2008.10.15 07:00 - No More Siren

Greetings Earthlings.  I have come to observe your planet.  This is what I heard today. - CH

Lovely to see Adelene and Umbriel on arrival ...

Adelene Dawner: Hi, Cal.
Faenik is a hairy black ball with eyes and ears.
Umbriel Levenque: Peace and Love
Caledonia Heron: morning :)
Caledonia Heron: how are you guys?
Caledonia Heron: [rezzing]
Caledonia Heron: [sloooowly]
Umbriel Levenque: well thank you. yourself?
Faenik is a hairy black ball with eyes and ears.
Caledonia Heron: good :) seriously scheduled today but trying to relax within it ... it's early on :)
Umbriel Levenque: ah one of those busy days
Caledonia Heron: yes :)
Caledonia Heron: days end for you Umbriel?
Caledonia Heron: or midday?
Umbriel Levenque: mid-afternoon here Cal. stuff mostly done :-)
Caledonia Heron: nice, ... the exhale portion of the day :)
Umbriel Levenque: :-)

Adelene needs to leave ...

Caledonia Heron: how have your 9secs been going?
Adelene Dawner: hm... I find I know that I have nothing to say today, and I really *do* need to go pack up for the trip. If you don't mind, I'll take my leave.
Caledonia Heron: ok, no problem
Caledonia Heron: bye
Umbriel Levenque: enjoy your trip Adelene
Adelene Dawner: ^.^
Adelene Dawner: see you around, folks :)
Caledonia Heron: that was quick :)

A little bit about an experience the evening before... on the bravery of artists, how sharing their art creates a circuit of being; passionate, empowering, melancholy, pain all at once  ...

Umbriel Levenque: 9 sec... a mixed bag recently. often nothing as before otherwise um... 'fuzzy'
Umbriel Levenque: 'nothing'*
Caledonia Heron: fuzzy like no clear impressions?
Umbriel Levenque: um... it's not an impression just jumbled feelings possibly?
Caledonia Heron: sure, I think I understand .... feelings floating around all mixed up sometimes, I can relate to that :)
Umbriel Levenque: :-)
Caledonia Heron: I was at a performance last night of a very good friend with exceptional talent
Faenik: ????^^
Caledonia Heron: I was very moved by it
Umbriel Levenque: :-)
Caledonia Heron: and thought that the feeling or experience I was having while it was occuring was an appearance by being
Usucha whispers: Hmm!
Caledonia Heron: and what a remarkable thing it is for somone to stand on a stage before everyone and express something so heartfelt
Caledonia Heron: to share something so deeply held and felt on an emotional level with friends and many strangers
Umbriel Levenque: you must have been open enough to communicate well with the performance :-)
Umbriel Levenque: Peace and Love
Solobill Laville: Heya!
Caledonia Heron: open enough to receive it and appreciate it for sure

Time management but if there is no time how can we manage it; the dog chases his tail while reading his day planner ...

Caledonia Heron: hi Solobill :)
Solobill Laville: Hi, Cal!
Caledonia Heron: how are you today?
Solobill Laville: Good, getting very busy lately, and you??
Caledonia Heron: yes, same here ... the pace is increasing for some reason ... maybe the push before holiday season :)
Solobill Laville: could be
Solobill Laville: You seem to more involved in "admin" type stuff of late, e.g. Kira...
Caledonia Heron: there is a big push there for sure ... we have a deadline for a grant proposal so many tasks to be managed just now
Faenik: ????^^
Solobill Laville nods
Solobill Laville: Good luck
Caledonia Heron: it is possibly a trend that will continue for me
Caledonia Heron: I have started to look for a replacement for one of my goc slots, one that I took temporarily several months ago
Solobill Laville: hehe, "temporarily"
Caledonia Heron: if either of you are interested please let me know .... Thurs at 7am slt or this slot could work also ... Thurs was the temp slot but releasing either one would work
Solobill Laville: OK, I will let you know... :)
Umbriel Levenque: yes
Caledonia Heron: thank you for considering it :)
Solobill Laville: It is nice of you to have taken two for so long
Solobill Laville: btw - didn't mean to interrupt...
Caledonia Heron: it seems small in comparison to Pema who still has 4 slots I think
Caledonia Heron: and his daily calendar from what I can tell is NUTS!!
Solobill Laville: I bet

Wol joins us and the label above her name says I'm 2 sexy 4 my shirt! ...

Umbriel Levenque: Peace and Love
Wol Euler: hello my dears
Caledonia Heron: maybe I should be lobbying to release one of his slots :)
Solobill Laville: Hi, Wol!
Caledonia Heron: hey there Wol :)
Solobill Laville: I've been moving some May logs to the new wiki
Caledonia Heron: you are indeed 2 sexy 4 your shirt :)
Umbriel Levenque: :-)
Solobill Laville: and it is amazing to notice that almost every session back then was still hiis
Harper Beresford is Online
Caledonia Heron: yes, he went to every one back then .... to get it rolling and because I think it's very important to him :)
Solobill Laville: It is really fun to go back and read those too
Faenik: ????^^
Caledonia Heron: we didn't start the guardian thing until he went to Japan for the first time and we had to figure out timezones, coverage, etc
Solobill Laville: yup
Solobill Laville: In retrospect, in reading my own comments
Solobill Laville: It is interesting to see how I engaged at the beginning
Solobill Laville: As I tried to figure things out :)
Caledonia Heron: probably true for near all of us :)
Umbriel Levenque: :-)
Solobill Laville: Oh, yes, I think that's true
Caledonia Heron: trying to understand and speak in a way to be understood
Solobill Laville: yep
Caledonia Heron: a lot of vocabulary, how do you say/express it stuff
Solobill Laville: And actually, in my case, trying a wee bit too hard...
Wol Euler: ah :)
Caledonia Heron: perhaps we are more free to relax with one another now

Friends, friends and what's that about? ...

Umbriel Levenque: will go read those later Solo
Solobill Laville: There are some real nice ones that I had missed
Solobill Laville: Pema and Stim talking just the two of them
Solobill Laville: Cal and Gen, that one is wonderful!
Caledonia Heron: yes, they have a nice established style and flow between them, they have been friends for many years
Caledonia Heron: yes, a very special friendship gained there for me :)
Solobill Laville: http://playasbeing.wik.is/Chat_Logs/2008/05/2008.05.23_19%3a00_-_The_Suchness_Dimension
Caledonia Heron: I don't make friends particularly easily so it stays with me :)
Solobill Laville: http://playasbeing.wik.is/Chat_Logs/2008/05/2008.05.21_Jamming_around_to-don%E2%80%99t
Umbriel Levenque: reading
Solobill Laville: That is the link to those two
Solobill Laville: I wouldn't have thought that, Cal
Caledonia Heron: well, there's friends and then there's Friends :)
Caledonia Heron: does that make sense?
Solobill Laville: oh yeah
Wol Euler: oh yes
Caledonia Heron: I have lots of friends, little "f"
Caledonia Heron: not many Friends, big "f"
Caledonia Heron: by choice
Umbriel Levenque: um... what's the difference may I ask?
Caledonia Heron: personal connection, getting and being gotten, being able to count on and be accountable to, things like that

corry comes to visit ...

corry Scarmon: hi there
Caledonia Heron: hi corry :)
Wol Euler: hello corry
Umbriel Levenque: would you liken those Friends to a 'family'?
Solobill Laville: Really, by choice?
Umbriel Levenque: Peace and Love
Solobill Laville: Hi, Corry!
corry Scarmon: what's up guys?
PaB Listener Master: This unit automatically logs 'Play as Being' sessions.
PaB Listener Master: Recording starts when at least one Guardian is present,  and will continue until all Guardians leave.
PaB Listener Master: Guardians may stop a session (and optionally begin the next) by touching the unit.
PaB Listener Master: Please do not be concerned about the way I look, I am just a prototype! Feel free to build something that looks better.
Caledonia Heron: we are having a discussion group corry, called play as being :)
Caledonia Heron: we have a meditation practice which we do and come together to discuss what that's like for us
Caledonia Heron: we are recording this discussion , may we record your comments?
corry Scarmon: yeah why not
Caledonia Heron: ok, thanks
Solobill Laville: Here
Solobill Laville: is a NOtecard about it Corry
Faenik: ????^^
Caledonia Heron: ty Solobill :)
Caledonia Heron: may I have a copy of that please?
corry Scarmon: of what?
Caledonia Heron: I was asking Solobill for a copy of the notecard
corry Scarmon: oh sorry
Solobill Laville gave you playasbeing.
Solobill Laville: THere you go, Cal
Solobill Laville: Sorry, RL convo
Caledonia Heron: thank you very much - that will save me some typing :)

