Click Here to Return to Index<\/a><\/p>\n Here Begins The Discussion Log DavidWrightSr: Now it’s working<\/p>\n ddavitt: great<\/p>\n ddavitt: so; good news on Connie<\/p>\n DavidWrightSr: I haven’t heard back from her on getting set up. I expect I will sometime soon.<\/p>\n djindalian has entered the room.<\/p>\n DavidWrightSr: A newcomer?<\/p>\n ddavitt: Sure; or she is doing it on her own<\/p>\n ddavitt: Hi there.<\/p>\n DavidWrightSr: Hi. djin<\/p>\n djindalian: Sorta its djinn\/dave hi y’all<\/p>\n ddavitt: I meant Connie, not you djinn sorry:-)<\/p>\n DavidWrightSr: Welcome to the group. I don’t believe you have been here before have you?<\/p>\n DavidWrightSr: Of course, I’ve seen you a lot on afh<\/p>\n djindalian: no, its usually pretty inconvienient for me. Off work today though<\/p>\n ddavitt: Glad you could make it<\/p>\n djindalian: me too.<\/p>\n ddavitt: No chat scheduled though; we are going to try and get a schedule sorted out<\/p>\n ddavitt: If you have any thoughts on future topics that would be great<\/p>\n djindalian: whats the discussion tonite?<\/p>\n ddavitt: New ideas always welcome<\/p>\n djindalian: oops<\/p>\n ddavitt: None tonight<\/p>\n ddavitt: No problem<\/p>\n ddavitt: We may have a guest author soon; Conie Willis<\/p>\n DavidWrightSr: We kind of let things slip through the cracks what with everything going on.<\/p>\n ddavitt: Connie that is.<\/p>\n DavidWrightSr: I’ve got to find some of her works, Any suggestions<\/p>\n djindalian: thats cool, I liked ‘to say nothing of the dog’<\/p>\n ddavitt: I enjoyed To say Nothing of the Dog<\/p>\n ddavitt: And one she did with Cynthia Felice, promised Land<\/p>\n DavidWrightSr: I’ll try to find them<\/p>\n djindalian: In fact, I read it cause I recognized the title, because Kip’s dad read ‘3 men in a boat’<\/p>\n ddavitt: Doomsday Book was good too…but I wasn’t so keeon on lincoln’s dreams; gripping but a flat ending somehow<\/p>\n maikoshT has entered the room.<\/p>\n ddavitt: Yes; she dedicates the book to Heinlein<\/p>\n ddavitt: I remember going after JKJ’s book after reading HSSWT when I was 11<\/p>\n ddavitt: I wanted to know about opening that can!<\/p>\n DavidWrightSr: I’ve downloaded it but haven’t had a chance to read it yet.<\/p>\n ddavitt: It’s very funny<\/p>\n djindalian: really funny<\/p>\n ddavitt: The soppy bits are funny too…not sure if that was intentional or not<\/p>\n djindalian: I always thought it was<\/p>\n ddavitt: I think they were, AG thinks they were serious<\/p>\n ddavitt: He was a Victorian writer; they did go in for hearts and flowers<\/p>\n ddavitt: But they are so overdrawn and usually something funny happens to interrupt the musings so i think they were a joke<\/p>\n ddavitt: Meeting them in TSNOTD was great<\/p>\n djindalian: That was funny, recognized them right away.<\/p>\n ddavitt: Have you read the sequel?<\/p>\n ddavitt: About the bike trip round Germany?<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN has entered the room.<\/p>\n djindalian: no didn’t even know about it<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Good evening all.<\/p>\n ddavitt: That is just as funny but has chilling bits when you realise WW1 was round the corner<\/p>\n DavidWrightSr: Hi Jim.<\/p>\n ddavitt: Hi there Jim, nice to see you<\/p>\n djindalian: hi<\/p>\n ddavitt: Three men On The Bummel<\/p>\n ddavitt: Probably can download it<\/p>\n djindalian: cool!<\/p>\n ddavitt: we have no topic Jim; just going to sort out a schedule if possible<\/p>\n ddavitt: How about your mars talk?<\/p>\n ddavitt: I saw you volunteer:-)<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: LOL<\/p>\n ddavitt: You would enjoy hosting it<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: I don’t think we are ready with it for tonight.<\/p>\n ddavitt: Oh no, but we can work it in and set a date, right?<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Certainly<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: And you can even volunteer me to host it.<\/p>\n ddavitt: Just discussing Connie Willis as she is going to be guesting soon<\/p>\n ddavitt: I wil do:-):-)<\/p>\n ddavitt: How about 25\/27 oct?