Garnet Psaltery

From a movie whose ending haunted me for years. The song's good too

My earliest pics are on a badly damaged hard disk but this is the oldest one I could find taken by one of my first neighbours, Dianne Mechanique, in 2005. I was wearing Robin Sojourner's blonde hair and bun together with her black jeans and my own system layer black jumper. You can't see my shoes but it's probably just as well. Then I got into being a cat. Sometimes white, sometimes black.

Sommergewitter has rain plus thunder and lightning. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cosima/128/128/25

I found a Flickr image of Annaliese, but checking the location it's sadly true that the region has vanished.

I've had Premium membership since my arrival in 2005. I ran through the scary Welcome Area and went immediately to buy First Land (formerly provided special empty mainland 512s for newbies). I've enjoyed the stipend and most other perks ever since. Downgrading is unthinkable.

Never mind

The region is now rented.

There's no way to increase prims on the Mainland except by buying more land, so unless a neighbour moves out or sells you some land, you're limited to what you currently have.

Not yet - been catching up on sleep

I'd point you to the official Linden Lab article on Private Regions* which includes this statement "qualified educators and non-profits are allowed to order a Homestead Region without owning a standard Private Region, unlike regular Residents." I have no idea what checks LL make on people buying a homestead without owning a full region, but it seems risky to try. Your choice. You don't need a premium account to buy land on an Estate, though you must have payment info on file, just on the Mainland. Drawbacks? LL offer a set list of prices for different kinds of Regions, whereas private sales depend very much on the current market, the mood of the seller, and possibly how close they are to their next tier payment. The actual selling/buying process is usually safe as it goes through LL - do not buy outside of their service, such as paying MrShonkyAvatar directly to his account or via Paypal or whatever. The way to do it is to raise a support ticket - the article below tells you exactly how. *

When you get the Select box at the bottom of the window for choosing the duration of a ban enter 0 (zero). This creates a permanent ban.

I haven't got any adult furniture so that doesn't apply. I just am buggered if I'm going to let Tom Dick and Harriet Cadger invade my bought space.

*nabs the Smarties and runs away*

I loved the Montalbano series. This song from one episode is full of raw and genuine emotion.

I'll test it - thanks for the warning.

I've just cleared up a minor griefing on estate land for rental. This person, I suspect, is going round doing the same thing where he can find it. He saw my land for purchase at L$1 and took advantage by trashing the landscape, changing the parcel name to nonsense, and then abandoning the land. Of course, it was left off the market. I've since readvertised at L$100 - lesson learned - but thought you might appreciate a warning, especially if you have a lot of parcels up at L$1.

Build accurately to the exact measurement of the land.

I'm cleaning up an inconvenience caused by a not-very-bright griefer (not worth bothering Governance with it). It wasn't hard to follow a trail to his RL person, and I told him so, but fortunately I'm not the sort of person to take advantage of that.

That's very sad, Ashlyn. I've seen a lot of friends come and go but a few have stayed constant, mostly because we have something in common and have shared experiences. It isn't impossible to find friends, just not always easy.

Does anyone else think that "Your avatar is waiting for you" is a bit scary?

It is still quite hard to connect the parcels in Edit if they're distant. You need a long drawing distance and a steady hand. It just occurred to me though that the animals might try to wander across other parcels. Without knowing how their scripts work I can't be sure, but I suspect they might end up in a heap while encountering the parcel border.

Oh, that's a shame. Is it because the parcels are far apart?

It worked just now when I tried it on behalf of someone asking in another thread.