2008.08.13 13:00 – A little light refreshment

The host for this chat was Quilty Bookmite. The comments are his. 

I arrived early and went to wash the dishes. Like yesterday, when I got back to my computer Avastu was sitting next to me.

Quilty Bookmite: Ah. You've sneaked up on me while I was washing the dishes again Avastu.
Avastu Maruti: hello my friend
Quilty Bookmite: hello Avastu. How are you?
Avastu Maruti: perfect, my friend - and you?
Quilty Bookmite: Pretty good if not perfect. :-)
Quilty Bookmite: Got to finish off a few things in RL. I'll be back in a short while.
Quilty Bookmite: Sorry Avastu. I got frozen out and couldn;t log back in.
Quilty Bookmite: Nobody else appeared?
Avastu Maruti: no one else
Quilty Bookmite: Quiet time then.
Quilty Bookmite: Anything you want to discuss?
Avastu Maruti: Nothing comes to mind
Quilty Bookmite: For me neither. I'll just sit and drink my coffee for a while.

genesis Zhangsun: Hi
Wol Euler: hello solo
genesis Zhangsun: Hi Solo!
Solobill Laville: Hi, all!
Avastu Maruti: hello my friend
Solobill Laville: :)
Wol Euler thinks Solo looks remarkably like the 80's David Bowie in that outfit and hair.
Solobill Laville: "Let's Dance...put on your red shoes and dance the blues..."
Wol Euler: hello quilty
Wol Euler grins
genesis Zhangsun: Hey quilty
genesis Zhangsun: :)
Quilty Bookmite: Hello all. I've been having some odd technical problems.
Quilty Bookmite: Have people been here for long?
Solobill Laville: Heya Quilty (with my best David Bowie accent)
Quilty Bookmite: Why the David Bowie accent? Because we all speak like that in England? :-)
Solobill Laville: :), yes but he has the Bowie "ch/s" thing...
Quilty Bookmite: I was supposed to be taking the chat but I seemed to be locked in an alternative universe where I could only see Avastu.
Wol Euler: o.O
Quilty Bookmite: So if anyone has the log can they post it for me?

Wol Euler: well there are all sorts of problems at present, the blog says not to buy anything or rez non-copy items.
Wol Euler: just took me half an hour to log on.
Solobill Laville: Took me 4 attempts to log in
Quilty Bookmite: Ah right. I must have been caught in a a techno-eddy.
Solobill Laville: Hey, that could be the title of an early '80s Bowie album...Techno-eddy

Wol Euler: hello rajah
Quilty Bookmite: Hi Rajah.
Solobill Laville: Hi, Rajah
genesis Zhangsun: Hey Raj
Avastu Maruti: hello my friend
Rajah Yalin: hi all
Solobill Laville: It's not you Rajah, we've been pretty quiet since I arrived
Solobill Laville: So...it's me
Solobill Laville: :)
Quilty Bookmite: It's been pretty quiet altogether.
Quilty Bookmite: Just one of those days. :-)
Solobill Laville: A deep collective sigh
Quilty Bookmite: no rain though. :-)
Rajah Yalin: yeah middle of the week, it's a tiring timwe
Rajah Yalin: *time
Wol Euler smiles. In German, "to be quiet" is an active verb, one that requires effort and positive action. "I silented."
Quilty Bookmite: I think for some it does take effort. :-)
Solobill Laville: Like listening, Wol?
Wol Euler: :-)
Quilty Bookmite: I used to be very good at it. As a child I was quite happy to go to my room and read a book.
Solobill Laville: Is that a similar active verb?

Rajah Yalin: what are you two drinking, quilt and bill
Quilty Bookmite: Espresso
Solobill Laville: SL- espresso, RL - iced mocha
Quilty Bookmite: There is a machine behind me.
Rajah Yalin: oh, strange looking cup
Quilty Bookmite: In RL nothing. It's too late for me to drink espresso.
Wol Euler: solo: mmm, yes but not really. like in English.
Quilty Bookmite: It is a little small even for an espresso cup. :-)
Solobill Laville: ok, thanks
Solobill Laville: In many parts of America, listening means talking
genesis Zhangsun: lol
Solobill Laville: :) (sorry fellow yanks)
Rajah Yalin: I'm making myself some wulong tea
Quilty Bookmite: :-)
Quilty Bookmite: Sounds good Rajah.
Solobill Laville: What is wulong tea, Raj?
Rajah Yalin: it's Chinese, in between green and black in processing
Solobill Laville: I've had tea in Darjeeling
Solobill Laville: one cup is enough for about a week
Quilty Bookmite: Nice!
Solobill Laville: Very strong
Quilty Bookmite: I'm more a coffee person.
Rajah Yalin: I like darjeeling black tea
Rajah Yalin: not an everyday tea though you are right
Solobill Laville: Yep, black with yak milk :)
Rajah Yalin: it brews a pretty orange colour without milk
Quilty Bookmite: I didn't know they had yaks in Darjeeling.
Solobill Laville: No, about 40 miles north they do though ;)
Quilty Bookmite: Ah. :-)
Solobill Laville: I figured that was close enough to Darjeeling to count...
Solobill Laville: For tea duscussion purposes
Solobill Laville: *i
Quilty Bookmite: So, nobody has any serious subjects?
Wol Euler shakes her head cheerfully. Sorry.

