The Guardian for this meeting was Bruce Mowbray. The photos are by Bruce Mowbray.

stevenaia Michinaga: afternoon Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, steve!
Bruce Mowbray: How is the WG going these days?
stevenaia Michinaga: good and getting better w/ 2 new additions and the rest are staying on
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, I saw that. I am so glad there is interest.
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, and no burn out :)
Bruce Mowbray: Yes. I felt a bit guilty for leaving, myself.
stevenaia Michinaga: or disinterest
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
stevenaia Michinaga: I try to keep things light, even in a crisis, few that we have
Bruce Mowbray: You are an excellent leader, steve. No doubt about that.
stevenaia Michinaga: the art of doing as little as possible I am finding works well in that position
Bruce Mowbray: Well then.... are you all ready for Erin Go Brah?
stevenaia Michinaga: I hope Eliza continues on as secretary
Bruce Mowbray: Eliza is excellent in all respects. She will be an excellent sec.
stevenaia Michinaga: feel free to thank her in advance... hehe
 stevenaia Michinaga: Hi Cat
Bruce Mowbray: Well, I'll be a shamrock! There's Cat!
Catrinamonblue Resident: Hi Steve, Bruce :)
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Cat!
stevenaia Michinaga: hmmm, I'm drinking Ginners, seems the right drink at the right time
Bruce Mowbray hopes he didn't spill any Irish brew on Cat during his waves.
Catrinamonblue Resident: aren't we a bit early for green today? ;)
Bruce Mowbray: Never too early for green!
Catrinamonblue Resident: lol
stevenaia Michinaga: there's a parade outside for something
Bruce Mowbray: really?
stevenaia Michinaga: well not sure, it's snowing here
Bruce Mowbray: I know that Dublin, Ohio, is holding their St. Pat's Day parade today.
stevenaia Michinaga: but it was planned for today
Bruce Mowbray: They might all be too hung over tomorrow to walk, anyway!
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: if you don't sleep, tomorrow never comes
Bruce Mowbray: Obviously, whatever does "Stop" does not include the Irish paraders!
Catrinamonblue Resident: :-)
Bruce Mowbray: So, any thoughts on "What stops?"?
Catrinamonblue Resident: right now I stop, busy day and I'm tired :)
Bruce Mowbray: Ahhh, it is good for you to stop then.
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Catrinamonblue Resident: yes
Bruce Mowbray: Everyone needs and deserves a bit of rest.
Catrinamonblue Resident: smiles
stevenaia Michinaga: yes asleep at the computer usually means it's time to stop
Catrinamonblue Resident: lol
stevenaia Michinaga: I have been dosing off recently
Bruce Mowbray: Such a mess when the forehead crashees into the keyboard!
Catrinamonblue Resident: yes )
Bruce Mowbray: (like that!)
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, carefully ponders which letter I don't want centered on my forehead
stevenaia Michinaga: (in reverse)
Bruce Mowbray: Actually, St. Pat's day is a sort of happy SL memory for me.

--BELL--

Bruce Mowbray waits until drop is done.
Bruce Mowbray: Not only is it my first girlfriend's birthday (age 13), but it was also the first party I attended in SL. --- In a Dublin, Ireland sim! -- Oh my!
Bruce Mowbray: I didn't realize avi's could fly until then.
Bruce Mowbray: (three years ago)
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Bruce Mowbray: My rez day was earlier this week, you see.
Catrinamonblue Resident: belated happy rez day:)
Bruce Mowbray: Well, 10 days ago, I think.
Bruce Mowbray: thanks!
stevenaia Michinaga: I was 2300 days old
Bruce Mowbray: Oh my!
stevenaia Michinaga: 3 days ago
stevenaia Michinaga: days fly when you count them
Bruce Mowbray wonders how one finds out how many days old he/she is....
Catrinamonblue Resident: on your profile
stevenaia Michinaga: in your profile, it counts them
Bruce Mowbray: kk.
Catrinamonblue Resident: I'm only 170 days old :)
Bruce Mowbray checks profile to find out how many days old he is.
Catrinamonblue Resident: a baby compared to you guys :)
stevenaia Michinaga: you presume I am growing up here
Bruce Mowbray: Mine does not seem to have such information -- Maybe it got "dropped" or "stopped"
stevenaia Michinaga: hmmm right under your "Born" date
stevenaia Michinaga: 03/09/2010 (3 years old; 1103 days)
Bruce Mowbray: kk. Thanks!
Bruce Mowbray: My rez day was March 9, 2010.
stevenaia Michinaga: don't write it down, it will change tomorrow
Bruce Mowbray: ok ;-)
Catrinamonblue Resident: the balloon I'm holding is my own design :)
Bruce Mowbray: Really?!!
Catrinamonblue Resident: nods
Catrinamonblue Resident: yes really :)
Bruce Mowbray: A FINE design, to be sure!
Catrinamonblue Resident: ty :)

stevenaia Michinaga: nice
Bruce Mowbray: You really get with the framework, Cat. I admire that!
Catrinamonblue Resident: lol was a bit bored this morning was all :)
Catrinamonblue Resident: took a picture and played with it in Adobe photoshop
Bruce Mowbray: I take pictures all the time -- In fact, I just took one of the three of us.

