2010.02.23 07:00 - To not Travel

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    The Guardian for this meeting was Riddle Sideways. The comments are by Riddle Sideways.

    The first comment is that "A funny thing happened on the way to the Pavillion today..."
    I kept getting stuck at my entry point.  Trouble entering the other side (next region) of the meeting hall.  I could IM friends over there, but not walk/move.

    Bleu Oleander: hi Yaku
    Yakuzza Lethecus: morning blue
    Yakuzza Lethecus: i hope you already had your first coffee ?
    Yakuzza Lethecus: :)
    Bleu Oleander: working on my second :)
    Yakuzza Lethecus: my shift is already over :)
    Bleu Oleander: so what time is it there?
    Yakuzza Lethecus: 16:00 pm
    Yakuzza Lethecus: 4 pm :)
    Yakuzza Lethecus: i work from 6 am up to 2:15 pm
    Yakuzza Lethecus: without lunchbreak
    Bleu Oleander: wow
    Bleu Oleander: no lunch? i'd starve!
    Yakuzza Lethecus: there is breakfast
    Yakuzza Lethecus: and i sometimes stop by a fast food restaurant^^
    Yakuzza Lethecus: at least i did today :)
    Yakuzza Lethecus: before i visited my mother in the hospital
    Yakuzza Lethecus: she broke her hand yesterday, nothing serious
    Bleu Oleander: how did she do that?
    Yakuzza Lethecus: melting water on the road froze again during the night
    ok, this is where Riddle enters and the following is the first line read.
    Yakuzza Lethecus: she went out with the dog, and there she flew :)
    Yakuzza Lethecus: at least she´s joking about it
    Bleu Oleander: hi Riddle
    Yakuzza Lethecus: hey riddle
    Bleu Oleander: we don't have to worry about that here!
    Riddle Sideways: sorry to be late. I had to exit, re-enter twice then run here from meeting hall
    Yakuzza Lethecus: and bleu are you planing to attend the SF retreat ?
    Riddle Sideways: ok, I need to hear the complete context of that "she went out with the dog..."
    Riddle Sideways: that is too strange a sentence to enter on
    Bleu Oleander: I would love to, but don't know if I will be able to take a whole week off
    Riddle Sideways: :)
    Yakuzza Lethecus: 7:07] Bleu Oleander: no lunch? i'd starve! [7:07] Yakuzza Lethecus: there is breakfast [7:07] Yakuzza Lethecus: and i sometimes stop by a fast food restaurant^^ [7:08] Yakuzza Lethecus: at least i did today :) [7:08] Yakuzza Lethecus: before i visited my mother in the hospital [7:08] Yakuzza Lethecus: she broke her hand yesterday, nothing serious [7:08] Bleu Oleander: how did she do that? [7:09] Yakuzza Lethecus: melting water on the road froze again during the night [7:09] Yakuzza Lethecus: she went out with the dog, and there she flew :) [7:09] Yakuzza Lethecus: at least she´s joking about it
    Bleu Oleander: we are planning a big group trip to NYC and Princeton in May .... so very busy
    Bleu Oleander: but it's tempting
    Riddle Sideways: I just got back from NYC
    Bleu Oleander: oh nice
    Bleu Oleander: what did you do there?
    Riddle Sideways: saw Fela
    Riddle Sideways: great musical, the band is on-stage
    Bleu Oleander: heard it was good
    Yakuzza Lethecus: just for the musical ?
    Riddle Sideways: no, did in-law stuff mostly
    Bleu Oleander: they're from NYC
    --BELL--
    Riddle Sideways: father-in-law broke both legs and needs ppl to come to him (cabin fever)
    Riddle Sideways: he's better now
    Yakuzza Lethecus: that´s good
    Yakuzza Lethecus: how much is such an intra usa flight ?
    Yakuzza Lethecus: from west to east
    Bleu Oleander: about 350
    Riddle Sideways: hmmmm, not sure. Got it on mileage points
    Bleu Oleander: we just booked phx - nyc for about that
    Riddle Sideways: and air prices change all teh time
    Yakuzza Lethecus: and back ?
    Bleu Oleander: round trip
    Bleu Oleander: sometimes we get $250
    Bleu Oleander: depends on when and what days you fly
    Riddle Sideways: and how far in advance you book
    Yakuzza Lethecus: yes, those rules also appy in germany
    Bleu Oleander: you need to do at least 7 days in advance and earlier to get the best rates
    Yakuzza Lethecus: still it´s quiet a distance from westcoast to eastcoast so i was curious :)
    Bleu Oleander: where are you from Riddle?
    Riddle Sideways: california
    Bleu Oleander: oh nice, what part?
    Riddle Sideways: about 5 hours flight to east coast
    Riddle Sideways: carmel
    Bleu Oleander: beautiful part of the world!
    Riddle Sideways: I think so.
    Riddle Sideways: and you are phenix?
    Bleu Oleander: are you going to the SF PaB retreat?
    Bleu Oleander: yes Phoenix
    Riddle Sideways: (I speeling challenged)
    Bleu Oleander: aren't we all .... hehe
    Riddle Sideways: trying to go to SF retreat. Not sure about time off from 2 works
    Bleu Oleander: I haven't been to SF in a while
    Riddle Sideways: I already take too much vacation time off for other reasons
    Bleu Oleander: heard the new museum is great
    Bleu Oleander: not so new anymore
    Riddle Sideways: which, sci or art?
    Bleu Oleander: art
    Bleu Oleander: is there a new sci one too?
    Riddle Sideways: yes, most beautiful building
    Riddle Sideways: they just fixed remodel of sci
    Yakuzza Lethecus: carmel by the sea ?
    Riddle Sideways: sorry no, SF
    Bleu Oleander: so Yaku you'll have to visit the US someday
    Riddle Sideways: http://www.calacademy.org/
