The Guardian for this meeting was Santoshima Resident. The comments are by Santoshima Resident.

Santoshima Resident: 's current display-name is "san".

Korel Laloix: Osiyo ... smiles
Santoshima Resident: hi Korel
Korel Laloix: What you up to today?

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Santoshima Resident: was out doing errands, came back to be at the pab pool
Korel Laloix: OH OK.
Santoshima Resident: getting ready for work next week
Santoshima Resident: sunny out today
Santoshima Resident: so will try to get outside after this
Korel Laloix: Just had a lovely and way too big lunch ... so having some me time while everyone else is siestaing.
Santoshima Resident: you?
Santoshima Resident: already answered ... ty ... i type slow
Korel Laloix smiles
Korel Laloix: No worries.
Korel Laloix: IN a few IMs anyway.
Santoshima Resident: ah
Santoshima Resident: will make coffee then ... brb
Korel Laloix: ok

Santoshima Resident: back
Korel Laloix: Not looking forward to school again at all.

Korel Laloix: Heya Wol.
Santoshima Resident: hi Wol :)
Wol Euler: hello san, korel

Santoshima Resident: what are you studying this term, Korel?
Korel Laloix: Mainly modeling/simulations, grant writing and international reseatch networks.
Wol Euler: cool
Santoshima Resident: yeah
Wol Euler: financial modelling?
Korel Laloix: Modeling of epidemics.
Wol Euler: ooh, even better :)
Korel Laloix: So good stuff ... like virus or bacteria.
Wol Euler: or memes, or jokes ...
Korel Laloix: But also genetic diseases as well as occupational like carpel tunnel or lung cancer.
Korel Laloix: Not so much that ... but some of the same ideas.
Wol Euler nods.
Wol Euler: sounds like fun, in any case

Ewan Bonham: 's current display-name is "Ewan".

Korel Laloix: Well, fun at one level ... acadepically painful at other levels.
Wol Euler: happy new year, ewan
Santoshima Resident: hello Ewan
Ewan Bonham: Hi folks!

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Santoshima Resident: i am having a lot of trouble with text lag, and locking up today ... so might not be able to greet as i should
Korel Laloix: No worries ... SL at its best.
Santoshima Resident: if anyone else shows up and i seem not responding could someone say hello to them, please?
Korel Laloix: In a few IMs myself.
Korel Laloix: OK.
Wol Euler: sure, np
Ewan Bonham: Yes ... it seems like there is a lot of post holiday lag ...
Wol Euler: Ewan, how were the holidays?
Korel Laloix: Just glad it is fnally warming up>>. into the high 30s now ... frowns.
Wol Euler: heheh
Ewan Bonham: Where are you from Korel?

Qt Core: Hi all
Santoshima Resident: hello Qt :)

Korel Laloix: Oklahoma.
Korel Laloix: How about you?
Ewan Bonham: I am in southern Florida..
Korel Laloix: Tease
Korel Laloix: Used to live in Tampa ... loved that.

Santoshima Resident: anyone want to leap into "nothingness" ? [ the so-called "topic of the week" ]

Wol Euler: Korel, how is the planning for the retreat coming on?
Wol Euler: oh gods, my mother put the kettle on again. My hands are still damp from doing the dishes after lunch!
Korel Laloix: I think I have it all worked out in general.
Wol Euler: good! glad to hear that, I really want a RL retreat this year
Korel Laloix: Just trying to nail down the exact powwow as the central activity.. that is more hard to do than I expected.
Santoshima Resident: grasslands?
Korel Laloix: Yes ... I want to take you all out to where I had my naming journey.
Wol Euler: s
Korel Laloix: But also get you do a good powwow when it is not silly hot.
Wol Euler: *sigh* RL calls, it is apparentyl time to eat again

Santoshima Resident: when? (approximately)

Wol Euler: bye, take care
Korel Laloix: And to one where outsiders are decently welcome.
Santoshima Resident: bye wol
Korel Laloix: Ciao.
Qt Core: bye Wol
Ewan Bonham: Well, I will see you all soon... thanks...:)
Qt Core: Bye Ewan
Korel Laloix: Ciao
Korel Laloix: Would be nice to get you all out here for a week or so.
Santoshima Resident: i am so sorry, am not able to converse,
Santoshima Resident: my keybaord and viewer keep locking
Korel Laloix: let people see what things are really like.
Santoshima Resident: when korel?

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Korel Laloix: I wanted August ... but some folks said that would be too hot ... up in teh 100s for sure.
Santoshima Resident: hmm, yes, might be too hot for some
Santoshima Resident: when is better, though?
Korel Laloix: The best ones are in the summer.
Santoshima Resident: summer it should be, then
Korel Laloix: But some are slightly off peak season ... so somthing to look at.
Santoshima Resident: i see
Santoshima Resident: fall?
Santoshima Resident: can i help with anything about it? please let me know
Santoshima Resident: how are you Qt?
Qt Core: quiet :)
Santoshima Resident: :)
Korel Laloix: Just will have to examine the schedule and find a good fruendly one that will not be that hot.

Santoshima Resident: http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Thinking...u/41WcE7?src=5
Santoshima Resident: musical interlude

Qt Core: checking the flights just for curiosity ... milan oklahoma ... at least 15 hours
Korel Laloix: Actually, try DFW airport as well.
Korel Laloix: Dallas.
Korel Laloix: That is a possibility.
Korel Laloix: Might be cheaper.

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Qt Core: a little cheaper, almost the same in times but a plane less (but it's just teoretical, i don't think i'll be able to travel this year)
Korel Laloix: Budget?
Qt Core: sadly not
Korel Laloix: Just getting the time can be bad enough.
Korel Laloix: I will need to have a full week off and that will be hard to arrange.
Santoshima Resident: yes, need to plan ahead
Korel Laloix: I am really looking forward to seein gyou all out in the areana trying to dance ...
Santoshima Resident: bye to you both ~ good to see you
Korel Laloix: Already laughing ... grins
Korel Laloix: Ciao.
Qt Core: bye San
Santoshima Resident: :)

Qt Core: bad mental (self) image
Korel Laloix: lol ... will be a lot of fun ... and great exercise.
Qt Core: (another reason against the 100F)
Korel Laloix: True.
Korel Laloix: Hard to balance ... but I will work it.
Korel Laloix: And really want to show a lot of the folks here what poverty in the US looks like.
Qt Core: (but if those 100 are dry non-american could stand it, they would not stand american AC)
Korel Laloix: Some events are in doors.
Korel Laloix: So that is something I am looking at.
Qt Core: there is a friends of mine that would give an arm and a leg to go there and see some native american culture (he loves both indians as he is a buddhist too ;-) )
Korel Laloix: Bring him along.
Korel Laloix: the more the merrier.

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Qt Core: he surely have the time as he recently retired
Qt Core: are trhise day at work like past week ?
Qt Core: *these
Qt Core: ie quiet ?
Korel Laloix: No, not at work at the moment ... at my gf's house.
Korel Laloix: Nap time for everyone.
Korel Laloix: But I don't nap.
Qt Core: around here they are still so as (even if is on a sunday 6/1 is festive and schools will restart on 7/1
Qt Core: (other's napping time is good for surprises, nice or not ;-) )
Korel Laloix: COuld be fun yes.
Korel Laloix: Just glad to have the break from the madnes around here.
Korel Laloix: OK ... back to RL.
Korel Laloix: Have a great evening.
Qt Core: i'll try, bye Korel
Qt Core: have fun

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