Chchchanges

Changes.
Some are good, some aren't so good.

Changes to the club, usually good.
Changes to friendships, usually not.
Changes in schedules, usually good.

My real life has taken a higher precedence in my schedule, so I'm not on SL as often as I used to be. Not only that, but there are other reasons why I choose, that's right, CHOOSE not to be inworld as often as before:

If I'm not online as often, I don't shop, therefore, I don't spend lindens.
If I don't spend my lindens, I don't have to struggle every week to pay for things I have to pay every week inworld.
If I'm not online as often, I find I am not as bored as I have been for months now. SL is simply not as fun as I found it to be the first year or so I was inworld. I find the less time I am on there, the more my absence is noted, and it makes those inworld friends want to chat you up the next time you are there.
If I'm not online as often, there isn't any drama to deal with, unless some stupid griefer decided to leave junk on my parcels.
If I'm not online as often, my friends actually miss me, and yes, I do miss them.

I expect that one change an affect the other. If I'm not online as often, I can see how some of my friendships could change. I would hope that if there are any changes to them, that they will be for the better. Absence makes the heart grow fonder?
We'll see.

I've cut down on shopping(ok, so I have the occasional splurge),how much land I own, and how many people I trust, it seems less is better.

Can it be I'm becoming boring in my 2 years inworld? Or has SL lost it's appeal..

The holidays are coming up...maybe that will put me in a better mood inworld, we'll see!

Please Don't Stop the Music

Last year I rented a stream from someone I talk to on occasion. I used Winamp at first to load up music to, and I found that I had a hard time staying connected to the Shoutcast stream with Winamp, so I ended up using Virtual DJ instead. I streamed music to my club on the occasion that I felt like having a party, and used Voice on SL to announce what song was next.
See, when I was growing up I wanted to be a radio deejay. I don't know when I stopped dreaming of becoming one, but my love for music, and playing what I wanted on command really never ceased.
Anyways, all was going fine, until a former acquaintenance wanted me to join her on Skype so I could chat with her and someone else I used to chat with on SL. Skype really messed things up. Second Life didn't want to load up, so I had to do a restore on my computer. When I did that, not only did it wipe out Skype, but Virtual DJ as well. When that happened, I didn't bother with keeping the stream because I didn't want to go back to Winamp and I was pretty sure I lost VDJ on the computer.
It has been almost a year(I think)since I had the stream and was playing my music into the club, but I'm doing it again. I'm also using Winamp, and no problems. Not sure what was the issue last year, but it seems to be gone.
I've got a nice music collection and I've played a few hours in the last 2 weeks that I've had the stream, and have gotten a great response from it from my patrons. So I think I'm gonna stick with once or twice a weekend. Play my songs and turn on the lights baby...cos tonight we're gonna dance

Lights! Camera! Action!

Oh, ok, no camera or action, but I couldn't resist.

I spent a few frustrating days looking for lights for the club, because, according to a certain someone told me that lights looked "cool" while at an event at a friend's venue last week. When I first opened The Brick I tried out lights. Over the course of time, I tried several different kinds. I finally just decided on NO lights because no matter what kind they were, they all seemed to get in the way of clicking on something you needed to click, whether it be a dance ball, pose ball or tip jar.
So, it was with a renewed hope and encouragement that I set out to look for lights that would do the job I wanted(make the club look "cooler(although in my humble opinion the club already looks "cool")". I spent 3 days shopping, I wasted a few linden on lights that were nice looking, but when I put them in the club they just didn't fit what I wanted, or I ended up with the same problem I had originally.
I compromised. I found a few things that light up the venue. It still isn't exactly what I wanted, but until someone creates what I want, or I stumble across it while shopping for other things, it will stay mostly lightfree in my venue.
Who needs lights anyways?

Closet Cleaning

My inventory is enormous. This is what happens when you sign up on Second Life and no one tells you to organize from day one, and to throw out what you will not use, or wear twice. My closet has grown to over 80k items and I have managed to shrink it down below 78k a few times, but here it is again over 80k and SOMETHING has to be done.
So, the first step I took was my notecard collection. I threw out everything that I absolutely didn't need, including old notes from friends who no longer are friends and ex SL lovers and the like. It not only made my inventory feel 2.5k items smaller, but I felt better too.. Letting go of people who don't deserve to be part of my SL life, even if it's just in my SL closet.
The only person who deserves to be boxed up is Z.B. Everyone else that was in my closet, met the shredder.
Next, the same thing happens with pictures.

Everybody wants to own a club...

Edited from original post.
The growing trend it seems, as far as some of my SL "friends" go towards, is to open a club on SL.
Ivan my ex dj, ex friend did it..
Minnow my first SL bf and his current woman did it..
countless others have done it too.

It isn't that they opened their clubs that pissed me off. It was the way they did it. Minnow's situation didn't bother me. Neither does most of the "others"..but the way Ivan went about it, and here again, is someone I THOUGHT was a friend(a repeating factor here), has now done the same thing.
I'm supposed to be happy for them. Maybe it's a petty thing, but nonetheless, it's there.
My reasons for not being happy for them:
It means they will not come to my club anymore, because they will have their own club to go to.
It means their friends who came with them to my club will more than likely follow them. More lost patrons.

My reasons for being happy for them:
maybe they will find within their own club what they couldnt or didn't think existed in mine.
All I can say to them now, is:
Good luck.