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

Bruce Mowbray: Welcome, Qt!
Qt Core: Hi Bruce, ty

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Bruce Mowbray: I've just come from Aph's Solstice Party...
Bruce Mowbray: in 18th Century Sorrento.

Qt Core: I've been there, but in late 20th century ;-)
Bruce Mowbray: Same here -- in 1966, to be exact.
Bruce Mowbray: Did you make it out to Capri?
Qt Core: yes, for a few hours (it was a 5 day school trip in the area in 1996 or 1997.)
Bruce Mowbray nods.
Qt Core: only time a non-drinker like me almost got drunk, in Napoli.  i ate a dessert so filled with rum.  Hadn't had enough to allow that that almost got me  down. ;-)
Bruce Mowbray: I have never been so sea-sick in my entire life as I was that day. I told the folks in charge that unless we could find a hover-craft to get me back to shore, I would spend the rest of my life on Capri.
Bruce Mowbray: and they FOUND one!
Bruce Mowbray: When I was in Napoli.... they were having a garbage-person's strike....
Bruce Mowbray: There was garbage everywhere in the streets.
Bruce Mowbray: But I loved the town anyway!
Qt Core: don't know what come out from my keyboard "Havn't had enough to allow tha" should be read as "rhum"
Bruce Mowbray: Hmmmm.
Bruce Mowbray: Sticky keys?
Bruce Mowbray: probably just lag.
Qt Core: even when they work they have huge issues with garbage (and now in all the area there are problems with illegal garbage dump areas filled with toxic and even radioactive waste)
Bruce Mowbray ponders rum-filled desserts he has known....
Bruce Mowbray: oh dear!
Bruce Mowbray: radioactive!?
Bruce Mowbray: Yikes!
Bruce Mowbray: Yikes!
Qt Core: some are even under farming areas...
Bruce Mowbray: Surely Italy has laws that regulate such things.....
Qt Core: yes, as if the Mafia would be scared of that
Qt Core: it is said to be a 17 billion euros market
Bruce Mowbray: I'm noticing your Star Trek communicator.... device....
Qt Core: (ehm, always had it, i have it on all my avs)
Bruce Mowbray: Just yesterday I gave a friend all seven seasons of Star Trek (the Next Generation) -- on a flash drive.
Bruce Mowbray: 179 episodes!
Qt Core: drooling ;-)
Bruce Mowbray: ha ha!
Bruce Mowbray: I couldn't believe that i got them all onto one drive -- but it is 32 GB, so that figures.
Bruce Mowbray: You can find all of them on YouTube,
Bruce Mowbray: all except for one episode in Season 7.
Bruce Mowbray: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKSjSZ28Vc8
Qt Core: my fav series (as it is where the human race is at its best), ds9 is boring at first and getting darker after, and voyager has less "society at large" topics
Bruce Mowbray: hmmmm.
Bruce Mowbray wonders if  his typist might be a member of a "society at large species."
Qt Core: btw i'm watching voyager these weeks
Bruce Mowbray: Great!
Bruce Mowbray: I have not seen that one yet.
Bruce Mowbray: But they have episodes from it on YouTube.
Bruce Mowbray: welcome, arabella!
arabella Ella: Hiya Bruce!
arabella Ella: apologies for landing on you!
Qt Core: I'm reevaluating Kes against 7 of 9, 7 is hot but kes is cuter ;-)
Bruce Mowbray: No problem!
Bruce Mowbray: You are welcome to land on me at ANY time!
Qt Core: Hi Arabella

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arabella Ella: Ciao Qt!
arabella Ella: lovely to see you guys again after a really long time!
Bruce Mowbray: 
Bruce Mowbray: Yes!
Qt Core: :-)
arabella Ella: took me ages to get in here today as I needed to download a new program
Bruce Mowbray: I was thinking the same thing, ara!
Bruce Mowbray: 
arabella Ella: how are you doing?
arabella Ella: Brucie ... incorrigible as always :)
Bruce Mowbray: 
Bruce Mowbray: and Qt, sedate and gentlemanly, as always.
Qt Core: preparing to survivive the festivities, you Ara ?
arabella Ella: I was trying to think of something to say about Qt
arabella Ella: the silent sinner perhaps, or is that too bad?
arabella Ella: apologies Qt
Bruce Mowbray loves "silent sinner"!!!
arabella Ella: surviving so far
arabella Ella: with difficulty
arabella Ella: will be glad when it is all over
Qt Core: interesting idea
arabella Ella: today is winter solstice
Bruce Mowbray: Your rose seems fresh as ever!
arabella Ella: shortest day in this hemisphere
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, the shortest day and longest night of the year.
arabella Ella: oh yes my rose :)
Bruce Mowbray: I just came from a solstice party in the 18th Century.
arabella Ella: here on SL?
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, in Sorrento.

