Pool Party, Today Saturday July 25

Tomais and I are pleased to welcome you all to a pool party today between 1-3 PM SLT at our home on Southern Charm.

This event is to inaugurate our new pool and also to give you the opportunity to roam around the sim and take a look at the new mansion and the amazing landscaping by Samuel Fallen of Lytton & Fallen.

Entertainment will be provided by The Smith Boys, DJ Kahvy and host Garrett, assisted by my brothers Dejerrity Mycron and J.J. Goodman.

If you are so inclined, you will have the opportunity to leave a charitable donation to The Ali Forney Center (AFC).
The Smith Boys are graciously donating their time and labours to the AFC.

Your transport to the pool party at Southern Charm (SLurl).

The Ali Forney Center (AFC), based in New York, is the largest LGBT community center helping LGBT homeless youth in the United States. The AFC both manages and develops transitional housing for its clients. The AFC helps approximately 1,000 youths every year, most between sixteen and twenty-four years old. The AFC is named after Ali Forney, a transgender youth who was murdered in New York in 1997

Dear Bock: Second Chances?

"Dear Bock,

How many second chances do you give someone, who hurts you time and again?

Sad in Saskatchewan"

Bock McMillan,
photo by J.J. Goodman

Dear S-i-S,

There are no fixed rules! Individual circumstances and the individuals involved are paramount in deciding when enough-is-enough-is-enough for you, not - and I repeat not - for the person who hurts you.

In deciding this you must take into consideration "The 5 W's and the H", who, when, what, where and why and, finally, how it makes you feel.

If it is someone you don't know and don't care about there are no second chances at all however minor the offense is, whereas if it is a child or someone you love deeply there may not be a limit at all. Well, not until you feel that their saying "I'm sorry" for the umpteenth time just isn't enough anymore. You simply have had enough and do not wish to let yourself be hurt by that person again. That is when you pull up stakes and move yourself out of harm's way and do what you can to avoid further contact!

However, always keep in mind, you are human and are allowed to change your mind if and when you want to. There is always, always, a tomorrow... But, and this is a big one, before you forgive and forget, ask yourself if there has been any real indication of change in the other person. Otherwise you may just be setting yourself up to be hurt again.

Bock McMillan is a blogger, not a relationship expert, his weekly column "Dear Bock" should therefore merely be considered as his point-of-view on relationship matters. If you wish to get his reaction to a relationship question you have, you are welcome to send an email to lundamats@gmail.com. Remember to write "Dear Bock" in the subject line.

Kinsey Sicks: Putin In The Ritz

(Tipped by the wonderful Tomais)

Clip description - Published on Jul 20, 2015
We know that there is no news that does not involve Donald Trump. However, it may not have escaped your attention entirely that a certain Vladimir Putin (also known as the “Donald Trump of Russia”, only much richer and less humble) remains the head of state of a country next to/inside of Ukraine.

The Kinsey Sicks have released a musical love-letter to him, intriguingly filmed in an undisclosed military installation, as only America’s Favorite Dragapella® Beautyshop Quartet can. You will undoubtedly want to watch it right now, instead of reading the rest of this crap. If you like it, please share it with your many friends. If you hate it, please share it with your many enemies.

I love it, so I am sharing it with both my many friends and my many enemies!

Riding On Poultry at Southern Charm

My wonderful husband Tomais has a huge memory bank, contrary to me. I am certain that an objective assessment would show that he has something like 4 GB of memory at his disposal, while I have a mere 15 kB.

It is therefore not at all surprising that he called an old post to my attention the other day, which I had forgotten all about. The post was this one, Bock in SecondLife: The Laird's Challenge for Vehicle Builders.

Tomais reason for reminding me was that he had acquired some rideable poultry and he asked me if I thought they would fit the description. I was sorry to say, that as the poultry he showed me were more like enormous farm animals than mechanical vehicles I could not consider them worthy of the reward.

Nonetheless, Tomais, my brother JJ and I had some fun riding the cocks over to my brother Dej's place to try and give him a scare. As it turned out - and as the creator warns about in a note card - the rezzing of multiple cocks on the same sim creates a fierce lag, so textures didn't come in sufficiently fast for Dej to be scared.

The only one of us who could get things to rez enough to take decent pictures was JJ, so I must thank him for the mementos. 

