Good times, good friends

Two good things last night.

First, the Persian/Farsi language class at Bianca Namori and Akidami Swift's Language Academy.  The school was recently set up and has been offering a variety of classes in different languages, led by different instructors.  You need to have voice enabled to hear the instructor pronounce the words being taught, while following along on a notecard.

It was a great deal of fun, and I would love to go back whenever a class is being offered in a time slot I can attend.

After the class I wasn't sure what to do with myself, so I did a little tinkering on my build.  While I was there, my friend Matthieu sent me an IM to say hi.  He hasn't made it in-world very often during the last month, so it was a delight to see him.  We spent the rest of the evening sitting around and catching up.  He made me laugh and it was good to see him. :-)

I'm looking forward to the next few days because there are a number of things happening.

• Thursday:
• Radio Riel Theater at The Clarendon Observatory, 7pm

• Friday: 
• Foot Tappin' Friday at Brunel Hall, 6pm

•  Saturday: 
• Breakfast in Babbage at The Clarendon, 8am
• New Babbage Town Hall at City Hall, 1pm
• Language class with Victor Mornington, 5pm

I've been going through a bit of party withdrawal since the Kraken Festival wound down.  I've attended a few dances outside of New Babbage since then. Although they were fun, I left with a new appreciation for how comfortable I feel in New Babbage, and how much more I enjoy events there. It's home.

A grand adventure!

I've now been back in New Babbage for a couple of months, and there is still so much I've not seen!

Mr. Manamiko and I started out with the intention of exploring Wheatstone Waterways, but end up making a detour to the Vernian Deep.  Neither of us had investigated the Vernian builds, with the exception of my attendance at the Pearse's anniversary party, so it was very new for both of us.

Following our undersea wandering, we hopped aboard my new boat, The African Queen, and steamed around the waters of New Babbage.  Our aim was to boat all the way back up to his house in the Oldbridge area but didn't make it that far.  More adventure for another day!

Relaxing somewhere in the Vernian. 

Apologies to the owner for getting our shoes on the upholstery.

  

Chugging toward Clockhaven to see the steam turtles.

Steaming up the canals.

Some swings in Wheatstone.

A shooting gallery in Wheatstone. 

Matthieu is really good at it!  He got the 4th highest score.

Some kind of contraption in Wheatstone. 

We never did figure out exactly what it was supposed to do, but it looked intriguing.

Looking at books upstairs in a store, the name of which I've forgotten.

It was entertaining though, some very creative contraptions downstairs.

Matthieu deciding which book to buy. 

  

         

 Back on the canal, the boat began to take on water after I collided with something blocking the canal.

We were forced to abandoned ship.

Ah-hah!  An urchin hideout is to blame!

Alas, all good adventures must come to an end.  My typist was interrupted in RL, so I had to cut our excursion short.  Perhaps next time we will just explore the canals by boat!

New friends!

I was in and out of world a number of times yesterday.  Attempting to focus on a short story that occurs in New Babbage, I kept finding myself needing to go check out something or other in the city in order to maintain continuity.  This, of course, would lead to distractions and I ended up spending more time in the city than working on my story.  *sheepish*

On one such interval in the city, Master Nathaniel Lorefield introduced himself.  He was working on a house in the Academy square as I walked by.  I was headed into the Academy of Industry building and somehow managed to walk right past the house without really registering that it was something new.  We chatted for awhile about his build, and he asked if I'd yet seen the sewers.  Thinking I had, since I'd seen the area beneath city hall I said yes, but didn't know about an empty space beneath the square.  We went down to check it out and then spent some time walking through the tunnels.

I was amazed at just how extensive the system is.  When we reached water too deep to wade, since I can't swim (yet), he rezzed a raft and rowed us through.  We traveled like this all the way up to the Palisades train station, and I must say - for someone who is familiar with the sewer system, it was much quicker than walking.

At some point in the evening I parked myself in my house while working on my story, and was surprised by a visit from Mr. and Mrs. Melnik - Scotty and Sky.  They came to the house for the express purpose of paying a visit, which I found immensely kind.  We lounged comfortably in the sitting room for a good long time, drinking tea and plotting world domination.

Okay, so maybe not the world domination part, but I felt that we got along famously. They're fun people, and I look forward to seeing them in-world more often.

I've been spending more time in Caledon Kittiwickshire.  Matthieu and I ended up sitting in the cottage there for awhile last night, but earlier in the day I went alone.  I feel that this snapshot captures almost entirely my reasons for wanting the property: