I noticed my images on this site, which are hosted kindly by Photobucket, were not loading — period –?or loading very slowly. I went "Hmmm?" for a second and then went to their site, and found out they are having technical difficulties. I was going to put some pictures up, but since they're down, I cannot. Sorry. I hope they recover soon because so many people, myself included, rely on them. 
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Today I played two new games I hadn't before in SL: they were The Weakest Link and Family Feud, both adapted for inworld. Fun stuff. Maybe someday the lag will be gone and people will be on parity in regards to that! I'm thinking that now, since I am a full RESIDENT of Second Life, I should learn to build also. Scripting may come later… I'm told I'll get sucked into it eventually — like owning land, another box of donuts entirely but they all go hand-in-hand like Smittens.
In other adventures, I just came back from Uli and then went to Telador, where a creation of Myst-Uru is being made. Or is it done? I am not sure, it was sort of hard to see in the virtual darkness. But of what I could see, it was very beautiful and lush. Lush as in "beautiful", not as in "drunk". 
Prior, I had fun visiting Goshua Lament's new house. It looks great. We talked architecture for a bit?and discussed the possibility of making something that COULD be real in SL, but was just teetering off of that magical edge known as "surreality". Something a little tweaked that makes you blink cutely and wonder what would be really possible. Seems like houses have to have extra space and stuff for camera angles. If you build to scale, the room may be more cramped than?cheese full of mice! In a related conversation, Loki Pico told me something I never knew before: that the average height of people on SL is pretty tall, approx. a foot taller than real life it seems. I had just measured my avatar relative to other folks walking around, and after Loki got out a handy measuring tool — virtual, of course — I found out that I was almost 7 feet tall and he was 8 feet! Wow. He'd sure qualify for the SLBA, with his mohawk and horns and bright orange skin.
Yesterday was my first encounter with a new bug. I'll call it the "slip bug", because all of a sudden, whenever and wherever I walked, I started to slip and tumble flat on my face, hand and feet flailing fastidiously. It was comical, but tragic, so let's call it tragicomedy. I was hesitant to relog because I wanted to ask others if it was just me experiencing this, or if they were seeing me slip all over the… uh…?slipstream too. The verdict came in, and I was not alone — this was no imagination. It was as real as Second Life gets, and as I slipped past the Prim Attack table, the side of a TIE fighter, and a cart of icecream, it made me ponder something really shallow. Needless to say, I posted a bug report on the Forums and relogged in. All better — no slipping!
Inevitability happened. I finally met up with Cyrena Zamboni. Joy. After IMing some, I was transported to her magic cakeplate in the sky, which is her home, and we talked whimsy. Ah yes, we are whimsical people. She has a great sense of humor and I like to smile when I converse.
A plethora of dazzling other locations awaited: from a magic skybox where skilled scriptcrafters work their digital witchcraft; to a colorful church decorated with more glamour than most real-life ones; to a field where Jedi warriors, careful not to incur the wrath of Lucas and Luke S., do battle with lightsabers capable of performing many tricks unachievable by their film counterparts. And I knew there was something special about Tina's YUGE hat.
There is so much to see and do, and more. Suggestions for future upgrades taken into consideration, will wonders ever cease?
Note to self: I think I've got to use a Second Life logo or something to symbolize my SL blog entries for efficiency in the future. Ah, here it is now. 
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Alright, I was getting antsy and decided to do something about it. I'm testing ImageShack, another image-hosting service. Heard about them awhile back but just reg'ed for a free account, so let's see how this kitty purrs. Here are snaps of some of my many latest SL adventures:
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They're in reverse-chronological order. I haven't found a way to flip them all back using the otherwise-handy ImageShack feature of generating mass (<15) image code. From Snow Fairies to Stargates, there you have it.
You may have heard a legendary Internet ditty that goes "Where can ya see lions? Only in Kenya!" Well, it's only fitting then, that I?cheerfully?sing the following:
Where can ya hug care bears?
Only in Second Life*!
Come to Second Life we got care bears!Where can ya dance with martians?
Only in Second Life!
Got care bears and martians only in Second Life!
Forget There**!Second Life, oh Second Life!
Where the furries are,
and the manga!Second Life! Second Life Second Life Second Life!
Second Life! Come to Second Life!Can ya build & script it?
*awkward, I know, but there was nothing else I could use!
*I didn't know what else to put here, so I used this humorously.?This in NO way is meant to bash There.