KK Chat -- 29 June 2014 Part 1

[DesertRose]

[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:18:54 PM] Join KK has joined this channel.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:18:54 PM] <DomMelchior> And fantastical table utensiles :-)
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:19:00 PM] <Jerusha> Hi KK!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:19:01 PM] <DesertRose> And there's KK! Hi!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:19:06 PM] <Jemler> kk! the bascon worked!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:19:10 PM] <DomMelchior> Greetings KK
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:19:10 PM] <KK> Hello, all.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:19:12 PM] <Evie> hi KK
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:19:17 PM] <Shiral> And the ice cream too. Hello, KK
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:19:18 PM] <Evie> I almost said Hi Bacon....LOL
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:19:24 PM] <Jemler> bacon, sorry.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:19:30 PM] <DesertRose> We thought maybe you were tired of ice cream traps, so Shiral tried bacon, LOL.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:19:38 PM] <DesertRose> How are you this week, KK?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:19:57 PM] <Jerusha> It is warm enough here to be fried.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:20:07 PM] <KK> Good here.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:20:25 PM] <DesertRose> Oh hush, Jerusha. The only reason it didn't break 90F here today is that it stormed.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:20:29 PM] <DesertRose>
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:20:33 PM] <Jerusha> Any news on TKD?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:20:46 PM] <Jerusha> Our storms are coming, DR
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:20:51 PM] <Shiral> Was telling everyone that Dmitri has been supervising my latest art project by lying down and taking a nap on it
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:21:08 PM] <Jerusha> You built a flat house?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:21:13 PM] <DesertRose> We had a couple of good systems of thunderboomers (or two legs of the same system) roll over us today.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:21:18 PM] <Evie> We had a pleasant enough day. I think 82 was the high, but the cloud cover kept the heat down. I think most of the day was upper 70s, maybe?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:21:19 PM] <Shiral> It's flat for the moment, because I only started today
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:21:20 PM] <Jemler> storm coming herr, too.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:21:32 PM] <Jerusha> Ah, I see
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:21:32 PM] <DesertRose> Our high was 89.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:21:47 PM] <Shiral> It's warm here, but not as hot as Sacramento
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:21:55 PM] <KK> Received the copy-edited ms. last week, and am starting to work through it--after having a printer melt-down and having to replace that. (But the old one was 5 years old, so I suppose I shouldn't complain.)
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:21:56 PM] <Evie> Since we had our worship service outdoors today, I'm glad it wasn't in the 90s
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:22:01 PM] <Jerusha> We were 30+c
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:22:14 PM] <DesertRose> That's pretty warm, Jerusha.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:22:31 PM] <Jerusha> I love my air conditioning
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:22:47 PM] <DesertRose> Air conditioning is awesome.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:22:54 PM] <Jerusha> Let us know if you need help, KK
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:23:02 PM] <KK> How hot in Sacto, Shiral?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:23:21 PM] <Shiral> Melting printers make a terrible mess!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:23:33 PM] <Shiral> I believe it's in the 90's, KK
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:24:06 PM] <KK> Yuck! My poor sister!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:24:07 PM] <Shiral> Here's it's in the 80's but it's supposed to be hot here, this week.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:24:38 PM] <KK> Yeah, it was just over 80 here, but is supposed to go over 90 by Tuesday. Double-yuck!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:25:16 PM] <DesertRose> I'd kill for just over 80. We won't see that again during daylight hours until October.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:25:18 PM] <KK> But we've been lucky it hasn't gotten hotter sooner.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:25:19 PM] <Shiral> The nice thing about my new place is that it's much more comfortable in hot weather than my easy-bake oven of an apartment
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:25:27 PM] <DesertRose> Cool, Shiral.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:25:31 PM] <KK> And you have AC, no doubt.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:25:38 PM] <DesertRose> Yes, this is true.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:25:47 PM] <DesertRose> Not in my car, though, which sucks.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:25:55 PM] <Shiral> No. But I have good fans, and I have a new Tempurpedic bed as of yesterday
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:25:58 PM] <KK> No more flat cats.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:26:10 PM] <Jerusha> Nice, Shiral
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:26:14 PM] <Evie> I have a flat cat
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:26:19 PM] <Evie> he's flat under the desk lamp
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:26:20 PM] <KK> Shiral, no AC?!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:26:23 PM] <Shiral> Well...Semi-flat cats. They like the floors, downstairs. No carpets
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:26:30 PM] <Shiral> No.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:26:35 PM] <Evie> I can't imagine not having AC
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:26:52 PM] <Evie> it's practically necessary to survival here
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:27:03 PM] <DesertRose> Not having it in the car makes me avoid my car until the sun is down or close to it because the car is an oven.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:27:20 PM] <DesertRose> I really try hard not to go anywhere during the day in the summer.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:27:28 PM] <Shiral> Well, not strictly true, I guess. I inherited a room AC unit when I moved in. Evidently the painters had expressed interest in it, but since they didn't speak up, I got it. =o)
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:27:41 PM] <KK> All 3 of our cars have AC, thank GOd.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:27:52 PM] <Shiral> I don't run it all the time though--it's hard on the old utility bill, but when you need it, you need it
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:28:05 PM] <Shiral> Couldn't live without AC in my car
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:28:14 PM] <DomMelchior> I can remember when residential A/C was a fairly rare luxury...those "good ol' days" aren't as wonderful as some crack them up to be
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:28:18 PM] <DesertRose> My car has one, but it's dead. I think the compressor is shot, but it's been so long since it died, I don't really remember.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:28:47 PM] <Jerusha> I remember that, DM
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:29:14 PM] <DesertRose> When I was a kid out west, not everybody had AC in the house but everybody had a swamp cooler in the house.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:29:25 PM] <KK> I remember when we first got AC in our Florida house. What a blessed difference!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:29:27 PM] <Jerusha> Swamp cooler?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:29:28 PM] <DesertRose> Swamp cooling doesn't work on the east coast: too humid.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:29:45 PM] <Jemler> ice sitting in front of a FAN.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:30:00 PM] <DomMelchior> Evaporative cooler, Jerusha
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:30:03 PM] <DesertRose> It's a way of cooling the house. You open the windows and turn the swamp cooler and the fans on and it runs the air over cool water, so it humidifies the air and cools it at the same time.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:30:05 PM] <Shiral> I visited the Florida panhandle in August 2005. The only comfortable places were the water, and inside the house
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:30:21 PM] <Jerusha> Ah, I see
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:30:27 PM] <Dennis> The Miss already isn't enjoying the heat and we've only really gotten to 85 here.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:30:32 PM] <DesertRose> Which works beautifully in the desert (I'm talking about Arizona here).
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:30:43 PM] <DesertRose> Not so much on the Atlantic coast.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:30:48 PM] <DomMelchior> It only works well in a very dry climate
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:30:51 PM] <Shiral> No wonder the onset of summer made me want to make a Southern mansion.=o)
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:31:11 PM] <Dennis> Yeah. On the East Cost it's just a swamp maker.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:31:31 PM] <DesertRose> Of which we have enough in Florida.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:31:55 PM] <Shiral> Just imagine how hot it would be if you tried to wear Chain Mail in Florida
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:32:06 PM] <KK> So, are you going to do Tara next, Shiral?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:32:27 PM] <DesertRose> People in the SCA do it all the time, but mostly not in the summer. Trimaris goes dead, event-wise, from about Memorial Day to about Labor Day.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:32:30 PM] <Evie> the TV show about monastery farms showed how English dairies used evaporative cooling to cool their dairies down when preparing to make cheese.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:32:47 PM] <Shiral> Not exactly. Mom went to Charleston SC this spring though. Brought me back a book of photos of historic Charleston homes. So that's the new project
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:32:55 PM] <DesertRose> Yeah, I would guess cool moist air is a good thing when you're trying to make cheese.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:33:04 PM] <Jerusha> Looking forward to the result, Shiral
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:33:27 PM] <DesertRose> KK, I was totally geeking out about Shiral's Charleston project, because I more or less grew up there.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:33:38 PM] <Shiral> I do too, as soon as I can coax Dmitri not to take naps on the walls
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:33:48 PM] <DesertRose> LOL
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:34:16 PM] <DesertRose> Book!Tara is just a big farmhouse anyway. Movie!Tara was much fancier than the book version.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:34:20 PM] <Evie> They would pour water on the tiled floors (porous tiles, IIRC?) and then open up windows to allow a crossbreeze, and I think the dairy tended to be situated on a particular side of the house (north?), so all of those factors would cause the temperature in the dairy shed to drop.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:34:44 PM] <Dennis> If anyone needs me, I'll be in the dairy shed where it's cool.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:34:45 PM] <DesertRose> That's a cool idea, Evie (pun intended for once).
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:35:02 PM] <KK> They also used a lot of marble shelves to store dairy products, and probably to age them.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:35:02 PM] <Evie> The mental image of Dmitri napping on the walls, taken out of context, sounds very Escher-like
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:35:08 PM] <DesertRose> LOL
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:35:14 PM] <Shiral> He's being Cat zilla
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:35:23 PM] <DesertRose> Catzilla the Snoopervisor.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:35:32 PM] <Shiral> But really, all you need is extra strong Velcro
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:35:33 PM] <DesertRose> That's Dmitri's new name.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:35:47 PM] <DomMelchior> I seem to remember reading once the Queen Victoria had a hobby dairy built ar Windsor that had an evaporative cooler installed
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:35:51 PM] <Jerusha> To keep Dimitri on the walls?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:35:57 PM] <Shiral> Yes
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:36:11 PM] <Shiral> Although he's really much larger than the eventual house will be
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:36:25 PM] <DesertRose> LOL
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:36:30 PM] <Shiral> Hence the name Catzilla
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:36:32 PM] <KK> They had ice houses, too, where they'd put big blocks of ice that was cut in the winter, and layer it with straw, to keep it from melting too fast. We had one at Holybrooke, but it was pretty derelict by the time we were there.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:36:43 PM] <Jerusha> Instead of a cat in the window, you can paint one huge feline eyeball
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:37:04 PM] <DesertRose> Yeah, ice houses were a thing for a great many years. I remember reading about stocking the ice house in Farmer Boy (Laura Ingalls Wilder).
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:37:23 PM] <Evie> when the kids were younger and more hyper, we threatened to buy them both Velcro suits and line the walls and ceiling with Velcro, so if they got too active, we'd just toss them against the wall and let them stick there until they settle down.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:37:32 PM] <DesertRose> LOL, Evie.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:37:34 PM] <Evie> only they would have enjoyed that too much.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:37:35 PM] <Shiral> The Laura Ingalls Wilder books definitely show how damn hard EVERYBODY worked
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:37:39 PM] <DesertRose> Indeed.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:37:49 PM] <Dennis> David Letterman did that when his show was still on NBC.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:37:56 PM] <DesertRose> Being a child was no excuse for not busting your ass to help the family.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:37:57 PM] <Jerusha> Throw me again, Mom!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:38:22 PM] <Shiral> "You're too heavy now, honey.."
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:38:27 PM] <DesertRose> That Velcro concept is hilarious, Evie.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:38:49 PM] <Jerusha> "Just because I graduated from high school..."
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:38:51 PM] <Shiral> You just hope they don't land upside down...
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:39:00 PM] <Jemler> gives a whole meaning to the phrase "hanging around"
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:39:07 PM] <Shiral> LOL
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:39:19 PM] <Shiral> Maybe the littles need Velcro suits...
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:39:30 PM] <Shiral> Quite the fashion statement
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:39:42 PM] <Evie> When DH and I were in Orlando years ago, there was actually a place where you could put on a Velcro-strapped jumpsuit and get pitched against a Velcro lined inflatable dome wall, so you'd be suspended in the air, stuck to the wall, until they got you down.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:40:13 PM] <Evie> It was one of those "$5 to throw yourself against our wall" things.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:40:14 PM] <Shiral> Gee... NOTHING could go wrong!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:40:35 PM] <DesertRose> Yikes. I like silly rides and amusements but that's a bit much.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:40:37 PM] <Dennis> But so much could go right!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:40:56 PM] <Evie> I forget how many minutes the $5 paid for. 10-15, maybe?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:41:21 PM] <Evie> it was sort of like one of those inflatable bouncy-room domes for kid parties, only grown-up size.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:41:41 PM] <Jerusha> With my luck I would land upside down
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:41:50 PM] <DesertRose> LOL
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:41:53 PM] <Evie> That would be fine...you couldn't fall off!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:42:00 PM] <Evie> Though getting down might be awkward
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:42:03 PM] <Shiral> Down in the deep part of Rhemuth Castle, there's the unknown bouncy room...