<\/p>\n ddavitt: Or is Connie down for that?<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Do we want to call for all the Martians the group can come up with, or should we limit it somehow?<\/p>\n ddavitt: Have to limit it to books people can read in the time<\/p>\n ddavitt: No point having too many…<\/p>\n ddavitt: Concentrate on H books and a couple of others maybe<\/p>\n ddavitt: I haven’t read rainbow mars<\/p>\n maikoshT: I suggested 25\/27 for Connie, but haven’t had confirmation yet<\/p>\n ddavitt: couldn’t get into it but I will try again<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: More fantasy than SF, but a fun read, just to see all the Martians again<\/p>\n ddavitt: well, you can be thinking about it Jim and doing a lead off post for afh<\/p>\n ddavitt: Can save it until the date is confirmed<\/p>\n ddavitt: usually that gets posted the Monday or so after the saturday chat<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: No prob, will leave the dates open until we know for Connie.<\/p>\n ddavitt: Great!<\/p>\n ddavitt: There, that’s two sorted…<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Rainbow Mars has a very slow start. I put it down twice.<\/p>\n ddavitt: (This is easy)<\/p>\n ddavitt: I love their books usually..<\/p>\n ddavitt: especially the Dream park and Heorot ones<\/p>\n ddavitt: I want to go to Dream park one day!<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: LOL I want to go to the Ring World<\/p>\n ddavitt: Now again, couldn’t get into those…<\/p>\n ddavitt: Oh well…<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Got a bit repetitive.<\/p>\n ddavitt: Dave, what was the position on Robert Crais again?<\/p>\n ddavitt: Is he available later on in the year?<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: By the end I wanted the puppeteer to kill Louis.<\/p>\n maikoshT: I have never had any response from him. I don’t believe that the address I had for him was good<\/p>\n ddavitt: Don’t tell me! I may read them someday…I have one on my shelves I think<\/p>\n ddavitt: Did AG speak to him though at the book signing? memory going<\/p>\n maikoshT: I’m not sure. I know he spoke to Connie<\/p>\n ddavitt: And Felicia said she asked Lois Bujold to come<\/p>\n ddavitt: We could follow up on that maybe<\/p>\n ddavitt: djinn; anything you’d like to see discussed?<\/p>\n djindalian: nothing special<\/p>\n ddavitt: I know we had a poetry topic in the pipeline<\/p>\n ddavitt: Looking at the way H’s favourites influenced the books; Kipling, tennyson etc<\/p>\n ddavitt: That’s another one that needs some reading<\/p>\n ddavitt: Need an easy one or two as well<\/p>\n ddavitt: Ones people can discuss without too much effort involved; especially as they get busy with Christmas and such<\/p>\n ddavitt: We have had our Thanksgiving; halloween next<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: An easy topic seems harder to come up with.<\/p>\n ddavitt: we never discussed the con either<\/p>\n ddavitt: but that moment has passed perhaps<\/p>\n ddavitt: I would have liked to hear about the panel discussing farmer in the Sky that AG was part of<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: the con of which pro?<\/p>\n ddavitt: :-)world con<\/p>\n ddavitt: with that awful pun..millenium philcon<\/p>\n ddavitt: ,groan><\/p>\n ddavitt: or giggle…depending<\/p>\n ddavitt: holidays in Heinlein…that’s easy..he didn’t seem to have any<\/p>\n ddavitt: I don’t recall Christmas on the Moon?<\/p>\n maikoshT: A lot happened to Kip over the Labor Day weekend \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n ddavitt: True!<\/p>\n ddavitt: And he got to do it twice<\/p>\n ddavitt: I never knew what that was as a child in the Uk; we don’t have it<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: ISTR a reference to Christmas on the moon, and there is the Diner in Cliff and the Calories.<\/p>\n ddavitt: have August bank Holiday on the 30th<\/p>\n ddavitt: But the characters don’t all sit down and sing caros sort of thing<\/p>\n ddavitt: carols<\/p>\n ddavitt: It has become irrelevant on Mars, venus…<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Or was not part of the story.