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

I sat alone, thinking that I was subbing for Aph, until Wol arrived at 28 after the hour.  I still don't know whose session this is - or has recently become -  but here's the log!

[13:28 p.m.]
Wol Euler: hello Bruce
Wol Euler waves.
Bruce Mowbray: Hello, Wol!
Wol Euler waves.
Bruce Mowbray: I'm subbing for Aph today -- She's on her way back to Vancouver from Toronto ....
Wol Euler: okay
Bruce Mowbray: and I was just getting ready to leave --- since you're the only avi who has shown up today.
Bruce Mowbray: But now I will stay!
Wol Euler nods.
Bruce Mowbray: YAYYY!
Wol Euler: awwwwww :)
Wol Euler feels honoured. And vaguely guilty.
Bruce Mowbray: no need for that.
Bruce Mowbray: I am delighted to continue.

--BELL--

Bruce Mowbray: A friend of a friend in RL is interested in SL, and my friend has suggested that she get in touch with me about it. This is a "first" for me, so I'm excited about it.
Bruce Mowbray: I have heard about her for years, but have never known her name - - and now she is interested in Sl... and I am thrilled.
Wol Euler smiles.
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Wol Euler: You may be shocked to see how much difficulty she has getting started :/
Bruce Mowbray: I sent my friend a message about using the SL search to find me... then looking at my profile, and then sending me an IM.
Wol Euler: but yay for being an ambassador
Wol Euler: where is she geographically?
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, I have offered to show her the ropes because of that.
Bruce Mowbray: She lives in Indiana.
Wol Euler: so, she wouldn't be able to have you looking over her physical shoulder as she started out?
Bruce Mowbray: She is also a Quaker -- and a graduate of a Quaker seminary.
Bruce Mowbray: Maybe we could connect through a RL phone call.
Wol Euler: my thinking was that ... well, who knows :) some people get on well here from the get-go
Bruce Mowbray: Yes.... and others struggle for months.
Wol Euler: I had the privilege and dubious pleasure of sitting beside somebody as they took their first steps in SL a year or so ago
Bruce Mowbray: oh ... listens.
Wol Euler: I was embarrassed on behalf of the Lab by how unfriendly, unintuitive it seemed to her
Bruce Mowbray: oh dear,
Wol Euler: so if it could be possible for you to be available by phone as-needed while she is in her first hour or so, that might be a kindness.
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, I would try to do it that way....
Bruce Mowbray: I could show her a few of the in's and out's...
Bruce Mowbray: and also introduce her to some wonderful folks.
Bruce Mowbray: and groups.
Wol Euler nods.
Bruce Mowbray: like this one!
Wol Euler: I fear based on Sidi's experience that she will need help long before getting here
Bruce Mowbray: Hmmmm.
Wol Euler: Anyway, don't count the broken bones before they break.
Bruce Mowbray: Perhaps SL is a "place" where one attracts to oneself what one is...
Wol Euler: perhaps, yes
Bruce Mowbray: (sort of like life?)
Wol Euler: I have to admit that Sidi attracts misfortune
Bruce Mowbray: oh dear.
Wol Euler: and unclarity
Bruce Mowbray: Well, I do not know this woman...
Wol Euler: so your friend might have a better time
Bruce Mowbray: I only know a little bit about her...
Bruce Mowbray: She is a good friend of my best friend in RL,
Wol Euler: brb
Bruce Mowbray: so I think she would probably do well in SL.
Bruce Mowbray: kk.
Bruce Mowbray: me too, afk for a sec....
Bruce Mowbray: brb.
Bruce Mowbray: [back, whenever you are, Wol.]
Wol Euler: yes, just got here
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Wol Euler: sorry about that
Bruce Mowbray: np.
Wol Euler: I hope it works out for her
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, something amazing happened today...
Wol Euler: oh?
Wol Euler listens.
Bruce Mowbray: Yes.
Bruce Mowbray: I was picking up litter this week around a freeway interchange not too far from the farm where my typist lives.....
Bruce Mowbray: and when I got back to my car,
Bruce Mowbray: I noticed that my wheelchair was not in the back seat.
Bruce Mowbray: So, all I could figure was that someone might have stolen it...
Wol Euler raises an eyebrow.
Bruce Mowbray: (That was on Friday.)
Bruce Mowbray: Then,
Bruce Mowbray: this morning when my typist got to Quaker Meeting,
Bruce Mowbray: there was the wheelchair,
Bruce Mowbray: folded up and parked against a wall !!
Bruce Mowbray: I was amazed.
Wol Euler: wow
Bruce Mowbray: I'd not missed it at all -- all week, until Friday..
Bruce Mowbray: and yesterday, I ALMOST bought a new one.
Wol Euler: oh, you had left it there?
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, I had left it there last Sunday.
Wol Euler: wow
Bruce Mowbray: without realizing it.
Wol Euler giggles.
Wol Euler: and you got on fine without it for a week ......
Bruce Mowbray: So I'm beginning to question my memory.
Wol Euler: ah.
Bruce Mowbray: Oh -- I only use it when I go to museums -- and on trips . . .

