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

Bruce Mowbray: 's current display-name is "Bruce".
Bruce Mowbray: Aggers!
Agatha Macbeth: Hello brucie
Bruce Mowbray: How you been, girl!?
Agatha Macbeth: I thought this new FS was supposed to be quicker?
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, I have also downloaded it... and then still waiting for the quickness to happen.
Bruce Mowbray: I think the quickness is just in how fast the Sim rezzes.... but not necessarily with other things.
Agatha Macbeth: Still seeing me grey when I appear
Bruce Mowbray: oh dear.
Agatha Macbeth: And now I can't see my eyes
Agatha Macbeth: Bloody hell
Bruce Mowbray: actually I think things are raising a bit more quickly for me... but my typist has an advanced graphics card and that might help.
Bruce Mowbray: ICU perfectly!
Agatha Macbeth: Yes, my machine is about eight years old
Bruce Mowbray: nods.
Bruce Mowbray: I noticed that as soon as my typist installed a new graphics card, everything came in faster and in much higher resolution.
Bruce Mowbray: that was about a year and a half to two years ago.
Bruce Mowbray: I've been following the California earthquake most of this day....
Agatha Macbeth: I swear half the time SL just can't find the damn stuff in my inventory
Bruce Mowbray: omg.
Agatha Macbeth: Anyway...
Bruce Mowbray: Chile had a stronger earthquake than California did today, actually.
Agatha Macbeth: How are you?
Bruce Mowbray: I'm doing well thank you.
Agatha Macbeth: Oh glad we're not in Chile then
Bruce Mowbray: oh yeah.
Bruce Mowbray: if is right along the coast, so I was a bit surprise there was no sooner on the warning.
Bruce Mowbray: surprised*
Agatha Macbeth: Think the Andes is on the edge of a plate?
Bruce Mowbray: for sure.... I think the whole Western Hemisphere is on some sort of plate actually.
Bruce Mowbray: mostly on the western coasts, of course.
Agatha Macbeth: Near the Pacific rim
Bruce Mowbray: yeppers.
Bruce Mowbray: The California earthquake occurred only about 5 miles from where my typist used to teach....
Bruce Mowbray: right before he came to Ohio.
Agatha Macbeth: We're luck here, pretty much in the middle of one
Agatha Macbeth: Lucky*
Bruce Mowbray: that would ring big Ben's Bell for sure!
Agatha Macbeth: Think the edge Iceland is on is the closest
Bruce Mowbray: oh yes, and I hear that the volcano has started to erupt again.
Agatha Macbeth: They have loads of vulcanism going on
Agatha Macbeth nods
Bruce Mowbray: nods.
Agatha Macbeth: Yes the one that stopped Wol flying a couple of years ago
Agatha Macbeth: And talk of the devil!
Wol Euler: evening all
Bruce Mowbray: I remember that speaking of Wol!!!
Agatha Macbeth: Hello Wollie ♥
Wol Euler sprouts horns.
Wol Euler: hello aggers, bruce
Agatha Macbeth: Nice boobs ;P
Wol Euler: thanks!
Wol Euler: heheheh
--BELL--1315
Bruce Mowbray tells Blub to stop staring.
Agatha Macbeth: Hopefully Storm isn't reading this heh
Bruce Mowbray: and to stop swimming.
Bruce Mowbray: I was just about to tell Aggers that my typist once taught in a high school about 5 miles from where the California earthquake was today. . . . and he did some very close up searching for damage in that area.
Wol Euler: oh, I hadn't heard about that
Bruce Mowbray: well, it happened about 3 o'clock in the morning California time.
Agatha Macbeth: Ohio isn't a place I usually associate with volcanoes
Bruce Mowbray: a 6.1
Agatha Macbeth: Or earthquakes
Bruce Mowbray: no, the earthquake was in California... it's my typist who is in Ohio.
