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Yetzirah

A Cup Of Tea And A Proposition
Thu Jul 29 2004


Things are calming down here today. I am fortifying myself to enter the bathroom and spend a pleasant.... let me re-phrase that, an intense hour or two cleaning it.
It has fallen to the bottom of the list long enough that it IS the list, if you know what I mean.

As I sat at my desk in it's new spot in the bedroom today paying bills, I noticed something. The desk is right under a window that looks out into the garden. What I saw was that the sun is starting to have that look to it. The angle is changing toward autumn.

Oh, I know, it's July. But the light IS changing. There's something good about it. That's all I can say. Things look better in it. It changes my attitude.

The mailman came just a little bit ago, bearing a package. Inside were three boxes of Numi Golden Chai ! Thanks to my Portland shopping spies and special family purchasing agents, I am tea rich!

* * * *

So I have this crazy idea.

Let's have a Dear Diary "Harvest Moon" Chat in August.

That would be Saturday evening the 28th of August. Say, 6 o'clock Pacific Daylight Time.

Here's how we could do it.

Go to Yahoo.com and set up an account with them. (It's free) And download the Yahoo Messenger software. That's free too.
Use your deardiary username, unless you are already signed up. Then send me your username in a private comment to my diary. I will add you to my Yahoo Messenger list.
Then at the specified time, I will invite those who want to participate into a private conference room on Messenger and we can chat.

I thought about using the forums on DD. But they are slower to use and a bit cumbersome for more than just a few people at once.

I am putting the date a ways out, because frankly, I am still learning to use Messenger and need some more time to get proficient enough to know what to do if there are mix ups. I am a newbie to chat rooms myself. So I am giving you time enough to get acquainted with the program too. It is a bit of a project to configure it and what not. But the chat room itself is pretty straightforward. You just have to use it and play around with it and find out what's what.

What do you think?

It might be a zoo. It might be fun. We might regret it. But we will never know till we try!


6 Comments
  • From:
    MagicWhiskey (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Jul 28 2004
    Interesting idea. The chatroom thingy I mean not the toilet cleaning. Never the toilet cleaning.
  • From:
    Sezrah (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Jul 29 2004
    alright then, 28th august 6pm your time is sometime am 29th august my time, which will mean i am unfortunately at church :(

    never mind juggling it around, if you scheduled it for the 27th that makes it my saturday and i may very well be out hiking. whatever times you all decide on tho, let me know and i'll see if i can make it!

    sez
  • From:
    Becoming (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Jul 29 2004
    Hi there, I didn't read the entry when I sent you the private link. I think we are on the same page noticing the change in seasons! The chat sounds like a great idea.

    Have a great day! Back to work for me . . .

    ~Anne
  • From:
    Ichandra (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Jul 29 2004
    hi mon amie petit gateau
    well it sounds like you are enjoying your tea sessions as usual you make tea drinking sound so romantic and you have all these memories of collecting teas from deardiary occupants ah
    well mon amie i have my memories of lines that i write as i read you
    when you told me about the hebrew concept of the sunset is the new day well mon amie i thought of this poetry line and it was a big part of my last sky meditation that i wrote about in my last entry anyway here is the line for you
    when the dark angel is clothed in the robes of glorious early morning light
    and ofcourse i agree with you that the light can change your attitude no kidding i liked your sky meditation in fact itis kind of therapeutic for me to hear someone else recently respond to the sky that way so that i dont have to say to myself hey wake up it is all a dream ha ha
    that is such a beautiful idea about the harvest moon chat but put it this way mon amie i dont think i will be orchestrating that
    your writing always makes me feel so melancholy and i guess a reading chair is always a place filled with melancholy and dreams
    by the way mon amie i dislike this clicking on a button to become a friend ha ha all we need to seal this friendship i will give you my email in case deardiary ever folds add this to your address book
    [email protected]
    enjoy your chair mon amie
    a la prochaine until the next time that is now i wont repeat this so you have to know what it means
  • From:
    Ichandra (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Jul 29 2004
    well mon amie thanks for your in depth philosophy of what would we do without the sky i will treat that matter in my aggressively funny section
    i hope i didnt hurt your feelings about the chat what i meant to say was that for me it was too much orchestration i dont have enough technical skill to do that it is not that i would be stuckfor words or anything that serious
  • From:
    Waterspriteflying (Legacy)
    On:
    Fri Jul 30 2004
    It sounds like fun, although I'm a bit of a weiner sometimes when it comes to setting up computer stuff!

    Hugs,
    Ani