The Guardian for this meeting was Agatha Macbeth. The comments are by Agatha Macbeth.

--BELL--1300
Rosatta Resident: Hi, Wol : )
Wol Euler: hello rosatta
Wol Euler: and hello aggers!
Rosatta Resident: Hi, Agatha : )
Agatha Macbeth: Hello ladies
Agatha Macbeth: How are we?
Wol Euler: cheerful :)
Wol Euler: and us?
Agatha Macbeth: Thought you were on the front row Rosie :p
Agatha Macbeth: I'm good thx
Rosatta Resident: I can move forward
Wol Euler: impossible not to be cheerful when listening to music like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMMpQNGSKvo
Wol Euler: nah, as you wish :)
Agatha Macbeth: Sit where you like :)
Wol Euler: plenty of people prefer the rear seats
Agatha Macbeth: No rules here
Wol Euler: well, there are, but not about seating :)
Agatha Macbeth: Yeh, K always sits at the back
Rosatta Resident: My wings get in the way a bit, so I was thinking the back row would help - but I don't know if that is true or not
Wol Euler: ah, veyr considerate
Rosatta Resident: Hi, Bruce : )
Wol Euler: hello bruce
Agatha Macbeth: Oh, not for me they don't
Agatha Macbeth: Hi Brucie
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, aggers, Wol, Rosatta.
Rosatta Resident smiles
Bruce Mowbray: listens to catch the drift.
Agatha Macbeth: And how's our Bruce?
Bruce Mowbray: Our Brucie is pretty good, thanks.
Bruce Mowbray: Installed a new antenna and a new ISP today.
Agatha Macbeth: Great, always good to hear
Agatha Macbeth: Oh?
Wol Euler: ah :)
Bruce Mowbray: Checking it out in-world for the first time right now.
Wol Euler: how's the reception?
Bruce Mowbray: Exce;;ent, so far.
Bruce Mowbray: Excellent.
Rosatta Resident: Good : )
Bruce Mowbray: Hmmm. This ISP spells as bad as my old one did!
Wol Euler chuckles.
Agatha Macbeth: I have to say my signal strength is usually excellent, now all I need is a cpu and graphics to match!
Bruce Mowbray: Don't know how well it will work with voice, though.
Wol Euler: practice before you need it, would be my advice
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, a good CPU and graphics card help a lot, but not with the spelling.
Agatha Macbeth: Aww, blame the keybooard, I do
Bruce Mowbray: Thanks, Wol, good advice.
Bruce Mowbray scowls at keyboard.
Agatha Macbeth: Ah, tech stuff eh
Agatha Macbeth: Are we fresh today?
Bruce Mowbray: I just noticed that this week's topic is "Freshness," so getting a new ISP is right on cue.
Agatha Macbeth grins
Agatha Macbeth: Maybe we should make worms a topic one week
Wol Euler: greetings, qt
Bruce Mowbray: Also, soime of my spellings are quite fresh -- never having been seen before by man or beast.
Qt Core: Hi all
Agatha Macbeth: Sera QT
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Qt!
Agatha Macbeth: No worries Bruce...do you remember Lugh's typing
Bruce Mowbray: OH YES!
Wol Euler: hehehhe
Agatha Macbeth: Needed to edit everything he said >.<
Bruce Mowbray: heh heheh
Agatha Macbeth: Wonder where he is now?
Bruce Mowbray: Voice recognition software gets all the spellings right, but it sometimes gets the words themselves wrong... but FRESH!
Agatha Macbeth: Yeh, Zen has that problem too
Rosatta Resident: English as a lot of synonyms
Bruce Mowbray: and homonyms.
Agatha Macbeth: But if it can understand someone from Belfast it can understand anyone :p
Bruce Mowbray: he he!
Qt Core: (the lovely mix of german/french/latin spelling rules english enjoy)
Agatha Macbeth: Yes QT
Agatha Macbeth: I think we need to rewrite the dictionary sometimes
Qt Core: get even better when you interchange the words origing and the spelling rules ;-)
Agatha Macbeth nods
Agatha Macbeth: It's only words...
