The Guardian for this meeting was Riddle Sideways. The comments are by Riddle Sideways.

Bleu Oleander: 's current display-name is "Bleu".
Bleu Oleander: hey Riddle
Riddle Sideways: hi Bleu
Riddle Sideways: just back from a crash
Bleu Oleander: :)

Bleu Oleander: how's things?
Riddle Sideways: ah, the claim does not servive crash
Riddle Sideways: things?, hmmm checking
Riddle Sideways: very dark outside still
Riddle Sideways: time changes next week for everybody except you
Riddle Sideways: you are always the constant
Bleu Oleander: yes ... silly the time change thing
Riddle Sideways: at least your state of time stays constant :)
Bleu Oleander: :)
Bleu Oleander: brings the east coast closer :)
Riddle Sideways: it is nice that it reminds everybody that time measurements are arbitrary
Bleu Oleander: yes
Bleu Oleander: first chilly morning here
Riddle Sideways: friends in Cleveland reported they got snow already
Bleu Oleander: too early for that!

Riddle Sideways: bell, please be mindful that ur 2 minutes early
               --BELL--
Bleu Oleander: oops lost Riddle
Bleu Oleander: run riddle run
Riddle Sideways: back
Riddle Sideways: why is avi running?
Bleu Oleander: very athletic guy
Riddle Sideways: so, SL viewer on desktop crashes with latest forced update
Riddle Sideways: it had to be installed after cleaning everything off
Riddle Sideways: see how long the laptop will stay running
Riddle Sideways: now then

Riddle Sideways: what were we talkin bout
Bleu Oleander: hehe
Riddle Sideways: Salons
Bleu Oleander: ah yes
Riddle Sideways: heard that our area has them
Bleu Oleander: really?
Bleu Oleander: link?
Riddle Sideways: local NPR station has them
Bleu Oleander: where people meet up to have conversations?
Riddle Sideways: for a modest huge amount we can get an invite
Bleu Oleander: what is your local NPR station?
Riddle Sideways: heard about it all pledge break week long
Bleu Oleander: so a perk for pledge?
Riddle Sideways: KAZU - kazoo
Bleu Oleander: http://kazu.org/kazu-salon-series#stream/0
Riddle Sideways: you is so fast
Bleu Oleander: we're much more reasonable!
Bleu Oleander: checking out the competition lol
Bleu Oleander: 3 or 4 times a year??!!
Bleu Oleander: we do 12 a month !!!
Riddle Sideways: you is so much better
Riddle Sideways: for $1000 we can go chat
Bleu Oleander: I think so
Bleu Oleander: I thought talk was cheap
Riddle Sideways: Leon Pinetta series is better
Riddle Sideways: expensive, but the school kids get in free earlier
Riddle Sideways: so we are paying for others to hear the talks
               --BELL--
Bleu Oleander: we have a salon thursday on the brain and aging
Riddle Sideways: 12 a month! that is like very 2.33 days
Bleu Oleander: everyone signed up for that!!
Bleu Oleander: yes, we're out many nights a month
Riddle Sideways: ah, would like that
Bleu Oleander: will report back if any new news
Riddle Sideways: the brain
Riddle Sideways: ok
Riddle Sideways: have heard that using brains is a good thing
Riddle Sideways: and that aging is bad
Bleu Oleander: probably still true lol
Riddle Sideways: wonder about the Lumiosity and Fit Brains sites
Riddle Sideways: they spread lots of hype
Bleu Oleander: exercise and eating well and sleeping enough ... pretty basic
Riddle Sideways: how playing computer games keeps the brain in good shape
Bleu Oleander: staying engaged
Bleu Oleander: you get good at computer games
Riddle Sideways: thinking it is the video game generation spreading hype
Riddle Sideways: to justify
Bleu Oleander: reading is good too
Riddle Sideways: the wasted youth
Bleu Oleander: unlike our youth was lol
Riddle Sideways: true
Bleu Oleander: youth is wasted on the young
Riddle Sideways: so true
Bleu Oleander: how's your plot coming?
Bleu Oleander: redesigning it?
Riddle Sideways: studying the trees
Riddle Sideways: wondering if the trees are the best they can be
Riddle Sideways: iffy on Cypresses
Riddle Sideways: but need to be consistant
Bleu Oleander: consistant?
Riddle Sideways: why is pavillioni plot not being bordered?
Bleu Oleander: I personally like it open
Bleu Oleander: especially since we have no neighbors to n or s
Riddle Sideways: would like to be consistant wall of trees or whatever with all the other plots
Bleu Oleander: did you mention that to San?
Riddle Sideways: yes, would prefer open
Riddle Sideways: not yet
Riddle Sideways: have an email
Bleu Oleander: she is trying to involve you guys
Riddle Sideways: to respond to
Bleu Oleander: perhaps have a community meeting ... the north side community?
Bleu Oleander: hi Adams
Riddle Sideways: it is in the pile of corespondence that needs to be gotten to