Catrinamonblue Resident: nice :)
 Bruce Mowbray: But I don't use the SL camera.... I use Snagit.
Catrinamonblue Resident: but now there is four
Bruce Mowbray: (a screen-saver)
Catrinamonblue Resident: Hi Bleu :)
Bleu Oleander: hiya :)
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Bleu!
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Bleu
Catrinamonblue Resident: Snagit?
stevenaia Michinaga: who has the bell?
stevenaia Michinaga: I hear a new one
Bruce Mowbray: Yes. Snagit is a great screen capture program. . . . and one can also do LOTS and LOTS of things with it. Like making text, arrows, and the like.
Bleu Oleander: that was me
Bruce Mowbray loves Bleu's bell.
Bleu Oleander: my cat slippers
Catrinamonblue Resident: love them :)
stevenaia Michinaga: must be very warm
Bleu Oleander: :))
Bleu Oleander: cozy

Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Bruce Mowbray: afk for a sec.....

--BELL--

Catrinamonblue Resident: is feeling the pauses of stop
Catrinamonblue Resident: opps hit enter by mistake sry
Catrinamonblue Resident: where the breath meets the mind
Catrinamonblue Resident: and all is still
Catrinamonblue Resident: quiet
Catrinamonblue Resident: paused and at rest
Catrinamonblue Resident: joy
Catrinamonblue Resident: sorrow
Catrinamonblue Resident: pain
Catrinamonblue Resident: happiness
Catrinamonblue Resident: all paused
Catrinamonblue Resident: stopped
Catrinamonblue Resident: let go
Catrinamonblue Resident: let be
Catrinamonblue Resident: stop
stevenaia Michinaga: 90 seconds of stopping is a nice vacation
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Bleu Oleander: :)
Bruce Mowbray: I confess that I did "drop" or "stop" during the last 90-sec break.
Bruce Mowbray: alas.
Bruce Mowbray: was too busy finding something on my website.
stevenaia Michinaga: was showing your salon website while introducing you all to my spouse
stevenaia Michinaga: Bleu
Bleu Oleander: oh nice steve
stevenaia Michinaga: very busy schedule
Bleu Oleander: yes!
Catrinamonblue Resident: Bleu, do you have a link for your salon? I've heard you speak of it but don't really know much about it
Bleu Oleander: sure
Bleu Oleander: one sec
Bruce Mowbray: I have been using "drops" to open the windows around my heart and let the breezes flow through -- a fine thing to do in the spring.
Bruce Mowbray listens for more about Bleu's salon....
Catrinamonblue Resident: love the image Bruce :)
Bleu Oleander: brb
Bruce Mowbray: ;-) TY!
Bleu Oleander: call
stevenaia Michinaga: Do you have a website Bruce?
stevenaia Michinaga: you can IM it to me if you would like :)
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, it is: http://www.hermitdog.com
stevenaia Michinaga: or not
Bruce Mowbray: I have no privacy there -- or desire for it.
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: Doesn't that counter the hermit code?
Bruce Mowbray: Hard to imagine a hermit who doesn't care about pribvacy, isn't it?
Bruce Mowbray: ha ha!
Bruce Mowbray: priovacy*
Bruce Mowbray: privacy*
Bruce Mowbray: Why does my forehead keep smashing into this keyboard?
Bruce Mowbray: (Time to find a new typist!)
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: don;t look at me, your typing is so much better than mine

--BELL--

Bruce Mowbray: A website is a cool place to store your photos -- in my case, photos from various travels....
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Bruce Mowbray: They don't get lost if my hard drive crashes.
Catrinamonblue Resident: I have some photos on flicker but haven't much patience for uploading things :)
stevenaia Michinaga: learning about beer can butterflies, Bruce :)
Bruce Mowbray: oh yes!
Bruce Mowbray: The beer can butterflies!
Bruce Mowbray: My typist has posted about a thousand of them on telephone poles around here.
Catrinamonblue Resident: they look lovely :)
Bruce Mowbray: He's a litter fanatic, you see.
Bruce Mowbray: TY! I will tell him.
stevenaia Michinaga: ready to shred the telephone man climbing the pole
stevenaia Michinaga: if they still do that
Bruce Mowbray: oh no.... the butterflies are quite innocent and non-shredding.
Bruce Mowbray: Everyone around here knows that my typist posted them -- and it is an act of vandalism, actually, but the phone company doesn't seem to care.
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: smiles
Bruce Mowbray: Many of them I posted over fifteen years ago, and they are still there.
Catrinamonblue Resident: awesome :)
Bruce Mowbray: I see them every time I drive into town... well, to several towns, actually.
Bruce Mowbray: I will post a photo of them with this chat log.

