The Guardian for this meeting was Adams Rubble. The comments are by Adams Rubble.

It all started with a typo....

Riddle Sideways: Good Morning Adams
Riddle Sideways: looks like a fancy traveling outfit
Riddle Sideways: from back when people got dressed to ride the train to exotic parts
--BELL--
Adams Rubble: sorry my rl avatar was on the phone to the mechanic
Adams Rubble: I am wearing an Edwardian dress to go with the novel i am reading :)
Riddle Sideways: ah
Riddle Sideways: both
Riddle Sideways: hope the mechanic has good news
Adams Rubble: car is going to need some attention from the car doctor
Riddle Sideways: just read you finished the novel series
Riddle Sideways: (that sounds like Covid)
Riddle Sideways: Novel Corona Virus
Adams Rubble: I am on the last novel (not finished)
Riddle Sideways: finished several books, audibles, and started another. feels like a shift
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: it always feels good to finish something
Riddle Sideways: some were getting sooooo long
Adams Rubble: but also sad if it is a novel
Adams Rubble: I need to get back doing some sailing
Riddle Sideways: finished one audible in the car, with half an hour yet to drive, so it started the next in the series
Riddle Sideways: did not know it was a series
Adams Rubble: ohh
Riddle Sideways: decide not to hear all 4 books
Riddle Sideways: 1,234 hours
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: That is 1/7th of a year
Riddle Sideways: had to pull to the side of road and play with all the app menus to get the book wanted
Riddle Sideways: oh dear that would be every Thursday of a year
Adams Rubble: 24 hours
Riddle Sideways: Ain't got no time for dat
Riddle Sideways: then the fool thing said "Sorry, Dave, I can't do that"
Adams Rubble: always good to get back to TIME in a PaB session
Riddle Sideways: ㋡ ha
Riddle Sideways: read the blog on how you started at the End (again)
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: no, I started at the beginning which is why I couldn't sleep
Adams Rubble: some of this stuff can be dangerous
Riddle Sideways: yep
Riddle Sideways: always read the warning about side-effects first
Riddle Sideways: before taking
Adams Rubble: the mind does not like to be messed with
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: can't take a joke
Adams Rubble giggles
Riddle Sideways: messing with minds
Riddle Sideways: reminds of trying to work out the Sunday Puzzle on NPR with Will Shotz
Riddle Sideways: and mis-reading one word
Riddle Sideways: in the instructions
Riddle Sideways: made it impossible
Riddle Sideways: but, had to try
Adams Rubble: I am alwasy misreading instructions
Riddle Sideways: Mind Got Upset
Adams Rubble: oooooh
Riddle Sideways: an Olympic sport with a hyphen. remove the hyphon and get 2 other sports
Adams Rubble: I wonder if there is an evolutionary reason for the fact that the mind resists change
Riddle Sideways: Greco-Roman Wrestling is the only sport
Riddle Sideways: hmmm, probably
Riddle Sideways: evolved to survive
Adams Rubble: bot evolved for enlightenment :)
Riddle Sideways: has learned certain moves to survive
Adams Rubble: not
Riddle Sideways: ㋡ like typo
Riddle Sideways: "The Electric Horseman"
Riddle Sideways: no, it was The Electric Monk
Riddle Sideways: Humanity no longer had time (for dat) to spend seeking enlightment.
Riddle Sideways: or even mild faith
Riddle Sideways: so they created a bot to do it for them
Adams Rubble: that's why the beggin bowl was invented :)
Riddle Sideways: it went on quests and believed in everything it found
Riddle Sideways: yes
Adams Rubble wondering about an enlightened bot
Riddle Sideways: too busy today, can't go to temple. Here's 50 cents, please say a prayer to the ancestors
Adams Rubble: enlightened bot wandering
Riddle Sideways: well, it would be a good idea
Riddle Sideways: of course in the story it goes very bad
Adams Rubble: just like a 20c westernerner
Riddle Sideways: always felt bad for the horse.
Riddle Sideways: it had to wait while the bot-monk worshiped the rock
Adams Rubble: Someone said that if you do not have time to meditate for 20 minutes, you should meditate for an hour
Adams Rubble: forget who
Riddle Sideways: wonder who dat
Adams Rubble: maybe Thich\
--BELL--
Adams Rubble: for some people keeping busy keeps them out of trouble
Riddle Sideways: almost wrote before the pause, that search found it was "an old Zen proverb", but you would have thought I was not meditating the 90-sec
Adams Rubble: :)))\
Adams Rubble: I watched you and you definetely were meditating
Riddle Sideways: giggles
Riddle Sideways: ha, that can happen on Zoom meditations
Adams Rubble: wearing this outfit makes me wonder about busyness and time 100 years ago
Riddle Sideways: a friend turned off her camera 10minutes in, looked for a reference she had written, then put the cam back on
Riddle Sideways: None of us should have noticed
Adams Rubble: ")
Adams Rubble: I am noticing some people turning their cameras off
Riddle Sideways: big stories of school kids turning off cameras
Adams Rubble: less distracting than someone getting up out of their chair and leaving the room :)
Riddle Sideways: yes
Adams Rubble: yes, zoom classes must be hard on the younguns
Adams Rubble: sometimes when I am on zoom, I wish I was at PaB here
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Adams Rubble: may I tell you a secret?
