Chat Transcript, vol II

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Peggy:  Hey!  A new coward!  Hi!

aged_crone:  Hello!

aged_crone:  Willow?

aged_crone:  *sneaks a look at the visitors in Chatzy*

Peggy:  Good job Leslie!

aged_crone:  *worries that that might be considered delurking, and apologizes*

Peggy:  Hey ... did you know ... if you hit the up arrow while in the dialog/text box, you scroll through you're posts?

aged_crone:  No!

Peggy:  *your

Peggy:  Kind of cool!

Peggy:  Can't delete posts that way though.

Peggy:  So much for editorial control

Anon8:  lol, too bad

aged_crone:  Apropos of nothing, have any of you read Jane Langton's THE DIAMOND IN THE WINDOW and its sequels?

AnonymousCoward:  Hi. Am I here?

*** AnonymousCoward is now known as Willow

Peggy:  No, haven't seen or heard of it!

Willow:  Yay!

Anon8:  hi willow!

Peggy:  Hey Willow!

aged_crone:  Hi, Willow.

aged_crone:  Great book.  I just got the latest in the series but haven't read it yet.

Willow:  Just reading through the backlog on Chatzy.

Peggy:  Lots of backlog ...

Willow:  yeah

aged_crone:  Children's book.  Fantasy, grounded in real life.

Willow:  I can't believe we used it up so quickly! How long was that? *feels guilty for her portion*

Peggy:  Cool.  *goes to check it out on BN.com*

Peggy:  Don't worry about it Willow

aged_crone:  I wrote to the author and got a reply.  Very pleased!

Peggy:  The $9 upgrade is for "Family Chatrooms" - apparently ones without a lot of teenagers involved.

Willow:  And, to whoever asked, yes we did tell her the Odyssey!

aged_crone:  Or the von Trappist family?

Peggy:  No way!

aged_crone:  snort snort

Willow:  Well, we started.

Anon8:  lol

Willow:  It was the only thing that would keep her quiet.

aged_crone:  All ten years of it would have kept her quiet for a lonnnnggggg time!

Peggy:  :-)

Willow:  LOL yes. Well, we were paraphrasing.

Peggy:  The Readers Digest Condensed version

aged_crone:  I'm remembering the part in the Iliad where Hera starts smacking Artemis in the head with her own bow.

Peggy:  Are Fairs common in your area this time of year?

aged_crone:  Always makes me laugh.

Willow:  Yes, actually. We have two right now.

Peggy:  *missed that part of the Iliad*

Peggy:  Wow.  We only get them from late May to late August

Willow:  Well, we don't have them any other time of year.

Willow:  And it's too cold most other places, so I guess the rates for the carnivals are cheaper right now.

Peggy:  'course, we have snow the rest of the year

Peggy:  :-)

Willow:  :P

Peggy:  (forgot the nose)

Willow:  *has never had snow* :-P

aged_crone:  Anybody know when the next Narnia movie is supposed to come out?

Willow:  There's another one? Which one?

Peggy:  Is it being filmed?

Anon8:  ??

aged_crone:  Well, they're working on Prince Caspian, but I don't know if they're just writing it or have started filming.

Peggy:  *hasn't heard of another Narnia movie*

Peggy:  The Eragon one is big news right now

aged_crone:  Just found website:  http://www.narniaweb.com/

aged_crone:  They're thinking May '08.

aged_crone:  I was looking at buying Eragon for the library, but all the reviews I read said it was derivative and not very good.

Anon8:  huh

Willow:  It was derivative, but it wasn't bad.

aged_crone:  I haven't read it.

Peggy:  It's very very popular with all the kids around here

Peggy:  Including both of mine

Peggy:  And Attolia from Greek ...

aged_crone:  Those were inspired by, not derivative.  :)

Anon8:  i've only heard negative reviews of Eragon

Peggy:  ah ...

Willow:  What did the reviews say Eragon was derivative from? Because I picked up a couple of different stories in it.

aged_crone:  Emphasis on inspired.

Willow:  For example the elf woman whose name I forget was def. not Tolkien.

Willow:  Nor was his personal transformation.

aged_crone:  I don't remember, but it was like a pinch of Tolkien, a touch of Lewis, a dab of this and a dash of that...

Willow:  A lot of the races and geography were Tolkienesque, but not so much the plot. That was more Star Wars.

aged_crone:  I think that was one of the things they mentioned.  A whole bunch of scifi and fantasy works.

Anon8:  sounds unoriginal?

aged_crone:  That's what the reviews I read said.  Since I haven't read the book, I can't say for sure.

Willow:  It didn't seem like he had intentionally ripped things off, though.

Peggy:  But very popular, and better than sitting in front of the TV ...

