2010.05.11 19:00 - Gathering in a Storm

The Guardian for this meeting was Eliza Madrigal. The comments are by Eliza Madrigal.

Calvino Rabeni: Hello Eliza
Eliza Madrigal: Not feeling monk-like this evening?
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Calvino Rabeni: Too cold for robes :)
Eliza Madrigal: Sounds nice
Calvino Rabeni: I remember ducking into a giant shopping center in thailand, just because of the air conditioning
Eliza Madrigal: So you've gone from one extreme to the other in the last few weeks
Calvino Rabeni: Once I was there long enough to acclimitize, but it took a long time
Calvino Rabeni: I like, having a cool head :)
Eliza Madrigal: hehe
Eliza Madrigal: I've been enjoying the heat so far this season, however its mostly due to a persistent breeze
Calvino Rabeni: There's a japanese saying I think - warm feet, cool head
Eliza Madrigal: That's the preference then?
Calvino Rabeni: One of those cultural sayings representing an ideal body state
Eliza Madrigal: Ah :)
Calvino Rabeni: You have good circulation, but don't get too bothered and worked up
Eliza Madrigal: Ah... cool headedness in that sense
Eliza Madrigal: synapses not quite firing this evening :)
Paradise Tennant: smiles hiya .. eliza .. cal :) good evening :)
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Paradise!
Eliza Madrigal: What are you thinking about tonight Paradise?
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Paradise Tennant: i have lost two logs it seems
Eliza Madrigal: Eek!
Eliza Madrigal: They didn't arrive to your inbox?
Paradise Tennant: hangs head
Eliza Madrigal: haha
Eliza Madrigal: No worries :) I just wonder if it means you should re-enter your email on your next session night
Paradise Tennant: will do some more searches ..but I could swear when I claimed them my email address was correct in the message
Paradise Tennant: how are you two tonight
Eliza Madrigal: It might have been a glitch... never know :) I'll email Wol who is wonderful about retrieving those
Eliza Madrigal: Quite well, thanks, if a bit sleepy :)
Paradise Tennant: no worries I will follow up with her if I cannot find them :)
Eliza Madrigal: Thanks :)
Paradise Tennant: was reading the posts on the retreat .. sounded wonderful
Eliza Madrigal: Oh, yes it was indeed
Eliza Madrigal: Have you decided on whether to attend NS?
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: what date was NS again
Eliza Madrigal: First week of August
Eliza Madrigal: I'd like to go, but am not 100% yet
Paradise Tennant: hmm going to be in montreal likely the last weekend in august ..could just keep driving :)
Eliza Madrigal: :) Spend all of August driving around?
Paradise Tennant: well a week and a bit maybe :)
Eliza Madrigal: I was really surprised that it took a while to process this retreat... after returning I mean
Paradise Tennant: only two days out east :) well if you drive steady
Paradise Tennant: yes I think there is a delayed effect often
Eliza Madrigal: I hadn't had that issue before, but it seems it was condensed and I had to sort for a while
Eliza Madrigal: :) when I wrote the first report it was in a fog, but by the second I was reaching open skies
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Paradise Tennant: there was resonance :
Paradise Tennant: ;)
Eliza Madrigal: :)

Eliza Madrigal: How is practice otherwise Paradise? Still attending your group?
Eliza Madrigal: Hi Storm! :)
Paradise Tennant: hiya storm
Storm Nordwind: Hello everyone :)
Eliza Madrigal is still somehow startled to see Storm at evening sessions, though he's been in the US for quite a while now
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Storm Nordwind chuckles
Paradise Tennant: smiles yes eliza still attending weekly .. practice in groups seems to help :)
Eliza Madrigal nods, think so too
Paradise Tennant: it amplifies and adds structure .. direction :)
Eliza Madrigal: I wonder, have you tended to be a 'group joiner' before? I ask because I really wasn't... seems to have come *with* the practice
Eliza Madrigal: maybe an odd question... as soon as I said that, several groups I'd been a part of sprang to mind
Eliza Madrigal: hahah
Calvino Rabeni: RIght haha same here
Paradise Tennant: usually if I have wanted to learn something I have found or connected to others who were more knowledgeable .. sort of like attaching yourself to the right brain trust :)
Eliza Madrigal: :))
Storm Nordwind: As lead or bass guitarist? ;)
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Paradise Tennant: lol
Eliza Madrigal giggles
Eliza Madrigal: sometimes tamborine
Eliza Madrigal: hahahha
Eliza Madrigal: or triangle :)
Eliza Madrigal: brain trust, interesting phrase

Eliza Madrigal: Storm, I liked reading the session from yesterday morning. I admire your new structure!
Storm Nordwind: Oh! :)
Storm Nordwind: It would help if I had the energy today to put it into practice ;)
Eliza Madrigal: Well, you have the aspiration today
Eliza Madrigal: or at least the aspiration to have the energy
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Storm Nordwind: Yes! And some of it takes little energy. The two hourly reminder is a lot of fun and very easy too
--BELL--