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:42:08 PM] <Evie> LOL
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:42:11 PM] <DesertRose> ROFL
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:42:20 PM] <Jerusha>
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:42:26 PM] <Dennis> PAYNE! THAT'S NOT WHAT THAT ROOM IS FOR!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:42:37 PM] <Shiral> How hyperactive Haldane kids work off some energy
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:42:41 PM] <KK> Reminds me of those places in Vegas where you put on a flight suit and go into a padded room with giant air blowers at the bottom, and you float. Alwaus sounded like fun.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:42:45 PM] <Evie> I'm planning to make the Mini-Deryni a war tent or two, but I'm not planning on a bouncy room, sorry.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:42:58 PM] <Evie> YES! They had that in Orlando too!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:43:11 PM] <Evie> DH looked like a flying squirrel in his suit
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:43:11 PM] <DesertRose> LOL
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:43:17 PM] <Shiral> Well why not, if Helena can wear that very MODERN evening dress?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:43:35 PM] <Shiral> It does sound kind of fun. 10 minutes of Space Camp
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:43:36 PM] <Evie> Helena's getting a mermaid tail for next week's "Mermaids and Pirates" theme party
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:43:53 PM] <Jerusha> How ever will Duncan cope?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:43:59 PM] <Evie> at least if I can get it sewn in time
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:44:17 PM] <Shiral> By hiding his eyes in his cope
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:44:17 PM] <Evie> Duncan will be too blinded by his loud shirt to notice.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:44:26 PM] <DomMelchior> Duncan's a bishop...he'll go to the vestibule to cope
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:44:48 PM] <Jerusha> IIRC, you were allowed fish on fasting days.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:44:48 PM] <Evie> I could make him a merman costume. Or he could be a pirate.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:44:56 PM] <Shiral> And Alaric will think "Why does my cousin the priest get to go to all the FUN convetions?"
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:45:24 PM] <Evie> I could combine the themes--put him in the loud beachwear and give him some tiny "bootlegged" DVDs and CDs to go with the "pirate" theme. ;-)
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:45:36 PM] <Shiral> Snert!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:45:45 PM] <Jerusha> Or find a mini parrot for his shoulder
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:45:49 PM] * Shiral tosses a few baked goldfish at Evie for the pun
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:45:58 PM] <Evie> Because if Alaric had a head I could fit onto an action figure body easily, he'd get to do more fun things, but Kens don't stand as easily.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:46:03 PM] Join DF64 has joined this channel (Mibbit@4CA975.06D306.BECEE2.AC4E37).
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:46:13 PM] <Shiral> Hi DF
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:46:13 PM] <DF64> 12hi all
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:46:14 PM] <Jerusha> Hi DF64!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:46:15 PM] <Jemler> hi df
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:46:18 PM] <Evie> hi DF
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:46:20 PM] <Dennis> Hi, DF!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:46:28 PM] <DomMelchior> Hello DF
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:46:29 PM] <Jerusha> Alaric doesn't have an action body?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:46:35 PM] <DesertRose> Hi DF64!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:46:44 PM] <Dennis> Cardiel says he's not allowed to wear his action pants anymore.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:46:51 PM] <Shiral> So KK, do you think Alaric had any NON-sanctioned fun in his teens?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:47:02 PM] <Jerusha> So he doesn't get to wear pants???
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:47:20 PM] <DF64> 12probably not
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:47:36 PM] <Jerusha> Climbing that tree was probably not sanctioned
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:47:50 PM] <KK> Well, he loses his innocence in TKD...
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:47:51 PM] <Shiral> And Alaric was still only 8
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:48:01 PM] <Jerusha> Wait, what?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:48:32 PM] <Shiral> Well, good! =o) Since clearly he arrives at adulthood having been around the block more than once
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:48:57 PM] <Jemler> at 8!?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:49:08 PM] <Shiral> No, that was when he climbed the tree, Jemler
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:49:10 PM] <DesertRose> And apparently hasn't married until Richenda comes along, so he must have had some nonsanctioned fun.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:49:19 PM] <KK> It happens in Bremagne, when they go to court Jehana.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:49:33 PM] <Shiral> A full court press
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:49:39 PM] <Jerusha> Some poor lass will never be the same
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:49:44 PM] <DesertRose> LOL
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:49:50 PM] <DF64> 12:D
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:49:51 PM] <Evie> Alaric still has a Ken body (although it's articulated) because he has the older style Ken head that has to have the neck joint sawed off and modified to fit an action figure body, and I'm afraid of ruining him if I do that.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:50:15 PM] <Jerusha> Please, don't saw off Morgan's head!!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:50:21 PM] <Jemler> Evie von Frankenstein.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:50:25 PM] <Shiral> LOL
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:50:31 PM] <KK> It's his neck, Jerusha.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:50:49 PM] <Jerusha> Head still tends to fall off, though
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:50:51 PM] <Evie> If I can get a back-up copy of his head, I'll try modifying it to fit an action figure body, but until then, he stays as-is.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:51:17 PM] <Shiral> Alaric couldn't have survived without keeping his head
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:51:22 PM] <Shiral> =o)
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:51:22 PM] * Jerusha imagines Evie scanning Morgan's head into a computer
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:51:50 PM] <DesertRose> LOL
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:52:06 PM] <Evie> Can you see these shirts? https://www.flickr.com/gp/9573389@N08/654Axc
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:52:30 PM] <DesertRose> Cute, Evie.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:52:35 PM] <Jerusha> Very nice, Evie
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:52:36 PM] <Jemler> http://store.makerbot.com/digitizer
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:52:51 PM] <DF64> 12very nice shirts
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:52:54 PM] <Evie> I have more of the dragonflies fabric, so that's what the party shirt would be made from.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:53:01 PM] <Evie> I made those two for someone else.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:53:07 PM] <DesertRose> Cool.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:53:42 PM] <DesertRose> Very cool, Jemler.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:54:05 PM] <Shiral> "Interesting....cassock you're wearing today, Bishop McLain!"
