User:Tid-Kidd

(an earlier "me" wearing Waldorf Bing, Alaska Metropolitan, and myself...)

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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)