The Guardian for this meeting was stevenaia Michinaga. The comments are by stevenaia Michinaga.

Raffila Millgrove, Santoshima Resident, Paradise Tennant and Alfred Kelberry joined me this evening

stevenaia Michinaga: hi Raffi
Raffila Millgrove: hi steve.
Raffila Millgrove: so what's new?
stevenaia Michinaga: hmmmm, the end of a very difficult week, perhaps another question would be good
Raffila Millgrove: the end? aren't we on WEdnesday?
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stevenaia Michinaga: hi San
Santoshima Resident: hello Stevenaia, Raffi
Raffila Millgrove: hi San.
Raffila Millgrove: we.. steve and i were just talking.. some private things. in IM....
Raffila Millgrove: sad things.
Santoshima Resident: oh, please don
stevenaia Michinaga: was jsut filling Raffi of my week, how was yours?
Raffila Millgrove: we fisnish it up...
Santoshima Resident: 't let me interrupt
Raffila Millgrove: we complete that saga.
Raffila Millgrove: no we are all done on it.

stevenaia Michinaga: thinking about mortality and immortality a bit more recently
Santoshima Resident: yes
Raffila Millgrove: doesn't take too long to pass a lot of sad news back and forth. goes pretty quickly. RAffi sighs.
stevenaia Michinaga: nods
Raffila Millgrove: and what can you say on these things? nothing new or insightful to say...
Raffila Millgrove: no big..opportunity to grow somehow.. when you lose people you loved.
stevenaia Michinaga: the importance of memories and life
stevenaia Michinaga: and how memories=immortality
Raffila Millgrove: i think they do too steve.
stevenaia Michinaga: not length of life
Santoshima Resident: right
Raffila Millgrove: the memories living on. i think they even live on in strangers. that you touch someone.. and it's so important that it ends up in their genetic memory.
stevenaia Michinaga: you may give much to yourself, but the gifts to others is what is important
Raffila Millgrove: it's true. you give of yourself to others constantly. .. without even knowing now important ti might be to the other person.
stevenaia Michinaga: for instance... a short story....
stevenaia Michinaga: an old High School friend drove 2 hours to attend the service at my mother's house last night
stevenaia Michinaga: I have seen her maybe once a year or even last in the past 10 years and thought it was very kind of her to join us
stevenaia Michinaga: her father, who is deceased, made commercials
stevenaia Michinaga: my father was an actor in his spare time
stevenaia Michinaga: she recently found a video take of my father in a commercial her dad made in the 70's
stevenaia Michinaga: and will be digitizing it for us
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
Raffila Millgrove: wow how wonderful.
Santoshima Resident: wow ... that's great
Raffila Millgrove: she must have come to honor.. the connection between your two dads..as well as between you and her.
stevenaia Michinaga: it was very sweet of her
stevenaia Michinaga: yes
stevenaia Michinaga: how unexpected and lovely of her
Santoshima Resident: :)
Raffila Millgrove: yes. it's always interesting to .. hear people tell why they came to a certain service. in our church everyone has a chance if they like to say something.. and the things that are said.. so unique and sometimes surprising. touching and personal.
stevenaia Michinaga: even sad event bring positive things from others along with all the sympaty I have received
Raffila Millgrove: I didn't know that men would cry and love each other so much and say it in public.. until i attended some services of certain men.. who inspired others like that.
stevenaia Michinaga: words can move so many people
Raffila Millgrove: i didn't really know that men would care.. emotionally.. as much as they can.
Raffila Millgrove: i grew up and surrounded by men who rarely show much emotion. so these experiences were a revelation to me.

--BELL--

Santoshima Resident: {slips out ... a little more work to finish tonight}
stevenaia Michinaga: bye San
Raffila Millgrove: bye San
Raffila Millgrove: the sun set.. while we were sitting here steve. it was very beautiful. it's kind of ridiculous how many sunrise-sunset i have photo'd from SL on my hard drive--but they can be so intense.. on my wide screen. to watch. sometimes i spend hours just watching the daylight change on my land.
stevenaia Michinaga: never spent the time here watching that, are each unique?
Raffila Millgrove: i love the sky. at my rl house--i have huge sky view--all across.. over 180 degree of amazing view. everyone always just so suprised.. because i don't live high in hills. only a few blocks to get down to little town.
Raffila Millgrove: oh YES YES
Raffila Millgrove: each one.. is so unique.
Raffila Millgrove: let me give you the LM to my land.
Raffila Millgrove: i have chairs set up by the sea.. to get the best sunset view. and sunrise is best from the play ground or pond areas.
stevenaia Michinaga: nice
Raffila Millgrove: you have to have your settings.. (not draw) up high. and also.. set for lighting--regional default.
Raffila Millgrove: one time here in SL.. i had this baby. and i spent the night before baby was born.. up on my roof garden.. just watching the sky...
stevenaia Michinaga: Doesn;t the sun set 2x a day here?
Raffila Millgrove: four times.
Raffila Millgrove: we get four days.. to each sl day.
stevenaia Michinaga: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Aph
Raffila Millgrove: i think that's correct. the day is six hours.
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi
Raffila Millgrove: i could ahve it backwrads .
Raffila Millgrove: it could be four hour days.. six times.
stevenaia Michinaga: so we really meet here once an SL day
Raffila Millgrove: yes.
Raffila Millgrove: more or less.. depending on which way i am confused.
Raffila Millgrove: lol
Raffila Millgrove: Hi Aph.
Aphrodite Macbain: we are sitting on the outside of the circle. Is there a significance to this?
Raffila Millgrove: not really.
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Raffi and Stevenaia
Raffila Millgrove: happen to sit outside because Steve was already.
stevenaia Michinaga: no
stevenaia Michinaga: I like the in between pillows
Aphrodite Macbain: I getto show off my legs!
Raffila Millgrove: oh yes. that's a ice pose Aph.
stevenaia Michinaga: nice outfit Aph
Raffila Millgrove: yeah you look great.
Raffila Millgrove: mm. now i can see the shoes better. lovely old style. modernized.
Aphrodite Macbain: Thanks! It's one of my 18th Centur outfity
Raffila Millgrove is surrounded now by two lovely women.. meditating.
Aphrodite Macbain: not sure what setevie is doing but it doesn't look like meditting
Aphrodite Macbain: How are you doing Stevenaia?
Raffila Millgrove: well she was briefly. now she's more like thinking.
Aphrodite Macbain: Seems these cushions decide how you sit
stevenaia Michinaga: I took one for the log
stevenaia Michinaga: too
Raffila Millgrove: probably better than the one i got.. mine seem oddly blurry. wonder why.
Aphrodite Macbain: took wghat?
Aphrodite Macbain: oh a pic
Raffila Millgrove: photo.
stevenaia Michinaga: a photo of us
Raffila Millgrove: did you get the one i sent you.. Steve took one for the wiki.
Aphrodite Macbain: I dont remember...
stevenaia Michinaga: yes
stevenaia Michinaga: I got it, thx
Aphrodite Macbain: yuikes!
Aphrodite Macbain: Raffi - is that a bathing suit?
Raffila Millgrove: oh i recognize your necklace Aprho. i got the same one long ago.
Aphrodite Macbain: bathing
Raffila Millgrove: always liked it.
Raffila Millgrove: freebie.
Aphrodite Macbain: it's the one that comes with yr avi
Raffila Millgrove: oh really?
Raffila Millgrove: wow. amazing.
Raffila Millgrove: when i came to SL.
Aphrodite Macbain: I jst change its colours to match my outfits
Raffila Millgrove: that necklace was.. offered as a gift at the store of its creator.
Aphrodite Macbain: search under "necklace" in yr library
Raffila Millgrove: i guess. they packed it into the newbie.. outfit library or such.
Raffila Millgrove: no.. it won't be in mine.
Raffila Millgrove: i am too old.
Aphrodite Macbain: I hesitate to ask how old you are
Raffila Millgrove: hehe. will be six soon.
stevenaia Michinaga: strange these pillows keep changing poses
Aphrodite Macbain: oh you ARE old!!! :-)
Raffila Millgrove: and that necklace came from a store.. of most lovely items. and it was part of their free gift.
Raffila Millgrove: in the old days.
Aphrodite Macbain: no they make you change
Raffila Millgrove: this made shopping.. so fun.. cause there was no marketplace.
Aphrodite Macbain: good ol days
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Aphrodite Macbain: I rarely use the marketplace
Raffila Millgrove: you had to go in person.. and the stores would give you most lovely. high quality gifts.. just for coming to see them.
Aphrodite Macbain: oops
Raffila Millgrove: many things changed because of the marketplace.. and not really.. for the better.
Aphrodite Macbain: who is the GOC?
Paradise Tennant: hiya stev aph raf :))
Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Paradise
Raffila Millgrove: because stores had to have.. a place to sell from.. they would have magnificent sims..
