I am spending more and more time around Raglan. And as I mentioned they are about to have a month of Pirate fun. Part of it will be a treasure hunt and Rizzo was looking for treasure to put in the hidden chests. Not sure if what I am coming up with is treasure, but I have been building :)Ages and ages and ages ago, I went to a building class in raglan. The only one I ever did there and it was how to make a skidoo. So making the Dream T was just really about decorating that build from long ago. Trick was...only 32 prims allowed before it refused to fly.Naturally I found that out after I had added a lot more than 32 prims to the three prim-scooter I started with.
*rolls eyes and sighs* hah! But of course I loved building it! And had a little help by way of a tiger skin steering wheel! Thanks taz, how would I manage without you? Flies like a little beaut too though it wont go very high.
Mary Moppet insisted on a hat. I played with hats all afternoon. Finished it. Photographed it. Put it in in-world vendors. Cooked dinner. Returned to hear the wretch say that it wasn't good enough and would I mind replacing cylinders with toruses.
*Sigh*
So I have spent the evening doing something that seems much like something I have already done! Making a hat, photographing it and putting it into vendors !
Tadah! At last Audrey has a blog of her own! Who knows how often I am going to find time to update it as this is the third blog I am writing. Too many. One for work, one for personal and now a Second Life one! I guess at this point it would be a bit difficult to go back to the beginning.. and besides I have already forgotten so much but in a nut shell: After spending the decades of home computers with macs, in October 2007 we installed our first pc. So finally it felt like we had joined mainstream computer use. Like always I was ready to jump in feet first to Second Life which I had heard about. I had no idea. I didn't know what to expect. I didn't expect anything or maybe I expected everything?
I landed on Orientation Island and it was a disaster. Too many people. Too much lag. Too much water. Too hard to learn without having to move too far. At this very early stage we established that Audrey Fotherington (that's me) does not walk. Too much lag. Press forward. Wait 8 seconds Shoot forward repeat. No control to speak of so I am always banging into things, bumping people, stuck in flower beds. Standing at the bottom of stairs. Caught behind the door. Wait until I design a house! It is going to be a lag friendly home!
I got off Orientation island ASAP. I landed on Help Island. Just as bad only the people there were horrible. Some one rescued me and took me to a sandbox to get me sorted. From there I staggered off into Second Life.
I was stunned initially and still continue to be a bit surprised by the lack of people. So much of the place is empty and spooky. I developed a strategy of looking for dots on my map and ended up some how (and I just have no idea how) at NCI.
I sat down. Listened. Ran into walls. Put boxes on my head and with the infinite pateince of the regulars at NCI, settled in to stay.