Steering Council, g'day, Hawaii?

("copying" BDFL-emeritus, everyone)

I'm sorry you haven't heard from me in a while. Actually, neither have any of my other "girl friends" heard from me. I was worried that they might be sad. Then I found out that one of them was at some kind of party at a club or something, and got in trouble because she couldn't be reached. I learned from the newspaper and other media that she indeed was really really sad, because of this reason.

Yesterday was supposed to be a big day for her, as the president was throwing a party. But something was missing – because of COVID-19, i believe. So various kinds of things have been going on, about which I wasn't sure if i could tell you ;)

Anyway, I really needed to wrap something for her yesterday, but another day has passed. And that is because of *me*.

In Finland, we have this thing "me", but it means "we". Then we also have "hän", which means "he"/"she" etc. But using "hän" may feel needlessly formal, so we often instead use "se", which means "it". And that's that.

Lots of these PEPs coming from everywhere and been going on for quite some time now!

>>> it = iter(filter(f2, zip(filter(f1, peps), fun(other_peps))))  # ouch!

I had a laptop with me the other day when going for a swim and somehow the battery had magically drained while I was swimming, although I thought I didn't swim that long. So I think my mind (or "taka-raivo", meaning back of the head; or "back rage"; or perhaps "muscle memory") is playing tricks on me. Or it could be that I just forgot to charge it. Ok, that's a strange story. There was another story, which is even stranger, but also quite embarrassing. So I told you this boring one instead. Oh, and someone mentioned a frog or prog or something and it seemed it was talking about me, and someTHING reminded me of krog. Maybe I should have rejected PEPs like this.

Anyway, today I was reminded of an actual *girl friend* from quite some time ago, whose early PEP i didn't reject. We once went to India. The food was good but she thought it was hot ;)

Oh, and there's a girl FRIEND of mine from school. She would call me Koppi, meaning "knock-π", or "election booth" or something. At some point in school we somehow ended up in a conversation about God. I had my own scientific ideas about it, which was very strange in the context so I told her a simplified version. But still, we keep rejecting each other's PEPs ;) 

Hey wait, i'm talking about girls all the time? Ok, music maybe?

I had a two-meter high stack of recyclable paper from over the years. The stack has fallen over and broken my shoe rack, and now i noticed that, for some reason, the score of an often requested song was right there:

"I love coffee, i love tea, i love the Java Jive and it loves me", 

dismissing the cover solo in the key of D.

(memories)

[.....]

(saving the discussions)

This reminds me of someone saying "I hope `it` is not very long". In a different context some years back, I tried to make someone longer, though obeying the laws of physics. It was so interesting that even the police got involved :D. However, there was no significant change in length. Just as already predicted from special relativity.

There was a PEP about "early binding". That's a bit tricky, but seems to be big in 日本. It's possible that I have taken an early course on such things. I have a friend that could be into such things. Anyway, I'm sure there are special interest groups for "binding" ;)

Recently, we drove with my parents to their summer place, which is not that far. On the way there, he told me mostly jokes, but was also looking at the difference between Merkel and Scholz (puntended in here!)

PEPs keep coming in from different places. Even coffee machines are playing tricks on me.

I can't just reject all the PEPs, can I? So I'm in trouble here! (and I originally wrote this as one of the first sentences in this email)

I don't even know how many PEPs there are, and whether I yet need yet another one yet. And whether that's not NaN in some language.

Getting more and more random, and pretty long.

[....]

Gooder like this? Yes me can! Let's C!  

Started moving my feet.

TAU, i just had to dance a bit or two.

Tread safe.

Santa b*ches, shoe size 45!

Need food, wash my clothes.

Kiitos ja anteeksi.

BTW, tosi hieno E! Ah, yes.

Kind of wishing i could just reject all PEPs at once.

But instead I'm still in big trouble! Eeeek!

Help! Please help! Please, please help me deal with the PEPs!

In the name of loves and doves, 

Signed, "sealed", am delivered,

Yours sincerely,

Koos

PS. I'm getting tired, but you are still welcome to rejoice Finland's 104 years of independence (itsenäisyys, technically meaning "being as yourself")

 

PSS. Currently struggling a bit with it myself; I blame the fact that these were mostly non-standard PEPs ;)