1st Life/shopping

Creamer with built-in caffeine

While at a 7-11 this morning I noticed a type of creamer with a black label that caught my attention. Stok, it's called, and it's really a container of caffeine you can plop in your coffee, looking exactly like a creamer would.

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Book-buying line vs. grocery store line

While at Barnes and Nobles today I realized how much more relaxing it was to be in a bookstore checkout line versus a grocery store line. In the bookstore line you can at least sample the merchandise. In the grocery store line you can sample the merchandise, too--if you want to explain to the cashier why your box of crackers has already been opened.

Sometimes I don't want to budge while in the bookstore line, reading a particularly zesty line perhaps. In the grocery store line I'm always counting the number of items to be scanned in front of me.

Math seems to be a hidden part of the grocery shopping experience. Maybe that's why I'm not a big fan. Chances are, grocery shopping can affect your budget for the week, so you must stand there and do all kinds of boring calculations in your head. Book buying is pretty much done on a whim, with the non-math side of your brain, and that's maybe why I like it.

Second Life/Elephant eyes

I always like to check out what books people have.

This is quite an office.

Interesting trinkets.

Ahh, the office hours.

A two-way communicator. No hidden buttons underneath.

The office sits in the middle of strange landscape.

The occupier of this office is a strange looking cat.

This is his portrait.

Here he is working at desk with his portrait overhead.

The books are flavorable.

A very whacked-out painting. I like it.

Photographs on desk.

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What the--?

This gentleman is some sort of security.

His T-shirt says there is a Sasquatch in the area and to have caution.

Elsewhere...

Standing around with our tails hanging out.

An elephant has his eyes on a pretty one.

There is no mistaking the attraction.

Not sure the feeling is mutual.

Now eyes on me?

I'm the object of scrutiny?

Heavy scrutiny.

Others are starting to notice.

What is the deal?

I try to look casual but there's no avoiding the gaze.

Impenetrable.

Elephant eyes

Second Life/Book Case

Tonight when I was looking for a
book in my book case I hurt my back.

I went off immediately in search of a chiropractor.

There was a house ahead with its lights on and two people inside. I couldn't resist my first real voyeur experience. Here I am hovering outside their window.

What were they up to?

All I wanted was a closer look.

I wanted some pictures.

The man turned around at this point and realized I was there. The woman used a potion on me and froze me for 30 seconds. I couldn't move nor talk.

The next thing I know I am in mid-air, banished. [I wanted an experience I got an experience.]