InsaneJournal

Rare sighting of ME in Second Life!
After many attempts, I actually made it onto the grid yesterday and was able to take care of some business. The 'Macabre Hunt' Apple, now holds the gift from me, rather than an apologetic notecard explaining that the Yellow Jester can't get online and the landmark to the next store. It now contains the Bone Armlet that I mentioned in this blog many months ago, as my gift. Try as I might, I just can't stay connected for long enough to sit down and comfortably build in SL, and that's putting it mildly. In truth I can't stay connected long enough to reply to the "Hi's and WOW you are backs!" that fly my way when one of my digital feet enter the meta-verse for a brief fraction of a second. (and I'm having trouble even posting this blog)
For those of you who didn't take advantage of the extended sale of bone items in the main store, well, now it's too late, because I actually managed to put the prices back up to what they should be, instead of 25% off, as they have been since March. And most importantly, for my piece of mind, I paid some rent! So my store won't be closing this month. :)

While I was gone, two of my stores did close, my little shack in Slaughter City is no more, due to the closure of the sim, which was sad as SC was a nice (creepy) place and I have some good memories there. Good luck to Putrid on her travels. I also had a store in the mall of a CCS sim, which suffered from that bane of merchants - the rearrangement of space and the stores within it. This happened to me once before at a very popular industrial club, they decided to update the Mall space and it was a case of "Oh dear, I haven't made a sale since". If I had been able to get online, I would have written the owner a nice note explaining how the changes have impacted my business, and that I wouldn't be renewing my rent, but unfortunately I wasn't able to...I did ask my assistant to write one for me though, but I prefer to do these sorts of things myself.

I've been keeping myself busy in the real world since moving back to the city, well busy might be an overstatement, I've renewed my writing partnership with a long time friend and collaborator and have been composing music again. We've been working on some new writing techniques and as soon as we're finished I'll post a link here (we're planning on making a short video for the tune once it's completed). We're not in much of a rush, mind you, so don't be holding your breath, it may be the end of summer, possibly autumn (fall) before we're done. But it will be cool, and the quality will be high :)

In other news my mental health is still a problem, money is exceptionally tight, and I've yet to let the rest of my real life friends know I am back in the city. I've bumped into a couple of people while out and about and have been met with wide eyed stares and actually pretty similar reactions to me being back in SL heh. As I've spent the better part of a year in solitude of one form or another it's hard to know what to say to people. Do I lie and make some shit up, or do I tell people the truth, which is always grim and causes peoples faces to drop, as they want me to be the sociable, cheerful person that they used to know, rather than the withdrawn, frequently suicidal person I have always hidden from most of them.

...I think I will have to make some shit up so I have stuff to talk about, it's kinder to them; or I could just continue to remain in isolation a bit longer and do neither, heh.