• How is your current sleep cycle? Same as usual I guess
• How long is your optimal sleep time? About ten hours. I typically get about six hours. Sometimes as few as four (if I lose track of time on a late-night painting or coding session) sometimes as many as nine or ten.
• Do you fall asleep in bed easily or do you take ages to get to rest? As soon as my head hits the pillo……….zzzzzzzz

Pledge – finish my Earthworm Jim diorama (yep, I turned a single miniature into a full diorama for no other reason than…. well, why not?)

Get some music in your lug-holes:

Best cover song ever I reckon. I went to visit my brother-in-law when he lived in Berlin a few years ago. Arrived on Weds evening. “We’ve got a gig tomorrow night” he said, on my arrival. We played a nightclub the following evening (just jamming simple three-chord songs as we’d never practiced before!). Finished with this. I didn’t know at the time that it’s the unofficial anthem for Berlin. Went down a storm – best gig I’ve ever played, I think.

Yeah, a few of my German friends have pretty much said the same thing. It’s amazing how few people (here in the UK at least) completely missed the whole point of the song, and see it just as a happy-bouncy-80s pop hit. It seems very few people actually listened to the lyrics (I remember the Nena video having a really poignant ending but it was almost always faded over before the song ended, on Top of the Pops)

@blinky465 I would say it’s more commonly the English, but the British in general, don’t care that much about what foreign language songs mean and only focus on beats and such. Here in Canada I find it much the same; I got mocked for listening to Norwegian music, but they will go to bars and dance to Spanish language music with no real ability to understand what any of the words even mean… Always used to piss me off, because I actually try to learn the Norwegian songs with what little Norwegian I have learned so far… On the one hand, it’s annoying, but on the other it was actually gratifying to know that Canadians are just as bad as we are.

As for pledges, I’m going to be working on my Royal Marines reference project, but I also have a ‘Contrast as a tool’ project I’m working on for the skin of one of my Daughters of Khaine minis…so we’ll see how that goes. Participation after this week may slow for me, though, with school starting next week…Geology online is going to be a horrible way to learn, but it is what it is, sadly.

Questions!

How is your current sleep cycle?

It functions like a sand-filled machine…so badly…very badly…

How long is your optimal sleep time?

I’ll let you know once I’ve worked it out.

Do you fall asleep in bed easily or do you take ages to get to rest?

Does 4 hours count as ages? That’s my normal time…

Music, Maestro!

@blinky465  / @crazyredcoat when your language is spoken in mainstream media all of the time it can be hard to even begin to imagine why you need to learn a secondary language.

To me it’s the exact opposite. I think I was watching German tv before I was taught the language at school (I can even understand the various German dialects ).
English is taught so early to kids and used so easily in our own media that it’s almost as if we are afraid of our own language, which makes me sad.

I get that in the technology field it makes sense to have English as the default language, because by the time you’ve translated stuff it is obsolete.

They also have Dutch schools teach classes in English … which is horrible, especially if you know the atrocious language skills of certain teachers (I’m talking “Engrish” … ). I’m glad I never had to endure that sort of thing.
The absolute top level of idiocy is that Dutch university on Dutch literature (!) had students write their official thesis (sp?) in English. There is no facepalm meme good enough to describe that sort of thing …

btw @blinky465 : that Earthworm Jim diorama needs to be launching that cow  … it can’t be a simple static thing 😀

Final bit in 99 Luft balons :
“99 Jahre Krieg liessen keine Platz fur Sieger
Kriegsminister gibt’s nicht mehr und auch keine Dusenflieger
Heute zieh ich meine Runden
Seh’ die Welt in Trummern liegen
Hab”nen Luftballon gefunden
Denk’ an dich und lass’ ihn fliegen ”

“After 99 years of war no one has won
There are no more ministers of war and no jet fighters either
Today I do my rounds
See the world in pieces
I’ve found a baloon
Thinking of you I let it fly ..”