*** Opened channel log for #adf at 20/01/2015 7:58:12 PM [19:58] That is what i said and what I have [19:58] Hubby saw several in the yard today [19:58] That's entertaining. [19:59] [Owlhawk] okkkaaayyyy [19:59] Don't mind me. Bad day at work [19:59] [Owlhawk] lol [20:01] It happens to the best of us. Don't worry about it. [20:04] *** SaraKBlackwelder (Mibbit@93581b89.tampfl.fios.36f5c1fe.net.hmsk) has joined #adf [20:04] Hey Sara [20:04] good evening! [20:05] [Owlhawk] hello [20:05] *** rmagill (rmagill@8dd1f883.c3-0.eas-ubr1.atw-eas.pa.cable.6ca6e6e8.com.hmsk) has joined #adf [20:06] *** thexalon (thexalon@b07a5574.neo.res.14056255.com.hmsk) has joined #adf [20:06] Howdy, all! [20:06] *** rmagill (rmagill@8dd1f883.c3-0.eas-ubr1.atw-eas.pa.cable.6ca6e6e8.com.hmsk) has quit IRC [Client Quit] [20:06] Good evening [20:06] Hello Thexalon [20:07] So, what's being discussed this evening? [20:08] [Owlhawk] we're just getting started. [20:08] [Owlhawk] so no topics as of yet. unless you caount Rovena's baby walking stick on monitor... [20:09] Also some of us are trying to be funny and falling flat [20:09] It is a little thing [20:09] Been on the same spot for over an hour [20:10] I thought it was because the background was kelly green [20:10] Background has been beige for 30 mins and it still hasn't moved [20:10] Sounds entertaining. [20:11] [Owlhawk] I'm just baffled why having a baby sized stick of wood on your monitor , blocking things, is good.... [20:11] We country kids are easily amused [20:12] My hubby says that they don't have walking sticks in Canada. It is a small insect that looks like a stick. [20:12] They are considered good luck [20:12] So an answer to the old riddle about "What's brown and sticky?" Got it. [20:12] [Owlhawk] ah. that explains it a bit. I thought you meant an actual walking stick. [20:13] [Owlhawk] never heard that riddle [20:14] The right answer is "a stick". Less of a riddle than "What has it gots in its pocketses?" [20:15] My Precious [20:18] Too literary? [20:18] lol no, just out of it myself [20:19] I think I can't stay long tonight....the girlie is being very 2 this evening :) [20:19] I'm playing Shoots & Ladders with my 5 year old lol [20:19] [Owlhawk] I'll pray for both of your survival [20:19] lol [20:20] alright, good night all. I have to go attend to the lovey [20:20] *** SaraKBlackwelder (Mibbit@93581b89.tampfl.fios.36f5c1fe.net.hmsk) has quit IRC [Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client] [20:20] In any event, a potential topic: Any rituals one would recommend doing when someone is joining ones' household? I have a grovie moving in in a month. [20:20] Take care and enjoy [20:21] [Owlhawk] house blessing comes to mind [20:21] The house itself is already quite blessed, but yes, I could see that. [20:22] [Owlhawk] that way the new roommate is included in the workings and protections on the house [20:22] Yes that makes sense [20:24] [Owlhawk] Hecate's Deipnon is around now....I think....I'd have to check the calender [20:26] Februalia was a Roman festival of purification and atoning for past misdeads, so you could do something along those lines as well? [20:26] This is a Hestia-oriented blessing when I do it - she's in charge of hearth and home. [20:27] [Owlhawk] that makes sense. I was tossing out another possible rite to share. [20:28] Do you share a hearth culture? [20:28] Nope - I'm strongly Hellenic, new housemate is Norse. So we may do some sort of joint thing. [20:28] *** TrentDiRenna (Mibbit@37bcff35.dhcp.trlk.ca.4e125616.com.hmsk) has joined #adf [20:29] hi everyone [20:29] That will be an interesting combo [20:29] Hey Trent [20:29] Howdy. [20:29] Hello Trent [20:31] how is everyone? [20:32] It moved! It was at the one o'clock position and is now at the two o'clock [20:32] *** bblythe84 (Mibbit@6ca5f080.6ca5ecbb.50.25.imsk) has joined #adf [20:32] [Owlhawk] good. I'm closing in on 10 hours run time for devirusing a computer. hoping it finishes in time for me to go to bed.... [20:32] hello [20:32] Hello bblythe84 [20:32] [Owlhawk] hello [20:33] 10 hours? ye gods [20:33] how is everyone tonight [20:34] Fine How are you? [20:35] not to bad [20:35] [Owlhawk] yup. that's better then it's laptop brother. it took a usb install of windows to finally finish wiping it after