twisting around

Tis the season for TREASURE HUNTS. Quick treasure hunt tip number one: use wireframe view! (These pics are from a hunt that is now over, so I’m not revealing any seekrit locations *g*)

Can you spot the orange pumpkin treasure?

A quick flip over to wireframe view (Advanced > Rendering > Wireframe) shows the hidden goodness!

Sometimes, when I’m standing next to certain wee women who shall remain nameless, I kinda feel like maybe I went a little crazy with the sliders. Made my boobs and butt too big and my height too tall. And then…

Then I go out into the wide world.

Here’s some sculpty balloons.  At least, I hope they’re sculpty balloons…

And here’s something big and long and… okay, it’s the Eiffel tower at the Paris 1900 build (which a new friend alerted me to!).  The red arrow is pointing to my avatar, to give you a sense of size.  I’m about to parachute off!

Standing in a shaft of light at Templum ex Obscurum:

Cutting the next pic for pixel representations of vague, Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction-esque nudity. *g* Messing around with windlight settings and wearing a … skimpy spider web outfit.
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Relaxing with a buddy after a long treasure hunt in the new Magic of Oz sim. The hunt’s still going till Friday, I think.

Being a west-coaster, I have the dubious fortune of living in actual ‘SL time’. I don’t have to do any math to figure out when an event starts, but then most events start right at or before my dinner time. The east-coasters are usually going to bed around when I can normally log on, and the Europeans are waking up for work.

So I often explore a seemingly empty SL. It’s nice, in that I can poke around and prod at things without interruption, but at the same time, it seems a little … counter to the whole point of SL. Ha.

A field of flowers at Ode. Catch the butterflies and get pieces of jewelry.

The SL fashion blog Shopping Cart Disco has a regular feature on Sundays–SLsecret–modeled after PostSecret and it’s many clones. A number of the secrets thus far have talked about loneliness and an inability to make friends in SL. As much as I’m enjoying playing in SL, I have found it rather difficult to make friends. Partly because of the time thing, I’m sure, but also because I have–in SL, as well as in RL–a very reserved manner. It usually takes me a couple of months to make friends in RL, and in SL a couple of months can feel like five years.

In a tree at La Reve.

I have a small circle of friends, and a slightly larger circle of acquaintances. I’d like to know more people (maybe even some in my own darned time zone! Where are all the Pacific coast SL-ers??), but I often feel stymied in this. One place I go to on occasion is friendly and fun, but also … feels kind of insular and like a closed circle at times. Lots of places in SL feel like that, actually.

Also, I’m really enjoying building things and I need to balance social activity with that, all in the limited time I have to give to SL-related activities. Sometimes it feels like it’s an either/or situation: do you want to play SL on the building track, or on the social activity track? If only I could gain XP by building that I could then spend on upping my charisma… or something equally nerdy. *g*

In the wheat field in the Refuge and Expansion.

Mellowing out at the Inspire Space Park. Everything kind of floats around as spacey, mellow music plays. There’s meditation balls that will let you float freely amongst the space stuff. There’s also dance balls and canoodling balls. If a date took me here, I would be impressed. That’s all I’m sayin’. *g*

A free–yes, free–blimpcycle! So fun to ride. Get one (and lots of other cool, well-done free stuff!) here.

Some pics so my rambling, talking out of my rear-end post isn’t the top post. *g*

I run and I run but the scenery never changes.

Anyone have a carrot?

Um…. a little help here?

So I was checking out virtual Harlem for twenties-related things when I crossed a bridge and ended up in virtual Montmartre.

It’s quite beautiful and great for striking a pose.

The first thing you see when you cross the bridge from Harlem to Montmartre is the Moulin Rouge. Unfortunately, there wasn’t anyone around or any shops that I could find. But I could sit on the railing! I like sitting on things in SL.

I just liked this picture.