Yes, I'm back. It was a good vacation, even the family visit part. Well, mostly. The Quebec City part was definitely good.
We got back late last night, and I was busy with work today, so I didn't get to connect to Second Life until about five o'clock. I downloaded and installed the new client and fired it up. Immediately, I was struck by how strange everything looked. My flexi hair seemed to move in a weird way. Patrice popped home, and she looked different. Everything seemed more cartoony than before. It didn't help that something was amiss in the system, either in my network connection or somewhere else, so that motion was not as fluid as it ought to have been. Still, things were quite odd looking. I thought for sure that the graphics in the new client had changed, but that was not so.
After eleven days away, it was simply a matter of SL suddenly looking—and feeling—rather new again. I'd grown so used to it over the previous many months. A long weekend away in the spring did not have much affect on how I saw the world. But a week and a half certainly did. I felt somewhat disoriented and certainly a bit detached.
Fortunately, Patrice helped ease me back in. But it was an interesting experience nonetheless. More soon.
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Welcome back neighbour!
The hard part for me unplugging was trying to figure out just what the heck to do with my time. No emails to chase after. No urgent IMs. No Twitter, Jaiku, Facebook, feeds, blogs or any other type of new/social media/network.
Surprisingly a martini and novel filled the gap, and I was able to make it to the end of my vacation without reverting to a fetal position crying out 'google... why hast thou forsaken me'.
I'll expect a 'what I did on my summer vacation' notecard when I see ya in-world. ;)
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