It's Serious
Maybe it's because I was out sick on Thursday, then had Friday off, so I feel like I had a luxuriously long weekend, but I'm in a great mood today. I didn't get to mess about on SL as much yesterday as I did last Sunday, but I did manage to catch both Building Shelter and Payment Podium. This morning I realized I never got around to processing the Building Shelter entries from the 14th for Dolmere, they were all still sitting around in my inventory looking bored. So I got those done and hope to get caught up on the 21st either tonight or tomorrow morning.
Saturday was a blast - went to King's in downtown Boston and met up with BushidoBrown Hightower and Pathfinder Linden. The invite was thrown open to all and sundry on the forums and in the N*E*R*D (New England Resident Dwellers) group in SL, but the three of us were all that made it. Which was fine by me, as it's kind of loud and I'd prefer to hear what people have to say.
I embarrassed myself with my stellar ability at billiards. Uh, yeah. Only if by "stellar" I mean "sucky". By some weird mischance I managed to beat the guys during one game. Fortunately, neither one took the game too seriously or got impatient with my inability to make anything connect (including, I kid you not, the cue and the cue ball, on occasion) (and no, there was no alcohol involved).
Pathfinder was sweet enough to pick up the tab (well, okay, he said he'd expense it... hi Accounting Department of Linden Labs!). And he shared some nifty SL stickers... one of which I've already managed to misplace. I don't remember sticking it anywhere... although I was contemplating where I could stick one that it would be obvious and yet not get trashed by the weather and strangers. Stranger than me, that is.
I also read JPod by Douglas Coupland this weekend. Reading always makes me feel nice and rested. Since I became addicted to SL, instead of picking up whatever book I was currently lost in, I would turn on the computer. JPod was okay... but not great. Douglas Coupland wrote himself into the plotline, and although he's not a very sympathetic character, it was a bit too meta for me. His books really do vary all over the place. Microserfs remains one of my favourite reads, but I still haven't been able to get past the first chapter or so of Girlfriend In A Coma (nor can I type that name without hearing Morrissey in my head... hence the title of this post). On my way out of the bookstore after buying JPod, I spotted four different books by other authors who I read regularly... and nearly bought them all. Instead, I was good, and will get them less expensively on Amazon, and ration myself to make them last longer.
I think it'd be nice to have a regular N*E*R*D meet-up (monthly or whatever), and we chatted about that. Or even if it's not a "group" thing, just a "hang out with some SL folks in RL" thing. Very fun. Both the guys are going to the SLCC this August. I'm tempted to, as well. How could I stay away? I like San Fransisco (although we all know it's going to fall off, right?) and worst case scenario: the Con sucks, but I can just go visit the kickass Computer History Museum instead.
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I can definitely get down with arranging a regular N*E*R*D meetup, C. Some people in the online group said they weren't getting the notices I was sending and that they don't check the forums. I'll start making up invite textures and sending them out next time :) Glad you came through, it was fun! Let me know what ideas you have for another venue and I can hook that up.
Posted by: BushidoBrown Hightower | May 22, 2006 06:39 PM
I Heart Microserfs! In fact, I'm re-reading it right now! I also had the same problem you had with 'Girlfriend...', only mine was with 'Shampoo Planet'. Just couldn't do it. Perhaps it's because I identified so strongly with the characters of Microserfs.
Posted by: Akela Talamasca | May 30, 2006 04:47 PM