The Guardian for this meeting was Lucinda Lavender. The comments are by Lucinda Lavender. Attending were Druth, Riddle, Raffi,Boxy and Santoshima.

Intensity

druth Vlodovic: hey luci
Lucinda Lavender: Hey druth!
Lucinda Lavender: was having trouble getting the internet to work...
druth Vlodovic: give it a good kick
Lucinda Lavender: ha ha
Lucinda Lavender: did
druth Vlodovic: it worked :
Lucinda Lavender: how are you on this day?
druth Vlodovic: fair
druth Vlodovic: how is you?
Lucinda Lavender: ok...have a cold that is waning and somethings are getting better
Lucinda Lavender: some weeks are so intense
druth Vlodovic: moving in the right direction then :)
Lucinda Lavender: yes...less suffering
druth Vlodovic: "intense"?
Lucinda Lavender: spent some time in the ER
Lucinda Lavender: with my brother
Lucinda Lavender: who has some cracked ribs and a cough
Lucinda Lavender: bad combo
druth Vlodovic: ah, how old is he?
Lucinda Lavender: older than I by 12 years.
druth Vlodovic: my uncle is around that age, cracked his ribs twice in a couple weeks lol
Lucinda Lavender: Hi Raffila
Lucinda Lavender: really!
Raffila Millgrove: hi Luci, Hi druth. "Raffi" is fine.
druth Vlodovic: he is pretty active though, so not as big a deal as you'd expect
druth Vlodovic: hi raffi
Lucinda Lavender: was he dehydrated and fell?
Lucinda Lavender: thanks raffi
druth Vlodovic: probably running about too much, or overreaching
Lucinda Lavender: the dehydration can cause the falls I am learning
Lucinda Lavender: ah
druth Vlodovic: was that what happened to your brother?
Lucinda Lavender: yes...
Lucinda Lavender: fell from the dizziness and bumped his head too
druth Vlodovic: dehydration can be caused by a few things though, diet, medication etc, not just water intake
Lucinda Lavender: yes..
druth Vlodovic: I've been told drainking a lot of water helps mitigate hangovers
Lucinda Lavender: so drinking water is good!
druth Vlodovic: all things in moderation
Lucinda Lavender: Luci gets up and fills a glass for all:)
Lucinda Lavender: yep
Lucinda Lavender: yesterday Storm did a lovely intro about a compassion meditation
Lucinda Lavender: it was very helpful for me to learn
druth Vlodovic: let me look it up
Lucinda Lavender: he will be setting up a place that one can go and practice it
druth Vlodovic: karuna-metta
Lucinda Lavender: when he said that compassion is like sunlight I also like that
Lucinda Lavender: yes!
druth Vlodovic: well, all things in moderation again, you need compassion for everyone, including yourself and others
Riddle Sideways: Hi All
Lucinda Lavender: yeah
druth Vlodovic: hey riddle
Raffila Millgrove is watching chat. getting deluge of IM. Hi riddle
Lucinda Lavender: hi riddle!
Lucinda Lavender: aw raffi:)
druth Vlodovic: obligations :)
druth Vlodovic: you don't have to answer the phone if you don't want to
Riddle Sideways: Just tried Storm's new compassion/loving/kindness spot
Lucinda Lavender: is it daylight savings that changes this weekend I wonder?
Riddle Sideways: yep
druth Vlodovic: spring forward
druth Vlodovic: do you have a lm riddle?
Lucinda Lavender: Yay Riddle!
Riddle Sideways: did the chickens get let out yet?
--BELL--

