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

Place for Day to Start

Riddle Sideways: Good Morning Adams ㋡

Riddle Sideways: day thinks it Might start here
Adams Rubble: Good morning Riddle :)
Adams Rubble: not a bad place to start

California Recall Election

Adams Rubble: Congrats on your election
Riddle Sideways: better than starting with the weather which is always the same
Adams Rubble: ha, not here
Riddle Sideways: oh yes, an election was and got through
Riddle Sideways: it was so silly
Adams Rubble: need to check the internet here to see if our house will still be here next week
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Adams Rubble: yes, as an outsider, it was very silly
--BELL--
Adams Rubble: some very stupid rules to he recall procedure
Riddle Sideways: near$270 million on a silly idea of recalling somebody that you don't like their party
Adams Rubble: only a year before the next election
Riddle Sideways: yep
Adams Rubble: well if you don;t want to wear a mask, what are you going to do?
Riddle Sideways: blame others
Riddle Sideways: Declare you have the freedoms and rights to kill others

Yom Kippur

Adams Rubble: It's a day for saying "I'm sorry"
Riddle Sideways: yep
Riddle Sideways: Yom Kippur
Riddle Sideways: asking for forgiveness
Riddle Sideways: Sorry about even bringing yp that election
Riddle Sideways: up
Adams Rubble: It was one of three things I was going to bring up :)
Adams Rubble: we've covered 2
Riddle Sideways: whoops too fast
Adams Rubble: ys, it is just 7:04
Riddle Sideways: body is asking where the coffee is this morning :(
Adams Rubble: If you have more to say about Yom Kippur, please do
Adams Rubble: are you fasting?
Riddle Sideways: yes. yet it does not seem to go Fast
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: it does end in a BreakFast
Adams Rubble: I looked at my Talmud for Idiots book last night and it said that if you feast the day before Yom Kippur it counts as two days of fasting. I did not understand that
Adams Rubble: breakfast today or tomorrow?
Riddle Sideways: hmmmm, not make sense
Riddle Sideways: tonight
Riddle Sideways: sundown
Riddle Sideways: it is not so bad as it was when was younger
Adams Rubble: interesting
Riddle Sideways: yes
Adams Rubble: are older and sick people excused frm the fast?
Riddle Sideways: sick people are excluded
Riddle Sideways: old people Have to take medicines
Riddle Sideways: under 13 are excused too
Adams Rubble: hmmmm
Adams Rubble: 14 year olds must have mixed emotions
Riddle Sideways: would be wondering about joining a religion that wants ya to give up worldly pleasures for 24 hours and just contemplate bigger things
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: and recite prayers
Adams Rubble: young people can be very ready to do that
Adams Rubble: take to it with a passion
Adams Rubble: or not
Riddle Sideways: prayers that contain big bad words that start which start with each letter of alphabet

Sacrificie of Abraham (Rosh Hosannah Reading)

Adams Rubble: Eldest sons glad to be past the Sacrifice of Isaac story
Riddle Sideways: yep
Riddle Sideways: use to be bothered by why we retold that story each year
Riddle Sideways: now have so many thinks that bother in that story
Riddle Sideways: what must the Muslim friends think of that story?
Adams Rubble: they have their own version
Riddle Sideways: yep
Adams Rubble: Ishmael was a willing participant
Adams Rubble: Chsitians have their version
Adams Rubble: the sacrificial lamb is Christ
Riddle Sideways: imagine having 3 divides to how a story goes ㋡
Riddle Sideways: not just Dem and Rep
Adams Rubble: :)

Alexandria and Rubble Leaving

Riddle Sideways: OH! starting a online 3 session class on Alexandria
Riddle Sideways: vastly interesting
Riddle Sideways: ummm, that move was strange
Adams Rubble: I imagine so
Riddle Sideways: how you do dat
Adams Rubble: If I touch the screen, I tp to wherever I accidently touched
Adams Rubble: or I had a reaction to your course
Adams Rubble: take your pick :)
Adams Rubble: sounds intersting
Riddle Sideways: anyway, how Jewish scholars came to Alexandria to write
Adams Rubble: a center of learning
Riddle Sideways: and how Christian scholars came to write and discuss
Adams Rubble: many times in history there was sharing of culture and religion in respectful ways
Adams Rubble: did not knw it happened in Akexandria but I am not surprised
Riddle Sideways: That city was so respectful
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: would search boats in the harbor for books and make copys of them
Riddle Sideways: and a huge museum
Adams Rubble: museum?
Riddle Sideways: called it that
Adams Rubble: library?
Riddle Sideways: the museum was larger than the library
Adams Rubble: hmmm
Adams Rubble: what was in the museum?
Riddle Sideways: lots of meeting rooms for scholars to discuss newest and differing points of views
Riddle Sideways: laboratories
Riddle Sideways: can't find references to any objects in museum
Riddle Sideways: but, it burned too
Riddle Sideways: accidentely
Adams Rubble: I just looked it up; it was more of a lyceum
Adams Rubble: place of learning
Riddle Sideways: nobody is sure, but Juleus only meant to burn the bad guy ships
Riddle Sideways: ah, other use of the word/name
Adams Rubble: it was in 272\
Adams Rubble: I would suspect it was not accidental
Adams Rubble: Alexandria potential rival of Rome
Riddle Sideways: well, attaching a city without an army and burn the harbor that has no fire department
Adams Rubble: Romans really not that nice
Riddle Sideways: They were mad at some Pompey guy
Adams Rubble: yes, another Roman
Adams Rubble: rival
Adams Rubble: heavy handed foreign policy
Riddle Sideways: Roman drones were not very accurate
Adams Rubble: imperialistic colonization
Adams Rubble: remember Donald Rumsfeld's concern for the Baghdad Museum?
Adams Rubble: "shit happens"
Riddle Sideways: whattttt! us do that too?
Riddle Sideways: US romans
Adams Rubble: right wingers and right wingers
--BELL--
Riddle Sideways: always think that I don't have Wings, so they must be talking Right Handed
Riddle Sideways: but that is not right
Adams Rubble: well, I'll be interested to hear more about what you learn about Alexandria
Riddle Sideways: next couple sessions should go more in depth
Riddle Sideways: first one was mostly the timelines