Agatha Macbeth: Oh right
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Agatha Macbeth: Well California...understandable
Agatha Macbeth: The San Andreas fault
Wol Euler: http://earthquaketrack.com/r/souther...ifornia/recent
Wol Euler: five earthquakes today in California
Wol Euler: 38 in the last seven days
Bruce Mowbray: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/24/us...ia-earthquake/
Agatha Macbeth: Think that plate edge runs right down the coast of the Americas
Agatha Macbeth: West coast that is
Bruce Mowbray: I hear they've had 53 aftershocks so far today.
Agatha Macbeth: Oh my
Agatha Macbeth: The UK seems so safe by comparison
Agatha Macbeth: Most of Europe does in fact
Bruce Mowbray: Well, here in Ohio we have our floods and our tornadoes.
Agatha Macbeth: I remember a bad eatyhquake in Romania a few years ago
Bruce Mowbray: really!? Please say more, aggers.
Bruce Mowbray: Were you there?
Agatha Macbeth: Fortunately nature seems good to us
Agatha Macbeth: No, I read about it tho
Bruce Mowbray: nods, understands.
Agatha Macbeth: About 1988 I think
Agatha Macbeth: Mother gets very angry sometimes
Bruce Mowbray: My typist's sister lives literally on top of the epicenter of the big quake in the early 80s.... ( tries to remember what year that was....)
Bruce Mowbray: the one that broke the Bay Bridge and toppled the freeway in Oakland.
Agatha Macbeth: When was St Helens? 1980?
Bruce Mowbray: somewhere around that time, I was thinking maybe 1983? not sure though
Wol Euler: wow, that was extreme. I'm very surprised that nobody has mentioned it on Facebook yet, among all my West Coasters
Agatha Macbeth: I know that was a big one
Bruce Mowbray: my typist's brother lived about 50 miles west of Mount Saint Helens, and his house was dusted with ash from that eruption . . . some of which he sent to my typist, who still has it in a bottle in his living room.
Agatha Macbeth: I remember there used to be a programme on BBC1 about science called Horizon and that devoted an episode to it
Bruce Mowbray: there is quite a bit of twitter exchange about the earthquake, actually.
Agatha Macbeth: Japan gets a lot
Bruce Mowbray: Japan is really bad!
Agatha Macbeth nods
Bruce Mowbray: as are the Andes....
Agatha Macbeth: I think Pila's had some in Hawaii too
Bruce Mowbray: oh yes, Pila has definitely had his share....
Bruce Mowbray: trouble in paradise, as they say.
Agatha Macbeth: Hopefully will put the frackers off
Bruce Mowbray: for sure!
Bruce Mowbray: actually tracking causes earthquakes.... very small ones. We've had a few of those here in Ohio.
Agatha Macbeth: You used to live in CA then Brucie?
Bruce Mowbray: My typist lived in Berkeley for seven years.
Bruce Mowbray: That's where he did his graduate work and taught for several years.
Agatha Macbeth: Oh Berkley, right
Bruce Mowbray: He recalls attending a lecture at the University of California once, during which an earthquake occurred.
Bruce Mowbray: The professor was blind,
Agatha Macbeth: Oh my
Wol Euler: frankly I doubt it, like any corporation they care only for "shareholder value" and will take any action however harmful until they are legally forbidden to do so
Bruce Mowbray: so this left a lasting impression on my typist.
Agatha Macbeth: Not surprisingly
Bruce Mowbray: the professor simply held his podium, centered himself, made some brief acknowledgment of the quake, and continued with his lecture.
Agatha Macbeth: Is that in Southern CA?
Bruce Mowbray: no that was in Berkeley -- Northern California.
Agatha Macbeth: Right OK
Bruce Mowbray: the Bay Area.
Bruce Mowbray: right across the bay from San Francisco.
Agatha Macbeth: Was just thinking of that Albert Hammond song :p
Bruce Mowbray: listens. . . .
Wol Euler: "nightingale sang in berkley square"?
Agatha Macbeth: Never rains in southern CA
Bruce Mowbray: Ha!
