The Results of The Avi Choice Award 2013

From my vantage point the results below are the most interesting, but you may wish to view at the complete list at !Avi Choice 2013 Final Results!.

My congratulations go to all the winners but especially to
1. Ty Tenk and Truck Meredith for winning in Favorite Sim Build (to explore through) with their beautiful Calas Galadhon Park Sims,
2. Thorn Andel and Esme Capello for winning in Favorite SL Radio Station with SL Live Radio,
3. Vista Barnes of Vista Animations for winning in Favorite Static Pose Creator, Favorite Male AO Creator and Favorite Female AO Creator.
4. Marcus Adkins of Humanoid for winning in Favorite Dance Animations and, last but not least,
5. Alex Bader of Studio Skye for winning in Favorite Garden and Landscape Store and Favorite Texture Store.

To my friend and mentor in blogging Eddi Haskell of Eddi Haskell's Second Life I would like to say, "Way to go buddy!", for reaching fifth place in the tough category of Favorite SL Blog/Blogger and "Better luck next time!". I will vote on you again next time, thats a promise!

Forget Yesterday

Some days are just crappy, whatever one does or tries everything just turns out wrong or goes sour. Yesterday I was in a peculiar mood. Not tired, angry or sad or anything seriously bad, just edgy, restless and oversensitive. A remark here or there would just get me me in a foul state.

I avoided Butch all evening because he pissed me off with a remark he made early on - or perhaps didn't make. All the while I was ashamed for doing so because he had every right saying what he did or didn't say.

Another guy made a remark about me at The Grenouille Inn on the Yadkin sim, something to the effect that "Now Bock is going to do his usual faggoty thing", which for some reason totally set me off. So much so that if he had been in the same room I would probably have kicked him in the balls, instead I thought what the hell and put on my red Prestige boots from Bax while dancing on a bar counter for his benefit, forgetting that there are always cameras in SecondLife. When I later saw that Helene had posted pictures of me in my Prestige boots on Facebook, that pissed me off too...

Today I am laughing at it all and wondering to myself what was going on. I'm leaving that behind and will tell you instead what was good about yesterday, although I sadly didn't take any pictures.

The good things yesterday included, but were in no way limited to,

• A concert by the Swedish band KAOS that made its debut is SecondLife. It was a totally WOW-ing experience and I am looking forward to hearing more from them in the future. (For more information about them, videos etc. please visit their website KAOS). 
• Having a long talk with Dej and sensing that we could get along fine despite the fact that we were both in a crabby mood. 
• Visiting Romanum during their ongoing Wine Festival and finding a place to purchase new togas.
• Re-friending Loch Wolfhunter, he has been away for awhile and had been culled from my friends list as one of those lost to first life. Fortunately he was a good sport and did not hold my culling against me.
• Visiting the ongoing Boystown Pride.
• Installing my new Dennis-dances from HUMANOID in my dance-HUD and loving them.

As Nina Simone sings "It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me... and I'm feeling good!"

Great Stores

I don´t usually blog about businesses in SecondLife, but today I am making an exception and mentioning two that have helped me lately.

First I would like to thank Vista Barnes, of Vista Animations, personally.

I lost my favorite walk of all times, the boxerwalk, when I rashly deleted an Animation Override HUD without pulling out that walk first. When I could no longer find it on sale in his shop, I contacted Vista who sent me the desired walk at once.   

Now I can once again proudly walk around in SecondLife looking as if I am rolling Swedish meatballs between my buttocks. Thank you so much, Vista, for the excellent service you provided and for your excellent animations that are fit for a king, nay even for a vain laird.

The second business I would like to thank is HUMANOID, owned by Marcus Adkins, for the excellent help and service they provided when I - through confusion caused by my #01587329-problem - managed to loose the dance-pack I had bought.

Yes, the store did have an excellent redelivery system, but it was difficult for me to find it when I was moving around uncontrollably, so the helpful staff teleported me in place and taught me how to operate the state-of-the-art system.

The dances I bought, pretty awesome huh?

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I would like to make it perfectly clear that I am in no way affiliated to or rewarded by the above-mentioned companies.