Solo follows up on being selective about friendships, something I think everyone does, you are friends with people who you connect with on a particular level ...

Solobill Laville: So, Cal, getting back to my last comment
Solobill Laville: That is a choice you have made?
Caledonia Heron: yes, sorry got on a sidestreet :)
Caledonia Heron: a choice , you mean about being selective of friendships?
Solobill Laville: Yes
Caledonia Heron: for certain kinds of friendships, yes
Solobill Laville: Is that different from really what anyone would do, if you know what I mean...
Caledonia Heron: bye corry :)
Solobill Laville: bye corry
Caledonia Heron: I don't know
Wol Euler: bye corry
Umbriel Levenque: Peace and Love
corry Scarmon: i'm not going
Solobill Laville: oh, good!
Wol Euler: hehehehehhe. sorry, but it did look that way.
corry Scarmon: i just want to look around
Wol Euler is annoyed and puzzled to note that the autologger is not logging, and hasn't logged anyhting since 1 a.m. yesterday.
Umbriel Levenque: ah...
Solobill Laville: Cal, I was thinking that maybe it was personal "bandwidth" or somesuch, or if you really only want a small select group of "capital Fs" :)
Solobill Laville: Friends vs friends
Caledonia Heron: I prefer a select group ... I go back to your inquiry as to the discussion with Gen and making friends .... merely observations about how it is for me :)
Faenik: indeed?

A giant jolt of sound when corry touched the Pab sign ...

Caledonia Heron: what is that noise????
Umbriel Levenque: looks like corry started the siren
Solobill Laville nods
Wol Euler: ah
Caledonia Heron: omgosh, make it stop please
corry Scarmon: what did i start?
Wol Euler: I think we can ask moon to deactivate that :-)
Caledonia Heron: yes, yesterday
Solobill Laville has his computer muted and is in silence bliss :)
Umbriel Levenque: :-)
Caledonia Heron: where is the control?
Wol Euler: touching the PaB-logo poster starts off that siren.
Wol Euler: there is no "off", alas. touching it again just makes it go longer.
Solobill Laville: True, that
Caledonia Heron: I took the script out
Wol Euler: :-)
Solobill Laville: Like a ruptured appendix
Caledonia Heron: yes, surgical strike :)
Solobill Laville: Good work, Cal
Umbriel Levenque: :-)
Faenik: could be
Caledonia Heron: I am derailed after that
Solobill Laville reads back in the chat
Umbriel Levenque: yes I can empathize with that Cal

Two threads start up, how we communicate with others and on corry's boredom with sl, really disjointed ...