Raffila Millgrove: amazing sims.. surrounding a store.
Aphrodite Macbain: Are either of youuuu 2 girls able to come to Venice in September?
Raffila Millgrove: they rarely ever do this anymore.
Aphrodite Macbain: I always grab the freebies whereever I go.
Raffila Millgrove: me? no i cannot go.
Raffila Millgrove: altho the place picked.. sounds fantastic.
Aphrodite Macbain: RU the GOC Stevenaia?
Raffila Millgrove: sounds just incredible.
Paradise Tennant: I suspect not too but I will keep my options open :)
Aphrodite Macbain: It's a good deal too
Raffila Millgrove: it is!
Raffila Millgrove: it's got great amenities, xlent value and a good location.
Aphrodite Macbain: Para- if yo are thinking of coming please let me know soon as I need to book the apartment
Raffila Millgrove: it's only money for me. i would go in a minute if i had it.
Aphrodite Macbain: It would be fun
Raffila Millgrove: i've always wanted to see VEnice. i didn't get south of rome.. wheni lived in europe.
Aphrodite Macbain: Air fare about 1200 return + hotel. Maybe 2000 total
Aphrodite Macbain: who is the GOC tonight?
stevenaia Michinaga: no, i will not make it to Venice this year
stevenaia Michinaga: I am
Aphrodite Macbain: KK here's a pic
Paradise Tennant: who is going aph ?
Aphrodite Macbain: Then Wol will give us a tour of the architecture biennale
Raffila Millgrove: omg.. to think. you'll be there during it.
Raffila Millgrove feels the pain of not going even more.
Aphrodite Macbain: Wol, maybe Qt, moi so far
Paradise Tennant: smiles a nice group :)
Aphrodite Macbain: It would be nice if we had 6
Raffila Millgrove: won't boxy come.. he cannot go?
Paradise Tennant: you will get 6 easy
Raffila Millgrove: he likes the get together.
Paradise Tennant: think he will go if he can ..he loves to travel
Aphrodite Macbain: I am staying on to explore the gardens of the veneto region: Padua, Verona, Vincenza
Aphrodite Macbain: I ahve assked him but he keeps changing his mind
Raffila Millgrove: mm. i have to tell him to go since i cannot.
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Raffila Millgrove: he can go and look for me.. be my eyes for it.
Aphrodite Macbain: I thought he might if Wol went
Aphrodite Macbain: Are we going to talk about transhumanism?
Raffila Millgrove: what day is the deadline.. the money upfront you need?
Raffila Millgrove: it is coming up fast?
stevenaia Michinaga: we can , I find the topic dificult due to how little I know about it
Aphrodite Macbain: I think I said mind June. I have to pay a 30% deposit to claim the rooms
Aphrodite Macbain: mid June
Raffila Millgrove: right. ok. well i get on Boxy immediately tonite then.
Aphrodite Macbain: :-)
Raffila Millgrove: he and i are often on at same times.
Aphrodite Macbain: transhumanism is simply how new technology is transforming who we are
Raffila Millgrove: i wring his little box neck and make him go.. for his own good of course.
Aphrodite Macbain: You can pull his tail
Aphrodite Macbain: I think what we are doing right now is transhman.
Aphrodite Macbain: We are expresing ourselves through image and text that we all can see wherever we are in the world
Paradise Tennant: veneto region .. love even the sound of it
Aphrodite Macbain: I find it really weird when I have 2 of my alts on the screen at the same time...
Raffila Millgrove: two alts?
Raffila Millgrove: am i missing something here?
Aphrodite Macbain: Sadly Bologna has had a major earthquake
stevenaia Michinaga: looks around, wher?
Aphrodite Macbain: I can do that.
stevenaia Michinaga: do you ahve to computers?
Aphrodite Macbain: Not now, but I hjave one. I an even have a conversatin with parts of myself
Raffila Millgrove: haha.
Aphrodite Macbain: I wonder if will bcome szizophrenic
Aphrodite Macbain: sp
Raffila Millgrove: well hug both of yourselves for me. must say good night now.
Paradise Tennant: lol nite nite raf
Aphrodite Macbain: lol Nite raffi. What time is it for ?
Raffila Millgrove: bye Para and Steve.. bye Aph and alt.
stevenaia Michinaga: night Raffi, thanks for joinung us
Aphrodite Macbain: looks up and waves

--BELL--

Paradise Tennant: nite nite aph
Aphrodite Macbain: tiptoes out - let me kow if you will come. that would be so wonderful@
stevenaia Michinaga: night Aph
Paradise Tennant: kk :)
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Boxy
Alfred Kelberry: hi :)
Alfred Kelberry: two lonely girls
stevenaia Michinaga: smiles
Alfred Kelberry: everyone left?
Paradise Tennant: yep down to two indians
stevenaia Michinaga: just us now and you
Paradise Tennant: how are you
Alfred Kelberry: well, i'm just for a bit
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Alfred Kelberry: i'm good
stevenaia Michinaga: I will be leaving shortly, have sleep to catch up on
Paradise Tennant: smiles you have been up really early lately
Paradise Tennant: sorry said my hellos in the wrong box hugs boxy
stevenaia Michinaga: wonders where my skirt got to
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Alfred Kelberry: *hugs para girl*
Paradise Tennant: hate it when your skirt goes missing right up there with having your hair attach to your knee
Alfred Kelberry: ouch
stevenaia Michinaga: night you too, enjoy your evening
Alfred Kelberry: stev :)

--BELL--

Alfred Kelberry: :)