2016.07.30 01:00 - Missing Pema

The Guardian for this meeting was Wol...

Wol Euler: good morning adams!
Wol Euler: you are up early, or very late
Adams Rubble: Goodmorning Wol :)
Adams Rubble: Iamup in the middle of the night
Adams Rubble: There is a cat here who is confused
Wol Euler: oops :)
Adams Rubble: the other day, people were talking about Faenek
Wol Euler: mmhmm
Adams Rubble: Fael had given me a relative of faenik's
Adams Rubble: Adael
Wol Euler smiles.
Wol Euler: hello adael

--BELL--

Wol Euler grins.
Wol Euler: snap
Wol Euler: ah, happy times
Adams Rubble: The political conventions in the US have been very distracting bit to mention the Brexit in UK
Wol Euler nods.
Wol Euler: the world is falling into madness, I fear. This feels just like 1933 all over again
Adams Rubble: I was thinking more 1914 in Europe
Wol Euler: perhaps :) 1914 wasn't based in malice though, that was just ignorance and pride
Wol Euler: there is true malice at work in the world again these days
Adams Rubble: Have to wait until November to see about US
Adams Rubble: Close enough to make one uneasy

Wol Euler: I cannot imagine -- I could, but I dare not -- what a lunatic like Trump would do
Wol Euler: scary stuff
Wol Euler: and that apparently a significantly large proportion of the US electorate considers him to be a sane and decent person? even worse
Adams Rubble: I still can not fathom how he got a bump out of his convention
Wol Euler: people applauding rage and ignorance, god knows why
Adams Rubble: simple racism
Wol Euler: yes
Wol Euler: and he's done the US a favour perhaps in bringing that out of the closet at last
Adams Rubble: do you spell flavor with a u too?

Adams Rubble: When I was in college I wrote a paper on Titian
Wol Euler: canadians do, our british heritage
Wol Euler listens.
Adams Rubble: I thought it would be cool to spell colour with a u
Adams Rubble: my professor circled every colour as a spelling mistake
Adams Rubble: he also wrote a nasty note which I forget
Adams Rubble: since then I have been very conscious of the Us :)
Wol Euler: sounds like an arse
Adams Rubble: They were much rougher in those days
Wol Euler: which he would doubtless have "corrected" to ass
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: given it was a paper on Titian, there were lots and lots of colours
Wol Euler: ha yes
Adams Rubble: It was amusing to read that many UK people were talking about moving to Canada during the Brexit thing; it will become very crowded up there if Trump wins
Wol Euler grins.
Wol Euler: if we let you all in
Adams Rubble: build a wall

--BELL--

Wol Euler: and make the americans pay for it. right.
Adams Rubble: :)
Wol Euler nods.
Wol Euler: I miss those days of focus and deliberation
Adams Rubble: and being able to come to PaB any of 4 times a day
Adams Rubble: I have been missing that lately
Adams Rubble: I have been thinking lots about Pema
Wol Euler listens.
Adams Rubble: I just miss his presence in SL
Wol Euler nods.
Adams Rubble: you said it well--focus and deliberation
Wol Euler: we lack a leader

Adams Rubble: I remember well your first day as a guardian :)
Wol Euler smiles.
Adams Rubble: it was something you stayed
Wol Euler: I remember the day of my "interview", not sure about my actual first session
Adams Rubble: your first session was before I came into PaB
Wol Euler: surely not?
Wol Euler: because you were with Pema at that interview
Adams Rubble: oh yes, it is in the logs :)
Wol Euler: I'll have to go back and read that again, then
Wol Euler: I remember all the theme sessions

Adams Rubble: Sometime in May; I came in early June
Adams Rubble: Fael took me under her wing
Wol Euler: same here actually, she introduced me to PaB (in a different av form at first)
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: I liked your other AV :)
Adams Rubble: Adael is a bit different than Faenik
Wol Euler: Faenik was chattier and less thoughful, iirc
Adams Rubble: what is iirc?
Wol Euler: If I Remember Correctly
Adams Rubble: ahhh, obviouly I didn't :)

--BELL--

Adams Rubble: hmm, I wonder why we do not spell that obviosly?
Wol Euler smiles.
Wol Euler: english is hellishly difficult, regarding the difference between pronunciation and spelling
Adams Rubble nods
Wol Euler: "plough through tough dough" is my favourite example
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: we plow in US :) (or used to)
Wol Euler: ha
Wol Euler: all done in China these days, like everything else
Adams Rubble: or by huuuuge machines
Wol Euler nods.

