Saturday, January 3, 2009

Ta Dah!


Well, today was a wonderful day. I had a bit of a lie in. I skipped a few classes this morning. When I finally surfaced I went back to the flexie skirt class. That was really interesting, to say the least.
To begin with, it started off normally. We had to register for the class because the sim couldn't handle too many of us working at the same time. According to them, the sim would crash if more than 20 worked. There were not that many of us. In fact, I believe it was just 16.
There was this really sick avatar there. He kept doing rude things. The instructor must not have been paying attention or maybe she didn't care. It got to the point where she finally said, "Sit down and behave". He then said some rude stuff to her and she threatened to ban him and reminded him that if he were to be banned it would ban him form loads of places. He got the message and left. Several of us seemed to be happy about that.
I followed much of the class but if I were to be honest with myself, much of it I didn't get. I mean, I just didn't get it. I felt like I should not even try anymore. Good thing there are loads of other things to do in Second Life.
I went back to my home sim and hung out for a little while. Real life demanded my attention so I had to leave for a portion of the evening.
Once I returned I returned to the theatre of the mind. It was very good tonight. I do enjoy hearing a good story.

Enjoy Life!

Friday, January 2, 2009

Next....


Today in Second Life was a blast! I am doing so much. First, I began the day with a class in sculpty painting.

While I enjoyed the class because it was very informative, I think the class was very misleading. I mean, the name of the class is Sculpty Painting. We never did any painting. When I mentioned it, the teacher told me, "That's tommorow's class". She continued to explain. "Today we are just sculpting". I got satisfied with that explanation and moved on. I didn't have a choice, did I?

Next, I played with Gimp. With the Gimp software, which is free by the way, I began to make clothes. I made a pair of pajamas earlier this week but the seams gave me trouble. I even had another avatar try them on, thank you friend, and still the seams were showing. I am proud to say that I played with the software enough that I fixed the problem. I must say the whole thing is time consuming and at times frustrating.

I went to another class. The class was suppose to teach you how to make prim skits. I had a hard time there largely because things didn't rezz fast enough. I kept getting in everyones way. One avatar, I could not even see, said to move. I thought that was funny but I moved. Finally things rezzed and I saw a place to sit but of course by then the class was well into the project and I was too far behind to even think about participating.

Back I went to my home sim. Well, it's not actually my sim but I am allowed to be there and I love to be there. It does feel like home.

Dreaming of my next project, I thought I might go and listen to a scary story before bedtime. There is a Stephen King story being performed in seven episodes. I really enjoy the theatre of the mind. Things got scary real quick to. Mr. King is a great writer but maybe a bit too much for me.

Well, that was my adventure for today. I talked with a few avatars and all were very nice. It is rare for me to meet a mean avatar.

Today was a good day.


Enjoy Life!