it seems like forever since I talked to you...but that may just be because so much has been happening in the last week.;-)

Glad you had a good time at the convention. Did your cold clear up, I hope?

[MissHoneychurch]

10. Good morning cwydro

:hi: :hug: :loveya:

3 days are forever??? :P

Cold is getting better but still lingering. Kinda strange cold this time.

[cwydro]

16. It was only 3 days???

Amazing.

[MissHoneychurch]

19. Friday Saturday Sunday

makes 3 days, or? :D

[cwydro]

28. Lol!

Yes, that is just three days...you are right.:P

[Sky Masterson]

6. Good morning/afternoon Miss H

Boo work!:mad: Sorry we won't get to see you much this week.:cry:
I hope you have a nice day. It's rainy and ugly here in my neck of the woods.
:hi: :hug:

[MissHoneychurch]

12. Good morning Sky

:hi: :hug: :loveya:

It is rainy and ugly here too x( But talking to my friends on DU helps a lot to lighten up the day :D

[JonLP24]

11. Good morning

I really don't know what to talk about except for weather or sports. :crazy:

So I'll say I hope your week seems shorter then it really is. :)

[MissHoneychurch]

13. Good morning Jon

:hi: :hug: :loveya:

Sports it is then. Did you hear that our national goal keeper commited suicide? (Not a fun topic I have to admit).

[JonLP24]

15. I had no idea

Very tragic story there. Sports media here doesn't often report on events outside the US unless it is golf, tennis, or World Cup Soccer, Olympics as well. International athletes such as David Beckham and Roger Federer are well known inside the US as well.

About Sports what I can tell you is my avatar won yesterday to improve to 6-3 on the season with 7 games left to play. :hi:

[MissHoneychurch]

20. It was big news over here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Enke

I have the feeling that soccer gets more and more attention in the U.S. I mean it is a sport that is played all over the world. Not like Baseball :hide:

Congrats to your team!!!

[JonLP24]

22. Soccer is the most popular sport in the world

I enjoy playing it but as someone who played football and basketball as well as PT in the Army most of my life I don't have the conditioning to last long in a Soccer game. I think it's like running, you got to pace yourself but at first I'm running full speed from side to the other on a large field trying to make plays but after awhile I end up staying on defense(I'm bad on offense anyways) til I'm able to go back and forth.

I'm not that interested in baseball, I'll watch the Rockies but that's mostly it. I tried out for the baseball team in high school while I could play outfield as well as anyone(it's like playing receiver in football, you're an athlete til the ball gets to you then you gotta catch it) but I was horrible as a batter with an even worse swing so that didn't work out. :)

[SalmonChantedEvening]

17. Good Morning Miss Honeychurch :)

:hi: :hug: :loveya: :pals:

Waking slowly here, just not in a hurry to get into work, or do anything for that matter. :rofl:

Glad you and your brother got to spend time together. :D

It finally stopped raining here, and today looks like a nice one.

[MissHoneychurch]

21. Good morning SCE

:hi: :hug: :loveya:

I am hoping you had a relaxing weekend :D

Half the day is over here. Now I am hoping the afternoon passes by fast too.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

29. It was nice.

But I could still sleep for another day. :rofl:

7:30. Urgh. ;)

Have a nice, quick afternoon! :*

[Callalily]

18. Good morning MissH!

It must have been fun working with your brother at the comic convention. I myself am not into comics, although like you, I enjoy Calvin and Hobbs. I think there's a little Calvin in all of us. :evilgrin:

Another short week? Doesn't that make three in a row? ;) How nice though. All work weeks should be short.

Pay scale training sounds fun. Where I work, no pay scale training is needed. They just cry "budget, economy", and put a freeze on pay hikes. Curious to see if they'll do it this next time around.

:hi: :loveya: :hug:

[MissHoneychurch]

23. Good morning Callalily

:hi: :hug: :loveya:

I love Calvin and Hobbes. It cracks me up again and again.

