Here’s a little something I like to call…

…a little something.

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

[2009/11/08 20:05] Portia Munz: guess who’s on the ground
[2009/11/08 20:05] Phoenix87 Parx: santa claus?
[2009/11/08 20:05] Portia Munz: close
[2009/11/08 20:05] Portia Munz: tp me

I spent a lot of time watching Phoenix build last night, offering commentary as he went along. I fell to the ground a few times when he rezzed megaprims on me.

Vicious Cycle has picked up its toys and gone home. Because we’re not entirely ready to call it quits on the club business (or SL), we agreed that we may open again in the future, but it won’t be the 2 week break we usually take. A lot of our friends and staff members have tried to encourage us to reopen, offering their homes and other facilities as temporary locations, but we really do intend to make this break last.

We’re not the only ones calling it quits. Caged is closed as well. I guess we’ve all been at it for a while. It’s time for a break. Time to do something new. I have a home in Minshara again, and Velvet’s picked up a nice little piece of beach for her home. RL has me preoccupied, so I haven’t spent much time in-world. More another time.

night at the beach

I went to the beach last night to see if I experienced less lag in different places after installing some program that shuts down all unnecessary background processes. It had been a while since my last visit, so the particles caught me off guard. I’m not sure pink glowing orbs really fit on the beach, but they’re not unpleasant. After a while they really grew on me.

After a while I remembered that I had forced daylight, so I reverted to region default. The sun was beginning to rise and it was just lovely, even on low graphics settings. I’ll have to visit again once I’ve got my new video card installed.

I am 1of1

You’d laugh, but I’ve actually got classical/flamenco guitar music playing at my creeper house on the hill.

The Big Purge

I’ve been sorting inventory lately. I reached an all time high of just over 28,000 items. After logging on to my alt account (whose inventory has a mere 3,000 items) and noticing an incredible difference in performance, I realized it was time to take a serious look at my inventory. All of my free time this week has been spent trying things on and either deleting them or placing them in the appropriate folders. I created a sorting system nearly a year ago and didn’t get very far into the sorting project, so I’ve got all these folders neatly labeled and logically arranged just waiting for me to actually use them. So far I’ve deleted thousands of items and boxed thousands more. Everything I keep is going into one box. That box is reflective of my messy inventory. Nothing is sorted, but so long as it’s all together in one box instead of cluttering my inventory, I’m happy. I plan to only leave things I use on a regular basis. Everything else goes in the box, trash, or yard sale. I’m down to just over 15,000 items. I plan to bring it much lower. It’s ridiculous to carry around that much stuff.

That’s right, I’m preparing for a yard sale. Velvet suggested we have another yard sale to raise some funds. I’ve found lots of things I can part with while sorting inventory. May as well, most of it would have just gone in the box anyway. I’ll start setting up on our lawn sometime tonight.

In other news, I figured out how my voice problem. For as long as I’ve been using voice in SL, my friends have been telling me I should talk on stream while I’m DJing. I didn’t bother to try up until recently, and when I finally did, I found my voice wasn’t coming through when the music volume dropped. I finally figured it out after mulling over a comment Phoenix made when I had already exhausted the advise offered by Velvet. Apparently SAM Broadcaster and most USB microphones don’t play well together. My headset has the ability to switch between USB and analog, so I switched, tried again, and bam…we’re in business. There are still some things I want to try, but my next shift isn’t until Saturday so there’s plenty of time.

Meet Aerial

An RL friend of mine joined SL last night. Actually, she joined over a year ago but never logged on because her old computer wouldn’t have it. I kept watching the dots on the chat bubbles, so I got her on voice and had an easier time explaining some things to her. Got her out of her noob stuff, took her to the club (though it was after hours and nothing was going on), and then took her to Inspire.

Zombiefest 2009

I logged on way later than I usually do last night. My internet was being a douche, so instead of logging on and crashing every time I lost connection (which would have pissed me off in a big way), I decided to leisurely surf the net and just click through the billion tabs I had open when I lost signal. I spent some time chillin with my homies, doing stupid shit and having a laugh like we always do, and opening some boxes from my last shopping excursion. I was disappointed when I rezzed a box for a dress I’d bought at the Rotten Toe vendor at Zombiefest and found that it had given me the Carnival girl dress instead of the red version of the hypnotic dress that I wanted. The carnival girl dress was the one thing that I wasn’t even tempted to buy (didn’t like the colors), but it looked alright on. I dropped Elsa Liebknecht a notecard, and she resolved the situation as soon as she logged on. Great customer service from her. Now go buy her stuff, either on Xstreet or in-world.

When I was alone again, I paid Zombiefest 2009 another visit and bought a lot of cool things, including my newest favorite accessory, a collar from Catnip with tongues pinned to it. I was going to take some pictures, but I’ve been holding on to this draft for too long. *hits publish*

Record breaking weekend

We reopened the club last weekend, and holy crap, we’ve already managed to break some of our old records. Early this weekend we hit the 10k traffic mark (our highest before we closed for remodeling was just under 10k), then soared past that after basically slamming all day yesterday. We beat our old record of 32 (Jayda’s wedding party, lol!) in the club, new record is 35. Traffic is sitting pretty today at 14491. All real traffic, no alts hanging around, which is more than you can say for a lot of clubs with decent traffic. And most importantly, we’re having fun again! People are talking and having a good time, not just parking their avatars and waiting for the contest to end.

I know traffic will drop again now that the weekend is over, but it doesn’t matter. Hell yes, it’s exciting to see some quantifiable data come of our efforts, but the fact that we’ve managed to revive the lighthearted, carefree, fuck-it-all, FUN environment we began with is far more telling and far more satisfying than those numbers ever could be.

Meh..

Sometimes I don’t know why I bother to log on anymore.

Just another Thursday night

Phoenix really needs to stop leaving his giant condoms lying around. They’re attracting sea vaginas.