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

Catrinamonblue Resident: 's current display-name is "Catrinamonblue".
Bruce Mowbray: 's current display-name is "Bruce".
Bruce Mowbray: Cat -- aggers!
Catrinamonblue Resident: Hi Bruce :) Hi Aggers :)
Agatha Macbeth: Hello!
Bruce Mowbray: Are we still Solsticing?
Agatha Macbeth: Yes, I'm off to Aph's at 2PM
Catrinamonblue Resident: I've been too busy this weekend
Bruce Mowbray: me too!
Agatha Macbeth: Oh great and I'm grey again
Catrinamonblue Resident: you look fine to me
Bruce Mowbray: I mean off to Aph's... not too busy.
Bruce Mowbray: you look great to me, aggers.
Catrinamonblue Resident: beautiful dress :)
Bruce Mowbray: yes a beautiful white dress!
Agatha Macbeth: Thanks
Bruce Mowbray: and gold ornaments!
Agatha Macbeth nods
Agatha Macbeth: Hang on I'll be back

 I poof and relog

Bruce Mowbray: I'm in my 18th century garb... ready for whatever happens with Aph.
Bruce Mowbray: okay take your time.
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Bruce Mowbray: I had problems like this, also -- but I blamed it on sunspots.
Catrinamonblue Resident: I never seem to, though today I'm testing a tablet :)
Bruce Mowbray: at one point Pandora radio sent me a message that they could not deliver music if my connection was below 64 k.
Agatha Macbeth: Right, let's see if this works any better
Bruce Mowbray: imagine that!
Bruce Mowbray: you still look great to me, aggers!
Agatha Macbeth: Ah that's better
Catrinamonblue Resident: beautiful nas always to me :)
Bruce Mowbray: my typist even called his ISP about it . . .
Bruce Mowbray: considered moving to an upgrade plan....
Agatha Macbeth: ISP?
Bruce Mowbray: then tested his Internet speed again . . . and found it to be what it should be, so gave up on the upgrade.
Bruce Mowbray: Internet Service Provider.
Agatha Macbeth: Oh
Catrinamonblue Resident: nods
Agatha Macbeth: Right
Bruce Mowbray: out here in the boonies, we rely upon antennas -- no cable.
Bruce Mowbray: so things get rather weird sometimes, if you get my meaning.
Bruce Mowbray: but I had never received a warning like that from Pandora before.
Agatha Macbeth: That I can well believe
Catrinamonblue Resident: i'm lucky in the town I live in I have DSL
Bruce Mowbray: no DSL out here!
Catrinamonblue Resident: so faast enough :)
Bruce Mowbray: ha ha!
Agatha Macbeth: Is that the one with the box?
Bruce Mowbray: listens carefully.
Agatha Macbeth: Only hope was left as I recall
Bruce Mowbray: ..... all my typist has is an antenna and a wire connected to his computer.... no box.
--BELL--1315
Bruce Mowbray: the signal comes off another antenna on top of the watertower in a nearby town.
Catrinamonblue Resident: I have a wireless modem connected to the phone line. Next week my new apartment has internet over cable. Will be interesting to see the difference.
Bruce Mowbray: wow!
Bruce Mowbray considers himself lucky even to have a phone line. . . which unfortunately comes through cell phone towers.....
Bruce Mowbray: in the same town that the water tower is located in.
Bruce Mowbray: 5 miles away.
Bruce Mowbray: but a completely separate system.
Agatha Macbeth: You're in the wilderness Brucie?
Bruce Mowbray: yes I think I am!
Bruce Mowbray: in more ways than one!
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Agatha Macbeth: me smiles
Agatha Macbeth: Must be nice
Bruce Mowbray: but then, these were my typist's choices.... 43 years ago.
Bruce Mowbray: and here he is, still making those same choices.
Bruce Mowbray dies from laughing....
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Agatha Macbeth: Well at least he's consistent
Catrinamonblue Resident: :-D

