Yeah, yeah, I'm a stickler when it comes to grammar and spelling...

Please don't call me a grammar nazi, but I'm frankly tired of all the misspellings on Second Life vendors. I can understand it in chat, but come on...you spend the time creating items to sell, work hard (mostly) to design the space to sell them, put together your vendors with carefully posed photos and photoshopped words and prices, and you can't freaking take the time to check the spelling on the ads that everyone sees in order to buy your products?

I've assembled a few examples of misspelled vendors. Glaringly misspelled vendors. At least one of these, I IM'd the creator months ago and mentioned the misspelling, and he told me he was aware of it. He has since redesigned his entire shop and STILL misspelled the same word. Sorry, but I have to chuckle.

Nothing personal against any of the designers responsible for these signs. I don't even remember where I got most of them, to be honest.

But if any of these signs is yours, I don't wanna hear excuses. Just fix the damn things! ;)

Griefers and Boredom and Tedium...

In the middle of the night, I took a quick trip to Chip Midnight's shop to show a friend his black male skins. While standing in the entryway of the shop, we were approached by someone muttering 'cage' while some sparkly laserish trails drifted toward us. I should have opened my inventory at that point and thrown on a shield, but I've been told in the past by friends I'm paranoid when they've encountered the shield later when I've forgotten to remove it.

Moments later, the griefer repeated her (I say her because the quick glance I got made me think it was a female av, but I'm really not sure) 'cage' command, and a cage materialized around me and my friend. Followed by foam.

In the grand scheme of SL, none of this is a big deal, I suppose. My friend calmly said 'don't feed the troll' while I admittedly lost my temper and hurled a few names.

I don't know. I'm becoming more and more disillusioned by Second Life these days. Between the obnoxious people, the grammatical laziness (come on people....is it really that hard to distinguish between 'your' and 'you're'? 'to' and 'too'?), and the out-and-out mind-numbing boredom, I find myself more and more wandering aimlessly, trying to find *something* to do.

And not finding it.

I'm really not that hard to amuse, seriously. And no, I'm not expecting someone to stand in front of me and keep me entertained. But, this *is* a game, right? It should be fun, at least?

Where do all of you go for fun? Give me some ideas. I'm tired of wandering and shopping.