Katherine Kurtz and Scott MacMillan => Archived Chats => Chat Logs => 2021 Archive => Topic started by: Bynw on September 26, 2021, 07:11:25 PM
Title: KK Chat -- 26 September 2021
Post by: Bynw on September 26, 2021, 07:11:25 PM
[18:01] * KK (49ab39c5@owirc-gig.7nu.62.64.IP) has joined #Deryni_Destinations [18:01] <~bynw> hi KK [18:01] <+Laurna> Hello KK [18:01] <KK> Hello, all. [18:01] * +Laurna is serving german chocolate cake with all the icing [18:01] <KK> Yum! [18:01] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> Hello kk [18:02] <KK> How is everyone tonight? [18:02] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> She's also got fresh strawberries [18:02] <~bynw> it's what she's really eating right now [18:02] <+Laurna> Yumm. I must say that was tasty [18:02] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> Unemployed! [18:03] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> 🙂 [18:03] <KK> On purpose? [18:03] * ~bynw was just eating supper and had a big thick NY strip steak [18:03] <+Laurna> I thought you said retired [18:03] <KK> Yum, Bynw! [18:03] <KK> Retired from....? [18:04] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> Not really my decision, but I completely understand why they let me know. And I am retired untill/unless the health improves [18:04] <+Laurna> I am wondering when my retired self might go back to work.and then I tell my self that is crazy talk. [18:04] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> I was an Instructional Designer at a company called Xactware, and I'd been with them for 26 years. [18:04] <KK> I was an instructional designer once. [18:04] <+Laurna> That is a good number of years [18:05] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> Oh yeah? [18:05] <~bynw> 26 years at the same place? [18:05] <+Laurna> What does and instructional designer do? [18:05] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> Yeah. I'd been with them since 1995. [18:05] * MerchantDeryni () has joined #Deryni_Destinations [18:06] <+Laurna> Hello MD [18:06] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> I created training materials, to be used either solo or with a trainer leading [18:06] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> Hello MD [18:06] <MerchantDeryni> Good evening all [18:06] <~bynw> hi MerchantDeryni [18:06] <KK> Back when I was doing it, it was fairly new, and I was creating interactive material for training police officers, at LAPD. [18:06] <+Laurna> That is complicated work [18:06] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> Oh neat! 🙂 [18:07] * The_Bee (The_Bee@owirc-hl3.tb3.61.73.IP) has joined #Deryni_Destinations [18:07] <~bynw> Hi Bee [18:07] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> hello Bee [18:07] <+Laurna> Hello bee [18:07] <KK> One of the neater things I worked on was scenarios for their firearms training simulator. I'm sure it's far more sophisticated now. [18:07] <The_Bee> HI EVERYONE! [18:07] <KK> Hello, Bee. [18:08] * ~bynw thinks he will wait until the Vikings game is over before he trys to put the cookies in the oven [18:08] <The_Bee> Hi KK. Whose firearms wee you simulating? [18:08] <The_Bee> were [18:08] <KK> Bad guys, and the officers would have to deal with the threat. [18:09] <+Laurna> That is a bit different from swords and daggers? [18:09] <KK> True. [18:09] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> My training wasn't nearly that interesting. We taught people how to use our software to help estimating the cost of repairing a home. [18:09] <The_Bee> Oh, 20th cestury police, notmedieval knights? [18:09] * DesertRose (desertrose@DesertRose.Editor.Writer.Creator) has joined #Deryni_Destinations [18:09] * derynibot sets mode: +qo DesertRose DesertRose [18:09] <The_Bee> Hi DR [18:09] <~DesertRose> Hi everyone! [18:10] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> Hi DR, you made it [18:10] <KK> Hi, DR. [18:10] <~DesertRose> Yup, eventually. ;) [18:10] <+Laurna> DR you got home? [18:10] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> Hi Everyone! [18:10] <+Laurna> Hello Jerusha [18:10] <KK> Hello, Jerusha. [18:10] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> Hi Jerusha [18:10] <The_Bee> Hi Jerusha [18:11] <MerchantDeryni> I had to write an SOP for opening a door once (big gantry type door). Something like 17 steps to open it up. I never realized it was that convoluted to open a door, but when you write out each step it is a lot to go through. [18:11] <KK> Yep. [18:11] <The_Bee> a flow chart [18:11] <+Laurna> KK I am suprised you didn't write more modern day police stories. [18:12] <KK> There was police work in the Adept series.... [18:12] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> I