2013.10.27 13:00 – Miscellaneous chatter

The Guardian for this meeting was Aphrodite Macbain. The comments are by Aphrodite Macbain.

Aphrodite Macbain: Hi Bruce ol’ buddy!
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Aph ol' buddy!
Aphrodite Macbain: Back from Chicago?
Bruce Mowbray: Yepper, got back a week ago Friday.
Bruce Mowbray: Totally forgot about Wednesday's OF, though.
Aphrodite Macbain: It was nice.
Bruce Mowbray: So sorry I forgot.
Aphrodite Macbain: I've been in surgery and on my back for the past 4 days
Bruce Mowbray: OH DEAR!
Aphrodite Macbain: and am slowly recovering
Bruce Mowbray: Are you feeling better now?
Aphrodite Macbain:  yes
Bruce Mowbray: Things take time.
Bruce Mowbray: So, you were still able to go to the OF meeting?
Aphrodite Macbain: I can’t use my stomach muscles which I realize is a bit of a challenge
Bruce Mowbray: for sure!
Aphrodite Macbain: yes I went to hospital on Thursday morning
Bruce Mowbray: kk, then you were able to go to OF.
Aphrodite Macbain: but I haven't had a chance to see your blog and photographs yet
Bruce Mowbray: My days are all mixed around - ever since I went to Chicago.
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, just photos of the trip.
Aphrodite Macbain: was it wonderful?
Bruce Mowbray: The best trip to Chicago for moi, so far.
Bruce Mowbray: REALLY a fine week.
Bruce Mowbray: Hello, Zon.
Zon Kwan: heya
Aphrodite Macbain: tell us more about Chicago Bruce- I'd love to hear
Bruce Mowbray: Well, the only day that it didn’t rain was Monday -
Bruce Mowbray: so I took the train up to Wilmette to see the Baha'i Temple.
Aphrodite Macbain: well u were inside anyway, no?
Bruce Mowbray: amazingly beautiful edifice.
Aphrodite Macbain: oh?
Bruce Mowbray: I was inside museums and such for the rest of the days...
Bruce Mowbray: Excellent museums in Chicago...
Aphrodite Macbain: Did you find your favorite work of art?
Bruce Mowbray: plus, the Milwaukee Art Museum is a fine as any I've ever seen.
Bruce Mowbray: I did indeed. Just a sec, please....
Bruce Mowbray: Here's a photo of my typist sitting with it:
Bruce Mowbray: http://hermitdog.com/chicago_2013/mi...dnesday108.jpg
Aphrodite Macbain: looking
Aphrodite Macbain: was it as nice in the flesh as it was in reproduction?
Bruce Mowbray: Actually much nicer... and larger!
Aphrodite Macbain: that you sitting in front of it?
Bruce Mowbray: Well, that's my typist, yes.
Aphrodite Macbain: :)
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: you asked someone to take the picture- good
Bruce Mowbray: When he first arrived, a docent was talking about it to a group of six year olds.
Aphrodite Macbain: Hello Wol
Wol Euler: evening all!
Aphrodite Macbain: You look fantastic
Zon Kwan: hi wol
Bruce Mowbray: http://hermitdog.com/chicago_2013/mi...dnesday061.jpg
Bruce Mowbray: Heya, Wol!
Aphrodite Macbain: Bruce is showing us pix of his trip to Chicago
Wol Euler: ah! ty
Bruce Mowbray: Have you seen the Baha'i Temple, Wol?
Bruce Mowbray: http://hermitdog.com/chicago_2013/Monday05.JPG
Wol Euler: wow! no, I'd never seen that before. Amazing.
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, incredibly beautiful place.
Aphrodite Macbain: very impressive
Bruce Mowbray: I know you've seen the "Bean," though.
Bruce Mowbray: http://hermitdog.com/chicago_2013/pa...day_park05.JPG
Wol Euler: mmhmm
Wol Euler: also amazing, but differently so
Bruce Mowbray: rather different from the Temple, yes.
Zon Kwan: where is this bean?
Bruce Mowbray: The Bean is in Millennium Park in downtown Chicago.
Zon Kwan: looks cool
Aphrodite Macbain: Bean there done that
Aphrodite Macbain: sorry
Zon Kwan: lol
Wol Euler: it's an astonishing thing, utterly smooth and featureless
Wol Euler: inexplicable
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, and unless you're watching carefully, you can walk right into it....
Aphrodite Macbain: How did you get about Bruce? By cab?
Wol Euler: yes! I saw that actually :)
Bruce Mowbray: I get about by subway -- taxis are too expensive,
Bruce Mowbray: and my typist is a cheapskate.
Wol Euler smiles.
Bruce Mowbray: Inside the bean: http://hermitdog.com/chicago_2013/pa...day_park09.JPG
Aphrodite Macbain: well it means you now have no problem with dizziness?
Bruce Mowbray: Well, Bruce has no problem with it,
Aphrodite Macbain: :)
Bruce Mowbray: but my typist has a whole lot of problem with it....
Bruce Mowbray: In fact, he almost fell over taking the previous photo.
Wol Euler sighs.
Aphrodite Macbain: You don’t need someone to push you in a wheel chair any more?
Aphrodite Macbain: aww
Zon Kwan: waves
Bruce Mowbray: nope, didn't even take the chair this time.
Aphrodite Macbain: bye Zon thanks for dropping by
Aphrodite Macbain: great
Bruce Mowbray: Bye for now, Zon.
Bruce Mowbray: The Milwaukee Art Museum is also a mobile sculpture:
Bruce Mowbray: http://hermitdog.com/chicago_2013/mi...dnesday056.JPG
Bruce Mowbray: Those "wings" are raised and lowered twice daily.
Aphrodite Macbain: amazing
Aphrodite Macbain: looks
Bruce Mowbray: (That's where Bouguereau's "Homer and His Guide" is hanging -- and has been hanging since 1884.
Aphrodite Macbain: wow- does it fly too?
Bruce Mowbray: Not yet.
Bruce Mowbray: Here's a shot of the wings almost completely down:
Aphrodite Macbain: Is there a function to the two wings?
Bruce Mowbray: http://hermitdog.com/chicago_2013/mi...dnesday162.jpg
Bruce Mowbray: No particular function -- just for "art's sake," I guess.

