SL/Quick ride

I got a tandem bicycle and Yetrates hopped on for a quick ride around the sim.

Here we are stuck under the boardwalk.

We came to an oddly familiar-looking place. I used my Zoom key to peek inside the building.

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Sure enough, it was the gay estate down the road.

I hadn't been 'banned' from the estate yet, but I wanted to be, especially since I kept running into it. A ban would keep me off the property for good.

"Uh oh," I said to Yet after I looked at its official description. "It says 'GAY MEN ONLY/NO LADIES HERE.' We've got to get you moving."

Try as I might, I couldn't find a way out. We kept going in circles. "Christ," I said. "I think we're stuck in a gay paradise."
"Try this way out," she suggested. "No, that way." Yet was offering various ways out. "Go 180-degrees."

Never, I thought.

"Go STRAIGHT," she finally yelled, but she spelled it like George "Strait."

"That'll be enough of that word," I said--not wanting to offend.

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Another roadblock.

"Cut your hair," I demanded.

"What??"

"It's either cut your hair or build a miniature house over your head. You can't be spotted the way you are."

She cut (and dyed) her hair.

Another road block.
"You still got way too many curves," I reminded her, "so you might as well grow your hair back." So she did.

We drove around the roadblock...

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But wait!
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"Omg is that a coliseum?" I asked.
"Yeah," she answered.
"Greek or Roman? I'm still nervous."

Christmas Day/Night

If you look closely, in this empty diner, you can see me sitting by myself.
I wasn't sure if I could seat myself, though, since there was no waitress around.
I'd stumbled across the diner in the lovely Doll City sim.
It had been a hectic Christmas...
Earlier, I helped JT and Ulises out by letting them stay at my house. Except I didn't have room. But then I had an idea: I would stack another house on top of mine. Now there was plenty of room!
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Before that, we all were at Pappy's place, and Pappy waited until we were loaded up in his truck to inform us that he himself had been 'loading up' all day! Thank god his truck didn't have a transmission, or we would have ended up in the ocean.
This is me--as a monkey--in Pappy's outhouse. I wanted to be a monkey today, and the outhouse is one of the first places I wanted to see. As a monkey, it took me twice as long to get out.
Present tense: Now I'm at Elle's club, watching her stack presents under the Christmas trees. (I've since left the diner.) I don't know for sure, but I suspect this arrangement is for the Serbians, who celebrate it next month on the 7th. There's a heck of a lot of work and planning that goes into a club, including keeping track of how many Christmases there are.

SL/Encounters in Welcome Area pt. 34/Christmas Eve

It was 6:45pm where Soy was (compared to the rest of the world)

littlebigmanlbm Back: Happy Christmas everyone
Foxnsane Ceawlin: Merry Christmas to you too ^^
Seren Qinan: is it Christmas for you, yet?
Beryl Hawker: no
Margaut Lane: for me, yes
littlebigmanlbm Back: Super Love amongst nations
Seren Qinan: Happy Christmas :)
Yoko Zemlja: I'm from Denmark
Create Ninetails: oh cool
Foxnsane Ceawlin: yeah, it's christmas day already :)
Helex Quinnell: 25th now
Foxnsane Ceawlin: 1:44 AM
Helex Quinnell: 7:45am
Soy Burger: Helex, are u serious?...you're in the prime of Christmas right now...that means the presents have been opened
Helex Quinnell: yes I am serious
Soy Burger: where you at? australia?
Helex Quinnell: no
Helex Quinnell: Hong Kong
Soy Burger: wtf
Yoko Zemlja: The gifts has been opened..the Duck has been eaten.....and the children put to bed..
Foxnsane Ceawlin: Duck?
Soy Burger: Duck? Who's the one in hong kong?
Helex Quinnell: I want Turkey!
Helex Quinnell: where re u from Soy
Soy Burger: a little town called Florida
Helex Quinnell: I see
Yoko Zemlja: In Denmark we eat Duck and pork...
Scottish Alcott: hey luffy, and everyone else
Soy Burger: Scotland is here, good...it will be interesting to find out what scotland eats
Scottish Alcott: if yer talking christmas, we have a choice of ham, poultry and steak
Alex Farnsworth: what are you having soy?
Soy Burger: pizza
Soy Burger: i am carving pizza tomorrow
Blau Huet: and toast
Helex Quinnell: I want some table wine too
Soy Burger: stuffed pizza :)
Soy Burger: i preheat the oven to 350
Soy Burger: i do all the same things you do for turkey
Helex Quinnell: what's the sauce with the turkey over there?
Soy Burger: marinara
Scottish Alcott: well its just turned midnight here, merry christmas everyone, hope you all have a great day.
Bert Eales: will do
Soy Burger: a *real* merry christmas to you, scotland
Soy Burger: since you are in actual christmas now

littlebigmanlbm Back: LOL ALL I SAID WAS HAPPY CHRISTMAS
Soy Burger: you said happy christmas, not merry christmas
Soy Burger: it was a dead giveaway
Soy Burger: that you don't celebrate it

