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KK Chat -- 15 April 2018 Part 1

Started by DesertRose, April 15, 2018, 07:49:16 PM

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[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:12:57 PM EDT] Join KK has joined this channel.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:12:59 PM EDT] <Bee> Hi all!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:12:59 PM EDT] <Derynifank> Hi Bee
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:13:00 PM EDT] <Jemler> hi kk
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:13:01 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Eleanor of Aquitaine was either 82 or 84 when she died.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:13:02 PM EDT] <bynw> hi KK
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:13:03 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Hi KK!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:13:05 PM EDT] <Bee> Hi KK
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:13:06 PM EDT] <WidowSon> YAYYYYYYY KK!!!!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:13:06 PM EDT] <Derynifank> Hi KK
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:13:09 PM EDT] <Shiral> When you're Royal, you have certain advantages in that department Hi KK
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:13:15 PM EDT] <KK> Hi, all.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:13:31 PM EDT] <Evie> It was done a fair bit, actually. If you made it past the perils of early childhood, you stood a decent chance of living well into your adult years, barring unfortunate accidents or incurable diseases.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:13:32 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Yes, and also the sheer luck of not having died in childbirth before she got to be old enough for menopause!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:13:36 PM EDT] <Shiral> Better food, safer housing, more knowledgeable medical care, etc etc
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:13:43 PM EDT] <Evie> Hi, KK
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:13:44 PM EDT] <Shiral> Better sanitation etc
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:13:51 PM EDT] <WidowSon> We're discussing Jehana and Kelson KK
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:14:09 PM EDT] <Evie> Well, Jehana and Barrett, more accurately
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:14:09 PM EDT] <Shiral> And Jehana having a child fairly late in her childbearing years
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:14:27 PM EDT] <Bee> If nothing killed you, you could live to a ripe old age.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:14:29 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Ah yes .... Barrett
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:14:29 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Evie, and for women, if you made it past your childbearing years.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:14:55 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Nuns tended to live about as long as modern women.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:15:02 PM EDT] <Jemler> wasn't there a passage about not having more children? i think it was in the histories of kelson.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:15:18 PM EDT] <Shiral> Well, it's still kind of true that you can make it into ripe old age if nothing kills you NOW. =o)
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:15:18 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Jehana had a daughter who didn't live but a few days, after Kelson.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:15:29 PM EDT] <Jemler> jehana i mean.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:15:32 PM EDT] <Evie> Yes. Which was more likely if you were in religious life or if, like Jehana, you were at odds with your husband and therefore missed your opportunities to conceive. (Unless she also had complications of childbirth with Rosane that made it impossible for her to conceive again?)
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:15:43 PM EDT] <DesertRose> And I think she wasn't able to conceive again during Brion's lifetime and/or wasn't sleeping with Brion (as often) because she was so mad about Alaric and Deryni in general.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:16:01 PM EDT] <Shiral> That does make it difficult to be dynastic, yes
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:16:45 PM EDT] * Shiral offers KK some vanilla scones and tea
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:16:58 PM EDT] * DesertRose offers KK the plates of strawberries and chocolates.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:17:12 PM EDT] <WidowSon> KK.....have you read Gods & Fighting Me: The Story of the Tuatha De Daaan? ITS AWESOME! by Lady Augusta Gregory
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:17:30 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Fighting Men......that is
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:17:33 PM EDT] <KK> All good hypotheses.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:17:47 PM EDT] <DesertRose> That's sort of how my SCA persona is still alive. She was married, but her husband died young and she hasn't remarried. :P
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:18:17 PM EDT] <KK> Ah, there's those vanilla scones. Shiral has been using up her surplus vanilla beans.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:18:23 PM EDT] <Shiral> LOL, yes
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:18:41 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Gosh I love scones
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:18:53 PM EDT] <Shiral> We also have shortbread, vanilla ice cream and vanilla clotted cream
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:18:58 PM EDT] <DesertRose> But when I started in the SCA, the Kiddo was nine, and I needed a plausible reason for a 14th C. Englishwoman to be a single mother. :D
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:19:37 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Real-World!DesertRose is a divorcee, but that didn't happen too much in the 1300's.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:19:54 PM EDT] <Evie> Her father was a sheep and her mother smelled of elderberries? ;-)
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:20:01 PM EDT] <Shiral> The church was very iffy about that, yes
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:20:05 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Only if I'm Arthur's sister. :P
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:20:17 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Nooooooo.......not elderberries!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:20:38 PM EDT] <Shiral> I thought it was "your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries"?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:20:45 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:20:53 PM EDT] <WidowSon> LOL
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:20:59 PM EDT] <Evie> :-D
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:21:07 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Its getting rowdy KK
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:21:25 PM EDT] <DesertRose> KK, bynw showed me a pic of Scott (I'd never known what he looks like). He looks like my uncle (mom's brother)!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:21:34 PM EDT] <Evie> Well, I was melding together the Monty Python version and the SCA's "My father was a shepherd and my mother was very unhaaaaaaapy."
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:21:44 PM EDT] <Shiral> "Let us not go to Camelot--it is a silly place."
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:22:01 PM EDT] <DesertRose> "I have to push the pram a lot . . ."
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:22:09 PM EDT] Nick Bee is now known as The_Bee.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:22:20 PM EDT] <Evie> Luke says hello to all
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:22:24 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Hi Luke.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:22:30 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Hi Luke
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:22:36 PM EDT] <The_Bee> ????? elderberries? hamster??
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:22:42 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Carys was on my lap earlier, purring at the chat room, but now she's napping in the +3 Chair of Somnolence.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:22:44 PM EDT] <WidowSon> EASY!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:22:50 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Bee.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:23:25 PM EDT] <WidowSon> How was your week KK?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:23:37 PM EDT] Quit KK has left this server (Quit: CGI:IRC (Ping timeout)).
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:23:41 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Well drat.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:23:45 PM EDT] <DesertRose> We lost our Katherine.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:24:02 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Darnit
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:24:14 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Evie, can you text her and see what's up, please?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:24:14 PM EDT] Quit Shiral (~49df776d@OWIRCN-1bdd9d77.org) has left this server (Quit: CGI:IRC (EOF)).
