[How does your avatar look today ?]

I changed into a little dragon at RP today, and forgot to change back to normal form before TP'ing back home.  Fortunately, my entry way was big enough for a little green dragon

[How can I tell if I have been blocked]

My thoughts would be if you're flirting with someone and they suddenly log off (and don't re-appear shortly, like they would if they crashed suddenly and then logged back in to last location) I would take that as a sign that the person didn't enjoy the flirting, and I would not attempt to flirt with them again, the next time I did happen to see them.  If you do attempt flirting a second time and they end it abruptly, I would not be surprised that they blocked you.  Perhaps she might have felt that blocking you was easier than trying to get you to realize/understand that she wasn't interested in your advances.

[What did your avatar look like when you first started SL?]

I started here in mid-May 2014, so I'm a relative newcomer here, compared to most of you.  Pictures from May 2014:

I really loved the hair in the picture on the right.  I looked in my inventory to see if I still have it, and I do, so I decided to try it on to see what I would look like today with that hair  It's flexi hair, so it never all stays completely still, and it's so long, floating out behind me when I walk. 

 

and the normal me, today: 

[How does your avatar look today ?]

Not quite ready for fall yet - a few Indian Summer warm days left in my part of SL. 

[The VaNiTy ThReAd]

 

Outfit, jewelry (except rings), tattoos, makeup and sunglasses - Mireia Boho Style Complete Outfit by Brii Underground Wear, from their Boho Culture Fair booth

Rings - ^^Swallow^^ Slink Dynamic Aphrodite Bento Rings

Body - Slink Physique

Skin - Lumae :: Eirtae - T4 - Fawn

Hair - .:EMO-tions:. * Loredana*/silver

 

[Five word Story Game]

laughed and then quickly transformed

[Do any of you have a real life presence through your avatar?]

I actually found out about SL through FB, from a person who uses their SL name as their only account name in FB.  She was/is the moderator of a popular FB group in my local area - one of those "I grew up in <area> during the '60's and '70's" type groups, and it turned out - after she told me her RL name - that we had been in orchestra together in high school during the late '70s. She used to post youtube videos on FB of dances that she had choreographed and performed in SL, along with little stories about some of her experiences in SL and how it enabled her to express her creativity in ways no longer possible in her RL.  I was intrigued by the videos she had made, and the stories, so I did some research online about SL and decided to create an account and try it out.  It turns out she is no longer active in SL, due to no longer having a computer able to run SL (something I didn't understand at the beginning, but understand now).  

My very immediate family (husband and grown daughters) know about SL, because I am inworld a lot and my PC is in our living room (which also often has grand kids hanging around) so I keep a very PG rated SL life.  However I rarely mention SL outside of the immediate family - I have mentioned to my sister, my mom and a close friend something along the lines of "I do some stuff in a virtual world" but nothing more as they did not express any interest or curiosity about it.  I don't "like" or "follow" SL group pages on FB, and I have a separate gmail and flicker account under my avi's name for anything SL related (but no FB account for my avi). 

Part of the reason I don't share about being in SL is its reputation part, and part of it is the having to explain why I spend so much time sitting at my computer instead of going out and doing things in RL.  I try to not share any detailed information about my RL in SL - just generalities or things that would not allow anyone to be able to identify me in RL.   I wouldn't mind if other family or friends created SL accounts, though, if any of them were interested.

[What are you doing today!? :D]

1 hour ago, Clover Jinx said:

I love your style. Where did we put that secret crush thread?

/me blushes.

thanks 

 

[What are you doing today!? :D]

Earlier today... heading out to shop at the Boho Culture Fair

[Five word Story Game]

peered out into dense fog

[Five word Story Game]

hidden, super secret, time capsule

[How does your avatar look today ?]

5 minutes ago, AnyaJurelle said:

You're one brave woman, Moirakathleen! Actually, you all are in here! I'm too chicken to change bodies and skins yet. Gorgeous photo, too!

Thanks!  It took me quite awhile before I made any big changes - like going to a mesh body.  Once I find a look I like, I tend to stay with it for awhile, but once I decide to make a change, I want to make it right away   I'm not as brave as many of the others here, who have been long time adopters of mesh heads - that's something I haven't decided to try out yet.  You have a very nice look, so no need to change it until you're ready to try something new.  

[How does your avatar look today ?]

Spending a quiet day at home, sorting through clothes again.  Last night I decided to switch bodies from Lara to Slink Physique, and switched skins as well. The new skin is a little lighter than what I had been wearing, but not as light as skins I had worn when I first started out. I do like it the best of the three I tried on last night.  I also decided to go back to a hair style I used to wear often.  After all that work, I decided it was time for an early dinner. 

 

[How does your avatar look today ?]

out for a morning stroll

[Logins failing]

Logins and Inworld Services are now showing on the grid status page as "Degraded Performance" so hopefully they're looking into it now. 