    Bleu Oleander: thanks
    Riddle Sideways: an urban walking meditation retreat sounds very intriging
    --BELL--
    Bleu Oleander: have to get to work ... nice seeing both of you ... bfn
    Riddle Sideways: Yak has explained no coming to us before. we need to go to Yak
    Yakuzza Lethecus: cya bleu
    Riddle Sideways: ok, bye bleu
    Bleu Oleander: bye
    Yakuzza Lethecus: i think i will come to the states some day :)
    Riddle Sideways: not sure if I will ever get to Europe
    Yakuzza Lethecus: but i have no need fot that right now, it´s just that i fear creating habits like ,,i have to have visited half the world in order to be happy at some point in life"
    Riddle Sideways: ah, just what I was thinking
    Riddle Sideways: there was a travel show last year about "100,000 places to see before you die"
    Yakuzza Lethecus: i want to be happy with what i am and then visiting friends, it´s not that i wouldn´t do some sightseeing but i don´t even know all cultural places in a 50 km circle from my own home :P
    Riddle Sideways: the point was to make us all feel bad
    Yakuzza Lethecus: at least i try to ,,be happy with what i am" and not to make it depending on success
    Yakuzza Lethecus: what shouldn´t mean that i am not grasping for it, but i can´t allow happyness to myself otherwise :P
    Yakuzza Lethecus: it´s tricky
    Riddle Sideways: yes, tricky
    Yakuzza Lethecus: i mean i would have the money to fligh to the states on tomorrow but still i couldn´t say that i would need something like that
    Yakuzza Lethecus: and even i like the distance to the ppl
    Yakuzza Lethecus: possibly i would think otherwise if i would swim in money but i always ,,think twice about the outcome"
    Yakuzza Lethecus: so a vacation to toast in the sunlight isn´t something i would do
    Riddle Sideways: good morning Fael
    Yakuzza Lethecus: hey fael
    Riddle Sideways: nice wings today
    Fael Illyar: good morning Riddle :)
    Fael Illyar: Hi Yaku :)
    Fael Illyar: two wings :)
    Fael Illyar smiles.
    Riddle Sideways: a set for long distance and another for hovering?
    Fael Illyar: suppose it could be interpreted that way :) The bigger ones I wore because I needed flight assist :)
    Fael Illyar: and then didn't feel like taking them off :)
    Riddle Sideways: Yak, I understand all too well. The multiple forces draging at ones attention
    Yakuzza Lethecus: yes, still sometimes i think that too much thinking isn´t good either :P
    Riddle Sideways: all the little/big things that say "be like me" and "go to USA"
    Yakuzza Lethecus: so i always find an excuse not to travel anywhere
    Fael Illyar: the more forces there are dragging you that you think you should obey, the more in pieces you'll end up
    --BELL--
    Riddle Sideways: true
    Riddle Sideways: example, would love to go to Olympics. but would only be able to see one event at a time and fight crowds.
    Riddle Sideways: Better to stay home, record TV and watch when I can
    Fael Illyar: yep :)
    Yakuzza Lethecus: where are you originally from riddle ?
    Riddle Sideways: am competing in marathon cough sitting
    Yakuzza Lethecus: israel ?
    Riddle Sideways: no, upstate NY
    Riddle Sideways: little village. I mostly call it Lake Wobegone
    Riddle Sideways: Many Amish and Allegany indian nation
    Riddle Sideways: whites were out numbered
    Riddle Sideways: but, I been meaning to ask...
    Riddle Sideways: Fael is that your Whale circling over in the village
    Yakuzza Lethecus: now i know who garrison keillor is :)
    Fael Illyar: nope, I have no wales.
    Fael Illyar: uh whales
    Fael Illyar: looks to be gaya's
    Riddle Sideways: the town I grew up in is just like garrison's town
    Riddle Sideways: ok, I forgot whose (whom's?)
    Yakuzza Lethecus: gaya´s ?
    Fael Illyar: the whale
    Riddle Sideways: makes me think of Douglas Adams when I see it in the sky
    Riddle Sideways: he wrote of a whale materializing miles above a planet
    Riddle Sideways: and falling toward the planet, it invents language
    Riddle Sideways: naming all the things that are rushing toward it
    Fael Illyar: yes, I recall reading something like that dimly
    Riddle Sideways: funny how some of the dimly things make such an inpression
    Fael Illyar: yes :)
    Riddle Sideways: years later you get hit in the head by a cabinet door and can quote the entire chapter
    Fael Illyar: haha, yes :)
    Yakuzza Lethecus: :)
    Fael Illyar: perhaps we dim the memories pursefully so we're able to better function in this moment
    Fael Illyar: and that the dimming is actually reversible.
    Fael Illyar: purposefully
    Riddle Sideways: yes, just now I had some extra moments so I could recall the coffee cup falling with the whale having said "oh, Not again"
    Fael Illyar laughs.
    --BELL--
    Riddle Sideways: but, now the current moments have caught up
    Riddle Sideways: I must away. For to be yet another me.
    Fael Illyar: Have fun Riddle :)
    Riddle Sideways: so quickly our time is over
    Fael Illyar: I'll get back to meeping at this script to transfer our wiki over :P
    Riddle Sideways: please don't meep so hard (or loudly)
    Fael Illyar smiles.
    Yakuzza Lethecus: bye you both
    Fael Illyar: Have fun Yaku :)
    Fael Illyar waves.
    Riddle Sideways: bye all
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