If this were a manual typewriter, I'd have a harder time going at it, but it's not, so onwards ho (and not of the streetwalking kind either)! I've been trying to catch up on mah email backlog, so if you haven't been replied to yet, please pardon me. Similar situation goes for my inworld explorations. If I don't reply to your IMs quickly and if I'm actually at the keys,?it's likely because I am not multitasking as well as I should.?I have many?destinations with fascinating people?to explore in my daily journeys through the gridverse — half-planned, half-spontaneous — and a lot to catch up on. One avatar can only do so much. For?this, I also bid your pardon. I say thankee.

To let ya know, I've become accustomed to dropping the abbrev. "RL" and using "OL" instead, meaning "Offline Life". For what is Second Life to me? It is REAL.?I refer not to the fantastic aspects of gun-toting, watermelon-rezzing, bad-driving fun, but rather: the very real intercourse (hehe) of people's thoughts + feelings connecting?through the network. I roleplay some obvious things — I'm not really a timetraveller, and I'm not really as snarky as I might sometimes come off (semi-jesting on that, sai). But, when I'm talking to you, that's really me talking to you. I could elaborate, but simple 'n' clean is the way I'll put it, fresh like lemonlime watermelon soapsuds sparkling up the new dish of the day.

I am me, and that's all I can be.

Will my feelings be hurt if you bash my nonexistent builds? Prolly. Will I smile if you tell me a joke that I can actually decipher? Probability, yes. I just hope that if you've made me laugh, that I can amuse you too. Humor's at best a multidirectional street, full of enjoyment for both or more parties involved. Second Life has more than its fair share of humor, and while I don't really think laughter is the best medicine, it's a potent punch to the sinuses when you chortle and snortle your way out of the end of a sucky day. I believe SL can be helpful therapy in this day — nuffin' like seeing something absolutely ridiculous (and not altogether offensive to the self) rezzed in a sandbox or other location, and breaking into a wide grin. When I say "LOL", I actually am doing that most of the time. (It may have to come as surprise to ya that I was not so good-humored as a childe, oy… I'm making up for it.)

(Any rumors of rampancy and/or rampancy WILL be plausibly denied. For now. )

The Linden family is working intense days – as asset server shiznit is gonna be worked on in the morn. As Haney sez: "Second Life will be down Wednesday, December 22, from 6 AM PT to 10 AM PT for maintenance of the asset server."?I hear their Christmas break may be shortened for the benefit of us, alas, so my heart goes out to them for their most excellent efforts in keeping the grid up-and-flying. here's a pic of me, getting sucked into yet another TP gone wrong and sent to a type of phantom zone:

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One prob of several that must be challenged! I'm also experiencing a strange rezlag that makes objects appear long after I've actually dragged them inworld, and severe attachment lost at times. I may have taken a fancy to donning a blindfold, but that does not change the fact that I have?high hopes?my broken profile?gets fixey — I can still see that. But…

Do I see Second Life as a game? Yes, but not just. Like I've said many a time before, I tend to be an AND person, not an OR person, and when I can sample the whole kinky buffet and come back for seconds and even thirds, that's where I wanna be.

And just remember: I'm really Jade Lily's alt.