I went to the beach for the first time in ages

Hello Santa Monica!

By the ocean

One of those is my future house A girl can dream right?

Celebrating seven years! That's not today, but I remembered mALX liked that one pic of us. No idea why the camera always washes the brown out of my skin though :/

Thanks for the lovely pix, Jacki! Looks like a nice trip to the beach. And congrats on seven years!

Nice pics! I have only ever been to Santa Monica in VtM:B!

They all look so new! I imagine they get washed away every few years.

I do love it, it is the best visual I could imagine that defines perfect happiness. Happy Anniversary !!!

So, I was out for a walk in the park this evening, in a good mood for a change, thought I'd take a couple of pics.

Then I thought, "Since I've got them, might as well post them", because I'm like that apparently.

So here's me, with added hair, it's a work in progress.

Brace yourselves.

Me, grim

Me, not grim

You look pretty much how I imagined you.

Dr. Frankenstein once said something similar to me

I have no idea how I guessed so accurately!

And here is how Callidus will look in 20 years...

Well, I did once post pictures of me held at gunpoint by a couple of stormtroopers. And my sister(gotta love family:lol:)



Eh, could be worse

You look Awesome! Better not let Colonel Mustard see these, it will send him into a decline, lol. I love the facial hair on you, it looks great!

I think I've seen that one!

It's all still a work in progress, going for the full goatee. And without that facial hair I've had trouble buying lottery tickets in the past. Apparently I pretty much drop a decade when I'm clean shaven.

I suspect that going for a goatee with a widow's peak might be overkill for me though. Grim me, my normal sort of expression when walking, gets acres of personal space. I get any more sinister the police might get involved



The best part of that one with my sister holding the gun was that I could hear the one of the stormtroopers talking, telling her to pull the trigger They literally got some random guy who was walking past to stop and use my sister's phone to take that picture.

It was a good day

Me too, but I remember you had on sunglasses and you were far away.

Don't give yourself widows peaks prematurely, nature will do it for you in far too few years,

That Stormtrooper picture did look like you were having a blast that day, it must be awesome to go to one of those premier events !!!

Nature handles it already, always has.

As for the stormtroopers, that was just a comic book shop opening in town. Damn good way to open a store, I've got to say

It sure is! That is Awesome!

Here’s why I’ve had no Wi-Fi lately. (I’m home now.)

Bees!

Snowberries? Or not. We didn’t try them.

Ok so there´s the bees, but where are the birds..?


Love the first pic!

You went to Cyrodiil! Don't they have wi-fi at the Tiber Septim Hotel?

Beautiful graphics, Grits! What game is that?!?

This is beautiful! And what an amazing photographer you are, these are spectacular pictures!

Morning at Lopov's

That's me and my son watching TV in the background. In the back-background there's a new writing desk with an unopened iron on, and shelves on the left for now filled mostly with my GF's books - we recently moved to a new condo so not everything is fully furnished, that's why walls are empty and the ceiling light is still missing, there's only a bulb hanging down.

And that's the view from our balcony, we look directly at one of the churches on the opposite side of Drava. Mountains in the background are called Pohorje and represent one of the most important ski resorts in Slovenia.

Lopov! Your son has more hair than you do. Lol. Good luck settling in to the new place. Oh my gosh, what a spectacular view you have!

Love the view across the river! What a beautiful area you live in! Am I right in thinking Slovenia is tucked between Italy and Austria on the west, Hungary on the north, and Croatia (formerly Yugoslavia if I remember right) on the east? With the northern tip of the Adriatic Sea to the south? (the map on the Wiki page you linked is in German or related language).

That part of southeastern Europe is one of the most beautiful areas not visited by tourists! Or so I've heard . . . Don't actually know anyone who's been there . . .

I usually have even less hair but now I haven't shaved for some time.


You're right (more or less), actually it's refreshing to read that someone knows of our location, Italy is indeed to the west while Austria is north, Hungary to the northeast and Croatia east and partially south.

I'm used to living here so I often overlook how beautiful it is but most tourists describe Slovenia and surrounding countries as really beautiful. There's been an increase in tourists lately, a few years ago tourists were very, very rare in Slovenia, they were mostly traveling through to somewhere south while lately they're actually stopping here to experience the country, not just passing through. Just today me and my GF talked that almost every pedestrian in our town (Maribor) has a map of the town, indicating that he's a tourist.

