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

Wol Euler: hello ara, happy new year!
Agatha Macbeth: Yay
Wol Euler: hello aggers! happy new year
arabella Ella: Hiya Wol!
arabella Ella: And Aggers!
arabella Ella: Happy new year to both of you, I hope it got off to a good start!

For whatever reason I misheard this as 'I got off to a good start' , hence the ensuing misunderstanding

Agatha Macbeth: You did?
Arisia Vita: 's current display-name is "Ari".
Arisia Vita: greetings all
Agatha Macbeth: Hello Ari
arabella Ella: Hi Ari!
Agatha Macbeth: Tell us more Ara
arabella Ella: Ermmmm ... what about Aggers?
arabella Ella: my New Year's Eve madness?
Agatha Macbeth: Your good start
arabella Ella: Oh
Agatha Macbeth: Oh that'll do yes
Agatha Macbeth: Madness always helps
arabella Ella: Well I went to a very nice party with friends, on a boat, but the boat is on land, an old schooner and it was really good fun
arabella Ella: I knew lots of people
arabella Ella: it was open bar
Wol Euler ponders "the boat was on land."
arabella Ella: danced a lot
Agatha Macbeth: No chance of sinking then?
arabella Ella: drank reasonably
arabella Ella: LOL
arabella Ella: hugged and flirted more than you can imagine!
Wol Euler: hello mick, happy new year
Agatha Macbeth: Micko :)
arabella Ella: and next day family NY day lunch which was nice!
Agatha Macbeth: Wow, like old times
Mickorod Renard: hi, happy new year
Agatha Macbeth: HNY
arabella Ella: Hiya Micko Happy New Year to you too!
arabella Ella: and for me to finish off my brief narrative - I now need a year on diet with no fatty food and no alcohol ... but that wont be easy or possible :)
Agatha Macbeth: That certainly is a big rose
Agatha Macbeth: Oh it will
arabella Ella: my rose Aggers?
Agatha Macbeth: Yep
arabella Ella: LOL
arabella Ella: reminds me of the tune roses are red my love violets are blue la la
Agatha Macbeth: Ah, I remember that
Agatha Macbeth: Had any good dreams over the hols Mick?

At this point we had a visitor, but since he could not speak english I was unable to ask for permission to record, and so anonymised him

