Ivanova Shostakovich

a many

It's completely cool to create outfits and looks for a little less. Indeed, it's what many residents may need to do.

I absolutely had to go out and find some nice black leather pants to go with this lovely jacket GoSpeed got for me.

As sometimes happens, I forgot about my rezday. Thirteen days ago I passed twelve years here. It's actually hard for me to believe.

Before I left work this afternoon, a co-worker and I were chatting. She had been listening to hearings on NPR and was expressing to me how she appreciated the way well spoken people can make themselves clearly understood using short sentences, words everyone can understand, and without a lot of 'ummms' and 'ahhhs'. Then we shared words that we each liked. "Eloquence." she said. "Apperception." I said. "Epiphany." she said. "Dichotomy." I said. "Serendipitous." she said. "Perspicuity." I said. "Oooohh, I like that one." she said "What does it mean?" I thought for a bit, drawing a blank. Laughing, I said "I can't remember the definition." Later, when I had parked at the grocery store, I looked that one up. Upon relearning the definition, I realized the irony of the moment.

/me gasps. You said it!

I have one alt to whom I might give an actual last name, something other than Resident. As for the rest, their names will remain the same, and their obscurity protracted . I don't use them for significant in-world activities. But I will enjoy seeing what the rest of the community can come up with.

This is such a cool thank you to generous people. I love it. I hope they spend as many days as they can enjoying the views.

I just got a little sack of swalty hazelnuts at a farmers' market. They're delicious!

And see? Even Maddy thinks so!

Enchiladas followed by chocolate ice cream. I'm a good girl and I deserve it.

I've always liked being in the woods. When I was little, my family went camping a few times every summer. We didn't need reservations. We didn't need to check with anyone. We just packed the Blazer with everything we needed, and drove into the mountains. When we found a spot we liked, usually near a river or stream, we set up and stayed there the whole weekend. These days I still like camping, either using tents or our vanagon. We go way more often to coastal locations than anywhere else. I like camp cooking and evening camp fires. But I also like having access to real bathrooms and showers.

It's nice to have a laugh emoji. I want a laugh harder emoji.

I was awakened by my husband's snoring this morning, because the fan had turned off, because there was a power outage. I turned over and dragged the blankets over my head and, using old tricks, managed to start dropping off again. Then my alarm went off. I got dressed and headed downstairs, thinking about what my cold breakfast options were. It's very dark in the house at 05:00 during a power outage. I got a few candles put up around the living room and kitchen, lighting them as I went. Then I started considering cold cereal and no coffee. The future looked bleak. Then the power had come back on, with nineteen minutes to spare now before I have to drive to work. I wonder if traffic lights will be working properly.

Identity Crisis

Autocorrupt: Making the world a more interesting place since the nineties.

If the return of last names dream ever comes true. I wonder if we'll be able to change the first name at the same time.

There's a lot of neat stuff out there. Every year worry about that line which, if crossed, begins to frighten the little ones a bit too much. There were Halloweens past where I sometimes felt a little disappointed when my kids were too scared to approach a particular house. But I did my best to avoid feelings of reproach. Everybody has their own way of celebrating the holiday, and I still enjoy it.

A terribly frightening party of course.

I have a mesh house by a well known builder. All of its parts, doors and windows are a single linked object. The doors use the method of llTargetOmega() to make them appear to smoothly rotate, then setting the open or closed rotation after an appropriate delay. Because a door mesh was only actually rotated to the open position when that process completed, I was unable to walk through that doorway until it had. I wanted better realism. While the house is modifiable, the scripts in the doors (and windows) are not. I replaced them with a version using the aforementioned method, adding to the beginning and end of the door state change processes, respectively, llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast(LINK_THIS, [PRIM_PHYSICS_SHAPE_TYPE, PRIM_PHYSICS_SHAPE_NONE]) and llSetLinkPrimitiveParamsFast(LINK_THIS, [PRIM_PHYSICS_SHAPE_TYPE, PRIM_PHYSICS_SHAPE_PRIM]). This allows a much more realistic simulation, letting me gracefully make a grand entrance into my writing room, where my typewriter, sitting on a desk, balefully inquires of me "And where have you been?"

You did great. But I wasn't checking.

I like the ending. Everyone was so happy.

Now I want a t-shirt with a big one on the front.

Right‽ I'll take interrobangs. They're much more attractive.

I’m a jurist for a monthly photo competition. I like how it’s run. The owner/organizer sends me a notecard once a month listing participants and things like theme, guidelines and rules for that month. I only know the organizer. I don’t know any of the entrants, any of the other jurists, and the entrants don’t know who any of the jurists are. Sometimes the number of entrants is high enough to make judging difficult.