think I am glad you stayed with the medieval world [18:12] <+Laurna> Yes definitly but with a nice magical twist [18:13] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> Lots more romance in the medieval world. Plus they probably didn't need a lot of technical manuals back then. [18:13] <KK> Nope. it was largely hands-on for procedures. Nobles got to do book-learning as well. [18:13] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> Maybe "How to Build a Garderobe"? [18:13] <The_Bee> It must have been hard to remember which magical gesture did what. [18:13] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> Although I guess a nice "How to Be a Deryni" manual might have been nice, completely with stepped instructions and diagrams. [18:13] <+Laurna> not writen manuals but a lot of training [18:14] <+Laurna> LOL Jerusha [18:14] <+Eris> <DFK> Good Evening Everyone [18:14] <KK> I suspect formal rituals were written out ahead of time, as happens today. [18:14] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> Hi DFK [18:14] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> Hi DFK [18:14] <+Laurna> Hello DFK [18:15] <The_Bee> Hi DFK [18:15] <+Eris> <Catherine Windsor> Hi y'all [18:15] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> Hi CW [18:15] <KK> Hi, Catherine. [18:15] <The_Bee> Hi CW [18:15] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> Hi Catherine [18:15] <+Eris> <Catherine Windsor> How's everybody doing tonight? [18:16] <+Laurna> All of those scrolls in Kelson's library have to describe how to do something. [18:16] * HoundMistress (HoundMistr@owirc-j2i.oti.27.24.IP) has joined #Deryni_Destinations [18:16] <The_Bee> muddling through [18:16] <~bynw> hey HoundMistress! LTNS [18:16] <KK> Not too bad. Anyone getting fall color yet, in their necks of the woods? [18:16] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> It's not raining, so I am happy [18:16] <The_Bee> Hi Houndmistress [18:16] <+Eris> <DFK> Hi Houndmistress [18:16] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> Lots of fall colour. [18:16] <HoundMistress> Hi, all! Just checking in. Just got Lou home from the hospital. [18:16] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> Hi HoundMistress [18:16] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> Oh dear [18:17] <+Laurna> we had a jot of sprinkles two days ago. about ten minutes worth [18:17] <The_Bee> Some forecasts of a delayed foliagem but bright [18:17] <KK> Hospital? Hope it wasn't too serious. [18:17] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> We had four days worth [18:17] <+Laurna> OH how is Lou? [18:17] <+Eris> <DFK> How is he Houndmistress [18:17] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> Hello Houndmistress [18:17] <+Eris> <Catherine Windsor> My dogwood is showing red and looks dried out. It's not. [18:17] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> Yes, colorful leaves in the mountains. [18:18] <KK> I'll have to check my dogwoods aat the old house. None ehre. [18:18] <+Laurna> I hope someone checks on the house and garden periodically [18:19] <KK> Gardener is still functioning as usual, at both houses. I long to get the old house on the market and sold. Soon! [18:19] <The_Bee> any inquiries? [18:19] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> Will it be soon, KK? [18:19] <+Eris> <DFK> How close are you to putting it on the market? [18:19] <+Laurna> That would be a relief, at this point I should think. [18:19] <HoundMistress> He went last Sunday for A-fib, converted chemically, had a stress test, x-rays, found almost blocked artery in the heart, also on chest x-ray found nodule in lung. Friday had biopsy of lung, Saturday had stint put in vein, came home today. [18:20] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> How are house prices in your neck of the woods? They've been insane here in Utah. [18:20] <KK> It isn't officially on the market yet. I need to get some more stuff cleared out. But I do plan to talk to my listing agent this week, though. [18:20] <HoundMistress> Thanks for all the good wishes & prayers. [18:20] <+Laurna> WOW HoundMistress. I am glad to hear it happened so fast and he is home [18:20] <The_Bee> How is his long-term prognosis? [18:20] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> Glad DH is home again, HoundMistress [18:21] <+Eris> <DFK> Do you have biopsy results? [18:21] <HoundMistress> We don't know about the nodule yet, they said maybe Tuesday. [18:21] <+Eris> <DFK> So glad he is home [18:21] <KK> Wow, a lotta stuff, HoundMistress. Take care of yourself while you're taking care of him. [18:22] <HoundMistress> Thanks! The Sunday before I missed because he felt bad and we called