Lucinda Lavender: yes the Lm
Lucinda Lavender: no here I go...pause and chickens together!
Lucinda Lavender: thanks you riddle for the reminder
Riddle Sideways: np, always enjoy that part :)
Lucinda Lavender: is there anything you might say about your experience with the meditation ?
Riddle Sideways: do chickens know about DST
Lucinda Lavender: :))
Lucinda Lavender: yep
Lucinda Lavender: well not really but they know we get confused...if I am late in opening them up the begin to cackle
Lucinda Lavender: 47 degrees and partly cloudy:)
Riddle Sideways: note: the meditation script starts on time
Riddle Sideways: 15 min. before PaB sessions
Lucinda Lavender: at 45 after the hour?
Riddle Sideways: if we come late it has started without
Lucinda Lavender: ah
Lucinda Lavender: good to know
Lucinda Lavender: and there are prompts to read?
Riddle Sideways: yes, the little dove leads it
Riddle Sideways: does not cackle
Lucinda Lavender: coo
Riddle Sideways: no cushions, but can sit on water lilies in the little pond :)
Lucinda Lavender: a floating experience then
Lucinda Lavender: a little lighter
Lucinda Lavender: :) I see someone floating in the air behind us to the south
druth Vlodovic: the usual suspect :)
Lucinda Lavender: Hi to Oberverm:)
Lucinda Lavender: no someone else I think...may be gone now
Riddle Sideways: 3 newbies in the field
Lucinda Lavender: All newbies Welcome...
Riddle Sideways: brb, need to go get LM
Lucinda Lavender: thanks Riddle
Lucinda Lavender: hey boxy appears..just after we wonder about starting the red ribbon!
Lucinda Lavender: hi boxy
Lucinda Lavender: how is your box today?
druth Vlodovic: hey box
Alfred Kelberry: hi :)
Alfred Kelberry: i'm good, luci. thank you :)
Alfred Kelberry: eh
Riddle Sideways: hi'ya good little boxy puppie
Lucinda Lavender: welcome back Raffi
Alfred Kelberry: ms raff has arrived :)
Raffila Millgrove: ty
Raffila Millgrove: crashing today
Riddle Sideways: wb Raffi
Alfred Kelberry: ah, cute elephant - hi :)
Lucinda Lavender: hmmm yes
druth Vlodovic: brb
Riddle Sideways: umm, boxy the ribbon is noooooos not working
--BELL--

