ImmA Bee-After that last post I just had to do it!

I'm A Bee from Kara Trapdoor on Vimeo.

To be or not to be?

Dear Diary,
The other day I was thinking about my rez day and some things that were going on, like realizing for the 100th time SL friends may or may not really be like RL friends and some can just come and go without much care. I started to contemplate my very SL existence, to be or not to be. Some SLer once said, "To live in RL is to die in SL". I'm not sure I subscribe to this theory, as many of my SL friends and acquaintances live in RL BECAUSE they live in SL or rather have SL products and services they make a RL living on or are trying to anyway. I, however, am NOT one of those people, and find myself spending i.e. wasting tons of my RL time in SL.

As William Shakespeare once said, "I like this place and could willingly waste time in it." But I don't want to turn out like another of his quotes, "I wasted time, now doth time waste me." I've always felt I've been a pretty hard worker but now find myself rushing faster through RL obligations even as basic as laundry just so I can have more SL time to waste. I've seen many people in SL for the wrong reasons such as escape from RL problems, depression, porn addictions, etc., but I've seen much more good including SL/RL education, fundraising, religious support, etc. So after I allowed myself a bit of sadness over SL losses, (things, places and people that come and go so quickly and easily) I justified again my SL by calling it my well earned recreation & social time.

I love SL and so far it still seems to mostly love me even after more than a year. For now I will carry on in both worlds and if something productive crosses my SL path I will consider learning about it as a way to further justify my extensive SL time and expenses. Sure I could just cut back on SL time, you know, "Everything in moderation", but I know those SL producers really need us consumers, or at least I tell myself that. Maybe I will go explore some amazing RL place in SL that I could never really visit in RL now.. just to further justify my SL existence. Signing off, Kara

The Choctacular Experience

I think the RL work layoffs and implementation of a new computer system is really getting to a bunch of Ladies who are going home at night, doing some major therapeutic baking, and bringing all their goods to work for what appears to be a daily bake off competition at the commons snack table. This is doing nothing for my annual "January, try to look hot for summer" diet that I am thinking about starting... tomorrow. But during a break I found the Avatars Events blog mentioning a thing called The Choctacular Experience that is at Trendone Trend 42.3 Discovery Center in SL through April 21, and since my sweet tooth was primed I made note. Tonight I was on a mission to find this place.

I stepped through the doors and was greeted with The Candyman song as I eyeballed a table with a cake on it. Of course I clicked the cake, I click most everything, and it handed me chocolate recipes that can be used in RL. Yay! Off to a great start. I voted for my favorite type of chocolate before I jumped in the big chocolate bath. It was so smooth I could almost feel and taste it, but it was really a tease. My imagination is great, but sadly not so good that I could actually taste, feel, or smell this SL chocolate. There is one pro for SL chocolate though, and that is the 0 calories. O, maybe it isn't really. I know I was almost drooling, does that generate calories? I picked up some cool freebie chocolate things but I won't say what, as that would be giving away some of the fun. Then I read a bunch of humorous and informative signs about chocolate before I sat down to eat some in front of the videos about chocolate including some Willy Wonka videos that I love. While there I also learned about chocolate and Easter and read an abridged history of chocolate and some chocolate funnies including one of my personal favorites, "Milk chocolate is a dairy product", is that funny or fact? I go with the latter. All in all a sweet place to visit. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Trendone/14/105/55 O, by the way, I understand there is also some interesting body chocolate and whipped cream around SL somewhere, but I think that is for another blog.

New Skin?

Ok, so a few people have seen my blog. I guess mentioning it on Avatars United might have had something to do with that.. or maybe the fact that I shouted it down some people's throats in there might have also. Come see what Kara did!!! But now my sister who has blogged for years tells me my urls, surls, html, SLurls, whatever she said... are kind of messed up in some places and I need a new skin. My avatar happens to have great skin I am very proud of.. but.. she said for the blog. So I went in search and found some amazing backgrounds, AKA skins. I read a little about them and some comments were saying people couldn't make them work, they messed up their whole blog, widgets were not working, etc. without doing x number of amazing steps to make them work right. (widget.. what the heck is widget? Sis, you are probably the only one who will read this and I'm sure you think I jest, but I kid you not, I have no clue. I need some help!) Anyway, that was when I first realized I really am in over my head. I am NOT a computer person and before I discoverd Second Life a little over a year ago I really only wanted to be sitting in front of a computer to collect the necessary email as infrequently as possible. I had a REAL life then. Well I still do, but SL turned me into a SL junkie and with it comes a bit of the internet. So now I am daily amazed with the computer and internet. I am learning.. slowly. I want to have lists and links and all kinds of cool things and of course a non-noobgeneric "skin". But that will come in time. When sis has time to sit down with me I guess. (hint hint) In the mean time.. yeah yeah.. I know, and sorry I can't link you up etc. or whatever. I would if I could. Some day soon, I'm sure.

Easter Bonnet

Ready for Easter!
Champagne Glacon dress
Tres Beau "Easter Candy" Bunny shoes, hat and basket
Location: Zweet ZurroundingZ

Passover to be celebrated at Eternal Creations Sim 3-28-10

Sunday March 28th at 6pm SL time there will be a Messianic Passover complete with scripted Seder plate, video, and parting of the Red Sea build area that can be walked through. This event will be held in the Eternal Creations Christian sim at You Are Loved Ministries. Passover marks the beginning of the harvest season in Israel however, the primary reason cited for it's observance is related to the Exodus of Hebrew slaves from Egypt after generations of slavery. The passing over refers to the fact God "passed over" the houses of the jews while afflicting Egyptians with the tenth plague. Many Christians also celebrate Passover as Jesus was the sacrificial lamb of God that delivered all mankind from slavery of sin. Passover is around the same time of the year as Easter, because the "Last Supper" that Jesus and His 12 disciples were celebrating was His last Passover meal He shared with them before His death, burial and resurrection. This was actually a "memorial" meal as others in Israel sacrificed their Passover lambs the next evening when Jesus was offered up on the cross. 22:32] http://slurl.com/secondlife/EC%20Beach%20Community/122/157/2091

Eternal Creations is a huge area and the event will also be near a cool game area that has many life size (well, av size) games including a soccer field and paint ball area. I watched a round of paint ball there the other day and found it to be very entertaining to see the participants running around hiding behind boulders, etc., splatting each other with paint from their paint guns. The sim also still has the Christian contest builds up and the winning build initially just looked like a huge cross to me, but when I sat on the tiny bench in front the of the cross that says "sit here" I was in for a very touching surprise I hope a lot of people experience. Please check out this sim when you have a chance. There are a lot of good people in the area.

Svarga is Back!

Today I visited the reopened Svarga sim that has a rich history in Second Life, but had been closed for a period of time.

As I took a sim tour on a giant wasp I was told it's building began in 2004 with nothing added since 2006 at which time there were no flexi or sculpted prims. All content remains original build with basic SL prims. Some artificial life experiments were conducted there with plants that grow and multiply.

The sim includes elven instruments, SL books, and there are hopes to bring back the chat to sound experiment. In ancient European mythology Svarga or "Heaven" is the residence of the god, Svarog. The island is formed by the collapsed caldera of a old volcano. It's my understsanding Linden Labs recently bought Svarga which is again open to the public.