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so the good news is, the best windsurf conditions this summer came round the corner and I had 2 hours on the water with them!

the bad news is, I lost all of the go-pro footage. :(
 
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you joined these right?
I did. They are actually old buddies from my teens I hadn’t seen in nearly 30 years!

so they weren’t actually a random find. I contacted the singer when I heard his brother died to offer support as was very hard circumstances. Got chatting lots, he likes electronic music and had heard some of mine through mutual friend. They once had quite a following. Appearing on BBC Live lounge etc. The jams have gone really well plus I’ve put some sounds on their tracks in my studio they loved. Arpeggios and 80s strings and a electro bass etc
 
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I am just going through my messages and this is from Kamil polner who wrote to me about 10 years ago.

I must confess that i was influenced with tech/prog/electro style too much before i quit from producing. Maybe today i will be one of that $$$ Dj's .... who jumped to fast driving machinery train. If you jump in, it will take you far away from your actual standings, i hope do you understand this similitude :) As far as i know, if you want to be successful, you have to sacrifice your honour or health. Sometimes both thats worst case. Armin sacrificed honour as first for example, but now he fell too much inside that big machinery and he is continuing to sacrifice health and probably his whole life (night life, alcohol, maybe drugs,too much noise, often changing timezones will bring "its bad fruit" soon, you know what it means..) So mate why i am writing these words... I will tell you a true story that happened in last years in my life.. I almost lost my life when i was on top of my career.. Really i started to die slowly. It came from nowhere, death is really silent opponent. When someone is gonna die, he knows that he is gonna lose "everything". Is there anything we don't lose when we die? Money, house, car, wife, parents, childrens, pleasure, fun ? ... .. everything ends for us and we are alone then. You can trust me ,we are able to beg for our life in that moment, we are capable to do unbelievable things to stay alive. So i started to pray to God, asking Him for saving my life even i didn't believe in Him at that time. And He did it, He saved my life and also did a lot more for me. I met Him personally and He changed me in way that no on else could do. From that moment He is allways first in my life. I left bad things far behind me, because He forgave me everything without at least one blaming words for my sins.. Why? Because His Son Jesus dies for all of us already. So sacrifice for us was done, price was paid, now we have only to say if we agree or not. Who agree will receive life and everything with it, plus a lot more. Music was only one of things i just stopped then. Often i hear that from people that God is using what He gave us - talent. But we have to be patient and willing to search, what is His will. Not too much time passed and i became sound master in our christian meetings :) Also i was asked to start producing music many times, so maybe someday i will start again. But of course not as before, because "producing for producing" means nothing. I can make awesome work but all that work is for my own name - which is gonna to be lost. But making music with love and passion for God means you will get your reward from God ;) Reward that noone can steal from you, even not death. So i think thats enough for now, i will be happy if you will write some words back :) Kamil
 

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I am just going through my messages and this is from Kamil polner who wrote to me about 10 years ago.
Ditto that.

Not because I’ve been there (I’m virtually no where in terms of success currently) but if lots of large opportunities ever came my way and I didn’t like the potential dirt to my soul, I will remember …you can only be happiest doing what you love. One has to be self aware enough and world aware enough to know when a threat arrives to one’s most important priority, Wellbeing. Ie- Being well. What ever offer is on the table you have to know what you’re capable of managing without a significant threat to this (wellbeing) for yourself and for those you Love.

I am no example by experience whatsoever (due to never being in that position) but people who get carried away need to remember why they started.

Remember …. ‘The meek shall inherit the earth’. - one don’t need to be spiritual or religious to understand what that is symbolising.
 
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Got a wrist injury from tennis. Felt it first on Friday, played yesterday while it still hurt slightly, and now it's a lot worse. Wanted to play tomorrow as well, but had to cancel.

On a more positive note, I'm liking my new racket. Felt very easy to play with from the start - already got my first ever win (6-1 6-3) vs a friend. Really looking forward to getting back on the court and getting better.
 

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Got a wrist injury from tennis. Felt it first on Friday, played yesterday while it still hurt slightly, and now it's a lot worse. Wanted to play tomorrow as well, but had to cancel.

On a more positive note, I'm liking my new racket. Felt very easy to play with from the start - already got my first ever win (6-1 6-3) vs a friend. Really looking forward to getting back on the court and getting better.
Might be that your wrist isn’t used to that motion / resistance so much and it got a bit over used in a short amount of time. If I think of or find any solutions from physios at work il let you know.
 