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:24:20 PM EDT] * The_Bee sends a search party to find KK.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:24:23 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Well, damn, CGI.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:24:23 PM EDT] <Evie> Luke is trying to stealth creep across my arms. Needless to say, he is not succeeding at stealth
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:24:26 PM EDT] <Derynifank> Hopefully she'll return
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:24:39 PM EDT] <Goatmistress> don't you wish flies really dropped like that
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:24:44 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Well, we lost Shiral too, and they were both using the CGI chat client.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:24:50 PM EDT] <DesertRose> So I wonder if there's not something wonky there.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:24:59 PM EDT] <WidowSon> DANG CGI!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:25:14 PM EDT] Join Shiral (Mibbit@OWIRCN-e6adf1cc.ca.comcast.net) has joined this channel.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:25:16 PM EDT] <Jemler> i use mirc
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:25:17 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Rehi Shiral
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:25:22 PM EDT] <Jemler> wb shiral
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:25:22 PM EDT] <The_Bee> wb shiral
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:25:32 PM EDT] <WidowSon> ReHowdy! Shiral
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:25:35 PM EDT] <Evie> I sent KK a text to let her know we've lost her
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:25:40 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Okay, thanks, Evie
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:25:40 PM EDT] <Derynifank> Wb shiral
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:25:44 PM EDT] <Shiral> Hi all. What I was typing wasn't showing up on the screen.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:25:57 PM EDT] <Shiral> So I tried to get back in, didn't work, so I'm trying Mibbit
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:26:00 PM EDT] <Jemler> i'm going to try learning ubuntu. what chat apps do you recommend?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:26:02 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Yeah, we lost KK a few minutes before you, so I was wondering if something isn't wrong with the CGI chat client.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:26:07 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Konversation, Jemler
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:26:16 PM EDT] <DesertRose> It requires KDE, but that's part of Ubuntu.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:26:16 PM EDT] <Shiral> Doesn't sound impossible
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:26:21 PM EDT] <Evie> For some reason my nick list is also not showing anything but black screen, even though I could see who is here a few minutes ago, but that problem is probably on my end since I'm still trying to configure colors here.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:26:31 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Weird
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:26:35 PM EDT] * Shiral replenishes the Tea table with more vanilla goodies
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:27:15 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Yum!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:27:16 PM EDT] <Shiral> Just in case the other chat room rendered them unavailable
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:27:21 PM EDT] * Jemler sets up a milkshake bar
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:27:40 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Malt in mine Jemier! Please
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:27:56 PM EDT] <Shiral> Ah, a man after my own heart. =o)
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:28:49 PM EDT] <WidowSon> I was in an ice-cream place the other day and asked the young attendant for a malt.....she looked at me like I had a third eye....LOL
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:28:49 PM EDT] <Jemler> the malt or the shake?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:29:05 PM EDT] <Evie> KK is aware she has been booted. I told her to try Mibbit if she can't get back on the one she was using
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:29:44 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Duncan and Morgan have marshaled a rescue party to fetch KK!!!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:29:53 PM EDT] <Shiral> Malt IN the shake, Jemler
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:30:09 PM EDT] * Evie hides and hopes Duncan will add her to the search....
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:30:24 PM EDT] Nick Shiral is now known as Duncan.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:30:28 PM EDT] <Jemler> shiarl said a man afterher heart. i was asking her.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:30:33 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Duncan says YOUR IN Evie!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:30:36 PM EDT] <DesertRose> LOL
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:30:36 PM EDT] <Duncan> KK! Were AAARE you????"
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:30:45 PM EDT] <Jemler> can i get a donut?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:31:07 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Krispy Kreme to the rescue!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:31:14 PM EDT] * Duncan snaps fingers and a donut lands in front of Jemler
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:31:19 PM EDT] <WidowSon> We're depending on ya'll Duncan!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:31:21 PM EDT] * The_Bee flies up to do an aerial surveilance
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:31:35 PM EDT] <Derynifank> Wish Alaric would rescue me sometime
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:31:39 PM EDT] <Duncan> Who is this Y'all? Widow's Son?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:31:48 PM EDT] <Jemler> brb. dinner.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:32:01 PM EDT] * WidowSon WidowSon is peering intently into his Crystal to try and find KK
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:32:10 PM EDT] <Duncan> Well, Alaric is very good at getting himself into trouble, if you've noticed Derynifank
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:32:28 PM EDT] <Duncan> But if Lawrence Gorony ever tries to burn you at the stake, I'll certainly lend a hand
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:32:29 PM EDT] <Evie> He excels at that, yes. :-D
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:32:41 PM EDT] <WidowSon> You and Morgan.....get with it Duke of Corwyn! LOL
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:32:43 PM EDT] <Derynifank> I have but he is also very good at getting out of it
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:32:47 PM EDT] <Duncan> To you, not to Gorony, just to make all clear
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:32:51 PM EDT] Join KK has joined this channel.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:32:54 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Rehi KK!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:32:58 PM EDT] <WidowSon> KK !!!!!!!!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:32:58 PM EDT] <Evie> Rehi
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:33:06 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Re-Howdy!!!!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:33:12 PM EDT] <KK> Well, that was interesting.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:33:17 PM EDT] <Duncan> I'm no longer Duke of Cassan. I'm letting my son take that over
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:33:24 PM EDT] <bynw> wb
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:33:33 PM EDT] <WidowSon> LOL! Touche!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:33:33 PM EDT] <DesertRose> I think maybe that chat client failed in some way, KK, because we lost Shiral right after you dropped out.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:33:39 PM EDT] <Duncan> Welcome back, Madame my creator!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:33:50 PM EDT] <WidowSon> How was your week KK?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:34:14 PM EDT] <KK> It was busy, but mostly in a good way.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:34:23 PM EDT] <DesertRose> How is LBM doing?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:34:28 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Great!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:34:48 PM EDT] * Evie steals surreptitious glances at Duncan when he's not looking in her direction
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:35:01 PM EDT] * Duncan winks at Evie
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:35:06 PM EDT] <KK> And I have some con news for you. Finally got an invite back to the convention formerly known as Darkovercon, now known as Chessiecon, over Thanksgiving weekend in Timonium, MD.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:35:13 PM EDT] <WidowSon> LOL.....YOu TWO!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:35:13 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Oh cool!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:35:18 PM EDT] * Evie turns hot pink to match her sweater
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:35:23 PM EDT] <Duncan> So how many heads does my miniature self have now, Evie?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:35:42 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Good thing MY face isn't turning the color of my top. I'm wearing a gray t-shirt! :P
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:35:52 PM EDT] <WidowSon> AWESOME KK !
