Putting a (Ceramic) roof over my head

I'm building my brand new house. I was looking at pre-fabricated houses but I wanted to build something myself. Sure, it might look rubbish, but at least it'll be mine.

Firstly I was building a 'paper' house, it was just some fun and something to learn from... sadly the local fun police put a stop to that being on my land. It wasn't beachy enough.

So i've started work on my sand-friendly house. Its nothing special, the walls barely join and the roof isn't right, it's probably too small as well. Nevertheless, its my house and i'm at the texture stage now.

Once upon a visit to Germany i saw some fabulous houses with ceramic roof tiles. They looked magnificent and i'm thinking that my house would look fab with those. I'm intelligent enough to realise that my limited design skills don't reach the unit on how to draw ceramic roof tiles, so I went shopping. There must be millions of textures out there, but I couldn't find any ceramic roof tiles.

So it's off to SL Exchange... where i'm still looking for my ceramic roof tiles. If anyone knows of anywhere that sells them then please let me know!!! You'll get an invite to my house warming party :)

From feedback to other posts on here, i've noticed that those containing rude photos of myself tend to get the best feedback, therefore, here's a couple of pictures of me naked in the paper house i was building.

Pixelated to retain some decency... and quite a brilliant window!

Somewhat cheeky... but look at the work that has gone into the floor :)

Please do remember, i need to find some ceramic roof tiles. Something blue or green, so it really stands out! Thanks!!!

I love calling Horse Chat, but Speed dating is very much the future for lonely horses

Call Horse chat now on... oh-eight-nine-one 50 50 50!

On a lonely night I often give Horse Chat a call. Its not cheap but they're all friendly. Yes, it takes over 20 minutes to finally speak to another lonely horse, but once you get to speak to them its worth it. 60 pence a minute is a little on the expensive side though.

Thankfully i've managed to reduce my chat-line outgoings by socialising at Speed Dating parties. They're a lot of fun and if everything is going badly you can apply a little gallows humour to your discussions. In RL you've got to bother putting on your best clothes, going to some horrible town where the party is and then talk to people. Speed Dating also exists in SL and its so much easier to do. No need to put on your best RL clothes - you could do it nude - and there's no need to go outside on a freezing and damp night.

There's a good old speed dating party on in Second Life every Wednesday. I do intend on being there today (23rd Jan) and every Wednesday until i finally get married. Why don't you pop along too! I cannot remember which location its at now - its in my landmarks but i cannot be arsed starting up SL - but drop me an IM (Horses Morrisey is my name!) and i'll tell you where or TP you. Lets put Horse Chat out of business. Lets all Speed Date!!!

I've been practising my lines. I'm going to introduce myself, say i'm a horse and then tell them I own land... as the photographs below prove.

I'm going to start building on my land soon and you're all invited to visit me! I'll tell you more in the future though. So far my land just has a few palm trees and a lovely Union Jack, which is there because I'm British and all the Australians and Americans seem to have their flags flying. I'm not a member of some scummer racist party or anything! (Its quite sad I have to explain that). Do you like my funky Transformers t-shirt too :)

Go Speed Dating on Wednesdays!!! This has been the worlds worst plug as i've not even told you where its at. I'll edit the post later on when I log in next ;) or just drop me a message when i'm online.


Horses.

The results are in... breakfast is being served!

In a quite thrilling poll, the ultimate truth as to what horses eat for breakfast has been discovered. A quite magnificent turn out of 2 voted in what was ultimately a split decision. The people decided that Horses either eat an almost full English breakfast first thing, or they eat Rabbits. There's most certainly two rather strong camps of opinion here, so we're best just letting them fight it out between themselves. No riots though.

To shoot the poll out of the water, research elsewhere suggests that horses eat neither of those. I couldn't be bothered reading the entire document but a quick search for "what do horses eat for breakfast" returns this blemish of knowledge...

How much does a horse eat for breakfast? 2-4 pounds of grain + 4 pounds of hay.

That may or may not be true, but being realistic here, its not in the same cuisine group as your average visit to a Little Chef or Rabbit serving restaurant. So it looks like everyone was wrong. I hope that news doesn't shock the world too much, and any riots in disagreement can be quelled before shots are fired.

For the record, this horse either skips breakfast (naughty) or eats toast. If they could get their own way though, they'd be eating coco pops.

I bought some SL land!!!!

Yes... I've bought some land!

I've been homeless in SL for too long, it was time to get a roof over my head! I read a few guides, decided that the Main Land wasn't for me, and started hunting on the Islands.

I set my heart on 1024 sq metres of land, but somehow managed to get 4024 sq metres! So I have my own little patch of sand, with a few palm trees and sea all around me (for a few metres at least). You're all invited to visit me once i've built something :)

Here's a quick picture of me looking proud on my empty island :)

They'll be something magnificent there soon, I just got to build it... I better get back to it then!