Solobill Laville: Oh, here was where I was going...
Solobill Laville: I noted my behavior at the onset of PaB
corry Scarmon: it is a boring game
Wol Euler shrugs. There are other games in other places.
corry Scarmon: no
corry Scarmon: i mean SL
Wol Euler: look in the "search" under "events", perhaps you'll find something more suitable.
corry Scarmon: is boiring
corry Scarmon: boring
Solobill Laville: And it is interesting to see how newer folks go through many of the same motions
Caledonia Heron: corry is 3 days old, perhaps he is in "traveling" mode :)
Solobill Laville: as they figure things out, and let things happen more naturally
Umbriel Levenque: yes
Solobill Laville: Corry, think of SL as a platform, for one, perhaps
corry Scarmon: what do you mean by traveling?
Caledonia Heron: sure Solobill, it's interesting to note that we are all able to communicate on some level even though we join the pab continuum at different times
Solobill Laville: I think Cal means "looking around", yes Cal?
Solobill Laville: Exploring
Caledonia Heron: yes, typically new avs spend a great deal of time traveling around, exploring, finding "their" places
Solobill Laville: Oh, yes, I sure did
Caledonia Heron: me too, many many places :)
corry Scarmon: offcourse i'm exploring i don't have anything else to do
Solobill Laville: But spent a lot of it in Reiul too...
Caledonia Heron: another thing you can do is join groups and attend events corry, that is a way to more deeply engage in sl
corry Scarmon: what are those places?
Wol Euler: thy might be more fun than sitting here :-) clubs and entertainment mostly.
Solobill Laville: Folks, i must be off, have a wonderful day/evening/morning!
Caledonia Heron: a way to make personal connections
Caledonia Heron: bye Solobill :)
Wol Euler: bye solo, see you this evening?
Umbriel Levenque: Good day Solo. see you soon again
Umbriel Levenque: Peace and Love
corry Scarmon: bye mate
Solobill Laville: What's this evening, Wol? (did I forget something?)
Wol Euler: no, I'm covering for Quilty again :-)
Solobill Laville: AH!
Wol Euler: 1pm = evening for me
Solobill Laville: Perhaps!
Umbriel Levenque: :-)
Wol Euler: take care
Umbriel Levenque: must get going here too. enjoy your day
Umbriel Levenque: Peace and Love
Caledonia Heron: bye Umbriel :)
corry Scarmon: bye

Teaching corry some ways to get the power of sl ...

corry Scarmon: tell me plz ,what is the point of this game?
Wol Euler: back, and missed Umbriel. ah well
Wol Euler: it's not really a "game" corry.
Wol Euler: there is no winnning, no losing, no points, no score, no "end"
corry Scarmon: i don't understand
Wol Euler: many poeple just use it to talk to each other.
Caledonia Heron: it's a discussion group corry :)
corry Scarmon: so what am i suposed to do here
Caledonia Heron: we are talking with on another about the topics contained in the notecard you were given
Caledonia Heron: *one
Wol Euler: well, a lot of the things you can do in RL. make friends, hang out wiht them, make stuff and sell it, use the money to buy stuff
Wol Euler: but also things yqou can hardlöy do in RL.
Drake Goldschein is Online
Wol Euler: like being a woman, or a tiger or a parrot, or a sofa.
Caledonia Heron: lol
Wol Euler: and ther are also parts of SL that are classical games.
Wol Euler: xyou can play first-person shooter here too :-) or swordfighting
corry Scarmon: ok that is the part i am looking for
Wol Euler: ok, hat is known as "RP" or role playing within SL.
Caledonia Heron: bring up the search tab at the bottom of the screen and search for the topics that interest you
Wol Euler: yep
Caledonia Heron: then you can start tp'ing around to those places and checking them out
Wol Euler: three areas to try: look in "groups" to find people interested in what interests you.
Wol Euler: look in "events" to find special one-offs, like an introduction weekend for newborns etc
Wol Euler: and look in "all" for generall goodness :-)
Caledonia Heron: :)
corry Scarmon: thanx
Wol Euler: yw
Wol Euler: start wth the groups is my advice, find people who do what you want to do, and ask them where to start.
Wol Euler: they will be able to tell you more than we can.
Caledonia Heron: yes, good pointers Wol
corry Scarmon: where i can find some people like you mentioned
corry Scarmon: ?
Wol Euler: search for them, in the Groups tab of the Search window.
corry Scarmon: so all this game is about searching
corry Scarmon: and exploring
Wol Euler: type in "gunfight" or whatever, adn look for groups that include that in their description.
Wol Euler: yeah, you might say that.
Wol Euler: like RL, there is a lot in it, you have to look around.
Caledonia Heron: sl is not a game really, it's a platform, a place to do and create what you want :)
Wol Euler: it's possible to be bored in New York too, if you don't know hwere to go. This is no different.
corry Scarmon: yes you probably right
Caledonia Heron: I have to go you guys, nice to see you Wol anad nice to meet you corry , good luck finding your "crowd" :)
Wol Euler: :-)
Wol Euler: bye cal, take care.
corry Scarmon: 10x