Agatha Macbeth: Is that near the Cascade Mountains Bruce?
Bruce Mowbray: the Cascades are in Washington and Oregon, actually.
Agatha Macbeth: Oh
Bruce Mowbray: mostly in Washington.
Agatha Macbeth: Not northern CA then?
Bruce Mowbray: you can see the Cascades from Seattle, on a clear day.
Bruce Mowbray: no not in Northern California.
Agatha Macbeth: OK
Agatha Macbeth: Where is Shasta then?
Bruce Mowbray: Shasta is in Northern California.
Bruce Mowbray: my typist has driven by it many times.
Agatha Macbeth: Oh wow, now I'm confused
Bruce Mowbray: it is a beautiful mountain, and also an active volcano.
Bruce Mowbray: while maybe I'm confused myself.
Bruce Mowbray: maybe the Cascades actually do extend down into northern California after all.

By now I was totally confused...

Agatha Macbeth: So Shasta *isn't* in the Cascades then?
Bruce Mowbray: I had just never thought of them that way.
Bruce Mowbray: I think maybe Shasta is in the Cascades...
Bruce Mowbray: I will check it out.
Agatha Macbeth: Hm, okay
Bruce Mowbray: but I think of the Cascades as being in northern Washington....
Agatha Macbeth: I confuse very easily remember ;)
--BELL--1330
Bruce Mowbray: that's where the Olympia National Park is
Bruce Mowbray: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_Range
Agatha Macbeth: I never was much of one for geography :(
Bruce Mowbray: You're right! Mount Shasta is at the far southern edge of the cascade Range.
Agatha Macbeth: TY
Agatha Macbeth: Aha
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Agatha Macbeth: Yay
Bruce Mowbray: I didn't know that!
Agatha Macbeth: I'm smarter than I thought
Bruce Mowbray: [`·.] APPLAUSE!! [.·´]
Agatha Macbeth: Now that's a place I'd like to see
Bruce Mowbray: It is truly a beautiful area.
Agatha Macbeth: Has a lot of legends about it
Agatha Macbeth: Think it's sacred to the local tribes
Bruce Mowbray: My typist drove through that area many times because his mother lived in Corvallis, Oregon, for 30 years and his brother lived in Longview, Washington, and whenever he made trips to see them he went by Mount Shasta.
Bruce Mowbray: yes it is a sacred mountain.
Agatha Macbeth: Oh wow
Bruce Mowbray: just looking at it changes one's perception of the world.
Agatha Macbeth: Mm, I can believe it
Bruce Mowbray: wow, indeed.
Bruce Mowbray: Have you recovered from jet lag yet, Wol?
Agatha Macbeth: I know it seems to have inspired many people
Bruce Mowbray: or did you not have any?
Bruce Mowbray: this time.
Agatha Macbeth listens
Bruce Mowbray: also listens.
Wol Euler: no jet lag onthis occasion, never is when flying such a short distance
Wol Euler: only one timezone away
Agatha Macbeth: Yes, only an hour's difference
Wol Euler nods.
Bruce Mowbray: I understand, but I guess your shall I call it "blouse" got lost in the luggage?
Agatha Macbeth: 0.0
Bruce Mowbray: Yikes!
Agatha Macbeth: You didn't find your luggage?
Wol Euler: :-P
Bruce Mowbray: it was returned to him by the airline --- to his very door.
Wol Euler: *her
Bruce Mowbray: but yes it was originally lost.
Agatha Macbeth grins
Wol Euler: indeed yes
Bruce Mowbray: her sorry her her her her her her.
Agatha Macbeth: Oh man
Wol Euler: that was the day of the great big storm
Bruce Mowbray: dear.
Bruce Mowbray: oh dear.
Wol Euler: the Tube was flooded in London, had to take a taxi to Paddington to get to the airport
Agatha Macbeth can edit that if Wol wishes
Wol Euler: flight out was nearly an hour late, but didn't matter because my onward flight was cancelled :/
Agatha Macbeth: Oh man
Bruce Mowbray takes some comfort in realizing that others around the world are having more difficulty traveling . . . as is his typist.