Remember the Victims

On this day four years ago a right wing extremist and xenophobe went on a rampage and killing spree in Norway, first killing 8 people in Oslo City center and later killing 69 more, mostly children, on the island of Utøya.

Remember the victims!

Jon Vegard Lervåg, 32, Oslo * Ida Marie Hill, 34, Oslo * Hanne Ekroll Løvlie, 30, Oslo * Tove Åshill Knutsen, 56, Oslo * Hanna M Orvik Endresen, 61, Oslo * Kai Hauge, 32, Oslo * Anne Lise Holter, 51, Våler * Kjersti Berg Sand, 26, Nord-Odal * Karrar Mustafa Qasim, 19, Vestby * Andreas Edvardsen, 18, Sarpsborg * Ronja Søttar Johansen, 17, Vefsn * Emil Okkenhaug, 15, Levanger * Åsta Sofie Helland Dahl, 16, Sortland * Monica Iselin Didriksen, 18, Sund * Rune Havdal, 43, Øvre Eiker * Tore Eikeland, 21, Bergen * Espen Jørgensen, 17, Bodø * Karin Elena Holst, 15, Rana * Aleksander Aas Eriksen, 16, Meråker * Victoria Stenberg, 17, Nes * Ruth Benedicte Vatndal Nilsen, 15, Tønsberg * Isabel Victoria Green Sogn, 17, Oslo * Ida Beathe Rogne, 17, Østre Toten * Elisabeth Trørnnes Lie, 16, Halden * Monica Elisabeth Bøsei, 45, Hole * Håvard Vederhus, 21, Oslo * Carina Borgund, 18, Oslo * Ingrid Berg Heggelund, 18, Ås * Tarald Kuven Mjelde, 18, Osterøy * Porntip Ardam, 21, Oslo * Andrine Bakkene Espeland, 16, Fredrikstad * Torljus Jakobsen Blattmann, 17, Kristiansand * Jamil Rafal Mohamad Jamil, 20, Eigersund * Tina Sukuvara, 18, Vadsø * Fredrik Lund Schjetne, 18, Eidsvoll * Steinar Jessen, 16, Alta * Lejla Selaci, 17, Fredrikstad * Henrik Rasmussen, 18, Hadsel * Thomas Margido Antonsen, 16, Oslo * Mona Abdinur, 18, Oslo * Anders Kristansen, 18, Bardu * Gunnar Linaker, 23, Bardu * Ismail Haji Ahmed, 19, Hamar * Trond Berntsen, 51, Øvre Eiker * Sharidyn Svebakk-Bøhn, 14, Drammen * Silje Merete Fjellbu, 17, Tinn * Hanne A.Balch Fjalestad, 43, Lunner * Bano Abobakar Rashid, 18, Nesodden * Syvert Knudsen, 17, Lyngdal * Diderik Aamodt Olsen, 19, Nesodden * Simon Sæbø, 18, Salangen * Synne Røyneland, 18, Oslo * Birgitte Smetbak, 15, Nøtterøy * Margrethe Bøyum Kløven, 16, Bærum * Even Flugstad Malmedal, 18, Gjøvik * Tamta Lipartelliani, 23, Georgien * Kevin Daae Berland, 15, Askøy * Silje Stamneshagen, 18, Askøy * Hanne Kristine Fridtun, 19, Stryn * Håkon Ødegaard, 17, Trondheim * Sondre Furseth Dale, 17, Haugesund * Henrik André Pedersen, 27, Porsanger * Eivind Hovden, 15, Tokke * Rolf Christopher Johansen Perreau, 25, Trondheim * Sverre Flåte Bjørkavåg, 28, Sula * Eva Kathinka Lütken, 17, Sarpsborg * Maria Maagerø Johannesen, 17, Nøtterøy * Modupe Ellen Awoyemi, 15, Drammen * Lene Maria Bergum, 19, Namsos * Guro Vartdal Håvol, 18, Ørsta * Marianne Sandvik, 16, Stavanger * Andreas Dalby Grønnesby, 17, Stange * Sondre Kjøren, 17, Orkdal * Bendik Rosnæes Ellingsen, 18, Rygge * Gizem Dogan, 17, Trondheim * Snorre Haller, 30, Trondheim * Johannes Buø, 14, Mandal

Picture of the Day - 378

"Somehow i think getting milk from the fridge would be easier" by Taleah Mcmahon

If you wish to see more of Taleah's photography, please visit her Flickr photostream here.