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Might be that your wrist isn’t used to that motion / resistance so much and it got a bit over used in a short amount of time. If I think of or find any solutions from physios at work il let you know.
Yes - I assume it's tendinitis. I started swinging on Friday from the start without warming up, then the string broke and I had to switch rackets. That, coupled with me trying to spin the ball with every shot, was what caused it. It's where the bones starting from my ring and little finger meet my wrist.

I'm already applying Fastum (ketoprofen) topically, and using diclofenac orally. With some mobility and strength exercises I shall be back next week already.
 
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Gen Alpha are weird. I looked up skibidi toilet rizz I wish I never had looked it up so creepy and scary.
 

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I’ve found life damn hard lately, in many areas of it.

I’m off to Greece with my wife on Tuesday, to where we got married just over a year ago. I feel like it’s make or break.

Going into details on a forum that anyone can see, would not be respectfull right now.
 
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Gen Alpha are weird. I looked up skibidi toilet rizz I wish I never had looked it up so creepy and scary.
I thought it was hilarious, my oldest came home with it the other day and I was in stitches.

reminds me of the mono phobia video clip.

basically it’s the alpha version of ren & stimpy
 

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Moved to Australia yesterday. Never going back, everything in England sucks except for honest burger
I’m half Dutch and have lots of family over there. My very cool cousin is so supportive of my music too. My wife is actually not as rigid as she was about staying in England. (Things on the wifey front are improving the last day or so, so I’m hopeful) . Anyway…practically speaking we will be here a few more years I’m sure. But. You're right. It does suck a bit in the UK. People here just seem too ‘I dunno- they just lack some dignity or something. They kinda bore the fuck outa me most of them. - then I basicly interpret that as being dumb, but a more accurate word is probably lack lustre. - they don’t get my core enthusiasm for life. Silly sods. 😁 The Dutch would lap it up and when it gets too much, tell me in a much more respectable way. Direct but not rude lol.
A phrase of Billy Butcher’s applies to far to many English people too 😉
 
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I’m half Dutch and have lots of family over there. My very cool cousin is so supportive of my music too. My wife is actually not as rigid as she was about staying in England. (Things on the wifey front are improving the last day or so, so I’m hopeful) . Anyway…practically speaking we will be here a few more years I’m sure. But. You're right. It does suck a bit in the UK. People here just seem too ‘I dunno- they just lack some dignity or something. They kinda bore the fuck outa me most of them. - then I basicly interpret that as being dumb, but a more accurate word is probably lack lustre. - they don’t get my core enthusiasm for life. Silly sods. 😁 The Dutch would lap it up and when it gets too much, tell me in a much more respectable way. Direct but not rude lol.
A phrase of Billy Butcher’s applies to far to many English people too 😉
Glad things are better on that front dude! But yeah for a while the way I've been feeling about the UK is that it's kinda like a once great business that's about to go into administration. Nothing ever improves there, it's just a capitalist Tory hellscape and we give too much attention to twats like Andrew Tate, piers Morgan etc. I'm sure things won't be utopian here but it's at least more relaxed and money is gonna go further. I start with my new team on the 23rd and my Mrs is joining a new firm on Monday, currently trying to secure a rental property. Already had a great time here though and Sydney opera house is a surprisingly great place to drink. If it was London you know it'd be one of them tourist traps but over here it's full of locals. Looking forward to our dog arriving too, i miss that gross little freak
 

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Glad things are better on that front dude! But yeah for a while the way I've been feeling about the UK is that it's kinda like a once great business that's about to go into administration. Nothing ever improves there, it's just a capitalist Tory hellscape and we give too much attention to twats like Andrew Tate, piers Morgan etc. I'm sure things won't be utopian here but it's at least more relaxed and money is gonna go further. I start with my new team on the 23rd and my Mrs is joining a new firm on Monday, currently trying to secure a rental property. Already had a great time here though and Sydney opera house is a surprisingly great place to drink. If it was London you know it'd be one of them tourist traps but over here it's full of locals. Looking forward to our dog arriving too, i miss that gross little freak
Thank you dude.