<\/p>\n ddavitt: when there’s no December, how can there be a Dec 25?<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: True.<\/p>\n ddavitt: may have to do with religion and not wanting the books to be connected to one<\/p>\n djindalian: wasn’t one of Mannie’s family a preacher?<\/p>\n ddavitt: But christmas is, to many, a secular event<\/p>\n ddavitt: with the Sabbath on a saturday<\/p>\n ddavitt: that was a bit of a dig I always felt<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Yes, Greg I think.<\/p>\n maikoshT: Sabbath is Saturday \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Either that or a reference to the 7th Day Adventists<\/p>\n ddavitt: mannie didn’t have feelings about the faith; he just liked Greg and didn’t want to hirt his feelings<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Or the Jewish faith<\/p>\n maikoshT: We Orthodox distinguish between Sabbath and Sunday<\/p>\n ddavitt: Is it? I’m all confused now<\/p>\n ddavitt: Sorry.<\/p>\n maikoshT: No Problemo<\/p>\n ddavitt: Anyhow, the reference to them calculating it seemed to be a bit of a joke<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: IIRC Sundown friday to sundown Saturday.<\/p>\n maikoshT: True<\/p>\n ddavitt: I’m going to go check it; brb<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Alex mentioned Christmas, but in just as backhanded a way. Not much celebration.<\/p>\n ddavitt: ah!<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Si?<\/p>\n ddavitt: sundown Tuesday to wednesady<\/p>\n ddavitt: spelling!<\/p>\n ddavitt: in the local time of the garden of eden<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: OK, that works.<\/p>\n ddavitt: was THE sabbath<\/p>\n ddavitt: for Greg<\/p>\n ddavitt: most Loonies, it was Sunday<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Alex also mentioned the millenial calculations, and the calculations for the age of the Earth, and how no two groups could agree, so he used brackets.<\/p>\n ddavitt: I knew it was something different<\/p>\n ddavitt: Yes; all that discussion of dates in job was interesting.Wonder how much research H did><\/p>\n ddavitt: And if he found it amusing..<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Probably background from his youth.<\/p>\n ddavitt: Yes..that comes through a lot in that book<\/p>\n ddavitt: I remember the revival tents coming to my town<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: I remember discussion of the same people and dating at Kings Christian School in Lemoore growing up.<\/p>\n ddavitt: Figures are slippery<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: And figurers are sliperier<\/p>\n ddavitt: Too true!<\/p>\n ddavitt: Alex dismissing fossil evidence made me smile wryly<\/p>\n ddavitt: Maybe on his world, it was only young<\/p>\n ddavitt: not millions of years old<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: I have seen the same thing in politics, science, etc.<\/p>\n ddavitt: what, ignore facts that don’t fit your pet theory?<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Perhaps Mr. Hammes contention that all systems of belief are religions has something to it.<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Yes, exactly that.<\/p>\n ddavitt: I could accept that to a certain extent<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Or discount them with another contrived theory.<\/p>\n ddavitt: You can make a god out of anything<\/p>\n ddavitt: if you try hard enough<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Except me.<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: If nominated I will not run, if elected I will not serve.<\/p>\n ddavitt: You don’t want to be worshipped and adored, Jim\/:-)<\/p>\n djindalian: Church of Nuke<\/p>\n ddavitt: Has a ring to it<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Nope, I like arguing too much.<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Been having way too much fun of late.<\/p>\n ddavitt: I would like to be world dictator and sort things out but not a goddess<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: I am waiting for LV to notice the Bugs Bunny gambit.