EFNIR: Herbin Violette Pensée

[LizEF]

3 hours ago, Lithium466 said:

It comes from a bottle I bought approximately a year ago. Maybe Herbin took advantage of one of the reformulations to increase the saturation a bit? (I think that ink could use another reformulation or two  )

 

3 hours ago, Lithium466 said:

As always, thank you @LizEF for the review, and for making Tuesdays the highlight of the week!

You're most welcome!

 

3 hours ago, Lithium466 said:

Edit: I'm now reading that methyl violet dye was the cheapest and had antiseptic/fongic properties.

Now we start to understand...

[LizEF]

2 hours ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

Yup. Cat rodeo.

  I know it's partly my fault - I should actively try to wake them up in the middle of the day so they're not so active at night, but it turns into an unbreakable cycle: cats wake me up in the wee hours or keep me up too late, I end up taking a nap in the afternoon when they do¹, or by the time evening comes around, I'm happy they're sleeping and I can relax; lather, rinse, repeat...

 

¹Some folk claim that those who take a nap during the day are less likely to have a heart attack (or something like that).  Heaven knows if that's just coincidence or if there's some causation there, but it helps me feel less guilty about my afternoon naps...

[yazeh]

 

 

Sometimes it's easier to explain with images. The 4th picture though judging by the shoes, seems to be the 80s.

 

 

 

 

[yazeh]

39 minutes ago, LizEF said:

  I know it's partly my fault - I should actively try to wake them up in the middle of the day so they're not so active at night, but it turns into an unbreakable cycle: cats wake me up in the wee hours or keep me up too late, I end up taking a nap in the afternoon when they do¹, or by the time evening comes around, I'm happy they're sleeping and I can relax; lather, rinse, repeat...

 

¹Some folk claim that those who take a nap during the day are less likely to have a heart attack (or something like that).  Heaven knows if that's just coincidence or if there's some causation there, but it helps me feel less guilty about my afternoon naps...

You can confine them to the basement (i.e. if you have one  ), during the night. They might not like it, but after a while they get used to it. I don't mind the scampering, what I mind is mostly the yowling and vocalizing in the middle of the night. Sometime her majesty walks by the bedroom in the middle of the night and does "what's up" yowl  before heading up to her perch for a snooze  

[LizEF]

38 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Sometimes it's easier to explain with images. The 4th picture though judging by the shoes, seems to be the 80s.

Thanks, Yazeh!  Cheap dye / cheap ink, perhaps a unique color to distinguish school work / student work...  Cool pics.

[LizEF]

36 minutes ago, yazeh said:

You can confine them to the basement (i.e. if you have one  ), during the night.

No way.  My basement is unfinished - the ceiling is just insulation between the floor joists. With 8+ hours to kill they'd surely find a way into that and make themselves sick.  And I'm a light sleeper - pretty much any sound wakes me - they'd be making quite a racket if I locked them out of my room.  But, most nights it's not a problem, it's just that all it takes is one night to mess up my sleep pattern - really, the problem is me: light sleeper, introvert (which means when the lights go off, my brain comes alive and wants to play at making up stories)...  Klaw had adjusted to my sleep pattern, and I'm hopeful that once Smoke grows up, he will, too.

 

In some ways, it's better with Smoke because he usually keeps Klaw busy while I fall asleep, so I don't have any cats on or around me to interfere with getting comfortable.  They come when I'm asleep and I often don't notice it until I wake enough to roll over and a cat's in the way...

 

40 minutes ago, yazeh said:

what I mind is mostly the yowling and vocalizing in the middle of the night

Mine don't do that, thankfully - they're silent when they "wrestle".  They only yowl when they want my attention, or to call the other one.

 

41 minutes ago, yazeh said:

Sometime her majesty walks by the bedroom in the middle of the night and does "what's up" yowl  before heading up to her perch for a snooze  

[yazeh]

30 minutes ago, LizEF said:

Thanks, Yazeh!  Cheap dye / cheap ink, perhaps a unique color to distinguish school work / student work...  Cool pics.

This is from a classic French story Le Petit Nicolas (Little Nicholas) , written by the creator of Asterix. It's about a young boy growing up in 1950s France. In this episode , they class is awaiting a school inspector and there's an ink spill. As the poor teacher tries to change the desks,  but the inspector arrives. 