Bruce vanishes again

Agatha Macbeth: Uh oh
Agatha Macbeth: He did it again
Bruce Mowbray: this always confuses Blub.
Bruce Mowbray: oooops.
Catrinamonblue Resident: Bruce is underground
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Bruce Mowbray: looks like some alterations are called for....
Agatha Macbeth: How's the view?
Bruce Mowbray: Gary go.
Catrinamonblue Resident: there you are!! :)
Bruce Mowbray: There we go.
Agatha Macbeth: WB
Bruce Mowbray: the Dragon is acting up too.
Bruce Mowbray: ty!
Agatha Macbeth: Oh send him on a holiday
Bruce Mowbray: he is more sociable than I am, actually.
Agatha Macbeth: Not much use at spelling tho
Bruce Mowbray: you mean the Dragon? or did you mean Blub?
Agatha Macbeth: Drag
Agatha Macbeth: No, Blubster doesn't need a holiday
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Bruce Mowbray: okay. I meant that Blub was more sociable than I am.
Agatha Macbeth: Fish are like that
Agatha Macbeth: Shoals, etc.
Bruce Mowbray: concerning the Dragon . . . who knows?
Bruce Mowbray: Are dragons related to fish?
Agatha Macbeth: Maybe descended from them
Bruce Mowbray: hmmmm.
Bruce Mowbray: personally, I think that is pretty weird,
Bruce Mowbray: my typist has been fixated on watching snakes eating.
Bruce Mowbray: but he considers it beautiful.
Agatha Macbeth: Thinking about it, they both have scales
Bruce Mowbray: yes, like grocers.
Agatha Macbeth: Yes I like snakes
Bruce Mowbray: which reminds me of a quote from Zorba....
Agatha Macbeth: 'Never get in bed with an anaconda'?
Bruce Mowbray: no.
Agatha Macbeth: Ah
Bruce Mowbray: more like, " British intellectuals are like groceries: they measure everything."
Bruce Mowbray: grocers*
Agatha Macbeth: Hm
Bruce Mowbray: sorry about the Dragon.
Agatha Macbeth: There are so few of them, they may well be
Bruce Mowbray ponders sending the Dragon back to his aquarium . . . as I have sometimes sent Blub, when he misbehaves.
Agatha Macbeth: He doesn't live in a cave?
Bruce Mowbray: I'm sorry; I'm a bit confused about pronoun references.
Agatha Macbeth: Drag
Bruce Mowbray: which he do you mean? the Dragon, Blub, my typist?
Bruce Mowbray: okay.
Bruce Mowbray: I don't know whether he lives in a cave or a software program.
Agatha Macbeth: Thought dragons live in caves
Agatha Macbeth: Guarding gold
Bruce Mowbray: yes, I would think so.... or maybe under bridges, like trolls.
Bruce Mowbray: AHHH! Wagner's Ring cycle!
Agatha Macbeth: That doesn't seem right somehow
Bruce Mowbray: Rheingold.
Agatha Macbeth: Fafnir?
Bruce Mowbray: Oh dear, would have to check that out via Google.
Agatha Macbeth: Regin's brother I think
Bruce Mowbray: kk.
Agatha Macbeth: (Not Ronald)
Bruce Mowbray: where is Wol today?
Agatha Macbeth: Good question
Bruce Mowbray: I miss her.
Agatha Macbeth: Could be working late
Bruce Mowbray: she lands and excellent balance to my typist's nonsense.
Bruce Mowbray: lends*
Catrinamonblue Resident: :)
Bruce Mowbray: lends an*
Agatha Macbeth: Zen never had this trouble!
Bruce Mowbray: Zen Arado?
Agatha Macbeth: Yeh
Bruce Mowbray: what is the trouble?
Agatha Macbeth: Dunno what he used tho
Bruce Mowbray: oh you mean about the Dragon....
Agatha Macbeth: Voice typing
Bruce Mowbray: the thing about the Dragon is this: it needs to be trained carefully....
Bruce Mowbray: and my typist has not done that....
Agatha Macbeth nods
Bruce Mowbray: so, there are words and expressions that the Dragon doesn't understand.
Agatha Macbeth: I prefer to make my own mistakes
Bruce Mowbray: ha ha!
Bruce Mowbray dies from laughing....
Bruce Mowbray: was that a mistake?
Agatha Macbeth: Nah, you came back
Bruce Mowbray: I came right back --- the cat came back the very next day! they thought he was a goner but the cat came back!
Agatha Macbeth: She did indeed
--BELL--1330
Bruce Mowbray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjMffHG1V_Q
Agatha Macbeth: Shh! ;P
Catrinamonblue Resident: I'm going to go guys. Hadn't realized how very tired I was till I stopped running around and sat down :-) My eyes keep drifting shut. Still a lot to do tonight and this next week will be insanely busy with packing the last of my stuff for the big move on Saturday. :)
Bruce Mowbray: BYE, Cat!
Agatha Macbeth: Are those 18th century antlers?
Bruce Mowbray: COME BACK when you can!
Agatha Macbeth: Bye for now Cat
Catrinamonblue Resident: I will thanks guys :)
Agatha Macbeth: ^.^
Agatha Macbeth: Bless her
Bruce Mowbray: indeed.
Agatha Macbeth: Everyone seems to be moving...
Bruce Mowbray: moving?
Bruce Mowbray: do you have vertigo?
Bruce Mowbray: My typist does, have vertigo I mean.
Bruce Mowbray: things get weird sometimes.
