WOW What Happened?

And 22:40 I got an e-mail telling me another New country: Uganda

Was there a program about me on BBC World or something? Suddenly the world seems to have found me...

Well my dear new readers, however you found me, you are very welcome! Please come again and again and again!

I usually only have around 200-250 page-views, right now I am up to 716 and the day isn´t over wooohooo! 10 PM local time, and nowv it´s up to 766...

FINAL UPDATE
Awesome the final page-view number for January 1st, 2011, stopped at 829. Totally amazing for this blog!

At Fride´s Tomorrow

One of the friendliest venues in SecondLife and the music is always great!

Happy New Year

I wish you all a wonderful 2011, but remember this is just really another day in the rest of your life.

There is actually nothing magical or mysterious about January 1st at 12:00 AM. It´s a special day only for the nations using the Gregorian calendar. The fact of the matter is that other cultures and religions have their New Year celebrations and ceremonies spread out almost all through the calendar-year.

We are free to choose any given moment to make resolutions for improvement or to take steps to change our lives to the better. As the commercials say "Just do it!".

May you be safe, free, happy and loved!

You Are Never Alone

I have posted this one before, but it´s speaking to me again - so please enjoy! Mauro Scocco doing what he does best. Ars always went for the rhythm, I always go for the lyrics and the song. 

You are never alone
by Mauro Scocco (almost direct translation to English by me)

When the storm blows, when the bridges burn
When hope and meaning, just disappear
When you feel small, and when no one is there
You will never be alone anyway, as long as I am here

I can walk all night, take a plane or train
It doesn´t matter where you are
I´ll get there - anyway

You are never alone, as long as I breathe
As long as my heart - can beat
You are never alone, never forget it
I'll do anything for you, I hope that you know
Yes, I hope that you know

If those you trust fail you, if your dream fell apart
Then I can remind you of how much you're worth
That the fear you feel, it is not you
And how scary as it may seem, it will fade away

I can walk all night, take a plane or train
It doesn´t matter where you are
I´ll get there - anyway

You are never alone, as long as I breathe
As long as my heart - can beat
You are never alone, never forget it
I'll do anything for you, I hope that you know
Yes, I hope that you know

So when you no longer cope, then I´ll cope for us both
When you cannot find a way out, I´ll find one anyway
You have given me so much over the years that have passed
The biggest thing one can get, you have given it to me

You are never alone, as long as I breathe
As long as my heart - can beat
You are never alone, never forget it
I'll do anything for you, I hope that you know
Yes, I hope that you know
Yes, I hope that you know

And I know that you know

New Year´s Resolution

Well it´s the end of 2010, high time to start thinking about my new year´s resolution.

What possible commitment can I make on reforming any habit or to an advantageous lifestyle change?

I smoke, but I am sure as hell not quitting that, at least not on New Years Day or the 5th of January. That will come when I am ready - someday. I love my job and my colleagues, so I a sticking with that too. But I could get more organized I suppose, both in my real life and in SecondLife. I could also try to get less irritated and grumpy, but thats just me being me and is sort of cute, or so my mother says because she knows it never really lasts that long.

OK, I will stick to the getting more organized I guess...

I hereby vow to get better organized in my real life, as a blogger and in my SecondLife. This commitment goes into effect on New Year´s day 2011.

Real life messes, this is the last warning! If you don´t go away when I look at you and think about you I´ll start spending an hour everyday to get rid of you.

SecondLife Inventory, I am not allowing you to grow anymore. You are going into boxes and folders or getting deleted. All the old dead landmarks, all the ugly stuff I never wear, all the shit I am carrying around without even knowing I have it,  out you go!

Happy Third Anniversary

Today is the third anniversary of the most read Swedish blog on SecondLife, Tinas Universum.

The blog is owned and operated by a single hard working woman, Miss PetGirl Bergman, aka "Tina", "that woman", "the shedevil", "the queen of Swedish SL", "the concierge at the Swedish Institute". "portvaktskärringen" etc. etc.

Imagine 7 970 posts in only three years, it´s like my dear friend Taco Rubio said about her: "A new post every 18 seconds".

Congratulations "Tinas Universum", you set an example for the rest of us!

Lawyers, Makeovers & Housewarmings

Well, I am feeling a bit strange today. Nothing at all has pissed me off or irked me enough to make me rant and rally in a post. All has been just humdrum in a sort of calming way.

So I´ll just go ahead and tell you about my day in SecondLife yesterday.

First of all - just to warn you silly buggers who may try to mess with me - I retained a lawyer in SecondLife yesterday. Yeah, I know I am one myself but only a bad lawyer acts on his own behalf.

My lawyer is an American and one fierce cookie I can tell you from the start. She is totally fearless and protects my ass like a lioness protects her cubs. Hell, I even had to stop her from slamming a restraining order on some people for looking at me weirdly the other day. (Note-to-self, remember to pay her 1 L$ when you get in-world, so she doesn´t try to weasel her way out of our attorney-client relationship.)

A good part of the afternoon I spent giving Matt McMillan, nee Gaboian, a well needed makeover. Matt is an alt I use in the Tiny Empires-game. Although he is an alt of mine by some freakish accident he has turned out to be straight, the poor man. Well I started off by giving him my shape with a few minor differences and then he got new skin, new hair, new eyes and a brand new tartan. The tartan was from Elle74 Zaftig of course, nothing but the best would do!

This is what he looked like as a Linden-noob and here he is after the makeover. It´s a big improvement I think.

Later that evening I was invited to a friends housewarming party. It was Ewa Aska who had built a new house for herself, she is an awesome builder in SecondLife. The house was beautiful but the coolest thing was the dance floor, I thought, we danced over flamingos and crocodiles. You can see it here in a picture I stole from Blanche Argus´s blog (please note the capital B in Blanche).

The other guests at the party were mostly from the Tara Hill-collective, so I was left pretty much to myself except for the "Hi´s" and "Bye´s".

I had a few clarifying IMs during the party though. I managed to tell a woman I had been pissed with her but that it was passing now and also a guy that I had never been pissed with him just with a female friend of his, but that that was also passing now. And finally I managed to talk nicely with another friend whom I hadn´t met for a while, to her I was quite pleasant I think, no bitching at all - would you believe it?

There you go, parts of my day all summed up in one post, and those were the interesting parts.