KK Chat -- 14 February 2016 (Happy Valentine's Day!)

[DesertRose]

Feb 14 19:03:44 *   KK has joined
Feb 14 19:03:48 <the_Bee>   Hi K
Feb 14 19:03:53 <Jerusha>   Have a lovely Rogers Chocolate raspberry truffle on hand.  Have one!
Feb 14 19:03:54 <Eyikl>   Hi KK
Feb 14 19:04:01 <Jerusha>   Hi KK
Feb 14 19:04:06 <KK>   Hello, all.
Feb 14 19:04:14 <BalanceTheEnergies>   Hello KK
Feb 14 19:04:20 <the_Bee>   How was your Valentine's Day, KK?
Feb 14 19:04:25 <BalanceTheEnergies>   Ta Jerusha!
Feb 14 19:04:57 <KK>   Nice.  We actually celebrated yesterday.  Went for Thai, then dowqn to a favorite antique mall.
Feb 14 19:05:13 <the_Bee>   buy anything?
Feb 14 19:05:20 <Jerusha>   Find any good antiques?
Feb 14 19:05:33 <BalanceTheEnergies>   Sounds lovely.
Feb 14 19:05:49 <KK>   Nope, but might go back for a chandelier.
Feb 14 19:06:08 <Jerusha>   An enlightened purchase
Feb 14 19:06:14 <KK>   Waiting for snow now.
Feb 14 19:06:27 <Jerusha>   Have lots.  Can I send you some?
Feb 14 19:06:33 <Evie>   lol
Feb 14 19:06:48 <the_Bee>   We're in the deep freeze her.  High 10 degrees F.
Feb 14 19:07:02 <Eyikl>   yeep!
Feb 14 19:07:07 <Jerusha>   It was -44C on Friday night with wind chill
Feb 14 19:07:30 <KK>   We're already expecting maybe 5 inches.  And it's about 20 right now; has been colder overnight for several nights now.
Feb 14 19:07:43 <Evie>   wow
Feb 14 19:08:02 <Jerusha>   Whippets were not happy
Feb 14 19:08:11 <DesertRose>   Hi KK, Jerusha.  Sorry, was afk.
Feb 14 19:08:22 <DesertRose>   BRR!
Feb 14 19:08:23 <the_Bee>   I stayed home. Not risking frostbite by cycling nearly 3 miles to church
Feb 14 19:08:27 <BalanceTheEnergies>   Yeah, it was teens F high and single-digit low here last night. Not much snow on the ground, but flurries.
Feb 14 19:08:35 *   cynicalmedic (Mibbit@4FC299.150DEA.A224DC.5F2F16) has joined
Feb 14 19:08:45 <the_Bee>   Hi CM
Feb 14 19:08:48 <KK>   CM!
Feb 14 19:08:52 <Jerusha>   Hi Cynicalmedic
Feb 14 19:08:54 <Eyikl>   hi cynicalmedic
Feb 14 19:08:58 <BalanceTheEnergies>   Hello CM
Feb 14 19:08:59 <DesertRose>   Hi cynicalmedic!  LTNS!
Feb 14 19:09:00 <KK>   Haven't seen you for a while.
Feb 14 19:09:04 <Evie>   hi CM
Feb 14 19:09:04 <cynicalmedic>   Hello everyone.
Feb 14 19:09:23 <cynicalmedic>   I've been working on a college degree.
Feb 14 19:09:28 <the_Bee>   Are you in the cold zone or the hot zone, CM?
Feb 14 19:09:30 <DesertRose>   Oh cool.  What field?
Feb 14 19:09:31 <KK>   Ah.
Feb 14 19:09:32 <Jerusha>   What degree?
Feb 14 19:09:58 <cynicalmedic>   A masters in Health Care Administrarion - almost done.
Feb 14 19:10:06 *   Shiral (~Shiral@OWIRCN-e6adf1cc.ca.comcast.net) has joined
Feb 14 19:10:08 <Jerusha>   Congrats in advance
Feb 14 19:10:09 <DesertRose>   Oh, wow.  Sounds like a lot of work.
Feb 14 19:10:12 <DesertRose>   Hi Shiral
Feb 14 19:10:12 <the_Bee>   good for you1
Feb 14 19:10:12 <Jerusha>   Hi Shiral
Feb 14 19:10:13 <Eyikl>   nicwe
Feb 14 19:10:14 <Shiral>   Hello all
Feb 14 19:10:20 <the_Bee>   Hi Shiral
Feb 14 19:10:23 <cynicalmedic>   I'm in the cold zone.
Feb 14 19:10:24 <Eyikl>   hi shiral
Feb 14 19:10:28 <KK>   brb
Feb 14 19:10:36 <Jerusha>   Is there a warm zone?
