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At the given date and time (weekly schedule posted below), meet at post 1. It appears 30 minutes in advance of the hour (barring unusual circumstances), giving us a chance to set our goals in the comments. Declare your goal. Work toward furthering your project; word counting, revision, or whatever it needs - you decide.

Post 2: WE ARE UNPLUGGED! announces our hour. During that time, we write! The rules: no procrastinations. Please feel free to make tea or stand on your head as needed.

When the time is up, Post 3 appears with a chat box and we will get a chance to converse, or you can comment old-style to tell us what you got done! We are dying to know!

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Oct 21, 2013

Post 3: Reconvention!

We started out with major Chatroll problems, but eventually Krystalyn, Joanne, Maria, and Dianne got on chat. Marcy valiantly tried, but said, "The heck with this. I'm going to bed." We chatted about our various projects, about giving up or not giving up, and then Chatroll shut down and gave us the UNHAPPY FACE icon. We were done for the night.

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  1. I see that. I'm trying to refresh.

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  2. I was going to delete and replace the html -- but I can see that's not the problem. It's on Chatroll's end.

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  3. I think all of us except Marcy are on Google.

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  4. NOT that I know how to start a Google chat with multiple people ...
    NOT that I'm going to do a visual Google hangout in my PJs with wet hair ... LOL!

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  5. I don't mind moving to Google. not sure I'm connected with you guys there or not.

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  6. I've done the Google (non visual) chat there before.

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  7. I'm on gmail, but I've only done one G-chat in my life and I don't remember how to do it!

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  8. I think we just start a chat and invite people.

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  9. Joanne, I tried to invite you into a chat and got a message saying your client doesnt' support group chats. WTH? I am scratching my head. And I can't find Maria ....

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  10. I'm just going to head to bed, ladies, sorry, I did practice though! Hopefully see you next week :)

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  11. Maria, we're trying to invite you to Google. What's your gmail?

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  12. Maria, I don't seem to have a gmail account in your name. And I don't know how to start a chat through Google +. Google + wins as most confusing social network for me. :(

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  13. I probably need to be signed in to chat?

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  14. It won't let me invite you because we are not "contacts" through that address -- only the att.net address. Grrr.

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  15. looks like chat froze, but I was just typing my goodbyes anyway. Thanks for the chat and encouragement!

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  16. Ladies -- we have an Unhappy Face icon. Chatroll is done for the evening! Good night!

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