just ignore and let this one die

Oh wait! This just in - one of my adverts for SLU -
The work of an inworld photog - Lou Daines.

I took the original pix but she cleaned them up and made them the right size.

'K dead now- night

I love oatmeal - with a ton of brown sugar and butter.

You look so at home there.

xoxo Nice to meet you too Aine. Welcome.

I'll say.

I has a sad

Airship Outpost has closed. That was one of my favourite builds in SL: a big, floating, apocalyptic/steampunk mall, with blimps.

I found a few old, pre-Windlight pics of it:

Today Stage 17 at Le Tour De France was possibly the most difficult of the 3 week tour. 169.5 km (105 miles) from Bourg-Saint-Maurice to Le Grand-Bornand. There were four category 1 climbs and one cat 2. (The lower the number the more difficult the climb.)
There was a ton of strategy and many agendas for the different teams and riders through-out the day. It was a day for the climbing specialists to be at their best and the sprinters to pray they could make it to the finish line before they were disqualified for taking too long.



Team Saxo Bank wanted their race leaders, Andy and Frank Schleck to put a lot of time on Team Garmin's Bradley Wiggins, the guy who started 3rd overall today, because they know he will do well in the individual time trial tomorrow. Garmin's plan was to keep Wiggin from falling behind the Schlecks or losing any more time on Team Astana's 1st and 2nd place riders, Alberto Contador and Lance Armstrong. Astana's plan was to keep anyone from moving ahead of those two and their teammate Andreas Klöden, who started today in 4th place.

But before they got to that part of the race, on the first descent of the day, a surprising thing happened. The current leader of the Sprinters' Green Jersey competition, reminded everyone that he is also about the best down hill racer around. Thor Hushvold of the Cervelo Test Team got out in front of everyone else and managed to stay away over the next two climbs to take maximum points at each of the two sprint points spots on the course. Thor's nearest rival for the Green Jersey, Mark Cavendish, has proven to be about unbeatable in sprint finish situations, so it was a good move for Thor to pad his lead today while Cavendish was falling behind the main peloton. As soon as he had collected those points Thor faded fast as well.

It was very exciting all day with many dramas being played out on the road.

But on the last climb of the day an elite group had left the others behind. First Frank Schleck attacked and was followed. Then when the others were still recovering from that burst of exertion his brother Andy attacked and only Frank, Contador and Klöden were able to catch him.

Lance remained down the road behind Wiggins as he was being pulled up the hill by teammate Christian Vande Velde. Their team, Garmin,came to the Tour hoping that Christian had a chance to get on the podium – he finished 4th overall last year. But his teammate has proved so strong that Christian has switched to the role of super-helper working very hard for Wiggins.

Meanwhile up front with what seemed to be a bit of poor judgment Contador attacked the Schlecks, they were able to keep up with him and only his own teammate, Klöden was left behind. So it was two against one from then on.

Eventually Lance and Liquigas rider Vincenzo Nibali were able to ride away from Wiggens and catch Klöden, soon Wiggens took over his own pace-making when Vande Velde fell behind.

The Schlecks began taking turns getting to the top and on the 15 km descent to the finish. Contador could be seen apparently assuring the brothers that he would not try to win the stage. He did not let them gain any time on him though, and at the last moment after Andy launched Frank over the line, Contador slipped between them to make sure there would be no time gaps.

Just had a thunderstorm, and its back to being sunny. Mental weather!

Pictures from the hangout last night. After 3 was decorated I got a bit bored and sorta got carried away graffiti-fying the place. Then Rio and Clarissa wanted in, so I made them some tags lol. Twas fun!




You could even see it from the air

Oh, btw, they are sposed to be glowy, but I forgot I had basic shaders turned off so couldn't see the glow. Sorry if I hurt peoples eyes lol, I didn't have a clue it was as bad as it was
No pics with the glowyness though sorry.

lol!!!



(actually...that's pretty tasty. )

oooh....very nice work, on bot your parts.

I'm glad you found some pics of the place...just to help when you're thinking about all the good times you had.

Claire, great pics -- I am cracking up over your graffiti-maker!! How did you do that?

And good morning, Threadies.




The bed-and-breakfast site called this a "french toast bake"

Morning

tis just an alpha texture, painted the name in white on a transparent backdrop, upload to SL, stick on a prim and tint/glow etc. Reeeeally easy

Morning Amar

Oooh coffee- yay. I'll pass on that other stuff though thanks

And thanks for the comment re advert, Mo. I failed to mention the coloring was her work too. She does grat profile pix- that's hw I heard of her, she did the one for a friend of mine. If u catch sight of my ad in SLU let me know, cause nt sure if that works like XStreet and somehow I won't be able to see them.

Headline of the day!


" Always remember: when drugging midgets, use half the normal dose"

That's some fabulous use of pink!!

*squints slightly*
Ooooo i can just see me yay!!

Oh and morning everyone *passes around the coffee*

/me sulks because he isn't in Claire's gravanity pics . . .

Pep (they made me crash!)

Morning threadies.

"So there I was, at 6am in Allentown Pennsylvania, with a bowl of horribly foreshortened corn flakes and a 75 cent glass of orange juice about the size of my thumb. I got up too early. It was a terrible mistake."

/me is too tired to say "Hello", he just yawns and waves.

Thanks for passing me my plate, looks great. Today is my last day before a weeks vacation in Palm Springs. Damian can you dial it down some, there, it's really over the top with the heat thing. My husband is being an asshat about me taking my laptop to Palm Springs, afraid I'll be sitting on SL all day. I wouldn't do that, we'll be with a bunch of family members, I know I have to be social. /me cringes. Still, if I have a quiet moment or 3, would be nice to just slip inworld for a few and take a deep breath..........this issue is still on the table, wish me luck.

Knocking over bottles is really a dog thing, Weston. Quite naturally, the kitties would try their best to be neat.