KK Chat -- 23 August 2020

[DesertRose]

[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:01:05 PM EDT] Join KK has joined this channel.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:01:14 PM EDT] <derynifank> Hi KK
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:01:16 PM EDT] <bynw> hi KK
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:01:26 PM EDT] <KK> Hello, all, from flooded Staunton--again.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:01:39 PM EDT] <bynw> what more floods?
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:01:42 PM EDT] <Goatmistress> Hi there
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:01:48 PM EDT] <derynifank> Oh no! What caused the flood this time
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:01:49 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Hi KK!
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:02:10 PM EDT] <KK> Yep, last night, exactly 2 weeks since the last one--though this one wasn't as bad, so far as I can tell.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:02:12 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Rain, I'd imagine.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:02:29 PM EDT] <KK> Thunderstorm and nearly 4 inches of rain.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:02:48 PM EDT] <derynifank> That's a lot of rain
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:03:06 PM EDT] <KK> Thunder wasn't as bad, though Booker thought it was; but the rain was steady for more than an hour.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:03:10 PM EDT] <bynw> are there levys that need to be built higher to prevent flooding or just drainage issues
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:03:12 PM EDT] <DesertRose> It is indeed, and I didn't mean to be flippant.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:04:12 PM EDT] <KK> There's a creek that goes right through the middle of town. It's normally quite adequate, but with this year's squirrelly weather....who knows?
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:04:45 PM EDT] <bynw> i've seen some creeks go crazy
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:04:56 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> Hello all
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:04:57 PM EDT] <KK> One has to wonder what else 2020 has in store for us.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:05:01 PM EDT] <bynw> hi Shiral
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:05:08 PM EDT] <KK> Hi, Shiral.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:05:17 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> I want a refund for 2020!
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:05:27 PM EDT] <KK> Me too!
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:05:39 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> Hi Bynw, KK and all
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:07:08 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> snaps fingers and produces a sundae bar.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:07:14 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> Might as well have some ice cream
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:07:30 PM EDT] <derynifank> Hi Shiral
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:07:32 PM EDT] * bynw is having a BLT with cheese right now
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:07:39 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> Hi DFK
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:07:48 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> Congratulations on the new job, Bynw
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:07:53 PM EDT] <KK> And now there's not one but 2 hurricanes barrelling through the Gulf, and added to the pandemic, the civil unrest, an asteroid predicted to come very close the day before the election,....
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:08:08 PM EDT] <bynw> thanks shiral. tomorrow starts week #3
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:08:13 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Hi Shiral.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:08:21 PM EDT] <DesertRose> You breathing okay out there?
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:08:24 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> That's new enough to qualify, Bynw
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:08:41 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> Yes. Although I definitely smell the smoke, and I stay inside
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:08:45 PM EDT] <derynifank> Saw a great cartoon. Baby 2021 was kciking out 2020. Really liked that
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:08:46 PM EDT] <KK> And no more derechos in your part of Iowa?
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:09:01 PM EDT] <bynw> Cthulhu will rise from the ocean depths because in 2020 the stars are right
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:09:11 PM EDT] <bynw> there have been no more derechos
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:09:24 PM EDT] Join The_Bee (The_Bee@owirc-g80.arb.61.73.IP) has joined this channel.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:09:31 PM EDT] <derynifank> Hi Bee
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:09:36 PM EDT] <KK> Ah, yes, the fires. I talked to my sister in Sacramento a couple of nights ago, and their air is terrible, everything covered in a fine layer of ash.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:09:49 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Hii everyone
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:09:50 PM EDT] <The_Bee> 1
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:09:56 PM EDT] <KK> There's the Bee.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:10:03 PM EDT] <bynw> and august is about over so that kind of weather should be gone too. thunderstorms, straight line winds, tornados should be on the way out
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:10:17 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Hi, KK.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:10:21 PM EDT] <KK> Riiiiight.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:10:33 PM EDT] <bynw> hi Bee
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:10:51 PM EDT] <bynw> i did use the correct word .... "should"
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:10:56 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Is there any part of California that's not burning?
