Caledon Oxbridge Q&A for 2018-07-29
| 14:49 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Hi, lovejoy. Welcome |
| 14:49 | lovejoy2199 | Greetings Chancellor |
| 14:49 | lovejoy2199 | Cute!!!! Andrea |
| 14:50 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | waves |
| 14:53 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | sloshes. |
| 14:54 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | rain there word? |
| 14:54 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | hi mr eb |
| 14:54 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Greetings |
| 14:55 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | No, just firestorms burning through the state, killing firefighters and children and destroying homes. (I'm safe) |
| 14:55 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Good to hear you are safe |
| 15:00 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | We don't expect rain until late fall, Andrea. Mediterranean climate. |
| 15:00 | RainyDayRecess | Hello everyone :D |
| 15:00 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | I kind of hope there is some rain tomorrow |
| 15:01 | RainyDayRecess | Me too ;) |
| 15:01 | LadyLyndon | Greetings everyone |
| 15:01 | RainyDayRecess waves ;) | |
| 15:01 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Greetings |
| 15:02 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Phrynne won't make it unless she does; she was having eye problems. |
| 15:03 | RainyDayRecess | ;( |
| 15:03 | lovejoy2199 | If you want rain, you can have some we been having in W.PA. |
| 15:03 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Welcome to this week's Oxbridge Deans' Q&A. |
| 15:04 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | This is an open meeting. All are welcome unless they break the Prime Directive -- we have a new sign in the plaza. |
| 15:05 | Oxbridge Donation Coin R1 (Alternate Lecture Hall) | Kara2016 gave a generous donation to help support classes and tutorials at Caledon Oxbridge Gateway. |
| 15:05 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Transcripts will be posted somewhat after the meeting. |
| 15:05 | RainyDayRecess | Ty Kara ;) |
| 15:06 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Aye. Much appreciated, Kara. Keeps us above the waves. |
| 15:06 | Kara2016 | Smiles brightly. |
| 15:06 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) carves some paddles | |
| 15:07 | RainyDayRecess | :) |
| 15:07 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | In Phrynne's absence, I've two things. Down below near the plaza, you'll see some bright and cheery flowers. That's Phrynne's work. |
| 15:08 | RainyDayRecess | Yay! |
| 15:09 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Second, since it falls under Phrynne and Tasha's authority as Dean and Asst Dean of Commons, Visven has been promoted from Apprentice Tutor to Tutor, with my full concurrence. |
| 15:09 | Kara2016 | Smiles brightly. |
| 15:10 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | So do congratulate him when you run into him (he's on Europe time) |
| 15:10 | Gronk Seriman applauds | |
| 15:10 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Andrea, anything for this week? |
| 15:11 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Nothing much, The Tuesday Night dance will be announced sometime before Tuesday night. I'm in need of a new Dj Sugar sprinkles has been been getting worn down performing every week. |
| 15:11 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | So we may cancel at the last min |
| 15:12 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | The Christmas in August fundraiser is being built. No date for august set yet. |
| 15:12 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Okay. Makes sense (on Tues) |
| 15:12 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | If anyone has Christmas theme transfer items they wish to donate. Please let me know. Or if you can make something |
| 15:13 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Any likely theme for Tuesday if it runs? |
| 15:13 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Maybe techno in the sky platform |
| 15:13 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | the one with the planets |
| 15:13 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | I'll be sending out a help nc soon on the winter fundraiser. |
| 15:14 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Posters, help posting in online groups and maybe help with the build will be sent out |
| 15:14 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | or needed |
| 15:14 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | I'm thinking near the end of August myself |
| 15:15 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | nods |
| 15:16 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | If you happen to go to Stars Museum to see one of the exhibits. there is a COU donation coin outside in front of the building. |
| 15:16 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Any small donation if welcome. the current exhibit is mine. |
| 15:17 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Please remember to pick up the freebie as it has nc n tit on the displays |
| 15:17 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | in it |
| 15:17 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | It's nice of her to keep that coin there.. |
| 15:17 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | The exhibit will be up til the end of August |
| 15:18 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | and may take more than one trip or a bit of time to go through |
| 15:18 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | You click the pics to get the nc for the verses written for the pic |
| 15:18 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | And click on the pictures to get the poems that Andrea wrote as responses to the pictures. |
| 15:18 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | nods |
| 15:19 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Wootstock is finishing up today if you want to drop by for music and dancing. that is in the Raglan shire regions IM for the LM |
| 15:20 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | The box at the foot of the stage has the bear rugs with animated poses. One laying and one laying with a roll over |
| 15:20 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | (this being in a tiny realm -- Wootstock) |
| 15:20 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | please send me a number between 5 and 1000 to win it. Nearest number or the first to hit the number wins it. |
| 15:21 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | looks back at Wordsmith |
| 15:21 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thanks, Andrea. |
| 15:22 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The graph on the wall behind me shows the weekly avatar traffic at Oxbridge through last night. |
| 15:23 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The dramatic dip on the left is a data outage. |
| 15:23 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Nods I forgot to pay the electric bill |
| 15:24 | RainyDayRecess | :D |
| 15:24 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | The weekly summary data this draws from are in the statistics section of our webpage. |