EMS but they couldn't find anything then. [18:22] <+Eris> <DFK> Prayers and healing still coming your way [18:22] <HoundMistress> I am, KK. Really tired out now. Whew! [18:22] <+Laurna> I can imagine [18:22] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> Sounds like some "self care" time is in order [18:22] <HoundMistress> Everybody good here? [18:23] <+Laurna> yes [18:23] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> is good [18:23] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> Yep [18:23] <The_Bee> pretty much okay [18:23] <HoundMistress> Puppy dog was soooo happy to see his daddy! [18:23] <KK> I'll bet he was. [18:23] <+Eris> <DFK> Hanging on [18:24] <+Laurna> that is what dogs are for to come home to [18:24] <HoundMistress> Cat said, Oh, good you're home. Give me some treats. [18:24] <HoundMistress> What [18:24] <+Laurna> and that is what cats are good for [18:24] <HoundMistress> s up DFK [18:24] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> Rhodesian Ridgeback, HoundMistress? [18:24] <The_Bee> speaking of cats, I may have found a kidney-friendly food that Melantha likes. [18:24] <HoundMistress> Yes, our Quanah [18:25] <HoundMistress> RR down to his very soul. [18:25] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> Oh good, Bee! [18:25] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> Yay for Melantha! [18:25] <+Laurna> good bee [18:25] <HoundMistress> That's good, Bee [18:25] <The_Bee> I'VE TRIED HIDING HER PILLS IN IT. [18:25] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> RRs have such sweet faces [18:25] <The_Bee> oops shouting [18:25] <~DesertRose> Good gracious, HoundMistress, that's a lot. Sorry, was afk assembling supper. [18:25] <KK> Gus loves the Hill's kd diet, stew flavor, in tiny cans. It isn't cheap, but he's eating it and regaining weight. [18:26] <HoundMistress> I'm so hungry, y'all, I just have to go eat something. Sorry for the check in & run. [18:26] <KK> Take care of both of you! [18:26] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> Glad you could join us, HoundMistress [18:26] <+Laurna> assembling supper sounds like it require instructional designer [18:26] <HoundMistress> Everybody stay well and I'll try to check in next week, unless it's the Zoom one. [18:26] <~DesertRose> Next week is Zoom, yes. [18:26] <The_Bee> Melantha's is Purina Pro-plan [18:26] <HoundMistress> Thanks! [18:26] <HoundMistress> 'Night all! [18:26] <+Laurna> Good week to you HM and be well [18:26] <KK> Nighters! [18:27] <~DesertRose> Well, it wasn't instructional design level. It was just a matter of cutting up some things, adding other things to the plate, and mixing them up. ;) [18:27] <~DesertRose> G'night, HoundMistress. Take care! [18:27] <The_Bee> good health to you and Lou [18:27] * HoundMistress (HoundMistr@owirc-j2i.oti.27.24.IP) Quit (Quit: Connection closed) [18:28] <+Laurna> My sister writes instructions for her sewing patterns. she dislikes that part of her job [18:28] <~DesertRose> The reason I was late was that I went to our SCA fighter practice, in garb, and drove a friend who needed a ride. [18:28] <KK> Patterns do need instructions, and illustrations. [18:28] <~DesertRose> And then I had to take friend home and stop by the grocery store. [18:28] <~DesertRose> Absolutely! [18:28] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> in garb? [18:28] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> Sounds like a fun afternoon, DR [18:28] <+Laurna> Is Fighter practice with swords? [18:28] <~DesertRose> Yup. [18:28] <~DesertRose> Yes, Laurna. [18:29] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> In my wildest dreams.... [18:29] <~DesertRose> The weather was just gorgeous. [18:29] <+Laurna> did you participate? [18:30] <+Laurna> Is it a lot of foot work, and not just arm swings? [18:30] <~DesertRose> I didn't fight, no, but I sat around the fighting field, cheered the fighters on, chatted with my friends, made a few new friends, and stitched on the revised cap of St Birgitta (my first one was too big for my head, because I tend to cut the first one very generously). [18:30] <~DesertRose> Yes. [18:30] <+Eris> <Catherine Windsor> I love grocery runs in garb! Everyone thinks they're imagining things.