| May. 10th, 2011 @ 06:31 pm (no subject) |
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We went to get my new boot for my foot today and when we removed my boot (haven't removed it for awhile) we discovered my foot was quite unusually swollen. Then we were informed that it was because the ace bandage on my leg needed to be wrapped around my FOOT for the fluids in my foot to go down to a semi-normal level. My brace was also too low on my leg. So the guy at the boot place helped wrap my foot and leg correctly. My foot feels much better I admit. Already. I just hope the Doctor doesn't get upset when he sees my foot tomorrow when I go in for a check up. When I saw him last he just wrapped me up and sent me out the door, no instructions on how to wrap it ourselves, and when we took the bandages/brace off for a sponge bath I couldn't remember how the doctor had me wrapped, so we obviously rewrapped incorrectly. :( I was gonna shave my legs tonight for the doctor but now that my foot is all wrapped correctly I'm scared to take the bandage off until the swelling goes down. So I guess I go to the dr with hairy legs. :( Oh well. I shaved not THAT long ago.
It occurs to me that I haven't heard from the lawyer for a couple of weeks. Perhaps it's taking awhile for him to get my medical records. That must be why. I know my old doctor in CA took FOREVER to send medical records, I'm sure the hospital isn't any easier.
I got a new job in Second Life working for a very popular industrial/ebm nightclub. Today was my test shift to see if I fit into their mold, and I passed the test with flying colors! So now I work sat afternoon and early sun morning for them (only applied to work there with a dj who is one of my closest friends in game). First time I've taken a perm shift since I broke my leg. Eddie encouraged me the other night to take some permanent shifts, he felt it would give me something to look forward to. Perhaps he's right. I guess I'll find out.
A friend in SL admitted to me last night that he is only 17 years old (must be 18 to play in most of the "world" in game). He told me all he did was sign up to play and it assumed he was 18 hence why he's been able to play on the Mature lands (I only play on Adult or Mature lands to stay away from teenagers). I kind of let him have it about lying to me about his age, or rather, withholding the information, and he felt bad, but I think I will still continue to be friends with him. He's only got 3 months until he's 18 anyway. Close enough. As long as he doesn't try to flirt with me I'm cool. We share many common interests and he seems smart for his age, so I'll let this one pass. But it makes me wonder how many other players out there are misrepresenting their age (as in not adults). Frightening. Second Life does have a way you have to PROVE you are an adult however in order to go to Adult rated places, so I know I'm safe in those places. Heck, I know adults who can't figure out how to prove their ages to go to Adult places (foreigners mostly that don't understand the process or just don't want to give out the personal information required to prove your age). I try to play only with adult rated players. I suppose though the occasional teenager is gonna work their way in somehow. Kids these days are smart and are able to get around shit that other people wouldn't be able to figure out.
Funny, I met a pakistani in game a week or two ago (at an Adult rated sim) and we began talking....the day we met was the day they killed Bin Laden. He knew I was from Washington State, but clearly misunderstood which WA I was from, because the next day he accused me of partying at the White House with the President.ha. Wrong Washington, buddy. Besides, I can't celebrate another human being's death anyway no matter how awful a person they were. I know I'd probably feel differently if the person hurt/killed someone I loved, but even though I understand this was probably justified, I couldn't celebrate it. Hard to explain. But no, I did not party with the President. heh. I did think the assumption was amusing. Most of my foreign friends are from the UK or Germany, but occasionally I run into someone elsewhere.
Eddie and I stopped at the grocery store today and he wanted me to pick out some food. I've been eating oatmeal with raisins approximately once a day for the last week (except yesterday my meal was 2 pieces of toast) and that is it. Eddie tried to make me my favorite food on Gavin's birthday (pizza!!) but I could barely choke it down. However, breakfast foods sound pleasant, so I got cereal, biscuits and gravy, and breakfast burritos. Now I have food besides oatmeal and toast! Woot!! I was kind of starting to get bored with oatmeal. It's just every time I went to the food bank in the past year they gave me a bag of oatmeal, so we have TONS of oatmeal. I got eddie to buy a huge bag of raisins to go in it. he puts syrup in it to sweeten it. I'm the only one in the house that will eat oatmeal, so I've got enough to last me a really long time. Since I broke my leg for some reason the pain makes it hard to eat, and I can only seem to handle slightly bland foods. So breakfast food it is.