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:54:35 PM] <Evie> He could wear the dickey with the clerical collar under it, but that would look pretty weird.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:54:47 PM] <KK> Ah, yes.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:54:59 PM] <DomMelchior> "It's to honor Our Lady of the Swamp."
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:55:04 PM] <Evie> I am making him another cope though, I think. I got some yummy green silk recently.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:55:07 PM] <Shiral> VERY odd, yes..
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:55:18 PM] <Jerusha> With a purple straw hat
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:55:43 PM] <Evie> it's a nice, subtle shade of green (similar to the gown I made for Richenda a while back), and I think it would make a lovely cope.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:55:43 PM] <DesertRose> Oh, nice, Evie.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:55:45 PM] <KK> A green cope will be lovely.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:56:02 PM] <DF64> 12green is my favorite color
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:56:06 PM] <Shiral> Would go well with McLain tartan
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:56:30 PM] <Evie> but I'm having fun practicing making the modern clothes for them since those are more likely to sell if I want to start making pocket money by selling action figure clothes.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:56:38 PM] <DesertRose>
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:56:45 PM] <Jerusha> Nice idea, Evie
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:56:52 PM] <DesertRose> Is the new sewing machine working out well?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:57:41 PM] <Evie> Yes, and no. For basic stuff it is working fine. And if I have regular thread in it, it does decorative stitches well. My attempt to do machine embroidery with gold thread was a disaster, even though the thread said it was meant for machine embroidery.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:57:58 PM] <DesertRose> Oh. Well, phooey.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:58:07 PM] <DF64> 12:(
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:58:15 PM] <DesertRose> Metallic thread is a pain anyway.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:58:16 PM] <Evie> it caused such a snarl, I had to take off the entire plate under the presser foot to cut out the tangled knot it made under there.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:58:21 PM] <KK> I think it's a matter of playing with the tension, to get it to embroider in gold. I always found that very fiddly.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:58:29 PM] <DF64> 12bad gold thread
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:58:32 PM] <Evie> and then getting the plate back on properly was a real pain.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:58:34 PM] <DesertRose> I did some cross stitching with gold metallic thread, and it was a complete PITA.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:58:57 PM] <DesertRose> Maybe it was silver, but it was definitely metallic thread.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:58:57 PM] <Jerusha> Gold thread is touchy
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:59:06 PM] <Evie> I followed the manual's directions for adjusting the tension, but it was still way off. I never did get it right with that thread.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:59:12 PM] <KK> I've dome x-stitch with gold thread, and with beads; no problem. But you have to pay attention, and not have a cat trying to help.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:59:13 PM] * Jemler hums the Eurythymics
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:59:36 PM] <DesertRose> Yeah, feline assistance not required.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:59:37 PM] <Evie> LOL! Yes, cat help makes things worse.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:59:40 PM] <Shiral> That wouldn't work at my place. Dmitri also supervises my sewing
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [07:59:53 PM] <Dennis> Missy-cat only wants to help.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:00:12 PM] <Jemler> Here comes the rain again...
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:00:17 PM] <Shiral> My sister got me into quilting this winter. Working on my second small quilt. Dmitri thinks the thread is the best toy he's ever seen
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:00:31 PM] <DesertRose> LOL
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:00:44 PM] <Jerusha> Hand sewing Shiral, or by machine?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:00:45 PM] <Evie> I was going to make Alaric a black leather belt with a gold Greek Key design running down it, but the sewing machine doesn't play nicely with combining the gold thread and the faux leather.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:00:59 PM] <Shiral> And he insists on resting across my chest and left shoulder while I work.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:01:05 PM] <DesertRose> Silly Dmitri.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:01:23 PM] * Jemler shuts up
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:01:29 PM] <Shiral> Hand quilting, Jerusha
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:01:36 PM] <Evie> https://flic.kr/p/o93u8s
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:01:50 PM] <Shiral> Wise of you, Jemler. Considering all the frozen fish I could lob at you. =o)
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:01:57 PM] <DomMelchior> Speaking of helpful animals, I gotta go feed the hound. G'Night all.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:02:04 PM] <Shiral> Night, Dom
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[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:02:13 PM] <Jerusha> Night, DM
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:02:24 PM] <Dennis> Is Nigel mustachioed? I never pictured him that way.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:02:32 PM] <Dennis> I know Brion had a beard in DR.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:02:40 PM] <Evie> I'm trying to decide whether to find some black fake fur so that I can cut off wisps of it to glue to Nigel's head for the illusion of real hair, but I kind of like the "silvery gray" look he's got already, and I don't think I could achieve that realistically with fake hair.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:02:43 PM] <Jerusha> Evie, it looks like the Iron Duke tried to slay the dragon, but the sword melted a bit
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:02:52 PM] <Evie> yes, he's described as having a mustache in the books
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:03:10 PM] <Dennis> Huh. Completely missed that.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:03:13 PM] <Evie> LOL! Yes, the sword came to me that way, but at least it looks good in the scabbard.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:03:17 PM] <Jerusha> Me too
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:03:20 PM] <KK> Yes, for facial hair for Nigel.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:03:43 PM] <Jerusha> Glad that Alaric bucked the trend
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:03:53 PM] <Dennis> Kelson is clean-shaven, though, right?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:04:03 PM] <Dennis> And Dhugal isn't.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:04:10 PM] <Evie> yes
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:04:12 PM] <DesertRose> I don't recall Kelson being described as wearing facial hair, but I could be mistaken.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:04:13 PM] <Shiral> Dhugal's got a mustache
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:04:27 PM] <Jerusha> A fine bushy red one
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:04:37 PM] <KK> I think that most men experiment with facial hair at various times in their lives.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:04:53 PM] <DesertRose> Probably. Some it looks good on and some not so much.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:05:01 PM] <Jerusha> DH does every winter. I look forward to spring.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:05:04 PM] <Evie> Of course, since my action figures live in a perpetual 1136, Kelson may or may not experiment with facial hair that year. ;-)
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:05:10 PM] <Shiral> My dad had a beard when I was little. Cleanshaven now, though
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:05:10 PM] <Jemler> i have a moustache. i can shave the beard, but i like the stache
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:05:20 PM] <Dennis> I did... just for the comedy value. Needless to say, I looked ridiculous.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:05:24 PM] <DesertRose> My stepdad looks really odd clean-shaven so he wears a full beard most of the time.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:05:33 PM] <DF64> 12i have a vandyke beard
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:05:34 PM] <Evie> DH has worn a beard for so long, he looks really strange to me when it's gone.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:05:51 PM] <Dennis> Oh, eleven thirty-six, it was a very good year. We were at peace...
