Sailing Rules For Dejaye

The Sail Boat

The Yacht

I love taking my boat out on the Blake, sail to one of my favorite spots and drop anchor.  I like the sound of the ocean, it gives me inspiration and offers a tranquil atmosphere to work on my to do list.  So this post is all about showing respect on the sea.  For the most part it's an enjoyable experience, but every once in awhile you get that one person who tries to fuck with your good time.  Quit it dude, it ain't cool.

HERE'S HOW I RESPECT YOU ON THE SEA:

1.  I don't sail like I'm in a race to cross over your path before you hit me, I slow down or change course so you are free to keep on course.

2. I use my mini map as a compass, not only does it keep me sailing in a straight line, it lets me know when another boat is near me so I can change course if needed.

3. For air and sea, I try to avoid crossing a sim line at the same time as others, it helps your computer process the next sim for you easier and decreases the chances of you being thrown from your boat during the crossing - plus for you and me!


THIS IS HOW I WANT TO BE RESPECTED ON THE SEA:

1. Please do not message me with sexual comments about me, my boat or what you'd like to do to me on my boat.  This will get you automatically muted with absolutely no warning!

2. Please don't board my boat unless I give you permission, respect my space!

3. Please refrain from harassing me - shooting lazers at me will only get you derendered and muted.  Once I've done that, don't waste your time, I won't even know you are there!

RANDOM STUFF:

1.  If I don't respond to your horn, or your IM it's because I'm either in RL or working on something in another window.  Sorry!

2. I accept random friend requests and I use contact sets, so unless I know you well enough to be on my actual friends list, you'll be placed on my advertising list for my dance team - check out my team in my SL profile pics or you can check them out here!  Dance Xcetera

JANUARY - Inventory Cleaning Month!

With all things Second Life, inventories are the worst.  If you don't keep up with them, they can really get out of hand.   I have one friend that has over a million items in her inventory!  I couldn't even imagine what that must look like.  I've been here for 12 years and my inventory is pretty low considering those who have been here as long as I have. 

I was told a long time ago that your viewer, along with loading a sim, loading your avatar, and loading your accessories, also needs to load your inventory.  People who have excessively high inventory items tend to have loading issues, primarily with a failure to load the entire inventory.  Keeping it around the 50K mark makes it easier for your inventory to load and prevents inventory loss.  I don't know if this is actually true or not but lets be real, unless you are a avid builder there really isn't an excuse to have a large inventory - even if most of your inventory includes clothing/hair/shoes/accessories.  I know someone in game who has been here just as long as I have and she has under 20K in her inventory.  So that's my goal, and if you'd like yours low too, follow my blog over the next few days and get to cleaning!

The first thing - have two inventory windows opened.  You can do this by clicking on the button that looks like a suitcase, or something similar to that, this way you can do a search to see if the item you bought has been unpacked.

Delete clothing that is not compatible with your body - this should be done for every folder in your inventory!  Why keep them?  The goal is to downsize!  Be very careful when doing this, don't delete and huds that come with it!

If you have an item that hasn't been opened and you don't know what it is, just do a search in MP and see if it pops up.  Its a good idea to keep MP open while you're doing this just in case.

Once you've finished, get that trash emptied out!  If you put too much in it, you could potentially crash out of world - trust me it's happened to me more than once!

Now take a deep breath and stand in awe of a job well done!  There is so much more to come, and the key is not to try to do it all at once, there is no reason why you can't take your time to do this.

ADVICE:  When purchasing new items, get rid of the LM's, the notecards, the scripts and outfit clothing that doesn't fit your mesh body....do it as soon as you have the folder open!  If you keep up with it, you won't have to spend hours cleaning all of that stuff out and getting stressed over it!

Before you log off each evening, go to your recent tab and start putting things away!  Then you'll never have to worry about the dreaded inventory cleaning again - unless you are getting rid of things you don't need any more, but that's a different blog post. 

Now that my received items have been put away, I'll stop for the night.  Remember the goal is to organize, and you may not be able to do it in one sitting so take your time with it.

Next task:  Organizing the main inventory folder, save that for the next sitting.  Hope this helps!