User:Tid-Kidd
- (an earlier "me" wearing Waldorf Bing, Alaska Metropolitan, and myself...)
Hi
To quote someone we all love : "Friendly Greetings!!". If you would like to find out some basic Second Life stuff about me, you can - inworld - Search > People, type in my name, and look up what it says in my Profile :-)))
I joined Second Life in May 2007 and what a time I've had since then! From blundering around as a blue-haired, freckled, newbie
(sigh, I miss my freckles),
I have
- met many many wonderful people (and a few not so wonderful - it happens)
- made many many great friends, danced the evening away at various clubs ("Hi!" to friends at The Vortex, Blackhearts 80s disco, the Binary Star Cantina, The Crown & Pearl; to DJs Dante Achterbarn, Bart Kovacs, Leanne Karas, DanielJames Baroque, Kimber Enoch, Mark Attenborough)
- entered some competitions, won some, lost some
- known romance
- explored
- walked, run, danced, sailed, flown
- dived from a hot air balloon
- chatted my tongue off
- had countless heart-to-hearts in IM
- modelled
- meditated in a pool with fishes
- practised Tai Chi
- climbed mountains and tabogganed down again
- taken part in human rights' protests
- gone into "outer space"
- built a little (scripted NEVER)
- taught, mentored, helped newbies and others
- joined various charity events and fundraisers
- been a greeter at Second Life Birthdays and Education Faires
- joined a Writers Circle
- written for a Second Life publication
- attended meetings
- designed tutorials
- co-owned and run a group (The Mentor Lounge)
- been to the fair
- taken part in in-depth surveys for academic research
- gone to church ... and to hell!
- photographed weddings
- been to the cinema
- been in a Second Life video
and there is so much more I have yet to do...
(an early Second Life experience that stands out : windsurfing by moonlight off a gay beach, wearing a ballroom gown ...)
In the mythical, rumoured, so-called "Real Life", I am disabled with multiple sclerosis, which sadly is getting worse by the month with it seems nothing I can do to stop it. But I don't want to labour on about RL, we all have our crosses to bear and there are people here worse off than me.
As to my skills, I have a few things I can offer :
- I can speak French (not too brilliantly or fluently, but enough to make myself understood and get by)
- I can take classes in Second Life
- I know enough about the wiki to be of help to newcomers to it, though there are many more who, unlike me, are experts
- I am a reasonably competent writer
- I understand the basics of Photoshop (please don't ask me about Blending Modes!)
- I use Apple Mac, so I can talk about that to people who need to know more
- I can edit items reasonably well (hair is a specialty), though I'm pretty new to actual building / creating
- I often make people laugh! (enough said ... let's hope they are laughing WITH me lol)