Wednesday's good and bad...

It hasn't been a bad week for me.  I did go over budget on one of Pepi's offspring crates at auction yesterday.  Momentary weakness.  Frustrated at RL work, so I took it out on my Lindens.  And I have more licorices to birth now.  lol

I'm not doing bad on my numbers yet.  Systematically keeping only my project or good producers and letting the rest go.  Only 18 Licorices out now, plus my Pepi.  Then 3 Blanco, I rosa, and 7 other carriers with starter coats showing, including the latest starter pair.  And I put 13 of the good producers and few colorados in storage for future needs.

I may have to think about Mr Boynton's group.  They're not producing as well as I thought they would, not even when he's mated with Miss Brooks.  Maybe they need to age a little to come into it, as my early shibas did.

May be a hit and miss week for my licorices though.  Melosa failed to give one...after 7 straight licorices.  That was a shocker.

The German Shepherds are still reliable.  Getting the double rainbow about twice a week from them.  More often on the golden saddle coat than the white, which is what I'd prefer.  But I'll take it.  Last one gave me my new male to take over for Triple Sec.  I called him In Full Color.  Got a different grand other than the summer, but got the double rainbow with a rose shade.  Nice 4 traiter.  And I think that shade looks better on the saddled coat than the white, so not too disappointing.

In pony land, my pg double dipper moonlight I paid a little more than I should have  for gave a sunlight instead.  Not very helpful since I am quitting sunlights, and she didn't get enough traits from her parents.  But they're there in background.  So I will price her at 1k.  If she sells, I'll recoup the excess I shouldn't have paid for the mom, plus a little.  If she doesn't, she'll get worked into the breeding program...maybe bring out the traits and coat again.

Got intensity eyes on an arctic with haida hair.  Looks pretty cool.  Wasn't sure I'd like hotpink eye with red tipped hair, but it's cool.  He'll be marked for sale or taken to auction tomorrow.  I'm concentrating on desires hair and will emphasize the majesty coat instead.  Called my Zeony barn operation Destiny Zeonies.

Monday Start up

Figured I'd journal while waiting for some very cruel shibas to slowly finish their last hour of pregnancy...and while my coffee works to bring me enough awareness to work on book files.  We have a lot of ebook editions coming out this week, and through the next few weeks, actually.  Abney Park is helping me too....no music can motivate me as well as they can.

Though Issis is still in Second Life, my muse is working...her journals have already begun.  Thorne is in it too while he and Elpis work separately for the next year on Ages.  Do not fear.  Their relationship survives.  They just need a little break from one another right now, and Issis gives a good opportunity for this.

I'm bringing Sophrosyne along on this too.  Her herbal knowledge will be documented well during this.  My Steampunk Cosplay character is a herbalist as well as an automatron maker so I'll have plenty of research to use for both novels.

Wow, my shibas are naughty today.  Four and 5T couple just threw a 1T white.  Both not normally put together as I'm mixing things up a bit to deseed them for a full shiba break, but both very reliable lines.  Just not together it seems.

Another shiba pair - overcoats that are offspring of coats and normally together - did their job.  4T red.

I need to get with Anarta and Gran.  See if they'll let Issis have rights on the Myst sims.  Think me and Pepi need to explore the Myst territories and make a Second Life documentary.  :-)  May be fun.  Pictures and text only for now.

Checklist for BB troubles, eating....

We often see our pets stop eating.  This happens a lot after SL has its weekly updates.  And whenever something goes on the grid to disrupt script performance, especially if you're sharing a sim with a very busy club or roleplay group.

If your Biobreeds dog or pony stops eating, i.e. their hunger stat keeps increasing instead of decreasing, try this:

1)  Check to see that both the food and your animal are set to the same group as the land.  We've had LL initiated rollbacks actually change group settings on breedables before.  And sometimes something will interfere if you used your viewer's "always rez in land group" setting.  BB items will send a warning in chat if they're not rezed right, but it's easy to miss those things if you're busy too.  DO NOT deed your animal or food to the land group.

2)  Is the food and the animal on the latest update?