Riddle Sideways listens
Adams Rubble: the other night in a zoom session, my rl avatar became me. Ususally it is the other way around
Adams Rubble: my rl avatar taking over from me
Riddle Sideways: wow, good
Adams Rubble: I emerged in zoom
Adams Rubble: I was wondering of anyone noticed
Adams Rubble: don't tell anyone :)
Riddle Sideways: nope
Adams Rubble: if, not of
Riddle Sideways: that means you too, gentle readers
Adams Rubble holds her finger to her lips
Riddle Sideways: this office is too messy to allow many Zoom people to see, so put up a background
Riddle Sideways: many backgrounds are from screenshots in SL
Riddle Sideways: so is easy to shift to being a SL avi
Adams Rubble: my office is cluttered and messy unlike everyone else's
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: would think Rubble would have great points of view to bring to most zoom meetings
Adams Rubble: spirit of playfulness
Riddle Sideways: hard to trust anybody with a clean office
Adams Rubble: hehe
Riddle Sideways: laptop is nice to take to the one unmessy place in the house and pretend that is just the office
Riddle Sideways: nice to go out on the deck, but neighbors hear all the chat
Adams Rubble: yes
Adams Rubble: I don;t if there are any places in the house that are not messay
Adams Rubble: besides other people walking through
Riddle Sideways: yes
Riddle Sideways: and the meowing cat if too near the food dish
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: only one of our cats meows
Riddle Sideways: same here
Riddle Sideways: other only meows when dying
Adams Rubble: I think that cat has got the tongue of the other
Riddle Sideways: yep. 4am thinks it is time to tell here thoughts on life the universe and hair balls
Adams Rubble: once in a while it gives a little high pitched me-u when it wants attention
Adams Rubble: ohhhh, the hair balls
Riddle Sideways: nothing can put one back to sleep after hearing a hair ball come up somewhere in the bedroom
Adams Rubble: right where your feet hit the ground in the morning
Adams Rubble: no cats allowed in my bedroom
Riddle Sideways: yep, here's a present for you
Riddle Sideways: should have that rule here too
Riddle Sideways: need a cat care bot
Riddle Sideways: listen to them as if it cares
Adams Rubble laughs
Adams Rubble: just like a cat
Riddle Sideways: believe in CAT
Riddle Sideways: great time saving device
Riddle Sideways: didn't Egyptians have a Cat g-d?
Adams Rubble: yes
Adams Rubble: very handsome statues of cats and there are cat mummies
Adams Rubble: if you puke a on my bedroom floor I will turn you into a mummy
Riddle Sideways: ha
Riddle Sideways: the difference is that a dog would worship the doG bot
Riddle Sideways: and a cat will ignore the caT bot
Adams Rubble: well would rub up against it
Riddle Sideways: need at least a Roomba vac bot to clean up puke
Adams Rubble: now it is MINE
Adams Rubble: it has my scent
Riddle Sideways: many SL places have cats riding on Roombas
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: our cats are afraid of vaccums
Adams Rubble: hide behind the couch
Riddle Sideways: yes, ours too
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: remembing that some vacuums are sold with dog grooming attachments
Riddle Sideways: NOT for cats
Riddle Sideways: do not try this at home kids on your cat
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: The Electric Monk once worshiped the Cat, but it puked up and walked away
Adams Rubble: it would make for fewer hairballs if they would let themselves be vacuume
Riddle Sideways: the monk took the puke as a treature and worshiped it
Riddle Sideways: Douglas Adams had such great views on Life, the Universe and Religious ways
Adams Rubble: always glad to hear about an Adams but I don't know who he is
Riddle Sideways: coined some of the greatest quotable lines. e.g. "42"
Adams Rubble: thank you for the session today
Adams Rubble: I hope you have a wonderful weekend
Riddle Sideways: thank you
Riddle Sideways: face cat won't let me type
Adams Rubble: yikes
Riddle Sideways: 'Week End Ho'
Adams Rubble: :)))
Adams Rubble: bye for now
Riddle Sideways: and by All