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:35:52 PM EDT] <Evie> LOL! One on your body and two--I think?--in my spare parts bin, Your Excellency
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:35:57 PM EDT] <Duncan> Excellent
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:36:16 PM EDT] <Evie> Sounds like that will be fun, KK
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:36:23 PM EDT] <Duncan> So if I have a troublesome knee, you could find me a spare leg?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:36:23 PM EDT] <KK> Any chance you'll be retorning to Dragoncon this year?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:36:30 PM EDT] <Derynifank> Good for you kk
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:36:42 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Wish I could go to MD to meet ya......alas.....work
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:36:55 PM EDT] <Duncan> Gracious, DR, I'd be very concerned if your face turned gray at the sight of me
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:37:07 PM EDT] <Evie> Are you talking to me or Duncan, KK? ;-) (It will all depend on the job situation, and also my parent's possible move here around that time of year.)
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:37:13 PM EDT] <Duncan> I've never been all THAT alarming, have I?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:37:26 PM EDT] <KK> And LBM is doing ok. She saw her PCP on Monday, who adjusted her meds.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:37:43 PM EDT] <Evie> You haven't been, but the situations KK writes you into have been at times very alarming, Duncan!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:37:46 PM EDT] <KK> Both of you, Evie.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:37:49 PM EDT] <Duncan> Good. Parents can be high maintenance
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:38:21 PM EDT] <Evie> I would love to return to Dragoncon sometime, but finances are an issue right now. Still. Sadly. *sigh*
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:38:22 PM EDT] <DesertRose> My face oughtn't turn gray AT ALL!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:38:30 PM EDT] <KK> Are your parents inclined in that direction, Evie?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:38:30 PM EDT] <DesertRose> That's not a color faces ought to be!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:38:31 PM EDT] <Duncan> Well yes. I'd really prefer not to have Loris performing manicures and pedicures on me on the Dorna plain.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:38:42 PM EDT] * Evie sporfles
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:38:50 PM EDT] <WidowSon> OOOoooooo that dang Loris!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:38:56 PM EDT] <Evie> Extreme mani/pedi?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:39:03 PM EDT] <bynw> Loris is a bit harsh when it comes to mani/pedi's
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:39:21 PM EDT] <KK> (Gus is now on KK's lap.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:39:27 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Can't somebody invoke OSHA or something and revoke his cosmetology license? :P
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:39:27 PM EDT] <Evie> Awwww
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:39:29 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Hi GUS!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:39:31 PM EDT] <Duncan> The flogging and almost being burned at the stake still give me a bad turn if I remember them. Which I try not to do
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:39:33 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Hi Gus!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:39:57 PM EDT] * Duncan reaches through the computer screen and gives Gus a scritch behind the ears
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:40:43 PM EDT] <Duncan> Well you're supposed to TRIM the nails and smooth them, not pull them out altogether. So yes, Loris and Gorony were unclear on the concept.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:40:43 PM EDT] * Evie wishes she knew what to adjust in her color settings to make actions more easily readable, since purple on gray is awful!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:40:49 PM EDT] <WidowSon> My new Maincoon kitty Luca says HI to Gus!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:41:16 PM EDT] <Duncan> Hi Lucas
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:41:34 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Hi Luca
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:41:35 PM EDT] <KK> Ooooh, new Maine coon! How old?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:42:17 PM EDT] <WidowSon> She's about 5 months.....just went through her first heat poor darlin....
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:42:39 PM EDT] <Duncan> Ah yes, Flat Cat Syndrome weather
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:42:41 PM EDT] <KK> Do you intend to breed her?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:43:42 PM EDT] <Derynifank> Love Maine coons but you do know they get really big
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:43:47 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Not really but haven't decided whether to spay her since she's gonna live inside all the time
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:44:26 PM EDT] <The_Bee> What if she escapes?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:44:34 PM EDT] <KK> The best laid plans.... But spaying is safer for her general health, you know.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:44:36 PM EDT] <Duncan> A cat in heat can be very persuasive, WS. And very determined to find a boyfriend
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:44:36 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Yup Derynifank.....BIG......I have a 5 year old male ASLAN! He's fixed though
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:44:57 PM EDT] <Derynifank> How big is he?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:45:14 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Yup she got quite amorous LOL
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:45:18 PM EDT] <Evie> Aslan is an awesome name for a ca---um, pygmy lion
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:45:35 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Aslan is so sweet!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:45:37 PM EDT] <Duncan> Very fitting certainly
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:45:40 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Love him!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:46:17 PM EDT] <Evie> Luke looks like he'd be a good Aslan, but then he opens his mouth and, nope, he's definitely a Luke, whinging about power converters. Or fresh kibble.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:46:23 PM EDT] <WidowSon> great advice KK.......I actually had an appt with the vet when she went into heat
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:46:26 PM EDT] <Derynifank> Did you ever read any books by Miranda James. They feature a Maine Coon called Desert
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:46:59 PM EDT] <WidowSon> what a name YES!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:47:03 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Desert!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:47:16 PM EDT] <KK> I've heard of them. Haven't read any of them, though.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:47:26 PM EDT] * bynw just has two 11 year old bengals (will be 12 in may (on a bad day))
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:47:38 PM EDT] <Evie> Every once in a while, Luke forgets he is neutered and tries something on with Gigi, who just looks at him like "You're such an idiot! Get off me!"
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:47:47 PM EDT] <DesertRose> I've seen a funny thing making the rounds online about "Cats are grouchy because they're God's perfect killing machines, but they're only 8 lbs and we keep picking them up and kissing them."