Several Threads Simultaneously

Alfred Kelberry: working now :)
Lucinda Lavender: Portland is cool than Seattle then
Lucinda Lavender: cooler I mean!
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Lucinda Lavender: thans Seattle
Alfred Kelberry: hehe
Lucinda Lavender: I cannot type today
Riddle Sideways: oh, Son may have job in Seattle
Alfred Kelberry: let's say thans now instead of than :)
Lucinda Lavender: very cool!
Lucinda Lavender: hee hee
Lucinda Lavender: talked all through the bell not knowing
Alfred Kelberry: i miss gaya
Lucinda Lavender: Die Glocke hat geleutet!
Alfred Kelberry: hehe
Alfred Kelberry: luci, don't read this quote :)
Lucinda Lavender: I learned that from my new student who comes from Austria
Riddle Sideways: thans is working now
Alfred Kelberry: yes, better thans before
Alfred Kelberry: luci, what does it mean?
Lucinda Lavender: what boxy? says luci who is confused?
Riddle Sideways: s'ok
Alfred Kelberry: luci :) no worries
Lucinda Lavender: more confused thans you...
Alfred Kelberry: hehe
Alfred Kelberry: could be "thanks to you" :)
Raffila Millgrove: the bell rang or something similiar
druth Vlodovic: I'll catch you guys later
Alfred Kelberry: any interesting stories? revelations?
Alfred Kelberry: bye, druth
Lucinda Lavender: ok druth have a good day
Lucinda Lavender: Storms compassion meditation...great thing
Raffila Millgrove: bell is ringing?
Alfred Kelberry: raff?
Raffila Millgrove is trying to translate Luci's German phrase.
Lucinda Lavender: not so loudly so I forget tonotice
Alfred Kelberry: luci, i've seen him building the place for it
Raffila Millgrove: loudly?
Lucinda Lavender: yes Raffi...the bell has rung
Raffila Millgrove: the bell is loudly?
Raffila Millgrove: oh ok ok.
Alfred Kelberry: he didn't mention it was a "compassion" meditation
Lucinda Lavender: rung
Raffila Millgrove cannot remember her german anymore.
Lucinda Lavender: :) is ok...
Lucinda Lavender: I loved that a 4 year old will teach me...
Raffila Millgrove: yes. get the good stuff that way.
Raffila Millgrove: important things.
Lucinda Lavender: I have started a dictionary
Lucinda Lavender: I hope to get her to start one too
Lucinda Lavender: picture and word only
Riddle Sideways: is a Karuna-Metta meditation spot
Lucinda Lavender: riddle was there a landmark?
Riddle Sideways: but has lots of compassion in it
Lucinda Lavender: tons
Lucinda Lavender: Danke
Riddle Sideways: Storm will prolly give LM when completed
Raffila Millgrove: when my daughter was four, i taught her all the medical specialities, just because she had great memory and pronunciation. she could say neurologist etc. She end up being a medical researcher/scientist.
Lucinda Lavender: it is now in my inventory...:)
Lucinda Lavender: Wow that is great Raffi
Raffila Millgrove: i love smart kids. they are so fun.
Riddle Sideways: and all the children are above average
Lucinda Lavender: nodding.
Alfred Kelberry: your own kids are always smart :)
Raffila Millgrove: hehe
Lucinda Lavender: pretty fascinating process being a human
Raffila Millgrove: i thought i'd get grandchlldren so i could play with them.. still waiting on that.
Riddle Sideways: actually it is even fascinating to be an avatar :)
Lucinda Lavender: takes time to feel ready for that these days
Alfred Kelberry: kids are not popular these days
Lucinda Lavender: true Riddle
Raffila Millgrove: really? they went out of fashion?
Lucinda Lavender: ou think so Boxy?
Raffila Millgrove: we call the parents "helicopters" around here.. cause they hover so much.
Lucinda Lavender: maybe the compassionate do want to bring them into the messiness of life...
Alfred Kelberry: apparently. the birth rate is just above the replacement level.
Alfred Kelberry: or often below it
Riddle Sideways: hi san
Raffila Millgrove: oh well that's kind of a good thing... isn't it. so we don't drown in ourselves..
Lucinda Lavender: why do we always here then about overpopulation...Luci wonders?
Lucinda Lavender: hey San!
Alfred Kelberry: luci, i'm talking about the western world :)
Lucinda Lavender: ah...
Raffila Millgrove: i think it's only parts of the western world that have the declining birthrates?
Raffila Millgrove: snap
Santoshima Resident: hello
Raffila Millgrove: hi santoshima.
Lucinda Lavender: Luci must eat the oatmeal now...
Raffila Millgrove: oh i hope it has some raisins in it. so good in oatmeal. bon apetite
--BELL--

