The Mines of Falun

It's that time again!  Emerson has set us all out on a new adventure, this time to the northern mining town of Falun to look for enough gold to save our public house, The Gangplank.  Nothing is ever easy though.  An evil doctor and his wicked Morlock "daughter" are hot on our trail, and it's a race to see whether we can somehow manage to foil his designs for world domination as well as save our bar from a takeover by Victor Mornington!

Go-Devil Canal Race!

Here I am, with a stale blog.  Let's see if I can't do something about that.  I think I've missed the window for discussing Christmas, which was enormous fun, but there is plenty of fun just around the corner.

The Gangplank is sponsoring a Go-Devil Canal Race this Saturday, January 26th.  The frozen canals make a fabulous track for Go-Deviling, and a race is something I've been thinking about since last winter when Kimika Ying introduced her fabulous vehicles.  We've made the arrangements with Tenk, have a course picked out, and now just need to mark the route on Saturday morning.

Saturday is going to be a busy day.  At 11 am SLT, the Second Life Giant Snail Race will take place in New Babbage.  The course for that race shouldn't interfere with our canal race, and it is apparently a great honor for the city to be hosting the snail race.  Great news for New Babbage!  At 1 pm SLT, we will be kicking off our Go-Devil race, with a party at the Gangplank afterward until 3 pm.  From 6 pm until 9 pm SLT, the annual Founder's Day Black and White Soot Ball will be happening at the Piermont, an event I am loathe to miss.  From 7 pm until whenever is a grand finale bash in End of Armada Breakaway Party, celebrating the sim before it goes away on Sunday (I'll discuss in a separate post).

All in all it promises to be a busy one, and I'm pondering whether I can somehow manage to make it to all of them...

One Year "Back in Babbage" Anniversary

It's hard to believe it's been a year, today, since I first stepped foot back in New Babbage.  I was completely disoriented, both from being back inworld and coming back to a city that was positively podunk by comparison back in 2007.

So what has changed in the last year?

• I've made some amazing friends. On one hand I want to mention my best friends here, but I just realized that the list is getting pretty long.  One person I will always call out though is Jedburgh Dagger, who has been my best friend since we first started talking last summer.

• I fell head over heels for one Mr. Emerson Lighthouse.  How could I not?  He's amazingly creative, smart, funny, compassionate and dead sexy.  (Come to think of it, today is exactly 7 months since our first dance.)  Correction:  Our first dance was October 21st 2011, not the 27th.  Tsk.  Shame on me.

• I now own 3 parcels in the Academy of Industry sim; a house, a workshop, and a cemetery.

• I am now part-owner of the historic Gangplank pub in Clockhaven, which I run with Emerson.

All in all?

I'm a New Babbager.  What more is there to say?

Time to call it a night

Tonight was Blackberry Harvey's grand re-opening party at the Gangplank.  It had a pirate theme, and I spent several hours there making merry and enjoying the company of friends.  As will sometimes happen after spending a night drinking and dancing though, there comes a slow, creeping melancholy.

Feeling a kind of maudlin restlessness, I stood on the city wall behind my house to watch the stars.  Afterward, I went for a walk around the Academy.

Only one other person was stirring in the neighborhood, but I didn't think I'd make good company so I went to the CocoaJava for a change of scenery.

It was warm and welcoming by the fire, but ultimately I decided that it was time for all good Babbagers to go to sleep.

Pleasant dreams, pirates.