arabella Ella: i would love to see sunrise but it is too cold
arabella Ella: nice tune! thanks!
arabella Ella: wow sounds lovely
arabella Ella: makes me feel much better!
Bruce Mowbray: You have one, too, ara!
Bruce Mowbray: I just gave you one.
arabella Ella: oh now i see it thanks!
Bruce Mowbray: yw!
arabella Ella: so how is life for you?
Bruce Mowbray: For mo?
arabella Ella: oui
Bruce Mowbray: I'm doing all right -- things are slow during the winter...
arabella Ella: yes
Bruce Mowbray: and I really don't do anything for Christmas, when everyone else is doing stuff,
Bruce Mowbray: but i keep occupied and am happy -- and grateful.
arabella Ella: is it good for you that things are slow in winter?
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, it is good.
arabella Ella: better than the feeling of being like a headless chicken for sure
Bruce Mowbray: ha ha!
Bruce Mowbray: Yikes!
Bruce Mowbray: Yikes!
arabella Ella: maybe we need a headless chicken animation!
Bruce Mowbray: for sure!
arabella Ella: he he
Qt Core: letting the earth rest and start new things
Bruce Mowbray: I think oni's come pretty close to headless chickens, though.
arabella Ella: most people in the world today tend to run around like headless chickens today
Bruce Mowbray: onigokko
arabella Ella: the oni may be similar but it is playful at least!
arabella Ella: he he
arabella Ella: what fun!
Bruce Mowbray: stop
Bruce Mowbray: 
arabella Ella giggles
Bruce Mowbray: I always try to stand when I do the oni.
arabella Ella: Qt still silent?
Bruce Mowbray: Otherwise my ankles get bruised.
arabella Ella: he he
arabella Ella: why is that Bruce?
arabella Ella: why do you stand?
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, Qt continues to sin silently.
arabella Ella: he he
Bruce Mowbray: I stand so my ankles don't get bruised.
arabella Ella: that is so funny!
Bruce Mowbray: want to see how it works?
arabella Ella: yes please
Bruce Mowbray: onigokko
Bruce Mowbray: ouch ouch ouch ouch!
arabella Ella: go on catch ara!
arabella Ella: bettcha you cant!
Bruce Mowbray: stop
arabella Ella giggles
arabella Ella: i miss not coming on to SL regularly
arabella Ella: but i had felt it was taking up too much of my time
Bruce Mowbray: and we miss you, too, ara.
arabella Ella: owwww that is sweet Brucie!
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
arabella Ella: shall we reflect on something tonight?
arabella Ella: like the winter solstice?
Bruce Mowbray: yes, let's.
arabella Ella: what was it like at Sorrento?
Bruce Mowbray: absolutely lovely.
Bruce Mowbray: Aphrodite had a wonderful gathering.
arabella Ella: did you watch sunrise there?
Bruce Mowbray: There might have been two dozen folks there...
arabella Ella: lovely
arabella Ella: nice
Bruce Mowbray: dancing minuets and doing tarot cards and sipping wasail!
arabella Ella: fantastic!
Bruce Mowbray: and consulting a crystal ball...
Bruce Mowbray: Yes. It was very nice indeed.
arabella Ella: wow did you consult the crystal ball too?
Bruce Mowbray: Oh yes.
arabella Ella: any secrets to reveal here then?
arabella Ella: he he
Bruce Mowbray: It told me I should stop holding on to the past.
Qt Core: tarot and crystal ball in Sorrento: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumaean_Sibyl
arabella Ella: interesting
Bruce Mowbray: ahhh!
Bruce Mowbray: ty, Qt!
arabella Ella: thanks Qt that is certainly very interesting