Wol Euler: but words are all we have!
Agatha Macbeth: Indeed
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Bruce Mowbray hums along.
Qt Core: http://tasel.wordpress.com/2011/08/0...ified-english/ ;-)
--BELL--1315
Qt Core: (just skip the introduction and have fun ... is it only a funny piece ?)
Agatha Macbeth: Ze drems of the Guvermnt vud finali hav kum tru.
Agatha Macbeth: Zey hav med evrivon pur
Agatha Macbeth: :p
Agatha Macbeth: I wonder how much of words we recognise simply by looking at them
Wol Euler: they shoot themselves in the foot by getting the phonetics wrong. "Reach" is not pronounced like "leash"
Wol Euler: so replacing ch wiht sh is clearly wrong
Agatha Macbeth: Except to a poet
Wol Euler raises an eyebrow.
Bruce Mowbray: or perhaps someone from Asia.
Agatha Macbeth: Ah so
Bruce Mowbray: flied lice is good!
Bruce Mowbray: also fried rice...
Agatha Macbeth: Very nice with saké
Bruce Mowbray: (To say nothing of flea erections in China...)
Agatha Macbeth: 0.0
Bruce Mowbray: free elections, err.
Agatha Macbeth: Fly past flea
Qt Core: i don't use fast read techniques, and sometimes i find myself accelerating my usual speed and starting to read only part of the words and guessing the rest.. Then i start to guess wrong and have to stop and go back
Wol Euler smiles.
Bruce Mowbray: That was an old Gilda Radner joke on Saturday Night Live.
Agatha Macbeth: Always think it's amazing how Mandarin and Cantonese write words the same but pronounce them differently
Rosatta Resident: I do that , too, Qt
Bruce Mowbray: Do you read in clumps - or groups - of words, Qt.
Bruce Mowbray: ?
Bruce Mowbray: like phrases?
Bruce Mowbray: or groups of words that taken together yield meaning?
Qt Core: i read all of them, sometimes i jump over some
Agatha Macbeth: We put spaces between words to read them, but notwhen we speak them
Bruce Mowbray: When we speak, we generally put the "spaces" between ideas.
Rosatta Resident: I think I read a bit like a stone skipping over the water - a few words, skip, a few words, skip, etc.
Agatha Macbeth: If we have any :p
Bruce Mowbray loves Rosatta's simile -- like a stone skipping over water.
Agatha Macbeth: Must be the echoes of my mind
Rosatta Resident: Ty
Wol Euler smiles.
Bruce Mowbray: ("Midnight Cowboy"?)
Agatha Macbeth: Yep
Agatha Macbeth: Ratso Rizzo
Bruce Mowbray: "I don't hear a word they're sayin'"
Wol Euler: what a great film that was
Agatha Macbeth: Yep
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, it was, indeed.
Bruce Mowbray: Now that song is going to be in my ears all night.
Agatha Macbeth: Smiles
Bruce Mowbray: "Everybody's Talkin'"
Agatha Macbeth: I liked the end tune too
Wol Euler: our work here is done ;)
Agatha Macbeth: Already?
Agatha Macbeth: :p
Wol Euler: [13:28] Bruce (bruce.mowbray): Now that song is going to be in my ears all night.
Wol Euler: :)
Agatha Macbeth: You will save on mp3s Brucie
Wol Euler nods.
Bruce Mowbray: Everybody's talking at me. I don't hear a word they're saying, Only the echoes of my mind. People stopping staring, I can't see their faces, Only the shadows of their eyes. I'm going where the sun keeps shining Thru' the pouring rain, Going where the weather suits my clothes, Backing off of the North East wind, Sailing on summer breeze And skipping over the ocean like a stone. I'm going where the sun keeps shining Thru' the pouring rain, Going where the weather suits my clothes, Backing off of the North East wind, Sailing on summer breeze And skipping over the ocean like a stone
--BELL--1330
Agatha Macbeth: At least it's not Gangnam style or the Duck song
Agatha Macbeth: I could kill Liz sometimes for introducing me to those
Wol Euler: waddle waddle waddle :)
Agatha Macbeth: Yep
Agatha Macbeth: Til the very next day
Agatha Macbeth: Trouble is, I can't watch one without seeing all three
Wol Euler: like peanuts.
