Swine Flu at CNN and Lively Week!

I’d put in a couple of stories to CNN last week and went over to the meeting last Tuesday and Nicole Saidi the CNN Producer was already there waiting for the others to arrive.  Nicole is usually very pushed for time, as she meets us in-world while she is at work at the CNN Headquarters in Atlanta, so she often has to dash off if a story breaks.  She told me that she was actually at home ill, as she had swine flu and a bad throat, so it was good of her to make it into SL at all, being that she was not very well.  As the others arrived it was quite a good meeting, however, I think most of them thought that the meeting slot was 2pm SLT like it used to be, and not 1.30pm SLT, so many arrived late.  We thanked Nicole for giving us her time in spite of her being at home, and I hope she is feeling better.

You might wonder what it’s like working with a very rowdy bunch of virtual reporters in SL, well I can tell you it’s not easy!  I have to keep Ed and Hibiscus in check all the time or they run riot!!  Things came to a head the other day when they decided to have a medieval duel in our office in Virtual Kensington, I just ducked out of the way as Ed swing his hammer and Hib drew her lethal looking sword!! 

Max the Siamese kitten is used to Ed and Hib sparring in the office, he knows they are only joking around and he loves them both, Ed sent me a picture of Max who had found a warm spot on his shoulder to go to sleep, awww cute!

I went over to the Jazz club in Kensington to see what was going on and there were some people enjoying the evening there.  I met up with Gerr Finesmith and we had a bit of a dance, it’s a nice club with some good music and I hope it’s a big success for Almo Skytower who runs it!

Been chatting to Debs Regent a bit this week and I told her about Johnnytreadlightly Nightfire’s castle so I met her over there and we had a little look around, she was amazed at the detail.  I could imagine a copy of the Tower of London would be really great in Virtual London, complete with ghosts, lol, but the Tower of London is in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, a long way away from the areas covered by Virtual London, shame though!

Debs had to return to real life and I went back to chase some more stories for the coming week.

 

Johnny’s Castle Furniture Gives My Home A Makeover!

After I wrote about Johnnytreadlightly Nightfire’s fabulous castle that he is selling, I asked him if I might have some furniture and Johnny was lovely,  giving me enough to do my entire house out.  It wasn’t easy though, as I have a modern beach house, but luckily I can modify the walls and flooring to change the textures.  I left the outside the same as it fits into the island surroundings, but set about darkening the interior and adding wood and stonework to the walls. 

The furniture is absolutely beautiful, you can adjust your sitting poses on the chairs and couches.  Drax came over and he liked the new look, we tried the pair of the chairs out, you would use as thrones in the castle, and the poses suited us very well for male and female roles.

The remarkable thing is that Johnny uses sculptie stuff and all the pieces of furniture are either one or two prims.  The big red bed is only three prims, what a difference to the prim loaded furniture that I usually buy.

One of the nicest things is a seat that goes with the vanity unit, you sit there and you can brush your hair, the animation is really well done, you click the seat and find you are offered the hairbrush, then it looks so real as you brush your hair.

Thanks Johnny! I have really made good use of your furniture and love the look of the house, it was due for a change of style and this is great!