All Saint´s Day

Photo Sören Hallgren, ©Nordiska museet

Photo Sören Hallgren,
©Nordiska museet

This is the day in Sweden when we remember those of our friends and family who have passed away. It is a day of peaceful and calm remembrance preferably spent with those that are close to you, to grieve and reminisce our dear departed.

We visit our beloved and light candles at their graves to the point where the graveyards are often completely illuminated by all the candles.

I took my mother on a tour to the graves of our family members that are buried nearby yesterday, my father had a cold and prefered to stay at home. We lit candles in remembrance of those laying there and those that are buried on more remote places.

Ars got a candle too of course!

The Splash

The evening started out slow. I went over to Guyke´s and Janttu´s place and we were joined by Ziggy after a while. We had a good, long and enjoyable chat, just lounging around with some interesting news and a lot of foolishness.

When we got a notice about DJ Yifu´s Splash party at the Gay Riviera we decided to go there for some music and dancing. Before going we had to prepare ourselves for the party by undressing and putting on some necessary attachments.

The place was filled with naked - or almost naked - guys and girls. The music was great, the chat was funny and the sights made my head spin.

News From Dejerrity

Photo by Charles Sykes/AP

My brother in-law Dejeritty lives in Manhattan, New York, N.Y. in first life. I have been worrying about him since the Frankenstorm Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane in recorded history, hit New York City on Monday October 29, 2012.

Thankfully I got a message from him today telling me that he is well but that all of lower Manhattan lost power at 8:15 PM Monday night when a transformer station literally exploded. They are expecting power to be restored in his area sometime on Saturday - hopefully.

Well, that´s a load iff my chest!

Shadoween

Today is the last day before the monthlong celebration of Movember, we call it "shadoween"

On this day we prepare ourselves for the coming month by shaving the complete mustache region, including the entire upper lip and the handlebar zones. All must be completely shaved.

During the next month those of us taking part will let the mustaches grow and only those. For the entire duration of Movember (the months that by lesser men and by women is called November), no hair is allowed to grow in the goatee zone - being any facial area below the bottom lip. Nor is there to be any joining of the mustache to sideburns.

Onslaught of Crow-Men

I was standing on the back deck of my home minding my own business and talking to sweet friends in Instant Message when an onslaught of crow-men suddenly hit on Southern Charm. At first it seemed like an invasion of thousands of huge birdlike creatures but when all the dust settled and the wings were drawn in it turned out to be only Guyke and Janttu paying me a surprise visit.

Once I had recovered from the initial scare we settled down for a nice talk in or under a Halloween tree that Guyke had in Inventory.

The conversation circled around, but was not limited to,

• the titles of catholic clergy,
• the Frankenstorm Sandy hitting the U.S. east coast today and our well wishes for our friends their,
• the upcoming American elections and our worries about the possible outcome,
• the size of governor Mitt Romney´s cojones,
• if we would ever want a man that wears magic underwear or not,
• how long it takes for ones virginity to grow back,
• the foaling of horses,
• the nasty customs in Belgium and Sweden around visits to the restroom,
• if we knew a good Halloween party coming up,
• the ultimate busy or away response in SecondLife and last, but by all means not least,
• what Janttu may - or may not - have been doing on Skype to suddenly agitate Guyke in the middle of it all.

Eddi Answers Eddi on Virtual Breakups

My friend and mentor Eddi Haskell recently broke up from a four year long relationship with Jago Constantine. In a mini-series of two blog posts Eddi has found the strength to tackle the problem of lost love and breakups in virtual reality.

Eddi answers

Eddi asks

In the first part Eddi, the broken hearted, yesterday wrote a letter to his own advice column "Ask Eddi" in which he described what had been, what had happened and his feelings and thoughts about it.

In the second part published today, Eddi, the advisor, answers and gives advice that may help some of you.

The posts are a must read for anyone who has ever been in love in SecondLife.

Eddi had me in tears in both posts. Although I believe we each have to find our own time frame I do find the suggestions Eddi gives are helpful.

"Ask Eddi"; Part 1:A letter I am writing to myself asking for some sage advice on how to handle my recent break-up with Jago

Ask Eddi; Part 2: A letter I am writing to myself asking for some sage advice on how to handle my recent break-up with Jago

SecondLife Hiccup

Everything worked smoothly for me inworld today, except for one crash at around 2:30 PM when the whole world seemed to crash.

It took awhile to log back in and I could not get to the home-sim but was transported to a strange place where I saw silent grey people and a man with a humongous appendage hanging over me.

Well, I think I was maybe the lucky one, because my brother in-law Dej ended up in another strange place straight in front of another man showing off his "assets", but it was puny in comparison to "my" guy´s.

Makes one wonder what people are really up to in SecondLife, huh? They don´t all seem to be playing Una...