Otherworlds...etc

Alfred Kelberry: san :)
Santoshima Resident: ((boxy))
Lucinda Lavender: hmmmm
Alfred Kelberry: 3d :)
Riddle Sideways: miss 3d
Alfred Kelberry: yes
Alfred Kelberry: he's the first person i met from kira
Riddle Sideways: 3d is a medical researcher ?
Riddle Sideways: or doctor
Alfred Kelberry: he's working with opensim last i heard
Lucinda Lavender: what is openism?
Raffila Millgrove: is that were PAB will go if SL ends?
Alfred Kelberry: open source version of secondlife
Santoshima Resident: what does "^.^" mean?
Alfred Kelberry: kitty :)
Santoshima Resident: "I'm all ears" ?
Lucinda Lavender: have always imagined that it means eyebrows went up:)
Raffila Millgrove: all my friends agree that when Sl ends.. there will be no announcement ahead of time. we think we will just try to log in one day.. and find a sentence tellings us Sl is no more.
Santoshima Resident: just like life
Lucinda Lavender: wow...interesting
Lucinda Lavender: well I treasure my contacts here...
Alfred Kelberry: raff, it'll be pretty cool :)
Santoshima Resident: start taking email addresses
Raffila Millgrove: we try to make sure we have each other's email addresses ..
Raffila Millgrove: snap
Raffila Millgrove: half the people i know are going otherworldz (or similiar) other half open sim.
Santoshima Resident: what is "otherworldz" ?
Raffila Millgrove: it's a mini SL and i might have spelled it wrong.
Riddle Sideways: need to have a bot av with sandwich board walking around saying "The End is Coming"
Santoshima Resident: oh
Alfred Kelberry: riddle, nice one :)
Lucinda Lavender: Luci wonders why for all the change
Raffila Millgrove: i feel a dwindle down... slowly... don't you?
Lucinda Lavender: hard to fund?
Santoshima Resident: dunno, describe
Raffila Millgrove: stores empty. fewer new builds to visit....
Raffila Millgrove: used to be able to see as you log in.. how many others are logged in--i watched the number slide down bit at time, til they don't show it to you anymore now.
Santoshima Resident: money rules here ... sites of artistry have had to fold ... not valued
Lucinda Lavender: hmmm
Santoshima Resident: that's true about the numberss, now that you mention it
Santoshima Resident: no longer see that
Raffila Millgrove: Princeton has this build.. that the architect was written up in a presitigious archtectural journal real life. for how fabulous it was.. and it was!
Raffila Millgrove: it was an alumni club. wow i loved it.
Santoshima Resident: gone?
Raffila Millgrove: oh yes. all that amazing stuff is gone.
Santoshima Resident: elsewhere
Raffila Millgrove: i got hundreds of dead lm to amazing stuff that's not here anymore.
Alfred Kelberry: pab is still here :)
Santoshima Resident: did you take pictures, raff
Raffila Millgrove: you better beleive it. i have over 10,000 photo on my hard drive.. a photo diary of my adventures here.
Santoshima Resident: any in inventory?
Raffila Millgrove: my first one.. i was 3 hours old. i am wearng a birthday hat and sitting on a horse!
Alfred Kelberry: raff, i think it's a natural state - things change. especially fast in a virtual world environment.
Raffila Millgrove: inrl the first photo i ever took was of a horse too. i realized that later. i really love horses.
Lucinda Lavender: imagine so....
Alfred Kelberry: ah, horses :)
--BELL--

Slideshow?

Raffila Millgrove: it was in the garden.. of a cool Japanese inn. AFter i explore garden .. i went inside and made some sushi and i adopted their cat and took him with me. (take a copy). He still lives in my cottage. his name is Pepe.
Alfred Kelberry: raff, you should make a book from those pictures
Santoshima Resident: maybe put together a slide show, raff? an audience here or at Kira café?
Alfred Kelberry: hi, pema!
Lucinda Lavender: must go for now...good day for all....the computer and sl have different "time"
Alfred Kelberry: er, i mean, observer :)
Raffila Millgrove: oh it's all hard drive.. no interest in doing all the importing--uploading.
Raffila Millgrove: Bye Luci. ty for hosting us.
Santoshima Resident: hello obs :)
Santoshima Resident: bye luci
Alfred Kelberry: say hi to the hens, luci :)
Lucinda Lavender: happy to... may you all be happy. They say cackling things to you as well.
Riddle Sideways: must be going too
Riddle Sideways: bye
Raffila Millgrove: bye Riddle
Alfred Kelberry: poof
Raffila Millgrove: where's the hens boxy?
Lucinda Lavender: bye riddle too
Alfred Kelberry: at luci's place
Lucinda Lavender: at Luci's house(in RL mainly)
Raffila Millgrove: oh ok.
Alfred Kelberry: :)
Santoshima Resident: exodus
Raffila Millgrove: have a good one everyone. Enjoy your weekends too
Alfred Kelberry: run! quick!
Alfred Kelberry: see you folks
Lucinda Lavender: have a big concert Sunday
Santoshima Resident: enjoy, luci
Raffila Millgrove: hello observm. why don't you come sit with us sometime? be nice to have you.
Lucinda Lavender: will be busy all weekend..will do
Lucinda Lavender: bye for now
Raffila Millgrove: bye santo
Santoshima Resident: bye