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KK Chat -- 16 August 2015

Started by DesertRose, August 16, 2015, 07:39:54 PM

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Aug 16 19:03:38 *   KK has joined
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Aug 16 19:03:42 <Evie>   Hi KK
Aug 16 19:03:43 <The_Bee>   HiKK
Aug 16 19:03:46 <DomMelchior>   Hi KK
Aug 16 19:03:48 *   Aerlys (~47d425be@OWIRCN-1bdd9d77.org) has joined
Aug 16 19:03:49 <Shiral>   Hello, Katherine
Aug 16 19:04:00 <KK>   Hello, all.  What's up?
Aug 16 19:04:01 <jemler>   hi kk
Aug 16 19:04:06 <Aerlys>   I was mibbited, and I'm not even on mibbit!
Aug 16 19:04:14 <Aerlys>   Hello KK
Aug 16 19:04:24 <Shiral>   The Mibbit's reach is long....
Aug 16 19:04:25 <The_Bee>   mibbit is unhibited
Aug 16 19:04:30 <Aerlys>   I'm feeling more and more like the Great Pumpkin
Aug 16 19:04:36 <KK>   Mibbit sees all, knows all.
Aug 16 19:04:37 <DesertRose>   Hi KK.
Aug 16 19:04:44 <The_Bee>   Are you turning orange?
Aug 16 19:04:46 <Shiral>   Trying to keep cool.
Aug 16 19:04:53 <Aerlys>   Maybe :)
Aug 16 19:05:13 <KK>   That's right, you folk in CA are having serious heat issues currently.
Aug 16 19:05:21 <Shiral>   Yes, we are
Aug 16 19:05:27 <DomMelchior>   Very
Aug 16 19:05:33 <The_Bee>   Are the fires still keeping their distance from your neighborhood, shiral?
Aug 16 19:05:47 <Shiral>   Today, I'm chatting at my dining table because it's just too hot to stay upstairs.
Aug 16 19:06:02 *   Laurna (Mibbit@OWIRCN-e847c143.res.rr.com) has joined
Aug 16 19:06:06 <DesertRose>   Hi Laurna.
Aug 16 19:06:08 <The_Bee>   How are the cats coping?
Aug 16 19:06:11 <Evie>   Hi Laurna
Aug 16 19:06:14 <Shiral>   They're not a threat where I live, Bee, but the smoke is making it very smoggy here today. Yuck
Aug 16 19:06:14 <The_Bee>   HI Laurna
Aug 16 19:06:15 <Aerlys>   Hi Laurna!
Aug 16 19:06:16 <Laurna>   Good day everyone
Aug 16 19:06:19 <Shiral>   Hi Laurna
Aug 16 19:06:23 <DesertRose>   Probably Severe Flat Cat Syndrome, Bee.  :)
Aug 16 19:06:25 <jemler>   hi laurna
Aug 16 19:06:27 <Shiral>   Cats are melting on the floor
Aug 16 19:06:41 <DomMelchior>   Hi Laurna
Aug 16 19:06:44 <Evie>   I've fled to the bedroom to keep Luke and Gigi off me
Aug 16 19:06:53 <Shiral>   Dmitri's lying at the other end of my dining table looking very low energy
Aug 16 19:06:56 <KK>   You know, Mitsubishi makes a dynamite air conditioner that goes on the wall high up.  Might be something to consider.  Can you even sleep with the current heat?
Aug 16 19:07:00 <Evie>   especially since Gigi has landed on the sore knee twice today already
Aug 16 19:07:28 <Shiral>   Yes, KK. I have a room AC unit It's noisy, but it does make my bedroom comfortable enough to sleep
Aug 16 19:07:56 <The_Bee>    I have my fan blowing toward me.
Aug 16 19:08:01 <Laurna>   I just gave ALL the dogs each a bath. we are all cooled off  and still currently drying.
Aug 16 19:08:16 <Shiral>   Bring your cool summer duds to the wedding next month, though!
Aug 16 19:08:20 <DesertRose>   They finally got my AC fixed in my apartment while I was still at my parents' house cat-sitting.
Aug 16 19:08:29 <Evie>   oh good, DR
Aug 16 19:08:39 <KK>   Oh, absolutely.
Aug 16 19:08:48 *   Shiral melts at the though of Florida in August with no AC
Aug 16 19:09:23 <KK>   Scott keeps saying it will be cooler by the end of September, but I seriously doubt it.
Aug 16 19:09:23 <DesertRose>   Yeah, that sucked, and it's kind of a good thing I had to go to my parents' place to take care of kittehs.
Aug 16 19:09:41 <Shiral>   I admire Scott's optimism. =o)
Aug 16 19:10:02 <Laurna>   At least Sept should be less humid.
Aug 16 19:10:12 <KK>   Even when we left, in 1986, the summers got hot; and I know it's much worse now.
Aug 16 19:10:19 <Shiral>   Even with Merlin being hostile, it's better than no AC
Aug 16 19:10:27 <The_Bee>   global warming at work
Aug 16 19:10:36 <DesertRose>   Yes, and actually, he's smarter than I gave him credit for.
Aug 16 19:10:53 <The_Bee>   ?
Aug 16 19:10:55 <Shiral>   It hasn't been all that bad MOST of the time this summer. And well, I blame Sirius the Dog Star. These are the Dog Days of summer
Aug 16 19:11:02 <DesertRose>   He learned that if he tried to bite or scratch me, he got no kitteh food for another 15-20 minutes.
Aug 16 19:11:30 <Shiral>   Humidity in California isn't that big of a problem, but in September, heat definitely is
Aug 16 19:11:38 <KK>   We had about a week of seriously hot weather back in June, but it's been wonderful since; the kind of summer one wishes for.
Aug 16 19:11:47 <DesertRose>   That got him in line fairly quickly; I survived 12 days of cat-sitting the brat (and PJ the sweet kitty) with only one bite on the side of my left leg.