Wol Euler: advertising :)is the function
Aphrodite Macbain: I like the kids in the picture…
Bruce Mowbray: Hey, Aph! Did I show you my set up for the Original Face group? there in that same museum?
Aphrodite Macbain: Do you know this museum Wol?
Aphrodite Macbain: nods
Aphrodite Macbain: set up Bruce?
Bruce Mowbray: http://hermitdog.com/chicago_2013/mi...dnesday100.JPG
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, I got set up to attend OF, but my laptop's battery hibernated.
Aphrodite Macbain: ah yes
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Wol Euler: awwwww
Aphrodite Macbain: nice... too bad it didn't work. :((
Bruce Mowbray: Well, I'd been counting on an electric plug,
Aphrodite Macbain: You must have looked impressive to the passersby
Bruce Mowbray: but couldn't find one.
Aphrodite Macbain: all that technology and no plug!! The wings could be raised but your connection couldn't be made!
Bruce Mowbray: :)

Bruce Mowbray wonders where Aggers is today....
Aphrodite Macbain: It's Aggers birthday on Tuesday too
Aphrodite Macbain: we are twins
Bruce Mowbray: Well, I attended the first part of Darren's meditation, anyway.
Wol Euler smiles.
Aphrodite Macbain: we can meditate today as well - with Berti
Bruce Mowbray: YES, Aph's birthday and Agger's birthday are on the same day!
Wol Euler nods.
Aphrodite Macbain: I am going to celebrate lying down
Aphrodite Macbain: eating cake off my chest
Wol Euler: hehhe
Bruce Mowbray: ouch!
Wol Euler: good for you
Wol Euler: (if voluntary)
Aphrodite Macbain: (I had surgery on Thursday Wol)
Aphrodite Macbain: It gets very boring
Aphrodite Macbain: Do you feel odd when you return home Bruce?
Aphrodite Macbain: everything is so quiet
Bruce Mowbray: odd? How do you mean?
Bruce Mowbray: oh that!
Bruce Mowbray: Yes, my typist drinks in the silence.
Wol Euler: oh. sorry, I didn’t know
Aphrodite Macbain: It often takes me a few days to adjust
Aphrodite Macbain: np Wol
Bruce Mowbray: But then, when he's in cities he always wears ear plugs.
Aphrodite Macbain: amazing what they can do to one's body and then turn you out after one night...
Wol Euler nods.
Aphrodite Macbain: good to have good friends...
Bruce Mowbray: I do hope you are relying on your friends, Aph.
Aphrodite Macbain: Funny- I also feel odd returning to 2nd life after a 3 day absence
Aphrodite Macbain: as much as is fair Bruce
Aphrodite Macbain: I do a lot of reading and sleeping
Aphrodite Macbain: but the weather is soooo beautiful. Blue skies, yellow leaves
Aphrodite Macbain: outside my window
Bruce Mowbray: soak up the beauty, Aph.
Bruce Mowbray: Beauty heals.