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:47:49 PM EDT] <Derynifank> As usual, crossed up by auto correct His name is Diesel
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:47:50 PM EDT] <WidowSon> LOL
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:48:04 PM EDT] <Evie> LOL, DR!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:48:18 PM EDT] <KK> Bynw, your girls can't possibly be 11! They were kittens only a couple of years ago.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:48:19 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Mickey acts the same with Melantha sometimes. She hisses at him.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:48:35 PM EDT] <bynw> KK, they are still kittens! :)
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:48:37 PM EDT] <DesertRose> The kitten I fostered for a while, Little Guy, attempted to mate with Sweetie Pie (a spayed female) a couple of times before we got him snipped, and she turned around and bit him somewhere he'd probably rather she hadn't!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:48:54 PM EDT] <Evie> Ouch!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:49:08 PM EDT] <Duncan> Effective self-defense, though!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:49:15 PM EDT] <WidowSon> maybe that was 11 weeks?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:49:22 PM EDT] <DesertRose> It dissuaded him, though. He didn't try it again after that, and shortly after, we had time and money to haul him to the vet for his snip.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:49:32 PM EDT] <The_Bee> I've read about Diesel. He's the one I tried to tell you about last week or two, widowson.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:49:45 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Oh Yeah!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:49:48 PM EDT] <Duncan> Dmitri sometimes forgets to be "a gentleman." Tati is always very noisy in her protests
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:50:10 PM EDT] <DesertRose> I haven't seen what Carys would do if a tom tried to get amorous.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:50:38 PM EDT] <DesertRose> She doesn't like other animals, and she tried to beat the crap out of my parents' cats, and Merlin probably wouldn't try anyway since he's been neutered since he was about three months old.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:51:02 PM EDT] <DesertRose> He never tries with PJ, anyway. He just chases her tail.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:51:06 PM EDT] <Evie> Given that she's so much like Gigi, my guess would be to give him the look that says "You idjit, are you done yet? Because I'm spayed, numbwit!"
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:51:06 PM EDT] <The_Bee> I've seen a male cat try to hump a dog.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:51:29 PM EDT] <WidowSon> KK if you ever have time I'd like to get some advice regarding how to better plan time to write.....im trying but with work and all it's difficult.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:51:47 PM EDT] <DesertRose> (Like, her literal tail. He's a rumpy Manx, so he has no tail at all, and we think he's jealous because PJ's tail is almost as long as the rest of her!)
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:51:55 PM EDT] <Duncan> There's always something one should be doing other than writing, WS
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:52:18 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Evie, I don't know. She might just go zero to Beat The Daylights Out Of Any Fool Tom Who Tried!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:52:19 PM EDT] <Duncan> Make peace with your inner slob
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:52:27 PM EDT] <Evie> LOL! If you wait until you have time to write, you'll never write. You have to make the time. Or at least that's the only way I manage to get anything written.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:52:31 PM EDT] <WidowSon> LOL thanks Duncan
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:52:37 PM EDT] Nick Duncan is now known as Shiral.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:53:21 PM EDT] <Shiral> Whew! I was standing facing this congregation in Rhemuth Cathedral and I blanked on the Latin!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:53:24 PM EDT] <Evie> His Excellency has sage advice there. :-D
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:53:34 PM EDT] <Evie> LOL,Shiral!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:53:54 PM EDT] <KK> When I was first starting, I'd write at lunchtime, on weekends, between SCA events. You make the time for what's most important.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:53:55 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementia fuit. :P
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:54:01 PM EDT] <Shiral> Talk about BAD performance nerves! They wouldn't listen when I told them I wasn't really a priest, either
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:54:19 PM EDT] <DesertRose> (Not that THAT Latin belongs in the Mass.)
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:54:21 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Roger that KK
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:54:24 PM EDT] <Evie> I think I read somewhere that John Grisham wrote his first novel while doing laundry. On the washing machine, sometimes.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:54:41 PM EDT] <DesertRose> He was still practicing law at the time, too, I think.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:54:42 PM EDT] <Shiral> Wrote them on yellow legal pads, yes
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:55:46 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Once his novels sold well enough that he could afford to write and retire from legal practice, he did, though.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:56:01 PM EDT] <Evie> Shiral, did they listen when you told them you were really a woman? From another century?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:56:01 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Yup weekends has been my most productive so far.....and some evenings during the workweek
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:56:06 PM EDT] <KK> That was me, with LAPD.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:56:22 PM EDT] <Shiral> First time an author decided "Screw this legal gig--I'll make more money writing novels!"
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:56:31 PM EDT] <bynw> I was just reading that in the bio of an old copy of Camber of Culdi
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:56:38 PM EDT] <DesertRose> LOL, well, only after he had evidence in the bank of the latter, Shiral!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:57:01 PM EDT] <Shiral> I guess my disguise was REALLY convincing, Evie. But I think the King was looking at me funny
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:57:06 PM EDT] <DesertRose> LOL
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:57:28 PM EDT] <WidowSon> problem is I love my work though! UGH! But Ive been enjoying writing......
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:57:32 PM EDT] <Jemler> LAPD kk? that was before you worked for Charles Townsend Investigations? ;)
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:58:02 PM EDT] <DesertRose> I can't think of LAPD without thinking of the jurisdictional SNAFU that almost wrecked the Manson cases.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:58:29 PM EDT] <Evie> No problem, WS. Many, if not most, writers are employed and write either during their free times or when things are quiet at work.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:58:37 PM EDT] <KK> ? Jemler?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:59:07 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Thanks @evie
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:59:08 PM EDT] <Jemler> charles townsend. from Carlie's Angels?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:59:11 PM EDT] <bynw> Jemler is making a joke that you were one of Charlie's Angels
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:59:15 PM EDT] <Jemler> charles townsend. from Charlie's Angels?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:59:28 PM EDT] <WidowSon> UGH LOL
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:59:38 PM EDT] <KK> Ah. No, and never particularly followed tht series.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:59:41 PM EDT] <Evie> I used to get a lot more writing done at work than at home, actually, since it's the sort of office where, until fairly recently, the clients were spaced far enough apart for me to have decently long stretches of quiet in between. Not so much anymore, though.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [7:59:55 PM EDT] <KK> (Did not watch a lot of TV in those early days.)