Aug 16 19:12:21 <jemler>   soft kitty, warm kitty
Aug 16 19:12:31 <Shiral>   Fortunately, I have a pool on the property here, and that's where I'm heading after chat, today
Aug 16 19:12:54 <Aerlys>   Uh oh, I smell something. BRB
Aug 16 19:12:56 <DesertRose>   PJ isn't a cuddler but she's a sweet kitty anyway.
Aug 16 19:12:58 <Laurna>   nice day for it Shiral
Aug 16 19:13:02 <DesertRose>   Oh, that's not a good sign, Aerlys.
Aug 16 19:13:36 <Evie>   Duncan and Helena have swimwear to bring to DragonCon, KK.  :D
Aug 16 19:13:39 <Shiral>   Perfect in fact, Laurna. I'm waiting until there are fewer small splashy kids, is all
Aug 16 19:13:56 <jemler>   i smelled something at about 3am this morning. turned out to be pot roast.
Aug 16 19:14:10 <DesertRose>   That's the nice thing about using the pool at the YMCA in the evenings after work; almost no splashy little kids.
Aug 16 19:14:13 <Shiral>   HOw "roasted" was it, Jemler?
Aug 16 19:14:16 <Laurna>   lol Understand that Shiral.  Love the swimwear Evie perhaps they can join Shiral this afternoon
Aug 16 19:14:18 <Evie>   Pot roast at 3 AM?
Aug 16 19:14:58 <jemler>   she had just started it. we ate about an hour ago. pot roast, mashed potatoes, and carrots.
Aug 16 19:15:01 <Aerlys>   Something is burning somewhere. It's been extremely hot and dry and there have been many fires lately.
Aug 16 19:15:18 <The_Bee>   not in your home, I hope
Aug 16 19:15:19 <Shiral>   Yeah. It's the same here.  It's a bad fire season
Aug 16 19:15:21 <DesertRose>   That's some dedicated cooking, jemler.
Aug 16 19:15:24 <Laurna>   The house only go cooled down at 3am why would you heat it back up by cooking?
Aug 16 19:15:24 <Evie>   hopefully it's not too close, Aerlys
Aug 16 19:15:48 <Evie>   If it's in a crock pot or something like that, it wouldn't heat the house
Aug 16 19:15:58 <DesertRose>   BRB, snack.
Aug 16 19:16:19 <jemler>   in the oven. she usually lets it slow cook all night.
Aug 16 19:16:27 <Laurna>   Did someone mention snacks? hmmm?
Aug 16 19:16:31 <Shiral>   So how is life treating you this wee, KK?
Aug 16 19:16:32 <Aerlys>   I double checked and Morgan didn't start his forge. Maybe our neighbors are BBQing, though it smells different
Aug 16 19:16:50 <Evie>   Hopefully it's that.
Aug 16 19:16:58 <Shiral>   Aerlys, you never told us you lived next door to Morgan. =o)
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Aug 16 19:17:11 <Laurna>   oops
Aug 16 19:17:15 *   Aerlys (~47d425be@OWIRCN-1bdd9d77.org) has joined
Aug 16 19:17:24 <jemler>   wb aerlys
Aug 16 19:17:24 <The_Bee>   rehi aerlys
Aug 16 19:17:31 <Aerlys>   Actually, Morgan lives in my basement. :)
Aug 16 19:17:35 <KK>   Evie, what's the link to the swimsuits?
Aug 16 19:17:58 <Shiral>   Must get noisy if he
Aug 16 19:18:01 <Evie>   A few summers ago, when fires were burning out of control along the Florida/Georgia border, I woke up to lots of smoke and burning odor, and thought something down the road from us was burning. It turned out to be the wood smoke from the burning forests hundreds of miles southeast from us
Aug 16 19:18:13 <Evie>   but the winds were blowing just right for us to get their smoke
Aug 16 19:18:15 <Shiral>   's practicing blacksmithing down there. =o)
Aug 16 19:18:18 <Evie>   http://www.rhemuthcastle.com/index.php/topic,844.msg13513.html#msg13513
Aug 16 19:18:37 <Aerlys>   No, the forge is outside.
Aug 16 19:19:25 <Shiral>   Very sensible
Aug 16 19:19:26 <Aerlys>   It would be rather noisy, though!
Aug 16 19:19:42 <Aerlys>   I really need to upload some pics of his work
Aug 16 19:19:53 <KK>   Nice suits.  The palazzo pants would make good cut-off surfer pants.
Aug 16 19:20:14 <Evie>   LOL! I guess so, though I don't have those anymore
Aug 16 19:20:36 <KK>   What happened to them?
Aug 16 19:20:38 <Evie>   I sewed a few outfits as a commission for someone else in exchange for a 1:6 kitchen island
Aug 16 19:20:51 <Evie>   so that was one of the items she asked for
Aug 16 19:21:04 <Evie>   3 shirts and 3 pairs of palazzo pants
Aug 16 19:21:31 <KK>   Ah.  Well, you could make some new ones.  In fact, maybe surfer bags would be more comfortable on Duncan.
Aug 16 19:22:06 <Evie>   I have just enough of that fabric left to make him a Hawaiian style shirt, I think
Aug 16 19:22:38 <KK>   WEll, that would also be good.
Aug 16 19:22:54 <Laurna>   I want to see that when its done, Evie
Aug 16 19:23:23 <Evie>   Though Nigel's braies are made of a sturdier white fabric than Duncan's and would work well as Bermuda shorts or longer length swim trunks
Aug 16 19:23:24 *   jemler sets out pretzel rods and nutella
Aug 16 19:23:26 <Aerlys>   yeah, the fan project thread has been quiet!
Aug 16 19:23:40 <Evie>   because I can't write and sew at the same time
Aug 16 19:23:52 *   Shiral can picture Cardiel, Dhugal and Alaric ALL being bewildered by Duncan's new attire...
Aug 16 19:24:06 <Evie>   and since I hadn't written anything new in a few years, I gave the story my full attention for a while
Aug 16 19:24:07 <DesertRose>   LOL
Aug 16 19:24:10 <Laurna>   LOL
Aug 16 19:24:17 <Evie>   :D
Aug 16 19:24:48 <Laurna>   Awesome story so far Evie
Aug 16 19:24:56 <Evie>   I want to get Alaric switched to his action figure body so he can get new clothes too. I keep buying fabric for him, but don't want to cut and sew it until he's on a permanent body
Aug 16 19:25:02 <Aerlys>   You mean you aren't the Gwynedd equivalent of Martha Stewart, Evie?
