KK Chat -- 15 December 2019

[DesertRose]

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[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:07:44 PM EST] <KK> Hello, all.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:08:12 PM EST] <KK> Anybody here and watching?
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:08:25 PM EST] <bynw> hi KK
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:08:35 PM EST] <KK> Hello.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:08:35 PM EST] * bynw is here and watching
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:08:54 PM EST] <KK> I guess folk are busy with Christmas preparations.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:09:01 PM EST] <bynw> how are you this evening?
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:09:24 PM EST] <KK> Hanging in there. Got a lot done this past week.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:09:24 PM EST] <bynw> they very well could be ... i think DesertRose said she was doing some housework
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:12:20 PM EST] <bynw> its weird that the regulars aren't here tonight
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:13:03 PM EST] <KK> Well, I can't stick around if everyone else is otherwise engaged. And I doubt I'll be here next week, because my new house sitter is coming that evening and I've promised to take her to dinner.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:13:48 PM EST] <KK> And I leave early the next morning for Cameron and Anna's.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:14:03 PM EST] <bynw> lots of stuff to do for Christmas I'm sure
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:14:10 PM EST] <bynw> are you driving to OK or flying?
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:14:13 PM EST] <KK> I hope the weather doesn't nail me passing through Chicago.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:14:23 PM EST] <KK> Definitely flying.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:15:14 PM EST] <bynw> it's warmer there isnt it in OK
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:15:39 PM EST] <KK> I spoke to Cameron earlier today. He said it's quite cold.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:17:03 PM EST] <bynw> it's good that you get to spend Chrismas with Cameron and Anna
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:18:22 PM EST] <KK> Yeah, it will be good to see them--and not to be alone at Christmas, especially this year.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:20:48 PM EST] Join Bee (Bee@owirc-5dd.arb.61.73.IP) has joined this channel.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:21:15 PM EST] <Bee> Hello everyone
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:21:20 PM EST] <KK> It's been nearly 40 years since I've not been with Scott at Christmas.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:21:27 PM EST] <KK> Hi, Bee.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:22:00 PM EST] <Bee> Hi KK. it must be hard not having him there.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:22:09 PM EST] <bynw> yeah it will be good for you to be with family
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:22:38 PM EST] <KK> Yeah, well it makes present buying easier. He was hard to buy for sometimes.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:23:36 PM EST] <Bee> small consolation
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:23:59 PM EST] <DesertRose> Hi KK and Bee.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:24:10 PM EST] <Bee> Hi DR
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:24:20 PM EST] <DesertRose> Sorry, I was downstairs putting laundry in the washer, which is the last of the housework I'm planning to do today.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:25:00 PM EST] <KK> And it's sad how things keep popping up that would have been perfect for him, or for Mother. For example, there's a train ride that goes some disance out from Las Vegas for the evening, to where there's no light pollution, and you get to look at the stars with astronomer-types. Then back to the station, whre one can spend the night. She would have loved it.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:25:09 PM EST] <Bee> We had a carol sing at an old folks home my church is involved with.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:25:31 PM EST] <DesertRose> Yeah, those "if only I could do this with [person] or talk to them about [thing]" is rough.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:25:47 PM EST] <KK> Yep, one of the hardest parts.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:25:57 PM EST] <DesertRose> *moments should have been between the close quotation marks and "is."
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:26:05 PM EST] <bynw> that would be a nice train ride ... so few get to see the stars at night
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:27:03 PM EST] <DesertRose> That was a thing we used to do at SCA events before the NFS decided to reclaim 4H Camp Ocala (which was our kingdom event site for a good decade). Since it was in the middle of Ocala National Forest, it was miles from most artificial light, and the stargazing was A+.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:27:17 PM EST] <bynw> i know that feeling myself when something strikes me that someone that i miss would have liked
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:27:20 PM EST] <KK> When I crossed the couintry on Amtrak with Mother, several times, you could go in the observation car while the train was barreling through the vast deserts in the middle of the country. LOTS of stars. s
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:27:40 PM EST] <DesertRose> And train travel can be fun.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:27:58 PM EST] <KK> Loove train travel.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:28:00 PM EST] <Bee> I used to love looking at the stars, but I can't see them with city lights.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:29:10 PM EST] <Bee> It was fun to try to identify the constellations. One summer we saw a comet.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:29:31 PM EST] <KK> We have pretty dark skies here in Staunton, as soon as you get only a few miles out of town.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:30:04 PM EST] <KK> We saw the comet when we lived at Holybrooke, I think it was in the 90's.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:30:29 PM EST] <Bee> Mine was in the 60's.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:30:52 PM EST] <KK> And we saw a spectacular lunar eclipse, too.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:31:53 PM EST] <Bee> My uncle, who was an astronomy enthusiast, said if we could recall when we saw the comet, he could have told us which comet it was.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:32:15 PM EST] <DesertRose> I took the train to Charleston back in May when a series of events converged to mean that I got my present car. (Basically, a problem we thought had been fixed with my last car flared back up, and my cousin had bought himself a newer car so my uncle "sold" my cousin's car to my parents, who in turn "sold" it to me.)
