Beach Party

Wesley in the center of attention

I remember Wesley Spengler from my earliest months in SecondLife, actually I think he may have been among the three first DJ I heard in-world. In those days Wesley had a Euro time slot also, before he became too busy in his real life. I always loved going to his parties because he has such a wonderful way of connecting with the audience.

Last night I went to his party because I happened to be awake at 4 a.m. in my morning. It was great fun,! Wes and the lovely Kharissa Indigo, who has hosted his parties for a long time and also is a Second Pride Board member, one of the only two women on the board.

They work very well together and kept the guys in a great mood. You always know when there is a good host because the guys chat in local and you see they are having fun. When I got there they were actually talking about IKEA and lingonberries.

Jeff doing his thing and me watching him move.

To my surprise and joy Jeff Ellsworth was there also, which gave me the opportunity to do a closer inspection of his most recent extreme makeover.

Stunning, I must say, absolutely stunning.

Peaches & Coconuts

Last week one of my co-workers, who was married with an American woman for ten years and lived stateside for a few years longer, told me one of these rather amusing generalizations about the difference between Americans and Swedes.

My co-worker said, "Americans are like peaches and Swedes are like coconuts, because Americans seem so warm, charming and sweet when you meet them but are hard as stone inside when you get to know them better while Swedes have a rough, hard and inaccessible exterior and are actually all soft and mushy they you come closer."

I hadn't heard this before and thought it was a rather amusing way of describing the differences, bearing in mind of course that these kinds of generalizations only hold some truth on the macro-level. When one get´s down to the micro-level with smaller groups and individuals they mean nothing at all.

I usually follow the news closely all the time but not so yesterday because I had been too preoccupied with other stuff. When I logged in to my SecondLife at noon (SLT) I was therefor not aware of the fact that there had been a earth quake on the east coast of the U.S. and that it had hit New York City as well.

You can imagine my surprise when my brother in-law Dejerrity Mycron sent me an IM telling me that he had waited for me to get in-world to let me know that he and his family were all doing well and that my other brother in-law Jeb Nicholls was also fine.

Dejerrity knows me quite well - and he knows from experience that I am a worrier - so he had stayed in-world to give me this news personally. That was so caring and thoughtful of him that it still warms me up inside and brings tears to my eyes thinking about it now.

"Actions speak louder than words", as my darling Ars always used to say so I will return the favor to Dej and tell him "Yes Dej, I love you too you big muscular, hairy ball of mush!"

So now I only have the hurricane to worry about, but hopefully it will change it´s path enough or lose momentum not to cause any real harm to my loved ones.

Sleep

"To die, to sleep;

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come"

---

I have always had a strained relationship with sleep. I really love sleeping but 

detedt going to bed to sleep and definitely detest to wake up, or rather being 

woken by someone or by a damn alarm clock.

After only getting about three-four hours of sleep each night during the workweek for a period of about three years I was first put on pills to induce sleep, then to a "sleeping school", where I was thought routines to help me during the workweek.

I follow these routines strictly - I would say almost religiously if I weren't a 

damned Atheist. It has been really helpful. So nowadays I start signaling to 

my body whats going to happen by observing my own special routine and when I go to bed I fall asleep almost immediately. 

Once asleep I am hardly disturbed by anything happening around me. Men can snore, children can scream or my neighbors can go at it like crazy animals in heat, it makes no difference I just sleep through it like a baby.

The photo I am using in this post is beautiful, but there is also another reason why I use it here. The picture reminds me of how I sleep.

I have a big bed but I always sleep on the right side of it, never the left, it´s always left empty for someone. Just like the pale man in the picture I prefer sleeping on my left side.

If you want to see more of Elisabeth Ohlson Wallins photography please look here.  I recommend 
you take a look at her exhibitions "Jerusalem" and "Ecce Homo".

New & Improved

Photography by Jeff Ellsworth

Well, I didn't think it was possible but it seems Jeff Ellsworth succeeded in improving on his avatar anyway. He really knocked my socks off

All I can say is hawt, hawt and oh my Gawd so hawt...

...but whats this thing American men have for white underwear and socks? (I wonder if I am exposing my knowledge of American gay porn with that question?) Take a good peek at the marvelous makeover on his blog Jeff Ellsworth - Witnessing A Second Life. Make sure you inhale deeply at least three times before going there.

Google Chrome Saves My Weekend

 

As some of you may remember I started having problems with my Mozilla Firefox browser after trying to download version 6.

I tried uninstalling, cleaning up and re-installing Firefox about a hundred and umpteen times. The problems kept recurring sooner or later.

Following my mate Eddi Haskell´s advice I have know migrated to Google Chrome, and let me tell you it is really fast and bloody
E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-T!

Somehow it even miraculously recovered all the bookmarks I thought had been lost, which saves me a lot of time and troubles.

Bock Is Kidnaped

After a long period of having few dreams - or rather not remembering having them - I started having nightmares regularly, especially when I take a nap during daytime. I am seriously considering to stop taking my midday naps because of these awful nightmares. Or should I say "daymares"?.

Today´s daymare was as follows.

I am sitting in my office with Bock. We are having a telepathic conversation about our day when suddenly a heavily cloaked figure swoops in and carries Bock away. He is immediately blinded and muted by the kidnapper. I cannot see through his eyes - as I usually can - who it is that has separated us, but I hear his telepathic scream although there is no sound.

In my mind we have an agitated discussion over who it can be that is doing this, where they might be taking him and what the motive for this vicious deed could be. Suddenly I hear Bock mind-scream painfully and feel how someone has started cutting into him with a chisel as if he were made of marble.

Even if the chisel doesn't harm him the force of it going through his flesh makes both him and me cry out loudly.

I am awoken by my own scream and am really upset and angry until I - although still in a daze - realize it was a dream.

Damn Firefox 6

I have been using Mozilla Firefox as my favorite web browser for a very long time. Yesterday I was alerted that there was a new version, the Mozilla Firefox 6, so I installed it.

The new version doesn't work for me at all. It just keeps on loading, loading, loading, loading...and yes, still loading... I cannot move out of the spot.


The worst thing is it is not possible to download the version I was using previously (version 5.something.something) but I have to downgrade all the way down to 3.6.

And with all the installs and uninstalls trying to make version 6 work, I lost all my bookmarks. Damn!