Feb 14 19:10:45 <cynicalmedic>   California?
Feb 14 19:10:47 <DesertRose>   Australia?
Feb 14 19:10:58 <DesertRose>   Since it's summer in the Southern Hemisphere?
Feb 14 19:11:01 <BalanceTheEnergies>   The tropics?
Feb 14 19:11:04 <Jerusha>   If there is, please send me the portal signature!
Feb 14 19:11:07 <DesertRose>   LOL
Feb 14 19:11:08 <the_Bee>   89s or 90s in LA yesterday
Feb 14 19:11:19 <Eyikl>   wow
Feb 14 19:11:48 <BalanceTheEnergies>   Yeah, NOLA was only in the 50s F for Mardi Gras.
Feb 14 19:11:48 <the_Bee>   and they had tryout for the women's olympic marathon team.
Feb 14 19:11:49 <DesertRose>   Even (northern) Florida isn't all that warm.
Feb 14 19:12:07 <DesertRose>   I mean, it's nothing compared to what y'all are talking about, but it's not exactly warm.
Feb 14 19:12:12 <Jerusha>   I saw that on TV, Bee
Feb 14 19:12:32 <KK>   Back.
Feb 14 19:12:35 <DesertRose>   Rehi KK
Feb 14 19:12:40 <Jerusha>   wb, KK
Feb 14 19:13:29 <KK>   Gak, don't want to hear that about LA.  We have to go there next week.
Feb 14 19:13:32 *   Shiral snaps fingers and adds a big heartshaped box of chocolates to the virtual tea table
Feb 14 19:13:57 <the_Bee>   visiting family?
Feb 14 19:13:59 <Jerusha>   Pleasure trip, KK?
Feb 14 19:14:08 *   DesertRose adds chocolate-covered strawberries to the tea table.
Feb 14 19:14:15 <KK>   My mother-in-law's memorial service.
Feb 14 19:14:24 <DesertRose>   Oh, that's not a fun reason.
Feb 14 19:14:28 <BalanceTheEnergies>   Oh, condolences.
Feb 14 19:14:35 <Jerusha>   My sympathies
Feb 14 19:14:37 <DesertRose>   How's the family holding up?
Feb 14 19:14:37 <KK>   Nope.  Would rather not go, but duty calls.
Feb 14 19:14:42 <the_Bee>   family, but not for joy.
Feb 14 19:14:55 <cynicalmedic>   places a plate of Oreo truffles with the other goodies
Feb 14 19:15:03 <KK>   She passed last month after a looooong bout with Alzheimer's, so it was a welcome release for her.
Feb 14 19:15:04 <DesertRose>   I don't think very many people ever want to go to memorial services.
Feb 14 19:15:17 <Shiral>   It's supposed to cool down after Wednesday  if that's any consolation
Feb 14 19:15:29 <cynicalmedic>   We have one on Wednesday.
Feb 14 19:16:09 <DesertRose>   I had to go to one about this time last year.
Feb 14 19:16:12 <the_Bee>   someone close, CM?
Feb 14 19:17:22 <cynicalmedic>   We lost two sheriff's deputies in Hartford County last week - one was a friend of my brother's.
Feb 14 19:17:35 <DesertRose>   Oh yikes, cynicalmedic.  That's awful.
Feb 14 19:17:36 <the_Bee>   
Feb 14 19:17:40 <KK>   Ouch!  Not good!
Feb 14 19:17:41 <Jerusha>   Oh dear
Feb 14 19:17:50 <Eyikl>   
Feb 14 19:17:58 <BalanceTheEnergies>   
Feb 14 19:18:00 <Shiral>   =o(
Feb 14 19:19:21 <the_Bee>   What happened, if you don't mind my asking?
Feb 14 19:19:21 <cynicalmedic>   The state troopers are sending a delegation, and a lot of people are just going to pay respects.
Feb 14 19:19:58 <DesertRose>   Yeah, I imagine so.
Feb 14 19:21:38 <cynicalmedic>   They were called to a restaurant for someone who had a warrant, Bee. One deputy sat down and asked the suspect "How are you?" The suspect shot him, the second deputy chased the suspect, and was shot during the pursuit.
Feb 14 19:21:59 <Jerusha>   That's awful
Feb 14 19:22:01 <Evie>   Wow.  :-(
Feb 14 19:22:07 <BalanceTheEnergies>   I hope the suspect was caught.
Feb 14 19:22:20 <DesertRose>   Holy cow!
Feb 14 19:22:24 <the_Bee>   Why does stuff like that have to happen?
Feb 14 19:22:25 <Eyikl>   yick
Feb 14 19:22:38 <cynicalmedic>   The suspect didn't survive the encounter, either.