Riddle Sideways: Hi Adams
Riddle Sideways: just in time
Adams Rubble: Hello Folks. I almost missed you
Riddle Sideways: :)
Bleu Oleander: nice to see you!
Adams Rubble: thank you, you too
Bleu Oleander: how's everything at the beach?
Adams Rubble: well my plot is fine :)
Adams Rubble: please do not let me interrupt
Bleu Oleander: haven't been there in a while
Riddle Sideways: please interrupt
Bleu Oleander: we were talking trees
Adams Rubble: we need more of them
Riddle Sideways: but, do we need them as a wall along the border
Bleu Oleander: have you checked out the new Mieum areas?
Adams Rubble: best antidote to global warming other than stop burning fossil fuels
Adams Rubble: no, I haven't had a chance to check out here
Bleu Oleander: we planted lots of trees there
Riddle Sideways: yes, in RL
Adams Rubble thought we were talking of rl trees :)
Riddle Sideways: in SL? not so sure
Adams Rubble: hehe
Bleu Oleander: funny!
               --BELL--
Bleu Oleander: fuzzy edges
Bleu Oleander: rl sl
Riddle Sideways: brain exercises
Adams Rubble up a tree

Riddle Sideways: to tree or not to tree ... that is the question
Riddle Sideways: for some other time
Bleu Oleander: just re-read Hamlet
Bleu Oleander: my favorite shakespeare I think
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: each reading gets new stuff

Bleu Oleander: also reading a very interesting book, Hamlet in Purgatory by S. Greenblatt
Bleu Oleander: history of purgatory ... so fascinating!
Bleu Oleander: written by a scholar of shakespeare
Bleu Oleander: sorry, digressed a bit
Adams Rubble: that's a requirement in PaB :)
Riddle Sideways: from what?
Bleu Oleander: to tree or not to tree :)
Bleu Oleander: of SL and RL lives, I should add my book life too :)
Riddle Sideways: time changes everywhere except in Bleu's state of ...
Bleu Oleander: seems a whole other world
Bleu Oleander: Bleu's state is constantly changing lol
Riddle Sideways: BL - Book Life
Bleu Oleander: right!
Adams Rubble: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Bleu Oleander: so many great lines in Hamlet!
Bleu Oleander: Greenblatt also wrote "will in the world" ... good book
Bleu Oleander: and "the swerve" my favorite of his books
Bleu Oleander: ok enough BL ... back to SL :)
Adams Rubble amused at assuming S.Greenblatt was a woman's name
Riddle Sideways: BSBL
Riddle Sideways: Being Seeing Book Life
Adams Rubble: :)
Bleu Oleander: :)

