{"id":221,"date":"2011-01-03T09:09:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T17:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkly-cute.com\/blog\/?p=221"},"modified":"2011-01-03T09:09:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T17:09:02","slug":"why-_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/darkly-cute.com\/blog\/why-_\/","title":{"rendered":"Why? (^_^)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230; I had a bloody good holiday. =^-^=<\/p>\n<p>Much of it was spent in SL, but, at this point that&#8217;s my idea of good. (^_^)<\/p>\n<p>Why? (^_^)<\/p>\n<p>Dunno.  I&#8217;ve kinda reached the point that I&#8217;m really able to have me some fun.  Though, I been getting overwhelmed lately.  I haven&#8217;t been able to accept every invitation or give help to everyone who has IM&#8217;d me&#8230; Still, what I need to keep me going is all there. (^_^)<\/p>\n<p>Why? (^_^)<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230; This past week marked the return of a good friend and personal hero.  Arcadia Asylum, Aley Arai, Lora Lemon, and now&#8230; Just Aley&#8230; Names known to me by her rather constant stream of alts.  In fact, she was using a different account when she just returned.  Though; hanging around the sandbox, finding this stranger who immediately greets me with &#8220;IMMY! ! ! ! ! !&#8221; upon arrival, listening to her rant about prims, textures, and freebie resellers&#8230; Didn&#8217;t take to long for the brain to tick &#8220;Okay! Arc&#8217;s back!&#8221; =^-^=<\/p>\n<p>Why. (^_^)<\/p>\n<p>Simple&#8230; People know their friends.  Especially the quirky ones.  While I&#8217;m not oldbie enough to remember that actual Arcadia Asylum account, Aley was surely a memorable persona.  Gladly, she was more interested in being Aley.  So, it was easy for me to settle in again.  I gave her a quick walk-through of how much SL changed since her last visit.  I told her about display names and the &#8220;resident&#8221; accounts&#8230; Which drove her to immediately create an &#8220;Aley&#8221; account.  And pretty much settled in as if she&#8217;d never left. (^_^)<\/p>\n<p>Why? (^_^)<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something just &#8216;right&#8217; about spending time with her.  Much of my circle of friends are people who want to roleplay, log off of SL to play a game, stand around and people watch, or get so involved in an offworld project that they don&#8217;t really have a good reason to keep their avatar logged in, but, logging out is too much of a distraction. (=_=)<\/p>\n<p>Why? (^_^)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d really like to know.  There are times when I&#8217;m curious about the circumstances which led me to meet the friends I&#8217;m closest to.  We&#8217;re so often polar opposites.  I want to be noisy, in motion, active, and involved.  They tend ask for silence, stillness, patience, and passive participation&#8230; That is to say; don&#8217;t do anything, just watch.  It&#8217;s not exactly fun for me.  I tend to get drowsy as the time churns on.  Such days, I&#8217;ll be in bed by 9:30 due to inactivity, boredom, and frustration.  (._.)<\/p>\n<p>But, that hasn&#8217;t been the case this past week. (^_^)<\/p>\n<p>Why? (^_^)<\/p>\n<p>Finding &#8220;it&#8221;.  The &#8220;it&#8221; that makes a day go smoother.  The &#8220;it&#8221; that keeps me awake all the way past midnight simply because I didn&#8217;t even notice the time.  The &#8220;it&#8221; that comes from a friend that I can ping-pong back and forth with &#8220;OMG!  Holy crap!  We gotta frigg&#8217;n try this!&#8221;  So, I&#8217;ve been staying up later than ever. (^_^)<\/p>\n<p>Why? (^_^)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve taken on a list of projects.  For one, I continue to organize the NCI Dream Seeker renovation team.  They&#8217;re not exactly going the direction I wanted, but, they&#8217;re staying on task so I&#8217;m not going to hinder them one bit.  I&#8217;ve rezzed a copy of one layer of Privateer Space.  Using the newly contributed collection that Aley has given the AA Library, I&#8217;ve been able to put out the Galactic Truck Stop with a surrounding asteroid field, gas station, and used ship lot.  Letting that settle in&#8230; I&#8217;m starting a restoration-ish project of Slum City.  (^_^)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sluniverse.com\/pics\/pic.aspx?ID=480653\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.sluniverse.com\/pics\/480653.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sluniverse.com\/pics\/pic.aspx?ID=481493\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.sluniverse.com\/pics\/481493.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why? (^_^)<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230; Privateer was a really fun place to visit.  While I can&#8217;t really replicate the scale of it all, the portion I put out makes for a good sense of nostalgia.  It has already had visitors, gotten compliments, and I&#8217;ve already blown around the place in my Space Bug.  (^_^)<\/p>\n<p>Please consider visiting the place.  Visit Morbidette and look for the little white door at the market.  Once inside it&#8217;ll be down the hall under the sign that reads &#8220;Outer Space&#8221;. (^_^)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sluniverse.com\/pics\/pic.aspx?ID=480656\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.sluniverse.com\/pics\/480656.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition, there&#8217;s a new door in the hall.  No sign&#8230; Locked&#8230; That&#8217;s my current &#8220;black project&#8221;. (^_^)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already dragged Aley up to get tips and tactics on how to piece things together.  While I&#8217;m going to build using my own layout (Which is already turning into the Winchester Mystery Sewer), I&#8217;m going to retain the look and feel of Slum City as much as possible.  It&#8217;s quickly becoming a full sim sized project and I expect to have a lot of things in place as time goes by.  Gladly, I&#8217;m getting guidance from the source. =^-^=<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sluniverse.com\/pics\/pic.aspx?ID=481184\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.sluniverse.com\/pics\/481184.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, I think I&#8217;ve found a bit of fun in SL&#8230; Doing what I meant to do when I joined in the first place; creating and communicating.  Being in motion, in discussion, involved, and in the heart of it all.  (^_^)<\/p>\n<p>Why? (^_^)<\/p>\n<p>Because Second Life is what you make of it.  Your Second Life is a reflection of you.  There are no involuntary actions inworld besides account suspension and termination.  And you even have to work up to those events.  (^_^)<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I&#8217;m talkative, creative, wild, and frigg&#8217;n insane.  So, my SL winds up like that. (^_^)<\/p>\n<p>That said&#8230; (>.>)<\/p>\n<p>Why do many people find SL so boring? 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