Wol Euler: the machines are part-problem and part-solution though
Wol Euler: I see that with my uncles and their neighbours
Adams Rubble: all the plowshares have been turned into guns in US
Wol Euler: ha! sadly true
Wol Euler: kids don't want to be farmers, they want to go to the city and drink cappuccinos and read fancy magazines on their smartphones
Wol Euler: either the land goes back to nature and we all go hungry, or ever fewer farmers need to run ever more acres
Adams Rubble: my grandfather was a farmer and I learned there that I did not want to be a farmer
Wol Euler: exactly :)
Adams Rubble: my mother left for the city
Adams Rubble: but we loved going there for the nature
Adams Rubble: it is hard work out in those hot fields

Wol Euler: I love the farm and the people, I admire and respect them more than I could say
Adams Rubble: my grandfather tried living in the city but he had farming in his veins
Wol Euler: but I couldn't live there, I'd go mad
Adams Rubble: I think farmers may be too busy to go mad :)
Wol Euler: hehehehehh
Wol Euler: perhaps
Wol Euler: I don't really know what they do
Adams Rubble: first they get up a daybreak to feed the animals
Adams Rubble: then they come in and have breakfast
Wol Euler: ah yes, animals are 24/7/365
Wol Euler: only one of my relatives still has cows, Slightly Mad Aunt Emily
Adams Rubble: if it is Spring they then spend the day plowing in the fields
Wol Euler: and a second day seeding, and a third day fertilizing
Adams Rubble: taking a break to come in for lunch
Wol Euler: and a few weeks in a day of weedspraying
Wol Euler: but that's basically it until harvest
Adams Rubble: then supper and then back to tending to animals until after dark
Wol Euler: which is hell on wheels for a week, 3 hours sleep a night
Adams Rubble: no they have to harrow, then plant and ten weed
Adams Rubble: not to mention moving the manure from the barn to the fields
Adams Rubble: fixing the equipment
Wol Euler: animals again :)
Wol Euler: oh I know they are busy, I see them at it
Adams Rubble: my grandfather was always tinkering with his old tractors
Wol Euler: the energy and sheer able-ness is quite intimidating
Adams Rubble: yes
Adams Rubble: and if the shingles on the barn get loose, they climb up there and fix them
Wol Euler: yep
Wol Euler: built most of their farm buildings themselves
Adams Rubble: that I could never do
Adams Rubble: afraid of heights

Wol Euler: their Swiss neighbour Urs fixes their equipment, right down to casting and welding metal for replacement parts on-the-spot
Adams Rubble: wowza
Wol Euler: I can take apart bicycles, this guy takes apart ten-ton machines that cost a quarter million dollars
Adams Rubble: his tractors were simpler :)
Wol Euler: yeah
Wol Euler: and smaller
Wol Euler: as everything was
Adams Rubble: one of my fond memories is going with my grandfather to a tractor parts store
Adams Rubble: it was sooooo neat
Adams Rubble: all the parts in little boxes
Wol Euler: you couldn't drive my cousin Pat's seeder down the street in front of my apartment building with its arms unfolded
Wol Euler: mmhmm
Adams Rubble: it would scare people if you could
Wol Euler: that too :)

--BELL--

Adams Rubble: It always amazes me that these pavilions look the same at 5:00 in the morning as they do later at 10:00 and 11:00
Wol Euler smiles.
Adams Rubble: well, I must go back to bed and try for another little nap
Wol Euler nods.
Adams Rubble: I hope you have a very good day
Wol Euler: I wish you well, and feline cooperation
Wol Euler: bye for now
Adams Rubble: the cats have been rubbing my legs all this time :)
Wol Euler smiles.
Adams Rubble: bye for now