Wol Euler: so got put on a train that was a half-hour late, went an hour down the track and then stopped stil for three hours
Agatha Macbeth: This country is *so* efficient...not
Wol Euler: damage on the track
Bruce Mowbray: oh my. This is sounding so familiar.
Wol Euler: anyway
Agatha Macbeth: Leaves on the line?
Wol Euler: point is: my batg didn
Agatha Macbeth: Wrong type of snow?
Wol Euler: bag didn'T make the transfer to the train in Frankfurt
Agatha Macbeth: Hiya K :)
Bruce Mowbray: Wol's bag did not make it -- until later.
Korel Laloix: Osiyo
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Kori!
Wol Euler: hello korel
Wol Euler: still stateside, I gather? :)
Agatha Macbeth: Did you not get it later?
Korel Laloix: No, on a cruise ship.
Bruce Mowbray: she got it later --- delivered to her door.
Agatha Macbeth: Ah good
Bruce Mowbray: a cruise ship? Please say more, Kori!
Korel Laloix: Fun at least... and good eating... smiles
Agatha Macbeth: The German end was probably more efficient
Wol Euler: oh cool
Agatha Macbeth: Oh you're on a cruise K?
Korel Laloix: My ex remarried her exhusband and she wanted to do it on a cruise, so I came along as a bridesmaid.
Agatha Macbeth: OMG
Bruce Mowbray: WOW!
Korel Laloix: Complicated but good.
Wol Euler: nice
Wol Euler: second time lucky, perhaps?
Agatha Macbeth: Agood time was had by all
Bruce Mowbray and my typist thought he had a complicated life!
Korel Laloix: A little awkward, but wortha free cruise.
Agatha Macbeth: Indeed
Agatha Macbeth: Hello sailor
Korel Laloix: I am genuinly happy for them.
Agatha Macbeth smiles
Bruce Mowbray: Wonderful, Kori. You can step outside yourself. That is noble.
Korel Laloix: Don't know about noble, but thanks for the confidence.
Agatha Macbeth: K is a noble person ;)
Wol Euler smiles.
Korel Laloix: lol
Bruce Mowbray: indeed, K is noble.
Agatha Macbeth: And cute
Bruce Mowbray: I hereby proclaim K to be noble.... Shall I notify the Queen?
Agatha Macbeth: Dunno, is he in?
Bruce Mowbray: just received a notice from Bertram.
Korel Laloix: brb
Agatha Macbeth: Yep, moi aussi
Bruce Mowbray: waits and waits and waits.
Agatha Macbeth: All comes to he who waits
Agatha Macbeth: Alledgedly
Wol Euler: back in a sec, RL calling
Bruce Mowbray: ahhhhh! Well then, perhaps I'm waiting for everything to come
Agatha Macbeth: Tell RL to bugger off
Bruce Mowbray: no problem, Wol.
Agatha Macbeth: Nuisance
Bruce Mowbray: ducks away momentarily, also.
Agatha Macbeth sighs
Agatha Macbeth hums
Agatha Macbeth: Mmmmm mmmm
Agatha Macbeth: ♫ Whistle whistle ♪
Agatha Macbeth:
Agatha Macbeth: Now solitaire's the only game in town...
--BELL--1345
Agatha Macbeth: Shhhh!
Wol Euler smiles.
Agatha Macbeth: Apologies for the havy irony
Bruce Mowbray: also smiles
Agatha Macbeth: +e
Bruce Mowbray: havy?
Bruce Mowbray: heavy.
Bruce Mowbray: ahhhh!
Agatha Macbeth: HEAVY man!!
Bruce Mowbray ponders gravy irony.
Agatha Macbeth: I like gravy
Bruce Mowbray: Have you ever looked at your gravy and thought ironic thoughts?