Agatha Macbeth: Snoopy?
Wol Euler: roatsed
Wol Euler: *roasted
Agatha Macbeth: Yes, I like nuts
Agatha Macbeth looks at Wol
Wol Euler: teamwork :)
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Agatha Macbeth: Or something
Wol Euler nods.
Wol Euler: shared foolishness, perhaps
Agatha Macbeth: Oh we excel at that
Wol Euler: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AfuX2mpQDI
Agatha Macbeth: Uh oh
Wol Euler: not a duck
Agatha Macbeth: Quack
Wol Euler: hello korel
Wol Euler: so, what was the decision, are we going to talk about freshness?
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Kori!
Korel Laloix: sorry
Agatha Macbeth: Makes me think of Sun
Korel Laloix: Heya all.
Agatha Macbeth: Osiyo K
Bruce Mowbray: Really good to see you unharmed by those twisters, Kori.
Qt Core: Hi Korel
Korel Laloix: Heya... smiles
Korel Laloix: Tulsa has some bad weather, but nothing like Moore and Shawnee.
Bruce Mowbray ponders "sweaty inner sanctum."
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, Kori.... Looks very very bad in Moore.
Bruce Mowbray: (I didn't hear about Shawnee, though.)
Korel Laloix: Not nearly as bad.
Bruce Mowbray: I was amazed that only 24 people were killed.
Korel Laloix: A few people in harms way there.
Bruce Mowbray: They were predicting three times that number.
Bruce Mowbray: when the twister hit the elementary schools.
Agatha Macbeth: Oops sorry, got watching a video about Tesla
Korel Laloix: two dead in Shawnee.
Agatha Macbeth: Erk
Bruce Mowbray: So sad....
Bruce Mowbray: Do you have a storm shelter, Kori?
Korel Laloix: yes, there is a box room as they call it down at teh bottom of the appartment stairwell.
Agatha Macbeth: Well, hopefully
Agatha Macbeth: Like an air raid shelter
Korel Laloix: There was a tornadoe back in the 1920s that killed over 600.
Bruce Mowbray: When I lived in Iowa, we practiced going into the basement of our house.
Korel Laloix: So considering how much the population has increased... what we are doing sheltering wise helps.
Bruce Mowbray: and crouching against the wall nearest where the twister was approaching.
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, I'll bet they never buid another school in Moore without a shelter.
Agatha Macbeth: Are they not a legal requirement then?
Bruce Mowbray: nope.
Agatha Macbeth: Wow
Bruce Mowbray: Too expensive for that.
Korel Laloix: brb
Agatha Macbeth: I think all houses had cellars in the old days
Wol Euler: "nah, there won't be any twisters in this town, we don't need it"
Bruce Mowbray: Adds about 3 to 5000 more to the building of a private home.. and about a million to the building of a school.
Agatha Macbeth: I know my nan's did
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, the older home all had basement.
Bruce Mowbray: (for the coal furnaces, for one thing.)
Agatha Macbeth: Yep
Bruce Mowbray: That's what ours had.
Bruce Mowbray: (in Iowa.)
--BELL--1345
Bruce Mowbray: The old coal room was one of my favorite secret places.
Bruce Mowbray: I find the attitudes of the survivers to be inspirational.
Agatha Macbeth: Mm, right
Bruce Mowbray: Gratitude, family bonds, hopes for the future...
Bruce Mowbray: Suddenly the value of things comes into focus.
Agatha Macbeth: It does indeed
Agatha Macbeth: It's good to know you're alright anyway K
Bruce Mowbray: Think I'm going to head off to Echo Canyon and see if voice works with this new ISP.
Bruce Mowbray: May all be safe and well.