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:05:53 PM] <Evie> but he keeps his neatly trimmed
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:05:53 PM] <DesertRose> Does DH wear a full beard, Evie?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:06:08 PM] <DesertRose> As opposed to a Van Dyke or something like that?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:06:19 PM] <Evie> it's a short beard, but yes, it's the full jaw
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:06:28 PM] <DesertRose> That was what I meant.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:06:32 PM] <Jerusha> Dick Van Dyke? (Sorry, I just had to)
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:06:39 PM] <DesertRose> My stepdad wears a full beard but he keeps it trimmed.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:07:25 PM] <DesertRose> No, a Van Dyke beard is the mustache and chin whiskers without the sides of the jawline covered.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:07:28 PM] <KK> I have never seen Scott without the mustache. The beard comes and goes, and the sideburns vary.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:07:32 PM] <Shiral> Does Brion have a Full beard, or more of a Van Dyk look?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:07:41 PM] <Evie> DS was going to try No Shave November last year, but once his girlfriend saw the scraggly stuff on his chin, off it came.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:07:52 PM] <Jerusha> I thought it was a close clipped, full beard
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:07:54 PM] <DesertRose> LOL
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:08:11 PM] <Shiral> Yeah, when teenagers try to grow a beard, the results aren't necessarily good
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:08:12 PM] <Jerusha>
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:08:15 PM] <KK> Full beard, but close-trimmed, at least in maturity. I think he's still clean-shaven in TKD.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:08:28 PM] <DF64> 12girlfriend prefers a clean shaven DS
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:08:44 PM] <DesertRose> A lot of people seem to call a Van Dyke a goatee, but if you want to be pedantic, a goatee is the chin whiskers without the mustache.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:08:52 PM] <Shiral> A neat, well kept beard can look very nice, I think
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:09:01 PM] <Evie> DH's first attempt at a beard was at age 19, and his friends teased him mercilessly until he shaved it off, but he grew it back at age 26 while on vacation, and that time it looked so good, he decided to keep it.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:09:11 PM] <Dennis> I did not know that. My hilarious attempt at facial hair was a Van Dyke.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:09:15 PM] <Jemler> ilook like i got an afro on my chin!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:09:21 PM] <Shiral> I don't get the appeal of the beard without a mustache look--way too Amish, for me!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:09:25 PM] <KK> DR, I think that kid of beard just looks silly.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:09:28 PM] <KK> kind
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:09:30 PM] <DesertRose> What, the goatee?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:09:32 PM] <Jerusha> Two DSs have beards; quite good ones, actually
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:09:34 PM] <KK> Yes.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:09:52 PM] <Jemler> abe lincoln
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:09:55 PM] <DesertRose> My daughter's youth minister wears a goatee, and it actually works on him for some odd reason, but on a lot of men, a goatee looks ridiculous.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:10:17 PM] <Shiral> Mustaches without beards work better in general. and a mustache WITH a beard looks better to my eyes.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:10:20 PM] <Evie> I had a great-great-something-grandfather who had the full beard and no mustache. He looked like a lion in the photo I've got of him and his wife.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:10:29 PM] <DesertRose> LOL
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:10:47 PM] <Shiral> Did Prince Richard Haldane have a beard?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:11:03 PM] <DF64> 12bob denver had a goatee on dobey gillis
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:11:23 PM] <KK> Yes, Richard has a beard.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:11:30 PM] <Shiral> Ah, good
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:11:33 PM] <Jerusha> Close clipped?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:11:36 PM] <Jemler> eugene krebbs, wasn't it?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:11:38 PM] <KK> Yes.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:11:49 PM] <DF64> 12maynard g krebs
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:12:00 PM] <Jemler> right.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:12:13 PM] <Jemler> ty df
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:12:35 PM] <DF64> 12?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:12:43 PM] <Evie> KK, I made another try on a zucchetto for Duncan. It's a bit too pointed on top, but at least it's not a purple pancake anymore.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:12:47 PM] <Jemler> thank you
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:12:50 PM] <Evie> https://flic.kr/p/o6DwtX
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:12:52 PM] * DesertRose giggles at Evie.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:13:23 PM] <Shiral> Why am I suddenly thinking "Papal Pancakes."?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:13:26 PM] <Jemler> zucchetto? didn't he make pinnocchio?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:13:29 PM] <DesertRose> ROFL
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:13:36 PM] <Evie> Purple Papal Pancakes
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:13:37 PM] <KK> Yes, I saw that, Evie. Much better!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:13:43 PM] <Jemler> thunder here
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:13:44 PM] <DesertRose> That's Geppetto, Jemler
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:13:58 PM] <DesertRose> I might have misspelled that.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:14:01 PM] <Jemler> i know. once upon a time fan.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:14:02 PM] <Jerusha> Close, though
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:14:44 PM] <Dennis> No, a zucchetto is a musical instrument, right?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:14:53 PM] <Dennis> I(j/k)
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:15:03 PM] <Evie> It's a vegetable. ;-)
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:15:08 PM] <DesertRose> LOL
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:15:13 PM] <Jerusha> Zucchetto bread
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:15:36 PM] <Shiral> while a Zeppole is a deep fried delicious little thing you can get in Venice around the Feast of St. Joseph
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:15:41 PM] <Evie> We had an SCA Game Night last week. https://flic.kr/p/nPtni4
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:16:02 PM] <DesertRose> Cute, Evie.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:16:26 PM] <Jerusha> Were the SCA members scandalized at Helena's modern gown?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:16:33 PM] <DesertRose> I've started having an actual game night, usually on Fridays.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:16:33 PM] <Evie> I need to find something to make game board counters. I had some beads, but they were too tiny.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:16:51 PM] <Jemler> who's the guy in the purple yarmulke?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:16:52 PM] <Shiral> For Helena's sake, I'm glad it's not strip poker. Maybe glad for Duncan's sake, too
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:16:54 PM] <Jerusha> How about seed beads, Evie?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:16:55 PM] <DesertRose> LOL
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:16:58 PM] <Evie> Naah. We were mostly in modern dress; it's Duncan who looked out of place.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:17:14 PM] <Evie> Duncan, and that's the zucchetto
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:17:52 PM] <Evie> seed beads were too small, but maybe larger ones would work. I really want to find tiny polished pebbles in two or more colors.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:18:22 PM] <Evie> or maybe flat round beads in two colors to make counters something like checkers
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:19:03 PM] * Shiral drops pin
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:19:09 PM] <Shiral> CLANG!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:19:13 PM] <DesertRose> LOL
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:19:13 PM] <Jemler> tiddly-winks?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:19:47 PM] <Jemler> heat them up a little, you might be able to punch holes in them.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:19:53 PM] <Dennis> Um, Shiral? You're supposed to get rid of the grenade.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:19:54 PM] <KK> I'm not sure tiddly-winks would work with natural materials. Don't you have to have plastic?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:20:30 PM] <KK> How about sequins, painted in to fill in the holes--for checkers-type ocunters.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:20:34 PM] <Evie> Hm...don't have any, jemler, but it occurs to me that my meltable Friendly Plastic comes in pellet form, and the pellets are the right size and could be painted to look like real polished stones.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:20:43 PM] <DesertRose> That might work.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:20:43 PM] <Shiral> Well, I did, Dennis! I threw it away.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:21:14 PM] <Shiral> Fell down, went boom!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:21:18 PM] <DesertRose> LOL
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:21:23 PM] <Dennis> Oh, okay. I only saw the bit about the pin.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:21:25 PM] <Jemler> those 3-d printers use meltable plastic for printing. brb
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:21:42 PM] <Evie> I already have some. It's what I used to make Rhys's surgical instruments
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:22:05 PM] <DesertRose> Well, then, it sounds like it's worth a shot, Evie.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:22:34 PM] <Evie> It's this stuff: https://flic.kr/p/nDv69g But it comes in gravel-sized pellets before it's melted.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:22:48 PM] <Evie> so I could just not melt them, and paint them to look like colored stones instead.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:22:52 PM] <DesertRose> Cool.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:22:52 PM] <Evie> maybe marble
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:23:02 PM] <DesertRose> that would be some fiddly painting.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:23:03 PM] <Jemler> http://store.makerbot.com/dissolvable-filament
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:23:05 PM] <Jerusha> That could work
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:24:18 PM] <Evie> 3D printers and a link to "makerbot" reminds me...DH had his second job interview this week, and he's the top candidate for the position, but they have to interview one more person before they offer the job to anyone.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:24:28 PM] <Evie> So we are guardedly hopeful.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:24:29 PM] <KK> Of course, if they're too small, they'd be hard to handle. One cat-sneeze, and it's game-over!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:24:40 PM] <DesertRose> Oh nice, Evie.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:24:49 PM] * DesertRose crosses her fingers for Evie's DH.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:25:10 PM] <Evie> The plastic "pebbles" are heavier than the tiny seed beads I've been using, and I don't normally set up the game boards with the cats around, so that's less of a worry.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:25:14 PM] <KK> Goof luck to Evie's DH.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:25:30 PM] <Evie> The goof appreciates it. ;-)
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:25:35 PM] <DesertRose> ROFL
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:25:44 PM] <Jerusha> Yes, good luck to Evie's DH!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:26:31 PM] <Shiral> The world could use more goof luck, I think
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:26:33 PM] <Shiral> =o)
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:26:50 PM] <KK> Hey, that's protection against goofs!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:26:55 PM] <DesertRose> LOL
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:27:07 PM] <Shiral> When you goof up, and it still turns out okay!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:27:17 PM] <DesertRose> Hee!
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[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:28:15 PM] <Jerusha> I totally missed that. *sigh*
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:28:17 PM] <DesertRose> We lost DF.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:28:27 PM] <Evie> The business owner wasn't able to stay long for the first interview due to a previous commitment, but he was already scheduled to be in town here for a science fiction convention panel, so he and DH met again for dinner the night before the con, and that went well.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:28:30 PM] <Dennis> Anti-goof discrimination! I'm a goof, and no one needs to be protected from me!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:28:48 PM] <DesertRose> Cool, Evie.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:28:51 PM] <Shiral> A business owner who likes SF! That's a good sign
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:28:53 PM] <Evie> So keeping fingers crossed. It's hard to type with fingers crossed.... ;-)
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:28:56 PM] <Jerusha> What kind of job is it, Evie, if you can say
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:28:56 PM] <DesertRose> LOL
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:29:07 PM] <Dennis> Makes it easier to fat-finger.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:29:37 PM] <Evie> Yeah, DH wore a Star Trek tie to the interview, and it went over very well. (It's that sort of an environment, and also in the heart of Geek Central...I mean, Huntsville, AL.)
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:29:54 PM] <Jemler> Space Camp?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:29:59 PM] <DesertRose> I lived in Huntsville briefly.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:30:04 PM] <DesertRose> It's a nice little city.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:30:09 PM] <Evie> (aka home of the NASA Space and Rocket Center, Space Camp, and more engineers and rocket scientists than you can shake a stick at.)
