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Difficulty: Medium Sunday, July 30, 2006

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CHAT LOG for Sunday, July 30, 2006

12:04 am
raggedyandy3478

hello everyone
12:07 am
lawfully

Hi, raggedy
12:08 am
raggedyandy3478

how ya doing tonight?
12:08 am
lawfully

pretty ok... and it doesn't look that difficult :)
12:09 am
raggedyandy3478

but looks can be deceiving
12:09 am
lawfully

right...
12:13 am
chebuctonian

hi all
12:13 am
lawfully

hello
12:20 am
raggedyandy3478

done
12:21 am
lawfully

congrats, was the look deceiving?
12:21 am
raggedyandy3478

nope, not tonight
12:22 am
lawfully

i'm relieved...
12:26 am
raggedyandy3478

well, im off to bed for the night, got to catch up on some sleep
12:27 am
lawfully

gnight..
1:52 am
sprite

Morning
5:51 am
peternl

hi all
6:14 am
sherb

July 25...
6:15 am
peternl

you're out by about a week
6:15 am
sherb

catching up on the past week... :)
6:31 am
sherb

done... time for lunch...
8:17 am
chebuctonian

hi all
10:27 am
yul

hello
10:27 am
yul

hello
10:27 am
yul

sorry, my compu too sencetive
10:33 am
btwrt

goooood mornin yul :D
10:34 am
yul

good moming btwrt :) how is you painting progressing?
10:35 am
btwrt

ohhh ... i dunno ... it's ok i guess ;) i'm no big painter, i just dabble in it for fun
10:35 am
MpP

morning
10:35 am
btwrt

g'mornin :)
10:35 am
yul

hello
10:37 am
yul

i used to paint alot. i should do some too
10:38 am
btwrt

i've been using oil paints ... i enjoy how vibrant the colors are
10:39 am
btwrt

i don't have any ability to draw, so the stuff i do has to be more ... what's the word i'm looking for ...
10:39 am
btwrt

abstract, i guess might be the word.
10:40 am
yul

i was dreaming today that i found my plein air box from college. just remembered :O
10:40 am
btwrt

lol
10:43 am
yul

i like oils too but i have a special watercolour tecnique developped and i used to do masses of still lives :)
10:44 am
btwrt

ooh, nice :D i'd love to see them. i've painted ... about 4 paintings so far? and only two of them are technically finished ;)
10:48 am
yul

oil takes time. unfortunatly i sold all of my best paintings and i have only very bad photos of them. i shell try to paint again and also make a webpage with pix i have left.
10:48 am
btwrt

oh, that'd be awesome :D definitely let me know when you have that done. oh and if you need website help ;)
10:49 am
yul

thanks :)
10:49 am
btwrt

today's grid seems to be going fairly well so far ...
10:49 am
yul

i need to look at it :)
10:57 am
btwrt

oops. i think i spoke too soon.
11:12 am
yul

done
11:14 am
btwrt

yay yul! +~+~+ fireworks +~+~+
11:14 am
btwrt

i must be missing something obvious ...
11:22 am
yul

:)
11:24 am
yul

i have to run. nice chatting with you, btwrt. everybody,have a nice day
11:25 am
btwrt

you have a good day too :D c-ya
11:57 am
hurshy

seriously, they are advocating metal detecting as a hobby?
11:57 am
Atalante

better than train spotting!
11:58 am
hurshy

that was a movie
11:58 am
btwrt

what's this about metal detecting??
11:58 am
hurshy

some commercial, that's all
11:58 am
btwrt

did you walk into the classroom in the middle of a conversation? lol
11:59 am
hurshy

classroom? what classroom? it's summer
11:59 am
btwrt

lol i was referring to this forum abstractly as a 'classroom' ;) it won't happen again
12:03 pm
hurshy

uhoh
12:04 pm
hurshy

i have gone too speedily
12:04 pm
btwrt

uh oh what exactly?
12:04 pm
hurshy

i messed it up
12:04 pm
btwrt

ohhhh
12:05 pm
btwrt

it went quick for a bit and then i got stuck
12:05 pm
btwrt

i finished it, tho, if you feel the need for a hint which i know you won't ;) i'm working on archives some more. i am ... 6 away from all of them done? better than 18 or more away like i was a couple days ago
12:06 pm
hurshy

go btwrt
12:06 pm
btwrt

:D
12:06 pm
btwrt

don't you mean butt-wart?
12:06 pm
hurshy

if you insist :)
12:07 pm
btwrt

lol. i really don't.
12:07 pm
hurshy

yes you do, i know you do
12:07 pm
btwrt

wow, it's like you can read my thoughts ...
12:14 pm
hurshy

i should have known it was too good to be true
12:15 pm
btwrt

what did you do now?
12:15 pm
hurshy

nothing, just reflecting back on my earlier oops
12:15 pm
btwrt

ahhh, i c
12:17 pm
hurshy

my kittens are too cute
12:18 pm
btwrt

;) sooo cute and itttchy
12:18 pm
hurshy

ok but if i were to videotape them you could enjoy the cuteness without the itching
12:18 pm
btwrt

