Baldur

Baldur generally uses a German blown glass tree topper that looks like a spire, but this is the first year since 1988 that I've not had it on my tree.
I bought it in Munich and carried it home in a small box stuffed with excelsior on my lap while flying across the Atlantic.
There is a cluster of very nice branches at the crown of this tree that I am unwilling to trim off. With them on the tree the topper just will not fit, I would need maybe 4" more of ceiling height to make it work.
Likewise I cannot take anything else off the base of the tree without losing some of the best branches.

Instead I took a large golden glass ball and removed the cap that holds the hook assembly, then I inverted it and used it as a new topper.
It is generally my philosophy that the less things that glow and change color in my home, the better.

Baldur

Baldur would certainly allow bras that glowed in his home, if only for the novelty of it all.

Baldur

Time for a mini audience poll here on Radio Baldur
Calm down matthew, that was POLL with two "L"s.

How many of you:
1. Would wear white after after Labor Day?
2. Are influencial enough to have goons hunt down people who pester you?
3. Can bake biscuits, from scratch, without a recipe in front of you?
4. Think Baldur is a fictitious character?
5.Dread looking at drawings done with the 'Avatar' theme?

Dragon

1. Yes (I am shamelessy not a slave to fashion)
2. No (darnit!)
3. No (but I have a Grandma who can)
4. Still on the fence (but willing to enjoy his fictitious radio show)
5. Mostly (there is the odd masterpiece, but by and large it's bald heads made to look silly)

Dragon

I would also wear a glowing bra for Christmas if I had one, unlike Baldur I love things that glow and change the colour of my house.

Baldur

1. Baldur tries not ever to wear white. We have lots of iron in our water, white clothing become ecru clothing after several trips through our laundry.
2. Baldur is not influential in any respect
3.Baldur never uses a biscuit recipe, and they are always good.
4. When quite young, the boy who grew up to be Baldur figured out that he was being groomed by his environment to be boring. He fought it tooth and nail. He eventually created the Baldur persona, and has lived it so long that the boring young man is definitely gone for good.
5.Avatar is unredeemable

Dragon

So does that mean Baldur is fictitous or (my choice) the boring young man Baldur escaped becoming is fictitious?

Baldur

The boring young man died, he will not be returning.
I'm hoping to morph from odd to eccentric, that is my goal for my old age.

Robindcr8l

1. Yes. I'm a nurse, duh.
2. No, but I have some friends back east who might know someone...
3. Not biscuits, but definitely snickerdoodles.
4. I believe Baldur is real. I've seen him on MySpace. That makes it so.
5. I hate avatars I believe just as much as Baldur, if not more. Hideous!

Qsilv

1. only as a shirt; an entire outfit in anything pale makes me look irredeemably zombie-ish.
2. um... that sort of thing may not have so much to do with "influence", exactly...
3. in several variations, and in and over campfires too.
4. fictitious is as fictitious does....
5. ...sigh...

Robindcr8l

And, regarding #2...if anyone here DOES have this kind of influence, would their goons have objections to roughing up 10yo cyberspace irritants, or is there perhaps an age cut-off?

sheftali52

Hoo boy, what a hoot of an evening's reading here. Login, Sheftali also loved Pamukkale and Cappadochia; have you read the book Scotch and Holy Water? I always think of food when I see polenta's name--not that I've ever made any polenta. Loved hearing about Dragon's Star Trek tree--very cool. Glowing fiberoptic bras were an interesting thought--sounds like something Madonna would wear! As for Baldur's poll: 1) I wear white whenever I want 2) Have had goons who protected me, but they were also good friends! 3) Still learning how to bake biscuits with a recipe 4) Baldur may be facetious, mildly fractious, perhaps fervent, or even fairly felicitous, but certainly not fictitious 5) And avatar theme is devoid of soul to Sheftali--it just seems cold and difficult.

As for Baldur transitioning from odd to eccentric, Sheftali contends that anyone who fetches his morning paper in his birthday suit may be well on his way! (Said with affection, of course!)

Qsilv

(it wouldn't exactly be up to the goons to have - or register - personal objections) ;>

Robindcr8l

Yes, QSilv, that's what I was thinking. Goons may not even have a code of ethics at all, given their line of work.

And sheftali, speaking of morning newspapers, (I get mine in my jammies, but not my birthday suit. Not as brave as Baldur I guess.) I was quite upset to find that MY morning paper today was missing the puzzle page. Do they really think I pay to have a puzzleless paper delivered?? I mean, the news part I can read online. The ONLY reason I get the paper is for the puzzles. So, while at the grocery store, I decided to pay for another paper, just to get the puzzles. Imagine my wrath when I realized that ALL of the papers were missing that section. In fact, the cashier told me that HER paper delivered to her house was missing it too! I believe the printers made a whopping big error today. I'm quite certain this will render more complaints for them than if the front page were missing.

marius

Robin, sorry about your paper. It is a puzzling situation. (I know - groan)

1. marius looks very nice in whites and off-whites, all year round.
2. why hire when you can cast spells?
3. do johnnycakes count?
4. the Buddhists say life is maya ... so, um, er ... Baldur would be an illusion
5. avatars blue seems a most peculiar color choice.

marius

love sheftali's #4 answer.

Dragon

I am so enjoying the conversations tonight but I really must hit the sack. Goodnight everyone.

sheftali52

Robin, my husband fetches our morning paper in his robe and slippers--but I doubt anyone sees him at that time--between 0430 and 0500 (oh, sorry--between 4:30 and 5:30 a.m.) I sympathize about your paper lacking its puzzle page today. My husband would be apoplectic if that happened to him--he is a puzzle maniac. In fact, I also go on line and download printable puzzles for him to work--mostly LA Times ones. I shouldn't talk, as I'm a sudoku nut, and I look forward to the daily one in our paper, too.

One of the things Sheftali had to learn in the military was its way of saying what time it is. I realize many parts of the world operate on the 24-hour clock, but at first it was a challenge to me to think of 3 p.m. as 1500, or 10 p.m. as 2200. But after years in the military, it's hard to transition back to civilian timekeeping. I still think in terms of military time--it's ingrained in me now!

Dragon

Ok, drawn back into the conversation again.
Sheftali, while you were stationed overseas did you use local time or Zulu time (I'm not sure if I got that right, I'm going off many seasons of JAG and NCIS)

sheftali52

Marius, you seem to be a deeply spiritual person--this I infer from your references to Indian, Buddhist, and other sayings. Love it. I'm not surprised you are close to nature and all its wonders.