A very cool place to visit

Umm… Yeah.. it’s been a while.  I’ve had lots going on including some major life style changes, one of which has meant limiting my time online… thus, people probably ain’t been seeing much of me.

I’ve been promising a friend that I would post this entry for a while, so here it is.

Introducing…

One of the coolest places I’ve been to in Second Life (SL)  … I suppose my geeky science background will show through…

The place:  International Space Museum located in the Spaceport Alpha Sim

Pictures speak a thousand words, so I’ll go easy on the words and share the pictures…

One of many impressive sights is a display of the history of different rockets.

You don’t appreciate how many different rockets there have been until you see
them from afar.

You can take a tour of the space station.  This is an incredible
thing to behold.  What you don’t realize looking at this picture
is that the Space Station is a full size replica (this picture
panned way out!)

Once at the space station, you are given the opportunity
to take a tour of all the planets.  Saturn has always been
a favorite of mine.  Each planet has information points
posted with facts about the planet’s size, rotational period,
time to orbit the sun, mass and any satellite or probe visits.

I can’t recommend visiting the museum enough.  As it is, I have visited twice and still am finding new stuff to explore.  I expect that I shall be returning again and again.

Catch ya on the flip side!

Yes, I’m Back

Yes… I went on a little trip and now I’m back…. and recovering

Seriously… I am back and maybe I need to update a little bit about my SL adventures, eh?

The biggest development has been the neighbors in the plot next to mine have moved.  Initially it meant that I was getting more visitors instead of less as people tried to figure out where the old neighbors had moved to.  But with the help of an automatic notice that tells seekers where to go seek what they are seeking .. heh heh… my unexpected visitor count has declined dramatically.  I do wait with bated breath to see who will buy the plot now that it is vacant.

It also seems that I will be having new neighbors to the south of me as I prepare for a low prim sim to be connected to my current sim.  Apparently it is going to be a private sim… low prim… half water… I’ll also be on pins and needles a bit as these neighbors move in.  I have been reassured that they are quiet, private people… I sure hope so.

I have made a few changes to my parcel in an effort to dissuade people from considering it as a place they want to stop and spend lots of time with.  As I mentioned in earlier blog entries, most security systems don’t work quite the way they used to and I do not… *will not* resort to a security system that will eject people from my land.  So… now… if you want to explore you can…. the parcel has been made no script, no fly, no rezz.  Sorry everybody, but if you aren’t in the group… you can’t do these things.

Related to the no fly status of my property is also the water channel I have created around my property.  Hehe… why related?  Well….. initially I had created one that was fairly deep and then I realized that if my property was no fly and you fell in the channel, you’d have a hard time getting out.   So now… it’s a gentle channel… easily walked out of… with… hehe…. an alligator in it.  Chomp chomp!  A big surprise and a pleasant one at that was coming back from my trip to discover that the channel had been widened by adding to it on the neighboring properties.

There’s been a few other changes…. some major, some minor… all related to terraforming, and over the next while I will continue to fine tune how things look.  Eventually I will take a pic and show everybody the before and after.  For now…

Catch you on the flip side!