Agatha Macbeth: Nope
Agatha Macbeth: Just go 'mmmm'
Bruce Mowbray: me neither, just asking.
Agatha Macbeth: Wavy Gravy
Bruce Mowbray: gravy tsunami?
Agatha Macbeth: Wonder if he's still alive?
Bruce Mowbray: who is that?
Agatha Macbeth: Wavy Gravy...he was at Woodstock
Bruce Mowbray: oh my.....
Bruce Mowbray: never heard of him.
Agatha Macbeth: Mm
Agatha Macbeth: Not sure who he was exactly, just remember him being there
Wol Euler: wasn't he head of security or something?
Agatha Macbeth: Not sure
Wol Euler: vaguely administrative
Bruce Mowbray: https://www.google.com/search?q=wavy...w=1476&bih=771
Agatha Macbeth: Maybe Altamont needed him more
Wol Euler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavy_Gravy
Wol Euler: great photo :)
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Agatha Macbeth looks
Bruce Mowbray: This is a new one for me.
Agatha Macbeth: Oh he's younger than I thought :p
Bruce Mowbray: 78.
Wol Euler: "tie-dyed false teeth". Wow.
Agatha Macbeth: Wonder if he's related to that other Romney?
Bruce Mowbray: I sure hope not!
Wol Euler: neither of them would acknowledge the other, I'm sure :)
Bruce Mowbray: I agree with Wol.
Bruce Mowbray: ;-)
Agatha Macbeth: Well, both clowns in their own way
Bruce Mowbray: for sure.
Bruce Mowbray: bring in the clowns.
Agatha Macbeth: I'm sure the old SL Woodstock had those t-shirts
Bruce Mowbray: my typist remembers making tie-dye T-shirts.... with rubber bands and dies of various colors.
Bruce Mowbray: I don't think they do it that way anymore.
Agatha Macbeth: Wol and me were at the last night before it closed
Bruce Mowbray: dyes*
Bruce Mowbray: You were at Woodstock!!!!!!!???????
Agatha Macbeth: Don't dye on us Brucie! :p
Bruce Mowbray dies from laughing....
Agatha Macbeth: In SL yes
Bruce Mowbray: WOWOWOWOWOW!
Agatha Macbeth: I think Eidolon was with us
Wol Euler: with Eidolon, listening to Grace McDunnough
Wol Euler: yep
Agatha Macbeth: yeh
Wol Euler: we all wore the same dress :)
Bruce Mowbray: hmmmmm.
Wol Euler: well, one each
Agatha Macbeth: Oh wow
Agatha Macbeth: Haha
Bruce Mowbray: On dress per each, a wise move.
Agatha Macbeth: I'm sure I have a pic of that somewhere
Bruce Mowbray: One*
Agatha Macbeth: Dear Eidolon, hope she's okay
Agatha Macbeth: And Corvi too
Wol Euler: haven't seen either of those in a long time
Bruce Mowbray: Wol, have you downloaded the new Firestorm?
Agatha Macbeth sighs
Agatha Macbeth: I have
Bruce Mowbray: I have also.
Wol Euler: yup
Wol Euler: very smooth
Agatha Macbeth: Doesn't seem any improvement tho
Wol Euler: but to be honest the old one was close to fine too
Bruce Mowbray: I have still not been able to discern whether there is an improvement....
Agatha Macbeth: I still turn up grey a lot
Bruce Mowbray: but I enjoyed the name of the folks who supposedly did the improvements....
Bruce Mowbray: "Interesting" or something like that?
Agatha Macbeth: Whirly Fizzle?
Bruce Mowbray: !!
Bruce Mowbray: Good people, I am going to settle in at Bertram's meditation now. Thank you for your company.
Wol Euler: good idea
Agatha Macbeth: Actually Jessica's quite a babe too
Agatha Macbeth: Yeh
Wol Euler: see you there
Agatha Macbeth: Shall we?
Wol Euler: let's do.