Captions

Quiet times for me in SL. I haven't been able to be inworld much.

But there is one event I try to reach each week... Captions. Wednesdays at 7pm LST, that's 10pm here on the east coast. Host Trimming Hedges holds Captions at his lair in Stillman... very amusing photos are made hysterically funny by the creativity of the participants. I laugh out loud for an hour and it's a great midweek pick-me-up. Stop by if you're around.

Pre-New Year's Resolution

Blog More.

Most recent SL enjoyments.... primtionary... chatting with old friends... impromptu gathering of the dead and dead-wannabes at the grotto... trying in vain to find suitable winter attire (help me out if you know somewhere I should visit for this)... the halberd

Loving Minna

I'm having fun building stuff and looking at inventory items that have never seen the light of day! It's amazing what accummulates after a few months, or over the course of just the past week.

Some interesting finds have included: jewelry in the shape of bones (maybe from the prehistoric builds in June?); cavewoman avatar complete with bamming gourdin; at least 30 outfits I bought and forgot to wear; landscaping and household items galore (things I've never had the prims to rez); a lovely lantern, perfect for lighting a dank grotto; gorgeous flower chair purchased from an Edifice Rex building contest sometime last summer... the list is endless... as is the inventory management activity...

I'm building a grotto! A moody, rocky, planty, who-knows-if-it'll-ever-be-done grotto... Stop by!

And for now, the cakeplate remains over Atlas.

Cakeplate Nostalgia

The cakeplate is still there, but perhaps not for long. I just bought new land in Minna and I really should sell the Atlas lakeside lot... but as soon as I bought land, cakeplate nostalgia set in... and I have neither made the land available for sale nor taken down the structure...

The cakeplate came into being one less-than-fine day in Atlas, when visual conditions on the ground were especially disturbing... rotating for sale signs dotted the waterfront, other distracting rotating things abounded, a sign with flames had just sprouted 50m in the sky and someone left me a mess of Yip-yips as a "surprise".

So I built the cakeplate, a sanctuary in the sky, and it has seen me through at least three more months of trials, tribulations, and relative calm on the ground.

It may not be in Atlas much longer however, so if you've been considering stopping by, now is the time. And possibly it will fly high above Minna in a few weeks, when I move in and see how I feel in the new space...

Morning Eye-Opener

Popped into Atlas for a moment this morning, just to check in for the day, when I received an unmarked invitation to jump over to Abbott's. Since I rarely turn down an invite, I went there directly...

I arrived to find a motley crew, Viola, Siggy and Jauani sitting on some kind of vehicle. Now I'm thinking - special plane? hot air balloon, maybe?. It's early - that would be a nice way to start the day, peaceful, tranquil...

"Get ready for the ride of your life" said Jauani. "Someone give Cyrena a parachute" said Viola. Parachute??! Uh oh... This may be more excitement than I had anticipated...

Luckily I carry a parachute around with me so I strapped it on directly. There was no time to change out of my miniskirt and heels... or to think of upcoming danger... Within 30 seconds I was plunging wildly to the ground.... "I'm fallllliiiiinnnnngggggg...." I shouted.... "Woooo...." I heard back.

The parachute deployed! And I was hung in midair from some part of Abbott's architecture... Plus I was now WIDE AWAKE! Slipped out of my parachute to find my crazy crewmates safely landed and prepping for another run...

A second skydive and I was ready to start my day... I love this place...

Fun in the Afternoon

One of the most intriguing and very best parts of my second life is the diversity I encounter and the quality of people I know. At any given time, I have friends who will philosophize, postulate, wax poetic, offer tech and other support, travel the world, chat, adventure and generally rabblerouse. I could not ask for a more interesting, exciting, entertaining, humorous collection of people, and all in this one very special playground.

Yesterday afternoon, in typical SL fashion, an impromptu gathering amassed... one by one, people arrived, until the ensemble included an axe wielding ballerina (me), a slightly pickled dead body, and a number of assorted friends and neighbors, watching afternoon sunrise in Atlas...

Crazy Patchwork

(To spend time blogging means I may be missing an inworld experience. This is an attempt to excuse my lack of diligence to this blog... it will probably continue in this haphazard manner... thanks to anyone who actually looks in on occasion...)

Second Life is such a crazy patchwork for me at times... It's almost indescribable. The past few days have been especially full of the wild, whacky and surreal. Spending time at my usual bench in the Welcome Area has led to some crazy chat/IM combos that have left me energized and exhausted. I find that the overall level of chat speed I encounter seems to be increasing... or perhaps I'm spending more time in populated areas?

The other night I was introduced to a whole bunch of friends of a friend who typed the fastest and whackiest of any group I've met inworld to date. After a lengthy gab session we transported to James Nash's schizophrenia build where I experienced voices in my head for what seemed like a very long time. I left with a different, more complete, perspective on this area of mental illness. Troubled too - at least the IM voices in my Cyrena head aren't generally saying such destructive things, but they exist in a similar fashion nonetheless, constant unseen communications I carry with me around the world.

I have a friend, Sulendro (who has his own blog), who suggests that I consider limiting my multi-tasking. I think that's a wise suggestion although it may require more self-discipline than I currently possess.

Anyway, accomplishments and activities this past week include but are not limited to: participating in a reiki healing session, buying a plane, crashing it twice, buying a sailboat, going sailing without crashing(!), meeting many, many new (intelligent, funny, creative) people, having a four-threaded conversation in the Welcome Area with 4 sets of IMs going while eating RL pizza dinner and not spilling it on keyboard, Mahjong (of course), pillaging and swordfighting (oops, different game), Friday night dancing on the beach... and more.