Aug 16 19:25:05 <Evie>   thank you, Laurna
Aug 16 19:25:34 <Evie>   I suspect even Martha Stewart would have some trouble hand sewing while typing, unless she has hidden arms I'm unaware of
Aug 16 19:25:35 <Shiral>   You do rather make me worry what's going to fall down go boom next. In the story, I mean
Aug 16 19:25:48 <Aerlys>   No, she just had a bigger staff
Aug 16 19:26:32 <Evie>   Well, you know, I'm writing in a world of someone else who tends to make you fear for her characters because you've learned the hard way that she's willing to kill them for the sake of the plot....  :D
Aug 16 19:26:33 <KK>   Isn't Alaric on an action body?
Aug 16 19:26:48 <DesertRose>   LOL, Evie.
Aug 16 19:26:57 <Shiral>   Yes, but he's been spending too much time in his La-Z boy chair...
Aug 16 19:27:01 <Evie>   No, he's still on his original Ken body. It's articulated, but no Ken is as well articulated as an action figure
Aug 16 19:27:35 <Evie>   That's why Alaric looks really dumb on a horse. :D
Aug 16 19:27:58 <KK>   So, a new body is in the works?
Aug 16 19:28:07 <DesertRose>   LOL
Aug 16 19:28:16 <Evie>   He can't spread his legs, so I have to bend his thighs forward and then splay his legs apart at the knees when he is on horseback
Aug 16 19:28:53 <Laurna>   That is not a very good image that you give of my favorite man.
Aug 16 19:28:57 <Evie>   That's the plan, KK, but his neck joint will need modifying, and I'm afraid of ruining him, so I am thinking of paying a friend to do it who has a lot more experience at that sort of thing
Aug 16 19:29:32 <KK>   So he may need to go to a hospital off-site for the specialist surgery he needs.
Aug 16 19:29:39 <Evie>   Exactly
Aug 16 19:29:58 <Laurna>   I just hope a Healer is in the house at the time.
Aug 16 19:30:02 <KK>   You have the body already?
Aug 16 19:30:04 <Shiral>   Head Implants ARE tricky
Aug 16 19:30:05 <DomMelchior>   Just get Duncan to hear him
Aug 16 19:30:17 <DomMelchior>   heal that is
Aug 16 19:30:23 <jemler>   i go for surgery this thursday.
Aug 16 19:30:24 <The_Bee>   and he'll needa couple weeks of rehab afterwards.
Aug 16 19:30:25 <Evie>   I'm trying to decide whether to send Duncan too. His head comes off his body a little too easily, and I'd like to make it more secure
Aug 16 19:30:28 <DomMelchior>   rented fingers
Aug 16 19:30:39 <Evie>   I've had the body for a few years
Aug 16 19:30:50 <Shiral>   Hear Alaric say "Ow ow ow! You can't believe how sore my neck is!"?
Aug 16 19:30:57 <Evie>   It's the same kind Duncan has
Aug 16 19:31:06 <Laurna>   Jemler, I wish you a a good Thursaday and that all is well.
Aug 16 19:31:07 <The_Bee>   surgery, Jemler?  What kind?
Aug 16 19:31:18 <Evie>   what sort, jemler?
Aug 16 19:31:49 <jemler>   i have a fistula in my right arm for dialysis. the doctor is going to resect a spot that is getting bad.
Aug 16 19:32:01 <Laurna>   Oocch
Aug 16 19:32:06 <Aerlys>   Ooo, ow
Aug 16 19:32:09 <DesertRose>   Ouch
Aug 16 19:32:10 <The_Bee>   I hope it's an improvement
Aug 16 19:32:27 <KK>   Ah, that sounds unpleasant, but obviously needed in the long term.  Good luck!
Aug 16 19:32:34 <DomMelchior>   Thinking good thoughts for ya Jemler
Aug 16 19:32:54 <Shiral>   Hope the arm comes out working better than before, Jemler
Aug 16 19:33:26 <jemler>   it should b. she resected another area a few weeks ago. the bad part was i had to hold my arm at a bad angle for 3 hrs the last few weeks.
Aug 16 19:33:48 <Evie>   ow
Aug 16 19:33:53 <DesertRose>   Oh fun.  :/
Aug 16 19:33:55 <The_Bee>   ouch
Aug 16 19:34:23 <The_Bee>   That must have hurt.
Aug 16 19:34:29 <Laurna>   So you have a lady doctor.  good.
Aug 16 19:35:16 <jemler>   several actually. nephrologist, vascular surgeon, general.
Aug 16 19:35:32 <The_Bee>   all women?
Aug 16 19:35:43 <jemler>   yes.
Aug 16 19:36:05 <The_Bee>   do they laugh at your semi-dirty jokes?
Aug 16 19:36:48 <jemler>   some.
Aug 16 19:37:19 <Aerlys>   Ah. DH is taking the kiddos bike riding. Peace and quiet!
Aug 16 19:37:31 <Laurna>   lol Jemler saves the good stuff for us. I doubt the doctors through fish his way.
Aug 16 19:37:31 <KK>   More likely, they would be amused by his puns, which are often quite funny.
Aug 16 19:37:37 <Evie>   Bliss, Aerlys!
Aug 16 19:37:54 <Shiral>   Hooray!
Aug 16 19:38:10 <jemler>   they sound funny, but smell fishy.
Aug 16 19:38:13 <Evie>   I could ship the doctors some mackerels
Aug 16 19:38:15 <Aerlys>   Jemler also know the lady doctors have unique ways of inflicting pain...
Aug 16 19:38:23 <Aerlys>   that don't involve fish
Aug 16 19:38:24 <DesertRose>   YAY, Aerlys.
Aug 16 19:38:50 <DesertRose>   (To the kids and DH going for a bike ride, that is.)
Aug 16 19:38:58 <Aerlys>   lol
Aug 16 19:39:01 <jemler>   depends on where they try.
Aug 16 19:40:40 *   Shiral drops pin
Aug 16 19:40:43 <Shiral>   CLANGGGGG!!!
Aug 16 19:40:56 <Evie>   :)
Aug 16 19:41:02 <jemler>   echo..echo..echo..echo..echo..echo..echo..echo..echo..echo..
Aug 16 19:41:15 *   The_Bee 's ears won't stop ringing
Aug 16 19:41:27 <Evie>   Just remembering I haven't taken my vitamins today, and wondering if it's worth the discomfort of getting up to get them
Aug 16 19:41:29 <Shiral>   Just wanted to make sure everyone wasn
Aug 16 19:41:29 <Laurna>   KK I wanted to ask about portals.  IF a human puts a large piece of furniture over a portal would it stop Deryni from using it?
Aug 16 19:41:38 <Shiral>   t having simultaneous nap attacks
Aug 16 19:41:47 <DomMelchior>   Bee, hit the snooze button: your ears are ringing
Aug 16 19:42:00 <The_Bee>   zzzzzzzzzzzz
Aug 16 19:42:10 <Evie>   Please answer your ears, Bee
Aug 16 19:42:22 <Evie>   Or hang up on them
Aug 16 19:42:31 <jemler>   check out this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxAdT2OKXy0
Aug 16 19:42:31 <KK>   I've occasionally thought about buying a bicycle; much more fun to actually go somewhere than to sit pedaling a stationary bike.  But then I try to lie down until the urge passes.  It's the cars I'd worry about, riding a bike.
Aug 16 19:42:34 <The_Bee>   "sorry, wrong number"
Aug 16 19:43:05 <jemler>   bee's snooze alarm.
Aug 16 19:43:09 <Evie>   I'd worry about cars riding a bike too. They have wheels of their own, they don't need to assault a poor bike
Aug 16 19:43:33 *   DesertRose half-heartedly lobs a goldfish at Evie.
Aug 16 19:43:57 <Evie>   I'm curious about Laurna's question myself, come to think
Aug 16 19:44:09 <DesertRose>   That is a good question.
Aug 16 19:44:22 <KK>   Laurna, yes.  If it's a big enough piece of furniture.
Aug 16 19:44:26 <jemler>   the only problem i have with cars, is that any idiot can drive one. and most do!
Aug 16 19:44:46 <DesertRose>   So a little table might not cause a problem, but a sofa would?
Aug 16 19:45:01 <KK>   It would be sort of like bricking up a Portal.
Aug 16 19:45:01 <Aerlys>   what if it's too small? Does it just get bumped out of the way?
Aug 16 19:45:06 <Shiral>   You can tell where Loris' portal is--it's the one with the wardrobe, the chairs and the table all piled on top....
Aug 16 19:45:11 <DesertRose>   LOL
Aug 16 19:45:11 <Laurna>    I just hope they don't apear inside the furnature instead of being unable to use the portal at all.
Aug 16 19:45:28 <The_Bee>   I'd think it would depend on where the furniture was placed relative to the Deryni's landing point.
Aug 16 19:45:39 <Evie>   Oh, that reminds me.  So I was driving down the highway on my way to work this week, and happened to be wishing Transfer Portals really existed, when I noticed a little green sign that looked like a mile marker sign, only it was several feet away from an actual mile marker, and this little sign said "TP"
Aug 16 19:45:45 <Shiral>   I like biking, myself. But yeah, you do have to watch for cars. But bikes are much easier to park
Aug 16 19:45:52 <KK>   I think smaller pieces would be displaced, scooted off the Portal.  Major ones, not so much.
Aug 16 19:46:03 <Laurna>   lol
Aug 16 19:46:17 <Aerlys>   So they'd have to go back?
Aug 16 19:46:18 <Evie>   So I wondered what it might be, since I'd never noticed those signs before, and I was still laughing about it several miles down the road when I saw another small, green "TP" sign
Aug 16 19:46:31 <Aerlys>   Toilet paper?
Aug 16 19:46:33 <DesertRose>   What would happen to the Deryni who was trying to pop into the Portal if there WERE a large piece of furniture on it?
Aug 16 19:47:02 <DesertRose>   Would you just not be able to come in via that Portal?
Aug 16 19:47:09 <KK>   Those are actually markers for outdoor privies, to let you know there's paper.
Aug 16 19:47:34 <Evie>   LOL! I hope not, given there was no shelter nearby, just the signs. :D
Aug 16 19:47:41 <KK>   I should think the Portaler would feel some resistance if something was in the way.
Aug 16 19:47:47 <DesertRose>   Okay, that makes sense.
Aug 16 19:48:13 <Evie>   and wouldn't be able to come through at all if something big like a wardrobe was in the Portal space?
Aug 16 19:48:40 <Aerlys>   Or would the wardrobe detour them into Narnia?
Aug 16 19:48:44 <Evie>   Or a TARDIS
Aug 16 19:48:46 <DesertRose>   LOL, Aerlys.
Aug 16 19:48:52 <Laurna>   LOL
Aug 16 19:48:53 <Evie>   LOL, you were on the same wavelength,Aerlys
Aug 16 19:49:02 <KK>   I'd think it would act somewhat like a wall.
Aug 16 19:49:06 <Shiral>   This doesn't look like Rhemuth, and why is my horse talking??
Aug 16 19:49:23 <Evie>   OK, I can see that, KK
Aug 16 19:49:33 <Laurna>   Thank you KK
Aug 16 19:49:38 <Evie>   So that would be one way to temporarily block a Portal without destroying it
Aug 16 19:49:51 <Aerlys>   "OK, now I'm laying off the Fianna red. That beaver is talking to me"
Aug 16 19:49:54 <DesertRose>   Just shove the couch over onto the Portal square.  :)
Aug 16 19:49:58 <Evie>   or without killing someone else trying to come through
Aug 16 19:50:21 <Evie>   LOL Aerlys
Aug 16 19:50:41 <Aerlys>   Either that, or your unexpected guest gets a really good look at the dust bunnies under the couch
Aug 16 19:50:51 <KK>   Yes, a physical impediment would certainly be a deterrent, without actually making it a trap-portal, or destroying it.
