Have thrown out some garbage, that feels really good. All is nice and pristine again. :-)

Good day Fuzzy. How are you today. Its gonna be 104F here in W. Tx today.

Hey kaseychief. :-)

How is Jo?

It's 79 °F here today, too hot for my taste. When it's hot here, the humidity is very high too, so I don't like it that hot.

Else, I'm fine. A little less hectic at work, a new update came last Friday, so I have to test it before I send it out to the customers.

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

BEAUTIFUL here....77 degrees

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From AFP

Fashion icon Yves Saint Laurent dies at 71


18 hours ago

PARIS (AFP) — French fashion legend Yves Saint Laurent, who changed the silhouette of 20th century woman with a daring new dress code, has died aged 71.

The reclusive Saint Laurent died at his Paris home of a brain tumour late Sunday after a prolonged illness and is to be buried Thursday, said his long-time partner Pierre Berge.

Mentally and physically frail through most of his life, the bespectacled Saint Laurent retired from haute couture in 2002 after a four decade career in which he dressed the likes of Catherine Deneuve, Paloma Picasso, Bianca Jagger and Lauren Bacall.

"I am shattered," said Berge, who founded the iconic YSL fashion house in 1961 with the designer, then 25.

As tributes poured in from around the world to the tormented but visionary genius, Berge said women around the world owed Saint Laurent a debt for revolutionising their wardrobes.

"He was the first to put women in pants, the first to put them in tuxedos, the first to put them in masculine clothes, the first to employ black models," he said. "He was audacious, he revolutionised the trade."

"One of the greatest names of fashion has disappeared, the first to elevate haute couture to the rank of art," said French President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose wife Carla Bruni is another Saint Laurent devotee.

"Yves Saint Laurent infused his label with his creative genius, elegant and refined personality, discreet and distinguished," said Sarkozy in a statement.

British designer Vivienne Westwood described him as "one of the great couturiers, one of the few who have achieved perfection with everything they touched."

One of a trio of great designers who dominated 20th century fashion, with Christian Dior and Coco Chanel, Yves Henri Donat Mathieu Saint Laurent was born in Oran, Algeria, on August 1, 1936, when the North African country was a still French territory.

A shy lonely child born to a well-off family, he was taunted over his homosexuality and became fascinated by clothes.

He arrived in Paris in 1953, aged 17, with a portfolio of sketches and quickly persuaded Vogue editor Michel de Brunhoff to publish the images.

The following year Saint Laurent won three of the four categories in a Paris design competition -- the fourth went to his rival Karl Lagerfeld, now at Chanel.

De Brunhoff advised Christian Dior to hire him and he rapidly became heir apparent to the great couturier, taking over the house when Dior died suddenly three years later.

However in 1960, Saint Laurent was called up to fight in his native Algeria, where an independence war was under way.

Less than three weeks later he won an exemption on health grounds after suffering a nervous breakdown, but when he returned to Paris Dior had already replaced him with Marc Bohan.

With Berge, Saint Laurent successfully sued Dior for breach of contract and cash in hand struck out on his own, with Berge taking care of the business side.

Saint Laurent's success lay in the harmony he achieved between body and garment -- what he called "the total silence of clothing."

He was also in the right place at the right time, launching the era of the celebrity lifestyle in homes in Paris and Marrakesh where he mixed with the Jaggers, US-French socialite Betty Catroux or aristocratic muse, Loulou de la Falaise.

His collections took their inspiration from artists Picasso, Andy Warhol or Mondrian, and he was often seen in the company of ballet star Rudolf Nureyev and Warhol.

Founding his own house when pop culture and the youth market were on the rise, there was a new appetite for the originality of his slinky tuxedo suits see-through blouses and safari jackets.

His name and the YSL logo became synonymous with all the latest trends, highlighted by the creation of the Rive Gauche ready-to-wear label and perfume, as well as licensing deals for accessories and perfumes.

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, he set the pace for fashion worldwide, opening up the Japanese market and then expanding to South Korea and Taiwan.

But Saint Laurent's career was not without controversy. In 1971 a collection modelled on the styles of World War II Paris was slammed by some American critics, and his launch in the mid 1970s of a perfume called "Opium" brought accusations that he was condoning drug use.

Fellow designer Christian Lacroix said no other design great could touch Saint Laurent's versatility.

"Chanel, Schiaparelli, Balenciaga and Dior all did extraordinary things. But they worked within a particular style," he explained. "Yves Saint Laurent is much more versatile, like a combination of all of them."

In his later years the depression that haunted him all his life became more oppressive, and at his farewell bash in 2002 Saint Laurent admitted to having recourse to "those false friends which are tranquillisers and narcotics."

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Rest in peace.

What a loss, Saint Laurent was one of the most influential fashion designers ever.

My Opium perfume is one of my all-time favorites.