Are You Ready for Sunday?

Adams Rubble is surprised that Riddle was not curious about the third thing I was thinking of mentioning
Riddle Sideways: (lack of coffee is blames) YES! what is that third thing
Riddle Sideways: ????
Adams Rubble: a certain somebodies' football team is coming to a certain city on the east coast for a rough and tumble battle to see which one is better
Riddle Sideways: oh yes
Riddle Sideways: in the busyness of the week that point was forgoten
Riddle Sideways: think they fly there early to rest up
Adams Rubble: yes, usually good idea when changing time zones
Riddle Sideways: our team has already lost a player for the season
Adams Rubble: yes
Adams Rubble: your team hevily favored
Riddle Sideways: and your team has to study 2 quarterbacks that might play
Adams Rubble: my team blew out other birds last week and have to be careful not to be overconfident
Riddle Sideways: ah yes
Riddle Sideways: being Favored is like being ahead in the Polls
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: it comes down to "On any given Sunday"
Adams Rubble: my team has very good offensive and defensive lines but the playrs are a;most 30, very very old
Riddle Sideways: or "On any given November Tueday election"
Adams Rubble: some even more than 30
Riddle Sideways: no!
Riddle Sideways: not that old
Adams Rubble giggles
Riddle Sideways: how can somebody over 30 still stand up
Riddle Sideways: not to be trusted
Adams Rubble: yes expecially after beiong hit 70 times in a game
Riddle Sideways: specialized humans
Adams Rubble: what 6'8, 350 pouns--you think that is specialized?
Riddle Sideways: we grow em that way
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: blame Wonder Bread
Adams Rubble: hehe
Adams Rubble: white bread for our society
Riddle Sideways: and GMO
Riddle Sideways: what could go wrong
Riddle Sideways: "Better Living Through Science"
Adams Rubble: at least not until they reach 30
Adams Rubble: in any case, this Sunday will be a big test for my team
Adams Rubble: then they play four more difficult games after that
--BELL--
Adams Rubble: well maybe 3 including Kansas City and Tampa bay
Riddle Sideways: it will be recorded here, but should be able to watch. That 'should' be the end of busy times
Adams Rubble: I hope so. I probably will not be able to watch live
Riddle Sideways: the Western devision here is very tough
Adams Rubble: watch Jordan Mailata, our left tackle
Riddle Sideways: ok
Adams Rubble: yes, our eastern Division is much maligned
Riddle Sideways: the Lions last week stopped our Bosa
Adams Rubble: Jordan was an Australian rugby player who never played football at all until about 4 years ago
Adams Rubble: an extraordinary athlete and very big and strong
Adams Rubble: has learned the position and has great promise
Adams Rubble: last week he flattened a secondary player--ran right through him
Riddle Sideways: both our defense sides have so many tricks
Adams Rubble: yes, this will be a big test for him
Riddle Sideways: we'll see
Adams Rubble: yep
Adams Rubble: we'll see
Adams Rubble: one of the teams will win
Riddle Sideways: or not
Riddle Sideways: ㋡
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: might go to "Sudden Death"

Adams Rubble lies flat next to the cushion as if dead

Riddle Sideways: hahahahha
Riddle Sideways: reminded of Bruce doing the Dies Laughing
Adams Rubble: your team probably does not have to worry about getting booed if they fall behind too much
Riddle Sideways: Well, may we All be inscribed in the Book of Life for another sweet and wonderful year
Adams Rubble: :)
Riddle Sideways: yep, visitors stands don't do that
Riddle Sideways: usually ㋡
Adams Rubble: ")
Adams Rubble: :)
Adams Rubble: I wish you a meaningful day
Adams Rubble: and a good weekend except for a certain time on Sunday :)
Riddle Sideways: ha
Adams Rubble: it should be a good game no matter what happens
Adams Rubble crosses fingers
Riddle Sideways: it is not who wins or loses, it is how you play the ga... who we kidding
Adams Rubble giggles
Riddle Sideways: it is ALL ABOUT WINNING
Adams Rubble: he who loses gets cut
Riddle Sideways: and life goes on
Adams Rubble: yes
Adams Rubble: It is all a dream
Riddle Sideways: thank you for dreaming me in
Adams Rubble: you too
Adams Rubble: bye for now
Riddle Sideways: and bunny too
Riddle Sideways: by All
Adams Rubble: bye

Riddle goes and sits by the bunny

Riddle Sideways: just wanted to pet the bunny
Adams Rubble: :)