Orlando Memorial in SecondLife

Kip Ashbourne and Chaz Longstaff are inviting us to remember the men and women lost in the mass murder in Orlando on June 12th 2016.

In their invitation they say:
"Join us in coming together to sign a guest book and light a candle, and sharing some time and thoughts with your friends, neighbours and SL community.

To sign the guestbook, just drop a notecard in with one or two lines in it. Your words will automatically be written on the pages of the guestbook.

The memorial is open around the clock.

No donations, please.

Kip and Chaz"

The Orland Memorial - light a candle & sign the guestbook (SLurl)

Thank You, Everyone!

I wholeheartedly support this message that was posted on Google+ by my hubby Tomais today!

Thank you to our friends  Kip Ashbourne and +Chaz Longstaff of Blue Balls for donating the party favors. You guys are awesome!

Thank you to my dear brother +JJ Goodman for the wonderful pictures from the party and to our friend +Lee McKay for helping with the lighting.

Thank you also to our friends Rylan Sirnah for supplying great entertainment for two hours and to Nikolai Warden for giving everyone at the party a fish fetish for life (Yeah, yeah, I actually do know that dolphins are mammals even though they live in the sea...)

Finally but not least, thank you so much to all the generous donors and to the wonderful and imaginative guests! I love you guys, thank you so much for helping out. I transferred USD 145.17 to the +Ali Forney Center on behalf of Tomais and Dej.

Party pictures will not be posted until tomorrow.

Thank You, Friends!

Last Saturday my Tomais and I had the pleasure of having you, our families and friends, over to celebrate our elopement and share our happiness with us at The Elopement Party. To those of you who couldn't be there we say, we missed you dearly and hope that you can be with us next time.

"Selfies" Photography by Tomais Ashdene

You came in droves in a way that completely surprised us and made us feel more loved than ever before. You actually came in such quantities and simultaneously that the sim couldn't take it and crashed under us, but as I have always maintained "Every good party needs at least one crash!"

With the kind help and speedy assistance of TJ Linden the sim was soon up again and - as it seemed - moved to a much better server, because after the crash there was no lag at all even when most of you came back and we were joined by even more friends and friends of friends. Someone told me later that we at some point peaked at 64 avatars present at the sim.

Ryder Yowman and Rylan Sirnah, the Masters of Music for the evening, with their awesome tunes insured that we would all have a wonderful time.

You came in the most fabulous outfits or outrageous costumes and in excellent moods for a party, it was indeed a pleasure having you all there.  Even the performance artist SaveMe Oh turned up to see what was happening and "improve the artistic qualities" of the party. Alas I was forced to kick her off the sim when she started large flocks of sheep on the dance floor, despite this unfortunate incident we are still friends and SaveMe could be freed up to get kicked off a couple of more sims before her evening was over.

We requested that you did not give us gift but that you instead share your generosity with two charities and you were indeed overwhelmingly generous!

Chaz Longfall, our liaison with ACT (The AIDS Committee of Toronto) informed us after the party that you had donated L$27.600 to that cause, while I myself have calculated that you donated a few dollars shy of L$21.000 to Second Pride. We would both like to thank you for your kind generosity to these worthy causes.

All in all Tom and I both had a wonderful time, seeing all of you there and enjoying ourselves, although we were drowning in IM's, teleport requests, problems and handling local chat most of the evening. We were also both much too busy to take pictures so we are grateful to those of our friends who took pictures and shared them with us on their blogs or on Facebook.

Party pictures by Apmel Goosson

More pictures by Apmel Goosson can be found on his blog My Avatar's Name is Apmel "En krash direkt vid ankomsten"

Party pictures by Eddi Haskell

 More pictures can be found on Eddi & Ryce's Second Life Event Photography: Bock McMillan's and Tomais Ashdene's Elopement Party Earlier this Evening and Events: Benja and Ryce (as Tom Cruise) at Bock's and Tomais Elopement Party on Saturday Night

Party pictures by Helene Dragoone

Party pictures by Kahvy Sands

Party pictures by Kimly Crystal

Kitchens & Bathrooms in SecondLife

Ever since I arrived in SecondLife I have been wondering about all the kitchens and bathrooms we see in-world, when we never really use them for much. Obviously we do not eat, drink, wash, crap or pee in our virtual homes, so why do we let these useless rooms take up space and prims to the extent that we do?

I was reminded about my early fascination on this subject, when I saw my son in-law and friend Ziggy's beautiful picture. The only valid excuses for having bathrooms that I can think of are the many wonderful "sex-in-the-shower/bathtub" animation scenes I have seen.

Photography by Ziggy Starsmith
Quoted from Ziggy and Guyke On The Edge Of Second Life

But what about the kitchens? As far as I can recall I have not seen any sex-animation scenes centered around that particular space in our SecondLife homes.

Considering the many wonderful moments I have spent in the kitchen in first life getting slammed against the kitchen cabinets, thrown on to or over a kitchen table, a sink or a kitchen counter or even rolling around the floor, it is rather amazing that it has not been resulted in any sex-animations. Surely I cannot be alone with these sweet memories, can I?

My old buddy Kip Ashbourne and his husband Chaz Longstaff over at Blue Balls Animations really should start working on this pretty darn soon, in my opinion they could make a fortune or two by catering to this forgotten room. But then again, it may just be that I haven't done a proper market research. There may very well be sex- animations for this room, I just haven't come across them yet.

A Cordial Divorce

When I came in-world late last evening I hit on my ex-wife for a day Iendi Laville. We had not spoken for a few days so I wanted to check in.

Iendi and I at the lighthouse

As the party-animal that she is she was of course dancing somewhere at the time, but was still willing to come over for a good talk about anything that came to our minds. And I was especially happy to find someone who was willing to try out the animations on my newly acquired lighthouse with me.

We look good together, huh? What a pity she isn't a man... *deep sigh* Well, it was good the marriage was short and sweet, while the divorce was cordial and swift.

Ohhh! Writing about animations reminded me, when are we going to try out our wedding gift from Chaz Longfall and Kip Ashbourne, Iendi?