Aug 16 19:50:57 <Evie>   "Enough of the Vezairi Port, I'm seeing foot tall talking mice with rapiers
Aug 16 19:51:02 <DesertRose>   LOL
Aug 16 19:51:20 <Aerlys>   lol
Aug 16 19:52:17 *   DesertRose drops a pin.
Aug 16 19:52:21 <Shiral>   And it just challenged me to a duel!
Aug 16 19:52:23 <DesertRose>   LOL
Aug 16 19:52:29 <Shiral>   Sorry, in a heat-induced stupor
Aug 16 19:52:45 <Evie>   sleepy
Aug 16 19:52:50 <DesertRose>   I understand, trust me.  It's why I fled for my parents' house BEFORE I actually had to be there to cat-sit.
Aug 16 19:53:25 <Shiral>   Watching.....a sleeping.....cat is.....drowsy....
Aug 16 19:53:34 <Kelric>   good nap chu
Aug 16 19:53:40 <jemler>   evie, with you ankle, shouldn't you be Gimpy?
Aug 16 19:53:48 <Evie>   :-P
Aug 16 19:53:54 *   DesertRose lobs a trout at jemler.
Aug 16 19:54:07 <Evie>   I'd launch a mackerel, but effort
Aug 16 19:54:10 <DesertRose>   LOL
Aug 16 19:54:13 *   Shiral gives Evie a cup of strong R'Kassan coffee
Aug 16 19:54:15 <KK>   Evie, what did you do to your ankle?
Aug 16 19:54:23 <jemler>   funny punny, fishy smelly
Aug 16 19:54:35 <Aerlys>   timey wimey
Aug 16 19:54:42 <DesertRose>   Wibbly wobbly?
Aug 16 19:54:50 <Evie>   I turned my ankle somehow as I was walking into church, and suddenly found myself landing hard on my hands and knees, especially the right knee
Aug 16 19:55:06 <Laurna>   Her ankel is fishy smelly? did she slip on those fish she lobs at you?
Aug 16 19:55:19 <Evie>   I did something similar on the sidewalk earlier this week. Not sure why I'm suddenly having ankle turns and bad falls
Aug 16 19:55:25 <Laurna>   Ouch Eie
Aug 16 19:55:27 <Laurna>   Evi
Aug 16 19:55:34 <DesertRose>   Can you wrap your ankle in an Ace bandage or something?
Aug 16 19:55:36 <Laurna>   I give up EVIE
Aug 16 19:55:54 <DesertRose>   Just for a little extra stability?
Aug 16 19:55:59 <Evie>   I may try that, DR, since that happened around 10:30 this morning and is still sore
Aug 16 19:56:04 <Evie>   I put some ice on it earlier
Aug 16 19:56:15 <DesertRose>   Assuming you have or can reasonably easily acquire an Ace bandage?
Aug 16 19:56:26 <Evie>   There is probably one in our hall closet
Aug 16 19:56:30 *   DesertRose nods.
Aug 16 19:56:38 <Aerlys>   My hip is already bad, and a couple months ago I fell backwards over the floor jack DH left nesxt to my parking spot. I had my arms full of groceries. And after I landed, a bag of apples fell in my face. Still limping
Aug 16 19:56:53 <DesertRose>   Ouch, Aerlys.
Aug 16 19:57:00 <Evie>   as often as DD has hurt herself, we probably own Ace Bandage. :D
Aug 16 19:57:06 <Laurna>   No Aerlys thats not good
Aug 16 19:57:07 <Evie>   the company, that is
Aug 16 19:57:15 <DesertRose>   I know what you mean about joints going bad.  My knees started playing up when I was in my late teens.
Aug 16 19:57:19 <jemler>   your face is still limping?
Aug 16 19:57:21 <Evie>   Oh no,Aerlys
Aug 16 19:57:24 <Aerlys>   If the neighbors were watching, they probably had a good laugh
Aug 16 19:57:59 <DesertRose>   Yeah, I can see it being funny in a pratfall sort of way, but I hope somebody cared enough to help you up, assuming there was anyone nearby.
Aug 16 19:58:09 <Aerlys>   My face does hurt anymore, but I suppose it's still killing other people
Aug 16 19:58:34 <KK>   I'm doing physio for my knees, currently.  They got really bad over the winter.  Fortunately, no joint involvement; it's the side muscles & tendons, and the physio is making them strongr.
Aug 16 19:59:04 <Aerlys>   I was alone. And then I tripped on the entrance rug going into the house. By then I was ready to lay down on the kithcen floor and not move before something else happened!
Aug 16 19:59:09 <DesertRose>   That's good, KK.  I just come from a bad gene pool for joint problems, arthritis and stuff.  I seem to have developed bursitis in my left hip, what joy.
Aug 16 19:59:16 <Evie>   Ow,Aerlys!
Aug 16 19:59:28 <DesertRose>   Yeah, I can sympathize with that desire, Aerlys.
Aug 16 19:59:39 <KK>   None of us are getting any younger.
Aug 16 19:59:45 <DesertRose>   Nope.  It just doesn't work that way.
Aug 16 19:59:48 <Aerlys>   Actually  I thought it was funny
Aug 16 19:59:55 <The_Bee>   We just want to keep on getting older.
Aug 16 20:00:12 <DesertRose>   My mom always says, "It's bad to get old, but it beats the alternative."
Aug 16 20:00:17 <KK>   Unlike Marlin, we don't youthen.
Aug 16 20:00:25 <KK>   Yep, DR.
Aug 16 20:00:26 <Laurna>   Funny when your laying there and can;t get up imidiatly and wonder how you ever got this old.
Aug 16 20:00:34 <jemler>   my sisters grandson turned 3 today.
Aug 16 20:00:44 <KK>   Merlin youthens.
Aug 16 20:00:44 <Laurna>   I have done that a few times too.
