User talk:Floquenbeam

Covid-struck

Well, the Covid got me. Not sure if this means I won’t be around because I’m sick, or I’ll be around all the time because I’m bored.

Notes

Note for these interesting times. User talk:Iridescent#Reply, having slept on it is a smart take on what is likely to happen on WP for the next few weeks/months(/years?). I promise to try to (a) be less snarky than usual, and (b) be more understanding of others' snarkiness than usual. If you think I need to dial something back, emailing me to say "Dude, maybe dial it back" is more likely to work than publicly posting a lecture on my talk page. Only because I'm human and don't like getting embarrassed.
Normal humans: I'm an admin again! Not around too much, so best to ask another admin for help, but I'll do what I can, when I can. For the foreseeable future, I'm even less likely to have time to help than normal. Still responding to pings and talk page notes about stuff I'm already involved with, but any other requests will probably be politely deflected.
Admins: If you think an admin action I've taken in the past is wrong or no longer useful, go ahead and undo or change it without feeling like you have to talk to me first.
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Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yield!
Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain. --Friedrich Schiller

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December roses

trip to Paris, imagine -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:46, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds (and looks) fantastic. {{jealousy emoji}} Floquenbeam (talk) 20:32, 6 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Today, we sing for a Marian feast, I learned that Yvonne Ciannella died, the soprano who impressed me in my first night at the opera, and as she died in March, sadly no Main page reverence is possible, - at least she had a good DYK, at a time when opera singers were considered interesting. I'm proud today that Christiane Hörbiger made it to that corner, and happy that we celebrate the birthday of Jean Sibelius again. - I heard an excellent Christmas concert yesterday, by Tenebrae, and a short excerpt of them singing "Deo gracias" is also linked from my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:17, 8 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Today was a day rich in music, with two new pictures, and also rich in WP:QAI contributions on the Main page: the TFA, 2 DYK and 2 RD with members as principal editors. The church pictured there (not by me, nice snow dust and tall evergreen) comes with memories, detailed on my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:03, 11 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Latest pics, with an opera discovery and some snow. Today my talk has a DYK that was planned for 22 November, among the recent deaths the author of Duck, Death and the Tulip, and now a choir pic of "our" concert last Sunday, likely to become next year's lead image. Enjoy. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:24, 15 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Very pretty. I prefer "other people's snow" like this; the kind I can admire, without having to shovel. Floquenbeam (talk) 20:30, 15 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I also enjoy that the snow is (at least now) just on the higher mountains - we just have a bit of "sugar". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:41, 15 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

O dear! Get well! Both sick and bored are no good options. (I know, being sick with a cough.) - In whatever condition: enjoy the season, dreaming of peace! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:37, 20 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It's option 3; too bored to edit. I'm feeling fine now, but I'm stuck in a room with Mrs. Floquenbeam (also with COVID), and we're going stir crazy. But with healthy people in the rest of the house, we're being good and following the Rules. Hope you get better soon enough to enjoy Christmas! Floquenbeam (talk) 22:55, 21 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hope worked: coughing has become rare, and best news: gynaecologist check today was all fine. I took the bright pics yesterday. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:45, 22 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

A cookie for you!

Feel better soon! - ZLEA _T\^C 20:50, 18 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks ZLEA! I know user:Darwinbish sometimes comes and steals these, so luckily I got to them first. —Floquenbeam (talk) 23:03, 18 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Well then. - ZLEA _T\^C 01:59, 19 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Have some Darwinbish repellent. :) - ZLEA _T\^C 01:59, 19 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Darwinbish is irresistibly attracted by the Darwinbish repellent and makes off with it, leaving a Floquenbeam repellent in its place. darwin bish 21:29, 23 December 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Merry Christmas!

Get well soon! I wish you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas and a prosperous new Year. Best regards RV (talk) 09:40, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks RV! Hope the same for you and yours. Floquenbeam (talk) 19:43, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]