2010.02.23 07:00 - To not Travel

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

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