Aug 16 20:00:52 <The_Bee>   Happy Birthday to him
Aug 16 20:00:56 <Evie>   Great, turned off ceiling fan because I was too cool, and now I'm too hot. BRB, gonna hobble over to fix that
Aug 16 20:01:12 <jemler>   his sister tiurned 2 last sunday.
Aug 16 20:01:17 <DesertRose>   Today is my oldest brother's birthday.  I need to phone him and tell him Happy Birthday.
Aug 16 20:01:32 <Shiral>   Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the heck happened
Aug 16 20:01:37 <DesertRose>   Indeed, Shiral.
Aug 16 20:01:40 <jemler>   older than you? that makes himn 35.
Aug 16 20:01:45 <Laurna>   Yes Shiral
Aug 16 20:02:01 <Shiral>   I mean, inside, I'm still 26
Aug 16 20:02:18 <Shiral>   But that doesn't quite match my driver's license
Aug 16 20:02:19 <The_Bee>   I'm 72 and I still can't decide what I want to do when I grow up.
Aug 16 20:02:36 <DesertRose>   All three of my brothers are older than I am.  The oldest turned 56 today, the middle one will be 54 in November, the youngest of the boys will be 51 in December, and their other sister and I will be 45 and 40 in January.
Aug 16 20:02:56 <DesertRose>   LOL, Shiral, I know that feeling.
Aug 16 20:03:00 <Shiral>   My oldest brother turns 60 in November
Aug 16 20:03:05 <jemler>   i grew older, not up.
Aug 16 20:03:14 <DesertRose>   No kidding, jemler.  :P
Aug 16 20:03:21 <Evie>   OK, back, and haven't managed to fall face first again, so that's good
Aug 16 20:03:21 <Laurna>   My baby sister turned 50 two days ago.
Aug 16 20:03:31 <DesertRose>   Busting your tail is a bad idea, yes, Evie.
Aug 16 20:03:48 <Shiral>   Even small goals are good Evie
Aug 16 20:03:57 <Evie>   at least my tail is padded now. :D
Aug 16 20:04:00 <jemler>   my older brother would have been 54 on the 31st of this month.
Aug 16 20:04:01 <DesertRose>   LOL
Aug 16 20:04:11 <jemler>   NC Evie.
Aug 16 20:04:32 <DesertRose>   The 31st of August was DD's due date, but she was on her own timetable and wasn't actually born until September 8.
Aug 16 20:04:34 <Shiral>   Glad you missed an unexpected Floor Meeting, Evie
Aug 16 20:04:52 <Shiral>   My mom turned 85 last week
Aug 16 20:05:04 <The_Bee>   mine died at 98
Aug 16 20:05:31 <DesertRose>   My mom turned 67 last week, but people think she's my older sister (not that I have any sisters), because she looks WAY younger than she actually is.
Aug 16 20:05:53 <Laurna>   Be you still got time to figure out what you want to do when you grew up
Aug 16 20:06:08 <jemler>   Ray died at 47.
Aug 16 20:06:29 <Evie>   that's young
Aug 16 20:06:32 <The_Bee>   How did he die?
Aug 16 20:06:41 <jemler>   Suicide.
Aug 16 20:06:49 <The_Bee>   OH no!
Aug 16 20:07:10 <jemler>   he made bad choices, including that one.
Aug 16 20:07:12 <The_Bee>   That must have been rough on your family
Aug 16 20:07:44 <jemler>   we had trouble believing it.
Aug 16 20:07:45 <The_Bee>   My mother's brother committed suicide.
Aug 16 20:07:57 <DesertRose>   One of my mom's uncles did, as well as my paternal grandfather.
Aug 16 20:08:32 <jemler>   on the plus side, my mother got to meet his son, Jeremy.
Aug 16 20:10:20 <Evie>   brb
Aug 16 20:10:27 <jemler>   WAKE UP!!!
Aug 16 20:10:50 <jemler>   Sorry, i bummed everybody out.
Aug 16 20:10:52 <DesertRose>   LOL
Aug 16 20:11:06 <The_Bee>   Have you gotten to know Jeremy, Jemler?
Aug 16 20:11:41 <Evie>   back
Aug 16 20:12:04 <jemler>   yes. i saw him whenhe was a baby, and hre stayed withus for a few weeks after his dad died. he looks like Ray when he was 12. kinda freaky, actually.
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Aug 16 20:12:18 <DesertRose>   Shiral2, what happened?
Aug 16 20:12:18 <jemler>   hi shiral2
Aug 16 20:12:20 <The_Bee>   Hi Evil Twin
Aug 16 20:12:30 <Shiral2>   It was the cat. =o)
Aug 16 20:12:41 <DesertRose>   Which cat?  I thought they were melting on the floor?
Aug 16 20:12:42 <Evie>   Shiral was the cat?
Aug 16 20:12:42 <Shiral2>   Actually, my modem hiccuped
Aug 16 20:12:46 <DesertRose>   Ah, okay.
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Aug 16 20:12:52 <DesertRose>   Drat Mibbit.
Aug 16 20:12:54 <The_Bee>   The cat ate your original self??
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Aug 16 20:12:57 <jemler>   we depressed dm.
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Aug 16 20:13:18 <jemler>   i installed windows 10.
Aug 16 20:13:20 <Evie>   Looks like Mibbit is misbehaving
Aug 16 20:13:28 <DesertRose>   My modem had the hiccups yesterday, been there done that.
Aug 16 20:13:35 <Evie>   how do you like Win10?
Aug 16 20:13:37 <The_Bee>   how is it, jemler
Aug 16 20:13:51 <Shiral>   Dmitri realized he hadn't done anything to impede my computer use.
Aug 16 20:14:07 <DesertRose>   LOL, Shiral.
Aug 16 20:14:14 <Laurna>   my littlest wet dog is shivering from her bath , so i had to take her outside to warm up
Aug 16 20:14:23 <DesertRose>   Poor cold wet doggie.
Aug 16 20:14:26 <jemler>   it's pretty good. except it doesn't like my norton antivirus. i need to upgrade, but can't afford it just yet.
Aug 16 20:15:12 <DesertRose>   Is KK still with us?
