Chameleonic Possessions

It’s been a year since I last logged in to Second Life, or updated here. Why?

• I got frustrated with trying to learn Blender yet again, with PBR just coming in
• I got frustrated with feeling like stuff I had created was hopelessly outdated
• I felt pressured by another resident to be! Friends! In! Voice! And felt skeeved.
• I realized that I no longer wanted to take the time to “craft” and “sell” stuff.
• I recognized that my desktop computer might need to be replaced with PBR coming.
• First Life got busy over the holidays
• My couch was much more comfortable than my computer desk
• My laptop couldn’t handle Second Life at all, what a wheezer-geezer

What do I want to do now? 

1. I’d like to socialize with old online friends again and listen to music. I’ve kept up with some of their updates via blogs and Mastodon. I miss my friends.
2. I’d have to agree to share my Mastodon account with the cat. She is adorbs.
3. I want to downsize my multiple Second Life paid accounts. Just wasting money.
4. That would mean cleaning up my mainland parcel, reducing the footprint
5. I’d like to shut down all my SL Marketplace stores (Dhughan’s too). 
6. I’d like to sell off the DFS stuff if possible – I was in the middle of that last year.

Meanwhile, an old friend is having an event in Open Sim tomorrow. The last time I tried to install and run the Dreamgrid software and get my old Haleakaloha island sim up, it failed. I didn’t feel like trying to figure it out on my own, and my in-house tech support, Rock Fall, is totally uninterested in this Second Life/Open Sim stuff, especially if it involves messing around with our household network router settings. But I feel a sort of pull toward trying to get my old castaway island OAR started up again, and restarting my tropical island mystery narrative again. 

It would be satisfiying to get stuff running again and enable hypergrid teleports so that I could pop in to my friend’s event and see who else makes it there, but… so much Real Life stuff to do today.

Bread to be baked – it’s got great riz and it’s ready to go in the oven

Porch planter mess to clean up and re-pot while weather is still nice

Postcards to Voters to write. Enough said about RL politics but there it is.

At least this blog is still working, and I’ve found a solution to not wanting to even touch my desktop machine (there’s some sort of aversion thing there, probably due to the feelings of frustration and avoidance detailed above).

Fancy new Bluetooth keyboard and my perfectly adequate ipad Mini make for a comfortable and portable blogging experience. 

What to blog in future? 

Probably my latest gaming obsession, the Habby Souls game. And fun things that I do online if I manage to get back into Second Life. I used to really enjoy photography and Flickr, but there again, is my graphics card up to the task? Or is a new gaming desktop required to really do it justice?

Hmm. What shall I do?

I may experiment with installing the ActivityPub plugin and making this blog a federated instance, but for now the little “repost to Mastodon” plugin is fine. 

Beyond that, who knows? Meanwhile, I have RL actibbities to accomplish. So many actibbities! 

Sounds interesting, were any #SecondLife #machinima works submitted? There’s a separate immersive exhibition, patronised by artist Jean-Michel Jarre.

For its inaugural edition, a committee of industry experts and Festival de Cannes representatives, under the supervision of the General Delegate of the Festival de Cannes, will select eight immersive works in competition. Additionally, a curated selection of non-competitive works, illustrating the synergy between immersive experiences and cinema, will complement the program.

https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/press/press-releases/for-its-77th-edition-the-festival-de-cannes-launches-its-immersive-competition/