Gone until Monday night

Observe my extreme joy at the prospect of missing both the Tournament for Life and the Caledon formal ball this weekend.





Yeah.

On the other hand, of course, my first life will be unusually fun during the next few days as I traipse around San Francisco, spending too much money on pretty things and too rarely-available time on family and friends. So, no more grumbling. Waste of time, and I have a plane to catch!

Oh snap.

Had an unexpectedly grand time last night shooting a couple dozen photos of the CAF in action. The flying da Vinci-esque things and the balloon were so gorgeous up there against the sparkling sky that I couldn't resist. I'm not sure what it is about this place that makes me shy as hell, but it was no different last evening... I just decided, at the end of it, to ignore it and send off the pictures to the Colonel, since he'd mentioned it. Shock and awe, they liked my shots! Maybe I do have something to contribute after all.

It's been a rough couple of weeks work-wise offscreen, and disgustingly summerlike besides, so I haven't been putting much effort into SL. I did, however, download the Avimator, and... muahaha. My god, I love that thing. First project? Replicating poses from famous paintings. If we must be a geek, we might as well be an artistic one. The difficulty this creates, however, is that suddenly I find I may need to buy more... costumes. For the sake of... authenticity. Quite. I'm resigned to the fact that I'm probably not going to become some fabulous fashion designer- I mostly don't have the freaking patience- so this is going to take some serious scouring of the grid. I'll be documenting said scouring in Yet Another Blog, which will be added Sometime Later. It occurs that I have a significant amount of otherwise completely useless knowledge about historical costume (no, I'm not in the SCA; no, I don't cosplay... I just read too much,) so why not put it to use?