2016.05.28.13:00 - Sandwiches, Trains, and Antlers

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

Korel Laloix: Heya
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Kori.
Bruce Mowbray: Really really busy today -- good to be able to sit down for a while.
Korel Laloix: I know the feeling.
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Bruce Mowbray: Trying to help friends buy a new house,
Bruce Mowbray: but my phone doesn't work, and the cash advance we needed didn't go through,
Korel Laloix: Packing up for a overnight trip tomorrow. Was cooking all day. Sama is doing some Habitat for Humanity stuff.
Bruce Mowbray: but we finally got that fixed,
Korel Laloix: Sounds painful.
Bruce Mowbray: and then got new phone service hooked up.
Korel Laloix: Hope it all works out for the best.
Bruce Mowbray: Don't EVER go for VONAGE.
Bruce Mowbray: The banker and I were on the phone with Capital One "specialists" for THREE HOURS yesterday and ONE HOUR this morning - in order to get the cash advance.
Korel Laloix: Never have tried that one.
Bruce Mowbray: I guess they thought I was an international drug lord, or something.
Korel Laloix: You aren't?... smiles
Korel Laloix: So much for my cheap deals...
Bruce Mowbray: Yeah, they call me "El- Bruco"
Korel Laloix giggles
Korel Laloix: I can see your post office picture now...
Bruce Mowbray: This is the first chance I'd had to eat all day, so I am making a sandwich...
Bruce Mowbray: but first I had to cut the gristle out of the ham slices - grrrr.
Korel Laloix: Having a big bowl of chili.

--BELL--

Korel Laloix: I hate that.
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, the antlers show up nicely in mug shots.
Korel Laloix: lol
Korel Laloix: I bet they do.
Bruce Mowbray: I can change their color to match the backgrounds.
Korel Laloix: I still have copies of my mugshot... horrible picture of me at a horrible time of my life. If my name was not on it, I would not recognize myself. It is that bad.
Bruce Mowbray: I had to be fingerprinted and have a mug shot taken when I worked for the prison system - but fortunately, they let me go home every night.
Bruce Mowbray: I wouldn't recognize myself either -- I was about 45 years younger then.
Bruce Mowbray: YUM YUM. This sandwich is GREAT!
Bruce Mowbray: My stomach is yelling "THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!"
Korel Laloix: I am sweating from the chili... smiles... good stuff, will be better Tuesday.
Korel Laloix: What kind of bread?
Bruce Mowbray: My sandwich has 12-grain bread...
Bruce Mowbray: It has real UMPPH to it. Love it.
Bruce Mowbray: See my black antlers?
Korel Laloix: I do like that kind, but I really prefer tortillas.
Korel Laloix: You accessorize so well Bruce... smiles
Bruce Mowbray: Tortillas are great too.
Bruce Mowbray: gold antlers.
Korel Laloix: Fashion show!
Korel Laloix: lol
Bruce Mowbray: brown with light tips.
Korel Laloix: Did you buy the fat pack?
Korel Laloix: Have any tattoos?
Bruce Mowbray: No tattoos, and I don't know what a fat pack is.
Bruce Mowbray: copper
Korel Laloix: When you buy things in SL, you can sometimes buy what they cal a Fat Pack which as several items of the same type, just in different sizes or colors or the like.
Bruce Mowbray: white with black tips.
Bruce Mowbray: Ahhh. No, these antlers have only the color changes - don't know if I could even change their size - never tried that.
Bruce Mowbray: OMG!
Korel Laloix: lol... not so good out there I don't think.
Bruce Mowbray: Maybe I DO have the fat pack, after all!
Xirana Oximoxi: hi Bruce and Kori! :)
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Xir!
Xirana Oximoxi: I just came for a second to see the sculptures :)
Korel Laloix: Heya
Bruce Mowbray: I haven't looked at them yet. Care to go down there with me, Kori?
Xirana Oximoxi: just to see if I get inspired:)
 
--BELL--

Xirana Oximoxi: I try to come back later Bruce...to the guardians session...I must go for a while :)
Korel Laloix: Ciao
Bruce Mowbray: kk, bye for now, Xir.
Xirana Oximoxi: see you soon!
Xirana Oximoxi: :)
Bruce Mowbray waves
Bruce Mowbray thinks "My antlers are still a bit too big."
Korel Laloix: Own your fashion statement... smiles
Bruce Mowbray: I wish I could get my fashion statement balanced.
Bruce Mowbray: Still too large, but will do for now.
Korel Laloix: I thought you had some with Christmas bulbs on them as well.
Bruce Mowbray: By Wednesday evening, I will also own another RL house.
Bruce Mowbray: I do have Xmas antlers, and some others as well.
Korel Laloix: What made you start collecting?
Bruce Mowbray: People kept giving them to me.
Korel Laloix: As long as you don't have them all over your living room.. lol.. like my brothers do....
Bruce Mowbray: This fashion statement comes with blue fish, a different facial expression, and a strange t-shirt.
Bruce Mowbray: I have only ONE pair of antlers in my living room.
Bruce Mowbray: I found those in RL.
Korel Laloix: Not sure why but having a dead animal head looking at me has never appealed... I do go hunting occasionally, but want it in the dining room, no the living room. grins
Bruce Mowbray: I grew up with a dead animal head in my bedroom....
Bruce Mowbray: don't know who got it or brought it there.
Bruce Mowbray: convinced me never to hunt, though.
Korel Laloix: not my fashion statement at all... smiles

Bruce Mowbray: me neither.
Bruce Mowbray: Had big glassy brown eyes.
 Bruce Mowbray: We have LOTS of deer here in the forest, though.
Korel Laloix: Lot's of deer in our area as well.. Lovely to watch and see.
Bruce Mowbray: My HO model train goes right underneath and between the antlers in my living room.
Korel Laloix: HO model train?
Bruce Mowbray: Yeppers.
Bruce Mowbray: It runs around the ceiling of the living room.
Bruce Mowbray: roughly 80 feet of track.

--BELL--

Bruce Mowbray: I have a Santa Fe diesel engine (actually four of them) and six passenger cars on it right now.
Korel Laloix: I have seen them before, but not one like that for sure.
Bruce Mowbray: It is modeled after the old Amtrak trains.
Bruce Mowbray: circa 1960's, I think.
Bruce Mowbray: observation car, lounge car (at the end), baggage car, post office car, and regular cars --
Korel Laloix: Have only done the Amtrak thing for one long trip. Was not that great. But I did use the train in Europe quite a bit.
Bruce Mowbray: I think Amtrak service in Ohio is horrible.
Bruce Mowbray: NO connections in Columbus - have to go either to Cincinnati or to Toledo or to Cleveland.
Bruce Mowbray: and then the train comes through at 2 a.m. on the way to Chicago.
Bruce Mowbray: or on the way to Washington DC.
Korel Laloix: Does not sound convenient at all.
Bruce Mowbray: It's not.
Bruce Mowbray: I've only done it once - roundtrip.
Bruce Mowbray: Got home at something like 4 or 5 a.m.
Bruce Mowbray: not good.
Korel Laloix: If we are ever going to get away from planes, they need to sort out trains.
Bruce Mowbray: Europe and Canada are wonderful for trains.
Korel Laloix: brb
Bruce Mowbray: It has been proposed several times to have a line running from Cincinnati through Columbus up to Cleveland - which makes SOOO much sense - since Columbus is the capital, and all.
Bruce Mowbray: but it keeps getting turned down. grrrr.
Bruce Mowbray: A train actually ran through the tiny town north of the farm (5 mi north) at one time.
Bruce Mowbray: connecting towns like Dayton and Circleville, Xanesville, and Wheeling and all the itty bitty towns in between.
Bruce Mowbray: but it would only stop at the small town if someone had to get on or off.
Bruce Mowbray: I did trains in Scotland -- WONDERFUL!
Bruce Mowbray: and in France and Switzerland - equally wonderful.
Korel Laloix: Back...
Korel Laloix: There just has to be a demand... right now, half of Amtrak tickets are paid for by the government I read.
Korel Laloix: No way to run things.
Bruce Mowbray: Wow! Didn't know that. I guess railroads are too expensive to run and make a profit - sort of like the post office and so many other things.
Korel Laloix: From what I read, the freight industry is doing well. But passenger is not so good.
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Eliza. Hope you're feeling better.
Korel Laloix: Would like to take it again if I can.
Eliza Madrigal waves, am so-so :) ty :))

--BELL--

Korel Laloix: Heya
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Kori :)
Bruce Mowbray: We've been discussing sandwiches, antlers, and trains, Eliza.
Eliza Madrigal: interesting! :))
Eliza Madrigal pictures a train of sandwiches
Bruce Mowbray: and HO model trains that run around living room ceilings, too.
Eliza Madrigal smiles
Bruce Mowbray: --- carrying sandwiches.
Eliza Madrigal giggles
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Blub
Bruce Mowbray: Blub says, "Blub blub, Eliza and Kori."
Eliza Madrigal blows bubbles
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, but Blub can also turn off the bubble machine.
Eliza Madrigal: fancy
Eliza Madrigal: hope things sorted out for you too, this week, Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: There - no bubbles.
Korel Laloix: Nice... smiles
Bruce Mowbray: he can also swim faster.
Eliza Madrigal knits Blub a race sweater
Bruce Mowbray never saw such a show-off fish.
Bruce Mowbray sends Blub to the time-out corner.
Eliza Madrigal: aw, fancy fish need to parade sometimes
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Bruce Mowbray: I think I'll head on up to the guardians mtg now.
Bruce Mowbray: See you folks up there, maybe.
Eliza Madrigal: OK, will follow, sys
Eliza Madrigal: am going to look at the projects a little more closely first....
Eliza Madrigal: see you soon, Kori
Korel Laloix: Ciao