Logging in was timing out on the 'logging in' part of the process, couldn't access the support page nor log in to the dashboard to access live chat.  

Hopefully, all will be back up soon.

 

[How does your avatar look today ?]

[How does your avatar look today ?]

[What are you doing today!? :D]

Found a Halloween Carnival (Chedderbarrel Halloween Maze and Faire). Went on some rides, played a few games, got a balloon, found my way through several mazes, picked a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch and visited the haunted house (where I decided I should probably use the region windlight setting).

which way now?

 

glad I don't have a dance partner...

[Uli Land Sale - Mainland -Ad-Farm? Violates TOS?]

1 hour ago, Indy Melody said:

I am familiar with this parcel as I own land in Uli, so on April 30th, I im'ed the land owner to make an offer on the parcel which is a 256 square meter parcel with 87 prims and was set for sale at $25,000L. 

[2017/04/30 05:47]  Indy Melody: Hi [land owner], does the and in Uli belong to you?
[2017/04/30 05:47]  Indy Melody: Land*
[2017/04/30 05:50]  [land owner]: yes
[2017/04/30 05:50]  [land owner]: are you interested in buying it
[2017/04/30 05:50]  Indy Melody: it says make offer, would you take 5000L for it?
[2017/04/30 05:51]  [land owner]: The lowest I will go is 16,000L

Within a week of making that offer, the price for the parcel was set at $90,000L and a large floating green glowing sign that said Freebies was placed over the building (drawing new avatars from NCI to the parcel to elevate the visitor count of the parcel). About four weeks ago, the price was set at $70,000L. 

On Sept. 24th, the land owner im'ed me the following:
[2017/09/24 09:55]  [land owner]: (Saved Sun Sep 24 05:56:53 2017)We dropped our land price near NCI to 35000, this week only. We want to buy a friends place if this one sells.

I felt like the seller is trying to force me to purchase that parcel at an overpriced rate just to get rid of the ugly signs so I just closed the IM from the seller and ignored it.

Initially, I thought that if a person wanted to try and sell a 256 sqm parcel for $30,000, more power to them (though realistically I think they'd have to wait a long time to get that price).  However, your interaction with them and the actions they took afterwards (the increase of the price along with the addition of signs that seem to be in violation) paints a different picture, and I would have had the same reaction you did, to close the IM and ignore it.   I'm not one to suggest filing an AR unless there is a clear reason to do so, but your observations about the sellers actions in this particular situation lends more credence for filing an AR over the sign violations. 

[What are you doing today!? :D]

8 minutes ago, Talligurl said:

The Hunt is at Brii, it is a Halloween Hunt, and this is supposed to be a Salem Witch dress, and while it is enchanting it isn't my idea of a witch, but that is OK. More of a Halloween outfit is this from the same hunt.

it comes with applier stockings and Slink Shoes, but I am not wearing those, the shoes and stockings are both mesh ones for Maitreya made by Hilly Halaan

Thanks!  I don't do hunts very often, but I've been thinking I should give them a try again.  That Salem witch dress, from your picture above, looks like it might work for some RP stuff I do. 

[What are you doing today!? :D]

25 minutes ago, Talligurl said:

First I went to a hunt, then I found this dress, then I went to Tempura because that seemed like a good place to wear the dress.

Out of curiosity, which hunt is that dress from?    

[Vampire bite with no warning or knowledge.]

7 hours ago, johnboy Snoodle said:

I only found out a few years later about it because a friend who was a Vamp somehow can tell if you have been bitten!!

If this happened several years ago, and you only found out because a friend who does play that vampire game told you, it seems to me that there was not any real affect to your avatar at all.  The fact that your name may appear in some list that players of that game can see didn't affect you at all, prior to your friend mentioning that information to you.  So I would just shrug it off and continue on as if it hadn't happened.  If you don't play the game yourself, then just ignore that your name is in some list that belongs  to that game.  Also, if you're that concerned about vampires, you might not want to associate yourself with people that do play as vampires.  

[What are you doing today!? :D]

Caught in a rain storm while visiting the SL Botanical Gardens

[What are you doing today!? :D]

I'm just barely ready for Autumn, and when I was out shopping tonight I found a place that's gone straight to Winter.   My toes got a little frozen, even though most of the snow had been cleared from the sidewalks. 

[If avatars were required to eat and rest]

1 hour ago, bebejee said:

Food and rentals could be as low as 1 linden per day/meal since there would be so much money to make of it, and could be earned fishing or playing other free games inworld.

There are already systems available that let you know you need to eat, or sleep, or exercise, etc.  Why don't you talk with some of those creators and see how many users they have?  That would give you an idea of how popular what you are suggesting might be.  Alternatively, you could build and market a system that does what you think should be required needs and actions (and perhaps even start a family role play area where it's use is required) and see if you can make it catch on.