Påskfest

Lördagen den 3 April 2010 har vi årets PÅSKFEST

20.00 - Förfest med DJ Apollon
21.00 - Wildstar Writer på scenen
21.45 - Överraskning
22.00 - Bara Jonson på scenen
23.00 - Prisutdelning för bäst klädda! 3.000 LD i POTTEN!
23.00 - DJ Frostland
24.00 - DJ Lucien

Priser för bäst PÅSK-KLÄDDA i gult eller andra PÅSK-färger, fjädrar och annat ”bus” uppmuntras:
Bästa kvinnliga avatar - 500 LD
Bästa manliga avatar - 500 LD
Bästa par - 500 LD var till båda
Bästa XTRA KUL - ”CRAZY PÅSK ” galnast, roligast, mest udda, Second Life stil får hela- 1.000 LD

Ditt kvastskaft till påskfesten

Hjärtligt välkommen!
Svenska Eventgruppen och Swedish People in SL

Det är lika bra att du förbereder dig på att komma dit för alla andra kommer att vara där!!!

Trying to deal with reality

First I tried the Live chat support

[12:05 PM] Gareth: Hello Bock McMillan, my name is Gareth Ontyne. Thank you for contacting Linden Lab Support. How can I help you?
[12:05 PM] Bock McMillan: Hello Gareth
[12:05 PM] Gareth: Hello Bock. :) How can I help?
[12:06 PM] Bock McMillan: The RL person behind my partner passed away on March 12th
[12:07 PM] Bock McMillan: we have a sim together, the tier for that is paid from his Paypal account
[12:08 PM] Bock McMillan: can that payment be transferred to my paypal account instead, or can i pay the tier in his place or how do we go about this - i am totally confused
[12:08 PM] Gareth: OK Bock, firstly I'm sorry to hear about your partner passing away - my condolances.
[12:09 PM] Gareth: Could you tell me about your land, is it a private island that you both owned?
[12:09 PM] Bock McMillan: thx gareth, bless you
[12:09 PM] Bock McMillan: its group owned, we rent from LL
[12:10 PM] Bock McMillan: i have the sim number, if that helps
[12:11 PM] Bock McMillan: Southern Charm located at sim5435.agni.lindenlab.com (216.82.49.182:13002) Second Life Server 1.36.4.202355
[12:11 PM] Gareth: OK Bock, thanks very much. As the resident has passed away, what we normally would do in this instance is ask for a death certificate and then switch the payment over to another resident. However, since this is not possible in this instance, what you would have to do is submit a support ticket requesting the transfer of this land to yourself. This may take a little while to be done but unfortunately we can't do this from Live Chat as we will need to investigate the matter and then begin the transfer.
[12:12 PM] Gareth: You can submit a support ticket by going to: http://secondlife.com/support and click on Submit a Ticket. If you fill in the webform with the details of the situation, we'll escalate that to our Administration department and it will be upto them on the decision that is made.
[12:13 PM] Bock McMillan: the tier is due around the 6-8th
[12:13 PM] Bock McMillan: can i pay in his place?
[12:14 PM] Gareth: You wouldn't be able to unless you had access to his account.
[12:14 PM] Bock McMillan: no i do not
[12:14 PM] Bock McMillan: i meant pay it for the sim from my account
[12:14 PM] Bock McMillan: sorry
[12:15 PM] Bock McMillan: ill submit a ticket
[12:15 PM] Gareth: Then you would have to wait until the Administration team dealt with the matter. I am sorry about that but unfortunately we have to ensure that it's dealt with properly and sensitively.
[12:15 PM] Bock McMillan: you already told me you could not do anything from here
[12:15 PM] Bock McMillan: Thx Gareth
[12:16 PM] Gareth: Not a problem Bock, is there anything else that I can help you with today?

(Yes, I do remember I have told you I hate those pasted conversations with timestamps! So boring, but this time I feel it is necessary!)
....

Then I submitted a ticket

Ticket Summary
Ticket #: 4051-xxxxxxxxxx
Email Notification (Contact Info): Yes
Status: New
Date Created: 26/3/2010 10:01 AM PDT
Last Updated: 26/3/2010 10:01 AM PDT
Ticket Description

Summary: Ramifications of SL partners passing

Preferred Language: English
Details: XXXXXX "Doug" XXXXXX, the man behind the avatar Ars Northmead, passed away peacefully on Friday March 12th 2010 at 8.30 pm PST/SLT in Little Rock, Arkansas.

(Dougs online obituary can be seen here http://deleted.information/)

Ars has been my partner in SL since more than two years, although we did not "officially" partner over the SL-system until just a month before his passing away. During those two years we have lived together and had our home on the "Southern Charm"-sim located at sim5435.agni.lindenlab.com (216.82.49.182:13002)Second Life Server 1.36.4.202355.