Feb 14 19:22:51 <KK>   I hope the suspect was shot.  Terminally.  Saves the taxpayers a lot of money.
Feb 14 19:23:11 <BalanceTheEnergies>   It would settle things with finality.
Feb 14 19:23:17 <Jerusha>   Doesn't bring back the Troopers, though
Feb 14 19:23:19 <the_Bee>   three lives lost.  and for what?
Feb 14 19:23:42 <KK>   Trying to serve justice.
Feb 14 19:24:05 <cynicalmedic>   Sorry to be such a downer. I haven't seen you guys in so long, and I just bring bad news.
Feb 14 19:24:06 <BalanceTheEnergies>   Quite so.
Feb 14 19:24:25 <BalanceTheEnergies>   Not your fault, CM
Feb 14 19:24:26 <Jerusha>   Glad to have you back anyway, CM
Feb 14 19:25:09 <KK>   You have our sympathies.  And that's part of what friends are for. 
Feb 14 19:25:11 <DesertRose>   Well, cynicalmedic, to lighten the mood a little, if you haven't read last week's chat log, KK let us know that both Camber trilogies and the Histories of King Kelson are now available as e-books.
Feb 14 19:25:18 <the_Bee>   Are you still working, or going to school full-time?
Feb 14 19:25:39 <cynicalmedic>   Yay! I will have to download those.
Feb 14 19:25:48 <KK>   And Evie, how did Duncan's new vestments turn out?
Feb 14 19:25:49 <DesertRose>   Links are on the static site. 
Feb 14 19:25:56 <Jerusha>   Good thing, cause my original copies are starting to fall apart!
Feb 14 19:26:09 <DesertRose>   I think Evie may be distracted.
Feb 14 19:26:15 <BalanceTheEnergies>   Mine too Jerusha, and my hands hurt to hold them open.
Feb 14 19:26:16 <the_Bee>   static site?
Feb 14 19:26:18 <Evie>   He has a new chasuble, and I have some fabric that might turn into a new alb, although I finally found his original one
Feb 14 19:26:37 <Jerusha>   I somehow missed the Grub pictures when they were posted.  Glad to find them now.
Feb 14 19:26:44 <cynicalmedic>   Working, Bee, and going to school, since I can't volunteer any more. My foot is healed now, but  it still can't take the pounding of an EMS career.
Feb 14 19:26:55 <DesertRose>   There's the forum and then there's the website, both of which are technically rhemuthcastle.com, Bee.
Feb 14 19:26:55 <Evie>   http://www.rhemuthcastle.com/index.php/topic,844.msg14789.html#msg14789
Feb 14 19:27:18 <DesertRose>   I've asked bynw to change the static site to deryni.net, but that takes some considerable work that he hasn't had time to do.
Feb 14 19:27:37 <DesertRose>   Right now deryni.net directs to the forum, and there's a link on the forum that directs you to the static site.
Feb 14 19:27:45 <Jerusha>   Grub is quite the attractive cherub
Feb 14 19:27:50 <the_Bee>   Thanks, Evie an DR
Feb 14 19:27:51 <Evie>   Yes, it's hard to find the static site, unless you know where to find the link on the forum
Feb 14 19:28:27 <DesertRose>   Which is why I think (and bynw agrees, just hasn't had time to fix) that the website should be deryni.net and the forum should stay rhemuthcastle.com.
Feb 14 19:28:36 <cynicalmedic>   I did read your story, Evie - it was terrific.
Feb 14 19:28:43 <Evie>   Thank you, CM!
Feb 14 19:28:56 <Evie>   Which one, the latest?  (Balance of Power)
Feb 14 19:29:09 <Jerusha>   Need more Morgan in any time frame. 
Feb 14 19:29:34 <cynicalmedic>   Balance of Power. Sorry - a Peke jumped into my lap, and I had to push him aside.
Feb 14 19:29:40 <Evie>   LOL
Feb 14 19:29:46 <DesertRose>   Hello, friendly puppy dog.
Feb 14 19:29:47 <BalanceTheEnergies>   
Feb 14 19:29:54 <the_Bee>   HI, Peke!
Feb 14 19:30:03 <Jerusha>   Please forward a scratch behind the ears on my behalf
Feb 14 19:30:11 <Evie>   Luke is curled up on the bed behind me
Feb 14 19:30:25 <cynicalmedic>   His name is Raymond, and he thinks he's the emperor of the universe.
Feb 14 19:30:29 <Evie>   I think Gigi has gone to snoopervise the Valentine Dinner DH is making for me
Feb 14 19:30:34 <Jerusha>   Don't they all?
Feb 14 19:30:44 <BalanceTheEnergies>   I left Wimsey curled up on the bed, just where I sleep.
Feb 14 19:30:47 <Jerusha>   A special menu, Evie?
Feb 14 19:30:56 <BalanceTheEnergies>   Don't they all?
Feb 14 19:31:13 <DesertRose>   I thought that opinion was the province of cats, that they are the Lord/Lady High Muckety Muck Of Everything. 
Feb 14 19:31:26 <Eyikl>   I'm not sure dogs do
Feb 14 19:31:28 <Evie>   I suspect spaghetti, since he turned down the offer of homemade spaghetti earlier this week (which never happens) and said something about having spaghetti plans for this weekend
Feb 14 19:31:33 <BalanceTheEnergies>   
Feb 14 19:31:48 <cynicalmedic>   We rescued this one - he has no teeth, but plenty of attitude.
Feb 14 19:32:02 <DesertRose>   Little dogs usually do have a lot of attitude.
Feb 14 19:32:10 <Evie>   LOL, Luke is snoring!
Feb 14 19:32:14 <DesertRose>   LOL, Evie.
Feb 14 19:32:19 <BalanceTheEnergies>   Sounds like fun!
Feb 14 19:32:30 <Eyikl>   nice. I take it you don't live in dorms then?
Feb 14 19:32:31 <cynicalmedic>   DH has also added to his tarantula collection.
Feb 14 19:32:37 <Shiral>   Right at the moment, both my cats are dozing in the afternoon sunshine in my bedroom
Feb 14 19:32:46 <DesertRose>   My cousin has a pet tarantula.
Feb 14 19:32:56 <Jerusha>   Tarantula collection?  Ack!
Feb 14 19:32:59 <the_Bee>   Remember the Scene fom Lady and the TRamp, where the two of them are eating spaghetti and they'fe both chewing on the same strand til their lips touch?
Feb 14 19:33:16 <DesertRose>   Chiefly because he lives on his own now and my aunt and uncle wouldn't let him have one when he lived with them.
Feb 14 19:33:32 <BalanceTheEnergies>   Ah, freedom.
Feb 14 19:33:36 <Jerusha>   I can understand that
Feb 14 19:33:42 <DesertRose>   He also has a pet ball python for the same reason.
Feb 14 19:33:57 <Jerusha>   DS3 got his snake after he left home
Feb 14 19:34:07 <Jerusha>   Ball python,also
Feb 14 19:34:22 <cynicalmedic>   There are seven, here, and the potential for an eighth,
Feb 14 19:34:30 <DesertRose>   My aunt asked him what he was going to do when he wanted to get married, and he said he'd rehome the animals if his bride-to-be didn't want them around.
Feb 14 19:34:34 <KK>   What is it with some guys and snakes?
Feb 14 19:34:41 <the_Bee>   I hear pythons arebecoming a nuisance in the Everglades.
Feb 14 19:34:45 <DesertRose>   They are.
Feb 14 19:34:56 <KK>   Oh, BIG nuisance!
Feb 14 19:35:04 <Jerusha>   Eight tarantulas???
Feb 14 19:35:09 <DesertRose>   They're not native to the area, but they can live there and have been breeding.
Feb 14 19:35:23 <Shiral>   Pythons would be a deal breaker for me
Feb 14 19:35:34 <BalanceTheEnergies>   Invasive species then.
Feb 14 19:36:00 <the_Bee>   The theory is that owners are turning their pet snakes looke once they get too big.
Feb 14 19:36:03 <DesertRose>   My ex-husband had a pet king snake when we got married.  I would not touch the cage.  He had to deal with taking care of the snake.  I don't like snakes much.
Feb 14 19:36:06 <the_Bee>   loose
Feb 14 19:36:16 *   Shiral is grateful to be in a different state on the opposite coast from the Tarantula collection
Feb 14 19:36:25 <cynicalmedic>   Yes, Jerusha. They are quiet, and very pretty. Tallulah is my favorite.
Feb 14 19:36:28 <DesertRose>   I took care of the cats we had, but the snake was all him.
Feb 14 19:37:15 <Evie>   All his, or was that a Freudian slip?  :-D
Feb 14 19:37:24 <Jerusha>   Sorry, hard to think of a spider as pretty.  But there are those that don't think a Scottish Deerhound if pretty,  so I will try to be tolerant
Feb 14 19:37:24 <DesertRose>   LOL
Feb 14 19:37:43 *   Aerlys (~47d9631e@OWIRCN-1bdd9d77.org) has joined
Feb 14 19:37:47 <DesertRose>   Hi Aerlys
Feb 14 19:37:49 <Evie>   hi Aerlys
Feb 14 19:37:50 <KK>   My niece an her then-boyfriend had a corn snake for a while.  Actually, very pretty.  And it felt like patent leather, the one time I touched it.