Aphrodite Macbain: indeed it does Bruce

Aphrodite Macbain: Do they celebrate Halloween in Germany Wol?
Wol Euler smiles.
Wol Euler: I'd say "yes but"
Aphrodite Macbain: but?
Wol Euler: Allerheiligen exists, but the business of kids going from door to door getting candy is not really done
Wol Euler: partly because almost everyone lives in apartments
Aphrodite Macbain: no trick or treating?
Wol Euler: nope
Aphrodite Macbain: nods
Aphrodite Macbain: Trick or Treating is the best way for my building to get to know its community
Aphrodite Macbain: we decorate the lobby and hand out treats
Aphrodite Macbain: and meet the kids and parents
Aphrodite Macbain: do you get little visitors on Halloween Bruce?
Bruce Mowbray: nope. Too far out in the country for trick or treaters.
Aphrodite Macbain: :(
Bruce Mowbray: I think sometimes the kiddies go into town to do it, though.

Aphrodite Macbain: If any one is interested we are going to have a duel in two hot air balloons next week at Rocca Sorrentina...
Bruce Mowbray: Dueling Balloons?
Aphrodite Macbain: something like that
Aphrodite Macbain: could be worth watching...
Bruce Mowbray: Hope that it's not a windy day!
Aphrodite Macbain: they are building the balloons out of kits
Aphrodite Macbain: lol me too
Wol Euler: duelling how? Throwing poetry at each other?
Aphrodite Macbain: I'll send u the invitation when I get it
Wol Euler: ok
Aphrodite Macbain: with swords
Wol Euler: O.O
Aphrodite Macbain: each being within a balloon
Wol Euler: careful not to poke holes in the balloon
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Aphrodite Macbain: try and imagine an Errol Flynn movie
Wol Euler: with balloons
Wol Euler: right
Wol Euler: I like my idea better, to be honest :)
Aphrodite Macbain: :)
Wol Euler: dueling poets
Aphrodite Macbain: right
Wol Euler: random drops of ink falling on the spectators
Aphrodite Macbain: but they wont necessarily be quoting poetry
Aphrodite Macbain: they may be swearing at each other
Wol Euler: as long as it's rhythmic and rhymes, that works for me
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Aphrodite Macbain: 18th century swear words...
Bruce Mowbray: :)
Aphrodite Macbain: Is there any particular subject anyone would like to raise?
Aphrodite Macbain: I'm a bit doped up with pain killer to come up with much
Bruce Mowbray: Only that I hope your healing is swift . . .
Bruce Mowbray: and that you're feeling much better soon.
Aphrodite Macbain: Thanks Bruce
Bruce Mowbray: I'm going to slip on over to Berti's meditation sim now.
Aphrodite Macbain: Any suggestions for whiling away time?
Bruce Mowbray: Thanks, Aph, Thanks, Wol.
Bruce Mowbray: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, APH!!!!
Aphrodite Macbain: yw. I'll be there at 2 Brucie
Aphrodite Macbain: thanks
Wol Euler: write a few short stories?
Aphrodite Macbain: lol
Aphrodite Macbain: very short
Wol Euler: why not?
Wol Euler: somebody has to
Aphrodite Macbain: don’t make me laugh! :D
Wol Euler: sorry
Aphrodite Macbain: maybe haiku
Wol Euler: in that case, perhaps you should chant dirges
Aphrodite Macbain: mphmph
Aphrodite Macbain: (suppresses another giggle)
Aphrodite Macbain: yay aggers is on line
Aphrodite Macbain: shall we all go to Berti's and test our audio?
Wol Euler: yep
Aphrodite Macbain: k
Aphrodite Macbain: those are magnificent skirts Wol