 

[yazeh]

28 minutes ago, LizEF said:

No way.  My basement is unfinished - the ceiling is just insulation between the floor joists. With 8+ hours to kill they'd surely find a way into that and make themselves sick.  And I'm a light sleeper - pretty much any sound wakes me - they'd be making quite a racket if I locked them out of my room.  But, most nights it's not a problem, it's just that all it takes is one night to mess up my sleep pattern - really, the problem is me: light sleeper, introvert (which means when the lights go off, my brain comes alive and wants to play at making up stories)...  Klaw had adjusted to my sleep pattern, and I'm hopeful that once Smoke grows up, he will, too.

You know best  💤 

[PJS_prog]

On 6/11/2024 at 8:46 AM, LizEF said:

Need to catch up on The Adventures of Quin and Makhabesh? Find the whole story here.

Thanks for that link to your website. It's more fun to read the complete story, as opposed to the snippets I've read so far because I only really watch the black/gray videos. Looks like an entertaining site.

[Mercian]

1 hour ago, LizEF said:

really, the problem is me: light sleeper, introvert (which means when the lights go off, my brain comes alive and wants to play at making up stories)...

I offer my commiserations to you for the unrestfulness of your nocturnal lived-experience but, with my ‘Selfish’ hat on, I must also own that I enjoy the results of the fact that your brain likes to invent magical adventures.

Désolé 😉 

[LizEF]

56 minutes ago, yazeh said:

You know best  💤 

Yes, I admit it, I'm a complete pushover (for furry, 4-legged critters; and a complete jerk toward human grown-up babies).

[LizEF]

58 minutes ago, yazeh said:

school inspector

Alien concept.   Maybe American schools have these and students just don't know it, but I certainly never heard of the concept when I was in school.  Thanks for the cartoon!

[LizEF]

47 minutes ago, PJS_prog said:

Thanks for that link to your website. It's more fun to read the complete story, as opposed to the snippets I've read so far because I only really watch the black/gray videos. Looks like an entertaining site.

You're very welcome!   And thanks!

[Lithium466]

2 minutes ago, LizEF said:

Alien concept.   Maybe American schools have these and students just don't know it, but I certainly never heard of the concept when I was in school.  Thanks for the cartoon!

The running joke was that teachers that sucked really bad were pushed by their director/principals to become inspectors or teachers formators 🤐

[LizEF]

5 minutes ago, Mercian said:

I offer my commiserations to you for the unrestfulness of your nocturnal lived-experience but, with my ‘Selfish’ hat on, I must also own that I enjoy the results of the fact that your brain likes to invent magical adventures.

Thank you and thank you!   Really, my brain would do nothing else if I could get away with it.  Most people don't seem to understand why I don't want to go somewhere and do something with someone(s) - and look at me funny when I tell them there are thousands of people in my head, all going somewhere and doing something with each other and it's much more entertaining to observe them than the real world... 

 

This could be my theme song:

 

[LizEF]

13 minutes ago, Mercian said:

Извини за это 😉 

Ничего.

[LizEF]

7 minutes ago, Lithium466 said:

The running joke was that teachers that sucked really bad were pushed by their director/principals to become inspectors or teachers formators 🤐

Of course - those who can't do, teach; those who can't teach, administrate.

[LizEF]

19 minutes ago, Mercian said:

Désolé 😉 

(Since I don't know French, at all, I'm going with the direct translation of how I would respond in American English, which may sound all wrong in French, but here it is...)

 

Aucun problème.

[Mercian]

40 minutes ago, LizEF said:

Ничего.

Ah, you’re too quick for me!
I chose to edit my post to switch from Russian to French, presuming that other users would be more-likely to understand the sentiment in French than in Russian.

 

34 minutes ago, LizEF said:

(Since I don't know French, at all, I'm going with the direct translation of how I would respond in American English, which may sound all wrong in French, but here it is...)

 

Aucun problème.

I think that the idiomatic response would be ‘pas de problème’, but then I haven’t been to France for over thirty years now! 
I really must ‘pull my finger out’ in this matter. I mean, I’ve never even visited Paris (not that this summer is any kind of ‘good’ time to do that)! And it’s hardly as though France is ‘the other side of the world’ from England, is it? 
My laziness makes me a fool to myself!

[Sailor Kenshin]

3 hours ago, LizEF said:

  I know it's partly my fault - I should actively try to wake them up in the middle of the day so they're not so active at night, but it turns into an unbreakable cycle: cats wake me up in the wee hours or keep me up too late, I end up taking a nap in the afternoon when they do¹, or by the time evening comes around, I'm happy they're sleeping and I can relax; lather, rinse, repeat...

 

¹Some folk claim that those who take a nap during the day are less likely to have a heart attack (or something like that).  Heaven knows if that's just coincidence or if there's some causation there, but it helps me feel less guilty about my afternoon naps...

 

I just woke from mine.  😴