Argh. My boss is supposed to call me, and that was well over an hour ago. I still haven't heard anything. I wonder if she forgot me again. She does that. Gets so involved in her work she forgets about me and MY work. And she's always so busy...she's always there for me if I really need her (for ANYTHING, personal or professional), but some days she just says she's going to call and forgets. Oh well. If I don't hear from her in another hour or two I'll call her again. I need her help with more than just my normal work, I got put on volunteer duty for wiccanseminary.edu as a Data Processor and she's the one who's supposed to give me my instructions. And I assume I need to get the work done before classes start, and one class starts tomorrow. (they hook up people on the web in chat rooms to the classes held in Second Life, so you don't have to be part of Second Life to take part in the classes, you just join the chat room. then the chat room is saved so for those of us like me who tend to miss class can go back and view the lecture in the way it was given).
later on...my boss did call me. work on wiccanseminary.edu won't start until at least Thursday. She says it's going to be a TON of work but it sounds like the ton of work is going to primarily be copying and pasting. I'll probably get a sore wrist but other than maybe my eyes crossing from too much information I should be fine. She says I probably won't have time to work my five SL jobs while I'm working on this project. Oh well. As long as I'm getting real work hours I can hopefully eventually just buy my SL money and not have to "work" for it. I'd rather do that anyway, the amount of SL money I could make from real life work is MUCH more than I make working in game. Boss and I discussed several subjects (we haven't really had a chance to talk in days) where she gave me instructions and ideas on many things I can do for her..plus a little in game behind the scenes top secret info. helps to be friends with people who know what's really going on socially. of course it means more secrets I have to keep, but I do pretty good with that. I prefer to stay out of any drama, and keeping one's mouth shut is one of the best ways to keep out of drama. :)
anyway, I am almost done with my work for today, didn't get many hours in but at least I got several projects finished. More projects to start with tomorrow. Boss is going to have police reports directly mailed to me from now on instead of driving all the way to particular cities to pick them up in person and then mail them to me herself, saving time, giving me more work to do, and allowing me to get the work done faster and more efficiently. Now if I can just find out if I am eligible for an eye exam so I can read the police reports better. That's the main thing slowing me down when I work on them, I have trouble reading them...the other problem is that my hands are too small to reach certain keys on the keyboard (like the all important tab key, i can't reach it and always hit caps lock instead). My fingers aren't gonna get any longer so I need to practice using the arrow keys instead of tab, and hopefully my eyes can get fixed soon.
So off to finish this batch of police reports, turn them in, and go back into game. I'm sure my UK friends are all offline by now, but oh well, I'll see them in the morning. My US and Canadian friends should still be up and about though. For those of you who think I spend too much time on Second Life, just look at how much time everyone spends playing silly ass games on Facebook. It's just as bad. I've pretty much given up on Facebbook--I still update it and add friends and family and all that, and occasionally chat on FB, but I stopped playing the games as they don't interest me anymore. I find the social aspect of SL fun, and the fact that a user in game can create pretty much ANYTHING they can think up in that game fascinates me. So do the live djs in "clubs," which eventually is what I'm going to do. I'd also like to learn how to create hairstyles and sell them. I like how realistic the hair in that game can look (if you spend the money on good quality hair). I'd like to be able to do that and make fun funky hairstyles that look like you can really run your fingers through it. I see hairstyles on TV on pop stars in videos and stuff that I would just LOVE to copy over to the game. My hair is too short in Real Life to have most of these styles, plus in the game you can simply change your hair with one click, so everyday I have a different hairstyle (or at least a different color)--another convenience one doesn't get in Real Life. heh we were just discussing today how cool it would be if in real life we could change our entire outfits in one click or teleport across the world in seconds. I saw an interview with a guy on the Colbert Report a couple of weeks ago who believes that eventually our real lives WILL be just like Second Life. An interesting prediction, I don't see it happening in my lifetime but hey you never know what could be invented. People can already change their entire body and face through surgery or injections, get extensions on their hair that look real (that's what I want but I can't afford such a thing) and computers are becoming more and more powerful and more portable and used in everyday life, for SO many uses. I often wonder about the inventions that are probably top secret that could be life changing for all of us. hell....when i was a kid, my first computer (at 8 years old) used programs run by tape recorder. and it was all in DOS. We've already advanced so much!! I'm excited to see what even the next 20 years will bring us.
Okay. Before I rant more on the possibilities of the future in technology and bore everyone MORE to tears, I'm going to finish my work. Later! |
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