It’s about freaking time, to move here, number nine.

ive been on making a, episode a while, and there’s, good reason behind it. ive been on a school, of course I always went to pack. ive just finished up, first semester, and the second semester just started yesterday. So it’s been pretty tough, getting a school work in the middle, taking care of, regular work in second life, all together. Of course my personal life, outside of second life. So, what has been happening?

Because quite a bit has been happening. One of the things that is very significant is that I do have my own sim now. I put in a request last Sunday, which was, like, March, oh, 25th, I think.

Well, it was very early Sunday morning. And Monday evening, I checked, while I was checking my email, I saw that, hey, I actually have a server, or a sim, that is available to me. And I’ve been spending quite a lot of time working that out, getting it set up.

I learned how to do the raw image format. In that you can actually edit your terrain files outside of second life, and then upload them to your sim. And then you have all your terrain data already set up for you. This is pretty good, because a sim is large.

That’s just an understatement. But just to use the land tools to create your sim is a pretty big task. I know this from personal experience, because when I have a sim, and to my wife to not approve of my original design, that I want to go with, because I want to have the land in the shape of my logo. And I got a pretty interesting layout set up, and she could not approve.

And I did want to have her enjoy the sim as part of her place as well. So we got something that looks more like a residential island with a large mountain in the back, which I believe she’s going to try and put some waterfalls on it. I’ve gone to the Isle of the Peth that was advertised on the Goddess and Banana show, looking for weather generators. I found some interesting ones, but they were pretty much out of my budget right now.

I may get them later, but the other thing I saw there was this guy has waterfalls and waterfall kits that you can build your own waterfalls. And he has a lot of different kinds to choose from. And these are just regular waterfalls. They are of very much astounding beauty. I still need to get my wife to go over there and check them out, because she’s the one who wants to do the waterfall. The water looks realistic.

The rocks look realistic. It’s just amazing. So head on over to the Isle of the Peth and check it out.

What else did we do? The name of my sim is Woodbridge. What we’re doing is I’ve built a few wooden bridges there. One of them is a covered bridge, and the other is just a wooden bridge without a cover. It’s almost the same thing, really. And then I’ve also gotten the dock with the boat on it.

Was it the Flying Taco? You can get them in the world. I’m trying to think where they are.

I don’t know who the crater is, but maybe I’ll tell you next time. Or just do a search. I’m pretty sure you can find it that way. I’ve also gone ahead and I’ve developed this grist mill, which I’ve done everything. I’ve done the gears on the crown wheel that meets up with the lantern wheel. And then it’s an overshot water wheel, and the stones up top are supposed to grind the flower.

I still need to work on a lot of the textures, and later I’ll start working on actually scripting it so anybody can come by and actually walk through the process of milling grain and seeds into flower, which would be a pretty interesting thing to do. What else was there? Ah, yes. I have a house that I used to live in, in my childhood. It was a very large farmhouse that over the years, a lot of the property around it got divvied up, and a regular neighborhood sprung up out of that. I’d say right now that that house is about 120 years old, maybe. So it’s a pretty old house that it’s been built onto with extra rooms and stuff over the years. What I had done in second life, though, is I’ve created this old farmhouse that you can actually walk through, and I’ve got most of the colors set up in the wooden paddling and the different textured walls and the attic and stuff.

So you can actually walk through and see the place that I grew up in when I was a child. I still have to get a lot of the furniture set up and the lighting and stuff. So it’s still under development. Actually, a lot of the whole Sims are under development, because once you have all this space, you just… it’s just constantly developing stuff constantly, and it’s just…

I don’t know. There’s too much that needs to be done, it seems. On top of that, I’m getting behind in my sales. Everything’s dropping down, mainly because my servers during the move have lost some of their keys, and I have to reset some of the vendors.

I still haven’t gotten around to them, and I still have a couple of clients that I’m still trying to take care of at the same time. So, all this was done in the thought theory that it would take about two weeks minimum to get a server. I did not expect to get it on the first business day. So, I would just like to say, wow, Linden Labs really got their act together in getting servers out.

The, the one thing I haven’t gotten yet, though, is when I requested my server and I got the order in my email, I immediately replied to it and asked for my server to actually be placed to the north of North, Los Arbolos, which is the, the home of the goddess and banana podcast. I got the okay from banana, then I could do it. He said it was fine and he told me what to do. I found out later that I did not actually send it to the concierge and in addition I did not CC banana stein.

I only BCC’d him. So, I had to resend that out. Well, I’ll know it’s been taking a while for this to happen. I don’t know if they’ve gotten my email. There’s been no real reply that they’re going to do it or that they’re, or that it’s in a queue or anything.

So, I did see banana sent email as well saying I, I approved this move. So, the thing is if you have an island or when you go and buy an island, you can’t buy it next to anybody else’s island. It has to have no Sims on all eight sides, which I mean, nor southeast west as well as the four corners. So, my sim right now is in the middle of north, south of nowhere. And it’s actually to the north of Los Arbolos by two regions. So, I’m just trying to get it to move south by one region. I don’t know what’s, what’s happening right now. I really wish I knew if they, they got my email or something. They really need to automate that process for requesting movement of a sim to, to be next to someone else’s. What else is happening?

Well, there is the relay for life. Corey has been a really big part of this, trying to get everybody to recognize what’s going on. She had a friend who had just died last night of cancer. And it was a pretty big thing. The whole relay for life, anybody in the relay for life group actually got a message about this person. And I believe it was Feluja. I wish I remembered, but it was pretty much one of Corey’s friends herself. She knew this person. So, she was actually handing out pink roses to anybody who would donate to the relay for life.

And she, she also has vendors that you can purchase these roses from. And it all proceeds go directly to Jake Lilly. And Jake Lilly is, as some of you may know, is the main person who is hosting or has brought the relay for life into second life. And at the end of the campaign on July 28th, she actually takes all that money and donates it for a second life to the, to the real relay for life in the real world.

So, it’s a pretty amazing thing. I think we raised about 40,000 US dollars last year. The number of teams involved this year and the amount that they’re trying to raise is just phenomenal.

So if you go to SLRFL.org, you’ll notice, well, actually look at that, I’m looking here. They say they raised 44,000 Lindens on March 25th in Felicia’s name. Or, yeah, that, that’s the person that this was to have died recently. So, I don’t see any news about them on the front page though. So, Corey is part of the Transylvania team.

And he’s also a member of the Transylvania for Felicia Fever for Life team. And let’s see, 44,000, it says it’s worth like one and a half, one and a half thousand US dollars in one day. And we have until what?

July 28th. So, you know, doing this is not just, you know, donating out of trying to help people like Felicia to save her life or people who are like her so that they don’t have to suffer like she did. So, all right. Well, I think that’s, I have to close on that note and we’ll see what’s going to happen in the next few days.

All right, so this is Dedrick Moriak and I’m now located at Woodbridge, Sim. That’s all one word. I’ll see you around. And oh yes, bluehair.potchino .com is the web address where you can see my blog at DedrickMoriak.wordpress .com. All right, see you around later.

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