🤣 [18:30] <+Laurna> Nice DR [18:31] <KK> Handwork at an event is always fun--unless you're trying to bead, or something like that. Beads tend to try to escape. [18:31] <~DesertRose> The fighters do a lot of moving around, and one of our dukes got enthusiastic and declared melee practice, so there were whole groups of fighters beating the [expletive deleted] [18:31] <+Laurna> I use to be cruel to my sister. she would put on a costume she just finished. and before she could change out of it I would drag her to the groceriy store. [18:32] <~DesertRose> out of each other and then thanking each other for a good fight afterwards. [18:32] <+Laurna> COOL [18:32] <KK> Ya gotta be a fighter to appreciate it. [18:32] <~DesertRose> Yeah, beading is a little too fiddly, IMO, to do in a folding chair outside. [18:32] <~DesertRose> Even if the weather is freaking amazingly gorgeous. ;) [18:33] <KK> Hemming is good, and embroidery. [18:33] <~DesertRose> Yup, and small sewing like that cap. [18:33] <~DesertRose> And I find it much easier to thread a needle by natural light than by artificial. [18:33] <KK> You did have gorgeous weather in northern Florida today. It was great here, too, though I didn't go out in it. [18:34] <~DesertRose> When I visited with our baroness, she commented on the weather, and I said that it was just too beautiful to stay indoors. [18:34] <~DesertRose> (I hadn't really planned to go to the practice until last night.) [18:34] <The_Bee> September is warmest and wettest on record here [18:34] <+Laurna> Sounds like you had fun [18:35] <~DesertRose> I did. [18:35] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> We've had a nice Septmber as well. [18:35] <~bynw> it got back up into the 80s today here after being in the 70s all week :( i want fall weather to stay [18:36] <~DesertRose> It was in the 80s here, but low 80s, sunny, low humidity, and a light breeze (we were fairly close to the river), so great for spending time outdoors. [18:36] <+Laurna> we are the coolest we have been in months. 76F [18:36] <KK> And shade, I hope, DR. [18:36] <~bynw> we never have low humidity ... it's all the *#@&! corn makes it very humid [18:37] <~DesertRose> (Although we did have to nag the fighters to hydrate, as usual. They get involved in what they're doing and forget, so it's sort of a "if you're hanging out by the field, yell at the fighters to drink some water" habit). [18:37] <~DesertRose> Yes, we had lots of shade. Big old oak trees, although one of them tried to take off with my headshawl, LOL. [18:37] <KK> Wise advice. [18:37] <+Laurna> mean oak tree [18:37] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> You were attacked by an old oak? [18:38] <~DesertRose> Our baroness is a nurse. [18:38] <~DesertRose> It just wanted to play with the headshawl. ;) [18:39] <+Eris> <Catherine Windsor> I can't count how many gallons of water have I poured into fighters at Pennsic! 🙄 [18:39] <~DesertRose> Into, onto, all of the above. [18:39] <+Eris> <Catherine Windsor> Yep! And pickle brine if they get dehydrated. [18:40] <~DesertRose> (I've never been to Pennsic, and I've only been to Gulf Wards once, but I am intimately familiar with having to all but hold them down to make them drink. [18:40] <~DesertRose> *Gulf Wars. [18:40] <MerchantDeryni> Corn sweat humidity. Brutal [18:40] <~DesertRose> And/or make them eat some pickles. [18:40] <+Eris> <Catherine Windsor> That too! [18:41] <+Eris> <DFK> Pickles instead of salt pills? [18:41] <The_Bee> pickles/ really? [18:41] <KK> Pickles? [18:41] <KK> Is it the vinegar and salt that does the trick? [18:42] <~DesertRose> The salt in the brine helps restore electrolytes, and sometimes people will eat something salty like pickles when they can't quite cope with plain water or Gatorade or something. [18:42] <~DesertRose> Yes. [18:42] <+Eris> <Catherine Windsor> Salt tabs 1. take too long. [18:42] <+Eris> <Catherine Windsor> 2. don't have enough sodium in easily accessible form. [18:42] <KK> Ah. Serious chemistry. [18:43] <+Eris> <Catherine Windsor> And biology. [18:43] <+Laurna> I never did learn to eat pickles [18:43] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> My husband swears by pickles as a remedy for car sickness [18:43] <The_Bee> When I was little i liked to drink sea-water. Mom said not to. [18:43] <+Laurna> I am thinking quite the opposit effect on me [18:44] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> Not a good thing, Bee [18:44] <+Eris> <DFK> I rememberbgetting off the school bus, buying a big dill pickle for a nickel and munching it all the way home [18:44] <+Eris> <Catherine Windsor> Sea water will make you nauseous [18:44] <The_Bee> Now I like sea salt. [18:44] <+Laurna> I think mom said salt crackers would do the trick for sea sickness. [18:45] <+Laurna> at 7-up [18:45] <~DesertRose> Yeah, saltines or really anything salty but otherwise bland. [18:45] <The_Bee> We had a rhyme: "Want a nickel? Go eat a pickle!" [18:46] <~DesertRose> Well-done toast with a light coat of salted butter. [18:46] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> I'd wait until I had a dime, then eat a... I don't know, anything else but a pickle [18:47] <+Eris> <Catherine