Yeah, you’re definately highlighting some true faults of the UK. I wonder if that capitalist, business vibe to the UK is influenced by the fact of the past the UK was for some reason ruler of the waves. That song….. ‘Rule Britannia’. Makes me cringe. Although it was originally a poem it throughout time grew into a song about British Dominance. Quote from an article about the song : …”At the height of the Empire, Britannia was in control of approximately one quarter of the world’s population and a fifth of the land mass”. Key word ‘control’. - I know every country (unfortunately) needs some kinda protection / power … but come on?, it’s beyond reason…..the article I’ve read goes on to talk about acquisition of countries, height of the British empire etc being around 1919. (just after WW1).
I don’t know when the world is going to realise that the lust for wealth and control (power) only ever leads to destruction. Seeing as the British empire hugely declined, perhaps a side effect or attitude the country kept is reflected still in politics and some people here.

Interestingly having got a university degree in Business Administration, I had a very interesting (reflecting now) Finance teacher who summed up his business philosophy in one key phrase…. jingling pockets (this tutor loved it)… the aim is to get the coins from someone else’s pocket, into yours’. To me, that’s ‘Arse Hole’ philosophy. - I really didn’t like the guy. (he once had been HSBC’s top geezer at Canery Warf, but single handedly lost them £20,000,000. hence he became a finance teacher as couldn’t do much else with a finance tag I suppose (plus importantly could make his job all about him).. I studied from 1998-2001. I used to fall asleep during his big ego based lessons. He was actually Canadian (which surprised me), but his philosophy is like so many countries lust for power at the cost of others.

If I ever could, I’d like to contribute in a very tiny way to helping people in the world see that these type of lusts are so negative, then change the way they think. And to teach to ‘love people more’. Il get abuse for saying it to some.. but Love in all its forms is all that’s needed to change the world for the better, it has the greatest and most transformative power. ‘Real Power’.

To top it off, feeling love, feels good…so why not just do it?

Australia is a Big place, so much to explore and things to find your ‘good head space’ in I would think. So nice you’ve found the opera house bar friendly with locals. I too am surprised it’s not a tourist trap. So many people I hear moving to Australia, there must be a big appeal. Maybe il be tempted myself one day 🙂
 
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Thank you dude.

Yeah, you’re definately highlighting some true faults of the UK. I wonder if that capitalist, business vibe to the UK is influenced by the fact of the past the UK was for some reason ruler of the waves. That song….. ‘Rule Britannia’. Makes me cringe. Although it was originally a poem it throughout time grew into a song about British Dominance. Quote from an article about the song : …”At the height of the Empire, Britannia was in control of approximately one quarter of the world’s population and a fifth of the land mass”. Key word ‘control’. - I know every country needs some kinda protection … but come on?…..the article I’ve read goes on to talk about acquisition of countries, height of the British empire etc being around 1919. (just after WW1). I don’t know when the world is going to realise that the lust for wealth and control (power) only ever leads to destruction. Seeing as the British empire hugely declined, perhaps a side effect or attitude the country kept is reflected still in politics and some people here. Having got a university degree in Business management, I had a very interesting (reflecting now) Finance teacher who summed up business in one key phrase…. ‘It’s about jingling pockets (this tutor loved it)… the aim is to get the coins from someone else’s pocket, into yours’. To me, that’s ‘Arse Hole’ philosophy. - I really didn’t like the guy. ( he once had been HSBC’s top geezer at Canery Warf, but single handedly lost them £20,000,000. hence he became a teacher. I studied from 1998-2001. I used to fall asleep during his big ego based lessons. He was actually Canadian (which surprises me), but his philosophy is like so many countries lust for power at the cost of others.

Australia is a Big place, so much to explore and things to find your ‘good head space’ in I would think. So nice you’ve found the opera house bar friendly with locals. I too am surprised it’s not a tourist trap. So many people I hear moving to Australia, there must be a big appeal. Maybe il be tempted myself one day 🙂.
Australia has a housing crisis just like the rest of the world. So many people are selling their houses. The weather here gets hot like super hot.
 
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I thought it was hilarious, my oldest came home with it the other day and I was in stitches.

reminds me of the mono phobia video clip.

basically it’s the alpha version of ren & stimpy
I am surprised that creepy smile doesn't scare you off I know it scares me off.
 
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I thought it was hilarious, my oldest came home with it the other day and I was in stitches.

reminds me of the mono phobia video clip.

basically it’s the alpha version of ren & stimpy
Now those happy bunch bring me back to the 90s nights in

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