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And the dearly departed Peep is a daddy!!

Here is the clan I started with that found the Secret City of Isola. Unfortunatly, Peep died before I did these. :/

When I find out who the baby’s daddy is and if its a boy or girl will post it here.

The long anticipated Virtual Villagers 3 has finally hit our household… As if the first two weren’t addicting enough…

VV3 has even better graphics… the kids are even cuter then they were in 2!

Things I have learned in playing this game for a few hours… DO NOT try and make any potions before you have purchased level 2 alchemy, they will blow up and your poor scientist will die from a work accident. Peep, my 24 year old Master Builder and Adept Scientist died that way…

Plant your tree seed first thing you do, then have someone light the fire and pick a farmer to clear the bees out of the hive. Start working on your builders before finding your chief, if not nothing will get done. Your chief though can make magical food once in a 24 hour period though.

Do not follow the tutorial suggestion and breed right away. For a bit you want to keep your village count low, so you can build your food supply and earn tech points to buy at least your faction.

Here are a few screen shots of the two kids playing in the rain jumping in the puddles. They are just TOO CUTE!!

Privacy… think you have it on Second Life? Think again….

I would like to point you to this:

“Disclosure
Residents are entitled to a reasonable level of privacy with regard to their Second Life experience. Sharing personal information about a fellow Resident –including gender, religion, age, marital status, race, sexual preference, and real-world location beyond what is provided by the Resident in the First Life page of their Resident profile is a violation of that Resident’s privacy. Remotely monitoring conversations, posting conversation logs, or sharing conversation logs without consent are all prohibited in Second Life and on the Second Life Forums.”

——– Second Life Community Standards Item Number 4.

As you can clearly see, giving an item with a spy script in it masked as a bling script or what ever is clearly against the rules. This also applies to an item left laying around on property to do the same thing.

It was recently discovered that a person I know pretty well has been doing this very thing… monitoring where we go, who we are with, who we are talking to, what we are saying… Load of crap in my opinion. As my almost 4 year old niece, Tara would say, “I am SHOCKED and APPLED!” (It saddens me that even a 4 year old has the sense to not spy and eaves drop when people in their 30s don’t.)

Why is it being done? Afraid they are missing something? Afraid they are being talked about behind their back?

It doesn’t matter the why, what matters is that there is a clear invasion of privacy going on. On doing a search for spy scripts and items to spy on people, there are MANY out there. Why? Who cares what people are doing when you aren’t around or people you don’t even know… If that kind of thing is what you have been reduced to, BACK SLOWLY AWAY FROM YOUR COMPUTER NOW!! GO OUTSIDE AND GET A LIFE!!

Ok, who in their right mind would go on SL and have a kid, especially when they have 5 of them in RL???

Me

When I first came on SL and seen pregnant women in world, I thought it was funny… then as I started to think about it, I realized why most do…

Reasons why people have babies on SL:

• Can’t have them for various reasons in Real World. It is your second life after all, it is to do with what you can’t in your first life.
• You meet someone, fall in love and want the world with them. Yes folks, love can happen in SL, real love. I met a couple who met on SL and are now getting married in RL. Think its just a game?
• You are an empty nester and miss them in RL. This is where I fit in. My youngest just left the house last year, and this is my first childless deployment in RL. SL does help pass the time, and I enjoy when my husband can log online, even if it is just that email, it’s still time together, the best we have for now. Between plotting the over throw of the world with Kyle, I hang out a lot with mine and Andy’s SL baby. Surprisingly enough, attachement can happen between you and a bundle of prims. If a Marine can get an attachment to one, who else is strong enough to resist? Trust me, she has prevented that proverbial clock tower episodes.

My sister, Bri has known Kyle for like… 10 years or so, I knew of him but didn’t really know him too well until SL.

Now that I have been hanging out with him for a long time on SL, the trouble he and I get into!

Here we are plotting at my place.

This is actually a poem I carry in my pocket. Every time I feel like I can’t handle yet another deployment, I pull it out and read it to remind me why the cost of being a Marine wife is worth everything.

Author Anita Ann Rios

Loving a Marine isn’t always what they say,
And loving him is a high price to pay.
It’s mostly loving with nothing to hold,
It’s being young yet feeling so old.

Remember he is thinking of you every day,
He’s sad and lonely from being away.
So love him, miss him and cherish your dreams,
And always be proud to love your Marine.

I wear no uniforms, no blues or greens.
But, I am in the military in the ranks rarely seen.
I have no rank upon my shoulders. Salutes I do not give.
But the military world is where I live.
I am not in the chain of command, orders I do not get.
But, my husband is the one who does, this I cannot forget.
I’m not the one who fires a weapon,
who puts his life on the line.
But, my job is just as tough, I am the one left behind.
My husband is a patriot, a brave pride filled man.
And the call to serve his country not all can understand.
Behind the lines, I see things needed to keep this country free.
My husband makes the sacrifice, but so do our kids and me.
I love the man I married. Soldiering is his life.
But, I stand among the silent ranks known as
THE MILITARY WIFE

Order One
Stand quietly when told your soldier is leaving.
Order Two
Pray quietly for your loved one to receive rear detachment orders. If it does not come through it hurts them even more.
Order Three
Do not lash out in anger at the military in front of your spouse. It will hurt them even if they agree.
Order Four
Think before you speak. You never know when your words to your soldier might be your last.
Order Five
Smile for your children, for it is you that they look to for guidance.
Order Six
Educate yourself. It makes things easier
Order Seven
Reach out to other wives who need help. You have probably been in their shoes.
Order Eight
Have patience with all family who ask the questions you push out of your mind to cope. They do not know better.
Order Nine
Do not be hard on yourself when you realize you prayed it wouldn’t be your soldier who died. You were not the only one.
Order Ten
Show and speak of love so that you will have fewer “I wish I had.” tears.
Order Eleven
Have Faith in your soldier they are doing the best they can with what they have.

Brandie Williams
2007

I am one of the few, the proud Military SO’s.
I am one of the few Military Wives,
Fiancee’s,
Girlfriends,
Boyfriends,
and Husbands.
I stand proudly and strongly beside my Mililtary SO and support him or her
and all he or she does.
I am one of the few who are strong enough to love someone who I may at any
time never be able to see again.
And yet I still stand by him or her.

In the end strong as we were, we come out even stronger.
We are the few, the proud Military SO’s