A couple of months ago we bought the sim together from the previous owner Slyder Jewell (in your papers it could look like Ars bought it alone but I always payed him half the tier through his Paypal account minus what we got in tier from our only tenant X X.)

The sim is group owned by the group X in which Ars is stated as the owner and I as the only officer.

The tier for the sim has been paid through a subscription to Ars´ Paypal-account x.x.@x.com. (Ars also had another parcel at the X-sim for business reasons - I do not know how payment for that was made or to whom.)

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I do not want to lose the sim which has been my home with Ars for so long. How do I go about paying for the sim in the future? Please note, tier payments are due around the 6-8th in every month.

1. Can the payment for the Southern Charm sim be transferred to my Paypal-account instead?

2. How do I do about setting this up and what do I need?

3. If 1-2 are not possible, how do I go about paying you for the sim in Ars place, that is without setting me up as owner.

....

Please help me! I am desperate and do not wish to lose our home and all my memories of Ars too.

That reminds me! My Ars has done alot of work on the sim and has put out many objects to make it a beautiful place for us to live in.

Some people tell me that all those things go back into my Ars inventory and disappear when - as they tell me - his SL-account is deleted due to inactivity after three months. Is there some way this can be prevented???

Please help me and tell me what I can do to save our sim and our home. His RL family has told me they will do anything they need to do to help me.

.................

Jag är så rädd att förlora vår vackra sim och allt det vi har byggt upp tillsammans (...och ja, jag förlorade fattningen på slutet...)










............

Then I received the following e-mail:

Från: no-reply@secondlife.com [mailto:no-reply@secondlife.com]

Skickat: den 26 mars 2010 18:32
Till: x.x@.x.se
Ämne: Ticket #4051-xxxxxxx: Sent Information (Ramifications of SL partners passing)

We have some information about your issue.

Comment(s): Hello Bock,
Thank you for contacting Linden Lab Support with your issue.

I am going to escalate this ticket to the appropriate department and they will contact you shortly via email regarding your request. In the meantime, if you need to contact us again about this issue, please add a comment to this ticket rather than creating a new ticket. I've attached instructions on how to do this below:

HOW CAN I REOPEN A TICKET I SUBMITTED?

My Support History allows you to review, reopen, provide additional information or add a comment to a ticket that has already been submitted.

Visit http://www.secondlife.com/support

Click Submit a Ticket
Click My Support History, located at the top of the page
Click My Tickets, a link located under the My Support History link
Choose a ticket from the list of tickets
Available options for your ticket are listed at the bottom of the website

Thanks for your patience in this regard.
If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us.

Kind regards,
Tiruo
Linden Lab Support

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Foto: Kent Hutchinson, KH Photography
SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Pocasset/47/58/690

Ars Memorial Service II

Today there is another Memorial service for my darling Ars, at the beautiful Calas Galadhon sim. It starts at 3 pm (kl 23.00 svensk tid). Teleport here SLurl: Calas Galadhon

I am very happy to inform you that Ars parents, one of his sisters, his brothers and and even some of his nephews, nieces and cousins will join us there. They will all be in front of the screen of an avatar they have created.

You are all welcome to join us and share any memories you may have of Ars Northmead.

Big thanks to Ars brothers Dejerrity Mycron, Jeb Nicholls for arranging this and all their support, to Truck Meredith & Tymus Tenk for letting us use their sim and their homestead, support and loads of work and last but not least to Bora Rossini for working miracles in creating the most beautiful setting.

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Foto: Kent Hutchinson, KH Photography
SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Pocasset/47/58/690

Ars Memorial - tillfälligt

Det finns ett underbart - men tillfälligt - minnesmärke för min älskade Ars som jag vill dela med mig av.
Här har ni landningsmärket: Ars temporary Memorial at Mirromere. (Det finns några permanenta som jag kommer att berätta om senare)

Besök gärna detta minnesmärke snart, det försvinner på söndag!

Denna bild har den underbara Millimina Salamander tagit.

Jag vill tacka min Ars bröder Dejerrity Mycron och Jeb Nicholls för att de kom på den goda idén och sedan såg till att den förverkligades och även för allt deras stöd under denna hemska tid för oss alla tre.

Jag vill också tacka simägarna Truck Meredith och Tymus Tenk för att vi fick låna deras underbara homestead Mirromere för att uppföra minnesmärket och för all vänlighet och allt stöd under tiden. Jag vill dessutom redan nu tacka dem för att vi får låna deras intilligande sim Calas Galadhon för genomförandet av en minneshögtid för Ars nu på lördag 3 PM SLT (mer info med landningsmärke kommer snart).

Det gör mig oerhört stolt att berätta att Ars RL-systrar nu har skapat en avatar! Denna avatar kommer att vara närvarande vid minneshögtiden kommande lördag med Ars far och den ena av systrarna framför skärmen! 