Feb 14 19:37:50 <the_Bee>   Hi Aerlys
Feb 14 19:37:52 <BalanceTheEnergies>   Hello Aerlys
Feb 14 19:37:52 <Jerusha>   Hi Aerlys
Feb 14 19:38:06 <Eyikl>   hi Aerlys
Feb 14 19:38:09 <Aerlys>   Salvete!
Feb 14 19:38:14 <Shiral>   Hi Aerlys
Feb 14 19:38:19 <Evie>   DS nearly bought a corn snake, but he changed his mind, which is probably just as well since he's owned by a cat now
Feb 14 19:38:43 <DesertRose>   My parents' older cat has a tendency to capture small snakes (garter snakes, mostly) and bring them into the house.  This does not thrill my parents, particularly not my mom.
Feb 14 19:38:50 <cynicalmedic>   Well, the other pet news is my niece got a pony named Birdie for Christmas. She outgrew the former one, but he still lives on the farm. When you're ten years old, and five foot four, you present a challenge to a plump little Shetland.
Feb 14 19:39:07 <DesertRose>   Aw, horsies!
Feb 14 19:39:45 <Eyikl>   sounds like your niece is going to grow up to be pretty tall.
Feb 14 19:39:50 <KK>   Ah, Shetland ponies.  Thelwell demons.
Feb 14 19:40:00 <Aerlys>   lol
Feb 14 19:40:12 <BalanceTheEnergies>   I'll say. I'm that height and unlikely to grow taller.
Feb 14 19:40:20 <KK>   I knew Aerlys wou;d get the reference.
Feb 14 19:40:26 <DesertRose>   Yeah, five foot four is tall for a ten-year-old to say the least.
Feb 14 19:40:35 <Aerlys>   Ten...and she's taller than I am.
Feb 14 19:40:43 <Jerusha>   Me too
Feb 14 19:40:56 <the_Bee>   I've rfecently shrunk from 5'4" to 5'3"
Feb 14 19:41:44 <DesertRose>   I've shrunk a little too but y'all are going to tell me to shut up because I was just under 5'9" and now I'm a little under 5'8". 
Feb 14 19:41:50 <cynicalmedic>   I'm the family runt at six feet  - I know she will pass her mom, who is 6'3"
Feb 14 19:42:07 <DesertRose>   Wow, y'all grow 'em tall in your clan, cynicalmedic.
Feb 14 19:42:07 <Jerusha>   Wow
Feb 14 19:42:42 <Evie>   Yaaaayyyyy, DH is going to get his drill so he can hang my picture of "Rhemuth" on the wall.  :-D
Feb 14 19:42:52 <KK>   I'm similar, DR.
Feb 14 19:43:10 <Aerlys>   I pretty much look up to most people I meet.
Feb 14 19:43:10 <Jerusha>   Jerusha was thinking he was going to use the drill to mix the spaghetti
Feb 14 19:43:25 <DesertRose>   Last night, I went to a do that my daughter's youth group and young adults' groups put on and someone commented that DD did not get my height (she's 5'4" at age 23), and I said, "No, she takes after my grandmother."
Feb 14 19:43:28 <Evie>   (Actually Toledo, Spain, run through a photo filter, but it reminded me of Rhemuth, since you can see a cathedral in the foreground and a castle in the background.)
Feb 14 19:43:34 <cynicalmedic>   At least she's given up on the notion of being a jockey. She can't decide now between being a flight medic or a pastry chef.
Feb 14 19:43:42 <Evie>   LOL, Jerusha
Feb 14 19:43:43 <Aerlys>   Easier than twirling it on a fork, Jerusha?
Feb 14 19:43:48 <DesertRose>   Interesting pair of aspirations, cynicalmedic.
Feb 14 19:43:54 <Shiral>   My sister and brother and I are all around 5'6" give or take an inch, my other brother is 5" 11' and my nephew, his son, is over six
Feb 14 19:43:58 <Evie>   My DD wants to be a pastry chef
Feb 14 19:44:03 <BalanceTheEnergies>   Labour-saving device Jerusha.
Feb 14 19:44:29 <Jerusha>   Changed from being a teacher, Evie?
Feb 14 19:44:33 <DesertRose>   My poor grandmother was 5'2" in a family full of people who were all 5'6"+.
Feb 14 19:44:44 <KK>   Interesting possibilities, CM.
Feb 14 19:45:03 <Evie>   DH was a bit dubious about her culinary career choice, but after seeing her work all day in his kitchen when he cooked an SCA feast recently, I think he's changed his mind
Feb 14 19:45:10 <BalanceTheEnergies>   Yeah, I ended up shorted than my folks. Missing a disc and vertebra.
Feb 14 19:45:12 <Aerlys>   Would make for an interesting combination, too
Feb 14 19:45:15 <Jerusha>   My grandmother was 4 foot something.