rkill and combo fix froze for the morning [20:36] ... and that's why I run Linux almost exclusively. [20:37] heh [20:37] Here too Thexalon. [20:37] [Owlhawk] I'm starting to lean that way for my main system...it isn't like the wife doesn't have her own laptop after all, but these are customer computers. [20:37] We had a virus email go around work today. [20:37] well i have been brewing for a week tomorow [20:37] [Owlhawk] I haven't checked the logs yet, but I think it's over 150 viruses removed on the one system [20:38] [Owlhawk] fantastic. [20:38] What are you brewing? [20:38] [Owlhawk] I need to do something about the pomergranate mead or it won't make it to Wellsprings this year. [20:38] [Owlhawk] Have you taken a gravity reading recently? [20:38] an american light classic hme that came with the kit [20:39] i dont have a hydrometer [20:39] [Owlhawk] ah. get one. tomorrow. [20:39] [Owlhawk] they let you know when it's time to bottle. [20:39] [Owlhawk] for beer, anything under a reading of 1010 or so is usually a good point. [20:39] oh, it's not your comps, but other people's [20:39] it's got about two more weeks before i am going to check it and i cant spend any more on it for awhile [20:40] And hooray for mead! [20:40] [Owlhawk] yup. totally infested. the laptop was a total loss [20:40] im more worried about the swings in tempreture [20:40] [Owlhawk] Might have to make do with Strawberry Mead this year Thexalon.... [20:40] [Owlhawk] how big? [20:40] 70 ambient to 62 ambient in about nine hours [20:41] may have gone a bit over seventy but i was asleep [20:41] [Owlhawk] taste it and see if it tastes off, if it doesn't then you're fine. That's not outside the yeast tolerence. [20:42] [Owlhawk] shouldn't be an issue I would think. I've gone in both directions like that before and been fine. [20:43] [Owlhawk] Unless I make a Merlot before then....that might give me an excuse to make one! [20:43] well im worried about the swings and moving the cooler (which i dont do anymore) is over stressing the yeast [20:43] [Owlhawk] yeast are hardier then you might expect. a bit of stirring can be good for them and they'll settle back down to the bottom in good time. [20:44] yeah [20:44] I'm not too worried about a lack of alcohol at Wellspring - between Robb, Flip, AJ, and commercial stuff, we usually have plenty. [20:44] [Owlhawk] taste it and see. [20:44] [Owlhawk] I was referring to the Symposium spectically [20:44] Oh yes, of course. [20:45] [Owlhawk] no way I can compete in volume with those three. especially crossing the border [20:45] *** RobHenderson (Mibbit@5a79652d.hsd1.mi.5aa6454b.net.hmsk) has joined #adf [20:45] [Owlhawk] hello [20:46] Hi Rob! We were just discussing alcohol for the Wellspring Symposium. [20:46] hi rob [20:47] I don't drink, so feel free to continue leaving me out of it. >8) [20:47] [Owlhawk] lol. [20:47] [Owlhawk] the pomergranate mead I started might not finish in time for this year was where we started [20:47] well it will be the best light beer i have ever had [20:48] [Owlhawk] your own always is [20:48] well in this case it will because i have never had a light beer before [20:49] [Owlhawk] if you really think the temp swing has caused a problem the best way to find out is to sample it and see. tomorrow as well. sterilize a turkey baster and use it to put a little bit into a glass. sniff it to check the odour and then taste it [20:49] the fermenter has a spigot [20:50] [Owlhawk] that's cheating! [20:50] http://www.mrbeer.com/2-gallon-fermenter-beer-keg [20:50] :p [20:51] [Owlhawk] you showed me last week. I like it, but it's too small [20:52] *** Drum (Mibbit@6ca5f0dd.6ca5ec9b.50.153.imsk) has joined #adf [20:52] *** Mode change [+o Drum] on #adf by ChanServ [20:52] [Owlhawk] hello [20:52] Hey, it's Drum. [20:52] Hello, Thexalon! [20:53] Owlhawk! [20:53] Hello everyone! [20:53] hello drum [20:53] What's shakin? [20:53] Hello :) [20:53] You tell me! [20:53] i am also thinking about building a full on brewchamber [20:53] *** GregTrask (Mibbit@ebfab016.neo.res.14056255.com.hmsk) has joined #adf [20:55] [Owlhawk] what, like a room for nothing but brewing [20:55] [Owlhawk] ? [20:55] AJ doesn't even have that. [20:55] [Owlhawk] Auz at Raven's Knoll has a room he calls his brew room. So far as I know that's