BBC2009 – Day One Post

How long have you been a blogger?

Wow, that is a hard question.  I guess from when I formed my first words like “lame” which I refined into phrases such as “worst I’ve ever seen”.    Of course we didn’t computers back then, so I had to make do.    My folks were very supportive……until that night.

There was a horrible thunderstorm and I recall being frightened.   I ran to their room not knowing they were enjoying adult alone time.   I placed my shock and horror aside because as a blogger you do that.   I ran back to my room and began to blog about it.   The folks weren’t too upset at the first posting, but when the other kids starting adding comments they became very unreasonable and took my blog away.     I did not however let them silence my right to blog and began to leave postings in the margins of pictures I drew for them at school to hang up on the refrigerator.   I think it was the day Grandma was over when another post on that night was seen in a picture.  “Cliché dialogue, unbelievable out of shape actors, and the most uninspiring thrusting I’ve seen in all my seven years” was the harmless line that upset them.

After military school and the military, computers were more common.    Time fly by on a few semi-bloggy pages until this domain was born in 2006 and I found Second Life late that year.     It wasn’t until early this year however that I had my peanut butter in my chocolate flash that made me change topics and realize Dreamweaver perhaps wasn’t the best blogger platform.

How has it enriched your life?

My life has been enriched in many ways.

First by connecting with people, exchanging ideas with them, and giving my unsolicited unqualified, mostly incorrect opinion to them.  Oh, and nicknames.   I like to give those.

Second by people connecting with me.    On some level I’ve always known I was  an idiot, my views were dumb, my blog was horrible, and apparently people have slept with my mom, but it wasn’t until it was expressed in IMs, emails, and blog comments that I truly embraced it.

Third.  Learning to take myself much less seriously.

Fourth, that there a lot people with a lot of wonderful stories to tell about themselves and Second Life. I enjoy reading the blogs of others more that mine and some days I spend hours doing so. Minus the time lost on sites selling fashion no decent person would wear, learning about amazing franchise opportunities available to me, and the which new language is Hamlet is going to throw at us- that normally leaves me with 10-15 minutes of solid blog time.

Fifth, places. There is no way I could find half the places and I enjoy and Linden’s search feature isn’t a help. If there is an event or cool place to check out, I can find it in a blog.

Lastly, chaos. If Linden rammed heavy handed age play rules that only protect adults from adults, Open Space changes, Gambling ban, bank closings, and the adult exile island down our throats WITH vocal bloggers shining a light on them never letting up, imagine what the grid would be like if the keyboards went silent? A lot more like Disneyland or closed maybe.