Stuff 'n Crap

So...about a monthish or so ago I blogged about our CKSD shop rebuild...basically saying 'hey...it's done'...and not much else. :P

Therefore...I thought it was about time I talk just a bit about the entire scope of that project...we started it in the spring...and it just seems like the summer has flown by so fast...just catching up and keeping up has been a task! ;)

So...I had taken quite a break from designing...I did a few things around V-day...paticipated in the RFL clothing fair...and beyond that had just really needed a break from all of it. Instead...I had been spending my time on DiVAS...working with CC on the new sim we got for our homes...and just...kicking back and enjoying SL some. :)

However...when the time came around and CC started working on the new shop (which is faboo...she outdid herself with the new build!)...I realized there were a few other projects I needed to tackle before turning back to creating new content...I call them my two hell-projects. :P

One was a total assessment of my CKSD inventory...re-evaluating...repricing...etc...and WHEEEEEEE I had not realized how much inventory I really had until I started in on it. I knew I had a lot of older content that was not up really to my current standard of work...and I felt it needed to be retired or repriced accordingly. The result of this is...upstairs in the new shop there's a 'Bargain' section with drastically marked-down/freebie older stuffies. Assessing...repricing...relisting on SLX/OnRez...all of that was just a huge time eater...and it took a while to push through it.

In addition/concurrently with that was the fact that we decided to re-do the old ads to be more in line with the new shop design as well as more uniform overall. Since CC was already busy to the hilt with the build itself...I tackled that job...and...once again...helllll project. Recutting all of the ads...reuploading...redoing the vendors...and then updating the pics on SLX/OnRez...again...it was all just a huge job...what a sigh of relief I breathed when that last pic went up on OnRez. :P

So...there's that...there's updating some rental spots which I hadn't touched in a while...bleh blah...and then of course today I've been working on updating the 'ol blog here...I had tons of broken links etc...removed some things...added some things...put in some dynamic link lists which I looooooooooooooove...and generally cleaned it up a bit. Now if only I could figure out how I managed to uncenter the entire thing...

/me sighs

Anyhow there you go...my ramble for the day...just updating y'all on my SL and STUFF.

I need food. :P <333

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Monkey See Etc

Ok since Dot posted about this I had to do it too. :P

You are The High Priestess

Science, Wisdom, Knowledge, Education.

The High Priestess is the card of knowledge, instinctual, supernatural, secret knowledge. She holds scrolls of arcane information that she might, or might not reveal to you. The moon crown on her head as well as the crescent by her foot indicates her willingness to illuminate what you otherwise might not see, reveal the secrets you need to know. The High Priestess is also associated with the moon however and can also indicate change or fluxuation, particularily when it comes to your moods.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

All this wisdom etc I evidently hold would no doubt be the reason I routinely do things such as get a plate all ready and sit down to eat and then realize I hadn't gotten a fork to eat with, but only after staring at the plate for a bit thinking...'Something's not right here...can't quite put my finger on it...'. Yeah. Clearly all that knowledge is blocking up my brain.

In my ongoing push to be productive, I'll also say that the Summer Safari collection is now up on SL Exchange & OnRez. Progress... <333

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There Are Few Things More Annoying In SL...

...than making any piece of clothing that's cut anywhere even remotely near the crotch area.

Just saying.

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So Yeah

The other day I got chided (by Phay :P) b/c I hadn't blogged since March 30...and at some point this morning while I was out and about I remembered my chiding and thought...'damn she's right...I think I'll blog when I get home!'.

So here I am with my venti Doubleshot on Ice (b/c evidently, according to Starbucks, people only want honey in the winter but *nothing* screams summer like 4 shots of espresso in a 24-oz cup) wondering...well...lessee...hmmm...what exactly do I have to say? And the answer is...sorta nothing...sorta a lot...blah blah blah.

I had started on posts about American Idol, but frankly the entire season was too 'eh' for me to care that much. Sure there were some great funny moments etc along the way...but all in all it was just like...well...'eh'. Hard to care that much. I'd much rather blog about 'Lost'...but if I did that y'all would be begging me to stfu after one post. Let's say I'm slightly obsessed. :P Besides...it's a *Second* Life blog...so...maybe I should get to what's been going on/what's coming up in my SL.