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:10:58 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> We are supposed to get another thunderstorm and dry lightning strikes today, but so far, it's held off. I hope that passes us by because the lightning strikes started the fires
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:11:31 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Is the fire near you, shiral?
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:11:42 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> Last week was really miserable as the heat was intense, and made extra unpleasant because it wasn't cooling off at night
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:11:55 PM EDT] <KK> Not many, Bee, so far as I can tell. I've got a firefighter friend up in northern California who's on 96 hour shifts. Don't know how they do it.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:12:06 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> Not so that I'm under an evacuation order, but not nearly far enough away to suit me
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:12:37 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> It's bad enough to have fires and it's bad enough to have a pandemic, but both together is particularly bad
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:12:39 PM EDT] <KK> Yeah, the temperatures in the West are ridiculous, mostly in triple digits.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:12:55 PM EDT] <Eris> <Angsthase> 31° is just too hot. It's after seven in the evening, and it's still 29°
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:13:05 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> Yes
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:13:29 PM EDT] <The_Bee> centigrade, I assume.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:13:50 PM EDT] <Eris> <Angsthase> yes; sorry
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:14:04 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> We're short of fire fighters just when we need them most
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:14:40 PM EDT] <bynw> right now it's 92 but feels like 96 with the heat index
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:14:48 PM EDT] <The_Bee> too bad we can't sent Laura and Marco to California to put out the fires.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:15:07 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> We'll take the rain, would prefer to skip the wind!
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:15:19 PM EDT] <DesertRose> Or the ridiculous amount of rain KK's area has gotten lately.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:15:23 PM EDT] <KK> If we could just send the rain, yes. But I don't think they need the wind.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:15:24 PM EDT] <bynw> and all next week we have highs in the upper 90s ... tomorrow its' going to be 96 without the heat index
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:15:56 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> We were (Sort of) lucky yesterday as the wind died down and the firefighters were able to make more progress
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:16:00 PM EDT] <bynw> oops i was wrong. tomorrow its going to be 98 without the heat index
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:16:28 PM EDT] <The_Bee> We've just had some much-needed rain this afternoon.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:16:45 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> We can handle a little breeze, but hurricanes would just compound problems
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:20:06 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Memo to tropical storms: Don't be blowhards; just be soakers.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:20:49 PM EDT] <KK> We were in the mid-80s today, to be a bit hotter tomorrow. Yuck!
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:21:36 PM EDT] <derynifank> Hot here, supposefd to be 90 every day this week
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:22:17 PM EDT] <The_Bee> mthis week, cooler late wekk.aybe 90s
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:23:12 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Why does my keyboard keep putting letters in the wrong order?
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:23:55 PM EDT] <KK> Because your rented fingers were in the wrong order? ;-)
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:24:35 PM EDT] <The_Bee> That must be it. =L
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:25:26 PM EDT] <derynifank> Or the rented fingers are possessed
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:25:46 PM EDT] <The_Bee> LOL!
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:26:04 PM EDT] <KK> Well, I got some useful writing tasks done today: pulled out the story attachments that Revanne and Judith have sent me, and skimmed them. You guys are so talented!
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:26:06 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> Got to rent them from reputable rental shops.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:26:37 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> Have you figured out what story you'll write for the collection, KK?
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:26:41 PM EDT] <KK> Next I need to go to the Forum and read what else is posted there.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:27:21 PM EDT] <KK> Not yet, Shiral. But I'm leaning toward something to do with Kelson and Araxie's first child. Maybe.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:27:31 PM EDT] <The_Bee> I'm trying to write something; or there's the poen I sent to Julianne that's never been published.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:27:32 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> Interesting!
