I'm on a GOAT!!

I'm on a goat!
I'm on a goat!
Everybody look at me cause I'm ridin' on a goat.
I'm on a goat!
I'm on a goat!
Take a good, hard look at the motherfuckin' goat!

I'm on a goat motherfucker take a look at me!
Straight ridin' on a goat near the deep blue sea!!

Bustin 5 knot wind, whippin out my coat.
You can't stop me motherfucker cause I'm on a goat!

Her name is Maebell!  And I retextured her myself (the one she came up with was gawd awful)  I love her so much!  I haven't figured out her story just yet, but she officially counts and Korinda's Familiar. Ironically, it's a kids rideable from AKK.... and it fits me.  haha being short has finally paid off!

Today... (edited later to add)

I finished the arena. :p  it was a much bigger job than we thought it would be. I must say, I'm mostly happy with it, and there will be a resale version of it. However, I like things I make for the sim to be special for our sim,  so I need to pull a copy up into the sky and tweak it before I put it out there (You know... just like the kiln, and everything else I have ever made waiting to go into my empty shop.)

We are busy as shit!  Trying to get the underground ready to go.

I got the hair... I love it.  I got the wrong hair colour pack though so I had to tint it anyway, but maybe soon I will buy the *right* colour pack.  But I love it. I don't think I have ever loved hair so much.

Now I just have to decide which Goat to get... and decide on a goat name.  Black or Brown? Choices... choices.

(edit)

So,  when is it ok for your ass or your hips to stick out of a prim skirt? Seriously.  Is there a rule I am missing here?  I always spend so much time arranging every little prim around my un-stickfigure-d body  So no part of my ass or hips stick out... but I see so many other people walking around with a tuft of skirt hanging out of their ass cheeks and I can't quite tell if they are dressed badly,  or if they know something I don't.

My mother made me wear clothes from fabric left over from the drapes! (and hair!)

or.. "Things that look more like greek clothes than any shit you find in SL"

 

Sheer! With colour! What a concept. Indeed. Not all Chitons were white, some had colour, and living in the mediteranian meant that the fabric was often thin!

 

This one even has the tied waist

 

OMG COLOUR!

By now, you get my point.  There are some great sculpties of curtains out there that would almost work... if wearing a big sculptie on my body wouldn't make me look like a total douche.  It is seriously depressing to me that the easiest garment into the world to make (no sewing involved) is the hardest to find in SL.

There are a lot of togas, even some good ones I think I own almost all of them, but I only wear a few.  Maybe I can get some curtain textures with swags, and tinker.

I'm like that with hair too, I have so much hair but I really only wear a few of them because the Greek hair is not good and the good hair is not Greek. (Yes. I am obsessed, mkay?)  but I did find one I kinda like...





So not the Greek-y hair I sort of lust for,  but it is a little Pre Raphaelite... which almost counts, right?  So anyway, I got the demo... and of course I took some pictures.

^{Korinda takes pictures like Forrest Gump.}

It's nice... but is it her?  Con: it covers up the bark swatch on my face, but I can fix that by mirroring my face texture.   I like how it is sort of pretty and messy at the same time. And long bangs are better than most bangs.  But is it really her?  Will I buy this hair, and then leave it in my inventory because it is too glamorous and not earthy enough?

Lately I have been entertaining the idea of flesh toned faun ears (might be a little more accurate than elf ears...) and sometimes I wonder if I should just give up the ghost on trying to tint plum hair, and go brown.  But, that would be compromising, wouldn't it?

(edit)  or oooh, what if I went black with plum highlights on certain strands? oooh...

So how is that arena coming?

A lot slower than I'd like, all the fidly bits like texture aligning and changing are left... but here is the preview.  Best viewed at full size.

Thoughts? (Re: Speed Rezzers)

From: Modular System's Blog
[Emerald] Concerning "SPEED REZZER" or similar gestures

Posted by: Phox on Apr 14, 2010
Tagged in: Untagged
Phox

It has recently come to our attention that there is fierce competition surrounding certain gestures which claim to "Speed up" your rez time by changing your draw distance incrementally.

While these gestures do cause objects near you to be rendered first, they also cause you to re-render the same objects, increasing network lag for you, and for everyone else in the sim with you.

Anyone selling or distributing these gestures and claiming ANY affiliation with Emerald is misrepresenting their product. We do not endorse any commercial products without prior approval.

You know what? honest to gods, I forget to use speed rezzer most of the time,  but when I do, objects from afar that I have already rezzed, rezz back in so quickly it's not like they were unrezzed at all.

I'm not techie when it comes to these things, and I guess I can see the theory behind this causing lag issues, but... where's the proof? Anyone know?

Avatar boredom.

It has been a long time since I updated, but to prove I have not abandoned or forgotten this blog, here I am!

Not a lot has been going on that really makes interesting blogging (even if only interesting to me) lets see... busy? (check) ... tired? (check) ...doing what I can when I can? (check) ... working on a project or two? (check) ... having a hard time sitting still while I await changes? CHECK.

I am going through quite a nasty phase of avatar boredom/hate right now. Thooooouuuuuusands of lindens in clothes, and all I can do is find what is wrong with all of them. Thooooouuuuuusands of lindens in hair, nothing seems right, and nailing down a consistent color with tinting is a joke. Oddly it seems the things I was most dissatisfied with about a year ago are the things I am most content with now. Skin, and AO.

I love the concept of what I am in SL, but I have to tell you sometimes, I envy fauns, and Centaurs, and yes, even elves. I even sort of envy shape shifters, and yet can not commit to such. (How's that for Irony?) I think all the time "Wouldn't life be easier if I was just a Mermaid?" The answer for me is really no... because I would have to find *something* to bitch about... like my tail isn't swishy fishy enough or some shit.

I want Ancient Grecian hair that meets my standards, I am not going to get it. I want Ancient Grecian clothes that set me apart from togas and silks and are still good quality without being too fancy, I am not going to get them. This acceptance has lead to a certain blah. I have the Centaur companion, but we never have time to be close (in character and out) and relax together in SL.

It will pass, I'm sure. The mood will shift and I will go "hey, I have some good hair and shit in here!" (well maybe) good news is a friend found me a ride-able goat, so on linden pay day I am so THERE. You won't be able to get me off that damn goat! I do have an idea I am mulling over though, a personal social second life project if you will. Where I will (possibly) set out to do something very annoying and expensive, in a very classy, cheap way. In fact I am pretty sure I am going to do it. And I am going to do it well.

But anyway, and the need to *work* with Corinda's avatar is part of the reason why I am spending a bit more time in my other avatar. She's easy to dress, she's a true escape because she doesn't have responsibilities, and has quite a different personality to Corinda. ('course I am at a stopping point with her too, until Linden pay day which was put off because we had a grownup night IRL, which came out of my personal L fund. And was worth it!)

Not that I don't like my responsibilities... (I do!) but I think whether in Real Work or Second Life Work, we're all a bit saner with a bit of fun here and there.