the renovation of Tidra

*hehe* I like this pic with the surprised look. Yeah, still busy building, though I don't progress as much as I was used to. Maybe because I'm getting tired of building. For a while I enjoyed it, but I really could use a break and get some distraction. There's a lot of detail-work which I don't like as you are busy for hours and don't see much result.

And these days I wonder more and more for what or whom I'm working my ass off at all? Haven't seen my hubbie for 5 weeks now. My lil devil only once for a few hours last week. I'm not sure, if the relationships will continue as I feel pretty much just left alone with the work, the responsibility and the financial burden. As the lil devil rented the full SIM without asking Kenshi or me beforehand, I had my doubts. Of course it is fine to have 15.000 prims available to build, but I'm too much of a rationalist. I had concerns according the costs of the full SIM, the lots of work for the renovation, the administration and the question how to bring people in to RP and possibly joining the group. But I was told, that I don't have to worry about any of these questions and foretold a big future of Tidra.

Well, and then... I was left alone. I'm working for more then two months now. Building the skybox first for our privacy, then the preparations for the wedding, then the renovation of Tidra. At least the island is almost ready and it's pretty, I think. But I don't know what it's good for. I feel all my doubts and concernes confirmed.  Maybe too much of a pessimist? But I paid 4 times as much as I said I could contribute (struggling with financial problems in RL anyways), not to mention the zillions of Lindens I spent for  buying new stuff.  At least I'm glad about our tenant Teleny who rented some of the prims and built a nice place in the skybox. Thank you for your support, dear! But all the other doubts too - like building alone  for months now (though I prefer to do my stuff undistracted and not doing compromises). Not to mention the missing RP; I do not have time for it and for "recruiting" or anything else.

So, yes, I'm a bit frustrated and cannot really enjoy what I created. The future of Tidra is very dark :(

capture the flag

As I'm still busy building I don't have much time for RP, but the last two weeks I joined the "capture the flag"-games in Tabor every thursday. It's fun and a good practice for fighting-skills. Works like this:

There are two teams - red and blue. Each team has a base in it's color with their flag on it. The opponent team tries to get over, steal the flag and carry it to it's own base. When the player gets downed, he looses the flag. Another of his team-member can pick it up or one of the other team takes it back to his own base.

It's lots of fun and my fighting-skills are getting better and better, I think.

If you want to join: It's every thursday at 12.00 pm and another round at 6.00 pm SLT. Hope to see you next time!

'schland!

I have to admit: I'm not much interested in football (or "soccer" how Americans call it); only interested in the world cup games. And last saturday was a big day in the history of football: Germany vs. Argentina. Merry mood here in Germany after the great victory over Maradonna's team. And I'm a bit proud of the Germans. Not only the German team, but the Germans in general. Why so? Because in Germany most people  (of course there are exceptions everywhere) appreciated the Argentinian team as worthy adversary and treated them with respect, while at the same time Maradonna bigmouthy defamed the skills of the German team beforehand. So the victory tasted even sweeter. Here are the best moments of the game:

Tomorrow Germany will play against Spain. The famous oracle Paul, the octopus, predicted Spain's victory. He was right with all his predictions yet; let's hope he's wrong this time! Things are bad in Germany.... economy, politics, unemployment... it could use some cheer up! Panem et Circenses!

random

As talking some minutes to my cowboy last saturdaynight (him)/ sundaymorning (me), he encouraged me to post more articles like in my old RL-blog (and no, I won't give you the link *heh*). I was mainly talking about SL in this blog here, though of course you can't 100% seperate SL and RL. I'm not "populist" enough to write about things people want me to write about. I don't care much about the amount of readers and followers. First and foremost I write for myself. Just because I like to. If someone likes it - fine. If noone isn't interested - who cares? So anyhow... there'll be some changes in the blog and maybe I'll write more often again now.

purrrrrrrrrrs - hottie!

These days I've seen "Eclipse", third part of the Twilight-Saga. . I have to admit I started to watch the saga with the second part first - "Newmoon" - and only because of two reasons: Taylor Lautner and the wolfpack. After Taylor cut his hair and gained many pounds of muscles and running around only in shorts most of the time, he's such a hottie!

As usual the scenery and the battlescenes - especially the wolfpack of course - are cool, but it's way tooooo much of the romantic blabla... I call it Horromance, but more "...mance" then "Horro...".  Maybe because I'm not a 13yo teenage girl, I'll never understand what's sexy on Robert Pattinson? Tiger wouldn't need long to choose between the cold, pale Edward or the hot, steamy, sexy Jacob! *purrrrrrr*

However good news for all people in Seattle: It's vampire-free again! *winks*

Just wondering about one thing: When the wolfpack turns back to human they are always wearing shorts again. How logical is that?!? It's such a prude american-Hollywood thing. In a German or French movie they of course would be nekkid after the re-transformation. But prolly then have bad fangs teeth?

So, here's the trailer:

Happy Birthday, Tendzin Gyatsho!

"So, who's Tendzin Gyatsho?" you may ask. Though it sounds like a name in SL, it's not. It's the name of the man better known as Dalai Lama. One of the very few public persons I really admire for his wisdom, his knowledge, his work, his peaceful mind and especially for his humour and kindness. He's laughing and smiling everytime I see him in the media. So, happy 75th birthday, Kundun!

(Oh, and it's also the birthday of another man who's the exact opposite of him: George W. - Isn't that ironic?)