Land Shopping?

I’m in the process of buying/renting some land. I’ve *rented* three different places, ok I’ve not actually paid for ANY of them. The first was my partners condo she received for working at a club... wasn’t *my* home.

The second was more so my home, same deal – different place and I lived alone, I received that rent free as I worked for my employer. I felt like a big mooch, all I did was bounce the club --- nothing beneficiary for them.

The third and current place is like a dream home, on the beach in a beautiful area – of course my partner pays for it all…. :(

All three places I’ve not had a problem with the landlord, from what I gather I’m lucky (OK, we umm she was). Only one incident with some particles that refused to leave has been my biggest issue. --Yeah thats me the particle bandit.

So now its time to make an investment and see where it goes, I have some friends that are opening up a store (landmark to be placed here soon). They want me to sell some of my items I’ve made. I have no clue what to price them as and scared to death people will hate what I’ve made or think it’s cheap.

With that revenue it can go to some of the tier payments… boy aren’t I a big hopeful thinker?
Now the search is on!

First, you need to decided if you want to really *buy* land or rent/lease. On Main Land you can purchase land from Linden Labs or a resident.

You have to be a premium member to buy land but to rent/lease just make the payments to the *landlord* or Estate owners.

You can search for Land with the Search tools in SL, just toggle between the types of land you want and enter. There will be a listing just as if you were searching for that favorite club or store. Click the Teleport link and check the property out.

What I've learned so far:

Hit Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P on your keyboard to see parcel boundary lines, this brings up a faint red line around the border. Make sure you know what you're purchasing!

Take note of the About Land listings, the land's area is in square meters.

Read the Primitives Parcel Supports entry in the About Land window's Objects tab. This indicates how many primitives you can place on this land. In other words if you have a 300 prim house you can't place this on a 117 prim parcel.

If you *buy* land from an Estate, it CAN be reclaimed when ever the estate owner pleases. Be it that they failed to pay Linden Labs their tier or they sell the land to someone else, who now decides to remove everyone. I guess thats really considered *leasing* the land not purchasing it.

New Years

She had to work at first.. 90 minutes of friends and MANY gestures, we had fun and said our *Happy New Years* and we were off!!

Space Lounge

Blue Note...

Elenis

Oh boy the deck again.. but NOT in PJs.... >:)

Ok yeah maybe we were...

Happy New Years!!

Colors :D

Here are some color codes to change in particles and to be used in scripts.

white = <1.0,>
grey = <0.5,>
black = <0.0,>
red = <1.0,>
green = <0.0,>
blue = <0.0,>
yellow = <1.0,>
cyan = <0.0,>
magenta = <1.0,>

All In a Saturday

Saturdays can be sweet.. She so attacked this monster I’m making in a sandbox.

Until the unfortunate accident happened ……

We wanted to Visit the Blue Note Jazz Club one last time… : (

Apparently its closing after the first of the year, what a shame, I really like the music there.

We decided to go visit Midnight Reflections Sims.. ALL of them ALL day

Dinner.... she looks bored....our waiter *Ralph*

A little Dancing...

Posing for some Pics.

You meet all kinds here .

More posing...
Ahh and resting

Need a kid?

Welp, we found a new venture in the wide wide world of SL its called ADOPTION.


Oh man, well I haven’t really talked about this much because I’m semi unsure of the whole process. This isn’t just for everyone on Second Life, just as it might not be to go to a combat Sim, or any other Roll Play Sim.

First off, in the Search button you can type Adoption and a load of places come up, at the time of this posting I found over 12 adoption sites. Find one that looks promising and TP (teleport) there. You will usually see some sort of house and toys and junk all over the yard. With kids bouncing all over the place, blasting gestures and kid noises, it can be very confusing.
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If you go inside there will usually be panels with pictures of children on the walls wanting to be adopted into a family. Kind of like a Myspace for kiddies! On the other side will be the parents section looking for kids. A lot of places have an area for single parents and couples.

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Some places have, what I call the *like system*. Click on the picture panel and you can read the child’s profile and you can choose *like* if they have similar interests in you. For a small weekly or monthly fee you can create a panel and profile for everyone to see and decide on.

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Of course if you are a prospective parent you have a picture profile up as well, I guess so the kids can click on you too.

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This, in turn will help you into a week long *trial* process of getting to know one another. How you go about doing that is your choice. If you see you aren’t going to work out then shake hands and part ways.

Be big about it, not every child is going to be your match or possibly your partners, it takes time.

Some thoughts on this: It can be a interesting and rewarding experience if you let it. Gaining a friendship and learning a bit about your own self.

Remember these *kids* are adults as well out there, they aren’t REALLY children running around SL. They need to be treated with respect as you would anyone else on SL, not as pets or something to pass the time of day with.

However, since they are (or supposed to be) adults in one sense, they should also return the respect, one thing I can’t stand is a bratty or selfish *kid* on SL and they get away with being a punk just because they are *6*. That’s BS in my book.

If you do decide to take the plunge into this, I hope only happy and healthy times for you!

Week 3 Baby... I need a new title.....

Week three down and she’s with a new tummy….

Of course she says she’s HUGE and that nothing fits…

From what I understand she's with a new AO so her arms don't go in her tummy as well.

I say she’s cute :D

No PJs pics this time…hormones?
Maybe....

Jewels for the Jewel

So now I’m tinkering with jewelry, not that I’m actually making it. Well, I AM making it..

Single Pearl Pendant



Whole set of Pearls wooo
Wrist Band

Lol Planets....
Vampire Pendant
Star Pendant
Half Pearls

Diamonds...some have bling


Diamond and then Sapphire Blingage....



I usually leave a little ball in the center to help in the placement of the necklace, on these I removed them. You dont see the ball when you wear it.

New Years bling.. Have a happy and safe New Years

Week 2 BABY!!!

Ok so week one down and we are working on week 2... naturally!



Isn't she a beautiful mommy? This is the week two belly :D She thinks shes huge, Oh man.




Our Doctor has a office, I guess like you would see in a real office, with the table that he exams you on and all the Doctor gear :D

If you look close you see lil baby Elise on the screen! :D



After the first week you have a doctors visit, no really you go to his office and he does an ultrasound on your belly -- of course....

He asks you some questions, how things are going and what not and then to schedule you for your delivery.

(poor Mommy crashed)

I didn’t see a place for the partner to faint…I think I will bring a pillow just for that very occasion.

After the visit he gives you a picture of your ultrasound to keep... Furniture time....:D

Still she's a cutie pie to me...well, both of them.

This time we just sat on the deck in our PJs, no dancing. :D

Our due date is 1/16 2008 at umm 5:30....

Oh the weather outside.........

Looking for some entertainment tonight, I ran into a snowman building contest in Voss.
The Lindens were giving a prize of 1st place 5000 2nd place 2000 and 3rd 1000 afterwards a questions and answers session, (this would have been my first of this event).

When you arrive it's in this huge teacup, just outside the cup you can snag some cute little winter AVs. - FREE!!

There was a mob of AVs there already as I stomped out in the snow.
After the 25 minute wait or so the Lindens had the show on the road and everyone began rolling their snowballs out.

I wanted to join in but chose to sit this one out because the lag was monstrous and didn't know exactly what to build, at the time.


They had some interesting builds going on.

The turnout was pretty good, the fun part not only was watching everyone do a build but to listen to them discuss what was considered a PG snowman.


It came to me what I wanted to make and decided to jump down and begin.
Then *IT* happened, the terrible fits of laggies hit me and I crashed unable to return. Every time I signed on *Ruth* was my nameo. So I gave up and have to drop in and see who the winner is *the next day*

A Crib for the Crib

Its furniture making time!! Whooo hooo!

I made this crib, its super easy to do and you can make one also if you wish….if you dare :D

Its only 16 Prims so its not too much of a prim hog.

I also made the *Elise* sign on the wall as well. Easy peasy!

I used this texture for the bumper and blanket and pillows and knobs on the crib.

Now remember these sizes are NOT set in umm stone, if you want your crib taller or thinner or whatever you play with the measurments. Your Crib, Your Imagination.

First I rezzed a box and used these measurements:

Size (meters)

X: 0.972

Y: 0.82
Y:0.945

Rotation (degrees)

X: 0

Y: 0

Z: 180

Copy this, you will need another for the other end.

This is considered the headboard and foot board of the Crib.

Now for the base of the Crib or sort of like where the mattress might be.

Rezz another Box with these measurements

Size (meters)

X: 1.105

Y: 1.723
Z: .181

Rotation (degrees)

X: 0

Y: 0

Z: 180

Ok so I googled what a crib looks like and I noticed that one of the railings is taller than the other. Dont ask me why, I just noticed it, so I chose to make mine like that too.

Maybe one side it for the taller parents and the other is for the height challenged ones :D

Rezz another box and lets make the back (taller) railing.

Size (meters)

X:0.970

Y:1.650

Z:0.051

Rotation

X:0

Y:90

Z:180

Ok and this is for the front railing or (shorter).

Size (meters)
X:0.691
Y:1.662
Z:0.051

Rotation
X:0
Y:90
Z:180

Now for the legs of the Crib we need yet another box rezzed.

Size (meters)

X :0.126

Y :0.082

Z :1.821

Rotation

X :0

Y :0

Z :180

We will need 4 of these unless you want your crib on a tilt or possibly to wobble.

And to dress up the top part of the legs we need 4 spheres with these measurements

Size (meters)
X:0.151
Y:0.151
Z:0.151

Now another dress up of the headboard and foot board area is this little Cylinder

Rotation
X: 1.140
Y: 529
Z: 082

Rotation

X: 270

Y: 0

Z: 0

Path Cut Begin and End

B: 0.500

E: 1.000

Copy this one you need it on both Head and Foot Boards.

Now slap it all together like so ...

Select it all and change it all to white or the Blank texture.

Copy the Matress and slide it up just a bit, hollow 95% and you have the bumper :D

I used the bunny texture (above) on the bumper and then the mattress and on each ball on the end of the legs.

For the railings I TPed over to Harbingers Haven for the free textures and clicked on the Gate Texture button. I found a white gate to use as the railings, just stretch it a bit.