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:28:17 PM EDT] <KK> Anything that you guys have sent to Julianne and it disappeared into the void, you can send on to me and I'll consider it.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:28:32 PM EDT] <KK> I'll also see if she can send me what she's got.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:29:16 PM EDT] <The_Bee> If I can remember it. I also included music with my latest.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:30:07 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> I haven't been able to find the last story I sent to Julianne. But I wrote it a few Laptops ago
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:31:10 PM EDT] <KK> Uck. Well, do your best.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:31:33 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> Oddly, Brecon and Richelle have been prodding me
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:31:44 PM EDT] <The_Bee> IIRC, mine was a Caeriessean lullaby. Lately I've been trying to explain how it was careless magic that doomed Caeriesse.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:32:06 PM EDT] <Eris> <Angsthase> Did you send it by e-mail? My gmail "sent mail" section has been very helpful to me, from time to time
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:32:24 PM EDT] <KK> All good ideas. And there's a lot of new meat in the Childe Morgan books, and also KKB.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:33:22 PM EDT] <KK> She said several laptops ago, so I'd be surprised if all her sent emails transferred.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:33:43 PM EDT] <Eris> <Angsthase> sorry
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:33:47 PM EDT] <The_Bee> What color hair do you think Kelson and Araxie's firstborn will have?
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:34:13 PM EDT] <KK> We'll have to see, won't we? ;-)
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:34:20 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> The last Earl of _was very loyal to Caitrin, but that loyalty was very hard on his finances. So the manor house ended up being very neglected, and Ros Kincaid himself was deeply in debt at the time of his death, so....when Brecon and Richelle show up in the autumn of 1128, the house is in pretty dire shape....
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:34:36 PM EDT] <bynw> it depends on what email account it was sent on and how its accessed if those emails are available. if the provider has changed. well then its not gonna happen
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:34:40 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> And will they have a princess, or a prince?
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:35:14 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> I have looked through old emails, I'm afraid I may have sent it through Hotmail, and I closed that account years ago.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:36:06 PM EDT] <KK> We'll just have to hope that Julianne still has them, then.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:36:19 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Jehana didn't give Kelson her red hair, but she did give him the potential to father red-haired babies.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:36:35 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> Or write something else entirely. But I'm rusty
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:37:27 PM EDT] <The_Bee> I have conversations with Kelson and Jehana, explainng about dominant vs recessive genes.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:38:46 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> Have they been receptive to the idea, Bee? 😉
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:40:00 PM EDT] <The_Bee> I think so, once I've explained the difference between inheritance and heredity.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:40:50 PM EDT] <The_Bee> They were confused about that at first.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:42:06 PM EDT] <KK> I think most peope would be.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:42:07 PM EDT] <Eris> <Jerusha2> Hi Everyone
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:42:14 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> Hi Jerusha
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:42:15 PM EDT] <KK> Hi, Jerusha.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:42:20 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Hi Jerusha
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:42:44 PM EDT] <derynifank> Hi Jerusha
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:42:48 PM EDT] Join TheDeryni (uid347357@Flirt.Storyteller.Wiseass) has joined this channel.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:42:48 PM EDT] Mode derynibot gives channel operator privileges to TheDeryni.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:43:03 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> Might cause quite a stir at Court if a little carrot topped Haldane appears
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:43:06 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Are you still having a heat wave?
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:43:07 PM EDT] <KK> Hello, TheDeryni.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:43:08 PM EDT] <Eris> <Jerusha2> Sorry to be late; dinner dishes needed to be tamed first
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:43:21 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> Hi TD
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:43:29 PM EDT] <Eris> <Jerusha2> Hi TD
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:43:32 PM EDT] <TheDeryni> Hello Katherine. Hi all!
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:43:38 PM EDT] <derynifank> Hi TD
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:44:03 PM EDT] <The_Bee> I'd be more suspicious if Richenda birthed a sable-haired child.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:44:09 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Hi TD
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:44:22 PM EDT] <bynw> Hi TD and Jerusha
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:44:37 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> You have wild dinner dishes, Jerusha?
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:44:41 PM EDT] <Eris> <Jerusha2> That could be interesting, Bee
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:44:41 PM EDT] <TheDeryni> 'ello Sire
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:45:04 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> has image of dishes having to be driven into the dishwasher
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:45:19 PM EDT] <Eris> <Jerusha2> Yes, they form a shield wall and challenge me to clean them all!
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:45:31 PM EDT] <derynifank> Need a herding dog to help
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:46:08 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> A Dish Collie
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:46:17 PM EDT] <Eris> <Jerusha2> They have been defeated
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:46:18 PM EDT] <derynifank> Exactly
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:46:29 PM EDT] <Eris> <Jerusha2> But I like the idea of a dish collei
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:46:36 PM EDT] <Eris> <Jerusha2> collie
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:47:43 PM EDT] <KK> I was going to volunteer Booker. He's half Entlebucher Mountain dog, which is a herding dog.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:48:04 PM EDT] <Eris> <Jerusha2> Why do I have an image of puppies licking plates before going into the dishwasher?
