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So I went to check on the hunger striker at the Linden Estate Services building and she's gone! I mean there's no sign of her, has she been abducted by the forces of corruption? Has she simply turned herself invisible or did she have to go to bed? Who knows!

However my journey there was a dangerous one, sneaking down dark alleys and whilst there a shadowy figure *cough*Dytska Vieria*cough* said "Pssst, wanna buy a Robo Marx T-Shirt". Well I had to haggle and she haggled me down to accepting it for free. Really, she should have released this to the stock exchange!



Get them whilst they're hot! You can pick up a free "Free Robo" T-Shirt from Rusty Nail Bar and Grill in Lunata:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lunata/167/217/25

In a rather bizarre Jack Linden office hour the Freedom for Robo front accused the G-team of corruption, accused Linden Lab of following a socialist doctrine, threw in the word "communist" a lot and to put the icing on the cake one of them is conducting a hunger strike in support of Robo in the lobby of the Linden estate services building, I'm not making this up! How long they remain there is another issue but we were invited to pop by during the week amid claims that they will still be there at the same bat time on the same bat channel next week.

From the sidelines someone asked "Who is Robo Marx?" which generated many answers, some suggesting he's the messiah... he's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy. Attempts to raise Robo from the dead put him more in the Ra Ra Rasputin, Russia's greatest love machine category. I can picture it now, ten years from now in SL Che Guevara T-Shirts will have been replaced with Robo Marx T-Shirts, the great freedom fighter struck down by the establishment.

I thought it was just in the UK that we were experiencing summer madness due to the heat, seriously, two days of being in serious Betty Swollocks territory does strange things to one.

Meanwhile Jack promised that more waterfront land will be available in Zindra. The mess that is the adult content policy just gets murkier, already people are getting rather irked that so and so got a waterfront parcel when previously they had an empty parcel/no adult content/ they're fic/ Linden alts. Really, is everyone going off their rocker?
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I know, I know you all thought I was in my early 20's!!!! I hate to break it to you, I hit 50 today and you know how I can tell?  It only took ONE yes ONE margarita for me to say,  "Ok, I am ready to go home and go to bed now".  Of course by the time I finished the meal I couldn't move either.  Aren't birthdays grand?  

I am receiving unconfirmed reports that notorious ad farmer/parcel cutter, Robo Marx, has been permabanned. Ace-Exchange is down for me right now so I can't confirm the details just yet.

I will say this for Robo Marx, he has a good sense of humour so if it is true I'm sure he will take it all in his stride.

*UPDATE*

Confirmation has now been received that Robo Marx account has been terminated, Robo has commented here, for more details see the forum post at ACE which is now up.

I told you he'd take it in his stride!

So I decided tonight that I want my alt to be able to access my adult land. There are two ways for me to do this, one way is for me to go via aristotle and one way is to go via buying linden dollars.

I won't go the Aristotle route, I age verified Ciaran in concierge beta where details such as passport number were not mandatory, they fixed this so it now is mandatory but Aristotle were happy to age verify me without it in concierge beta. I'm not giving my passport number to a company who have no means of verifying it ( I asked the UK passport agency about this at the time and they told me Aristotle do not have access to this info), end of story, the information is clearly not relevant.

So I decide I'll buy some linden dollars, I'd seen something on XStreetSL that I wanted to buy anyway and decided to buy L$15,000 worth so I could make this purchase and then I hit the billing limits issue. How bloody annoying is this? I mean why do I have to go to all this bloody hassle to buy Linden dollars with an account that has all my other personal details already attached to it.

This account isn't new, it was created in September 2007 and fends for itself generally. Yes of course I can login to my other account and transfer the money over but why can't this account be linked to the information they already have on me?

I wouldn't mind if I had to submit a support ticket where I had to agree to allow my billing information be used for this account, sure I'd have to wait but I'd have done that by now if this were the case, it would have been painless. Instead I find myself wondering whether I'll ever bother making that XStreet purchase.
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Ok! HUGE sigh.  Let me try this again and SAVE it this time!

A few months ago my son was visiting me from Germany.  While taking a long drive up to my grandmothers, he introduced me to Audio Books.  He plugs in his thingamabob into the jack in the car stereo system and to my great amazement and surprise....it is an audio of Roland from Stephen Kings "The Dark Towers" series.  My son and I had started that series 20 + years ago.  Well, Stephen King finally finished the series.  Oh my what a finish too!  So have I.  If it had not been for audio books I would never have gotten this far.  I do not have the time.  This way though I can just plug in and go. (I know, I know, this is not about Stephen King).

Well, after finishing that series, I was hooked.  I ran across some Dean Koontz audio books.  I listened to a few of them and really enjoyed them.  I had never read anything of his before. 
On my third book "The Darkest Evening of the Year",  Vernon Leslie, a hick detective, 5'8", stout, hunchbacked  man with thinning brown hair  was introduced.  Vernon was introduced in about chapter 18.  What made him interesting to me was not who he was in this 1st life, but who he was in his OTHER life. In his 1st life he was a PI who worked to pay for his other life, his 2nd Life. In his 2nd life he was Von Longwood, "he tooled around on a radically customized motorcycle, a real HOG, and he was a master of Tai Kwon Do. He had the costumes to prove it. In general he lived large."
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I wrote this once....I will write it again when I am finished blazing over losing the first draft.