stevenaia Michinaga: do you use aluminum nails?
Bruce Mowbray: Nope, my typist uses a stapler.
Bruce Mowbray: a lot easier that way.
stevenaia Michinaga: yes
Bruce Mowbray: My typist has friends in Europe who are also doing this.
stevenaia Michinaga: always wondered what was inside a beer can, secret messages perhaps
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Bruce Mowbray: sometimes there are worms and such...
Bruce Mowbray: I posted a youtube video about how to make them, too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h3c7rvSxeI

Catrinamonblue Resident: cool :)
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Bruce Mowbray: It was fun.
stevenaia Michinaga: <-- not a beer in can drinker, now I know why
Bruce Mowbray: me neither... but I do pick up the empty cans along the road -- that beer can drinkers have thrown from their cars.
Bruce Mowbray: That's where I get the cans for the butterflies.
Bruce Mowbray: It's a anti-littering thing, you see.
Bruce Mowbray: Every butterfly actually represents a violation of at least three laws:
Bruce Mowbray: #1 -- littering.
Bruce Mowbray: #2 -- drinking while driving
Bruce Mowbray: and #3 -- My tacking the thing on the pole!!!
Bruce Mowbray: ha ha!
stevenaia Michinaga: hmm fingerprint the can , split the fines with the state
stevenaia Michinaga: have you ever counted them
Bruce Mowbray: Good way to get exercise -- out there picking up the cans -- and again, posting them.
Bruce Mowbray: oh yes!
Bruce Mowbray: I have done some rather detailed surveys, actually.
Bruce Mowbray: Statistics about littering....
stevenaia Michinaga: you could always recycle the aluminum, $$
stevenaia Michinaga: always see people in NYC with bags of cans
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, I do recycle most of it -- actually, I give it to folks who need the money from recycling....
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, I love that in NYC!
stevenaia Michinaga: big bags
Bruce Mowbray: I go right up to folks with big bags of cans in New York and talk to them about it.
Bruce Mowbray: some of my fondest memories, actually.
Bruce Mowbray: a bit of a story:
Bruce Mowbray: I was coming out of the Shambala meditation center on 22nd St...
Bruce Mowbray: and right across the street was a man on a mattress...
Bruce Mowbray: and he had an enormous bag of cans!
Bruce Mowbray: and I approached him, and we had a GREAT conversation about his cans!
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Micko!
Bruce Mowbray: GOOD to see you again!
Mickorod Renard: Hi
stevenaia Michinaga: waves to Mic
Mickorod Renard: :)
Catrinamonblue Resident: Hi Mick :)
Bruce Mowbray also waves to Mick!
Mickorod Renard: I trust everyone is well?
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, doing well, thank you.

--BELL--

Bruce Mowbray: How about yourself?
Mickorod Renard: great
Mickorod Renard: well ty
stevenaia Michinaga: brb
Bruce Mowbray: kk.
Bleu Oleander: sorry back
Bruce Mowbray: Join us, please, Mick!
Bruce Mowbray: wb, Bleu!
Catrinamonblue Resident: wb Bleu :)
Bruce Mowbray: (didn't hear the bells this time).
Bleu Oleander: only when I walk hehe
Bruce Mowbray: he he!
Bruce Mowbray: THERE it is!
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Bleu Oleander: :)
Bruce Mowbray: Did we get some input about Bleu's salons?
Bleu Oleander: oh yes ... forgot sorry
Bruce Mowbray: np!
Bleu Oleander: http://spiritofthesenses.org/
Bruce Mowbray: OH my! THANK you!
Catrinamonblue Resident: TY Bleu :)
Bleu Oleander: now you can see what I'm up to when not here hehe
Bruce Mowbray: This will keep my typist occupied for the whole evening.
Bruce Mowbray: alas....
Bruce Mowbray: and now I need to be away.
Bleu Oleander: ok bye Bruce ... take care
Mickorod Renard: by Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: Thank you, Bleu, steve, Cat, and Mick!
Catrinamonblue Resident: Bye Bruce
stevenaia Michinaga: bye Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: I am flying out of here now.
Mickorod Renard: I will go too, take care
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Bruce Mowbray: May you all be well and happy.
Bleu Oleander: u 2 Bruce :)
Bruce Mowbray: and may you keep the windows to your hearts well open!
Bleu Oleander: ♥ *•.¸♥¸.•* ♥
Catrinamonblue Resident: I need to be off to, dinner's cooking and needs looking after :)
Catrinamonblue Resident: Thanks Bleu for the link :)
Bleu Oleander: ok yw!
Bleu Oleander: take care
Bleu Oleander: bye steve c u later :)
Bleu Oleander: thanks for ur link
Bleu Oleander: byee