Bleu Oleander: well must get back to RL ... nice to see you both!
Adams Rubble: bye
Riddle Sideways: ok, bye and thanks
Bleu Oleander: check out the new Mieum gardens
Adams Rubble: Life is like a beanstalk, isn;t it?
Bleu Oleander: ha! yes
Bleu Oleander: have a great day!
Bleu Oleander: bfn
Riddle Sideways: :)
Adams Rubble: you too bleu
Riddle Sideways: BRB - Being Reading Books
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: I should let you go, not polite to come late and then keep you over
Riddle Sideways: woke up Sunday around 7:15 and thought about getting up
Riddle Sideways: for your session
Riddle Sideways: but didn't get up to it
Adams Rubble: :)
               --BELL--
Riddle Sideways: some day
Adams Rubble: I understand having a hard time getting to sessions
Riddle Sideways: not this next Sunday
Riddle Sideways: play music in a bar Saturday night
Adams Rubble: I woke up this morning determined to be here at 7 am
Riddle Sideways: wondering what time it closes
Adams Rubble: then got busy and it was way after
Riddle Sideways: got up this morning and was ready, but computer was not
Adams Rubble: ohhhh
Adams Rubble: the light changes throw one off too
Riddle Sideways: yep
Adams Rubble: one's body keeps asking "what the hell is going on?"
Riddle Sideways: yep. we talked about aging too
Riddle Sideways: one's body keeps asking "what the hell is going on"
Adams Rubble: I have to keep telling it only about 55 days until the solstice
Riddle Sideways: does that help?
Adams Rubble: hehe, no
Riddle Sideways: ok
Riddle Sideways: just added "Time enough for Love" onto the reread BL
Adams Rubble: what is that?
Riddle Sideways: not sure why that was thought of
Riddle Sideways: Heinlein
Adams Rubble reading Wikipedia
Riddle Sideways: the new Book of Knowledge
Riddle Sideways: encyclopedia
Riddle Sideways: kids would not believe we use to have shelves of encyclopias at home
Adams Rubble: I am reading NY School poets this week for my course
Adams Rubble: It is a bit of shock this was going on in my lifetime and I have been oblivious until this week
Riddle Sideways: /wondering about NJ poets
Adams Rubble: finished with the beat poets last week
Adams Rubble: William carlos Williams possibly at the top of the NJ poet list
Riddle Sideways: poetry slams are still going on in NYC
Adams Rubble: and there is Allen Ginsburg
Adams Rubble: born in Newark
Adams Rubble: and Baraka
Riddle Sideways: just heard Patti Smith interview about Allen Ginsburg dying
Adams Rubble: his public image was so different than his demeanor
Adams Rubble: just read Ginsburg Kaddish for his mother
Adams Rubble: can you say more about the interview?
Riddle Sideways: Fresh Air interview
               --BELL--
Riddle Sideways: will look up the Ginsburg Kaddish
Riddle Sideways: will need to read that
Riddle Sideways: so many books, poems, websites, etc., so little time
Adams Rubble: Not to change the subject but isn't it amazing that Gary Snyder is still going strong?
Adams Rubble: yes about the time
Adams Rubble: but isn't it amazing we are still learning?
Riddle Sideways: wow, had not thought of Gary in a long time
Adams Rubble: I listened to an hour long interview on Nevada TV yesterday
Adams Rubble: Recently read Kerouac's Dharma Bums
Adams Rubble: loved the book
Riddle Sideways: problem was that I knew 2 Gary Snyders
Adams Rubble: ohhhh?
Riddle Sideways: remembering that you were reading Dharma
Adams Rubble: will read more Gary Snyder after the course is done; he is not in the course
Riddle Sideways: good that you now have time for taking courses
Adams Rubble: yes :)
Adams Rubble: well I better get going and let you start your day. I think i have a dentist appt next week and probably will not be back in time
Adams Rubble: I hope you have a very nice day :)
Riddle Sideways: thanks
Riddle Sideways: and thanks for the visit
Adams Rubble: very good to see you :)
Adams Rubble: bye for now
Riddle Sideways: GTSY 2
Riddle Sideways: bye