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Another hot day here. There is a very strong wind and it has started to become a bit colder, but the nights are killing me. It's too cold to lie without any cover but having my cover over me, I'm sweating too much. I don't sleep well these days. :-(

It's Constitution Day here tomorrow, a public holiday, so we have a mini holiday starting today to Monday, the office has closed Friday. Yay! This is the last public holiday for us here before Christmas. We have all our public holidays in the spring and early summer with the last on June the 5'th., the rest of the year the holidays are on our own. We have 5 weeks holidays here after our own choice, so I have two weeks off in July and then I'll take one week off in the autumn, then the rest of the days can be taken a day at a time, when I need one.



Now, if we could get a little colder weather and some rain, all will be fine. Then things will be normal here again!

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You know what really sucks?

To be UOTD without knowing it!

I've just found out that I was UOTD over at uFluids two days ago, the 3'rd.

And that was my first UOTD over there. :-(

Anyway, better find out late than never. Weird they don't send out a message!?

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

Fuzzy, I declare you User of the Day in Rocky's Coffee Club II point 7.

You know what really sucks?

To be UOTD without knowing it!

I've just found out that I was UOTD over at uFluids two days ago, the 3'rd.

And that was my first UOTD over there. :-(

Anyway, better find out late than never. Weird they don't send out a message!?

That happened to me at Pirates a few month ago as well. I know, how you are feeling.

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You know what really sucks?

To be UOTD without knowing it!

I've just found out that I was UOTD over at uFluids two days ago, the 3'rd.

And that was my first UOTD over there. :-(

Anyway, better find out late than never. Weird they don't send out a message!?

Belated congrats on UOTD Fuzzy.

Fuzzy, I declare you User of the Day in Rocky's Coffee Club II point 7.

Why thank you! :-D

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

You know what really sucks?

To be UOTD without knowing it!

I've just found out that I was UOTD over at uFluids two days ago, the 3'rd.

And that was my first UOTD over there. :-(

Anyway, better find out late than never. Weird they don't send out a message!?

Belated congrats on UOTD Fuzzy.

Thanks.

It doesn't really matter, I have so many UOTD's, but this one was the first one in that project. I would have liked to know.

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

You know what really sucks?

To be UOTD without knowing it!

I've just found out that I was UOTD over at uFluids two days ago, the 3'rd.

And that was my first UOTD over there. :-(

Anyway, better find out late than never. Weird they don't send out a message!?

That happened to me at Pirates a few month ago as well. I know, how you are feeling.

Has he stopped sending out messages about Pirate Of The Day too? Then I guess I may have missed some POTD's there as well. Who knows?

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

Fuzzy, I declare you User of the Day in Rocky's Coffee Club II point 7.

Why thank you! :-D

Congrats Fuzzy on a most excellent award!

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me@rescam.org

You know what really sucks?

To be UOTD without knowing it!

I've just found out that I was UOTD over at uFluids two days ago, the 3'rd.

And that was my first UOTD over there. :-(

Anyway, better find out late than never. Weird they don't send out a message!?

That happened to me at Pirates a few month ago as well. I know, how you are feeling.

Has he stopped sending out messages about Pirate Of The Day too? Then I guess I may have missed some POTD's there as well. Who knows?

No, that was only a little error. The at the second and the third one, i received a mail.

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Fuzzy, I declare you User of the Day in Rocky's Coffee Club II point 7.

Why thank you! :-D

Congrats Fuzzy on a most excellent award!

Thanks, it sure is a most excellent award! Thanks Qui-Gon.

To celebrate, here's an Irish coffee for all:

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

Happy weekend, Fuzz! :)

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Happy weekend, Fuzz! :)

Happy weekend to you too, Blurf. :-)

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

I just got home after the evening out. Those light evenings and nights here at Midsummer are so wonderful. It's warm outside, no wind, and this wonderful sky above. It's never really dark here at this time of the year, there still is this orange glow at the sky at north. The most wonderful time of the year here.

And a very nice evening spent with my brother, my cousin and her son out in my brother's summerhouse. We had BBQ with the trimmings, salad, baked potatoes with butter, and garlic bread. Yummy!

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

I had a bad Monday, but Wednesday is a holiday so tomorrow (Tuesday) is like a mini Friday. Then on Wednesday, I'll be baby-sitting my grand niece and nephew, which means we'll all have real food for dinner!

I had a bad Monday, but Wednesday is a holiday so tomorrow (Tuesday) is like a mini Friday. Then on Wednesday, I'll be baby-sitting my grand niece and nephew, which means we'll all have real food for dinner!

Wow, real food for dinner?! Then you must engorge yourself!



I got my first Foamy Plush today, I have ordered a second one for my desk at my work.

Here he is, sitting on my computer, angry as always:





And since Foamy loves coffee





I'll now serve some coffee here:



which you can enjoy all while you are suffering his Squirrelly Wrath!

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me