Willow:  And I will say this: after a long day of travel, Eldest was gripping enough to keep me up until one in the morning...

Willow:  Whether not it was good, I did want to finish it.

aged_crone:  Depends on what you're watching on TV.  I've got a Rawhide DVD in, and, you know, Clint Eastwood and whoever played the trail boss were both quite easy on the eyes...

Peggy:  Ride 'em in RAWHIDE!

Willow:  I sat in the car in wet clothes with a fever reading KoA...

Peggy:  I missed a morning of work reading it the SECOND time!

Anon8:  heehee

aged_crone:  needs

Willow:  Sleep is overrated. ;-)

Willow:  Wait... no it's not. Never mind.

Peggy:  LOL

Willow:  *yawns*

aged_crone:  No kidding!

Peggy:  Leslie - those Diamond books are OLD!

Peggy:  I'm surprised they're still in print

aged_crone:  The Diamond in the Window was from like 1962, but the newest one just came out.

aged_crone:  They were out of print, then in print, then out, now in again, but without the Blegvad illustrations, darn it.

Peggy:  Is Diamond part of "The Hall Family Chronicles"?

aged_crone:  It's the first one.

Peggy:  *pokes Willow awake*

aged_crone:  They weren't called that until they were reissued a couple of years ago.

aged_crone:  *offers Willow coffee*

Peggy:  *chocolate*

Willow:  No thanks. I don't drink coffee-- chocolate?

Willow:  *takes chocolate*

Peggy:  Chocolate is Good

Willow:  And I am awake. I'm just tired.

Anon8:  long day?

aged_crone:  The Diamond in the Window, The Swing in the Summerhouse, The Astonishing Stereoscope, The Fledgling, The Fragile Flag, The Time Bike, and The Mysterious Circus.

Willow:  Long week last week.

Willow:  What are these Diamond books about?

aged_crone:  *offers Willow caffeine in an IV drip*

Peggy:  It's Saturday!  You were suppose to sleep in ...

aged_crone:  They're set in Concord, Massachusetts.  In the first one, Eleanor and her little brother Edward find a secret room in their attic, a bedroom from which two children had disappeared years before.  They follow a series of clues in their dreams...

aged_crone:  Well, since you don't like coffee, you probably wouldn't like them.  On the other hand, I seldom drink coffee but I adore those.

Peggy:  Dark Chocolate+Coffe=Love

Willow:  The thing with coffee and tea is it tastes too much like hot water. If it were really strong I would probably like it.

Peggy:  Really strong and dark with lots of real cream.

aged_crone:  Well, espresso's definitely strong.

Peggy:  Lots of cream is the other key

aged_crone:  Not in espresso.  No room in the tiny cup for anything but sugar.

Peggy:  We're totally off topic, but that's ok because our hour window was up a long time ago :)

aged_crone:  I thought it started at 11 my time?

aged_crone:  Which would be 5 eastern?

Peggy:  3-4 Central ...

Peggy:  4 Eastern

aged_crone:  Oh - I must have misread something.

Peggy:  there was confusion...

aged_crone:  Did I miss much?

Peggy:  no.  Christmas presents

Peggy:  Did you get in on Emerald's bees?

aged_crone:  Yes, I was here for that.

Peggy:  We spent 45 minutes figuring out which chatroom to use

aged_crone:  Then I didn't miss out on the secrets of the ages.  Whew!

Willow:  Emerald's bees?

Willow:  Christmas presents?

Peggy:  She's making earrings

Anon8:  yes, pretty~

Willow:  Are these bees as in insects?

aged_crone:  Bee-shaped earrings.

aged_crone:  Like Attolia's

Peggy:  Bees as in Attolia's earrings

Peggy:  out of wood

Willow:  Cool!

Peggy:  She's learning to carve

aged_crone:  Maybe she should make ruby earrings with a matching headband?

Peggy:  That would be cool!

Anon8:  yeah!

Peggy:  She said she didn't know how to do gemstones though

Willow:  I thought the bees were gemstones as well?

Peggy:  She could make the flawed emerald dolphin ring!

aged_crone:  Well, those you can buy pre-cut, because I don't think most jewelers can cut their own.

Peggy:  Did it ever say what the bees were?

Peggy:  I had thought amber

Willow:  golden

Willow:  I think

Willow:  so no

Willow:  Oh

Peggy:  Like solid gold?  Gold-the-element, not gold-the-color?

Anon8:  something about them being the color of honey

Peggy:  OK.  So QoA

Anon8:  and older than the monarchy

Peggy:  Honey=Amber ... (?)

aged_crone:  I says earrings the color of honey

aged_crone:  Errrr, *it* says, not I