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:48:05 PM EDT] <KK> Booker was not a happy camper last night, with the thunder.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:48:27 PM EDT] <Eris> <Jerusha2> Oh dear
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:48:40 PM EDT] <KK> Why not? Their mouths are pretty clean, and the dishwasher sterilizes them.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:49:05 PM EDT] <Eris> <Jerusha2> It's a win-win solution
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:49:31 PM EDT] <derynifank> The dishes or the dog or both?
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:49:32 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Are Booker's scratches healing well?
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:49:56 PM EDT] <Eris> <Jerusha2> "I love you, mummy; can I lick the ice cream bowl?
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:50:30 PM EDT] <Eris> <Angsthase> ~~Let the veterinarian sterilise the dogs, please, not the dishwasher~~
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:50:40 PM EDT] <KK> He didn't have scratches, but his pulled muscles seem to be almost back to normal.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:51:01 PM EDT] <Eris> <Jerusha2> That's good
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:51:03 PM EDT] <derynifank> Glad he is healing
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:51:08 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Gus did THAT!?
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:51:18 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> Last weekend when we had all the Thunder the cats kept looking at me like "Make it stop!!"
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:52:38 PM EDT] <KK> No, the floor did it. Booker's rear end went out from under him when he was chasing Gus, and Mr. B went down hard. Could hardly walk for a while there.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:52:58 PM EDT] <The_Bee> OUCH!
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:53:10 PM EDT] <Eris> <Jerusha2> Oh dear
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:53:29 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Was Gus pleased?
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:53:39 PM EDT] <KK> The vet gave him anti-inflammatory and pain meds, which helped a lot.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:53:55 PM EDT] <KK> Gus was pleased not to be caught.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:54:32 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Do animals experience schadenfreud?
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:55:04 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> Poor Booker!
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:55:26 PM EDT] <KK> For a smart dog, he's pretty dumb about the cats. Gus was an adult when Puppy Booker came, so they should be pals, and usually are. But when he gets it in his mid to chase, Gus isn't sure if that's really play, or if it's danger.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:55:51 PM EDT] <KK> in his mind
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:56:27 PM EDT] <The_Bee> When we had a dog and a kitten, the kitty used to suckle on the dog's nipples.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:58:08 PM EDT] <KK> Kittens can suckle on a lot of things, if Mom isn't around.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:58:34 PM EDT] <The_Bee> like the buttons on a blouse.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [7:59:14 PM EDT] <KK> Or a blankie, or a finger.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [8:00:46 PM EDT] <KK> Well, guys, I'm going to check out. I ate before I came to chat, but I'm hungry again. Comes of not eating lunch, I suspect. See you next week.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [8:01:05 PM EDT] <bynw> thanks for stopping in tonight KK
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [8:01:15 PM EDT] * KK steps onto her Portal, waves goodnight, and disappears in a shower of green sparkles.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [8:01:16 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> Night, KK
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [8:01:18 PM EDT] <Eris> <Jerusha2> Nighters, KK! Hope you have a good week
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [8:01:25 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> Keep cool and have a good week
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [8:01:26 PM EDT] <derynifank> Have s good week KK. Hope no more floods. See you next week. Nite
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [8:01:31 PM EDT] <The_Bee> Bye, KK! Thanks for coming. Have a good week.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [8:01:32 PM EDT] <TheDeryni> Nighters, Katherine!
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [8:01:37 PM EDT] <Eris> <Shiral> Hope that Haldane infant stirs some stories!
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [8:01:45 PM EDT] <KK> You all stay cool and healthy and safe.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [8:01:53 PM EDT] <KK> Nighters.
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [8:01:58 PM EDT] <derynifank> You Too
[Sunday, August 23, 2020] [8:01:58 PM EDT] Quit KK has left this server (Quit: https://mibbit.com Online IRC Client).