It seems that it makes 3 weeks in a row. Sick, Friday off, training .... seems like I do something right :D

We are getting paid by the government, therefor we have a pay scale.

[Callalily]

35. You are lucky, on both

counts; short work weeks, and mandatory raises. ;)

I've got to head out for work, so wishing you a great day.

:hug:

[Call Me Wesley]

25. Interesting,

I have to check 'Mosaik' out - never heard of it before. :hi:

[MissHoneychurch]

26. Good morning CMW

:hi: :hug: :loveya:

It is a comic for children but quite some adults still reading it. My brother and some others started the Mosapedia, where they write about the stories and persons and also trying to figure out what the drawers used as guidline.

[Call Me Wesley]

27. I'll definitely check it out!

Thanks for the links! :hug:

[MissHoneychurch]

30. Here is the link to the Mosaik

www.abrafaxe.de :hug:

[blueraven95]

31. Good Afternoon, Miss H!

I'm glad you had a good weekend - you guys look great in that picture!


I am finally getting over the really nasty cold. I wrote two papers under the influence of cold medicine, so it's going to be really interesting to read them in the next couple of days and find out if they make any sense. :rofl:


:hi: :hug: :loveya:

[MissHoneychurch]

32. Good morning blueraven

:hi: :hug: :loveya:

We had fun. The few times my brother and I meet we get along better and better the older we get :rofl:

Did you hand over the papers already?

[blueraven95]

34. I think it's funny how that works

siblings tend to get along better as we get older, I think. :shrug:


The papers aren't due until Thursday and Monday, so I have time to fix them if they are awful. :woohoo:

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[Haole Girl]

36. Good morning!

That's a great pic. Hope the rest of your day is a nice one, MHC. I have an all-day course today... gotta run! :hi:

[MissHoneychurch]

44. Good morning Haole Girl

:hi: :hug: :loveya:

It is 3pm here. So the afternoon will be over in about 2 hours.

[Blue_Tires]

37. Good afternoon, MissHoneychurch

glad to see you had a fun time...it is easy to tell you are both siblings...

[MissHoneychurch]

45. Good morning Blue_Tires

:hi: :hug: :loveya:

You can really tell? :wow: My brother looks a lot like my dad and I like my mom :shrug:


How was your weekend?

[Blue_Tires]

50. it was fine

we had a big storm come through (and our area floods rather easily), so I was off work thursday and friday...fun times

[Tuesday Afternoon]

38. Hello MissHc

Nice pic. Looks like you two had a good time. :loveya: :hug: :hi:

[MissHoneychurch]

46. Good morning Tuesday

:hi: :hug: :loveya:

How was your weekend?

[NJmaverick]

39. Good morning MHC

Are there really that many German language comics to have a convention? Are many of them in English and/or Japanese?

[MissHoneychurch]

41. Good morning NJmaverick

:hi: :hug: :loveya:

It was a convention to a specific comic. The "Mosaik" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaik

[Brewman_Jax]

40. G'day, MissH!

Back in from the renfest, a great time was had by all. :woohoo: :party:

The weather was excellent, though unseasonally warm. Yes, I took pics.

[MissHoneychurch]

47. Good morning Brewman

:hi: :hug: :loveya:

I am expecting an email very soon from you :D

And you had great weather at the ren fest, now there is something new :)

[Brewman_Jax]

48. With photos?

of course. ;-) Congratuations on the new job and scale. :woohoo: What will your new job be?

[MissHoneychurch]

49. No new job

Just information on a new scale.

[Brewman_Jax]

51. Is the scale

a new machine you're being trained on?

[MissHoneychurch]

52. No

How to explain it. The paying system is getting changed begin of next year. So we as members of the workers association get trained in the new system so we can explain it to the employees.

[Brewman_Jax]

53. So it's a new payroll system

and the training will take all week?

[MissHoneychurch]

54. Yes

but the training takes only 2 days.