The die hard players are still going strong as ever. At points of my life I kind of leaned towards starting it, but decided I should work on my actual one instead.
Nope, SL is alive and kicking. It averages 40,000 to 45, 000 people in-world at any given time. I've been with it for just over 4 years now. They keep improving, especially the avatars. They keep getting better. This is my current one.
Staring at my packed up moving boxes (all booze cases) and wishing they were really full of Macallan 12, Grey Goose, and Laurent Perrier instead of random household crap.
Barely cross-neighborhood. 0.8 miles. Total streets i need to travel: 3... including the one I live on and the one I'm moving to.
Yes. Final coat of lacquer is drying on the hard wood as we speak. Close enough. I could use one more room and a hot tub. Hot tub will be next year I think. And I have a "smart" wifi enabled thermostat that does not seem to be very smart at the moment.
Every year. Not an emojy for me. Don't know what to say, what to do. Especially when it's undocumented for some reasons...
They have satellite views online. And good grief, yes, I see this is a repeated event. I had to make sure I clicked on the link for Greece wildfires 2020, not for the previous years. Wasn't trying to be frivolous with the emoji. Used it in lieu of the stock words of sympathy that seem so trite. To me, anyway. I hope you're safe, and not in a target area.
They put out the fire fast enough yesterday so it didn't spread. My area is not so green so in case of a fire we won't burn (I think) but the surrounding area is mountainous and that's what they are targeting. They're doing that over and over again in order to get licences to build. Put these areas up for construction. I didn't take offence with the emoji. I just meant that I wouldn't be able to choose one to express myself because non really is able to portray my emotions whenever I smell smoke. It gives me a sense of helplessness and pity.
I've been playing what is essential my first real game in a long time. Admittedly I did try The Longing last year, but that's an idle game and not exactly a traditional gaming experience. I went for the underground open-source The Battle for Westnoth and I'm quite enjoying it so far. A turn-based fantasy strategy game. Classic, cosy.
What am I doing? Relaxing. For days. After putting down 40k in a month on the new WIP, I'm taking a much needed break. 40k happened to bring me to a big crossroads in the story anyway, and I need to sort out some major details from the outline. Apprehensive as I am about my next step, I'm super stoked that I wrote half a book worth in 31 days. That so surpasses anything I've ever accomplished with my writing that it's almost unbelievable. It took me two months to write the last 30k on my previous WIP, and even that was record-shattering at the time. All this work has made me wonder more than ever, how on Earth do people do that whole NaNoWriMo thing? That blows my mind. At my absolute top speed, I was able to average 2k a session, and I had an outline all ready to go before I started. Do people really write 80k+ novels from scratch in November? How?
I'd imagine that whichever word comes to mind gets typed immediately--"look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain."