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I fell and fell hard.

Literally.

While heading down an ice-glazed stairwell on the way to a national computer chain-store's Going Out of Business sale. Straight down an entire flight of stairs. Broke at least one bone in my left foot.

The weather reports were dire. "Ice Storm Debilitates City". I had decided it was too dangerous to try to make it to work - but not too dangerous to brave icy sidewalks in search of ...

... four gigabytes of RAM.

You see, I fell hard twice that week. The first fall was when Second Life "clicked" for me. When the potential and possibilities finally sunk into and under my skin and seduced me. Hard.

The first fall precipitated the second ... and somehow I managed to limp to the store the next day (or that night, I don't know, it was all a blur).

The foot took four months to heal. In that time, I had bought mainland, sold mainland, bought too much estate land, bought more mainland, sold off estate land, parted ways with my first virtual flatmate, DJed at an all-male strip club, pole-danced for tips, got molested by statues, officiated a wedding, developed a fetish for hedgerows, attended a protest, flirted, bedded, fell in lust, fell in love, slamdanced, and ...

... one video card, one Premium Annual, 6200m2, and an a brand new SL-compatible laptop later ...

Hello. My name is Marx Dudek. I've fallen, and I don't want to get up.

Good morning, everyone! My apologies for not writing this sooner. First, a huge thanks to Nobody for making me a part of the Y2P family! (Wow, that's the first time I've said "Thanks to Nobody" and meant it sincerely!)

This is not a proper introduction as I am writing this whilst sipping my first cup of the morning and delaying my inevitable log-in to Real Life™. But I did want to say hello and thanks to everyone for the warm welcome. I hope that I can be as interesting as all of the other great bloggers here at Y2P! (Perhaps not, but we'll see.) As a relative newcomer to SL, I'm sure I'll be writing about things a lot of you have already experienced, enjoyed, or dealt with many times already. But at the very least, I hope it will prove entertaining ... or at least mildly amusing.

Perhaps even poignant at times?

Naaaah.