all he uses it for [20:56] [Owlhawk] I'm still working on a separate Altar room. I figure that really should come before a brew room....' [20:56] http://www.nchomebrewing.com/diy-mini-fridge-beer-fermentation-chamber-build/ [20:57] I have an altar room and it is nice to have [20:57] You could combine the two [20:57] Brewing is a religious activity [20:57] i have a corner to myself? [20:57] [Owlhawk] interesting build there bblythe. I'll have to attempt to convince the boss I need a few.... [20:58] [Owlhawk] if I can get the back room emptied this winter then it will finally become the Working room. And yes, I likely would store the fermenting brews in there, as I agree, it is a religious activity [20:59] well you could easly modify it to include nicer pannleing stain and hardware to make it look nicer and perhaps add a countertop on top to make it a workspace as well [20:59] [Owlhawk] first I have to convince the wife, and that might cost me a kitten.....maybe even a bunny..... [21:00] I can ship you a pygmy kitten [21:00] Bribery through critters is entertaining. [21:01] [Owlhawk] luckily I'm on the other side of an international border, so it's not that easy. [21:01] [Owlhawk] The Ferryman keeps offering her kittens for her half of the fermenting mead in the house. [21:01] sell it to her as making a kitchen island [21:02] [Owlhawk] that won't work in her kitchen, which we need to completely redo, so that approach is out as well. [21:02] hey i tried [21:02] [Owlhawk] thanks for trying. [21:02] Besides, it's a bad idea to make the wife unhappy. Remember Lysistrata. [21:03] [Owlhawk] lol. [21:03] [Owlhawk] she knows where I sleep, how deeply i sleep and she has big ass kitchen knives! [21:03] though as long as you don't hard wire it or tie it into the plumbing you can put it anywhere and then ... move it [21:03] That wasn't the threat I was referring to. [21:03] Never underestimate the effectiveness of cast iron [21:04] [Owlhawk] I'm a country boy...i don't underestimate it. [21:05] lol [21:05] [Owlhawk] don't build things in the house your boss....I mean wife hasn't approved of. it isn't healthy [21:05] lol yeah [21:06] You all missed the boat on that. Lysistrata didn't try to injure anyone, just organized the women to refuse to sleep with men until they agreed to their demands. [21:06] ahh [21:06] [Owlhawk] I've been married for over a decade...not sure that's really a threat so much as an offer of peace and quiet for a bit.... [21:07] You are still newlyweds [21:08] [Owlhawk] I'll tell her that next time she asks how long we've been married. see if I get brownie points. [21:09] *** GregTrask (Mibbit@ebfab016.neo.res.14056255.com.hmsk) has quit IRC [Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client] [21:10] lol [21:16] Bye all! [21:16] [Owlhawk] good night Rob [21:16] *** RobHenderson (Mibbit@5a79652d.hsd1.mi.5aa6454b.net.hmsk) has quit IRC [Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client] [21:17] So what do we want to talk about now? Don't make me start on the walking stick again [21:18] When you put it that way it seems like you're threatening to torture the poor thing. :P [21:18] heh [21:18] Me? Torture something ... besides my hubby? Never [21:19] lol [21:20] My grove has a whole bunch of people trying to complete their Dedicant's this year. I'd like to do a brainstorm of classes for them - we're starting with basic trance and meditation. [21:20] That is a great idea. [21:20] [Owlhawk] that's likely the toughest. Wheel of the Year. Cover enough each session to give them a write up for that High Day [21:21] i keep trying to start my dedicant's but have yet to make much progress [21:21] bblythe84: What's the biggest roadblock you've run into? [21:21] You can't get much slwoer than me. [21:22] Ditto for you, Rovena. [21:23] Time Right now I am working 50 hrs a week, helping run a protogrove, and life in general [21:23] We're making a real push this year, in large part because it's pressuring our Senior Druid in particular to actually finish it. [21:24] [Owlhawk] lol. I guess that's one reason to push it [21:25] i just cant seem to get much traction i go to get started then end up going ohh shiny [21:26] heh i haven't even started yet [21:26] i barely do anything at all though... [21:26] What actually