On a Second Life

A card, when given, is dragged on the ground to open, or to rezz.

Finally, having rezzed my tiki island properly, and filling in water all around it, I cozily lazed down the sand with an old friend. Then work at the land firm was crazy, as SL was lagging so bad, and I'm a cloud. Tried relogging until another friend IM'd me if I was okay, probably filling his screen with my online/offline status notification. He was an old old friend of mine whom I chanced upon at the land office looking for land and so I asked him how it was going at his home building. He said that he got some problems on the window of his bar, some rezzing mishap probably like what I just encountered. As he never saw yet my new place, we met there for a short chat. Then we hopped in to Dream Isle, where the sunset on his dancing hall simply got me. As he also met YS before, I asked if we can have a reunion of sorts. We went back a long long way, around April of this year then lost contact till the day he poofed in looking for land..

Lately, I've been exploring the Garden of Da Vinci. It promises one the best of a lot of worlds, from the swirling giant squid over our head as you find yourself underwater, to upon flying above, landing on a number of magical islands with a few surprises. Imagine finding a magic carpet that takes you to a deserted tent, beside an oasis? Or touching an old pirate's mast to reveal a junk, ready to sail you to the next pirate's hideaway? Then hovering over a small tiki hut nestled on a clump of sand, I saw it perfect for my sunset fishing spot.

A tint on my virtual pocket at 3,450L, it will fit nicely on my small plot, and at 99 prims a real jewel. So I teleported to the prefab store, located on an airy Grecian tower, and if not looking at the stuff for sale you will be looking down a fiery volcanic island.

Down the beach, I cleared the deckchairs, a few grass, and oh, I love killing that peacock! Perhaps because its colors uses more prims than anything else, and that realistic sound it emits. Dragging the most expensive thing I ever bought from my inventory down the ground, I right click on it to open the contents, then copying back to inventory. Yes, that's the way it works in this grid.

Now all the contents in one folder, I selected that one object rez-all it says, and presto!

The openspace where I have my home, have finally upgraded to a regular sim, and so I teleported to Beachcomber Oasis.
The new lay-out seems refreshing, on the west side was a tall apartment building, aparently for rent, and down the lobby was the tier boxes. No more individual boxes to remind you of rents in your own backyard.
To get the best spot, i flew around while the sun was forced on sunset. From the old 4096sqm, with the upgrade i stand to get a 1024sqm with my old prim count of 234.Maybe this time i will try to extend my two week's rental rebate into a month, if I get a cozy 512sqm spot. I've been using my place mostly for fishing anyways. I just have to find a place adjoining a common-use waters. And there it was, after hovering over my old corner, I found my new place. Perfect, the sunset was right in my front of blue waters with flying dolphins. It was right in the middle of the sim in front of the the tall apartment building. And the 7S fishing server even works in my side of the sea. I invited a friend right over, rezzed a couple of deck chairs and tested my luck! A white ragged fish came right away.
While on it my friend asked if I already have a house. I said no, I haven't seen one that I fancy, and I don't wish to use my old one. He replied that is his problem at the moment too, finding the perfect house. He is an old friend of mine and much as he like having houses, i think he also associate them with his girl of the moment. And you read that right, he is in between relationships right now, haha. He said that he could even use a tent for now, as he had lived in a lot of houses already, all sort perhaps. I said that with my limited prims, maybe that is all I could put up here. Maybe not. Maybe I'll let it open like it is. I have no water boundary on one side, its a corner lot and I wonder how is my new neighbor going to be. If I run out of prims maybe i will get it too. But then again, maybe not.

And then he congratulated me on my promotion as land manager and offered to buy me shoes, so we went shopping. Then i had to get back to work. Yes I work at least 20 hours a week on a second life, so isn't it great I also got a good fishing spot to relax on?

A new friend recently took me to the best place he ever explored, the Da Vinci Garden.I was just about to start my day but he was ending his, so we spent a few time underwater, watched the giant squid sway over our heads, then popped out of water to land on a small island. In it lies an Alladin's carpet, ready to take anyone on a desert, but we parted here, he on his bed and me to my new post as land manager.

I was nearly ending my shift when YS came online. I gave her the landmark, and turning the dock over I met her there.

Then i showed her the magic carpet, and soon i was on a desert! While waiting for her, i charmed the snakes.

While she tried belly dancing inside the tent, a mirage happened, who else but LW appeared on the oasis!


I showed him the carpet that will lead us back to the island. Too bad it only affords one rider, but there seems to be a bounty of carpets, you can even take one home.

I must find the tip jar of this generous garden keeper, and I haven't seen yet a single one. Touching the pirate's sunken flag, a boat rezzes to take us to the nearby island. While i got a big one, i let him take me to a smaller sail.

Another small hideaway with surprises! We lost each other exploring the huts, and soon we settled meditating on a tree.

Oh how time flies, it was time for me to get back to the real world and fetch our son, while he, one real-time zone away, needs a trip to the market.

SL is a wonderful place to meet reality, and I wonder if YS, on EST, had fallen asleep on her keyboard, hehe, after all, it was nearly dawn in her part of the globe.

A friend of mine told me about him, coming new to play in SL. At that time I was on site showing land to a client, who also happens to be a long-lost friend of mine. So we settled in one of the newly-bought plots at Dream Isle and got to know each other.

Well, for a newbie he does not look scary at all, in fact there was a bit of character already beneath those shades. Only 2 weeks old, I said he will qualify to join the Learn Avatar program that my real estate firm is offering new residents. By attending 2 classes each week, a noob like him could learn almost everything there is to know about living a life in SL, plus a chance to live on a free house and lot while with the program.