2013.02.20 19:00 - Umbrellas and Teddybears

The Guardian for this meeting was stevenaia Michinaga. The comments are by stevenaia Michinaga.

Paradise Tennant and Santoshima Residen joined me

Paradise Tennant: hiya stev
stevenaia Michinaga: hi there
Paradise Tennant: smiles at you and runs to the kettle on :)
stevenaia Michinaga: thanks for joining me
stevenaia Michinaga: I just made tea, it was supposed to be used a number of times but I think I over did it more than that number
stevenaia Michinaga: brb, let me get some water
Paradise Tennant: back

--BELL--

stevenaia Michinaga: back
Paradise Tennant: how are you
stevenaia Michinaga: I am good, my officemate departed got Purto Rico for 2 week
stevenaia Michinaga: she was due for a vacation
stevenaia Michinaga: my cat just drank my wate :(
stevenaia Michinaga: water
stevenaia Michinaga: seems mine always tastes better
Paradise Tennant: lol
Paradise Tennant: it does you know :))
Paradise Tennant: smiles
stevenaia Michinaga: appearently, aways waits till there's a fresh glass
Paradise Tennant: he is letting you know you can wait on him :)) paw and tail
stevenaia Michinaga: been getting lol
stevenaia Michinaga: opps bad edit
stevenaia Michinaga: now he's chewing on my hand so typing can only get worst
stevenaia Michinaga: hi San
Santoshima Resident: hi stevenaia, paradise, {& fubu}
Paradise Tennant: hiya san
stevenaia Michinaga: smiles
stevenaia Michinaga: how are u
Santoshima Resident: laggy
stevenaia Michinaga: internet flu
Santoshima Resident: maybe ... more an aged graphics card
Santoshima Resident: hor're you?
stevenaia Michinaga: looking at my flu app, I dodged that bug this year
Santoshima Resident: how're*
Paradise Tennant: got a new computer at work with a 27 inch screen .. now I have screen lust :) want one that size at home too
stevenaia Michinaga: in a pinck I just plug mine into the lcd tv
stevenaia Michinaga: pinch
Paradise Tennant: I have friends who do that too
Paradise Tennant: never tried it
stevenaia Michinaga: there are adapters for everything
Paradise Tennant: sigh yes ..and we so quickly get use to faster
Paradise Tennant: have wind up clocks .. which I really enjoy .. they last 7 days and then you have to wind them again
stevenaia Michinaga: I have a small one I use that moves on a stand to to the table, it;s actually lower rez than my laptop but works for "other screen stuff" like text and email while I work
stevenaia Michinaga: do they fill your house with ticking?
Paradise Tennant: yes and chining
Paradise Tennant: I can only wind them when I don't have company
Paradise Tennant: if I know someone is coming to stay I let them wind down

--BELL--

Paradise Tennant: but it is nice to travel back to a time when you and a key where the energy source :))
Paradise Tennant: *were
Paradise Tennant: *chiming
Santoshima Resident: and elastic bands, such as in wind up toys
stevenaia Michinaga: with all the bettery powered things, there is so much to throw away
Paradise Tennant: yes
Paradise Tennant: find it hard to throw things away
Paradise Tennant: just broke an umbrella I think I have had for over 20 years
stevenaia Michinaga: wow, umbrellas last about 5 storms
Paradise Tennant: somehow when you owns something for a long time it gets a kind of cozy feel to it
Paradise Tennant: this was an old wooden on veyr sturdy
Paradise Tennant: eventually the handle dried out and snapped
stevenaia Michinaga: it may be able to be repaired, shoes used to be repairable
Paradise Tennant: smiles possibly ..
Paradise Tennant: blnks and thinks of where she would find an umbrella repair man
Paradise Tennant: still resole my shoes
Santoshima Resident: where did you get that umbrella, Paradise?
Paradise Tennant: smiles I won it in a waterskiing contest :)
Santoshima Resident: ha, that's great
Paradise Tennant: I was just a kid
stevenaia Michinaga: smiles, stange prize for that
Paradise Tennant: it was a sponser gift
Santoshima Resident: what colour?
Paradise Tennant: vivid colours
Paradise Tennant: a swirl
Santoshima Resident: oh
Santoshima Resident: i bet you could find someone in your city to repair it
Santoshima Resident: umbrella's seem to need a touch by hand to make, don't they
Santoshima Resident: ?
Paradise Tennant: http://www.theumbrellashop.com/CompanyInfo.html
Paradise Tennant: looks like it would be easier in Vancouver
Santoshima Resident: i've seen that place, but never gone in
Paradise Tennant: looks cool
stevenaia Michinaga: There is a happy ending to this story: the kind people at Toronto store Raindrops have offered to have a look at my umbrella and see if it can be easily fixed – although they don't officially repair umbrellas, they can do minor work. Wish my umbrella luck!
Santoshima Resident: yes, it does
Santoshima Resident: yes, good luck with that
stevenaia Michinaga: from the web
Paradise Tennant: smiles thank you stev
stevenaia Michinaga: that was from 2008
stevenaia Michinaga: which is a lifetime these days
Paradise Tennant: http://www.raindropsto.com/
stevenaia Michinaga: you could always try england
Paradise Tennant: hmm think mine was from 1980 something
stevenaia Michinaga: amazng store
Paradise Tennant: I bought a replacement a lovely italian one .. which I had a very short time before guilt made me give it away

--BELL--

Paradise Tennant: I had borrowed a collegue's late one rainy night and promptly left his a cab so came in the next morning contrite bearing wine and my lovely umbrella as a peace offering
stevenaia Michinaga: smiles
stevenaia Michinaga: he came out ahead
Paradise Tennant: he most certainly did was very pleased with the deal
stevenaia Michinaga: my son at 4 yrs once left his teddybear in a cab in montreal, the cabbie cam back and delivered t to the apartment we were staying at where he left us off
Santoshima Resident: very kind
Paradise Tennant: smiles !!!!!! that is a man who understands what is important
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, very suprised to find it int he morning at the door
Paradise Tennant: i bet a doughnut he was a dad
stevenaia Michinaga: nods
Santoshima Resident: may all lost teddy bears be returned to those who love them
Santoshima Resident: g'night
Paradise Tennant: good night san :)) may you have teddy bear dreams :))
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, thanks San, night
Paradise Tennant: maybe dancing with umbrellas
Paradise Tennant: this was nice .. I have to curl up wit a very boring long legal document before I go to sleep should work like a tonic to make drowsy have an early morning meeting where there will be a quiz :))
Paradise Tennant: *me
Paradise Tennant: nice to sit together and talk of teddy bears and what is important
stevenaia Michinaga: good luck with that, hard to remember boring docs thatput you to sleep
stevenaia Michinaga: smiles, yes
stevenaia Michinaga: enjoy your read, I ahve laundry to fold
Paradise Tennant: okies nite nite stev scritch to fubu .. sweet dreams :))
stevenaia Michinaga: and cats to pet