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:30:28 PM] <Shiral> Hope DH gets the nod!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:30:43 PM] <Evie> I hope so too, even though it means I'd only see him three days a week.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:30:53 PM] <Jemler> Have him do the Vulcan salute.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:30:53 PM] <Jerusha> Bummer on that score
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:31:06 PM] <DesertRose> Why would you only see him three days a week? Huntsville isn't THAT far from Birmingham, as I recall?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:31:20 PM] <Jerusha> But you can retire soon, right?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:31:27 PM] <Evie> It's an hour and a half from the suburb where I live, so a bit far for a daily commute.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:31:43 PM] <DesertRose> Oh, yeah, that is a bit of a haul with gas prices as they are.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:31:46 PM] <Evie> yes, I'm eligible to retire with full benefits in exactly two years.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:31:57 PM] <Evie> which is also when DD graduates from high school.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:31:57 PM] <Jerusha> People do that in Toronto all the time, to be able to live outside the city
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:32:12 PM] <Shiral> Yeah, that sounds tough without a jet pack
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:32:26 PM] <DesertRose> So what would he do, get a small apartment in Huntsville or rent a room or something?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:32:27 PM] <Shiral> Commutes around here can be ugly
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:32:32 PM] <KK> I was just gonna say, with a kid in college and another still to go, you do need to protect your finances.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:32:34 PM] <Evie> but DH has already been told that if he's hired, he could work a long day on Monday through Thursday and have three day weekends.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:32:36 PM] <Jerusha> Which is why I don't live in Toronto
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:32:46 PM] <DesertRose> Oh nice, Evie.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:32:55 PM] <Jerusha> That would be good
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:33:21 PM] <Evie> yes, probably either a small apartment, or a tiny home on a trailer (which would be great for vacations, actually)
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:33:31 PM] <DesertRose> LOL
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:34:08 PM] <KK> Is he an engineer?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:34:14 PM] <DesertRose> My stepdad lived briefly in a travel trailer when he first got the job he retired from at Kings Bay because Mom hadn't gotten a job down here and they hadn't sold the house in Charleston yet.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:34:59 PM] <Evie> and I just saw the question about the business. It's basically a maker-space sort of company, with a community education component, and also a for-hire component where they can be hired to use their equipment to make prototypes of things people invent and need built.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:35:15 PM] <DesertRose> Oh cool.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:35:20 PM] <DesertRose> That actually sounds like a fun place to work.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:35:40 PM] <DesertRose> Speaking of jobs, my new one gets started in earnest tomorrow.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:35:48 PM] <Jerusha> I didn't know there were such things
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:35:48 PM] <Shiral> And a fun place to mess around. =o)
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:35:57 PM] <Shiral> Hooray, DR!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:36:00 PM] <DesertRose> I've been playing with the proprietary software for the last week learning to use it.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:36:05 PM] <Jerusha> Great, DR
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:36:06 PM] <KK> So, he'd be making neat-shit!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:36:11 PM] <Evie> No. He has a bachelor's degree in Technology Education (i.e., he has metalworking, woodworking, and some electronics knowledge), and an MBA in Business Development, plus lots of experience in paralegal work and writing/approving grants.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:36:13 PM] <DesertRose> ROFL, KK.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:36:20 PM] <Evie> LOL! Yes, KK.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:36:28 PM] <Evie> Cool, DR!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:36:42 PM] <KK> Sounds like a cool job. Hope he gets it.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:36:42 PM] <DesertRose>
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:37:28 PM] <Evie> Jerusha, the maker-space concept is basically like a co-op in which members pay a fee to join, and they have access to the equipment owned by the co-op, so no one person has to pay for very pricey equipment.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:37:45 PM] <Evie> And a lot of cities have started up maker-spaces, but this company takes the idea a bit further.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:38:00 PM] <Shiral> We have TechShop San Jose in my area.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:38:01 PM] <Jerusha> Ah, I see.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:38:33 PM] <Shiral> Membership ain't cheap, but you get access to a lot of equipment you don't have to personally buy and store yourself
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:38:59 PM] <Jerusha> Especially good if you are not sure how the concept is going to turn out
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:39:18 PM] <Evie> So an individual might not be able to pay a few thousand dollars for a high quality 3D printer, for instance, but he could join a maker-space coop and have use of the one there, or else just pay someone there to make his item according to the specs he provides. Or hire them to create those specs, even.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:39:25 PM] <Shiral> You can fine tune your prototype
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:39:56 PM] <Shiral> I think it's a cool idea
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:40:05 PM] <Evie> and depending on the particular co-op, other equipment is available...metalworking equipment, woodworking tools, sewing machines, computers, etc.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:40:22 PM] <Evie> the more computer/electronic co-ops are sometimes called hackerspaces.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:40:55 PM] <Evie> Birmingham area has one or two such groups trying to get started, but they are very much in the fledgling stage, I think.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:41:15 PM] <DesertRose> It kind of makes sense that Huntsville would have something like that.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:41:23 PM] <DesertRose> It is Geek Central.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:41:29 PM] <Evie> yes, exactly.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:41:36 PM] <Jerusha> My jewelry instructor tried to do a similar concept with a jeweler's studio, but unfortunately she got sick and the idea folded. Much smaller in scale, but similar concpet
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:41:41 PM] <Jerusha> concept, I meant
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:41:55 PM] <Evie> Yes. I've heard of shared art studios and such.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:42:26 PM] <Shiral> Sounds like a win-win, to me. Although it's unfortunate your friend got sick
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:42:28 PM] <Evie> My Dutch e-pal says those are available in Europe, but if they have the maker-space concept there yet, he's not heard of it.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:42:56 PM] <Evie> now if there were an action figure crafting co-op.... ;-)
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:43:00 PM] <DesertRose> LOL
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:43:11 PM] <DesertRose> Is KK still there?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:43:14 PM] <Jerusha> very unfortunate. It was her second career and she had so much potential
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:43:23 PM] <Shiral> Evie would be happy. And think of all the doll heads on stakes!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:43:31 PM] <Evie> Although when I was in TN last week, I met a woman who said she saw me and the Mini-Deryni at an SCA event last year, and it got her started on doing doll costumes too!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:43:34 PM] <KK> Ah, but you know that figuring out how to do these things is half the fun, Evie....