| 15:24 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | http://www.caledonoxbridge.org/statistics/index.php |
| 15:24 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Also current to last night. |
| 15:25 | Gronk Seriman | Nice little bounce at the end. |
| 15:25 | RainyDayRecess | Yeah |
| 15:26 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | That "summer upturn" was noticed at the plaza. |
| 15:27 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Gronk or Elfbiter may be able to say more about what they are seeing in terms of type of avatars. |
| 15:28 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Relatively common week, aside from some only-Spanish speakers |
| 15:28 | Gronk Seriman | No unusual types of people. Just a little bit more of them lately. |
| 15:28 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | I'd asked Lindal about a week ago to upload the English sources of the tutorial posters. I just checked and nothing there yet, so I'll be doing another ping. Lindal is teaching 3 classes per week so there's often a bit of lag in her responses. |
| 15:28 | Gronk Seriman | More and more Returners in the stream of people, it seems. |
| 15:29 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Yup |
| 15:30 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Nods. Yes, I was talking with one the other evening when I dropped down to the plaza. |
| 15:30 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Between Sandie and myself the returnee had her head in her hands both crying and giggling over the puns. |
| 15:31 | Gronk Seriman smiles | |
| 15:32 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | My other focuses right now are rewriting the Mesh class and, second to that, writing some blog posts on scripting. |
| 15:32 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | That's it from me for this week. Open for questions, announcements, and the like. |
| 15:33 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | STill hosting the Writers' Meeting Thursdays 11:00 AM SLT |
| 15:34 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Thank you, Elf. Want to say anything more on the process there? |
| 15:35 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Attendance varies. |
| 15:35 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | You give prompts? |
| 15:35 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Yup. |
| 15:36 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | And sometimes I manage to finish something in English in time. |
| 15:36 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Trying to spread stories and snippers of stories with notecards |
| 15:37 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | So basically anybody can come and try their "hand" at writing from a starting point.. |
| 15:37 | Kara2016 | Smiles brightly. |
| 15:37 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Last call for number guess for the give away |
| 15:38 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Yes. I give prompts for the next week, but some some try writing on the spot |
| 15:38 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | And sometimes we just exchange things about writing and digress to ad infinitum |
| 15:39 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Depends on who is there. |
| 15:39 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Rainy Day won the item this week |
| 15:39 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | I still hope our Georgian (as in country of Georgia) visitor would come more often. |
| 15:40 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Always nice to have the unusual visitor show up. |
| 15:40 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | RL intrudes, of course, as always. Though I have managed to host on most weeks |
| 15:41 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | For everyone, don't feel that a writers' class means you have to be an expert to attend. |
| 15:41 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | No, lots of people are just starting. |
| 15:42 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Anything else? Questions? Comments? Announcements of events? |
| 15:42 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | And I hope more people would share stories. |
| 15:43 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Hearing naught but the wee sound of crickets on a summer's eve, |
| 15:43 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | we are ...... |
| 15:43 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | :-) |
| 15:43 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Just a note. Caledonian Nights is looking to expand operations. The group was never meant to be a one operation thing |
| 15:43 | Kara2016 | giggles. |
| 15:44 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Please give me a holler if you have a special event or club you want to begin |
| 15:44 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | I'm especially looking for DJ's for special events |
| 15:45 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | hosts, and planners |
| 15:45 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | that's all for now |
| 15:45 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | adjourned. Hopes for sleep to Elfbiter Happy jumping, lovejoy. |
| 15:45 | RainyDayRecess | Thank you Deans ;) |
| 15:45 | LadyLyndon | Thank you Deans |
| 15:45 | lovejoy2199 | *smile* |
| 15:45 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | I do hope i can sleep in this temperature |
| 15:45 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | night mr eb |
| 15:45 | RainyDayRecess | Nighty Elf sleep well ;) |
| 15:45 | Brenda (brendaharden) | Thank you Deans |
| 15:46 | Kara2016 | Thank you Word and Andrea, and Oxbridge staff. |
| 15:46 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | Raglan Shire (63,238,3006) |
| 15:46 | Gronk Seriman | Thank you, Deans! |
| 15:46 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | LM to Wootstock |
| 15:46 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | don't have to be a tiny |
| 15:46 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | or dinkie |
| 15:46 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | biggies welcome |
| 15:46 | RainyDayRecess | Have fun Andrea! :D |
| 15:46 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | nods |
| 15:46 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | you can come too |
| 15:47 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Hold the fort. |
| 15:47 | lovejoy2199 | *smile* |
| 15:47 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | waves bye bye wid her little paw. |
| 15:47 | Andrea Jones (andreajonesms) | and poofs |
| 15:47 | Elfbiter Skysmith (elfbiter) | Be seeing you |
| 15:47 | RainyDayRecess | cute |
| 15:47 | Pantera (superpantera) | Bye |
| 15:48 | LadyLyndon | Goodbye everyone |
| 15:48 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | . One pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small And the ones that mother gives you Don't do anything at all Go ask Alice When she's ten feet tall |
| 15:48 | LadyLyndon | :) |
| 15:49 | RainyDayRecess | Feed your head 15:49] RainyDayRecess: Bye Lady Lyndon! |
| 15:49 | 7summerstorms | goodbye all |
| 15:49 | Wordsmith Jarvinen | Or Andrea, when she's 10 feet tall. |
| 15:49 | Kara2016 | WootStock!! |
| 15:49 | RainyDayRecess | Bye 7summerstorms |