Marigold Devin

It is a tad frustrating.

Adding a new post because for some unknown reason am unable to edit the one I posted within the past hour. Winterlights train all lit up. What a treat for me this is as I can't be there in person.

Pet delight: West Somerset Railway are running an untimetabled "special" all the way from Bishops Lydeard to Minehead, a steam loco, goods carriages, and Winterlights.

Double peeve. As an established avatar on this site, I get this crap before my post will submit. Grrrhhh!!!

Peeve: People on social media in the UK already wishing others a Happy New Year, when it hasn't even started yet. With the crappy year some of us have had, I personally feel the need to tiptoe very carefully towards 2024, not startle it, and not jinx it with premature NY greetings. Of course I know the reason they are doing it is so they get as much of the "validation" as they can, so they have to get their greets in early. It's childish, annoying, and tempting fate.

I also love a good ghost story, and generally love anything with Maggie Smith or Timothy Spall or Pauline Collins in it. Then I went to watch (again) an old favourite, again ghosts and time travel,

Yes, , it was just too obvious wasn't it?!

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Got several husky dogs and a couple of Japanese akita dogs living in our neighbourhood, all as soft as brushes, well-trained beasts. My friend's shi tzu on the other hand, would take the fingers off anyone who got too close! Next door neighbour's mongrel mutt bit through the postman's finger a couple of years ago. Good with children though apparently (so far). Yep, that's how I feel about it.

I am currently reading the new rules from the UK government regarding the ban on XL bully dogs! https://www.gov.uk/guidance/prepare-for-the-ban-on-xl-bully-dogs?fbclid=IwAR3VUzZj7bppatNSTqSqDoIjrHpUapKFhE1lbKPc-a9xKBkOrJHchZgRgP8 and people's comments on FB https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=737744611711491&set=a.303491658470124

Wow, they are quite splendid stockings. The nearest I can find are BOM stockings. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/BOM-Stockings-V4/11831449 But what an incredibly large choice there appears to be on the Marketplace. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/products/search?utf8=✓&search[category_id]=&search[maturity_level]=G&search[keywords]=stockings&page=2

The placement of genitals in Second Life has always had me howling with laughter. Guys, don't you have mirrors in real life?

Multifaceted

Merry *****ing Christmas.

I also don't use any other, but have reached the point where, if I do log in, it tends to just be for a few short minutes, because I also have lost that passion for Second Life. I was ill a few years ago and had to take quite a long break, and then when I returned it just seemed to have become too much of a rat race, I was too far behind to even try to catch up, and didn't actually want to. It saddens me to feel like that, as I can tell it does you too. Although I don't personally feel the negativity in the forums outweighs the usefulness, I can see why you would feel like that. Some threads can run on and on and on and become very tedious, and I feel it would be useful to be able to block threads, not just the people who are annoying or overbearing. During my early years in Second Life, each week seemed to have a different theme going on and was enjoyable. Eventually I found my own personal place in the world and for a while it felt like there was a purpose. Now it seems to be a rat race, all about dressing up dolly, and I was always more of a wash and go and explore kind of person. I never tried the DJing thing. That sounds like fun. If you're in the right type of venue. With there being a lot of places in Second Life, it must be difficult to find the right ones to be in, the right mix of people.

Would make a great name for a rock band. I'd like to think any official mentor who did that would soon be an un-mentor! I think that happened during the initial bedding in period. Generally, this current mentoring thingummy seems to be working. Though time will tell. As far as staying on topic goes, I cannot visualise any Lindens or Moles venturing into anything other than vanilla adult-rated activities. (Shuddering at the thought of a Mole with a full latex body suit complete with strap-on!)

It certainly is a puzzle, and for sure you have come to the right place to try and solve it. It doesn't sound like anyone else is experiencing this, and that is extra frustrating. And as potty as this might sound, when you install the next version of the viewer, you might find the problem magically goes away. As we're all using different setups, laptops/PCs/graphics, and even viewers, sometimes a problem can be user specific, as it appears to be in your case.

Welcome to Second Life forums, Maya. I've been a resident of Second Life since 2007, was picked up initially from a Welcome area, and have always felt fortunate about the people I met during those first two weeks, because I found it all a very steep learning curve. As a believer of paying it forward, I always helped other people wherever I could, but as I took a break of several years, I find I am like a newbie all over again. When this latest Linden initiative came about, to have mentors like yourself, a lot of us were skeptical, because of what had gone before. The majority though now are very much on board with it. You will no doubt see a lot of oldbies hanging around at the welcome hub, and most will still be wanting to pay it forward. You'll get to know us all on the forums over time, Maya. It's a shame you were advised to steer clear of the forums. There is such a wonderful eclectic mix of folk here. Some are more helpful than others, and one or two (the minority) sit on the edges just waiting to pounce to point out "faults" with others. I still get this now. But you get to know, over time, who gives valuable advice, and like in real world, you gravitate towards those on the forums you get along with. Our Zalificent, whose post you responded to, is actually hilarious, brutally honest, sharply cynical, and that's come from their own Second Life experiences. It takes all sorts to make a world. I hope you will stick around, read, learn, advise.

I never heard that blancmange was for the sick. I've always only known it as a rather nice sweet dessert that resembled coloured and flavoured custard. We had cooks in the staff canteen of my first workplace (1979) who were "adventurous" in that they would attempt to oomph up these basic desserts. Unfortunately they often failed. What they called coffee bake (which I presume was meant to be a kind of coffee flavoured meringue) we younger staff nicknamed crispy topped diarrhoea as it was always runny and brown in the middle (*shudders*), and what was meant to be strawberry blancmange with melba sauce looked pretty nasty too and we called it open heart surgery. When I am poorly I tend to go for comfort food which is most definitely bland; chicken soup, mashed potato, rice pudding, semolina pudding. I hope I dream about living in a castle built of marzipan. That would be rather lovely. Peeve: that I have no marzipan in the house and now I am craving it.

You either have very polite friends who won't tell you how strange your avatar looks (which is VERY unlikely) or as there is only you who can see this issue, the problem is somehow at your end. You've probably already done this, but I would suggest you check that your graphics card drivers are up-to-date. If you have been faffing about with any of the settings within Second Life, that could also view what you actually see, without affecting the view of other people.

Ditto. Nowt wrong with being enthusiastic in my opinion. If your SL looks full of walls or zombies or views or technical information, then that's what YOUR SL looks like! And I am loving it.

I must admit Stella that the posts you have been sharing, with the lovely narration, have made me yearn for the times I used to almost live in Second Life, where every week there was a new theme, and my brain was absorbing information like a sponge. Having had a few breaks, and lost touch with a lot of the goings on in Second Life, I find I've learned a lot of new things from your picture posts, because of the explanations. I guess I am kind of living vicariously through you now! Thanks.

I don't think I have ever received so many lovely greetings as I have this year. I cannot name everyone here, but please know that I am very thankful for all, and if I wasn't living such a nomadic life, and rarely logging into Second Life currently, they would be on display in my home.

I've never encountered Boxy until today. It is quite a long time since I filed a ticket too.

Linden Lab may have misunderstood your request to buy the abandoned land near to your current owned land. Linden Lab are the only ones who can actually sell you the parcel of abandoned land.