Horses

Meet the horse who was abandoned by cowboys

Paula Cole once asked "Where have all the cowboys gone?". Her town obviously lacked a cowboy society. I met some cowboys in SL yesterday. There were real (SL) cowboys too! When I say cowboy i mean cowboy on a horse (not me!), not the cowboy term of being a job botcher.

The cowboys carried guns, which i believe is banned in many SL places. I went to the roughest looking nightclub in the (second) world and even they wouldn't allow weapons. Still, the responsible cowboys were behaving with their guns.

Suddenly, the Indians must have attacked their saloon because they all vanished and I was left dancing alone. Dancing alone is one of the most horrible social sensations in the world. It's like a vote of no confidence by the people who've been around you. Do I carry on dancing? Of course I do! Its the stiff-upper-lip that hits in and thinks "Sod 'em! I SHALL continue dancing without them". Good on me too. If all the solo-dancers continued to boogie, then they'd be fewer lonely people in the world (first and second).

That was a boring story... here's some photos of me dancing alone - not in the cowboys place though, these were taken on another occasion. I wasn't quite alone, but campers don't count.

...the cat doesn't count either. I'm unsure as to whether my top scared them off (my pants had a similar decoration at the back). I would love to meet the gentleman who donated the hands as they're huge!

Skirt problems

Why can't skirts just fit? Anything that is slightly challenging either needs spandex type shorts underneath, or doesn't fit your bum! Its not a moan at the wonderful designers out there, its just a moan in general.

Hunting for good skirts is difficult in SL!

You're just a friends-list whore who should be embarrassed

You know the feeling... You've been wandering around the shops, looking for the ideal gift for someone you don't particularly care for, when someone you don't like spots you and won't leave you alone. They have to start a conversation, if you've not seen them for a while they have to play Life Tennis. Wow, so you work for a blue chip company and have your own office! I work for the civil service and get a £17,000,000 pension when i retire (from sitting on my arse all day). Beat that, idiot head!

It's like a real-life version of facebook. Hey everyone, i've got 1,458 friends on Facebook! Sure i don't know 90% of them and many of the others just met me one time or we knew each other years ago but its still more friends that YOU!

It's like a popularity contest. Does Madam Annoying talk to you in the shop because she wants to 'catch up', or, does she just want to look like she is popular in front of other people? Does Dame Gigabyte (and number 1 candidate for identity theft) really want 1,458 friends on Facebook because she knows them and wants to remember them, or is it just some form of popularity measure? "I have more friends on Facebook, therefore i've been more successful in life". It's all nonsense!

Do I have a facebook account? Yes I do! How many friends do I have? Dozens! I started just accepting everyone who found me, especially since i could remember them. Some of the links were so tenuous though! There's one person who I knew from an old job. I worked with her for all of 2 months and even then we were in different offices. There's another who I met with friends at a party, we chatted for about 2 minutes before continuing to socialise with everyone. Then there's the people from uni, college and school. The chap who had the same university tutor as you, the random person who dropped out of college after 2 months, but you did a few History lessons together, so you're mates! There's the friends from school who you'd rather not see again, let alone speak to them.

I have a friend on Facebook who knows me from the lift (Elevator for you Americans) at college. We had a conversation! He told me how much I brightened his day up. It's a lovely thing to hear but also a little weird when he says you wore nice coats. Did my sunny aura light your day up, or just my coat? I never asked him but I was tempted. I have another 'friend' who I only remember because she hit me with a hockey stick during a game! The audacity of the woman!!! She belongs on my Hatebook list!

One of my latest friends is someone who I met on a night out. My memory of the night (and i was sober) was he spoke with my friend, and started speaking to me. We talked about the local restaurants for about 3 minutes before the three of us did a silly dance and told jokes for another 5 minutes. I then spent 2 more minutes trying to excuse myself from their company. His version was we had a great night dancing and I never gave him my mobile phone number, after i'd apparently promised it him. Unless I have a twin who immediately arrived after i'd made a run for it, he was talking rubbish. If i met him in a bar and he came out with that i'd make my excuses again (which may be rather blunt) and leave. On Facebook though, you can hype yourself up and twist things your own way. I don't so much have a great problem with it, but its annoying!

Where am I going with this? Well, I'm a hypocrite. My SL me resembles me in every way, apart from her technique with dealing with weirdos. In RL I love crazy people. If by chance you bump into me in RL, just act weird and different, we'll get on great! I don't care what the person looks like, what they wear or how they smell. If they're down to earth, honest and a little different then i'll drink and chat with them all night. They're also a cert for my Facebook friends list too :)

The hypocritical part of me is how I make friends in SL, and continually bug many of them. We don't know each other and haven't asked the questions that would let us do that, but I still talk to them like we'd grown up together. I'm even like that with normal people! Does the fact i can logout or 'mute' people make me more sociable? How about me agreeing to be friends with so many people, even when our paths probably won't cross again. I join so many groups i've no interest in. So what if you're giving away L$400 for the person who can dress most like a cat! I went to your club once, and thought it was bobbins.