Rajah Yalin: darjeeling is a good stop I made on way to nepal
Quilty Bookmite: Or maybe tea is pretty serious. :-)
Solobill Laville: I'm sure, to some, tea is deadly serious
Rajah Yalin: tea is serious to me but my girlfriend says I am a "tea freak"
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Quilty Bookmite: :-)
Solobill Laville: I always knew there was something about you Rajah... ;)
Rajah Yalin: I hear that one a lot :P
Quilty Bookmite: Tea has its own Buddhist mythology so I guess it's fairly serious to me. :-)
Wol Euler chuckles
Solobill Laville: Please do share Quilty
Quilty Bookmite: OK. :-)

Quilty Bookmite: Boddhdharma was a Buddhist monk who brought Buddhism from India to China. He sat facing a wall in meditation for 9 long years.
Quilty Bookmite: At one point it was said that he got so disgusted with his inability to concentrate he tore off his own eyelids and threw them on the ground...
Quilty Bookmite: They gre into tea bushes which monks used from them on in order to help keep themselves awake. :-)
Quilty Bookmite: I suspect the story isn;t true. :-)
Solobill Laville: I've never heard that before :)
Wol Euler: well, for certain values of "true" perhaps
Quilty Bookmite: It's an interesting story. I don;t think there is much of a lesson in it though. :-)
Solobill Laville: No? I just tore off my eyebrows!!
Quilty Bookmite: I certainly wouldn't advocate tearing off your eyelids. :-)
Quilty Bookmite: Too late I guess.
Quilty Bookmite: Still, eyebrows is less drastic. :-)
Solobill Laville: Yes, my mistake, I can still do both I guess
Quilty Bookmite: Please don't. Or at least don't blame me if you do. :-)
Rajah Yalin: i cant see...
Solobill Laville: hehe
Rajah Yalin: typing with my eyes closed
genesis Zhangsun: I wonder why wouldn't they just sleep?
genesis Zhangsun: sleep is a natural part of life
genesis Zhangsun: meditation can improve after sleep
Wol Euler: hello solid
Solobill Laville: Yes, just reinforcing the idea of Resolve and Effort most likely
Quilty Bookmite: True genesis.

Rajah Yalin: hi Solid
Quilty Bookmite: Are you joining us Solid?
Wol Euler: I guess not.
Solobill Laville: Nice name "Solid", welcome!
Solid Carnell: what can i do here?
Quilty Bookmite: Hi Solid.
genesis Zhangsun: Hey Solid
Solid Carnell: hi
Solobill Laville: Most anything, I'd guess
Wol Euler: take a seat, join the group, learn with us; the usual :-)
Quilty Bookmite: We are a group called Play As being. You are welcome to join us if you'd like.
Quilty Bookmite: I'll just get the website up for the link...

Quilty Bookmite: Or maybe I won't bother. :-)
Wol Euler nods
Solobill Laville: Avastu, I did like your questions / thought experiments the other day
Wol Euler: lost another one to mara.
Solobill Laville: hehe
Quilty Bookmite: Yep.
Rajah Yalin: mara?
Quilty Bookmite: A Buddhist character. :-)
Solobill Laville: I think we need a PaB gun where we shoot Reality water balloons at the shoot-em-up newbie types
Wol Euler: lol
Solobill Laville: May get 'em interested
Quilty Bookmite: He sent hoardes against Buddha to try and stop him reaching enlightenment.
Quilty Bookmite: :-)
Rajah Yalin: right, temptation
Quilty Bookmite: Yes.
Quilty Bookmite: a sort of Buddhist Satan.
Rajah Yalin: sent the ladies ;p
Quilty Bookmite: You've been reading. :-)
Rajah Yalin: I knew who mara was I just had confusion what he meant at first but now i know
Quilty Bookmite: Fair enough.
Solobill Laville: OK, so, ladies = Satan, got it. Doh! Too late...
Wol Euler snorts
Solobill Laville: :)
Rajah Yalin: that might be so solo
Solobill Laville: no, no, no, just a joke...ahhhh, me
Wol Euler removes her hand slowly from the holster of her gun.
Solobill Laville: (thank goodness)
Rajah Yalin looks the other way.
Quilty Bookmite: I know when to say nothing. I'm a married man.
Wol Euler: she's got you trained, has she? good.
Avastu Maruti: pardon, my friends
Wol Euler: bye avastu, have a good evening.
Quilty Bookmite: Goodbye Avastu.
Rajah Yalin: take care avastu
genesis Zhangsun: bye avastu
Solobill Laville: Wol, I bet if your av met my av in a dark alley, your av could kick my av's butt
Quilty Bookmite: I couldn't possibly say Wol.

Rajah Yalin: I untrained myself 2 years ago
Avastu Maruti is Offline
Wol Euler: heheheeh. damned right.
Wol Euler: not that I would, of course.
Rajah Yalin: suck-up >.>
Solobill Laville: (Gonna get me one of them PaB Being water balloon guns...)
Wol Euler: maybe this session is a bit of comic relief from the last few...
Solobill Laville: I think you are on to something there Wol
Quilty Bookmite: I haven't read the logs, but I think a little light relief is welcome every now and then.
Wol Euler searches her inventory for a red nose and custard pie.
Quilty Bookmite: :-)
Solobill Laville: seltzer water too?
Wol Euler: lol
Solobill Laville: That's always a good one
Wol Euler: and big floppy shoes
genesis Zhangsun: lol
Quilty Bookmite: Before the circus really gets going I need to go to bed.
Quilty Bookmite: Goodnight all.
Solobill Laville: night Quilty
Rajah Yalin: take care quilt
Wol Euler: 'night quilty