Showing posts with label Alphaville Herald. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alphaville Herald. Show all posts

Monday, June 17, 2013

The Great Scavenger Hunt

So, I logged on yesterday morning and an old friend of mine IM'd and he and Carol and I hung out a while. Eventually, I had to go do some Real Life stuff, and said as much. Carol and my friend, Johny, had hit it off and before I knew it they were making plans to go do the Second Life Tenth Birthday Premium Gift Hunt together.

When I got back, at least Carol had the courtesy to use words like "nice" and "gentleman" before she got to "hunk" to describe my friend!

As part of the deal of "approving" this date of theirs, they both had to take lots of pictures and post them to their Flickr for me to steal from for the blogs. I did this because I know that they both have gorgeous avatars and are both talented SL Photographers, so I'd get good stuff to post here. In fact, I liberated two pictures of Johny and posted them to our Beautiful Avatars blog yesterday!

I just wasn't prepared for what a good time they'd have, and how great the pictures would be!

So, Johny's first few pictures were of some of the amazing builds that people have made in Second Life. I haven't done the Premium Hunt yet but I'm sure it's spectacular. After a few pictures, however, the scenery is mostly my wife. I can't blame him, she's wonderful to look at! 


Here they are at one of the hunt locations. I hope that I look at her as attentively as he is! Apparently there is a Steampunk style monocle that you wear for the hunt, you'll see it on both of them for the remainder of the pictures, in case you're wondering what that thing on their faces is.


This is one of my favorite from the day because despite the fact that the water is not actually wet in Second Life, they both stripped down to swimsuits for one of the hunt locations!


In Johny's pictures, after like picture 15, this would be considered a "scenery" shot because Johny isn't in it. It's just Carol, holding a jar of hearts! At least she's not still in her bikini, and hopefully the hearts aren't horse hearts she has to eat. (Yes, obligatory Game of Thrones reference).


As if it's not bad enough that one of my best friends and my wife are running around the grid in skimpy swimsuits, during the course of the day they actually ran into a SLebrity. (That's a Second Life Celebrity for those of you new to this culture) On the right you see the very famous and mega-talented Prokofy Neva, famous blogger for my old rag, the Alphaville Herald, and now with his own successful blog, Second Thoughts. To make matters worse (for me, better for Johny), Prok even posted two pictures of himself with Johny! (one, two) It's like giving your best friend your seats to the baseball game and he catches a game-winning home-run ball!


I have no words for this picture. It's my wife and best friend with fish sucking on their heads standing in a green field. Somewhere, there's a search engine sighing in relief that a picture of that has finally been posted.

So, Johny took more pictures, perhaps I'll post them in the days and weeks to come, but first, let's look at Carol's pics:


I asked her why she had a picture of Johny in a boat all by himself. She said "Because of the monkeys!" and if you look, you can see monkeys in the trees above to the right. Well played, Mrs. Morpork.


This was the next picture, and I asked her why she had a picture of Johny alone in the boat and she said "Because he's hunky!" and all I could do was laugh.

All jokes aside, I love them both and thank them for sharing their pictures with us. One last pic from Carol.


Saturday, June 15, 2013

Renewing our Vows

I had to travel for work for several months, and when I returned my virtual wife and I renewed our vows, this time with the help of an actual SLebrity Minister, Jimbo Quality of The Alphaville Herald.





Jimbo's ceremony was, uh, unique:

Jimbo Quality: Alright we ready? I was promised a sandwich.
Carol : all ready,
Carol  smiles
Timothy Morpork: ready
Jimbo Quality: Ok, we are gathered today to get through this thing called life
Carol  smiles
Jimbo Quality: something something let's get crazy
Jimbo Quality: Do you Timothy take Carol to be your SL woman, to have and to hold and to twiddle her pixel bits?
Timothy Morpork: I do
Jimbo Quality: Do you Carol Take Timothy to be your SL man, to have and to hold and to make sandwiches for?
Carol : I do
Jimbo Quality: The by the power vested in me by the great goddamn bird, I pronounce you SL Dude and Dudette. You may make me a sandwich.
Timothy Morpork: That's a moving ceremony, Jimbo, you write that yourself?
Jimbo Quality: No, had some help and forgot most of it. It's totally legit though.

As part of his fee, (a sandwich made by my wife), Jimbo said he would even provide "wedding photos." Here they are:


It's great to be back, and re-married to the greatest woman in SL. Now onto the honeymoon!