Feb 14 19:45:47 <the_Bee>   I'm taller than either of my sisters.
Feb 14 19:46:01 <the_Bee>   and fatter
Feb 14 19:46:07 <Evie>   Yes, after two years of Culinary classes at school, she's decided that's what she'd like to do, and since she's much more of a hands-on sort than an academically gifted sort, I think that choice will work better for her than another four years of university for a teaching degree.
Feb 14 19:46:08 <Aerlys>   I've decided that I'm not short, I'm fun sized.
Feb 14 19:46:22 <cynicalmedic>   I think her mother would prefer pastry chef - our local flight medics are also state troopers, and have to serve on the road for two years before joining the aviation command.
Feb 14 19:46:33 <DesertRose>   My other grandmother was 5'9"; she was also a fantastic seamstress, and I think she might have learned that skill because she couldn't find premade clothes to fit her, because that was ridiculously tall for her generation.
Feb 14 19:46:39 <Jerusha>    at fun sized
Feb 14 19:46:47 <DesertRose>   LOL, Aerlys.
Feb 14 19:47:05 <Shiral>   Careful around Halloweeen though. =o0
Feb 14 19:47:10 <Shiral>   =o), I mean
Feb 14 19:47:21 <BalanceTheEnergies>   LOL Shiral.
Feb 14 19:47:22 *   Aerlys reflects that it's probably jemler didn't see that comment
Feb 14 19:47:33 <DesertRose>   I think jemler is still in hospital.
Feb 14 19:47:34 <Aerlys>   good that...
Feb 14 19:47:37 <Evie>   Yes, I'd have to load the mackerel launcher
Feb 14 19:47:48 <Jerusha>   Not out yet?  How is he doins?
Feb 14 19:47:54 <DesertRose>   I haven't seen any updates on Facebook from him but one of his family members posted something saying she wished he was home.
Feb 14 19:47:59 <Jerusha>   doing
Feb 14 19:48:03 <Aerlys>   not good for jemler. I thought he was coming home last week
Feb 14 19:48:05 <DesertRose>   Posted something today, that should have read.
Feb 14 19:48:15 <DesertRose>   No, he's on IV antibiotics.
Feb 14 19:48:18 <BalanceTheEnergies>   No complications, I hope.
Feb 14 19:48:31 <DesertRose>   I don't know.  I'm hoping that no news is good news.
Feb 14 19:48:33 <the_Bee>   He told us he was being kept a few weeks longer.
Feb 14 19:48:42 <Jerusha>   weeks?
Feb 14 19:48:44 <BalanceTheEnergies>   Better safe than sorry.
Feb 14 19:48:45 <Aerlys>   erg. That's no fun
Feb 14 19:49:08 <the_Bee>   I think so. Check last week's chat to be sure.
Feb 14 19:49:09 *   Shiral sends a fountain of fish into the air in Jemler's honor with wishes for speedy recovery
Feb 14 19:49:23 <DesertRose>   He popped in from the hospital last week for a few minutes.
Feb 14 19:49:38 <BalanceTheEnergies>   That sounds encouraging.
Feb 14 19:49:41 <Jerusha>   Jerusha send a trebuchet of good wishes
Feb 14 19:49:45 <cynicalmedic>   Ugh. I spent five weeks in the hospital myself. Please pass along my regards, if your are Facebook friends with him.
Feb 14 19:49:46 <DesertRose>   And he has been periodically making smart-alecky posts to Facebook about his hospital stay.
Feb 14 19:50:01 <Jerusha>   That is a good sign
Feb 14 19:50:11 <BalanceTheEnergies>   yes
Feb 14 19:50:12 <Aerlys>   Then he must not be feeling too bad.
Feb 14 19:50:22 <DesertRose>   But nothing within about the last week to Facebook.  The most recent thing on Facebook is a Valentine's post from someone that I think might be his sister saying she wished he was home.
Feb 14 19:50:46 <Eyikl>   Does jemler have a fascination with fish?
Feb 14 19:50:54 <DesertRose>   No, Eyikl.
Feb 14 19:51:01 <DesertRose>   There's a long-running joke in chat.
Feb 14 19:51:04 <Jerusha>   Only the ones sent in his direction
Feb 14 19:51:05 *   the_Bee slaps Eyikl around a bit with a large trout
Feb 14 19:51:07 <Eyikl>   oh
Feb 14 19:51:08 <KK>   Poor guy doesn't get many breaks, does he?
Feb 14 19:51:11 <Aerlys>   No, but he has a fascination with bad puns, so we fling virtual fish at him
Feb 14 19:51:21 <BalanceTheEnergies>   Jenner does make dreadful puns.
