August 13, 2008 Wednesday

I arrived. I usually place myself on my bed when I leave, in my jammies, or whatever I would wear to bed, in this case undies and a gray tshirt. Now I'm sitting on my cheetah couch by the fire in the living room. It's night. I'm going to start off with a You Tube tutorial; this one is one gestures. I see that they are dancing at the club, but I'll wait a bit before I do that. Wait for RL night time :).

I got dressed. I went to JJ Lane's first thing to get my payment for advertising, because it has been more than 24 hours. However, when I went, it said I had to wait another day. Sigh . . . I hope not everything is a scam. Okay, so I will come back. If it doesn't work then, I will just IM the owner.

I did a check on the prims I have left on my land. It is 26. So I think I'm done decorating.

So I tried to solve the problem of the herb plant. I dunno though. I still could not rez it on the land "near the original" as the instructions said. I never got a return IM from the owner, and I left her another. I am rezzing it on my land, and we'll see, but it's making me nervous. I deleted in the middle of my validation process, so we'll see. I'll just keep checking to make sure Ls aren't leaving my account. If they are, hmm, I don't know what I'll do, but lesson learned, eh? And I'll pass on the message to others.

I am on the second floor of the Ivory Tower now. I'm studying more there now.

Sinya got a new house, and she asked me "building" question, which unfortunately I did not know the answer to.

I am at a spot for camping and free L site, but I dunno about some of the ideas here. We'll see. I'm going to check out several spots that advertise camping, and see if any are a good idea. A lot of them are sex spots, so no thanks. Those I skip over.

I found a cool dinner and dancing spot called Frank's Place. Of course, when I find things like this, I think of taking Sp*t to it.

I looked at a few more You Tube tutorials. Little things to know, I guess, but no huge revelations that I can use (yet!).

Okay now I'm really excited. I was browsing the classifieds and found a writing job (SL) that pays a relatively huge amount of money. It is right up my alley!! I will be writing some guide book stuff -- or I will if they accept me. I just IMed the owner so we'll see. Because I've been having a BLAST exploring SL and finding romantic spots and telling others about them anyway, so yea, I can advertise this to all my friends, as a Pick place. We'll see if they are still wanting writiers for it. I may tell him to divide his guides up into 1 and 2 and 3 with the same title, because charging more than 150 L per guide? I dunno.

I'm checking out NCI (New Citizens Incorporated). I also figured out that I will be getting a premium account -- less than 75 dollars a year -- because there is a L stipend that comes with it, and I am going to be doing this heavy duty. NCI has Business starting classes I will have to catch sometime, and they said they have a stipend program, so I'll have to see. I think I haven't checked out all the classifieds yet either.

I danced at the Tube, and danced with James. I think I could probably eventually figure out setting up DJing. I can probably learn some DJing off SL. I will need a microphone, too.

I think the herb tree is just a scam.

You know, a lot of SL just seems empty. That is too bad. It makes me want to have an idea about it.

Well, I finally got my question answered about how to make a sign. You canNOT make fancy wording and letters in SL. You have to do it on your desktop application, and then upload the image (10 Ls) where it becomes a texture. I can take it from there. I'm graphics software poor. I only have Paint. I used to have print shop, but I dunno where it is right now. Will have to re-install. But I will attempt to do something with paint, and we'll see. Ha ha!! I was even praying to God about this question.

After I make the sign, my next order of business is to get on landmark/Linden Search results, which I think costs weekly Ls. But if I get that premium account next week, no problem. Patience, patience . . .

I was at the Ivory Tower sandbox, and this woman came up to me, and said hello. She turned out to have been here a year, and she VERY generously answered my questions about sign making (she got on voice too; makes me want my microphone, ha ha). People are soooo nice. I know I said this before, but I hope I can just keep paying it forward.

Okay!!!! I made my sign!!! I am sooooooo excited!!! I made it on paint, it is very simple but cute. I paid to upload the image, and it is on the kiosk. Now the next order of business is to get into the search results, but I will wait til next week after I get my premium account.

I did change my account info, so that I could get some more Ls so that I wouldn't lapse on the rent of the house. But I am so feeling better about this Linden money stuff. It will all fall into place soon.

The guy who I can help write the guide with also IMed me! So I am super excited! I will write something to give to him.

Sp*t came. He is UK. I am west USA. So it is late at night for me, before work for him the next day. He saw how I had done the sign. Then he ironed his RL pants while I dressed in SL. Then we went to Willow Grove Zoo. It wasn't too elaborate, but it was pretty cute, animals all about. But the best part is they had a little dock or deck by the water. So we sat in the lounger and he held me. We talked, SL stuff and RL stuff. Oh. My. Gosh. He kissed my forehead and then my mouth and gave me hugs and squeezes. Or he would have. Honestly, I was NOT expecting this!!! I know I said that already. But I am considering Sp*t's regard a very valuable thing. There is so much more I could say, but it's not for this blog. But gosh . . . I'm dating!!! (It wasn't happening in RL!) And is it pathetic that my first kiss, really, of any romance or importance was on SL? ha ha. It's sweet and cool actually. I got kissed all the way from UK. I'm allowed to be girly about this, aren't I?? Squeal! Ha ha.

Well, I got the rent paid for another week. That is off my chest. I just feel so great about SL developments right now.

Now I am sitting by the fire ring at Rockaway beach (Scilly) for the rest of the sunset, and the stars. Peace invades my soul . . . .

I opened stuff, organized inventory. I put up a plasma tv in the bedroom. I put out a mailbox -- it even says when I'm online or not to other people. I put a "reclined" post ball on the bed. It looks a little weird, but I'll keep looking for the best one. I left a note for Sp*t for the next time he gets online.

End of the day . . .