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Life can let you down in a lot of ways, and Second Life is no different. It just lets you down in totally new ways. Have you ever, in RL, had to learn new complicated procedures to sit on your ass? NO? Didn’t think so.

Awhile ago Nika Dreamscape of Diamonds and Rust featured The Loft on her excellent and informative blog, Second Homes. Being the supportive type that I am, I went and looked at their store, and I found some stuff I liked. I liked their small skybox as a small office for working on scripts, etc, and I rezzed one over Podcaster Island. Take a look if you want - check my profile picks for location. My homemade computer desk, Macbook Pro computer, and chair are in the back of the skybox. I should put them for sale for some tiny amount.

Anyway, I bought some deck chairs… one of the things we put in below on the Tiny Beach is a kind of a tiki house thingy that looks cool in the water. Wanting people to be able to hang out and talk about the weather and how they fell and broke their hip last month, I put out these deck chairs. Well… they look great. Then I realized, these things are primarily made as couples chairs. That’s not what I wanted. But I thought, ok, they have options for single sit poses, and I can set them so that only I have access to the menus, so I can make sure they get used as single sit chairs for hanging out on the deck. Sounds great, right? The only problem is that THE MENUS ARE SO CONFUSING AND NOTHING SEEMED TO WORK THE WAY I THOUGHT IT WOULD BASED ON THE MENU CHOICES and so they wound up being deleted. Gone. FOREVER!! Mother… flippers.

I want to reiterate again that I’m not bitching about the loft per se, but I would ask vendors: If you’re thinking about using the MLP system in your products, do yourself a favor and just go run in front of a bus. Mmmkay? Really, that’s all I’m asking. Off yourself, or off your furniture, but just off something. For the good of Avatarity.

I’m not a spammer. I don’t blog every freaking hour. And it’s not my fault that the feed at i heart sl is all screwed up. That’s someone else’s technology issue.

So read the comments here to see what I’m talking about, and GET OFF MY LAWN!!! Damn kids.

PS. Ari replied to my IM and was really cool about it. Thanks, Ari. I’m sure that someone else is out there thinking the same thing, hence this blog post. I did send a note to the folks at iheartsl.com asking them to look into what’s causing the issue.

Ok, lunch break over. Me go workee now.