Busy Sunday

Well, what's going on...
I am just finished my Ask Patty build, and told them what I was going to charge them. They agreed, and told me they were very happy and would recommend me, which is nice of them. Last things I did were a Child Safety kiosk and an SL Driving Information notecard giverer in the shape of a red convertible. I have built a stage there as The Show Must Go On is performing at their 11 May grand opening.

We had rehearsal today under my new plan that acts must be self-contained with HUDs as MCs doing the announcing and setting up. As I was setting up and just before the curtain opened I was pinned and had to relog - coming back to find most of the others had, too. We just kept going. The show is tough to do as the same people have to get ready for almost every act. We have seemingly lost some of our buffers of people with one act, except for Maxie, who had a great set and HUD. Chuck wasn't there due to time mix-upperation, but will be in Ride to rehearse on Wednesday. Enjah and Elle were out of town. Vlad has been MIA unfortunately. The list I sent to Breanne for her to add to the group list was far longer than I'd imagined.

I had to take down LIGHT and put up FLIGHT, create a new contest and poster - METAL - and rewrite the notecard/send it out with a notice. Notices are working! They and group IMs have been borked thoroughly which left events and people stranded. But W00ty W00t it was good today and I got to notify people of the exhibit, the contest, the Show news (3 separate notices).

I rescued a noob and sent him to Orientation Island Public. He shot me an IM saying he "owed me," and I told him to look me up when he gets out of the Big House. Before that Salazar and I had a conversation about the difference in starting Then vs Now. I said all we had had was a parrot and a sign. He proceeded to drag the sign from his library, while I rezzed the fabled Chat Parrot. We also talked about Project Open Letter which I have no interest in signing, wholly aware that my circumstances (I don't buy anything much and I don't pay much tier) buffer me from a lot of the things that people are concerned about. I think:
A) as a resident I have but a partial understanding of what's going on,
B) LL has to ride this huge wave of corporate interest which may not last as the PR value declines,
C) the glitchy buggy things I can ignore and workaround probably are a great deal more irritating if one pays thousands each year as many, many people do,
D) to me SL seems in its infancy - with rapid growth as well.

Knock on wood I haven't had any big problems. I don't mind the funny temporary things - it amuses me, actually (my bad). There have been wonderful developments that've kept me keen. The few things that have made me unhappy like the visual degradation were probably things they were forced to do and which will, at some point, be reversed.

Small good things keep me happy for years* (love the new icon!) and SL contains a million billion zillion wonderful things, including the people I get to know or just meet casually. It's early days yet. I am grateful that Second Life exists.**

*Hardly a day goes by that I don't think about multiple select in inventory and how much I love it. Floopies! Ripples! Scripted attachments! Rings! Hardware light! Freeze-frame! Disable camera constraints! Planar texturing! Streaming movies!
**I just don't have time to be unhappy.

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