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:32:28 PM EST] <KK> It was the biggie that came through.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:32:38 PM EST] <DesertRose> Halley's? That was the mid 80's.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:33:07 PM EST] <KK> When I go down to Atlanta, probably in the spring, I'm thinking to take the train. Haven't been through that part of the country on train.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:33:57 PM EST] <KK> Going to scatter my mom's ashes at Stone Mountain, which she loved as a girl.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:34:11 PM EST] <bynw> that's awesome
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:34:49 PM EST] <KK> It's a heck of a lot closer than NY or San Francisco.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:35:15 PM EST] <Bee> We scattered my dad's ashes off the coast of Star Island, where he and mom used to go.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:36:23 PM EST] <KK> Mother scattered her brother's ashes down in the Keys, at his favorite fishing hole. His old fishing buddy took them on his boat. I think it meant a lot to her.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:36:54 PM EST] <Bee> Was Scott cremated?
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:36:58 PM EST] <KK> Yes.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:37:15 PM EST] <Bee> Where did you scatter his ashes?
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:37:56 PM EST] <DesertRose> We scattered my grandmother's ashes at the Folly Beach fishing pier, which occupies the same beachfront real estate that used to be the old Folly Beach Pavilion, and my grandmother spent a lot of evenings in her younger years going dancing at the Pavilion.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:38:24 PM EST] <KK> Haven't yet. He wanted them to go to the Pioneer Cemetery in Spokane, WA, where he had family connections.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:38:36 PM EST] <DesertRose> She had specifically instructed us to do that, because she was very pragmatic when she received the leukemia diagnosis.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:40:11 PM EST] <KK> Not that any of that matterss to the persons ashes that are being scattered. They're beyond caring about it.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:40:31 PM EST] <Bee> I've thought of bequeathing my body to science or a teaching hospital.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:41:49 PM EST] <Bee> BRB. Melantha wants attention.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:41:57 PM EST] <DesertRose> True. Funerals et al are for the living.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:41:58 PM EST] <KK> Still, out of respect for the body that was the temple of the person's soul, it should be done with intent.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:42:07 PM EST] <KK> Yes, DR.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:46:27 PM EST] <KK> Well, enough of this talk of ashes. It's Christmastime, and all of us have Thigs To Do.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:46:31 PM EST] <KK> Things
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:47:14 PM EST] <bynw> yep
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:47:53 PM EST] <Bee> I've asked for my siblings' wish lists. Two of them want donations to charities.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:47:54 PM EST] <Eris> <Forum Bot> @DoctorM wrote a new post Re: Season of the Sword (part 6 ) - A Revision - https://www.rhemuthcastle.com/index.php?topic=2518.msg=23499 on DoctorM's FanFic board
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:48:34 PM EST] <KK> I'll say goodnight, then. Probably won't be here next week, as I have to take my new house-sitter to dinenr, but I'll be here in two weeks, definitely.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:48:37 PM EST] <Bee> The Bot chats?
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:49:16 PM EST] <bynw> Eris relays everything that happens here to Discord and everything that happens on Discord to here
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:49:36 PM EST] <Bee> Thanks for comingKK. Have a good Christmas and cherish the family and friends you have.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:49:41 PM EST] <bynw> night KK thanks for dropping by
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:49:51 PM EST] <bynw> we will see you in a couple of weeks!
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:50:28 PM EST] <KK> Have a wonderful Christmas, all, and I'll see you on the 29th.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:50:38 PM EST] <bynw> ok! you as well
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:51:01 PM EST] * KK steps onto her Portal, waves goodnight, and disappears in a shower of green sparkles.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:51:19 PM EST] <KK> Nighters.
[Sunday, December 15, 2019] [7:51:24 PM EST] Quit KK has left this server (Quit: CGI:IRC).