Jag vill även tacka byggarna av minnesmärket Bora Rossini och Luckymen Moody för deras vision och genomförandet av den.

Slutligen vill jag tacka er alla - ingen nämnd och ingen glömd - för allt stöd under denna svåra tid. Ni har verkligen varit underbara. Särskild tacksamhet känner jag mot min och Ars son Guyke Lundquist, mina tålmodiga vänner Millimina Salamander och Zigadena Gabardini.

Förändringar

Idag är en dålig dag. Jag har ont i själen och i kroppen, är genomförkyld, trött, ledsen, sliten och börjar bli arg. Jag har sjukskrivit mig från jobbet men kan inte sova ändå, vilket är det jag mest vill.

Istället tänker jag på förändringar. Jag ogillar förändringar. Särskilt förändringar som gäller människor i mitt liv, Människor som betyder något för mig, påverkar mig, berör mig och älskar mig. Under hela mitt liv har jag försökt tvinga på omvärlden bilden av mig själv som en huvudsakligen tänkande människa, men med åren har jag insett att jag trots allt påverkas mest av mina känslor.

Den här dikten av den svenska poeten Karin Boye har alltid betytt mycket för mig när jag råkar ut för förhatliga förändringar i persongalleriet omkring mig. Den ger mig hopp och framtidstro, trots att allt ser mörkt ut. Jag har alltid älskat Karins egen läsning bäst, tyvärr hittar jag bara en inspelning där hon läser den första versen. Den ger ändå en upplevelse av rytmen och hur den bäst ska läsas.





Ja visst gör det ont

Ja visst gör det ont när knoppar brister.
Varför skulle annars våren tveka?
Varför skulle all vår heta längtan
bindas i det frusna bitterbleka?
Höljet var ju knoppen hela vintern.
Vad är det för nytt, som tär och spränger?
Ja visst gör det ont när knoppar brister,
ont för det som växer

                        och det som stänger.

Ja nog är det svårt när droppar faller.

Skälvande av ängslan tungt de hänger,
klamrar sig vid kvisten, sväller, glider -
tyngden drar dem neråt, hur de klänger.
Svårt att vara oviss, rädd och delad,
svårt att känna djupet dra och kalla,
ändå sitta kvar och bara darra -
svårt att vilja stanna
                    och vilja falla.

Då, när det är värst och inget hjälper,
Brister som i jubel trädets knoppar.
Då, när ingen rädsla längre håller,
faller i ett glitter kvistens droppar
glömmer att de skrämdes av det nya
glömmer att de ängslades för färden -
känner en sekund sin största trygghet,
vilar i den tillit
                som skapar världen.


I have been told I have a few non-Swedish readers ... and because I am afraid to think what Google Translate might do to the poem, here´s the poem as interpreted by David McDuff in "Karin Boye: Complete Poems".


YES, OF COURSE IT HURTS

Yes, of course it hurts when buds are breaking.
Why else would the springtime falter?
Why would all our ardent longing
bind itself in frozen, bitter pallor?
After all, the bud was covered all the winter.
What new thing is it that bursts and wears?
Yes, of course it hurts when buds are breaking,
hurts for that which grows
                              and that which bars.

Yes, it is hard when drops are falling.
Trembling with fear, and heavy hanging,
cleaving to the twig, and swelling, sliding -
weight draws them down, though they go on clinging.
Hard to be uncertain, afraid and divided,
hard to feel the depths attract and call,
yet sit fast and merely tremble -
hard to want to stay
                        and want to fall.

Then, when things are worst and nothing helps
the tree's buds break as in rejoicing,
then, when no fear holds back any longer,
down in glitter go the twig's drops plunging,
forget that they were frightened by the new,
forget their fear before the flight unfurled -
feel for a second their greatest safety,
rest in that trust
                 that creates the world.

Memorial Service for Ars

The good men of Hinterland are arranging a Memorial Service for my Ars that will take place today - Sunday March 14th 2010 - at 12 PM (noon) SLT/PST in St. Magnus Kirk.


SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hinterland%20Orkney/117/223/27

Please note! The US changes to summertime today so 12 PM (noon) will be at 20.00 Central European Time for a few weeks starting today.


P:S Special thanks to Jordyn for reminding me that I needed to put this announcement on my blog.

Final Ars update

Doug, the man behind the avatar Ars Northmead, passed away peacefully on March 12th 2010 at 8.30 pm PST/SLT. (Sorry, I got the AM/PM thing wrong in my first message to you all, I cannot think straight.)

I am proud and grateful to have loved and been loved by a man like Ars. I thank you all for being an important part of his life also.





Earning your love was my greatest achievement
Loving you was my greatest joy
Being loved by you was my greatest reward