Reel Expression

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Absolutely brilliant. Rather fitting that when I try to log in for the first time in almost a year, this is the message I get.

The short version:
- Due to school/work/kung fu/life I haven’t had the time in almost a year to log in. Let alone make anything.
- Dropped all prices by 1/2.
- My store will be around until it no longer pays for the sim.
- If anyone is looking for 3/4 of a $195/month sim to rent, let me know.

Prices:
They dropped by 1/2. No real reason other than I no longer take L$ out, it all goes towards paying the sim. It messed up my taxes last year - something about being self employed and not being able to get the big tax breaks for being a student - so in Jan I started to let it accumulate for the sim.

The store/sim:
I honestly don’t know if I’ll ever make any more poses. I don’t know if I’ll ever log in after today. I may still want to dink around if I ever get the time, but who knows. At this point in time, I’d rent the sim at cost if I could keep a small shop and workspace on the off chance I’d want to.

If not, I’ll either sell it or just give it up once the L$ runs out.

The personal bits:
Last fall, I took a full time job in the graphics department of an ad agency. As well as starting a graduate degree in game development. Lack of time and just a general disinterest in anything SL related ended up with me just not logging in since.

My first year of school was completed yesterday and I have a week until summer session begins to get things in order. I’m going from part-time to full-time so I’m going from almost no extra time to defiantly no time. Classes are oddly fun and a bit of a challenge, but I’m really enjoying programming. It’s nice to think mostly with the other side of my brain.

I had been thinking about this for a while now, but since I’ve been waiting all day for my new computer parts to arrive (hurry up UPS) I decided to go ahead. I suppose this way I won’t have to install SL.

Creating for SL was a big part of my life for 6 years. It was fun, thrilling, frustrating and annoying usually all at the same time. It was great to see SL grow and change over the years, but I think my time here is over.

Thank you all for the support.

Cheers
Luth

I spent all day yesterday with a friend of mine at a cemetery in northern Chicago. Here are some of the pictures I took:

Don’t mind me.. just making certain the photoblog section is working properly.

I recently bought a bicycle and have been cycling down the trail along the lake any day that it isn’t too nasty outside. I always seem to stop and rest about the same spot. This is a pic taken with my mobile of it.

I haven’t been feeling particularly well the last week or so and decided to catch up on some boring website stuff.

Finally fixed the issue with the recent poses thing on the sidebar. For some reason it stopped scaling the pics. Since I couldn’t figure out why it didn’t feel like scaling it even if the code told it to scale, I did a flickr slide show instead.

Fixed some other random code issues and cleaned up the sidebar a bit. Here is my issue that I can’t seem to decide on, the list of archives is bloody long (blog has been around since 2006) but I really hate drop downs. Honestly I have no idea why someone would want to randomly see what I posted in June of 2007, but whatever.

While it was kind of annoying and took a bit longer than I wanted it to, I migrated all the tutorials to the blog. It should save a bit of time in the long run if I can ever be bothered to write more of them. But now whenever I get a bug up my ass and change the theme, I don’t have to deal with changing the rest of the site to match. Ya know cause it’s not like I did that with the last change. I just hate CSS. Links are up at the top of the site now.

IDK maybe I’ll finish some poses this week.

Plus I’ve been doing a lot more photography lately so I’ll be posting more of it here. Cause I’m weird like that.

*update* OK I’m done fussing with it. Finally fixed the double lightbox things - had two plugins in conflict. For the past couple of years I’ve been slowly digging though code to get a plugin template to work the way I wanted it to. And today I found one to replace it that would give me what I want. So now I have the photography section all working properly.

Also, dealt with the photoblog section. Yeah it’s kind of redundant but whatever. I like them both.

Cheers
Luth