that is very true :)
12:26 pm
hurshy

there. now what to do all day?
12:27 pm
btwrt

lol
12:27 pm
hurshy

i'm trying to solve a cat problem, so i'm trying to stay in my room with them all day.l
12:27 pm
btwrt

ahhhh. gotcha.
12:27 pm
btwrt

apparently for me, today is the Day of the Phone
12:27 pm
hurshy

ringy dingy
12:28 pm
hurshy

how's voldemort?
12:28 pm
btwrt

meh, sending me angry emails
12:29 pm
hurshy

i think you misinterpreted my code
12:29 pm
hurshy

voldemort = you know who
12:29 pm
hurshy

you know who = ....
12:29 pm
btwrt

prolly so ;) voldemort = evil male person. what's your take on it?
12:30 pm
btwrt

starts with a W?
12:30 pm
hurshy

i suppose the evilness is more salient.
12:31 pm
hurshy

argh this is so annoying for some reason on the laptop here, AIM is saying sign in failed. it let me sign on in europe, why not here? i signed out on the desktop first...
12:31 pm
hurshy

yes
12:32 pm
btwrt

hmm. took a min but i got it to sign in. mebbe cancel and retry?
12:32 pm
hurshy

i've been trying for a couple of hours
12:33 pm
hurshy

i just don't get it
12:33 pm
btwrt

ahh i c. yeah i think voldemort is good ... haven't talked in actually about 3 days (yipe!)
12:33 pm
hurshy

oh, poor you
12:34 pm
btwrt

i had a grand night last night, what with voldemort missing, and voldemort-that-was sending the angry emails, and being at hogwarts by myself as the headmaster is on holiday
12:34 pm
hurshy

angry emails re: what?
12:35 pm
btwrt

mostly about bronze knuts i think
12:36 pm
hurshy

hmph
12:36 pm
btwrt

something to do with how mini-me's food,groceries,college fund, are all very financially strenuous for voldemort-that-was to have handled over the past 3 months
12:37 pm
hurshy

well unless he owes money to the malfoys, why doesn't he just deal?
12:37 pm
btwrt

yes. i think evil voldemorts have lots of ways to obtain more bronze knuts and even the gold pieces, what are they called, poor little butt-wart would not know
12:38 pm
btwrt

;)
12:39 pm
hurshy

well just think of it this way... it'll have to be over at some point
12:39 pm
btwrt

house-elves, as you know, do not get paid ;)
12:39 pm
btwrt

true dat
12:40 pm
hurshy

i'm trying to install an older version of AIM
12:40 pm
btwrt

ahh, ok
12:44 pm
hurshy

think it's working!
1:12 pm
helenkeller

go
1:14 pm
hurshy

look at helen go!
1:14 pm
whever

No, please don't.
1:14 pm
hurshy

whyever not, whever?
1:15 pm
helenkeller

:)
1:16 pm
whever

We should respect her privacy. Afterall, none of us would like it if a bunch of people watched us going in the privacy of this chatroom.
1:16 pm
whever

;-)
1:16 pm
hurshy

ewwww i didn't mean that
1:16 pm
Twin C

If she's going, I hope she has a laptop.
1:17 pm
artlady

have laptop, will go...
1:17 pm
helenkeller

hey - it's sunday morning for me - i guess it's still saturday night for other people
1:17 pm
artlady

or travel...
1:17 pm
whever

lol
1:17 pm
artlady

or sunday afternoon
1:18 pm
Penguin101

make that sunday night...quarter past eight... :)
1:18 pm
helenkeller

thanks alot for reminding art - gee since we live about 20 miles apart, i guess it would make it afternoon for me also
1:19 pm
artlady

looks like you frittered away your morning, too, helen!
1:19 pm
artlady

I have nothing accomplished today. yet.
1:19 pm
helenkeller

i did go out to breakfast :) & read a little of the paper :)
1:20 pm
helenkeller

and, btw, sleeping is NOT frittering, lol
1:20 pm
artlady

I finished a good book...
1:21 pm
helenkeller

what book?
1:21 pm
artlady

A Michael Jecks mystery, set in the 14th century.
1:21 pm
artlady

The Chapel of Bones.
1:22 pm
artlady

I like historical mysteries.
1:22 pm
helenkeller

oh yes - we did stop at one garage sale on the way to breakfast & i bought 3 first edition nancy drew mysteries for 25 cents each!!!
1:23 pm
artlady

You did not fritter away your morning! Very productive.
1:24 pm
helenkeller

i am slowly collecting all the them - i emphasize 'slowly' :)
1:24 pm
artlady

How many are there?
1:24 pm
helenkeller

yes art, i must agree, lol, very productive, lol
1:26 pm
helenkeller

i believe there are 54, but i just buy whatever i find because that's easier than keeping a list & it's not like i spend more than a dollar for each one
1:27 pm
artlady

