2014.09.20 01:00 - neverending swimming pool

The Guardian for this meeting was No Self. The comments are by No Self.

Agatha Macbeth: Good moaning :)
Wol Euler: greetings and salutations
Agatha Macbeth gives Wollie a huge hug
Wol Euler basks in it and smiles
--BELL--
Agatha Macbeth: Nothing like a quiet Saturday morning
Wol Euler smiles.
Wol Euler: how's England?
Agatha Macbeth: Dark and wet
Wol Euler: awwww
Agatha Macbeth: Nothing new
Wol Euler: I remember it well
Agatha Macbeth: Mira certainly goes overboard on the notices
Wol Euler: I don't get them, not in that group
Agatha Macbeth: Everything I've got here is from her
Wol Euler: heheh
Agatha Macbeth: A somewhat verbose Sheila as they say
Wol Euler shakes her head.
Wol Euler smiles.
Agatha Macbeth: At least she cares :)
Wol Euler: true
Wol Euler: nice to have something to focus on
Agatha Macbeth: Like orcs
Wol Euler: exactly
Wol Euler: le mot juste
Wol Euler smiles.
Agatha Macbeth: Oui
Wol Euler: I wonder whether people in the West still know and would comprehend expressions from the industrial age, for example "cloth-eared"
Wol Euler: meaning "deafened by working on machine looms"
Agatha Macbeth: I'm sure they do
Wol Euler: really?
Agatha Macbeth: Well the Northern ones would
Wol Euler: I was reading Chuang Tzu this morning, as one does, and came upon the expression "like a king facing south"
Wol Euler: indicating extreme contentment
Agatha Macbeth: Why south exactly?
Wol Euler: indeed
Wol Euler: 2400 years later, I don't know
Wol Euler: other experts might
Agatha Macbeth: Must be a cultural thing
Wol Euler: a chinese person who was as literate in her tradition as I am in mine (coughs modestly) might know
Agatha Macbeth: Interesting notion: contentment coming from a certain direction
Wol Euler nods.
Wol Euler: why, though, in what form
Wol Euler: we can speculate (warmth, perhaps) but not know
Wol Euler: unless some contemporary of his took the time to compile a book of commonplace sayings and explained them
Wol Euler: an early Chinese Johnson
Agatha Macbeth: When did he write?
Wol Euler: 300 BC
Agatha Macbeth: Ah
Agatha Macbeth: Maybe it's a bit like feng shui
--BELL--
Wol Euler: perhaps
Agatha Macbeth: Suffice to say it meant something to him at any rate
Wol Euler nods.
Wol Euler: the past is a foreign country, as they say
Agatha Macbeth: As is China :p
Wol Euler: and the past *of* a foreign country doubly so
Agatha Macbeth: Foreignly foreign
Agatha Macbeth: Vely insclutable
Wol Euler raises an eyebrow.
Agatha Macbeth stops being racist and shuts up
Wol Euler grins.
Agatha Macbeth: Have you seen or heard anything of FC or Star recently?
Wol Euler: not in ages actually
Wol Euler: now that you mention it
Agatha Macbeth: Do hope she's alright
Wol Euler: Fc was last on in June
Agatha Macbeth sighs
Wol Euler: star was on a month ago
Agatha Macbeth: Ah, not so bad
Wol Euler: it's like looking up at night at the light from a star or planet and knowing that at least 150 years ago that star still existed :)
Agatha Macbeth: I guess
Agatha Macbeth: Twinkle twinkle
Agatha Macbeth: Liz was talking about moving the group meeting to Saturday
Wol Euler: the guardians`
Wol Euler: ?
Agatha Macbeth: Yeppers
Wol Euler: that would suit me better
Agatha Macbeth: You'll be at Fracture tho?
Agatha Macbeth: She suggested 2PM
Wol Euler: oh damn
Wol Euler: that would not work at all
Wol Euler: why not the same 8am?`
Agatha Macbeth: Well for a start I couldn't make it then
Wol Euler: hmmm
Agatha Macbeth: Probably not some others too
Wol Euler: I suppose no time and date suits everyone
Wol Euler: what with the world being round, and all that
Agatha Macbeth: You could just come away early on those days I suppose
Wol Euler gasps!
