House Natasha

Not too much to say today... I slept really late today, til almost 1 o'clock. I guess I had some sleep deficit to make up.
I just got home from a family dinner for my birthday, as well as for my nephew's who's b-day is tomorrow.

So a while ago I decided that a standard responsibility for my girls will be personal assistants. I'll be further defining that role as time goes on. I'm not looking to just make up a job and have people do it. I want you to know that you're actually helping me and doing something that matters. I have changed my profile to let people know they should contact you when I'm offline rather than sending me an offline IM or sending me a notecard. Most of the people who contact me offline are actually wanting to talk about the FL HUD, in which case I offer 0 support and usually ignore them.

I don't know if anyone else has been following the controversy from LL's announcemnet that they are going to raise tier on OpenSpace sims, but in case you are here's a bit of an update from http://slsailing.com/

I'm interested mainly because it could have a dramatic effect on sailing in general in SL and in particular on the United Sailing Sims, one of my favorite places to sail in SL. In fact, as the site indicates, Mark Twain White and USS were the original impetus and inspiration behind the development of OpenSpace sims.

Not too much to post about tonight... I couldn't sleep last night for the longest time, so by the time I got home from school I was pretty beat. I made it to Angelica's class but that was all for SL today.
I'm looking forward to the party tomorrow, though.

J

I've committed to my Lady Natasha to start blogging daily here, although some of my entries may be private for her only.

Today was my birthday, but aside from sleeping late (unintentionally) and skipping my morning class, it was mostly a regular day for me. I had a good bit of homework which took up most of my evening. When I finally got done and sat down at the PC I had a birthday message from my Lady and immediately got IM's from Ami and Mel as well.

Awfully quite in here...

...too quiet.

Well this week has certainly been busy at work, but I really feel good about it. I am feeling a bit of a time pressure, though still nothing unmanageable at this point, but I actually appreciate feeling a bit of pressure/stress. At least concerning work, I think I actually need a little pressure to reach my full potential. That's not to say I don't always do a good job, it's just that somehow under pressure I seem to think better, more clear, and end up with possibly better solutions to the problems at hand.

This used pc I got had XP Pro installed on it, but no disk and had apparently never been updated. It crashed on me part way through an updated, and the problems got worse from there. I eventually ended up reformatting and installing XP Home from the disk I'd already had. Things are working again now, so keep your fingers crossed that it will stay working now.

So I think everyone knows this already, but I absolutely love these books. The first 3 I plowed through pretty quickly, but I only got about halfway through the 4th while in thailand and it got buried before I could finish. Well I've been really trying to pick it up for a chapter a night. The first 3 were full novels. The 4th is more like a bunch of short stories by guest authors, told in the form of flashbacks during a yearly conference of slave trainers. Mostly even the stories written from a trainers point of view are really from a switch point of view.

I still have a fair amount work to do tonight and only a few hours left before I need to be in bed, so this is going to be a pretty short entry. Today’s been good. Nothing exceptional happened, but I feel good. I feel like I’m getting back on a successful track.

Work wasn’t bad, and with all the studying I’ve been doing I’ve got a better understanding of the tools, and some new ideas about how to proceed. I’m not done learning yet, but I believe I can actually start producing again.