Yikes! I had no idea there were so many. I read a few as a kid, but I was more into Westerns then.
1:27 pm
helenkeller

plus, some are not in the best of shape - heck, some kids actually would draw or write in their books, can you imagine such a thing?
1:27 pm
hurshy

i think i have many of them helen
1:27 pm
artlady

gasp
1:27 pm
helenkeller

i don't think ms. keene wrote all of them, some ghosts were involved along the way
1:28 pm
hurshy

how do you know if they are 1st editions?
1:28 pm
helenkeller

hurshy, old buddy, old pal
1:28 pm
hokie carla

wasn't carolyn keene a pseudonym anyway?
1:28 pm
Atalante

yup it was
1:28 pm
hokie carla

seems like I recall reading that the actual author wrote many things under many names
1:29 pm
helenkeller

yes - not her real name - someone just had her on favorite authors day on babble complete with her life story, lawsuit involving rights, damn, if i knew there was going to be a quiz i would have taken notes
1:29 pm
artlady

lol
1:29 pm
helenkeller

i don't remember who it was, but i was impressed by the amount of info that person shared in their profile
1:30 pm
sandbox74

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Keenee..
.
1:30 pm
hokie carla

oh. I haven't been babbling a lot lately. I think I read that in a Girl Scout magazine. & that was many, many years ago!
1:30 pm
hurshy

how d'you know if it's 1st edition?
1:31 pm
Atalante

general rule - if it doesn't say 2nd, 3rd , whatever edition anywhere :P
1:31 pm
helenkeller

so, hurshy, don't let your mom sell those books! i see them for between 5 & 10 dollars at antique shops/fairs
1:31 pm
hurshy

*runs to check her books*
1:31 pm
sandbox74

it's usually in the copyright page... if there is only one year in the print... it's first ed... although may not be first run
1:32 pm
helenkeller

right
1:33 pm
Atalante

on a more advanced level, check against the official first edition date. also, there are usually more than 1 first edition per book - different editions, different countries etc, but there's only one First Edition. also there are 1st printings of 1st editions which are even more valuable!
1:34 pm
hurshy

i dunno, they look like firsts but my no 27 is older than my no1 so i don't see how they can be
1:34 pm
hurshy

maybe i only have one then
1:35 pm
hurshy

what year did no 1 come out helen?
1:35 pm
helenkeller

no clue - would have to look
1:36 pm
helenkeller

which i may do AFTER sudoku, since i am not pro & am almost done
1:37 pm
hurshy

oh the BLUE covers are firsts
1:37 pm
hurshy

then i have one.
1:39 pm
hokie carla

I think my bros. had some original Hardy Boys, but the only Nancy Drews I have are paperbacks, when she was modernized in the 80s.
1:41 pm
hurshy

i thought the yellow spine ones were firsts but guess i was wrong
1:43 pm
Atalante

I thought the yellow ones were firsts too ...
1:45 pm
helenkeller

ok, here is what i read - it's pretty confusing since there seem to have been many ghosts involved over different periods of time starting in the 1930's
1:45 pm
hokie carla

well, I'm done. happy book hunting!
1:52 pm
helenkeller

the original stories began to be updated in the 1950's - they changed her hair color, her car, her friends, etc
1:53 pm
hurshy

what was her original hair color? not titian?
1:53 pm
artlady

I have no ideas which ones I read. They were my aunts' books.
1:53 pm
helenkeller

blond from 1930 - 1960
1:53 pm
hurshy

and are you saying george and bess weren't original? and ned???
1:53 pm
helenkeller

the wikipedia is pretty good
1:54 pm
helenkeller

lol hurshy - it appears she had a friend named .....
1:54 pm
helenkeller

yes, that's right
1:54 pm
helenkeller

HELEN!!!!!!
1:54 pm
hurshy

good golly miss molly, the foundations of my world are being shaken
1:55 pm
helenkeller

ned was always there, but george was added later, & bess substituted helen
1:55 pm
hurshy

well thank heaven for ned
1:55 pm
helenkeller

sometimes, i pays to NOT know too much, lol
1:55 pm
hurshy

although in the combo books with the hardy boys, i did wish she'd throw him over for frank
1:55 pm
helenkeller

i never read those
2:22 pm
Atalante

sudoku's are so nice when they suddenly unravel and play nicely!
3:38 pm
skizzybiz

hah! finally solved that expert from a week ago. i hate having to guess...
9:06 pm
cat

ffdfds
9:40 pm
Limer

Ha
9:41 pm
Limer

Nailed that puppy!
9:41 pm
Limer

Rank me, baby!
9:41 pm
Limer

Used Green
9:41 pm
Limer

Cue theme music.
11:14 pm
shiroro

this thing doesn't solve. i quit.
11:15 pm
spazzy

desperately need help, i do
11:21 pm
spazzy

and there we go