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:00:32 PM EDT] <Jemler> we recently cut the cord with comcast. now only get internet.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:00:33 PM EDT] <Evie> WS, if you're a night owl, try writing late at night. If an early bird, try writing before you have to leave for work. (Just don't lose track of time and miss work! LOL)
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:00:57 PM EDT] <Evie> Most of my at-home writing is done between 9 pm and midnight.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:01:03 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Now I'm imagining KK as Cheryl Ladd (I can't see KK as Farrah Fawcett, and Jaclyn Smith and Kate Jackson are both brunettes).
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:01:38 PM EDT] <Shiral> I always found writing at night more productive since I AM a night owl. I would hate trying to read anything I got up early to write. Not being a morning person doesn't truly cover it
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:01:52 PM EDT] <Evie> I'm the same, Shiral
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:01:58 PM EDT] <WidowSon> How did you get the timeline down KK for your books? Ive got an app thats based on index cards that I can shuffle around.....
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:02:17 PM EDT] <WidowSon> seems to be helping me.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:02:21 PM EDT] <Evie> Anything I might try to write before work would all fall into the same theme of "Where's my damn coffee?!"
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:02:28 PM EDT] <Shiral> It's quieter at night, I've finished whatever needed to get done that day, and nobody calls you after 9:30 or so
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:02:29 PM EDT] <DesertRose> LOL, Evie!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:02:35 PM EDT] <WidowSon> LOL Evie
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:02:50 PM EDT] <bynw> LOL
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:03:05 PM EDT] * Shiral tries to imagine what Alaric Morgan is like first thing in the morning before coffee.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:03:09 PM EDT] <KK> I probably watch more TV now than I ought to. But some of it is worthwhile. Last night we watched a delightful Peter Falk film called The In-Laws. He had quite a career besides Colombo. (And I'd forgotten that Colombo had a basset hound--and that, like his master, the dog had no name: just Dog. Colombo had no first name.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:03:16 PM EDT] <Shiral> Especially since he's probably never had any.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:03:16 PM EDT] <Evie> Ooh, which app, WidowSon? Scrivener has that feature, but I'm looking for something similar that I can use on an Android device
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:03:44 PM EDT] <WidowSon> YEs Scrivener!!!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:03:48 PM EDT] <Derynifank> Still handsome and chsrming☺
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:04:05 PM EDT] <KK> The Deryni timelines have always been done with pen and paper. Lots of paper.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:04:07 PM EDT] <Shiral> But perhaps a little drowsy
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:04:09 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Messy hair and not quite awake.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:04:24 PM EDT] <Evie> I LOVE the index card function in Scrivener! I can't do a standard outline to save my life, but I can rearrange index cards
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:04:26 PM EDT] <WidowSon> I also have one called Index Card
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:04:51 PM EDT] <WidowSon> I'm going pen and paper too KK!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:04:53 PM EDT] <Shiral> "His grace is always a little testy first thing in the morning. Don't try to make conversation with him until you bring him his morning ale."
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:04:54 PM EDT] <DesertRose> I tend to have to do timelines and genealogy in pen/pencil and ink on actual paper too.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:05:13 PM EDT] <Shiral> Sometimes it really helps to write by hand to get unblocked
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:05:16 PM EDT] <DesertRose> A lot of times, I type them up later so I can read them more easily, but the initial figuring-out happens longhand.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:05:30 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Damn.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:05:41 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Apparently *I* haven't had enough caffeine today.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:05:48 PM EDT] <DesertRose> "Pen/pencil and ink?"
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:05:55 PM EDT] <Evie> There is an online website called gingkoapp.com that has something similar to notecards. I used that when plotting the beginning of Balance of Power
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:06:03 PM EDT] <DesertRose> I'm not doing it with the dip pen for crying out loud!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:06:27 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Im looking for a good book on plants and animals in Ireland and Scotland KK for reference and research .....any advice? maybe Scott might know of a good one
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:06:29 PM EDT] Nick Shiral is now known as Alaric.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:06:49 PM EDT] <KK> Wow, I just got a tornado warning on my phone. That's a first.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:07:07 PM EDT] <WidowSon> NO! BE CAREFUL!!!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:07:08 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Yeah, they're doing that now, with severe weather alerts and also Amber Alerts.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:07:14 PM EDT] <Evie> Eek! Do you need to get to your safe place?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:07:25 PM EDT] <Evie> Or are you already in it?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:07:29 PM EDT] <bynw> amber alerts have happened for a long time on smartphones anyway
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:07:31 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Warning means its ON THE GROUND!!!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:07:32 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Get to an interior room, preferably with no windows and with some plumbing fixtures.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:07:50 PM EDT] <KK> Yes, writing my hand has always been my favored way to work through a roadblock, or draft a difficult/tricky section.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:07:51 PM EDT] <Evie> Or a basement if you have one
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:08:04 PM EDT] <DesertRose> I never think of basements, LOL
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:08:08 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Thanks KK
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:08:20 PM EDT] <bynw> DesertRose, you generally dont have them in your neck of the woods
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:08:22 PM EDT] <The_Bee> KK, can you ask Scott if he knows the female Scottish counterpart of "Mac"? It may be "Nic."
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:08:25 PM EDT] <Evie> I can't write by hand. Decades of keyboarding almost exclusively has ruined my penmanship to the point I can't read back whatI've written
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:08:35 PM EDT] <Evie> It's Nic
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:08:37 PM EDT] <DesertRose> We had them in some houses in Arizona, but not in Charleston and surely not in Jacksonville!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:08:51 PM EDT] <KK> I need to go see if Scott also got the warning. There's a rain squall moving through, but I think it's mostly over.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:08:52 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Water table is WAY too high here!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:08:56 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Tanks, Evie
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:08:56 PM EDT] <Alaric> Pardon me, but has my cousin Duncan passed this way lately?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:09:03 PM EDT] <bynw> exactly DesertRose
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:09:06 PM EDT] <Evie> Very recently, Your Grace
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:09:15 PM EDT] <KK> Yes, Bee: Nic.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:09:27 PM EDT] <DesertRose> And in Arizona, they were mostly to have some part of the house that wasn't an oven in the summer!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:09:28 PM EDT] <WidowSon> I just saw Duncan heading towards the Refectory! 10 mins ago!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:09:29 PM EDT] <Evie> If you need to leave, KK, we understand.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:09:29 PM EDT] <Alaric> Excellent, which way did he go, if you please my Lady?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:09:33 PM EDT] <KK> And of ocurse, it's for daughters.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:09:35 PM EDT] <Evie> (Especially here in Alabama!)