Wol Euler: leave Fracture early?
Wol Euler: oh wait, 2pm is after the show
Wol Euler: that would work
Agatha Macbeth: Doesn't it usually wind up around 2.30 anyway?
Wol Euler: right
Agatha Macbeth: Yay
--BELL--
Agatha Macbeth: How are the buildings coming along?
Wol Euler: the process is heating up
Agatha Macbeth: Ooh
Wol Euler: we need to have the tender documents for the ... hmm, dunno the english expression ... concrete work and earthworks ... finished in two weeks, so we can start on site in January
Agatha Macbeth: Aha
Agatha Macbeth: This has gone past the competition stage then?
Wol Euler: this one never was a competition. Since it's adding to a project we finished two years back, and since all concerned were happy with the process, we were simply granted the contract
Agatha Macbeth: Oh right
Agatha Macbeth: Not the swimming pool?
Wol Euler: yes, the swimming pool
Wol Euler: extending its sauna part
Agatha Macbeth: Oh my
Wol Euler: yep, a victim of its own success
Agatha Macbeth: That place is like the neverending story
Wol Euler: that's what we hope :)
Wol Euler: at least we are getting money for this bi8t
Wol Euler: *bit
Agatha Macbeth: When you think how long it actually took to build
Wol Euler: year and a half, roughly
Wol Euler: just under half of the complete process
Agatha Macbeth: Thought it was longer than that
Wol Euler: as I said, the complete process was three and a half years
Wol Euler: plus running repairs and troubleshooting
Agatha Macbeth nods
Agatha Macbeth: Yes I recall the troubleshooting well
Agatha Macbeth: And the builder going on the Haj to Mecca halfway through
Wol Euler: ha!
Wol Euler smiles.
Wol Euler: that you remembered that
Agatha Macbeth: Hm
Wol Euler: yes, he did; didn't stop him going bankrupt later on though
Agatha Macbeth: I thought it was so funny at the time
Wol Euler: She Who Must Be Obeyed
Agatha Macbeth: Perhaps he forgot to come back
Wol Euler: just bad luck, perhaps; though I did hear from someone else who was suing him for return of moneys paid in advance
Wol Euler: three companies went broke during that project
Agatha Macbeth: Hm
Agatha Macbeth: Well at least they won't be involved this time round
--BELL--
Wol Euler: heheheh
Agatha Macbeth: Was Max at dreams on Tuesday?
Wol Euler: yes!
Agatha Macbeth: Oh good
Wol Euler: only she and Pila and myself
Agatha Macbeth: She is still coming then
Wol Euler: mmhmm
Agatha Macbeth: Yes I got it into my head it was Monday for some reason
Wol Euler sighs.
Agatha Macbeth shrugs
Wol Euler leans over and blows firmly into your ear
Agatha Macbeth falls sideways
Wol Euler pulls you back up again
Agatha Macbeth: TY
Agatha Macbeth: I do hope Bruce is OK
Wol Euler: he comes and goes, like the chaps in the Bible
Wol Euler: and yes, frivolity aside, so do I
Agatha Macbeth: Maybe the dragon got too annoying
Agatha Macbeth: Needs some time away from it
Wol Euler: unplug it, then
Agatha Macbeth: My arms aren't long enough
Wol Euler: *he* should unplug it
Agatha Macbeth: Ah
Agatha Macbeth: Anyways, I needs the lavabo
Wol Euler: and I needs to get the shopping done
Wol Euler: Germany still closes early on Saturdays, at least outside the downttown core
Wol Euler: enjoy the weekend, dear aggers
Agatha Macbeth: See you tomorrow then dear
Wol Euler: up
Wol Euler: yup
Agatha Macbeth: Stay short
Wol Euler: :-P
Agatha Macbeth waves