By Grease Coakes
First off I want to
thank my RL boss that I’ll name Mary to protect her real life
identity. She was nice enough to let me work the day before and have
today off. Also one of my co-workers I'll name Stan was singing me "happy birthday" yesterday.
And I think I speak
for anyone that birthdays are special whether it's your birthday in
the real world or a virtual birthday. Your birthday is your special
day no one can take that from you that one day out of 365 days that's
yours. Most people celebrate the holidays in December whether it's
Christmas or Hanukkah with family and friends. People who live a
second life in the virtual universe get two birthdays per year. How
can you beat that? In today's fast paced world of either life people
should take their birthdays to take time to smell the roses and
relax.
Another crazy fact
it's my brother's real life birthday today. So my SL birthday and his
real-life birthday are the same day.
So I started the day
with no events so I figured there would be something going on at the
furry club IYC which stands for International Yiff Center at
IYC Addictions (153/115/2492)
I was right as the furry DJOK Fretwerk AKA Jim Morris was djing. Not
many people were active at 5:30am SLT, but it was ok I still handed
out my freebie shirts and hung out.
For my fifth and sixth
and SL birthdays for readers of the Newser who may not know, I handed out t-shirts that I made myself. I handed out these shirts for a
limited time. In IYC I handed out the shirts to everyone in the club. A
few furries IMed me in confusion. I explained these are my birthday
shirts. I'll get birthday wishes and in fact Chedder Digipaw with
account name CyberRatt resident gave me a whole clothes set named
League of xtranary Furs. Shyraii Devinna asked for the asset UUID to
make my Zapbird shirt better looking for women to show breasts. It's
a rare case that I get a party pooper that declines my shirt. I shrug
it off and move on.
I gave Shyraii a
cookie and she responds by saying, "My fiance ate all my chocolate chip cookies (frown). He's a butthole (grin)." "Dude
what's up with that?" I asked.
So in IYC I hung out
with Shy as we were wearing the same shirt dancing together to Loferz
Resident AKA TeiTei who announces over voice anyone who says hi gets
a cookie. So I say, "Hi Teitei do i get a cookie? TeiTei went, "YUSH!" *stuffs one in your muzzle* ^_^
Who can say no to a
cookie?
Earlier I IMed a human
buddy of mine Lia Mistwalker, asking is there any events at SGB which
is shorthand for Sounds Gravis Beach at
Sounds Gravis Beach (134/21/32).
Lia told me, "Sakura spins at 8am to 10am."
I told her, "I'm so
there! it's my party and I’ll shake my tail if I want to I turn 7
today." "Happy
rez day!" she says
When the party started
I went over to SGB and SGB Melody the club owner said this, "And all
the girls, please line up and kiss our Furry Grease... It's his
rezzday today!"
SGB is always a great
place to hang out at. Smooth music and minimal emotes. There's always
a conversation going on plus the DJ mixing live. Raphad Noyes who may
be related to StJohn Noyes one of my friends from Brahma Yoga class
stopped in at SGB with his lady friend Mielerosa (honeyrose58
Resident. He's usually a werewolf but today he was a human. Raphad is
a very polite and cultured werewolf/human as he always calls me sir.
He mentioned in IM, "You look
a bit different, Sir." "Yes
indeed Sir Noyes," I answered, "I’m wearing the first avatar I bought in SL." "Interesting."
I IMed Aurora Avila
informing her I can make her DJ set today as I usually work on
Thursdays, the only day she DJs. She says awesome. We also chit chat
about the game she told me about , Guild wars 2.
"I
should try the species you showed me," I told her, "the goblin species they are hard
to find in PVP (which stands for Player vs Player)." Aurora answered, "They tend to be pretty fugly." "Yeah they are! But all my characters can't be the Charr cats that
would be boring."
Over time In real life
I get hungry so I plan to leave SL for a bit for food. But before I
leave, the girls at SGB plan to make Cesare Drucker the club manager
cross dress. They type various things like
Jet Goode: "We can
duct tape him to a pole."
Lia Mistwalker: "Mini
dress, don’t
forget to wax his legs."
Mariete (Mariete
Babii): "Just don’t WAX Grease!!!You could kill him."
Luckily I leave before
the ladies decide to play dress up with me
Then Nydia Tungsten IMs me and says there's s video that I could take part
in. She warps me to The Happy Vixen at Purrfection Estates (
180/59/22). I warped over and a
short while later she starts her chimera and begins recording. Nydia
sorts out things as she has to relog and over time the video is
complete. Her video is here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfArSuKsqHM&feature=youtu.be.
When it's finished I
made a SL card through email to my brother for his real life birthday today.
Afterwards I took another break from SL and logged back on and stop at a few other places
but for my SL Birthday it doesn't seem right. I instead warped to my
friend Amehana Ishtari and I jump in on a pony party.
I handed out my shirts
and Amehana admits to being busy. However she does agree to an
interview about her new book Selkie Skins Castle and Wells soon.
Amehana has also written about a woman named Blowing Wind as she goes
on a spiritual adventure with a dragon spirit named Ryu. I joked, "Amehana your pony looks pimped out." And she says this, "Ummm... Thank you? *raises her eyebrow, never
thinking that word would ever be used for her*" I instead say that her
pony is dressed like a diva and she says, "*watches you backpedal*"
I goofed off and relaxed before Aurora Avila starts to DJ at her new club club Midi
Bikini Bay (85/196/1022)
where she still plays her video game remixes and Japanese songs.
I went to Club Midi and
I had a good time just like it was yesterday. Aurora played her mix
of video game songs and everyone chit chated about video games or
whatever. Aurora still has a nice surprise to anyone who tips her. I
felt stress ebb away and relaxed as Aurora played her unique mix of
songs.
I guess the point of
this article is that in today's fast paced world of Second and First
Life that once in a while take time for yourself. I remember talking
to a customer at Royal farms in real life and he said don't sweat the
small things and always have fun for yourself. Give yourself some me
time.
Today I did take time
for myself and had a great seventh birthday. It's a rough world out
there but if you always have a smile on your face the world will seem
a much brighter place. I guess that's the gist of this article is
just have fun in life whether it's your real life birthday your
second life birthday or your unbirthday.
Grease Coakes