<\/p>\n ddavitt: And I would only be it until things were tidy<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: LOL<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Famous last words<\/p>\n ddavitt: I haven’t been following it much so that means nothing but it sounds fun<\/p>\n ddavitt: You don’t trust me? ,quiver of lip><\/p>\n ddavitt: It wouldn’t take long to sort out.<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: I have taken his usual position and he is arguing mine. He is gradually coming around to my way of thinking just by being denied his usual tools<\/p>\n ddavitt: I’ve coped with birthday parties for 6 year olds; i can handle anything<\/p>\n djindalian: hmmm…. there are some heads of state that could use a good spanking…<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Ever gone cutting wood with three year olds?<\/p>\n ddavitt: LV is Ok; he has been around long enough to be part of the bar furniture<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: I like LV, just disagree with his politics.<\/p>\n djindalian: LV seems to have mellowed quite a bit too.<\/p>\n ddavitt: I am in charge at the school bus stop most days and am getting a reputation for being firm but fair…<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Then again, I disagree with most everyone’s politics.<\/p>\n ddavitt: And I’m bigger than them of course..<\/p>\n ddavitt: I don’t have any as such…just certain ways I think about things<\/p>\n ddavitt: I can’t label myself as anything in particualr<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: I live near the high school. Had the kids convinced I ate people so they did not hang out in the alley, but now some of the kids I know are in high school. *sigh* I have to clean up after them every day now.<\/p>\n maikoshT: BTW, if there is anything that you wish to have deleted from the log, please let me know.<\/p>\n ddavitt: I just wish people would be more like me and my friends<\/p>\n ddavitt: Nice that is \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n ddavitt: i pity the man whose garden is by the stop<\/p>\n ddavitt: the little brats keep running all over it,, onto the road, throwing balls, stones as cars go by<\/p>\n ddavitt: I hold Eleanor right by me and glare<\/p>\n ddavitt: But now I tell ’em off<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Oh goodness I am in heaven.<\/p>\n ddavitt: Why?<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: My wife got me Applets and Cotlets.<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: A candy from my youth.<\/p>\n ddavitt: what on earth are they?<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Have not had them in many years<\/p>\n ddavitt: ah..describe, I love candy<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Fruit with nuts and sugar.<\/p>\n ddavitt: wine gums and fizzy sweets mostly<\/p>\n ddavitt: in a bar?<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Yes<\/p>\n ddavitt: I haven’t seen them before<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Well, little bites, about like a bite sized Snickers.<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: There are from Washington State.<\/p>\n ddavitt: I know what you mean..we called snickers, marathon in the UK<\/p>\n ddavitt: but now the name has changed<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Never seen them outside of Washington, my wife has heard me talk about them and found them online<\/p>\n ddavitt: same with opal fruits becoming starburst<\/p>\n ddavitt: and oil of ulay, oil of olay<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: http:\/\/www.libertyorchards.com<\/p>\n ddavitt: you can find anything online. Anone see Buffy last week?<\/p>\n ddavitt: They found the urn of osiris on ebay<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Try finding Tillamook cheddar for a reasonable price. *shudder*<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: rofl<\/p>\n ddavitt: books though….I have found books I’ve lusted after for years.