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:43:49 PM] <Evie> yes, but it would help to be able to split costs on materials!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:43:58 PM] <KK> True enough.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:44:00 PM] <Jerusha> Evie likes playing for high stakes!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:44:02 PM] <Shiral> That's definitely true of building mini-houses. I like to learn a new skill each time
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:44:05 PM] <DesertRose> Well, it would be cool to be able to get custom-made bodies and head sculpts without paying a major fortune for them.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:44:34 PM] <DesertRose> Especially if you could trade, say, clothing or accessories for the bodies and head sculpts.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:44:42 PM] <Evie> or to be able to barter items with someone else with different specialities. I can't afford to buy loads of polymer clay in lots of colors, for instance, so I haven't gotten into making miniature food, but it's nice to be able to make little clothes to trade for little food.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:44:45 PM] <Jerusha> Plus it can be nice to have a co-op environment to work within
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:44:55 PM] <DesertRose> Indeed, Jerusha.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:45:13 PM] <KK> Yes, you've gotten some neat food that way.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:45:13 PM] <Shiral> "Will trade tiny clothes for tiny food."
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:45:18 PM] <DesertRose> LOL, yes.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:45:38 PM] <Shiral> People interested in the same problems to bounce ideas off of
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:45:42 PM] <DesertRose> Yes.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:45:49 PM] <Evie> In addition to the medieval feast, she threw in some modern food samples. I have itteh bitteh eclairs and hot cocoa, some doughnuts, etc.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:45:58 PM] <Jerusha> And new design ideas
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:45:59 PM] <DesertRose> Or people who might have solved the problem you're wrestling with now.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:46:12 PM] <DesertRose> Then you don't have to reinvent the wheel.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:46:18 PM] <Evie> or even swap fabric scraps with
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:46:23 PM] <DesertRose> Yup.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:46:29 PM] <Jerusha> I can see Dhugal eyeing the mini-doughnuts
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:46:38 PM] <Evie> There's a limit to how many outfits I want to cut out of one yard of fabric, but someone else might be able to use what's left over.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:46:42 PM] <Shiral> I see him more as an eclair kind of guy
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:46:45 PM] <DesertRose> Exactly.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:47:47 PM] <KK> Have you looked at fat quarters, for smaller amounts of fabric? Most of it is tiny prints, for quilting, but I'm sure they must have some that would be suitable for medieval clothing.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:48:05 PM] <Evie> yes, I often buy those
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:48:17 PM] Join deryni_guest_8814 has joined this channel (Mibbit@OWIRCN-44259e73.ma.comcast.net).
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:48:19 PM] <Shiral> Fat quarters, strips, they're gold
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:48:22 PM] <Jemler> hi bee
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:48:25 PM] <Jerusha> Bee?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:48:27 PM] <Shiral> Hello Bee
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:48:29 PM] <DesertRose> Hi Bee.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:48:41 PM] <Evie> in fact, the fabric I'm making the mermaid tail out of is from a fat quarter
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:48:51 PM] <KK> That <is> Bee, isn't it?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:49:01 PM] <deryni_guest_8814> Hi Jemler. I I've been trying to get into chat for nearly TWO HOURS!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:49:06 PM] <DesertRose> From the hostmask, I think so, yes.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:49:08 PM] <Jemler> .ma.comcast in the code.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:49:10 PM] <Evie> I couldn't find spandex, but I found some lovely cotton aqua fabric with a "scales" print.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:49:11 PM] Nick deryni_guest_8814 is now known as The.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:49:17 PM] <Jemler> hi the
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:49:25 PM] <Jerusha> Hi The!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:49:25 PM] <Evie> hi Bee
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:49:34 PM] <KK> Hi, Bee.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:49:44 PM] <DesertRose> Oh cute, Evie.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:49:57 PM] Nick The is now known as The_Bee.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:50:05 PM] <Evie> btw, I may be leaving chat in a few minutes. my MIL is on her way back to FL so she can get her house shuttered up before a hurricane (I think that's what DH just said?)
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:50:08 PM] <KK> Yay, success!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:50:09 PM] <Jerusha> Welcome, Bee!
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:50:14 PM] <DesertRose> What?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:50:18 PM] <DesertRose> What part of Florida?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:50:22 PM] <Evie> Sebring
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:50:27 PM] <Jerusha> What hurricane?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:50:30 PM] <Evie> Highlands County
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:50:35 PM] <Evie> dunno
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:50:36 PM] <The_Bee> Which hurricane is this?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:50:43 PM] <KK> Yike, is it really going to hit the ocast with hurricane-force winds?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:50:49 PM] <Evie> DH just told me that's what she's just told him.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:50:56 PM] <Jemler> highlands in florida? they have a lot of anthills or something?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:50:57 PM] <DesertRose> Oh CRAP.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:51:18 PM] <Evie> No clue, KK. It's my MIL; it could be a classic case of The Sky is Falling.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:51:18 PM] <DesertRose> There is a tropical system that isn't quite a tropical depression right off the coast.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:51:26 PM] <Jerusha> There was nothing on the radar this morning, but that doesn't mean there isn't anything there now
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:51:30 PM] <Evie> Then maybe that's what she's worrying about.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:51:59 PM] <The_Bee> that the sky will fall?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:52:18 PM] <Evie> LOL! Well, in liquid form, anyway
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:52:22 PM] <Evie> at high velocity.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:52:34 PM] <KK> Nothing showing on Weatherbug. Could be a tropical depression, though. It's a bit early for a serious hurricane.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:52:53 PM] <Jemler> maybe it's a himmacane?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:52:59 PM] <Shiral> "I'm in the tropics, the sky will fall and I'm so depressed!"
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:53:00 PM] <Evie> As I said, it might only be a serious threat in her mind. But for whatever reason, she's hurrying to get home.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:53:01 PM] <DesertRose> It's not even a tropical depression, just a slightly rotating low pressure system.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:53:12 PM] <DesertRose> It's not going to do anything except maybe make some rain and thunderstorms, I'd bet.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:53:35 PM] <Evie> Most people flee FL before a hurricane, not run to it.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:53:55 PM] <Shiral> Sensible, of them
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:54:21 PM] <DesertRose> It's not going to turn into a hurricane unless conditions change pretty dramatically, really.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:54:27 PM] <DesertRose> And that's rare this early in the season.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:54:28 PM] <Dennis> I understand there's a lot of hunkering done, too.
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:55:11 PM] <The_Bee> Are we getting more hurricanes lately, or have they lowered the standards for naming storms?
[Sunday, June 29, 2014] [08:55:23 PM] <DesertRose> We're getting more hurricanes.