Storm Nordwind: However I'm currently more aware of the approaching tornado signatures on the weather radar at this minute! Plus waiting for the 5 inches snow forecast overnight!
Eliza Madrigal: aaack!!!
Paradise Tennant: wow
Storm Nordwind shrugs "That's Colorado for you"
Eliza Madrigal: Is Colorado often hit by tornados?
Storm Nordwind: Yes. Especially the NE corner. It's on the side of Tornado Alley
Eliza Madrigal: Hm, that's been completely off my radar.
Paradise Tennant: do they track them and give residents time to .. scoot
Storm Nordwind: Yes. I'm tracking them myself too on the radar. But there are sirens that will go off.
Eliza Madrigal has relatives in Oklahoma and remembers visiting and them tracking the tornados as they come down each street!
Paradise Tennant: they are not as measurable as a hurricane more sudden no ?
Paradise Tennant: yowser
Storm Nordwind: And right now - after sunset - it's really too late for them to sustain. So they are forming and dissolving about 35 miles away to the sounth
Eliza Madrigal: indeed, quite frightening
Paradise Tennant: would sleep in the bathtub
Eliza Madrigal: Ah, that's a bit like what happens here. It is very rare to have a damaging tornado.. usually a funnel cloud over water
Paradise Tennant: with the dog
Eliza Madrigal smiles
Storm Nordwind: In the basement is the thing!
Paradise Tennant: doesn't have a basement
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Storm Nordwind doesn't have a dog ;)

Eliza Madrigal thought of Paradise several times in SF... people are wonderful to their dogs there :)
Eliza Madrigal: In fact it may be mandatory to have one
Paradise Tennant: smiles a very very big smile
Eliza Madrigal: :))
Storm Nordwind chuckles
Paradise Tennant: it should be !
Storm Nordwind: I prefer skogkatts. They can see off most dogs :)
Eliza Madrigal: In one restaurant, a guy had a huge dog... lounging under the table... don't often see that
Eliza Madrigal: Um...
Paradise Tennant: skogkatts?
Eliza Madrigal: What?
Storm Nordwind: Norwegian Forest Cats. I had 4 once. 25 pound cats :)
Eliza Madrigal: Ahhh, surely a relative of my neighbor's cats
Paradise Tennant: ahh they are a very old breed ..suppose to be non allergenic .. :) beautiful cats
Storm Nordwind: very very beautiful
Eliza Madrigal: you never get used to the size of them
Paradise Tennant: you must have boughts lots of sardines :)
Storm Nordwind: more like a lynx really
Eliza Madrigal: hmmm
Paradise Tennant: saw a family of lynx once up in whitehorse :) they are beautiful too
Storm Nordwind nods
Eliza Madrigal: Oh, how nice... while walking Paradise?
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Eliza Madrigal: my cat must sense our talking of his group... at my ankles whining
Paradise Tennant: coming out of a cournty cabin .. getting in the car ..they came quite close my brother has lived up there for many years and never seen on before .. we were lucky :)
Eliza Madrigal: Oh, I see. A gift
Paradise Tennant: smiles yes a gift
--BELL--
Paradise Tennant: now that is a cat and a half :)
Eliza Madrigal: Oh! My Goodness. On second thought, I think the neighbor's cats are just fat
Storm Nordwind: That was my favorite skogkatt, only 6 months old, held by a tall friend
Paradise Tennant: beautiful storm really really beautiful
Eliza Madrigal nods
Storm Nordwind: That's the size when they're young. They have 3 more years growing before they reach full size! :)
Eliza Madrigal: wait... 6 months old? so not fully grown?
Storm Nordwind: coorect!
Storm Nordwind: *correct
Eliza Madrigal: !!
Paradise Tennant: smiles you could ride them then :) lol
Storm Nordwind: hehe!
Eliza Madrigal: hahah
Eliza Madrigal: to store by cat
Storm Nordwind winces at the close lightning strike in RL
Eliza Madrigal hopes you have a bed in the basement
Paradise Tennant: thinks you should take your laptop down to the basement !
Eliza Madrigal: "hunker down"
Storm Nordwind: Great idea. I wonder if the wireless would work from down there. We're on the 5th floor here!
Eliza Madrigal: Ah, so you'll be snuggling with many others
Eliza Madrigal: heheh
Storm Nordwind smiles
Eliza Madrigal: Actually, that's one of the things I've liked least about being a grown up... having to be the responsible one with a 'plan'... far better to scramble and panic with others
Eliza Madrigal: :)
Storm Nordwind: hehe!
Storm Nordwind: I'm told I'm very responsible... whenever anything goes wrong, apparently it's always me that's responsible ;)
Eliza Madrigal: hahaha
Paradise Tennant: smiles
Eliza Madrigal: I'd better get to bed... have an early breakfast with a friend I've not caught up with in ages
Eliza Madrigal: Thanks for the nice company, and stay safe, Storm!
Storm Nordwind: Have a wonderful time with them in the morning Eliza!
Paradise Tennant: nice to see you eliza :) sweet dreams
Storm Nordwind: I'll do my best :)
Eliza Madrigal: "gnight! Be well. Thanks (and will be checking for Storm tweets ;-)
Calvino Rabeni: I miss Colorado weather :)
Calvino Rabeni: It keeps you alert
Calvino Rabeni: Sometimes in survival mode
Storm Nordwind: It tries not to miss anyone actually Cal :)
Calvino Rabeni: Gives one plenty to talk about, that's the best thing
Calvino Rabeni: You need to know lots of rules
Paradise Tennant: lol shakes her head prefers the cold damp canadian winters and glorious but short summers :) no tornados please
Calvino Rabeni: Like, don't go hiking after Noon, if it is Summer
Storm Nordwind: I will go too. Obviously my full attnetion isn't here :)
Paradise Tennant: ok storn take care :) be safe
Storm Nordwind: Please excuse me!
Storm Nordwind: Thank you!
Calvino Rabeni: My attention is somewhere else also - dinner request:
Paradise Tennant: okeis nite nite cal ..thank you again :)
Calvino Rabeni: RL trumps SL
Paradise Tennant: it does !
Calvino Rabeni: OK, take care, Paradise
Paradise Tennant: big wave
Calvino Rabeni: Until later :)
Paradise Tennant: namaste :)