Windsor> I don't care for pickles, but I'll take them over the brine any day! [18:47] <~DesertRose> Yeah, if you've reached that point of dehydration, it's more necessity than appealing-to-taste-buds. [18:47] <+Eris> <Catherine Windsor> 👍 [18:48] <~DesertRose> Although I do like pickles. [18:48] <+Eris> <DFK> I made some really good watermelon pickles with a friend once. [18:48] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> @bynw, movie ended [18:48] <~DesertRose> The rind or the fruit itself? [18:48] <+Eris> <DFK> The rind [18:49] <+Laurna> I am going to pass on those, [18:49] <~DesertRose> I was wondering how you'd go about pickling the red bit; it's awfully fragile. [18:49] <+Eris> <DFK> We ate that [18:49] <~DesertRose> I remember having watermelon seed-spitting contests with my cousins and various friends. [18:50] <+Eris> <DFK> Watermelon is great for hydration, it's mostly water and tastes good [18:50] <+Laurna> yep [18:50] <~DesertRose> And trying to scare the younger kids out of swallowing the seeds by pointing out pregnant people and saying that was what they'd done. [18:50] <~DesertRose> "See, she swallowed a watermelon seed and look at her tummy!" [18:51] <~DesertRose> Kids can be jerks sometimes. [18:51] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> And kinda dumb [18:51] <+Eris> <DFK> and very gullible [18:51] <+Eris> <Catherine Windsor> And gullible [18:51] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> I spent years being afraid of my dad's convertible because one of my brothers told me that if you pressed a certain button, the car would blow up. [18:52] <The_Bee> Herbaby-sitttervonce told my mom when she was a child that melon would grow in her stomacch unless she got home by a certain time [18:52] <The_Bee> or ws it a peach tree? [18:53] <+Eris> <Catherine Windsor> Gotta go, brother on the phone and I need to chat at him. It's his birthday. See y'all next week. [18:53] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> cya Catherine [18:53] <+Eris> <DFK> niters CW [18:54] <The_Bee> Bye CW! Zoom next week [18:54] <MerchantDeryni> I have to go as well. Have a good week folks. Take care! b [18:54] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> bye MD [18:54] * MerchantDeryni () Quit (Quit: Connection closed) [18:54] <+Eris> <DFK> bye MD [18:54] <+Eris> <DFK> Boy he left fast [18:55] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> Bye MD and CW [18:56] <KK> Wow, they were quick. [18:57] <~bynw> those are my thoughts when the chat ends most weeks :) [18:57] <+Eris> <DFK> Anyone watching the Tonyss tonight. Good to see Braodway back [18:57] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> Nope, football [18:57] <The_Bee> Not I. Reading or watching dvr [18:57] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> Hadn't heard about that [18:58] <+Laurna> Neither football nor the Tonys are on Netflix so I will read a book instead [18:58] <KK> Reading, cuddlig with Gus, maybe some tv. [18:59] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> Cuddling with Gus is good [18:59] <KK> And some supper. It's that time. [18:59] <+Laurna> agreed [18:59] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> Got the step-kid coming over to spend the night. Her dad is taking her to get a root canal in the morning. [18:59] <+Laurna> Ooch [18:59] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> EEK! [18:59] <+Eris> <DFK> Ouch [18:59] <The_Bee> bummer for the kid [18:59] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> yeah [18:59] <KK> So I'll say goodnight too, and see you next week on Zoom. At 3PM or 4 PM, Bynw? [18:59] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> She's been putting it off forever, but it's finally time. [19:00] <+Eris> <Nezz (Bethane)> g'night KK, you have a great week. [19:00] <+Eris> <Jerusha2> Nighters, KK [19:00] <~DesertRose> Thanks for coming to see us, KK. I believe Zoom is at 3 pm. [19:00] <+Eris> <DFK> Nite KK. Have a good week [19:00] <+Laurna> Good night KK [19:00] <~DesertRose> G'night and have a good week! [19:00] <KK> Zoom at 3 PM. See you all then. Nighters. [19:00] <~bynw> night! [19:00] <+Laurna> not to confuse but Zoom is 12 pacific time [19:00] <~bynw> 3pm ET [19:00] <The_Bee> Enjoy your supper and your pets, KK. [19:00] * KK steps onto her Portal, waves goodnight, and disappears in a shower of green sparkles. [19:00] <+Laurna> and the reading [19:01] <~bynw> all depends on the timezone of what time it happens on [19:01] <~bynw> eastern it's 3pm [19:01] <~bynw> central is 2pm [19:01] <KK> Nighters. [19:01] <The_Bee> 3pm eastern [19:01] <~bynw> mountain is 1pm [19:01] * KK (49ab39c5@owirc-gig.7nu.62.64.IP) Quit (Quit: https://mibbit.com Online IRC Client)