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:09:55 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Yes KK stay safe please!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:10:01 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Inghean is the Irish one for "daughter of" I think.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:10:10 PM EDT] <Alaric> Yes, absolutely be safe, KK
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:10:17 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Verch/ferch is Welsh.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:10:29 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Marathon Monday weather is predicted to be inclement
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:10:31 PM EDT] <Alaric> I mean, how am I going to carry on relations with Richenda if you don't?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:10:38 PM EDT] <Evie> LOL!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:10:52 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Begging your pardon, Your Grace, but have you not enough children already? :P
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:11:12 PM EDT] <Evie> He needs to stay in practice
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:11:24 PM EDT] <bynw> practice makes perfect
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:11:25 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Does he think he'd forget how?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:11:36 PM EDT] <DesertRose> I mean, yes, it's more complicated than Tab A into Slot B, but . . . ;)
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:11:38 PM EDT] <Evie> He doesn't want to take that risk
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:11:39 PM EDT] <Alaric> Only if you count His Majesty among them, my Lady. But alas high infant mortality means there is safety in numbers
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:11:44 PM EDT] <Derynifank> No chance of that
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:12:12 PM EDT] <DesertRose> His Majesty is probably as much trouble as four or five sons, with all due respect to the King, Your Grace. :P
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:12:19 PM EDT] <Alaric> You may all trust that I know my dynastic business, thank you very much!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:12:36 PM EDT] Nick Evie is now known as Kelson.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:12:46 PM EDT] * Kelson raises a sable eyebrow at DR
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:12:48 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Or at least causes enough silvering of your hair. (At least you're a light blond so it doesn't show so badly.) :P
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:12:54 PM EDT] * Alaric bows.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:13:13 PM EDT] <Kelson> Am I so much trouble as all that, my Lady?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:13:17 PM EDT] <Alaric> My prince, this is room is populated with strangers who appear to know both of us extraordinarily well!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:13:26 PM EDT] * DesertRose curtsies. "Your Majesty, I mean, of course, that your champion is so concerned for your well-being and that of the kingdom."
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:13:36 PM EDT] <Kelson> That does seem to be the case, Alaric
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:13:46 PM EDT] * Alaric whispers "Good save."
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:13:59 PM EDT] * DesertRose blushes and giggles, head still bowed in the presence of the King.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:14:01 PM EDT] * Kelson suppresses a chuckle
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:14:19 PM EDT] Nick bynw is now known as Valerian.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:14:24 PM EDT] <WidowSon> LOL! Ya'll are too cool!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:14:34 PM EDT] <Valerian> Two in one shot. A great day for the rightful rulers.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:14:35 PM EDT] * DesertRose thinks something that she can't say and keep it PG-13!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:14:43 PM EDT] <Kelson> Oh look at the time! I must be leaving. Armies marching into Meara, you know....
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:14:43 PM EDT] <Alaric> Bringing up Kelric Alain Morgan is also somewhat....headache inducing at times
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:14:47 PM EDT] Nick Kelson is now known as Evie.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:15:25 PM EDT] * Alaric looks alarmed. "But I thought we were at peace with Meara, Sire! Is there something you haven't told me?"
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:15:27 PM EDT] * DesertRose coats an embroidery needle with merasha and slips up behind Valerian and pokes the needle firmly and quickly into his bum.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:15:33 PM EDT] * Evie crashes an old Underwood typewriter down upon Valerian's head
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:15:39 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Well, that works, too!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:15:48 PM EDT] Nick Valerian is now known as bynw.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:15:52 PM EDT] <Alaric> Must go, do excuse me everyone. I can't let the King march into Meara with an army WITHOUT me!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:15:53 PM EDT] <Evie> Especially if he's under the influence of merasha!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:15:58 PM EDT] Nick Alaric is now known as Shiral.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:15:58 PM EDT] <WidowSon> WOW! Merahsa in the Bum??? Thats LOW!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:16:12 PM EDT] <bynw> that is, glad you arent in that game DesertRose
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:16:15 PM EDT] <Evie> Yeah, she hit low and I hit high. We make a great team
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:16:20 PM EDT] <DesertRose> But can be done subtly by a lady who is probably shorter than the lord in question. :P
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:16:43 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Even if Real-World!DesertRose is something of an Amazon. :)
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:17:06 PM EDT] <Evie> We can probably color poor KK confused at this point. Or have you caught up on our RPG game shenanigans on the forum, KK?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:17:31 PM EDT] <WidowSon> I hope KK is OK? Tornados and all....????
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:17:35 PM EDT] <KK> Sorry, no, haven't had time.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:17:50 PM EDT] Quit Evie (~IceChat9@OWIRCN-af2005e5.al.charter.com) has left this server (Quit: He who laughs last, thinks slowest).
