Zeus' Palatial Blog

The last day of May sees a cooler day across Olympus with the temperature hovering around 17C. The wind is brisk today which is a great thing because it is the annual kite festival on the mountain. The boys and I were already out to watch the kites this morning and if I could’ve convinced Apollo and Hercules not to run off wreaking havoc I probably would have launched a few kites myself. In my younger days I was competitive with stunt kites and even entered competitions with my father in the sychro-kite categories. Admittedly I don’t get out to fly as much as I used to, but when I can I still enjoy taking off for several hours with nothing but the sound of the wind.

Speaking of wind - the sailboat has been in the water for a month and I have yet to get out on it. To be fair we were waiting for the new mainsail to be fitted, so now that we’ve got cloth (well kevlar really) we can get out sailing again. I suppose we could have put the dacron sail back on, but where’s the fun in that? I do believe we have a new spinnaker for the season as well. To my knowledge (we haven’t had it up yet) the new chute is a super bright rainbow pattern meant to dazzle and confuse our competitors during downwind race legs.

We’re still waiting for it to warm up enough to use the pool. I just can’t see myself willfully diving into mid-teen water anymore. Instead I broke out the remote control ships and boats for the boys and I and have turned the pool into a harbour for now. At least the pool is serving a useful purpose instead of the water just sitting around waiting to evaporate.

In other news I finally added Understanding Dreams 101 to the main Psi Palatium Article Archive. I’ve dug up all of AMPsychic’s work and Active Psy for addition too. Miri has also graciously allowed us to post his recent seminar on runes from Psionicsonline, so that will appear as well. This means we’re going to broach the 600 entry barrier this summer. Wow!

Though this will serve to be primarily a personal blog site I thought I’d start with something Psi Palatium related.

The beginning of the Psi Palatium (and not entirety at large) is a story that isn’t told very often; however I am asked occasionally about our origins.  Seeing as this is the first post in my, hopefully often updated, blog I thought it only fitting to begin at the beginning.

It all began back in late 1994 when I took delivery of my brand new Pentium-class computer.  With such raw power available to me I was able to surf the web (as it were) at speeds never before imagined.  It was during one of my long jaunts on the Internet that I stumbled across an Online psychic community that was run by AMPsychic.  After being a member for some time AMPsychic made me an Operator in his Undernet chat channel and I (along with many other operators) would give free psychic readings to visitors to the community.  It was during my days as an Operator in AMPsychic’s community that }PsiBOT{ was first created and that I continued to hone my psychic-at-a-distance skills.  Unfortunately as happens a division appeared in the community and rather than choose sides I decided to take my leave of both communities and started the Psi Temple in 1997, which morphed into the Psi Palace and eventually stuck with the name Psi Palatium.  Shortly after starting the Palatium AMPsychic closed his community and then reopened it on MSN as Psychic Readings and Chat and changed his nickname to OldReader.  His community is still available on Multiply; however it is now run by extended operators has OldReader himself passed away in 2007.

The Psi Palatium website (which is overhauled every couple of years) is the main focus of articles and lessons presented by the staff and experienced members of the community.  As it sits right now there are almost 600 entries and I have all of AMPsychic’s material to post still.  But the chat channel is the true heart of the community.  The IRC chat channel keeps the staff and members in contact and allows us to innovate and continue to learn as the years roll by.  We’ve also been witness to many members that return after being away for a number of years only to find their friends and community right where they left them.

While typing this I realize that the Psi Palatium’s 12th anniversary just passed by and I can’t think of a better testiment to an Online community than to see it still thriving after more than a decade.

So, that’s the story of how the Psi Palatium sprang forth.  Of course I left out the parts about the long hours of dedication by the staff to keep things going all these years but I’m quite sure you would have guessed at that already.

Thank you to everyone for all the support and continued friendship in the community throughout the years.  Let’s continue that into the future!