Feb 14 19:51:23 <Jerusha>   Pun-ative
Feb 14 19:51:26 <Eyikl>   pw
Feb 14 19:51:28 <DesertRose>   Certain chat clients have the option to smack someone with a fish, and it has come to be the punishment for making bad jokes.
Feb 14 19:51:51 <DesertRose>   Or corny puns.
Feb 14 19:52:33 <the_Bee>   I'm on mIRC tonight, other wise I couldn't do it.
Feb 14 19:52:36 <Evie>   Or risque humor, which jemler tends towards
Feb 14 19:52:47 <the_Bee>   semi-dirty jokes
Feb 14 19:53:01 <DesertRose>   Yes, I include that under bad jokes, because usually his risque humor is also not in the best taste. 
Feb 14 19:53:31 <Aerlys>   In that case, I'm holding load of geoducks in my arsenal
Feb 14 19:53:43 <Eyikl>   bleh. I'd prefer hearing puns any day.
Feb 14 19:54:14 <Shiral>   I heard a bad joke this week from a friend at work. Why did the Chicken go to a seance?
Feb 14 19:54:25 <cynicalmedic>   That's why I don't tell any of the jokes I know. EMS humor can be a little disturbing to those outside the ranks.
Feb 14 19:54:29 <DesertRose>   Oh goodness, do we want to know?
Feb 14 19:54:30 <Aerlys>   (plate of virtual triple chocolate brownies to anyone who can correctly pronunce "geoduck.")
Feb 14 19:54:31 <BalanceTheEnergies>   The whole running gag here makes me think of the Pythons' fish-slapping dance.
Feb 14 19:54:34 *   Laurna (Mibbit@OWIRCN-e847c143.res.rr.com) has joined
Feb 14 19:54:39 <DesertRose>   Hi Laurna.
Feb 14 19:54:43 <Laurna>   Hello
Feb 14 19:54:46 <Shiral>   to get to "the other side."
Feb 14 19:54:48 <cynicalmedic>   It's gooey duck
Feb 14 19:54:48 <Jerusha>   Hi Launa
Feb 14 19:54:49 <BalanceTheEnergies>   Hell Laurna
Feb 14 19:54:54 <Shiral>   Hi Laurna
Feb 14 19:55:01 <Eyikl>   Hi Laurna
Feb 14 19:55:13 *   DesertRose groans at Shiral and launches a trout at her.
Feb 14 19:55:15 <Jerusha>   Hell Laurna?
Feb 14 19:55:19 <Aerlys>   ?me hands a big plate of fresh warm brownies to CM
Feb 14 19:55:27 <Shiral>   would a "geo duck" work for National Geographic?
Feb 14 19:55:28 <cynicalmedic>   Hi Laurna
Feb 14 19:55:31 <Laurna>   Hell  BTE?  It is Valentines day. much better than that.
Feb 14 19:55:32 <Eyikl>   lol
Feb 14 19:55:39 <Aerlys>   lol, Shiral
Feb 14 19:55:55 *   Shiral ducks the incoming trout
Feb 14 19:56:00 <KK>   Gooey duck?  In what language, in what universe?
Feb 14 19:56:02 <Aerlys>   I'd appreciate the jokes, CM
Feb 14 19:56:04 <Laurna>   I just pulled some hot brownies out of the oven
Feb 14 19:56:12 <BalanceTheEnergies>   I heard there were layoffs @ Nat geo.
Feb 14 19:56:23 <Jerusha>   Jerusha lines up for hot brownies
Feb 14 19:56:26 <Shiral>   Alas,yes there were.
Feb 14 19:56:27 <the_Bee>   How about limericks? A hooker, / Whom some call psychotic,/ Is famous in circles erotic. / She cheerfully caters/ To perverts and satyrs/ And others with tastes more exotic.
Feb 14 19:56:31 <Jerusha>   REally?
Feb 14 19:56:32 <Laurna>   Gooey Ducks are cool.  I have and oversized stuffed one
Feb 14 19:56:50 <Jerusha>   Bee!
Feb 14 19:57:00 <DesertRose>   Wow, Bee.
Feb 14 19:57:03 <Aerlys>   got the Rhyster buddy, so down to typing one-handed again
Feb 14 19:57:14 <DesertRose>   Hi, Rhys!
Feb 14 19:57:23 <Jerusha>   Jerusha offer Rhys a virtual hug
Feb 14 19:57:29 <Laurna>   Hello Rhyster
Feb 14 19:57:29 <Shiral>   I've seen them on "Chopped" On Tv. They manage to look a little like an elephant trunk coming out of a clam shell
Feb 14 19:57:54 <Aerlys>   they are pretty bizarre
Feb 14 19:57:59 <the_Bee>   I was inspired by Isaac Asimov's Boook of Lecherous Limericks.