Aug 16 20:15:25 <The_Bee>   I'm thinking of getting it, since it's free.  ButI'vea lso seen Wiondows 11.
Aug 16 20:15:31 <KK>   Use AVG Free.  My son the computer security specialist says it's the best protection around.  And it's FREE.
Aug 16 20:15:33 <Evie>   .
Aug 16 20:15:34 <jemler>   i dl all versions. home 32/64, and pro 32/64. i can install any one you want, depending on your machine.
Aug 16 20:15:38 <The_Bee>   KK's with the idlers.
Aug 16 20:15:46 <DesertRose>   There she is.
Aug 16 20:15:51 <jemler>   avast?
Aug 16 20:16:07 <Evie>   Avast is good too
Aug 16 20:16:30 <Evie>   Avast caught some malware on my old computer that AVG didn't detect
Aug 16 20:16:36 <KK>   Does Mibbit move one to the Idlers list if one hasn't posted in a few minutes?
Aug 16 20:16:40 <DesertRose>   Yes.
Aug 16 20:16:43 <The_Bee>   I was havingtrouble with my computer, so I've gone back to my older one.
Aug 16 20:16:45 <DesertRose>   I think, anyway.
Aug 16 20:16:53 <Evie>   it does
Aug 16 20:17:04 <The_Bee>   derynibot does.
Aug 16 20:17:10 <KK>   Ah.  I'll keep that in mind.
Aug 16 20:17:31 <Laurna>   KK did you finsh the Tree Cats?
Aug 16 20:17:57 <Laurna>   The story you were working on?
Aug 16 20:18:33 <KK>   I read the Treecats material.  But I actually started that story today, in a sudden burst of inspiration and all of the beginning coming together at once.  I'm eager to continue.
Aug 16 20:18:47 <DesertRose>   Yay for inspiration!  :)
Aug 16 20:18:50 <Laurna>   very cool
Aug 16 20:19:10 <The_Bee>   Remind me: Is this to be part of an anthology?
Aug 16 20:19:25 <KK>   It will be in one of David Weber's anthologies.
Aug 16 20:19:33 <DesertRose>   Cool!
Aug 16 20:19:35 <The_Bee>   cool!
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Aug 16 20:19:51 <The_Bee>   Hello Dmitri!
Aug 16 20:19:52 <DesertRose>   Wow, Shiral2, your modem is really not behaving today.
Aug 16 20:19:55 <Shiral2>   Dagnabbit
Aug 16 20:20:21 <Shiral2>   It gets fits. Not sure if it's the modem's fault, or the laptop's
Aug 16 20:20:41 <The_Bee>   I thought you were blaming dmitri
Aug 16 20:20:43 <Evie>   I love it when a story starts to come together
Aug 16 20:20:47 <KK>   Well, it's been percolating for several months--and I only this last week finished the last of the other Honorverse material that I had on hand.  Lots of little sticky-flags spiking the books where something pertinent about Treecats is mentioned.
Aug 16 20:20:49 <Shiral2>   He fell asleep
Aug 16 20:20:52 <jemler>   i see you've been getting the Hooked on Phonics Yodemite Sam tapes. good!
Aug 16 20:20:52 <DesertRose>   That's still annoying, Shiral2.
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Aug 16 20:21:31 <Shiral>   It is
Aug 16 20:21:42 <KK>   It's the heat, Shiral.  Your computer and its modem do not like the heat.
Aug 16 20:21:58 <DesertRose>   There might actually be something to that.  Computer parts don't like to get super hot.
Aug 16 20:21:59 <Laurna>   Well I hope those "stiicky'flags" are better at sticking that our poor shiral.
Aug 16 20:22:00 <Shiral>   Well....It has these weird fits even when it's NOT hot
Aug 16 20:22:10 <DesertRose>   Oh, well, that shoots that theory.
Aug 16 20:22:26 <Shiral>   And even when there's not a cat in sight
Aug 16 20:22:29 <KK>   Maybe it's Mibbit, then.
Aug 16 20:22:32 <Evie>   My computer has weird fits called cat feet on the keyboard
Aug 16 20:22:39 <Shiral>   Except that I'm on mIRC
Aug 16 20:22:46 <DesertRose>   Luke and Gigi are not great typists, no.  :)
Aug 16 20:22:49 <jemler>   i use that.
Aug 16 20:23:06 <KK>   Maybe it needs a sound thrashing with a fresh mackerel.
Aug 16 20:23:21 <DesertRose>   LOL
Aug 16 20:23:22 <jemler>   calling all evies...
Aug 16 20:23:27 <The_Bee>   I used to use, mIRC, but it'snot on my current computer, and I don't miss it.
Aug 16 20:23:30 <Evie>   Gigi tried to add a new sentence to Balance of Power last night, DR. Fortunately I caught her at it and was able to go back and erase it. :D
Aug 16 20:23:44 <DesertRose>   Thanks a lot, cat.  :)
Aug 16 20:23:52 <Aerlys>   everyone's a critic...
Aug 16 20:24:01 <Laurna>   lol
Aug 16 20:24:05 <Shiral>   Maybe she thought there needed to be a group called Cats Ascendant.
Aug 16 20:24:12 <Evie>   LOL
Aug 16 20:24:27 <DesertRose>   LOL, she'd be the one to head that group, from what I understand of her temperament.
Aug 16 20:24:33 <Evie>   I think it was a secret encrypted message to her mothership
Aug 16 20:24:53 <Shiral>   BRB, need more cold liquid
Aug 16 20:25:19 <Evie>   Very heavy on the O's, the p's, and brackets
Aug 16 20:25:36 <DesertRose>   LOL
Aug 16 20:25:53 <Laurna>   the width of a paw
Aug 16 20:25:56 <KK>   BRB
Aug 16 20:26:01 <Evie>   about a line and a half of square brackets
Aug 16 20:26:20 <Laurna>   Dog paws are wider than that.
Aug 16 20:26:26 <jemler>   anyone here read the shannara series?
Aug 16 20:26:53 <Shiral>   Free Feline Verse =o) But how do you pronounce the sound of square brackets? =o)
Aug 16 20:26:54 <DesertRose>   Never got round to that one.
