Under Construction *AGAIN*

Sometimes it feels like all I ever do is build and rebuild. I call myself a fashion designer but feel like I do more building than I do designing! One day I'll be happy with my store *maybe*, but until then I'll probably continue with this endless feeling job.

I'm on a pretty quiet little sim, lag is usually not an issue and after looking at the *small* details that I wish to change I finally decide that the time has come to get this project pushing the boundaries of architecture. I don't know exactly what I'm doing or how I am going to do it... but here goes! I have put the boards around my development area - better than closing the store down completely, that's what all the big RL stores do isn't it?

I'm getting started on the work and before I know it I have to stop for a while and tend to RL....... ok back now! I really should be finishing the photoshoot I started.... it'll take maybe 20 minutes out of my busy building schedule. Once that is done my 'things to do urgently' list will be looking a little better and I don't have to feel guilty about moving some walls around in my possibly already *adequate* store.

Photo number one comes up trumps, I'm just about to take number two and................ OH NO not NOW. My region will be restarting in 5 minutes. I can't really move because these 6 pictures have to be identical poses in an identical position from an identical angle. I best rush through them or I'll have to start over. I don't have time to waste. Hold on, only a mere 30 seconds has passed and I have another of these irritating blue boxes.... Region restarting in 3 minutes. Are minutes in the Second Life® world much shorter than RL ones?

Luckily I got the 6 pictures I needed just before my time was up. In panic i'm scrambling around with my mouse trying to get on to the map to TP away before the land is ripped from under my blingy prim shoed feet. Everywhere around me will be restarting too I suspect..... quick.... think of a sim, any sim... just not too local to here.......... Got one.... right, where do I want to land.... Clickety click...TP QUICK


Phewww I did it! Having lived a very boring life recently I can only think of one sim name in a very, very split second.... but I'm there! I've landed in a classy, executive looking courtyard. I'm surrounded by crazy paving and palm trees on the edge of a tropical looking sim. Behind me is the deep blue ocean... I walk forward and see a great sight, Smith Jacobs; a skelleton, clearly he's been camping so long that he's dead! (how many points do I get for working that out?) the hover text reads "Smith Jacobs earned 239l$ so far - time: 27 years 54 days". Now that gives me an idea... I'd like to vaporise all soul-less campers because they drive me mad! I refuse to rent a shop in a mall full of campers because the land traffic figures are nothing more than a fraud.

Anyway, back to the classy place I now find myself in.... the owner of the establishment has a tip Jar, I tip him $50 because he saved me from the darkness and doom of the region restart that threatened to eat me alive! While I am standing here looking upon *hopefully* the fate of zombie campers in the Second Life® virtual world, two people arrive, I wonder if they like this place as much as I do? I'll never know because when they start speaking.... it's in another language!


So 41 minutes after I arrived and hung around making this lovely place look untidy (while I typed this!!) I am going to leave Smith Jacobs to rest in peace! My host will by now have received his *small* token of appreciation and know exactily where I took refuge!!

(and just in case you missed the point of this ramble - I'm making improvements to my store!)