Feb 14 19:58:16 <Laurna>   That is kind of what my stuffed one looks like.  was a gift from my visit to seattle
Feb 14 19:58:24 <Shiral>   Well now we know Jemler is here in spirit, at least. =o)
Feb 14 19:58:30 <DesertRose>   Indeed.
Feb 14 19:58:51 <Aerlys>   aw, you visited Seattle, Laurna...
Feb 14 19:59:09 <Jerusha>   Are you in Seattle, Aerlys?
Feb 14 19:59:14 <Laurna>   My dad lived there for 10 years.  I went up about 15 tiems
Feb 14 19:59:21 <Laurna>   times
Feb 14 19:59:24 <the_Bee>   Did you dine at the Space Needle< Laurna?
Feb 14 19:59:32 <Laurna>   Now dad lives 10 miles from me
Feb 14 19:59:33 <Aerlys>   Southeast of Tacoma, actually
Feb 14 19:59:46 <Jerusha>   I lived in Tacoma for a while
Feb 14 19:59:59 <KK>   So, what are we talking about here, with these gooey ducks?
Feb 14 20:00:07 <Aerlys>   military, IIRC?
Feb 14 20:00:13 <Shiral>   They're a kind of clam, KK
Feb 14 20:00:15 <Jerusha>   Yes
Feb 14 20:00:20 <KK>   Ah.
Feb 14 20:00:24 <BalanceTheEnergies>   A fishy segue, wasn't it?
Feb 14 20:00:31 <Shiral>   VERY large--one would be an entre serving. Or maybe two
Feb 14 20:00:33 <Evie>   gooey ducks sound like waterfowl who got caught in an oil slick
Feb 14 20:00:36 <Laurna>   No  space needle  we use to sail around the bay inmy dads 42 foot sail boat that he turned into a square sail barge
Feb 14 20:00:43 <the_Bee>   You mean like Duck Dynasty on tv?
Feb 14 20:00:46 <Laurna>   bargentine  spelling
Feb 14 20:00:51 <Aerlys>   http://www.geoduck.org/_assets/img/pages/about/row-2/row-2-right.jpg
Feb 14 20:01:31 <Shiral>   I've dined at the Space Needle. Pretty cool, although the main fun is that you'r revolving.  The food wasn't all that fantastic, if I recall correctly
Feb 14 20:01:33 <Laurna>   We even sailed to Victoria one time
Feb 14 20:01:34 <Jerusha>   Oh yuk!
Feb 14 20:02:00 <Eyikl>   yeah, they look kinda gross.
Feb 14 20:02:05 <Jerusha>   I'll stick to shrimp
Feb 14 20:02:10 <Shiral>   Why' they're referred to as ducks...I have no idea
Feb 14 20:02:17 <KK>   Ah, I gotta go, guys.  See you next week, if we don't freeze in this latest storm.
Feb 14 20:02:21 <Shiral>   Bye, KK
Feb 14 20:02:21 <DesertRose>   Another creature which makes me wonder how hungry someone must have been to decide to try to eat them.
Feb 14 20:02:23 <Shiral>   Keep warm
Feb 14 20:02:24 <Evie>   ROFL, Shiral!  I read that as "Pretty cool, although the main fun is that you're revolting."
Feb 14 20:02:26 <Laurna>   A gooey duck is a large clam. or snail
Feb 14 20:02:26 <the_Bee>   Are those actual duck legs? They look sort of like molluscs of some kind.
Feb 14 20:02:30 <BalanceTheEnergies>   Good night KK.
Feb 14 20:02:30 <DesertRose>   Okay, see you next week, KK!
Feb 14 20:02:31 <Jerusha>   Bye KK, thanks for coming!
Feb 14 20:02:33 <Eyikl>   Bye KK
Feb 14 20:02:33 <Evie>   Goodnight, KK!
Feb 14 20:02:34 <Shiral>   Hope the trip to LA isn't too taxing
Feb 14 20:02:35 <DesertRose>   Thanks for coming to see us!
Feb 14 20:02:37 <cynicalmedic>   Stay safe, KK. Have a good week.
Feb 14 20:02:38 <Laurna>   Good night KK
Feb 14 20:02:41 <Aerlys>   http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9z58qy9tsOo/UcIRVYAV4ZI/AAAAAAAABrg/eE2I_O74NQg/s1600/flacid+geoduck.jpg for size reference
Feb 14 20:02:45 *   KK steps onto her Portal, waves goodnight, and disappears in a shower of green sparkles.
Feb 14 20:02:47 <the_Bee>   Bye K Glad you came
Feb 14 20:02:57 <Aerlys>   bye KK
Feb 14 20:03:07 <KK>   Nighters, all.
Feb 14 20:03:11 <DesertRose>   G'night!
Feb 14 20:03:16 *   KK has quit (Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client)