Wol Euler: hello ******, have you been here before?
****** Resident: no se ingles
Wol Euler: sorry :)
Agatha Macbeth: Oh didn't see you there
Wol Euler: no habla espanol
****** Resident: si hablo español
Wol Euler laughs
arabella Ella: Hola ****** Felices Anos nuevos!
****** Resident: feliz año
Mickorod Renard: sorry ags, I am having laptop issue,,very slow and so forth
Agatha Macbeth: Ah I was wondering
--BELL--1315
Mickorod Renard: I have had the odd dream
Agatha Macbeth: Thought you were on a phone or something
Agatha Macbeth: You didn't find your hair then Ara?
Agatha Macbeth wonders if she is crashing
arabella Ella: boooo hoooo no I did not Ags :(
Agatha Macbeth: Aww
Santoshima Resident: 's current display-name is "San".
Agatha Macbeth: Hi Sanji
arabella Ella: One day when I have the patience to do so I will go shopping and see whether I can find anything identical as I still have the LM but I dont know whether it is still live or not
arabella Ella: Hiya San
Wol Euler: hello san! happy new year
Santoshima Resident: hello :)
Santoshima Resident: happy new year
Agatha Macbeth: You just lost it changing location you say?
Agatha Macbeth: That's very odd
arabella Ella: yes Ags I had it here then I TPd back to my plot and whoosh it was gone!
Agatha Macbeth: Any ideas on that Wollie?
Wol Euler: perhaps you dropped it instead of detaching it?`
Wol Euler: do you remember the name?
Agatha Macbeth: Surely it would be in L & F
Aphrodite Macbain: 's current display-name is "Aph".
Santoshima Resident: do an area search
Agatha Macbeth: Hi Aphbabe :)
Wol Euler: yep
arabella Ella: yes I have the name Wol
Wol Euler: hello aph, happy new year
Aphrodite Macbain: Hiya. Happy 2014!
Wol Euler: then you can go to where you last had it, and search by name in the region
arabella Ella: but what could I do with the name except look into my Inventory or lost and found?
arabella Ella: oh I had it last here
Wol Euler: you can search in-world too :)
Wol Euler: ah
Santoshima Resident: in firestorm menu : World > Search area
arabella Ella: Hiya Aph Happy New Year!
arabella Ella: Oh and from here I moved to my plot in this region too
Agatha Macbeth: You need to click on About Land and do something I think
arabella Ella: from where I logged out but by then it had gone missing
Agatha Macbeth: Hair today gone tomorrow
Aphrodite Macbain loves tech talk..
Aphrodite Macbain has a few questions of her own
Agatha Macbeth: Is that the 20s look Aph?
Wol Euler: there's a command for it actually, right-click on any icon on the toolbar and choose "Toolbar buttons"
Wol Euler: the commmand is called "Area search", find it and pull it into your toolbar
Aphrodite Macbain: It is- I was at a flapper party last night and never changed
Aphrodite Macbain: blushes
Agatha Macbeth: Yay
Agatha Macbeth: Hope you flapped well
Aphrodite Macbain: I did indeed
Aphrodite Macbain: my toes hurt from doing the Charleston
Agatha Macbeth: It has a habit of doing that
Aphrodite Macbain: too much champagne. didn't feel a thing till today
Wol Euler grins.
Agatha Macbeth: What was your techy question?
arabella Ella: I cant seem to find anything you mentioned Wol
Santoshima Resident: e you in firetorm?
Santoshima Resident: gad
Santoshima Resident: are
Santoshima Resident: you in firestorm
Santoshima Resident: ?
Aphrodite Macbain: yup
Santoshima Resident: arabelle
Aphrodite Macbain: sorry
Agatha Macbeth: I think Ara uses FS yes
arabella Ella: yes i use firestorm
Santoshima Resident: top bar
Santoshima Resident: WORLD
arabella Ella: ok
arabella Ella: ok
Santoshima Resident: look down the list
Santoshima Resident: to AREA SEARCH
Wol Euler: yes, it's also inthe World menu, true
Santoshima Resident: you'll ned to be in the area where you lost the thing
Agatha Macbeth: Hair
Santoshima Resident: oh
Santoshima Resident: a dropped wig
Agatha Macbeth: Yah
arabella Ella: thanks, searching
--BELL--1330
Agatha Macbeth: All I see is chairs
Agatha Macbeth: Anything rezzed for you yet Mick?
Aphrodite Macbain: Is Mick having tech problems too?
Agatha Macbeth: Laggy laptop syndrome
Mickorod Renard: yes I think so,,I am worried about doing anything for fear of crashing  [he did anyway eventually]
Agatha Macbeth: Maybe all the snow isn't helping :p
arabella Ella: no luck with search here for hair
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
arabella Ella: i will try again once I get back to my plot later tonight thanks all for your instructions!
Aphrodite Macbain: would you like some of mine Ara?
Aphrodite Macbain: (hair that is)
arabella Ella: if you have any nice blonde hair yes please!
arabella Ella: Aggers was very kind too!
Agatha Macbeth: Hair donation day
Agatha Macbeth: All offers gratefully received
arabella Ella smiles gratefully :)
Agatha Macbeth: What was your question Aph?
Agatha Macbeth: We must preserve our blonde Ara at all costs
Wol Euler nods.
Agatha Macbeth: Aww, lost Mick
arabella Ella giggles at the blonde bit and feels ... oh so wise!
arabella Ella: could we have wise women instead of the three wise men this year?
arabella Ella: the three wise women - the blonde the brunette and the red head!
Agatha Macbeth: You'd be pushed to find three wise men
arabella Ella: nice one Aggers! he he
Wol Euler: *rimshot*
Agatha Macbeth: It's the way I tell em
Wol Euler: aye
Agatha Macbeth: Anyone made any good resolutions?
Aphrodite Macbain: 's current display-name is "Aph".
Wol Euler: four of them :)
arabella Ella: not proper ones :)
arabella Ella: i know I could never keep a proper resolution
arabella Ella: have you made any Ags?
arabella Ella: and Wol are you prepared to share yours with us?
Agatha Macbeth: I don't start what I can't finish heh
arabella Ella giggles
Wol Euler: if you insist
Aphrodite Macbain: I resolved to spend less time in SL but technology is keeping me here...anyone know how to remove the matrix figures from my screen? I wish I knew what I did to get them
arabella Ella: .... ehrm ... yes!
Agatha Macbeth: Matrix?
Aphrodite Macbain: yes...
arabella Ella: (yes was to Wol)
--BELL--1345
Santoshima Resident: what do you mean, aph?
Wol Euler: 1) do more long-form writing.

