The Guardian for this meeting was Bruce Mowbray. The comments are by Bruce Mowbray.

Riddle Sideways: Hey Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Riddle.
Bruce Mowbray: Can I send a bit of Ohio winter your way?
Riddle Sideways: sure
Riddle Sideways: snowballs in the mail
Riddle Sideways: cold wishes
Bruce Mowbray: The best 'frame' on that photo would be 4:3
Bruce Mowbray: I took it about ten minutes ago.

Riddle Sideways: pretty from this distance
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, it is pretty.
Bruce Mowbray: If you stretch it to full size, it looks even prettier.
Riddle Sideways: 67F here now, but inside is much colder
Bruce Mowbray: brrrr. 67? Don't know how you can deal with that!
Riddle Sideways: hoodies :)
Riddle Sideways: inside
Bruce Mowbray: We'll be down to 19 tonight --- with winds. So actually much colder "real feel."
Riddle Sideways: driveway looks to be footprints not cars
Riddle Sideways: good
Bruce Mowbray: That's my driveway, obviously, with the mailbox at the end, down by the road.
Bruce Mowbray: Nope, have not taken my car out today, yet.
Bruce Mowbray: I'm thinking I'd like to get a bit of scotch to help me bear the NH election returns tonight.
Bruce Mowbray: ... so that would entail a 30-mile roundtrip.
Riddle Sideways: hmmmm, or not listen/watch the news today/tonight
Bruce Mowbray: Right!
Bruce Mowbray: Retain my innocence as long as possible.
 
--BELL--

Riddle Sideways: your world looks so white and black
Bruce Mowbray: I find it curious that two states who had nearly the lowest "happiness rankings" in the country are offering their governor and senator to be President. Kasich (Ohio is 47th) and Paul Rand (Kentucky is even lower than Ohio).
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, it is a biploar world right now.
Bruce Mowbray: with more snow coming as we speak.
Bruce Mowbray: In fact, there was a lot of it coming down when I took that photo.
Bruce Mowbray: [as you might be able to tell.]
Riddle Sideways: son was getting it in Col. during the weekend
Riddle Sideways: 2.5 feet
Bruce Mowbray: Oh, Colorado gets a LOT more than we do.
Bruce Mowbray: Remember the movie "The Shining"?
Riddle Sideways: almost
Bruce Mowbray: and how everything was shut down by the winter storm?
Bruce Mowbray: Having been raised in NW Iowa, I'm used to a LOT of snow, though.
Riddle Sideways: Stephen King
Bruce Mowbray: yes, his novel.
Bruce Mowbray: which I've not read,
Bruce Mowbray: but I did see the movie a couple of times.
Bruce Mowbray: with Jack Nicholson...
Bruce Mowbray: "I'm B-A-C-K !"
Bruce Mowbray: no, I think it was , Johnny's back....
Bruce Mowbray: can't remember.
Riddle Sideways: was looking, did not find
Bruce Mowbray nods.
Riddle Sideways: Heeere's Johnny!
Bruce Mowbray: https://www.google.com/search?q=Jack...h=846&dpr=1.13
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, Here's Johnny!
Riddle Sideways: only ever read one Stephen King
Riddle Sideways: still scared by it
Bruce Mowbray: Me too -- "The Strand"
Riddle Sideways: "The Library Policeman"
Bruce Mowbray: ahhh!
Riddle Sideways: the evil that happens when you don't return a book
Bruce Mowbray: ha ha!
Riddle Sideways: thought it be funny too, but NOOOOOO!!
Bruce Mowbray: Oh my.
Bruce Mowbray: Are you experiencing a lot of rain - this winter - due to the el nino?
Riddle Sideways: was getting rain, but it hasn't rained for some time
Bruce Mowbray: ahhh.
Riddle Sideways: most places are around 150+% of yearly amounts
Bruce Mowbray: I've seen that Southern California is getting a lot.
Bruce Mowbray: Excellent snowpack in the Sierra, too.
Riddle Sideways: some reservoirs are getting toward full
Riddle Sideways: yes, the snow pack is the real good news
Bruce Mowbray: That's wonderful.
Bruce Mowbray: So, no more having to flush the toilet once a week!
Riddle Sideways: lots of trees downed
Bruce Mowbray: Oh wow. Because they had been so dry?
Riddle Sideways: the one across the road seemingly drank too much
Bruce Mowbray: Oh dear.
Riddle Sideways: too much sap up into the big branches
Bruce Mowbray: I was in Berkeley during the drought of 1975...

--BELL--

Riddle Sideways: half split off and fell across the road into the yard
Bruce Mowbray: I remember they had a pipe running across the San Raphael Bridge to bring water to Marin County.
Riddle Sideways: missed the van by a foot
Bruce Mowbray: Sorry you lost a tree - but there was a silver lining, I guess.
Riddle Sideways: got some firewood now
Bruce Mowbray: ahhh!
Riddle Sideways: Attitude is an amazing thing
Bruce Mowbray: yes?
Riddle Sideways: take a bad situation and spin it
Bruce Mowbray: for sure.
Riddle Sideways: have a half glass of good wine and think that it is only half full
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Riddle Sideways: stuck with lemons
Riddle Sideways: so make lemonade
Bruce Mowbray: I feel that what we're trying to do in the TSK sessions is very much like that.
Bruce Mowbray: (Imagination.... attitude)
Riddle Sideways: the attitude toward these exercises
Bruce Mowbray listens.
Riddle Sideways: oh thought of a better word
Riddle Sideways: was not really liking "imagination"
Riddle Sideways: it is more Visualization
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, I guess so....
Riddle Sideways: like that better
Bruce Mowbray: It's intriguing to me how folks are "needing" to fill empty space with something....
Bruce Mowbray: (my interpretation, anyway).
Bruce Mowbray: Like Wol's gravity waves.
Bruce Mowbray: and high-energy particles, etc.
Riddle Sideways: Bleu's?
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, I was also thinking of Bleu's presentation.
Bruce Mowbray: Wol sent a very good video in email, too.
Bruce Mowbray: (about gravity warping space/time)
Riddle Sideways: oh, not seen yet
Bruce Mowbray: I can find the link....
Bruce Mowbray: here it is: http://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1853
Riddle Sideways: Life often seems warped, so why shouldn't space and time also
Riddle Sideways: oh, there is 3 days of unread email in the PaB folder
Bruce Mowbray: oh my!
Riddle Sideways: comic is like the (now finally gone) trampoline (was) in the yard
Riddle Sideways: ever try to sweep a trampoline
Bruce Mowbray: Nods. I think the narrator compares time-space warping to the surface of a tramp
Riddle Sideways: while standing on it
Bruce Mowbray: ha ha, nope.
Riddle Sideways: well, it don't work so good
Bruce Mowbray: I have chronic vertigo, so I feel like I'm walking on a tramp all the time, except when lying down.
Bruce Mowbray: I can imagine.
Bruce Mowbray: [and I find it pretty amazing how my brain's plasticity has learned to cope with that...]
Bruce Mowbray: except when I don't get a good night's sleep.
Riddle Sideways: hard to be mindful with a bad science joke stuck in head
Bruce Mowbray: Care to share it?
Riddle Sideways: actually 2 bad jokes were stuck
Bruce Mowbray nods, kk.

--BELL--

Bruce Mowbray: (loves "Big Bang Theory")
Riddle Sideways: 1. too much Scotch creates vertigo also
Bruce Mowbray: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Bruce Mowbray: I hope that was one of the science jokes....
Riddle Sideways: 2. Gravity doesn't exist ... the Earth Sux
Bruce Mowbray: Hmmm. Fascinating.....
Riddle Sideways: it is probably an attitude thang
Bruce Mowbray nods.
Bruce Mowbray: Actually, I'm on a tight budget, so I'll probably go into town to get wine for watching the election returns, not scotch.
Bruce Mowbray: Scotch is even expensive in Scotland.
Riddle Sideways: hmmmm
Bruce Mowbray: and every little town has its own scotch distillery, in Scotland.
Riddle Sideways: wine can be very expensive in wine country
Bruce Mowbray: so, one would think it would be cheaper than beer over there.
Bruce Mowbray: Well, I guess so.... especially GOOD wine.
Riddle Sideways: too many wine snobs in this county and town/village
Riddle Sideways: there is no cheap wine here
Riddle Sideways: have to drive all the way to Costco

Bruce Mowbray: I've heard there are vineyards in Ohio too, but can't imagine Ohio wine would be anywhere as good as Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino.
Riddle Sideways: last estimate is that there are 26 tasting room in our little village
Bruce Mowbray: Wow.
Bruce Mowbray: There are at least 26 local beer breweries in Columbus...
Bruce Mowbray: it's considered a "craft" activity in Ohio.
Bruce Mowbray: and of course, Anhauser Busch.
Bruce Mowbray: definitely NOT a craft brewery.
Riddle Sideways: ah, now beer is worth being snobby over
Riddle Sideways: life is too short for bad beer
Bruce Mowbray nods, agrees.
Riddle Sideways: except the glass is usually not half full
Riddle Sideways: it is empty
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Bruce Mowbray: Maybe you could find one of the auto-filling glasses.
Riddle Sideways: SuperBowl party was at a homebrewer's house
Bruce Mowbray: Really!
Riddle Sideways: it was really good
Bruce Mowbray: I hope he/she shared generously.
Riddle Sideways: yep
Bruce Mowbray: Yayyy!
Riddle Sideways: but it was gone by halftime
Bruce Mowbray: I was rooting for the Broncos, myself, and was pleased.
Bruce Mowbray: I only watched the fourth quarter, though.
Riddle Sideways: yep, Son was all for Denver
Bruce Mowbray: Didn't even catch the halftime show.
Bruce Mowbray: I can imagine!
Riddle Sideways: the first quarter was good
Riddle Sideways: for Denver
Bruce Mowbray: Hmmmm.
Riddle Sideways: halftime show was nothing special
Bruce Mowbray: Your son will probably go to the victory parade . . .
Riddle Sideways: wonder if Storm has gotten into American football yet
Bruce Mowbray: Hmmmm.
Bruce Mowbray: He's in Colorado too, I think.
Riddle Sideways: yep
Bruce Mowbray nods.
Bruce Mowbray: Well, if he wasn't into it before the Superbowl, he might be now!
Bruce Mowbray: I will me away now - going into town to get wine before the roads get impassable.
Bruce Mowbray: (all schools in this county were closed today).
Riddle Sideways: ok, keep the good attitude
Riddle Sideways: bye
Bruce Mowbray: You too, good man!