April 15, 2008 by MarxDudek
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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.
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PS:
So that's my starry-eyed introduction. Written on a smartphone while waiting for an appointment. I'm a little less starry-eyed, but definitely still in the NRE phase. The downtime, the glitches, the outages, the "bald with my hair shoved up my crotch" moments, staring at a login screen and clicking in vain ... it's a temperamental mistress, but she still turns me on in the best ways when she's in the mood. Rowr.
I know its tempting to go get stuff...
but it sounds like you might be safer ordering online and having it delivered. Works with pizza too. :-)
(Sorry about your foot)
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Hahahaha!
Nah, I'm just naturally a klutz! Also, I knew better than to go outside that day. What was really sad (and in retrospect, funny) was that I couldn't get back up the stairs without getting rid of the ice, which was about an inch thick on each step. So I had to slide on my bum down a second flight and then have someone toss me a hammer.