--BELL--

Bruce Mowbray: or when I go to Meeting.
Wol Euler: well, if it helps people of all ages leave stuff lying around
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Bruce Mowbray: I took it to New York last October. . . and my niece pushed me in it all the way across the Brooklyn Bridge!
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, druth!
druth Vlodovic: hi guys
Wol Euler: hello druth
Bruce Mowbray: Anyway, somehow, finding it this morning sort of restored my faith in human nature when I realized the error was my own -- and not that anyone had taken it.
Bruce Mowbray: APH!
Bruce Mowbray: You're HOME!
druth Vlodovic: hi aph
Bruce Mowbray: Welcome home!
druth Vlodovic: she still has a bit of a walk yet :)
Bruce Mowbray: oh yes... but look how far she's already come... all the way from Toronto!
Bruce Mowbray: welcome home, Aph!]
Aphrodite Macbain: whew
Wol Euler: hello Aph
druth Vlodovic: so what are you getting pushed across the bridge in?
Bruce Mowbray: I have claimed the session and will happily post it in the wiki for you, if you wish.
Aphrodite Macbain: awww- hi. I'm not home yet
Bruce Mowbray: a wheelchair that I thought someone had stolen from my car on Friday.
Aphrodite Macbain: no no
MowbrayAphrodite Macbain: It's Zen's session now
Bruce Mowbray: It is?
Bruce Mowbray: That's right. sorry.
Bruce Mowbray: I forgotted.
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Bruce Mowbray: apparently, so did Zen.
Wol Euler: heheheh
Aphrodite Macbain: lots going round
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Zen!

[Bruce laughs.]
Wol Euler: funny, I always hear that laugh as Storm's voice :) because he was the first person I heard use it in SL
druth Vlodovic: good thing you found it
Wol Euler: speak of the devil :)
Wol Euler: hello Zen
Zen Arado: Hi all
druth Vlodovic: it's the devil!
Wol Euler: and Berti has reported in too, full house today
Bruce Mowbray: Does anyone know if Bertram is in-world today?
Bruce Mowbray: kk.
Bruce Mowbray: snap.
Wol Euler: yes, I just got a note from him
Bruce Mowbray: Great.
Bruce Mowbray: and here's Kori!
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Kori!
Zen Arado: it's very white here?
Korel Laloix: Heya
Zen Arado: Hiya Kori
druth Vlodovic: hi Kori
druth Vlodovic: I have something for you :)
Bruce Mowbray: who is "you"?
druth Vlodovic: Kori :)
druth Vlodovic: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/research/
Korel Laloix: OH?.. smiles.. thanks.
Bruce Mowbray checks out the link.
Bruce Mowbray: I will register and finish the survey later, thanks!
Korel Laloix: I took one of these and found it rather messed up.
Bruce Mowbray: really?
druth Vlodovic: turns out I associate "American" with "white"
druth Vlodovic: rather than Asian
Bruce Mowbray: oh dear.
Korel Laloix: Evidently I have to think the word "glorious" is positive or I can't take the test.
druth Vlodovic: lol
Korel Laloix: And I have to know something about Nixon.
Bruce Mowbray: And Zen had just asked about it's being "very white" here... too. Oh my!
druth Vlodovic: depends on the test, they have a dozen or more
Bruce Mowbray: [13:53] Zen (zen.arado): it's very white here?
Korel Laloix: I'm one-eighth white? so do I count?.. smiles
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Bruce Mowbray hugs Kori.
Korel Laloix: Maybe I will get over it... grins
druth Vlodovic: I was rather wondering what he was talking about
Zen Arado: the surrounds above us look unusually white to me tonight
Korel Laloix: Oh Ok... smiles
Zen Arado: nobody else?
Aphrodite Macbain: I'm off - crashing
Bruce Mowbray: kk. OK, folks, I need to know if i should go ahead and post this session in the wiki, or if anyone else wants to do that.
Wol Euler: no, looks fine to me Zen
Korel Laloix: Ciao bella
druth Vlodovic: aww,bye aph
Wol Euler: bye Aph, take care and bon voyage
Bruce Mowbray: (before Bertram's meditation...)
Bruce Mowbray: Bye, Aph!
Wol Euler: zen, perhaps you have a windlight setting on that is changing the colours?
druth Vlodovic: so what is wrong with glorious?
Wol Euler: (2 minutes to Berti)
Zen Arado: it's very white around you Bruce
Korel Laloix: Usually when a person says something is glorious, it means someone else was a victim.
Bruce Mowbray: Thanks, Wol.
Zen Arado: a strong facelight?
Bruce Mowbray: Really?
druth Vlodovic: never heard that before
Bruce Mowbray: Let me see if I'm wearing any illuminators.
Bruce Mowbray: omg. I was!   Is that better?
druth Vlodovic: unless you are talking about glory in terms of warfare
Zen Arado: better now
Bruce Mowbray: kk. That was the problem.

--BELL--

Bruce Mowbray: I'd inadvertently put on an illuminator.
Bruce Mowbray: Going to Berti's meditation now.
Bruce Mowbray: May all be safe and happy.
Wol Euler nods.
Korel Laloix: Take care.
Wol Euler: goodnight all, enjoy the rest of your Sundays
druth Vlodovic: have fun guys
Zen Arado: me too bye all
Korel Laloix: Ciao
Korel Laloix: I did it again... smiles
druth Vlodovic: they are off to meditate
druth Vlodovic: I can take you there if you like
druth Vlodovic: but then probably should get off myself
Korel Laloix: And I am off to SL church.
Korel Laloix: Thanks though.
druth Vlodovic: ok, have fun then