Aethelwine

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I rather like the Chalet I got, but I got lucky with the location... nothing between my back yard and the main waterway and not too far to walk to a rezz zone. The house style works for me with open downstairs kitchen\ diner\ lounge space and two rooms upstairs a bit of trelacing outside the side door makes for a nice flow to a little quiet back garden area overlooking the water. I am not one for clutter so I don't get close to using all the Prims I have available. My log cabin is bigger and I think when I had the Victorian that was too. So I don't think house size or layout or the buildings themselves have anything much to do with their perceived unpopularity. I think if they are less popular it has more to do with them being released after the other styles. For me access to water for rezzing is my main criteria for picking a home. The exception being my log cabin, where I rather like the sense of rural isolation even though the region is fully occupied. I quite enjoy the 10 region horse or bike ride to the coast. Whilst the Chalets do have some rivers and water edge parcels . In a lot of places houseboats have been put in there. Trads seem to have it better for riverside parcels. And the South coast Victorians can be lovely. All in all I think Chalets aren't so bad just victims of being late in the release cycle.

I see the attraction for us, just not for the Linden's having to police the resale and rental market. It would also damage existing revenue streams.

I don't see the benefits of making the land free to purchase, outweighing risks. More realistic perhaps than a mainland 2.0 would be to complete Zindra, and add in a Horizons 2.0 perhaps with a more restrictive covenant in terms of what can be built and security systems. The value of land and occupancy rates there indicate demand for that sort of development remains.

There is a bit of art to it. On each side you need a prim that extends about one third its length across into the neighbouring region. So say you take a 6m prim push it two meters into next region and then in the adjacent region have another 6m prim extending 2m back into the other prim. you can make them invisible so you don't get glitching textures. Then test it and if it doesn't work try something a bit bigger and minor tweaks but I think that should work. It has been quite a few years since I was building roads across region boundaries.

First group cruise using the new link might be the one at noon by RRMC. Details posted in SLSA and their own group notices, or come to our Sim to get everything you need including a communicator: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Seductive Roads South/85/46/27 If you are looking for the box but can't find it then it looks like this:

One more from this year

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20 Years ago DJ Shadow gave this song a new lease of life, this is the original

A positive to take from this is that since they are encroaching it indicates their permission to do similar at a different height. There are some nice little scenic themed skyspheres you might feel more comfortable using now even if they do encroach a little.

Thanks to Fairchang for getting a new connection to their estate and to the altruism of landowners along the route a new passage has now opened up between NW Satori and up the West Coast of Nautilus. Unlike previous connections, this one looks like it will last the landowners the route depends on have had their land open for sometime. Nautilus can now be circumnavigated. Credit to LCC for spotting this first and already running a cruise through here!

Thelonius Monk loves Charlie Rouse's solo so much on this version of Bolivar Blues he starts dancing

Might as well add a third Larry Coryell: