M is for Myg

Do you remember when?

Last December when a colleague said to me, “Have you ever heard of Second Life?” and described it, I couldn’t begin to imagine what the hell she was talking about, but I knew I wanted to find out. My first night in I managed to don a pair of wings and head into a night club in some free library clothes and some spiky defaultish hair. It wasn’t all that long before the potential of this world became mindblowing. I was hooked.

Do you remember your first night logging in, “What the hell is this about?” Utterly befuddled trying to walk, fly, change clothes. You don’t even know how plastic you are yet. But even early on, when you have no idea what this life is going to be, something keeps you coming back. What is it?

It didn’t take long for me to become completely and utterly immersed in this world. That was not always a good thing.

But it was certainly a learning experience. Oh sure, we found my share of trouble over the past year.

Times haven’t always been easy.

And we’ve had our battles. Remember the campers and the casino? I guess Linden liberated them before CLAM was ever able to really get off the ground.

And the stories! Ah, the stories we could tell. And tell them we did!

Even though sometimes the price was a little embarrassment…

All in all, I’d have to say the last year of our lives has certainly been an interesting one. We’ve met a lot of new people we’ve never met, became landlords, started a night club, ran a graphic blog serial like it was a living comic, bought 1/4 of a sim’s worth of property and with Sable and Romana built it into a thriving little community. And I personally have contributed a hell of a lot to the SL economy, in particular the fashion sector. All the designers should be sending me Rez Day gifts, I think, in recognition of all those little “Mygdala March” notations in their transactions histories! Ah, no matter, I’ll be back as soon as I clean out my closet. (Oh, and my inventory in the last month has reached over 10,000 items. 10,000! Who knew a number could be so high?)

Things are a lot different now, sure. In Second Life, they will always be different. It’s kinda like accelerated life in some ways.

So what will the next year bring? I think our club Clockwork will continue to grow and attract the music obsessed. I’ve become quite taken with building houses and furniture now. Sable and I are the architects for our new business Mainline Home - which we’ll be launching pretty soon (if you’ve all seen the beach house post, that’s one of my builds, and if you spend anytime at all in Topgol, you can see numerous builds by the ever talented Sable Slade.)

Know what’s funny? One thing that hasn’t changed much are my friends. I’ve added some but by and large, I am still friends with most of the folks I met nearly a year ago. It just dawned on me the other day that these folks, who I originally conceived of as casual acquaintances, have become a regular presence in my life. People Alex and I actually might mention over dinner or wish we could invite to our New Year’s party - people we’ve never met, whose real names we may not ever know, whom we’ve come to truly think of as friends.

Someday Imma have to write it all down and think about what it means.

But for right now I just want to say Happy Rez Day to Us! Thanks to all of you who have made the last year so god damned interesting - I mean it - and no small amounts of entertaining. Big fat kisses and animated hugs to all!

This entry was posted on Saturday, December 15th, 2007 at 11:58 am and is filed under Second Life.