I've sorta had a break from designing/CKS work...mostly because other things have been filling up my time...and also b/c sometimes well...I just don't wanna design I guess. However, in the past month CC has been working on a shop rebuild...and I have been working on pricing/ad redesign for us. Andddd we've both been working on new pretties this week...and plan to continue doing so. So look for an announcement soon on that...once we decide when we wanna go in and put the new shop and goodies up!! It's always fun to get back into it after a break...and I'm really excited about the new build and the new ideas we've both been working on...can't wait to have it all pulled together & show it off!!

Also we have the big season finale of DiVAs coming up. If you've been following along on the DiVAs Blog then you've seen Phay's marvelous trailer for the finale. Having seen a preliminary final edit...I can honestly say that viewers are in for a real treat. I don't want to give *anything* away...but definitely expect the unexpected. I've watched Phay & Evie grow so much over the course of these 6 episodes in their technical skills...and I really think everyone is going to be awed with what they've done with this one. I'm so proud of both of them...and so honored to be a part of this incredible, amazing creative journey. We're going to be having an in-world screening of the finale...so stay tuned for info on that!

Also on a machinima note...my friend Tuber Potato, who directed a machinima version of the Ray Bradbury short story 'The Veldt' last summer, (it can be viewed here), will be directing another machinima based on a famous short story in the next couple of months. I won't say more as again I don't want to give anything away...but it's another project I'm very excited about participating in.

What else...welll...ok so anyone who knows me knows that I love (ie..am obsessed with) football. (yeah, American football...stop groaning you Euros...you know who you are) My friend Dot, who also loves football, suggested we start a football blog this fall...and I am so psyched about the idea!! I suggested we also have an SL fantasy football league. Anyone out there who has some interest in that (if you've read this far :P) drop me an email/notecard/something. Serious fans only please...those who know how to trash talk etc. :P

Also there's the little matter of the sim that CC & I have spent the past 3 months on. Terraforming. Reterraforming. Putting up houses. Putting up new houses. Reterraforming. Etc. (It's personal space, not shop space.) I've learned that I love terraforming (who knew?!) and I hate building (more like trying to build) waterfalls. :/

ANDDDDD then there's this Jim Honey dude. Good-looking, rebellious type. Prone to mischief. Maker of extraordinary animations. I really love spending time with him. Lots of time. <33 :)

So there we go...(Phay...I BLOGGED!!)...stuff I've been up to...stuff I'm being up to...stuff I'm gonna be up to etc. Like I said..stay tuned....

<3333

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And If You're On The CSR Bandwagon....

Ok so I went back to Honey Kitty and went on a shopping spree and managed to collect more cards...*cries*...and of course I can't let unused cards go to waste...

...so my clever friend Furi informs me that if you attach a bunch of cards the thingie will stamp 'em all at once...so YAY!! And as you can see from the pic above you don't even look like a freak or anything!! Who cares if you run into your friends while traipsing around with 28225729752075927592798572985793272738 cards attached at various points on your body?! I mean one snarky remark and they're gonna be on the bad end of the biggest baddest paper cut machine in SL, right? RIGHT?!!!

Have fun CSR'ing! :P

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Oh And

Also it's my birthday.

YAYYYYYYYYYYYY ME!!!!!!!

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YAYYYYYYY ME!!!!!

Ok so there's this place I'd had a lil shop rental for a lonnnggggg time...like a year and a half...and just before Thanksgiving they were nice enough to finally get me a lil spot inside the club all my own...deeded the land to me etc...YAYYYYY ME....

....and so what did I do? Well I'll tell you. In a smooth move worthy of the Baltimore Ravens (for those of you who saw last night's game), I went in this morning and for some fool reason turned on autoreturn on my lil piece of land...YAYYYY ME!!!

...and promptly returned half my little shop along with various and sundry other pieces of the club (like the floor just outside my shop)....YAYYYYY ME!!!!!!!

As if that's not bad enough a lot of the pieces still belonged to the original builder of the club SO they didn't even go into the L&F folder of the owner. YAYYYY ME!!!!!!!!