As for Facebook, For someone who hates tenuous links between friends, i don't half accept a lot of people as friends. In my defence, I never approach them so i could blame it on being polite, but it still makes me hypocritical in my stance against egotistical social-networking self promotion.

I've neigh-ed for long enough. I'm off to discuss nonsense with people on SL. If you've bothered to read all this rubbish, then you're a stick-on for my friends list in SL (oh the honour!). Just give me an IM, start the conversation with the world "Tabular" ;)

Just to clear something else up, I do not work as a civil servant. I'd rather cut my face off with a pair of rusty old pliers.

A trip to the SL hairdressers... yep, I jogged there :p

Everyone loves to have nice hair - well everyone apart from students. In SL i've found its easy to get both really nice hair and really bad hair. I don't count the style as a contributor to 'nice' and 'bad'. You are what you are, and its good to have an individual style.

If you're screaming "Horses, your hair isn't particularly original!" then i applaud your observational skills, but slap you for screaming at me! My hair falls into that category of "normal". I like to think my other bits make me less "normal". Don't judge a horse by its hair!

My hair is normal, but i think its nice. The folks who made it did a good job! So good I went back to their store today and bought myself some new colours. I like the idea of changing hair colour all the time. My shades of brown now have shades of red to alternate with.

During my daily jog around second life :) I took some photos of my shiny red hair.

I quite like it, so i don't care what anyone else thinks! Also note the lip ring to help my head look less "normal".
Red hair, lip-ring and lycra leotard! I am at the very HEIGHT of fashion :)

A funky charity evening

SL is fab for a lot of things, one is there's always a discotheque open where you can go for a boogie. Just like many other folk in SL, I love to boogie!

On Saturday a disco i've been to a few times - and thus a member of their group - was holding a fund raising night for charity. The charity in question was Warchild. It needs all our money to help kids in war.

This was no Children in Need fund raising marathon. This was lots of weird and wonderful people, dancing the night away to an array of (s)hits, spun by a disc jockey who'd given his own time for free and couldn't enjoy the fun as much as everyone else, although maybe dj-ing was lots of fun for him.

If i'm honest i expected the total donations to be quite low, somewhere around 10,000$L at the end of the night. How wrong was I!!!! When i left - and there were a few hours left to go - the total was at 33,000$L! People can be so generous, even in SL! Just imagine how long you'd have to camp to earn that amount of cash!!! I'm not sure of the final total, but i'm guessing it'd gone up a fair bit by the close!

Maybe charities need to use SL more. They were pushing for a target of L$40,000. If we assume they got it, that's just over $150? It's an impressive total when you consider the cost of hosting the night (very little) and any costs incurred by the venue would probably be offset by the improved traffic rank they'll get, and people who'd never been there before, liking the place and coming back in the future.

I took a few photos on the night, of course i'm in them all :p Click on them below to see a bigger version.

The paparazzi are ruining their lives!

The Paparazzi just won't leave celebrities alone! It must be awful being followed everywhere by a man with a camera. Its not like some of these celebs' make a shed loads of money!

They're just doing a regular causal topless jet-skiing lesson or walking out of a nightclub smacked off their face, when some celebrity snapper has his flasher in their face or they're lurking in the trees, just aiming up the perfect boob shot.

It must be so hard, after courting the media for so long for their own benefit, to have the same media poke their nose in when the celebs' want some peace. Seriously, I feel sorry for the z-listers!

...NAWWT! Stupid idiots need to wear swimsuits, stop smacking up and not flirt the media in the first place. They're not all guilty, but seriously, those that are... Stop whining!

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WHORE-SES GOES SKIING

Darn that Press! Where do they get off intruding our privacy like this!!!

Famous Horses

Here's a list of famous horses:

Black Beauty
Red Rum
Mr Ed
White Lightening
Pantomime Horse
Clothes Horse
Camilla Parker Bowles

Do you know of any more?

Welcome to my box

Hello All!
I decided to make a blog for my second life self. I find myself wanting to talk about my experiences on SL all the time but i'm not too great at explaining things when i'm dying to say something. So, i decided that i'd make a blog and talk there.

Welcome to that blog - The Horses' Box! The title is a little tongue-in-cheek, but it was too good to resist :p

My posts won't always make sense, but I don't apologise for that, it's just what comes out!

Thanks for reading,

Horses

P.S. "Hello World!"