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arabella Ella whispers ... Blubbbbieeee is here too cool!!!!
Bruce Mowbray: Yikes!
arabella Ella: too cute!
Bruce Mowbray: I've been trying to teach Blub to "drop."
arabella Ella: Blubie is really cute!
Bruce Mowbray: during the pauses.
arabella Ella: he he
arabella Ella: is he a good learner?
Bruce Mowbray: Blub has a friend now.....
arabella Ella: really?
Bruce Mowbray: yes, fairly good, if he's not distracted.
arabella Ella: a GF?
Bruce Mowbray: This is McBlubson.
Bruce Mowbray: Scottish son of Blub.
arabella Ella: he he
arabella Ella: how sweet!
arabella Ella: oh there she is!
arabella Ella: why son not daughter?
Bruce Mowbray: I don't know who arranges such things.
arabella Ella: not me!
Bruce Mowbray: It seems beyond my control - or Blub's.
arabella Ella: suppose so!
arabella Ella: really sweet too but Blubble will remain Ara's favourite!
Bruce Mowbray: Most folks seem to like Blub.
Bruce Mowbray: Even at meditation sessions...
arabella Ella: oh yes so charismatic
Bruce Mowbray: but i insist that he stop swimming for those.
arabella Ella: a silent charmer
arabella Ella: he he
Bruce Mowbray: ha ha!
arabella Ella: love Mc's bubbles too
arabella Ella: is it being busy at all here at times or is it always just a few people around?
Bruce Mowbray: Actually, there seem to be fewer and fewer folks coming to the fountain these days.
arabella Ella: oh how sad
Bruce Mowbray: We've been discussing that in guardian meetings.
Bruce Mowbray: and will probably discuss it again tomorrow.
arabella Ella: i remember the last day i came here a couple of months ago there was no one
Bruce Mowbray: sad.
arabella Ella: makes me sad too
arabella Ella: any idea of what proposals are being considered?
arabella Ella: if any?
Bruce Mowbray: Hmmmm. Tries to recall.....
arabella Ella: a tough direct recruitment campaign perhaps?
Bruce Mowbray: I think this week's topic was "Trying to catch yourself 'unaware.'"
arabella Ella: ah
arabella Ella: nice contrast there
Bruce Mowbray: I notice that Bleu has not updated the announcement board....
Bruce Mowbray: (with the theme, I mean.)
arabella Ella: oh
arabella Ella: i need my SL specs to read that far away :)
Bruce Mowbray: but it seems like a contradiction... to be aware enough to catch one's self being unaware....????
Bruce Mowbray: Yikes!
arabella Ella: once you catch yourself you become aware don't you?
arabella Ella: (not sure but ...)
Bruce Mowbray: one would think!
Bruce Mowbray: Yikes!
arabella Ella: eureka!
Bruce Mowbray: 
arabella Ella: i feel like Archimedes
Bruce Mowbray: Eureka!
arabella Ella: only he ran out into the streets naked according to the narrative i don't think I would risk that!
Bruce Mowbray: ha ha!
arabella Ella: he lived in Sicily which is only next door to here
Bruce Mowbray: That's when he discovered how to take the volume of a golden crown, right?
arabella Ella: yes that's right
Bruce Mowbray: by seeing how much water it displaced?
Bruce Mowbray: ha!
arabella Ella: yes
Bruce Mowbray: It is also a city in northern California.
Bruce Mowbray: It is also the state motto of California!
arabella Ella: and there is an Archimedes museum in catania in sicily but i have not yet managed to visit the museum although i am sure it must be interesting
arabella Ella: you mean eureka?
Bruce Mowbray: Wow!
Bruce Mowbray: Eureka, yes.
arabella Ella: a city in Calif and a motto too wow!
Bruce Mowbray: California's state motto (Eureka... I have found it!) refers to the discovery of gold in California (more about California gold on the state mineral and state nickname pages). The California state motto also appears on the state seal.
arabella Ella: do you have cold weather at the moment there, Bruce?
arabella Ella: oh very interesting !
Bruce Mowbray: http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/California/CAstatemotto.html
arabella Ella: cool
Bruce Mowbray: actually, we have a LOT of rain here... and we're under flood warnings - as is most of the state (Ohio).

Bruce Mowbray: see all the rain coming my way?
Bruce Mowbray: Yikes!
Bruce Mowbray: The fish will enjoy it, though.
arabella Ella: taking its time to open
Bruce Mowbray: hmmm.
arabella Ella: that looks scary
arabella Ella: where are you based?
Bruce Mowbray: Well, the whole central part of the US is under flood watches and warnings.
Qt Core: but not so cold then or it would be snow (but less floods)
arabella Ella: oh no!
Bruce Mowbray: I am two counties down from Columbus, Ohio.

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Bruce Mowbray: (so, at this exact moment it's not raining here, but it will be later tonight.)
arabella Ella: owwww
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Bruce Mowbray: Alas, time for me, my typist, and the fish to say "Adieu."
arabella Ella: oh no!
arabella Ella: bye for now Bruce and enjoy the rest of your day! Hugs!
Qt Core: bye Bruce, have fun
Bruce Mowbray: Bye for now.
Bruce Mowbray: and HAPPY HOLIDAY, everyone!
arabella Ella: thanks and to you too!
Qt Core: you too
arabella Ella: I must go too Qt bye for now and Happy Holidays to you too!
Qt Core: happy holidays to you too, Ara