Year in Review, My Links

Here are my "Favorites" or "bookmarked" sites in no particular order. Share them with your friends (or sneer at them and say "HUMBUG," I don't care). These are the sites I collected since my computer went 'kaput' and Internet Explorer was re-installed, so there's not many, but since this is the end of the year, and the end of the year usually means roundups, here they are:

http://thegridlive.com/category/aribella-lafleur/ (Aribella is a friend I met at a Second Life Welcome Area. This is her blog.)

http://home.comcast.net/~labvid/flash/hold/video.htm (This is a web page detailing a lot of the locations for interesting Matrix-style Google videos.)

https://pin.ed.gov/PINWebApp/pingerrdb.jsp (This is where I log-in to see my Student Loan payment status.)

http://www.intp.org/intprofile.html (My INTP profile.)

http://www.pathwaytohappiness.com/ (A very cool "consciousness-related" website that has plenty of free podcasts to download.)

http://www.cncden.com/cnc3maps_spyvspy.shtml (A repository of C&C3 maps.)

http://www.realitysandwich.com/ (Daniel Pinchbeck's website. Pinchbeck is a psychedelic shaman who wrote the classic, Breaking Open the Head. This site has Pinchbeck and a lot of great writers ruminating on day-to-day events.)

http://www.matrixmasters.com/podcasts/ (Another one-stop place when it comes to excellent mind-expanding podcasts. They have everybody: Terence McKenna, Pinchbeck, Rupert Sheldrake... [Use the vertical scrollbar near the top.])

The majority of the Second Life blogs I follow I access, not via my "Favorites," but via the links on this page (or following the links on other people's pages). That's the beauty of the new "Web": a lot of the links you rely on are no longer stored on your computer, but on others' pages. This *springboard* can be considered a new form of 'inter-connectivity' that springs you, like a mosh-pit person, from one set of hands to another.

SL/Smaller body = different perspective

Here's Yetrates and I right before we decided to walk around the neighborhood. Every time I turned around, though, Yet was at least 20 steps ahead of me. Small things which I used to pay no attention to now gave me trouble, like steps.

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Patric: I can not navigate steps like you, Yet, learn to slow down!

Yetrates: fly then Patsy
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Here is a clothing store owned by a French neighbor.

Here is my Spanish friend Ulises asleep within the French store.
There were some odd shaped seats here...
Honeycomb

SL/Temporary Avatar

I decided to be a bee, since there is nothing as incongrous as a bee buzzing around winter-themed sims.

I resisted the urge to be a reindeer, mainly because I remember the abuse one took in a niteclub I was at last year. People were riding it like it was the bar bull. (It was all fun and games until a burly Santa showed up.)

So, I decided to be nothing "Christmassy" this year. Nothing invoking saliva. Nothing to ride on. But something that would invoke fear if I got too close.

SL/Modification

"I wanted a goatee, but things went horribly wrong and I ended up with a beard."

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Soy: if you have tattoos AND muscles AND sunglasses, the chances you will meet women here increase by the minute

SL/Encounters in Welcome Area pt. 33/Where You From?

(Welcome To: Ahern)

Cravez McCallen: i am in colorado
Anna Parks: dont know if i like USA...been there, too cold.
Soy Burger: we are all in Ahern
Markb66 Balogh: think usa sucks
Cravez McCallen: its an opinion
Kale Kesslinger: yea
Cravez McCallen: i was born in alabama
Soy Burger: my computer is swapping bits of data with you
Soy Burger: no matter where you're from
Jaide Beck: cool.
Anna Parks: that sounds so, revolutionary, soy.
Soy Burger: it feels nice

SL/Overheard in Welcome Area

"The older you get the more tattoos you will get."

"If you locate people with tattoos you will find them seasoned vets."

SL/Overheard

"The only places you are allowed unlimited nudity are mature sims (for obvious reasons) and, oddly enough, Orientation Island, where nudity is commonplace. PG-sim nudity, though, is still a no-no. "
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"It's so convenient not knowing how to shake people's hands since I've been here."
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"I have a zillion folders in S/L I just realized and none of them contain a single naked picture."