The page about the river which I linked in my previous post opens in English language, at least for me.

D'aaaaw!!!! A little Lopov! You are both very cute, and the Drava view is gorgeous!

That page opened in English for me too.

This page about the town you live in = I was struck by the beauty of your town in that picture the Wiki for your town posted; and by how immaculate the houses and air are there.

I lived in Germany for two years, and drove around the entire region to the borders of Switzerland and Italy; all through Germany, France, and Belgium. (couldn't cross the borders into Switzerland or Italy due to the high fee for crossing the borders there).

The beauty of Europe is preserved century after century because the air is so clean and free of pollutants; the houses remain in the same state over ages in time because there is nothing in the air to deteriorate them. They remain timeless.

In America the air (mostly in urban areas) is thick with pollutants that you can see clinging to houses much newer than these seen in that picture; and within 20-50 years they show obvious deterioration that I never saw in the homes in Europe.

What a beautiful place you live in!

Sorry about the confusion - I said the map on the wiki page for Drava was in German, though the rest of the page is in English just fine.

mALX, I believe a large part of why this part of Europe is so pristine is because of the communist regime - it had such a major impact on the area's economics that developers never moved in as they have here and in England. Lopov will correct me if I'm wrong, but I've heard that rural Romania is also extremely beautiful because of the lack of economic development (read industrial development) in much of the country.

Lopov, I had to chuckle at the comment that a tourist can be recognized by the map she is holding! Remind me to load up the maps on my iPhone should I come to visit the area! OTOH, may be better to be recognized as a tourist, else people might start asking me for directions!

Automobiles cause pollution too, and the number of automobiles per the square mileage of the US is much higher.

Here is where I lived in Germany, Schleid - also beautiful and much cleaner than the US - but not as clean as Lopov's town.

Whatever the reason for the lack of pollution or abundance of clean air and homes - Maribor is gorgeous!

Here I come, better late than never I suppose. As everyone else has said, what a lovely view you have.

Beautiful, Lopov! Your view, and I love the picture with your son. All kinds of charming. Good luck settling in to your new home!

I would check put your pixies, Lopov. But as you may remember I have a policy regarding finding out how my fellow forumites look...

I saw your arm once...

And that´s as much as I´ll ever show

Well ... I look just like ... er... yeah; just like a twin of Taylor Swift! Yeah, that's the ticket ... I mean that's the truth ... er, yeah, the truth!

We've seen your picture too, mom.

Yeah, mom, he's right. What's for dinner, anyway?

Yep!















I just had a chocolate malted milk shake.

http://imgur.com/ek3c2QG

"Why didn't you share your milkshake? It brings all the boys to the yard, you know."

D'aaaaaaw! Wow, I haven't seen your pic since you were 14!

Ahh, I remember that picture. Wow, did 4 years pass already? Where's does the time go?

I know, right?

So that's the face behind the mask?

Hmm...

Hello to you too, CC Lemon No.1

Why CC Lemon No. 1?

I didn't think I was that sour

*shrugs*

Seemed like a good nickname as any (at least, to my Sheogorath-kissed mind.)

No recent photo of myself exists, except the one on my driver's license. Even it is nearly four years old. I will, however, provide a few shots of myself from long ago, when I wasn't quite so decrepit.

I should point out that my forum avatar is a crude self portrait of my myself drawn in 1975 when I was 24 years old. I drew three such portraits separated by at least a year. The first is lost. This is the last. My mum called it 'the mad musician.'

Myself as a performing musician circa 1997/8. A doctored photo taken while warming up prior to a concert.

Me hours before I shaved off one month's growth of beard and departed for a two year military stay in Japan, Sep 1988.

Me at my computer desk with my Meridian 59 clan, Tgerry and wee T'gerry, 1998. I had totally forgot this image existed until chancing on it yesterday. Its discovery prompted me to create this post.

I'm not normally one to show myself online, though I'm not dead-set against it in certain environments. In any case even the most recent of these images, in my opinion, bears little resemblance to my current self.