<\/p>\n ddavitt: Still way out of my price range but at least I know they’re there<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: This is true, and books I lost long ago, along with title and author.<\/p>\n ddavitt: who makes Tillamook?<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Made in Washington\/Oregon<\/p>\n ddavitt: ask OJ<\/p>\n ddavitt: he might be able to get it for you<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Tillamook creameries.<\/p>\n ddavitt: i miss the range of cheeses we had in the UK<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Best cheese in the world. Wisconsin is a poor second rate.<\/p>\n ddavitt: Hmm..I dunno about that<\/p>\n ddavitt: but I like very mild cheeses.<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: You might like this area. Or the Tillamook Creamerie, wonderful tours.<\/p>\n ddavitt: David is the other way; loves Stilton, blue<\/p>\n ddavitt: smellier the better<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Extra sharp white cheddar<\/p>\n djindalian: stilton is good!!<\/p>\n ddavitt: I like double Gloucester sorts<\/p>\n ddavitt: It’s mouldy!!<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Sitting on the table warm so it is almost as spreadable as butter<\/p>\n ddavitt: smells like sweaty socks<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Tastes like ambrosia.<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Mellow cheeses have always seemed a waste of time to me.<\/p>\n ddavitt: chacun a son gout<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Like decaffeinated coffee, alcohol free beer\/wine, bridal suite without a bed.<\/p>\n ddavitt: No; just a gentle, subtle taste<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: You sound like my wife.<\/p>\n ddavitt: on granary bread with a good cider and lots of Branston pickle<\/p>\n ddavitt: a lady of taste obviously!<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: She married me \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Good bread and pickles, now that I agree with.<\/p>\n ddavitt: ever had branston pickles?<\/p>\n ddavitt: They do have them in canada but they’re British<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: No, we usually put up our own.<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: (Only way to get a decent hot pickle.)<\/p>\n ddavitt: hot…you are like mu husband<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: I will look for them next time I cross the border.<\/p>\n ddavitt: he loves spicy food, I hate it<\/p>\n ddavitt: Bp aren’t spicy<\/p>\n ddavitt: just tangy<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: When I make chili I have to make a pot for her and one for me.<\/p>\n ddavitt: We are off topic!<\/p>\n ddavitt: This always happens…<\/p>\n ddavitt: food then alcohol take over!<\/p>\n ddavitt: \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Extremely, but then, I have not been volunteered to do the easy chat.<\/p>\n djindalian: causing hunger too<\/p>\n ddavitt: I will have to vanish in a minute<\/p>\n ddavitt: Baby has been a monster recently and I’m low on sleep<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: I know. BRB going to cut some ham and cheddar and slap it on 7 grain bread<\/p>\n ddavitt: She was good last night so I’ve got fingers crossed<\/p>\n ddavitt: OK<\/p>\n ddavitt: So, looks like we can fit Connie in whenver she likes, Jim will do mars and…we need a quick topic to fill in a gap<\/p>\n maikoshT: So we have either Connie or the Martian thing next time depending on whether or no Connie gets back and lets me know that she is set up . Right?<\/p>\n ddavitt: ideas anyone?<\/p>\n ddavitt: Sounds about right<\/p>\n ddavitt: that’s the 25 ans 27 Oct<\/p>\n maikoshT: Right<\/p>\n ddavitt: and 8 and 10 of Novemeber<\/p>\n ddavitt: any books we haven’t done for a while?<\/p>\n ddavitt: they make easy topics<\/p>\n ddavitt: because most people know them well enough already<\/p>\n ddavitt: How about looking at the stories where resistance groups fight back and analysing the effectiveness of their strategies?<\/p>\n ddavitt: free men and Sixth Column for instance<\/p>\n djindalian: That might be fun.<\/p>\n ddavitt: Topical but sort of inspiring<\/p>\n ddavitt: Do we have a host here then?