Nor is my mother, but there have been more medical alarums and excursions... I really do hope things settle down a bit; one way and another, it has been one hell of a summer.
Anyway. I'm still around. With luck, more so, soon.
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Steam Hunt 7 is on
... and, of course, I am on it. Taking it at a leisurely pace, so far, but I'm on it.
What's more, this time, I am in it - shop number 106 on the list is my little one in Steam SkyCity. After last month's alarums and excursions, I am more than a little relieved to have got things done in time! - and, in fact, it turned into a mad scramble the day before the Hunt started, and I'd never have managed it if it hadn't been for Tali's unstinting help and support. She really is wonderful.
Anyway. I have no idea if this will Put Me On The Map as an SL merchant and have hordes of people beating a path to my door... but I was in one of the Hunt shops, the other day, and a fellow hunter came up to me and said how much she'd liked my little place. I was quite unreasonably chuffed about that one.
Meanwhile, I'm working through the rest of the Hunt shops, and it will be a while till I get to my own place. So far, Epic Toy Factory has been Epic as usual, while one place is providing a Martian war machine that positively made my mouth water. Everybody should have a war machine.
What's more, this time, I am in it - shop number 106 on the list is my little one in Steam SkyCity. After last month's alarums and excursions, I am more than a little relieved to have got things done in time! - and, in fact, it turned into a mad scramble the day before the Hunt started, and I'd never have managed it if it hadn't been for Tali's unstinting help and support. She really is wonderful.
Anyway. I have no idea if this will Put Me On The Map as an SL merchant and have hordes of people beating a path to my door... but I was in one of the Hunt shops, the other day, and a fellow hunter came up to me and said how much she'd liked my little place. I was quite unreasonably chuffed about that one.
Meanwhile, I'm working through the rest of the Hunt shops, and it will be a while till I get to my own place. So far, Epic Toy Factory has been Epic as usual, while one place is providing a Martian war machine that positively made my mouth water. Everybody should have a war machine.
Friday, August 17, 2012
Progress(?)
I'm unlikely to be posting all that much in the near future...
The obvious reason is, I am just getting back into SL and will need to spend time catching up with stuff, and therefore actually doing said stuff rather than talking about it.
But the real reason is, as I look at the evening news and see soaring petrol prices, show trials of dissidents in Moscow, police gunning down miners in South Africa, and the search going on for the Moors Murderers' last victim... the real reason is clearly that somebody has wound the universe's clock back to about 1970, and therefore the Internet has not yet been invented.
If you are reading this, welcome to the temporal paradox. Goodnight.
The obvious reason is, I am just getting back into SL and will need to spend time catching up with stuff, and therefore actually doing said stuff rather than talking about it.
But the real reason is, as I look at the evening news and see soaring petrol prices, show trials of dissidents in Moscow, police gunning down miners in South Africa, and the search going on for the Moors Murderers' last victim... the real reason is clearly that somebody has wound the universe's clock back to about 1970, and therefore the Internet has not yet been invented.
If you are reading this, welcome to the temporal paradox. Goodnight.
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Bloodied but still unbowed, sort of
Apparently, "I've fallen and I can't get up" was something deeply hilarious, a few years back. I never quite got why it was so funny, myself, and having just had my mother in precisely that position, I find it even less amusing than I did to start with. I'm sure it's just my defective sense of humour, of course.
The fun thing is, I wrenched my back at one stage, lifting her, and was darn near in the same condition myself.
So my activities have been severely curtailed, lately, not just online! - But things improve. I am able to sit and type comfortably for short periods, and my mother was fit enough yesterday to go to a funeral (not her own).
They say these things come in threes, don't they? First a badger eats a junction box and puts my connection out of action (or whatever it was), then my mother's fall, now my back. Well, hopefully, that is three over and done with and I can get back to normal.... and, once RL is properly sorted out, I can address the SL commitments which have been piling up!
(Neither of us is in any real danger, I hasten to add. Just massively inconvenienced, and, in my case, slightly woozy still from codeine.)
Anyway, there we are. Or aren't. As the case may be.
The fun thing is, I wrenched my back at one stage, lifting her, and was darn near in the same condition myself.
So my activities have been severely curtailed, lately, not just online! - But things improve. I am able to sit and type comfortably for short periods, and my mother was fit enough yesterday to go to a funeral (not her own).
They say these things come in threes, don't they? First a badger eats a junction box and puts my connection out of action (or whatever it was), then my mother's fall, now my back. Well, hopefully, that is three over and done with and I can get back to normal.... and, once RL is properly sorted out, I can address the SL commitments which have been piling up!
(Neither of us is in any real danger, I hasten to add. Just massively inconvenienced, and, in my case, slightly woozy still from codeine.)
Anyway, there we are. Or aren't. As the case may be.
Saturday, July 28, 2012
If it's not one thing, it's another
No sooner do I get back online than my mother has another fall...
She's OK, I think, but I'm snatching time to post this in a tiny bit of a hurry! Normal service will be resumed. Promise!
She's OK, I think, but I'm snatching time to post this in a tiny bit of a hurry! Normal service will be resumed. Promise!
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Gagged!
Taking advantage of a brief opportunity (and a public wi-fi hotspot) to post something: my home Internet connection is out of action, hence my unusual silence! I'm hoping to be back to normal, or what passes for it, come Monday. In the meantime, I am stuck in reality. It's weird...
Monday, July 16, 2012
And, while I'm grumping...
... and inspired by a charmless buffoon who wandered into Oxbridge somewhat before I crashed last night...
If you are looking through the ToS and the local sim rules and plotting very hard to find some course of action which is not technically griefer behaviour - then that in itself is griefer behaviour.
(This particular guy was quite determined to pick some kind of fight. Fortunately, everybody there, including a sixteen-year-old anime fan, was too mature to fall for it.)
If you are looking through the ToS and the local sim rules and plotting very hard to find some course of action which is not technically griefer behaviour - then that in itself is griefer behaviour.
(This particular guy was quite determined to pick some kind of fight. Fortunately, everybody there, including a sixteen-year-old anime fan, was too mature to fall for it.)
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