got me to complete mine was a combination of 2 factors: 1. An oath to spend at least a few minutes a day working on it. 2. A strong kick in the rear by Missy Burchfield. [21:27] [Owlhawk] I was helped by loosing my job and actually having a bit of time to work on it for once. [21:27] I think if i had someone nearby to talk with about it it may help [21:28] [Owlhawk] you can request a mentor. We also can discuss the DP here. we do fairly often [21:28] I have finished reading my second book just need to write the review, do the third book review, and one essay. [21:28] You could ask for a mentor [21:28] [Owlhawk] well done rovenna [21:28] *** AmberD (Mibbit@c3e66333.om.om.6ca6b017.net.hmsk) has quit IRC [Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client] [21:28] Yes, well done [21:28] nice :) [21:28] Rovena, sounds like you're getting close. [21:28] go go go [21:29] I am trying but there is so much other things that I have going on. At least I can stop worrying about my brother. [21:30] i could but i don't know i probably won't some days i wish i had a local grove though [21:30] [Owlhawk] that will help. stress means some things fall by the wayside, and quite rightly so. [21:30] I have great faith in you, Rovena [21:30] I am going to try to write the review on Wednesday night [21:31] May I ask where you are, bblythe84? [21:32] And seriously, if you need help or encouragement, you can surely find that here on Tuesday nights [21:32] west texas [21:32] Yes, we love to help. [21:32] :) [21:32] Will you be at Imbolc Retreat? [21:33] Me? Yes :D [21:33] I was thinking of bblythe84 [21:33] It is a close festival [21:33] oh, sorry :/ [21:34] imbolc retreat? [21:34] It is as really good festival [21:34] Near San Antonio [21:34] No! I love you smiling face and can't wait to see it again [21:34] Same here! [21:34] Mountain Home [21:34] Actually, it is in Mountain Home Texas [21:34] ;) [21:34] at U Bar U conference Center [21:35] It is fun and informative [21:35] Yes, and good food :) [21:35] Feb 6 thru 8 (I think) [21:35] And very good people [21:35] And a good fire [21:36] Yes, 6 thru 8 [21:36] Bblythe84 - some of the small festivals, like Texas Imbolc and Three Rivers in Canada are truly the best [21:37] We had a great storyteller in the old style last year. [21:37] And he will be back again! [21:37] You can't be a stranger for long at it [21:37] :) [21:38] i shall see if i will be able to make it though it will depend on how my bills and vacation hours are looking [21:38] By the way, Thexalon, I loved your reference to Lysistrata [21:38] I hope you can make itbblythe84 [21:39] Understand that. I have a standing vacation request for that weekend. [21:39] Hey, Hellenic comedy is fun! And I was thinking of it, because I'm writing a satyr play for Stone Creed's upcoming Dionysia (spring equinox) [21:39] How cool! [21:40] Our protogrove is too small for a play [21:41] it would be hillarieous for my group (me) try to put on a play [21:42] im hoping to go to eight winds this year, as well as pantheacon [21:42] The Gods do enjoy humor [21:43] and hey for some good new the name i picked for my first custom ipa isn't taken yet [21:43] You could do a small play with just a few characters [21:43] Great [21:45] True but the only audience would be the Kindred. [21:45] Not that that would be a bad thing [21:46] bblythe84, if you don't want a mentor you might want a study buddy [21:46] that might be nice [21:48] Walking stick is at the 12 O'clock position [21:48] See, last time we did one, we performed the only satyr play we actually have the script for (Cyclopes, about Odysseus' encounter with Polyphemos) [21:50] Neat [21:52] well i have to go watch andrew zimmern judge chopped [21:52] Hope to chat with you next week [21:53] Well, time for me to vanish as well [21:54] Rovena, see you next week and then again soon! [21:54] Night, Drum [21:54] Night all! [21:54] [Owlhawk] good night [21:54] Night :) [21:54] *** Drum (Mibbit@6ca5f0dd.6ca5ec9b.50.153.imsk) has quit IRC [Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client] [21:55] I am on the verge of turning into a pumpkin so the last one out, please lock up. [21:56] [Owlhawk] good night [21:56] good night everyone [21:57] Adios! 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