<\/p>\n maikoshT: Would that include the Venerian colonists in Between Planets or something more unstructured?<\/p>\n DenvToday has entered the room.<\/p>\n ddavitt: I was thinking more of when the US is invaded<\/p>\n DenvToday: Greetings all<\/p>\n ddavitt: but we could bring in BP, sure<\/p>\n ddavitt: Hi Denv<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Not sure.<\/p>\n DenvToday: Hello \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n ddavitt: Just discussing topics for upcoming chats<\/p>\n ddavitt: About what Jim?<\/p>\n DenvToday: I can’t stay long. I have to be up early.<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Needed to scroll forward. n\/m<\/p>\n ddavitt: we are about done I think<\/p>\n ddavitt: there wasn’t a topic tongiht so we ended up on food:-)<\/p>\n DenvToday: Always my favorite topic.<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: How about some of the short stories as topics?<\/p>\n DenvToday: There’s a topic for discussion–RAH and food<\/p>\n ddavitt: Certainly is.<\/p>\n ddavitt: Comes into lots of the books<\/p>\n DenvToday: Indeed. He always makes me hungry.<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: I would have to have my desk covered in snacks and apple juice.<\/p>\n ddavitt: Which ones Jim?<\/p>\n ddavitt: We did the FH ones fairly recently<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Any of them that we fancy, just throwing out an idea, not volunteering again yet.<\/p>\n ddavitt: Could look at the weirder ones in menace<\/p>\n ddavitt: or 6 X H<\/p>\n ddavitt: Goldfish Bowl, water is For washing<\/p>\n ddavitt: Thaose ones; the overlooked ones<\/p>\n ddavitt: You volunteered once; that’s enough:-)<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Goldfish bowl is one of my favorites.<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Egads, I heard that in the Navy.<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Usually just before a nasty assignment.<\/p>\n ddavitt: Ok, I propse a few of those neglected stories as a filler topic for emergencies<\/p>\n ddavitt: With the one about resistance fighters somehwere too<\/p>\n ddavitt: Jim, dave will let you know which date is the Mars chat<\/p>\n ddavitt: And we’re all done!<\/p>\n DenvToday: See you all on Saturday.<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: OK, I will work on the post and flesh out the topic<\/p>\n DenvToday: I do have my dates correct, don’t I? It’s this Saturday?<\/p>\n maikoshT: Sounds good.<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Bye Denver \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n ddavitt: Looking forward to that<\/p>\n ddavitt: Well, no, not really Denv<\/p>\n DenvToday: Oh.<\/p>\n DenvToday: lol<\/p>\n ddavitt: I don’t think there’s anything planned for this saturday<\/p>\n DenvToday: No wonder I’m confused.<\/p>\n DenvToday: A week from Saturday?<\/p>\n ddavitt: Tonight is a blank chat<\/p>\n ddavitt: two weeks:-)<\/p>\n ddavitt: on the 25th and 27th<\/p>\n DenvToday: I haven’t been getting the mailings.<\/p>\n ddavitt: it will be a guest author; Connie Willis or a chat on mars<\/p>\n maikoshT: And probably no need to meet this Saturday since we don’t have a topic.<\/p>\n ddavitt: No, and I will be in Algonquin park with the bears<\/p>\n ddavitt: so I definitelt won’t be there<\/p>\n DenvToday: I’ll see you on the 25th.<\/p>\n DenvToday: Bye ’til then!<\/p>\n ddavitt: Great<\/p>\n ddavitt: Night all<\/p>\n maikoshT: See you all then<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: We don’t need to go to the park for that, we have a pair just outside of town here<\/p>\n DenvToday: Night<\/p>\n DenvToday has left the room.<\/p>\n djindalian: night<\/p>\n ddavitt: I don’t want to meet them..bears are scary<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN: Good night all. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n djindalian has left the room.<\/p>\n NuclearWasteUSN:<\/p>\n ddavitt: See you all , thanks for the input<\/p>\n ddavitt: me too<\/p>\n maikoshT: Log officially closed at 10:20 P.M. 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