Bruce Mowbray: like this morning, when he got out very early to pick up litter....
Agatha Macbeth: Things get weird when you *don't* have vertigo
Bruce Mowbray: really?
Agatha Macbeth: Yep, IMHO
Bruce Mowbray: tell me about it, please.
Agatha Macbeth: Oh too complicated
Bruce Mowbray: for sure.
Bruce Mowbray: I understand.
Bruce Mowbray: ( so does the Dragon.)
Agatha Macbeth: Like spending half the day in the garden
Agatha Macbeth: And still not getting it all done
Bruce Mowbray: just got a note from Bert!
Bruce Mowbray: my typist used to have a garden.
Agatha Macbeth: Will have to miss him tonight
Bruce Mowbray: nods.
Agatha Macbeth: Yes at this time of year it's never ending
Bruce Mowbray: I am torn between solstice activities with Aph and Bert's meditation session. I'm thinking I'll go to Bert's.
Agatha Macbeth: OK
Bruce Mowbray: nods.
Agatha Macbeth: Too much on at once
Bruce Mowbray: my typist has been practicing bifurcation --- being in two places at once . . .
Bruce Mowbray: somehow it never seems to work out.
Agatha Macbeth: How's your alt these days?
Bruce Mowbray: I think it's about focus . . .
Bruce Mowbray: my alt?
Bruce Mowbray: who is that?
Agatha Macbeth: Jo was it?
Bruce Mowbray: You must mean IO!
Bruce Mowbray: this is utterly amazing!
Agatha Macbeth: Ah, could be
Bruce Mowbray: I was speaking of Io just yesterday....
Bruce Mowbray: at a real-world meeting....
Agatha Macbeth: I only know that as a moon :p
Bruce Mowbray: I have not even thought about her for months and months.
Agatha Macbeth: Aww
Bruce Mowbray: yes, Io is a moon of Jupiter.
Agatha Macbeth: Synchronicity
Bruce Mowbray: my typist was attending a human rights group in a nearby town....
Agatha Macbeth: Is that the volcanically active one?
Agatha Macbeth nods
Bruce Mowbray: and he mentioned that Second Life as a vehicle through which persons might experience things safely....
Bruce Mowbray: things they had curiosities about.... perhaps
Agatha Macbeth: Oh good
Bruce Mowbray: and he mentioned that for two weeks he had assumed an opposite sex avatar (IO!)
Bruce Mowbray: Io!
Agatha Macbeth: Io and behold
Bruce Mowbray: and that she was his most uncomfortable experience in Second Life, actually.
Bruce Mowbray: but it was a valuable experience.
Agatha Macbeth: Really?
Bruce Mowbray: yes!
Agatha Macbeth: Can you say why?
Bruce Mowbray: what happened was that my typist found himself falling back into sexist stereotypes.
Bruce Mowbray: simply because he had appeared as female.
Agatha Macbeth: 0.0
Bruce Mowbray: this was very disturbing, to say the least.
Agatha Macbeth: On your part, or on other peoples'?
Bruce Mowbray: No, it was disturbing to my typist....
Agatha Macbeth: I see
Bruce Mowbray: to have to accept that he was a sexist.
Agatha Macbeth: Oh wow
Bruce Mowbray: he wishes he could have assumed that identity with more grace,
Bruce Mowbray: instead of falling back into the stereotypes...
Agatha Macbeth: Grace is an interesting word
Agatha Macbeth: Always makes me think of Mary
Bruce Mowbray: submission, waiting for some male to lead the way . . . that sort of thing.
Bruce Mowbray: so what does it mean to be full of grace?
Agatha Macbeth: Always fatal that ;-)
Bruce Mowbray: Ah!
Agatha Macbeth: Yes I always pondered that
Bruce Mowbray: I have an example.
Agatha Macbeth: Guess religiously it has a specific meaning
Bruce Mowbray: but it is sort of private, although I will share it with you . . . through an IM.
Bruce Mowbray: if that's all right.
Agatha Macbeth: Oh okay
Bruce Mowbray: kk.
Agatha Macbeth: Sure

Which he did

--BELL--1345
Agatha Macbeth smiles
Agatha Macbeth: Wonder if there will be any more retreats in RL?
Bruce Mowbray: I doubt it.
Agatha Macbeth: :(
Bruce Mowbray: folks seem rather scattered right now.
Agatha Macbeth: Shame, many people seemed to get much from them
Bruce Mowbray: OH yes!
Bruce Mowbray: have you ever been to one?
Agatha Macbeth: Not in RL no
Bruce Mowbray: nods.
Agatha Macbeth: Think Liz has been to all of them :p
Bruce Mowbray: it is a strange -- perhaps difficult -- transition from Second Life space to the real world..... My typist did not make that transition gracefully.
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, Liz was at the Nova Scotia retreat.
Bruce Mowbray: what a wonderful person she is!
Agatha Macbeth: Absolutely
Agatha Macbeth: A true gem
Bruce Mowbray: Well, my friend, I think I'm going to take a brief break before Bert's meditation session.
Bruce Mowbray: thank you.
Bruce Mowbray: you are also a gem!
Agatha Macbeth smiles gracefully
Agatha Macbeth: YW
Bruce Mowbray: bye for now.
Agatha Macbeth: TC, love to Berti