Soooo now I've spent the first part of my afternoon apologizing profusely and attempting to put up something half-ass...er...half-decent that will work until the owner can get the builder back in to fix it. YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY ME!!!!

/me goes to stand in the corner and smack her head against the wall repeatedly

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CSI: SL?

So a couple of thoughts on tonight's CSI:NY Episode which featured SL...nothing even approaching spoilers here so left coasters need not worry.

I've been watching CSI for years now...from the start of the original (Vegas-set) show. ..and of course I'm clearly addicted to SL so I was intrigued to see how it would play out.

While I applaud CBS' efforts at really making a splash and working at establishing a presence in SL that will probably appeal to the fans of their shows...especially in light of the nonsplash so many rw brands have made coming into SL, I gotta say...as a CSI episode, I felt it was pretty weak...as it was obviously a lot more geared as a 'vehicle' to introduce SL with a pretty light plotline. In fact...Law & Order: SVU totally PWNED them by already airing an episode this season with a much richer and more intriguing storyline that involved a fictional virtual world that closely mirrored SL.

Also...there was an instance in the show which the subscriber info provided to the NYPD by LL proved bogus. It's too bad they didn't explore that as a REAL issue that could be exacerbated by LL's 'open registration' policy. For a series that's made its reputation on edgy & topical content, I was disappointed that one was allowed to slip by.

Oh...and yah I WANT Mac's SWEET humongoscreen/mini kb set up!!!!

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Sexy Ads?

So GTV tweeted a link for his Top 10 Sexiest Ads today over on YesButNoButYes...and I've gotta say...sure they're sexy but I spot a couple of glaring omissions...perhaps a little bias?!! Submitted for your viewing pleasure:







Ladies? Gents? Thoughts? :P

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Thoughts On The Browns' Performance Against The Steelers Today:

So those Patriots are looking pretty good huh?

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WOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I just cleaned my yahoo inbox...from 1200+ messages down to just 6!!!!

Various & sundry 'Kit has crashed' offlines I found in the course of the cleanout...the compliation of which amuses me:

[11:40] Roslin Petion: are you crashing again?

[11:30] Roslin Petion: yessss?
[11:31] Roslin Petion: oh and you crashed again
[11:31] Roslin Petion: haha

[10:08] Roslin Petion: /me waves
[10:08] Roslin Petion: Grrr, I thought you were on

[16:53] Tuber Potato: hello?
[16:53] Tuber Potato: o, srry
[16:53] Tuber Potato: crap you misappeared

[11:27] Jim Honey: What are you up to Kit? SL don't like it.

[17:15] Jim Honey: That wasn't me.

[17:53] Jim Honey: Its not me... I swear.

[17:03] Menno Ophelia: kit?

[13:06] Shiraz Mandelbrot: Oh! Guess you're off. Talk to you later
then :)

[16:02] Jim Honey: Aww. Gone :(

[12:22] Tuber Potato: OMG, you crashed, then I crashed, and the fucker is offline now...

[8:26] Menno Ophelia: And you need to stop crashing..its so 2006

[21:25] Jz Boa: ok
[21:25] Jz Boa: bye

[17:00] Tuber Potato: /me maps ur ass
[17:00] Tuber Potato: doh

[16:04] Tuber Potato: did you get the TP?

[9:55] TaP Shepherd: yo
[9:55] TaP Shepherd: damn, I thought I saw you on before.

[23:15] Balejack Horton: wher eu?

[23:38] Balejack Horton: sokay ;)
[23:38] Balejack Horton: omg again?

[0:10] Balejack Horton: u wth me?

[12:17] Jim Honey: You were showing off-line.

[23:07] Courtlyn Cunningham: omg u here?

[18:38] Trillian Granville: DAMN KIT, GET BACK HERE!

[22:38] Ethan Logan: still there?

[20:56] Roslin Petion: WB crasher
[20:56] Roslin Petion: oh wait, maybe not

[18:29] Trillian Granville: you crashy crash, me have kid bothering me
[18:29] Trillian Granville: ill be back if possible

[10:52] Trillian Granville: damn, you crashed
[10:52] Trillian Granville: im gonna go get some food, be back in a bit

[23:44] Balejack Horton: ?

[15:52] Echo Seigo: you here?