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:17:58 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Whew.....youre back
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:18:25 PM EDT] <KK> Rain has nearly stopped. I think the squall is past. We don't really get tornadoes directly in this part of the world, but then, we didn't get earthquakes, either.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:18:31 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Basically, mean old Bynw killed off Alaric and has various offspring of canon characters plus a few OCs running around trying to put down a rebellion in Meara, directed partly by Valerian, who is the son of Teymuraz.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:18:32 PM EDT] <Shiral> And the tornado didn't blow you and Edge Hill over to Oz
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:18:34 PM EDT] Join Evie (~IceChat9@OWIRCN-af2005e5.al.charter.com) has joined this channel.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:18:38 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Rehi Evie
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:18:52 PM EDT] <Shiral> WB, Evie
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:18:54 PM EDT] <KK> No, thank God, Shiral.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:18:57 PM EDT] <WidowSon> You had an earthquake? Fracking?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:19:03 PM EDT] <Evie> Hi! Sorry, I thought I was closing an error message and ended up closing the entire IRC client
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:19:09 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Oops.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:19:13 PM EDT] <Shiral> Good. We like to keep you in THIS world. =o)
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:19:42 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Yes, the only other world we want you visiting is the Eleven Kingdoms or Adam Sinclair's Scotland or Paddy's Dublin. :D
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:19:46 PM EDT] <KK> Yeah, about 8-10 years ago. Sounded like biiiiig trucks trundling down the main road outside. Shifted one of our pillars in the front.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:20:01 PM EDT] <Evie> Ack!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:20:12 PM EDT] * bynw doesnt want a significant earthquake in his neck of the woods either. very small ones have happened in his lifetime, some barely felt
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:20:25 PM EDT] <DesertRose> I'd rather not with earthquakes myself.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:20:25 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Thats interesting....especially where you live.....strange
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:20:31 PM EDT] <Shiral> I can do without major earthquakes, too
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:21:01 PM EDT] <bynw> but if i have a major one, its the New Madrid faultline cracking wide open and it will be ... bad
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:21:03 PM EDT] <The_Bee> We've had very minor quakes in Boston.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:21:03 PM EDT] <Shiral> I'm in no hurry to experience tornadoes or hurricanes, either
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:21:03 PM EDT] <DesertRose> There was one my senior year of high school, but I was in my Latin class at the time, which was in one of the mobile classrooms (aka trailers) and we thought at first that one of the A/C units had broken down or fallen off the building.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:21:15 PM EDT] <WidowSon> no earthquakes in Florida thank God.....but we do get plenty of Hurricanes! UGH
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:21:16 PM EDT] <KK> Yeah, it was unusual. We've had hurricanes, too. Neither of which I thoughtwe'd experience in central/western Virginia.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:21:40 PM EDT] <DesertRose> I'd rather deal with hurricanes than tornadoes. At least with hurricanes, you have some warning/prep time. Of course, sometimes they spawn tornadoes so you get a two-fer that no one wants!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:22:01 PM EDT] <Shiral> My Brother and Sister in Law spent the night in his office at the University when Irma rolled over Florida last fall
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:22:02 PM EDT] <WidowSon> You just need to move back to Florida KK......NAPLES!!!! Come ON DOWN!!!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:22:09 PM EDT] <Evie> Oh! I might have mentioned this already, but the quick hailstorm that we had last spring caused enough roof damage, which has resulted in a major leak, that we are getting a new roof as well as new paint/flooring/ceiling repairs. The roofing will be done on 4/27, which is also the date of my son's
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:22:09 PM EDT] <Evie> pinning ceremony.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:22:13 PM EDT] <Shiral> Luckily, their house was fine
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:22:21 PM EDT] <Evie> So it will be a double reason to celebrate
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:22:26 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Congrats to DS, and yay for a new roof!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:22:44 PM EDT] <Shiral> Congrats, DS
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:22:44 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Congrats to DS
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:22:56 PM EDT] <Shiral> And non-leaky roofs are a great idea
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:23:09 PM EDT] <KK> Congrats again to DS--and to Mom & Dad, who helped make it possible.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:23:19 PM EDT] <Derynifank> Love the me reshape in the bum fir Valerian
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:23:21 PM EDT] <Evie> Yes. It beats having to check the bucket regularly when we get a bad rainstorm, which we get frequently this time of year
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:23:24 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Thanks for letting me join yall's family you guys......im really enjoying this!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:23:35 PM EDT] <DesertRose> We have fun, WidowSon.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:23:40 PM EDT] <Derynifank> Congrats DR
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:23:45 PM EDT] <Shiral> Nice to have a new chatter, WidowSon
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:23:46 PM EDT] <DesertRose> We might be nuttier than a room of fruitcakes, but we have fun.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:23:59 PM EDT] <WidowSon> FUN!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:24:01 PM EDT] <bynw> i had great fruitcake once
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:24:04 PM EDT] <Derynifank> DO
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:24:09 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Uh OH!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:24:12 PM EDT] <bynw> but wrengl was the one who made it
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:24:12 PM EDT] <Derynifank> DO
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:24:16 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Do Tell
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:24:28 PM EDT] <DesertRose> My mom makes a pretty good one, but she hasn't made one in a couple of years because my stepdad eats too much and then his blood sugar goes through the roof.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:24:39 PM EDT] <Derynifank> Can'the get the dst
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:24:54 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Autocorrect messing with you, Derynifank?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:25:02 PM EDT] <Derynifank> I give up the fingers have lost it
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:25:21 PM EDT] <bynw> it was the "groomscake" for my first marriage. one of the original chatters and frequent visitor to darkovercon made it
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:25:35 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Used to be wedding cake was a fruit cake.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:25:36 PM EDT] <Derynifank> Auto correct is driving me crazy!!!!!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:26:02 PM EDT] <Evie> Auto correct is insane
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:26:15 PM EDT] <DesertRose> There's a recipe in my Charleston Receipts cookbook that I wonder if anyone's made in ages, called the Carolina Housewife Wedding Cake of 1850 that must make a massive cake because all the fruit and nuts are called for in pounds. Like 20-40 lbs each.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:26:23 PM EDT] <Derynifank> Congratulations Evie and son
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:26:36 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Well KK I just wanna say a BIG THANK YOU for all your wonderful stories......im re-reading all the Deryni books and LOVING IT all over again!!!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:26:36 PM EDT] <bynw> 20-40 POUNDS?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:26:43 PM EDT] <Shiral> I was just going to get new lighting in my kitchen and diningroom this spring, but things....snowballed. Now I'm getting rid of my popcorn ceilings which have asbestos in them so that I can have ceiling lights. The asbestos removal means all my lower story furniture has to be moved and stored off site.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:26:45 PM EDT] <DesertRose> I think they included it in the cookbook for historical interest.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:26:58 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Yup, and pounds and pounds of flour, sugar, and eggs, too.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:27:02 PM EDT] <The_Bee> They must have been expecting a large crowd.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:27:06 PM EDT] <Evie> DR and I were discussing bedding once, and I was trying to tell her that my parents prefer a harder mattress than I like, but auto correct decided to declare,"My parents enjoy a hard mistress." :-D
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:27:10 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Plus an amount of vanilla extract that would get a horse drunk.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:27:11 PM EDT] <Shiral> Since my furniture will be gone for about two weeks, I decided to paint the walls, too
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:27:27 PM EDT] <bynw> lol Evie
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:27:31 PM EDT] <WidowSon> LOL Evie!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:27:38 PM EDT] <DesertRose> DYAC!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:27:38 PM EDT] <Shiral> LOL
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:27:56 PM EDT] <Shiral> Now that's quite a typo
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:28:03 PM EDT] <DesertRose> (There's a website called Damn You, Autocorrect that is just full of those kinds of things, some of them not exactly safe for work!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:28:04 PM EDT] <DesertRose> )
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:28:42 PM EDT] <Shiral> Well you're all adults and it's the 21st century......" ;o)
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:28:46 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Vanilla Extract! Good for what Ails Ya!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:28:47 PM EDT] <DesertRose> LOL
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:29:06 PM EDT] <KK> Wow, that's quite an operation, Shiral. But aren't you glad that you own the place, so that you can do all these wonderful things?!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:29:12 PM EDT] <Shiral> Yes
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:29:20 PM EDT] <DesertRose> I'm not even sure I can REACH my ceiling!
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[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:29:53 PM EDT] <Shiral> I know it WILL be really nice once it's all finished and I have my furniture back. But it all feels a little overwhelming
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:30:02 PM EDT] <DesertRose> It's a lot of bother, certainly, Shiral.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:30:08 PM EDT] <KK> What are the felines thinking of all this?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:30:17 PM EDT] <DesertRose> My parents redid their kitchen, and they wound up having to give Roxanne kitty Valium.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:30:22 PM EDT] <Evie> I'm in the process of trying to decide what new flooring and wall color I want, since the insurance is going to cover more repairs than I had expected.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:30:36 PM EDT] <Shiral> But yes, being a homeowner is GREAT! My life took a big turn for the better when I moved in here.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:30:58 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Oh, Evie, that reminds me. Mom said DON'T go for laminate in a room that's apt to get wet, like a bathroom or kitchen! It can get damaged pretty easily.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:30:59 PM EDT] <Evie> I read that as "My parents redid their kitten," and I was wondering what color she ended up and if she was accessorized.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:31:10 PM EDT] * bynw would almost always go with hardwood flooring since he hates carpet
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:31:14 PM EDT] <KK> Evie, I'd forgotten that you're also in the throes of demolition and refurbishment.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:31:15 PM EDT] <Shiral> Poor kitties will have to stay upstairs in my bedroom on the day they remove the popcorn ceilings
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:31:17 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Will you still have a bed to sleep in, shiral?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:31:25 PM EDT] <Shiral> I'm sure they won't enjoy ANY of the process
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:31:28 PM EDT] <DesertRose> LOL, no, no kittens. Merlin thinks he's a kitten but since he weighs 17 lbs, he's a VERY big kitten.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:31:33 PM EDT] <Shiral> Yes. I'm only having it done downstairs, Bee
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:31:42 PM EDT] <Evie> We were looking at it for the living areas, not bedroom or kitchen. Since the roof will be fixed by then, I don't anticipate the living room getting wet anymore.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:31:45 PM EDT] <Shiral> I'll camp upstairs most of the time
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:31:58 PM EDT] <WidowSon> Well gotta go Ya'll! Take Care ALL! G'night almost cousin KK!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:32:01 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Okay, cool. It should be fine in the living room.
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[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:32:10 PM EDT] <Shiral> Night, WS!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:32:11 PM EDT] <KK> Nighters, Jeff.
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[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:32:19 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Or the hall/foyer, as long as that's not too close to a kitchen or bathroom or the laundry ara.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:32:22 PM EDT] <DesertRose> *area
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[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:32:24 PM EDT] <Derynifank> Fidn'the know I left
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:32:26 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Night, WidowSon.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:32:26 PM EDT] <WidowSon> till next week!.....
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:32:34 PM EDT] <bynw> cya WidowSon
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:32:42 PM EDT] <bynw> chat is always open
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:32:43 PM EDT] <Jemler> what happened?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:32:43 PM EDT] <The_Bee> bye, Widowson
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:32:45 PM EDT] <KK> Oh, I won't be here nest week.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:32:50 PM EDT] <Evie> Well, the hall does lead to our bathroom, but we don't normally have a soaking wet floor in there either.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:32:50 PM EDT] <Shiral> Dmitri has popped by to say hello
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[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:32:59 PM EDT] <KK> We're going down to och Norman Highland Games in NC.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:33:05 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Okay. So, the 29th, then, KK?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:33:07 PM EDT] <KK> Loch Norman
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:33:23 PM EDT] <DesertRose> That sounds like fun!
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:33:26 PM EDT] <Derynifank> Cool. Sounds exciting
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:33:32 PM EDT] <KK> Yes.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:33:35 PM EDT] <Evie> What part of NC?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:33:43 PM EDT] <Shiral> "Och Norman! We be having Highland games!"
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:33:47 PM EDT] <DesertRose> LOL
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:33:54 PM EDT] <The_Bee> I sw the Highland Games in Nova Scotia once.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:34:06 PM EDT] <Shiral> Wait....that was more pirate than Scotsman
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:34:07 PM EDT] <Evie> Is that anywhere near Asheville?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:34:23 PM EDT] <KK> No, farther east.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:34:36 PM EDT] <Evie> Ah
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:34:40 PM EDT] <bynw> scotish pirates Shiral ?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:34:53 PM EDT] <Evie> How far are you from Asheville, NC? Do you know?
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:34:58 PM EDT] <Shiral> There must have been at least a few of them, Bynw
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:35:14 PM EDT] <KK> There are some lakes on the way down to Greenville and Atlanta, and theyve Scotified the name from Lake Norman to Loch Norman.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:35:15 PM EDT] <bynw> Shiral, so it will work :)
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:35:24 PM EDT] <DesertRose> There was at least one famous Irish one too.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:35:29 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Grainne ui Mhaille.
[Sunday, April 15, 2018] [8:36:05 PM EDT] <DesertRose> (Pirate, that is.)
"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.)