Agatha Macbeth: Take care Brucie
Agatha Macbeth: Voice well
Wol Euler: bye bruce, take care
Qt Core: Bye Bruce
Rosatta Resident: Caio : )
Wol Euler sighs.
Wol Euler: thursday again, anohter week done. how the time flies past
Rosatta Resident: What was the topic listed on the board for today?
Agatha Macbeth: Freshness
Agatha Macbeth: But nobody seems to have much to say about it :p
Rosatta Resident: You have mentions that at least twice without a response
Agatha Macbeth: Yeh
Agatha Macbeth: Happens
Agatha Macbeth: We need Liz here
Wol Euler: feel free to respond :) don't wait for your proper turn :)
Rosatta Resident: I have to go see my evil, moron of a therapist in a couple of hours. I need a fresh way of looking at this
Agatha Macbeth: OMG
Agatha Macbeth: Best of luck
Rosatta Resident: The tension is making me sick to my stomach
Agatha Macbeth: Can't you get a new one?
Rosatta Resident: I would like to.
Wol Euler: what holds you back?
Agatha Macbeth: awww
Rosatta Resident: Part of the problem is I am no Medicaid, and this is a small area and the care here isn't very good to start with, and then the clinc that I went to for over 5 years, apparently, sent paper work that made this therapist negative against me to start with
Rosatta Resident: First session he asked me if I was arrogant.
Agatha Macbeth: 0.0
Rosatta Resident: The next session he suggested I just needed to live with myself and quit trying to get well
Rosatta Resident: First session he admitted he didn't know anything about Complex PTSD and said he wasn't going to use HIS time to learn
Rosatta Resident: Last session I told him some of my troubles and he just said I was holding on to a lot of stuff and did in a condemning way
Agatha Macbeth: Good job he's not with the Samaritans
Rosatta Resident: Samaritans?
Agatha Macbeth: The suicide rate would skyrocket
Agatha Macbeth: Oh maybe you don't have them there
--BELL--1400
Agatha Macbeth: They are people you call when you feel desperate
Agatha Macbeth: Not sure if the US has an equivalent organisation
Rosatta Resident: You are probably right about what you said. The clinic that I left has a high rate of suicides and they just say, "You can't help everybody" I think it is this area. People here seem to be bullies as 'normal' socially
Qt Core: has he ever been helpful ?
Agatha Macbeth: Can't you move somewhere nicer?
Rosatta Resident: I've only seen him half a dozen times and he is charming when he wants and arrogant the rest of the time
Rosatta Resident: I dont' have the money to move anywhere
Agatha Macbeth: Some therapist
Rosatta Resident nods
Rosatta Resident: I think he just wants to get rid of me
Qt Core: charming don't mean helpful, the devil is charming, usually ;-)
Agatha Macbeth: That might be no bad thing
Rosatta Resident: And I think it is the fault of the clinic I left
Rosatta Resident: Yes, charming is usually a cover for not-nice
Rosatta Resident: It's bait in a trap or just lubricant socially, but not real goodness
Rosatta Resident: ~ sigh ~ Well, I guess I better go change and get ready to go
Wol Euler nods.
Wol Euler: I wish you well, rosatta
Agatha Macbeth hugs Rosie
Rosatta Resident: Peace and blessings, dear ones
Rosatta Resident: Ty : )
Agatha Macbeth: Take care
Wol Euler: by the way, have you told him how you feel about the treatment you are getting?
Agatha Macbeth: Tell us how it goes
Qt Core: bye Rosatta
Wol Euler: my dears, I too will move on
Wol Euler: take care, be happy and productive
Agatha Macbeth: In the States everything seems to get treated like a business...
Wol Euler: and enjoy some good food :)
Wol Euler: <3
Agatha Macbeth: Bye Wollie ♥
Qt Core: Bye Wol
Agatha Macbeth: Ah well
Agatha Macbeth: Ciao QT
Agatha Macbeth: Take care K
Qt Core: Ciao Agatha
--BELL--1415
Qt Core: I need to go, bye Korel