[18:12] Trillian Granville: hey baby
[18:12] Trillian Granville: damn, you are gone

[22:29] Balejack Horton: crash?

[21:46] Echo Seigo: you dirty crasher

[12:53] Zhuge Taiko: hey kit
[12:54] Zhuge Taiko: gahh sorry was showing you as being on line

[21:52] Balejack Horton: omg that was the quickest crash uve ever done

[20:01] Echo Seigo: lol i was just telling you a story and you logged
:P
[20:01] Echo Seigo: good timing :)

[17:48] Trillian Granville: are you here?

[11:52] Echo Seigo: where you at?

[19:29] Courtlyn Cunningham: where did u go
[19:29] Courtlyn Cunningham: lol

[13:48] Balejack Horton: /me waves into the empty cyberspace where Kit
should be
[13:48] Balejack Horton: ;)

[12:47] Tuber Potato: hey, you still there?

[12:18] Stan Pomeray: Where did you go?

[17:59] Echo Seigo: thanks
[17:59] Echo Seigo: wb yourself
[17:59] Echo Seigo: omg you crashed again!

[17:48] Tuber Potato: are you doing anything atm?
[17:48] Tuber Potato: besides crashing
[17:48] Tuber Potato: lol

[17:47] Echo Seigo: back i crashed
[17:48] Echo Seigo: and it appears you did as well

[16:02] Echo Seigo: you're so the dirty crasher!

[11:11] Tuber Potato: did you crash?

[10:22] Enzzo Austinmer: ok im off crasherson
[10:22] Enzzo Austinmer: bye!

[23:01] Tuber Potato: did you misappear
[23:01] Tuber Potato: o Yep

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Why...

....do I find it amusing that LL called me 'Kim' in this response to a ticket I submitted?!!

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We have solved your issue

Solution: Hi Kim.

We restarted Selby, that should have solved the problem.

Regards,
Lotte/I-World



Ticket Information:
Ticket #: 4051-4232375
Date Created: 8/12/2007 5:57 PM WEST
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Dear Bloggers:

So one consequence of my little 2-monthish break is that I've gotten so dreadfully behind on blog-reading and pretty much what's been going on in the blogworld period!!

I've been working like crazy trying to get caught up on as much of what I missed as possible...and also in updating my own blog in terms of links etc. So many new blogs have cropped up and it seems like every day I find another that I want to link...SO hopefully someday I'll manage to ferret them all out and get them linked up. o.O

But I digress...because what I really wanted to talk about here was the incredible awkwardness of sending a message to someone you've never met (or in many cases simply haven't talked to much at all). Now...maybe it's just me...I'm not sure if like...other people feel that way or not...but it's kinda like...'Hi you don't know me and I don't know you and maybe stuff I make is completely not your taste and all but HERE I'm gonna give you this stuff to bloat your inventory even though I'm sure you get constant inventory bloatage anyhow!!'.

Soooo...first I wanna say thanks to all of you for dealing with that...and secondly that if you're a blogger and I've never dropped any samples on you it's probably because:

1. Sometimes I'm lazy.
2. I'm shy. (Yes I can hear the laughter now from people who know me that are reading this but it's actually true...I AM shy...especially when it comes to my work.)
3. I basically run around clueless much of the time in SL.
4. The aforementioned awkwardness.
5. I don't want to bloat your inventory further with things you may not like.
6. I hate to think anyone feels I have some 'expectation' of a review if they don't like something. (I don't!)
7. I've never managed to see your blog, somehow. o.O
8. Did I mention I'm lazy, shy, awkward, & clueless?!!

Pick your choice of reason or combo of reasons from the above...they're all true at one time or another!!

SOOOOO...while I continue to awkwardly drop random things on people I don't know (or barely know...but eventually GET to know!! :D)...if you're a blogger who would like a review copy of something/somethings particular that you see, please don't hesitate to drop me an im in world!!

AND...thanks to you all for the variety of wonderfully creative blogs out there. I love pics...I love seeing how different people put outfits together in different ways...and I love it when someone hits on a combination (especially for my own stuff) that I would've never thought of myself! Keep up the great work!!

Laterrrrrs!! <333

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iTunes Is Dangerous

And I'm a downloading fool.

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