Aug 16 20:26:58 <Evie>   no, that's wider than her paw. I think she started off with pressing the O and P together, and then moved to the right just a tiny bit
Aug 16 20:27:11 <Evie>   I haven't
Aug 16 20:27:17 <DesertRose>   Gigi is the little kitteh, so I can see her having little feets.  :)
Aug 16 20:27:41 <The_Bee>   I've read some Shannara boks, jemler
Aug 16 20:27:52 <Evie>   she has little everything but eyes. She's got owl eyes
Aug 16 20:27:59 <DesertRose>   LOL
Aug 16 20:28:04 <Aerlys>   I read some, but Brooks started to get a little dark and I lost interest
Aug 16 20:28:37 <Aerlys>   Liked the Landover series, though
Aug 16 20:28:54 <The_Bee>   me too
Aug 16 20:29:32 <KK>   Back.
Aug 16 20:29:37 <DesertRose>   WB, KK.
Aug 16 20:30:54 <Evie>   rehi
Aug 16 20:32:10 <The_Bee>   I've been reading Donna Andrews' Meg Langslowe mysteries.
Aug 16 20:32:25 <jemler>   i'm still reading wheel of time.
Aug 16 20:32:28 <Shiral>   I do not understand why Dmitri wants to snuggle up next to the laptop today, when he's covered with fur
Aug 16 20:32:41 <DesertRose>   Because he's a cat, and they are contrary creatures.
Aug 16 20:32:48 <jemler>   shave the cat
Aug 16 20:32:56 <DesertRose>   At peril of your life, maybe.  :P
Aug 16 20:33:05 <Evie>   because cats are weird
Aug 16 20:33:06 <Shiral>   What's a little discomfort if you can frustrate your human?
Aug 16 20:33:26 <DesertRose>   LOL
Aug 16 20:33:38 <The_Bee>   Melantha's belly fur hasn't grown fully back post-surgery.
Aug 16 20:33:40 <jemler>   i'll stick with dogs.
Aug 16 20:33:42 <KK>   Currently just finishing a history of Robin Hood, covering all the literary references to the legends, and pointing out real-life characters who might have contributed to the imagery.  Interesting.
Aug 16 20:33:49 <DesertRose>   Oh, that sounds cool, KK.
Aug 16 20:33:50 <Laurna>   I cudle one dog and now all five are begging to be in my lap, All five with wet ears.
Aug 16 20:34:06 <Evie>   sounds interesting, KK
Aug 16 20:34:06 <DesertRose>   I've been re-reading a biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine lately.
Aug 16 20:34:12 <Evie>   LOL Laurna
Aug 16 20:34:13 <Shiral>   Sounds....damp =o)
Aug 16 20:34:15 <KK>   Well, of course.  That's your punishment for giving them baths, never mind that it was cool for them.
Aug 16 20:34:30 <DesertRose>   Then you get to smell wet puppeh for a good while.  :)
Aug 16 20:35:06 <Laurna>   I have always love love loved robin hood.  Those and King Aurthur stories were what taught me  to read when I was 10. Dyslexic you know.
Aug 16 20:35:13 <The_Bee>   I've heard of two versions ofRobin Hood: Robert Fitzooth, Earl of Lockeley and the Earl of Huntington.
Aug 16 20:35:21 <DesertRose>   Although at least they're clean wet puppehs.
Aug 16 20:35:41 <The_Bee>   How many Merry Men can you name?
Aug 16 20:36:32 <Laurna>    clean mostly dry puppies except for those long fluffy wet ears
Aug 16 20:36:34 <KK>   Oh, many more than that, Bee.  And little of it is anything like Errol Flynn.  And "Marian" may have been the Abbess of Kirklees, who bled Robin to death.
Aug 16 20:36:38 <Aerlys>   I can name one Merry hobbit
Aug 16 20:36:50 <DesertRose>   LOL, Aerlys.
Aug 16 20:37:04 <Evie>   My Laurel in the SCA looked a lot like the first Robin (Michael Praed) in the old Robin of Sherwood TV series that came out in the late 1980s or early 1990s
Aug 16 20:37:05 <Laurna>   Oh dear KK.
Aug 16 20:37:17 <The_Bee>   Will Stutely, Mich or Much the miller's son, Middle the Tinker, and of course Friar Tuck, Little John and Will Scarlet
Aug 16 20:37:28 <Shiral>   Yes, Michael as Robin was...easy on the eyes. =o)
Aug 16 20:37:46 <KK>   Anyway, on that note, I'd better sign off for tonight. Hope to be able to report much progress on the Treecat story next week.
Aug 16 20:37:47 <The_Bee>   I remember a robin Hood series from the 1950s
Aug 16 20:37:53 <Laurna>   Definitly a favorite of mine as well.
Aug 16 20:37:55 <Evie>   So was Master Johannes. :)
Aug 16 20:37:56 <DesertRose>   Okay, see you next week, KK?
Aug 16 20:37:59 <Shiral>   Night, KK. Good writing in the week ahead
Aug 16 20:38:05 <jemler>   nite kk
Aug 16 20:38:07 <The_Bee>   Bye KK. Thanks for coming and have a good week
Aug 16 20:38:08 <Laurna>   Good writing KK
Aug 16 20:38:09 <DesertRose>   Thanks for coming to see us!
Aug 16 20:38:10 <Shiral>   Thanks for stopping by
Aug 16 20:38:12 <Evie>   Happy writing
Aug 16 20:38:13 <DesertRose>   Have a good week!
Aug 16 20:38:13 <Aerlys>   thanks for coming KK
Aug 16 20:38:15 *   KK steps onto her Portal, waves goodnight, and disappears in a shower of green sparkles.
Aug 16 20:38:23 <KK>   Ta-ta for now.
Aug 16 20:38:29 <DesertRose>   Later!
Aug 16 20:38:32 <Aerlys>   TTFN
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"If having a soul means being able to feel love, loyalty, and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans."

James Herriot (James Alfred "Alfie" Wight), when a human client asked him if animals have souls.  (I don't remember in which book the story originally appeared.)