Junie and Jed

Keeping the barstools warm at the Porthead Tavern.

I ask you

Is there anything in the world better than polka?!

I thought not.

The City Wall

I think I'll be sad if the city ever expands around the Academy of Industry.  I quite like having the city wall running immediately behind my house.  Often I go there late at night to sit and watch the stars.

It's oddly peaceful.

Stories

Hmm.

A few of my friends use their blogs to post stories that they write for New Babbage.  This seems like a good idea.  Although everything is available on the New Babbage site, it often takes some digging to find everything on a certain storyline, and the site search returns results in a weird order. Not chronological.

*raises an eyebrow at the site admins*

So I'm thinking about putting mine here.  For posterity.  Or easy reference. Mostly for my own sake though, so I don't lose them. I kinda have a tendency to do that.  My hard drives are in a shameful tangle.

At home with Kaylee and Kenna

I was going to go check out a trampoline someone had set up in North Fells, but sometimes all you want to do is spend time with your friends.  Kenna and Kaylee kept me company at home tonight.  Here we are, upstairs in my study. Kenna lying on the floor, me dancing, and Kaylee waiting to catch me if I happened to trip over Kenna.

Fortunately, we all survived.

Hellpumpkin

A new sim was just added to New Babbage, going by the name of North Fells.  It's meant to serve as our new sandbox, and Babbagers celebrated Sandbox Week with a wee bit of zombie mayhem.  Just to make things interesting, an immortal, flesh-eating pumpkin was added to the mix.  Since it couldn't be killed, Mr. Arnold devised a way to trap it in a cage. Quite ingenious, actually.

In this manner I was able to get a good look.

Masquerade!

How dreadfully silly is it to dress an avatar in a costume?  Isn't that a bit redundant?

Hm.

Anyway, Saturday was the big New Babbage masquerade ball, held by Breezy Carver at her magnificent Piermont Landing in the Wheatstone Waterways sim.  Bookworm Hienrichs, the event photographer, captured this snapshot of my costume:

Afterward, my friend Kenna and I explored a sim called Mythopoeia.  It's simply breathtaking - the most incredible texturing work I think I've seen in SL so far.

Tonight was a Weird Al Yankovic party at the Radio Riel Clarendon Lab in the New Babbage sim.  I dressed in a dirndl skirt and Pippy Longstocking pigtails, but didn't get a snapshot.  Maybe Ms. Book will come through on this one too.