                  2) attend another RL retreat, even if I have to organize it myself.

                  3) to be a better friend/relative than I was in 2013.

                  4) to finally get two of my World of Warcraft characters up to level 90 :)

Agatha Macbeth: You might have luck with 4 :p
Agatha Macbeth: O slayer of orcs
Wol Euler: indeed
Wol Euler: I've been playing for three years, it's about time I got to the endgame
Santoshima Resident: Re: #3 better in what way?
Wol Euler: sins both of omission (forgetting birthdays etc) and commission (not replying to e-mail for ages and ages)
Agatha Macbeth: Absolvo te
Wol Euler: gracias
Agatha Macbeth: Would be nice to see the retreat thing get off the ground
Agatha Macbeth: Might kickstart PaB back to life
arabella Ella: yes
Aphrodite Macbain: yes
Aphrodite Macbain: but where?
Wol Euler: all right, let's see a show of hands: who is interested at all in a RL retreat somewhere, sometime between late spring and early autumn?
Santoshima Resident: maybe
Santoshima Resident: depends
Agatha Macbeth: Let's work out where everyone lives and draw lines to find the centre...oh wait
arabella Ella: i am interested but i cannot commit yet of course
Wol Euler: of course!
Wol Euler: I'm just curious as to whether there is any interest or not
Wol Euler: if you know that you wouldn't attend, then it is pointless for you to think about where or when
Wol Euler: (generic "you", not ara)
arabella Ella smiles
Agatha Macbeth: One
Agatha Macbeth: Where was the last RL retreat now? Can't remember
arabella Ella: remember that for a retreat to be successful one would need six to either people more or less
arabella Ella: six to eight
Wol Euler: of course
arabella Ella: too few and it could be 'flat'
Aphrodite Macbain: I think it was in Vachon Island
Aphrodite Macbain: years ago
arabella Ella nods
Agatha Macbeth: Wow that ages ago
Santoshima Resident: 2 years ago
Wol Euler: but again if one is not interested in going, then it makes no difference how many othesr might attend.
Wol Euler: I want to hear from the ones who do
Aphrodite Macbain: brb
Santoshima Resident: maybe, depends on timing and cost
Agatha Macbeth: Perhaps we should float it at the next GM
Wol Euler: good idea
Agatha Macbeth: Which -I think- will be this sunday
Wol Euler nods.
Wol Euler: we are due for one
Aphrodite Macbain: 's current display-name is "Aph".
Agatha Macbeth: Will you be working then?
Wol Euler: no
Agatha Macbeth: Yay
Wol Euler smiles.
Wol Euler: wb aph
Agatha Macbeth: You are having difficulties Aph?
Aphrodite Macbain: How do I do a screen shot of my screen?
Wol Euler: shift-alt-S
Aphrodite Macbain: I have changed viewers
Wol Euler: no, cmd-shift-s
Wol Euler: if you want to show the lack of inventory, you need to enable the "interface" checkbox
arabella Ella: I'm afraid I must go now but it has been lovely seeing you all again and I hope you all have a great 2014, bye for now! X
Santoshima Resident: best to you, Ara
Agatha Macbeth: Take care Arababe
Wol Euler: ybe ara, take care
Agatha Macbeth: Hope your hair turns up
--BELL--1345
Agatha Macbeth: Isn't Command only on Macs?
Agatha Macbeth: Bye San
Wol Euler: ctrl then
Santoshima Resident: back to the books ~ thanks for the chat!
Santoshima Resident: bye
Wol Euler: bye san, take care
Agatha Macbeth: Read well
Wol Euler: don't lose your place
Agatha Macbeth: Any better Aph?
Wol Euler thanks you.
Agatha Macbeth: YW
Agatha Macbeth: What's a flapper exactly?
Wol Euler smiles.
Wol Euler: 1920's dancing partygoing person
Arisia Vita: It's been great being with you all but I must be off to another event...be well and happy...see you again soon...
Wol Euler: bye ari, take care
Agatha Macbeth: Have fun Ari
Arisia Vita: anything that flaps? :)
Arisia Vita: see you later
Agatha Macbeth: Nanu nanu
Arisia Vita: :)
Agatha Macbeth: Wonder where the term originated?
Aphrodite Macbain: I can google it
Aphrodite Macbain: maybe it's what they do when they dance?
Wol Euler grins.
Agatha Macbeth: Would be an interesting dance
Aphrodite Macbain: wannabe birds
Agatha Macbeth: May I have the next flap please?
Agatha Macbeth pictures penguins doing the charlston
Aphrodite Macbain: there
Aphrodite Macbain: as close as I can get
Aphrodite Macbain: the chicken dance
Agatha Macbeth: Where?
Agatha Macbeth: Ah
Aphrodite Macbain: what I'm doing
Agatha Macbeth: Think I have that somewhere
Wol Euler sees no dance
Aphrodite Macbain: good excercise for the shoulder muscles
Agatha Macbeth: I don't see you moving :p
Aphrodite Macbain: really? how odd
Wol Euler: did you click "play local" or "play in world"
Aphrodite Macbain: am I standing?
Agatha Macbeth: To me you're standing still
Wol Euler: sdanding yes
Aphrodite Macbain: local
Aphrodite Macbain: better?
Agatha Macbeth: Ah, needs to be world
Wol Euler: yes ;(
Agatha Macbeth: Result
Wol Euler: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: it is now
Aphrodite Macbain: I never know what the difference is
Wol Euler: you do now :)
Aphrodite Macbain: not really
Wol Euler: local means only for you
Wol Euler: in world means the world sees it
Aphrodite Macbain: local means only on my screen?
Agatha Macbeth: For future reference: not local :p
Agatha Macbeth: Yep
Wol Euler: yes
Aphrodite Macbain: ah. wow. 2 things in one day
Agatha Macbeth: Don't you have this one Wollie?
Aphrodite Macbain: chicken dance
Agatha Macbeth: Thought everybody did
Aphrodite Macbain: squawk
Aphrodite Macbain: time to go out in the rain and get a book from the library
--BELL--1400
Agatha Macbeth: Come to think of it, I got it from that shop next to the Art Museum
Aphrodite Macbain: the chicken dance?
Agatha Macbeth: Yep
Wol Euler: bye aph, have fun
Agatha Macbeth: Don't get your book wet
Aphrodite Macbain: byee everyone. thanks for your help Wol
Aphrodite Macbain: chickles
Agatha Macbeth waves
Aphrodite Macbain: and chuckles
Agatha Macbeth: Chickle dance
Aphrodite Macbain: danced by the chicklets

Agatha Macbeth: Shall we switch off?
Agatha Macbeth: Now everybody left?
Wol Euler: yeah

And with that, Wollie and I went off skating!