Peevishness

Griefing that doesn't rez properly. We can't see the penes.

Leaping on the meme bandwagon (late, as usual), Lludmila shares pet SL peeves.  Her biggest one, because of her size, which is within normal RL(tm) human range (well, for a female, anyway), is proportion. Houses and furniture that are just too darn big and can't be modded.

Beautiful Senzafine chair ... that's too big. The chair Lludmila
is actually sitting in was labeled "kid size" and it's a better fit.

This is just soooo wrong.

The saddest of the peeves was when the non-profit tier doubled. Linden Labs is now trying to win back some of the educational institutions - but, why trust LL again?

Mystery Manor burns as Info Island closes for good.

Lludmila has never had any success with vehicles (except maybe her horse, Major). Either she ends up at the bottom of the ocean somehow or ... it takes off out of control and SL goes all crashie.

Darn that swanboat to heck! At least things that float on water
should behave better! But, no-o! They end up in the air!

Fortunately, the nice things outweigh the peeves:

Lludmila loves her friends:

a) They're really clever and creative and 2) they're just so much fun!

Lludmila loves the art:

Location, location, location (Erdbeeren at Leroy sim).

RL(tm) quilt exhibit at the Panorama Gallery.

Who doesn't love Halloween in SL?

You content creators are sick! We love you!

And, one word: carousels!

Wonderful carousel at InshCon.

There's lots more stuff: cute outfits, a new house to decorate anytime or any way you'd want (and all of it fits in file folders), and all the clever and silly stuff people come up with. So, ja ja, it's worth a bit of peeve.

Virtually Lost

Memorial Chapel

It seems that it hurts just as much to lose a friend in the virtual world as it does in RL(tm).  Lludmila has only been in existence five years and has already lost four friends.  Oh, there are the naysayers who say, "Nay, they weren't real friends," but they were real people with real lives - not just that RL(tm) thing people talk about.  And they are now dead.  What's more, they will never rez again.  Our own lives are richer for having known them - not poorer because we weren't able to physically touch them or call on them to help us move - again.

There are several places in the virtual world to memorialize these friends.  Memorials seem to be very popular, in fact.  There is even a special Rainbow Gardens for beloved pets ... pets whose only contribution to the virtual world was barking in the background or chewing on the cables (stop that, Collage!).

The loss we feel for these friends, even ones we didn't know all that well or hadn't marked as "Friends" officially, is magnified by all the other losses in our lives.  It reminds us of our bigger losses, our saddest times, and we can weep for those again as well, hopefully washing away that pain bit by bit but never entirely losing sight of it.  The sadness we feel can also remind us of the happiness we shared.  The dancing, the jokes, the mere sharing of time and virtual space.

So don't try to tell us our virtual friends aren't real.