June 18, 2009 Thursday

Well, the most recent reportable thing is that I am now being driven to consider alternate viewers for Second Life. I'm not the biggest fan of change, but the newest update to Second Life's viewer has made me lose my face -- you heard me -- and made me lose my bottom half of my body. When I lost my face, I had black and yuccky eyes twitching around. When I lost the bottom half, it was just invisible. Then things like the fire grate I bought with a certain metal texture just aren't showing up right. I've read through a lot of alternate viewer stuff and what makes me not choose to get one yet is that none of them really grabs me as something I might want to do, that I might be going from the frying pan into the fire. So we'll see. I'm sure I'll experiment with at least one some time.

I'm still laboring to remodel my apartment. I think I am now satisfied with my wall paint and my tiled floor (textured, stretched thin prims -- I can't really change the existing walls and floors), but I may keep changing things around as it is to work all together, so it depends on what else I can find. But I tried to get the wall and my existing rugs to work together. I spent a lot of times shopping for textures, and I still will. This all started with the new 6 prim kitchen I bought. It was good, but now I don't think it goes, so now I'm back to shopping for another kitchen. I think I found one for 17 prims, which is reasonable. So you see what I'm up against. Ha ha. I think this remodel is just going to be an ongoing fact of life.

The official announcements for Zindra, the adult continent, have happened recently, with a welcome to explore. So I did. I am not into adult "entertainment" -- in fact, I barely understand the appeal of it -- but what I do like is a new, untouched continent. So I visited the safety hub and Kama City. Of course, none of the adult stuff is there yet as the "land swap" hasn't happened (can you say blood bath?). So Kama City's structures were light and airy (can't wait til the neon hits) -- beautiful but then again, rather unremarkable. There is a city square with a huge monument in the middle.