3)  Reset both food and animal.  Pick up and rez them back out.  Wear your land tag when you do this, just in case your viewer's auto setting isn't working.  Just remember to re-enable your food after rezzing it back out.  Alternately, you can go into your animal's menu and reset them rather than rez them, but if something got stuck, it's good to rerez them.  I used to do this to all my mainland animals once a week when the SL updates were so heavy for mesh upgrades because it did interfere so much.  Hasn't been necessary in a long time, but taught me that sometimes rerezing is better.  Just watch the Second Life Status Blog and wait until after they're finished with any ongoing maintenance at the time.  A sneaky rollback coming through right after you leave your pet can cause issues.

4)  If hunger still increases, take it to the Biobreeds group chat.  CSRs hang out in there to help people with issues like this.  They'll guide you through the above steps again, maybe visit, if necessary, and let you know if there's something easy to fix it or if you need a tech's help.

NOTE:  Your animal will not eat while sleeping.  Make sure your animal is awake before worrying about hunger increasing.  Mine tend to go 10-15% hungry during their sleep cycle.

Also, on my animals, I noticed that they update every 20 minutes or thereabout.  Once the stats update, I wait another 20 minutes before resetting or rerezing to see if they update properly.

If they do go hungry, don't worry.  They don't die.  They will eat themselves well again once you get them reset properly.

Snowed in...

We had our family event last night - our new grandson was born.  It's our third one, and I'm finally getting used to being such a "young grandmother."  We married very young, so most of our friends are still raising their kids when ours grew up and moved out.  Really kicks socializing activities in the butt when they're busy doing parenting stuff that we already did.  Most of my friends do tend to be around 10 years older than I now.  Makes sense I guess.

Great news on baby boy.  Crappy bit is that to make sure we were there, we went early in morning and stayed 8 hours before coming home to let the dog out.  The snow was starting so we stayed home.  But baby didn't come until a few hours after we left.  So we didn't see him.  What is a further bummer is the snow piddled out after awhile instead of dumping right away like it was expected, so we could have went back, but didn't know.  So, we won't see him until this storm clears and the roads are safe again...at least a few days.

Bummed a little, but choosing to believe there's a good reason for it.  We pushed it through last storm to see our granddaughters a week ago for birthday and returned home in the beginnings of snow.  We had just missed seeing what looked like a crazy wreck.  We noticed on way home last night there was a cross there now, so someone died in that wreck.  Better to be a few days late seeing the baby than to add another cross.

BB slow day other than hanging at the auctions, I hope.  My crew chooses the day I'm snowed in to not have anything.  Think my next one isn't until late tonight.  LOL

I did get a few good crates from BB yesterday, and a few duds that made me 5 points.  :-)  Darn coats aren't behaving as well as they should though.  Taos gave an earth, and LB gave a tao.  They're all confused. lol  10T and 8T, so one for the dapple bundler and one for stand or auctioning off.

My generation line of quad mysterious kittycats gave another quad mysterious in teacup size today.  That's good.  Keeping that one for my own next gen breeding since my teacup Frankenkitty retired.

I've neglected the other areas of my SL business, so choosing to use my profits this week investing to build that up.  Not to mention building.  Need to get five prezzies ready for next month's hunt.

What makes BB so good...

See, in Biobreeds, if we don't like something, we can say something and get noticed.  It may have taken them a bit, and made me think they weren't caring about what we thought of the criteria changes, but in the end, they listened.

They listen and logically talk about the situation.  No "positive talk only" attitude and if you say you don't like something, you're treated with respect.  You're not banned, your conversations aren't closed, you're talked to about the situation in a respectful manner.

Don't get me wrong.  They have rules and won't let negativity run rampant in chat or at locations.  But on a proper level.

There is new auction criteria for the panels now.  Something in between what it was before and the too rigidly updated criteria standards.

Something that new people can quickly work to meeting and also allows for trait breeders like myself.

Yay!  I love Biobreeds. :-)

(Note: this is overall attitude. Personal differences between individuals I do not comment on.  That is their business only and not mine.)

A Saturday update...

Hoping our sim owners work on increasing traffic and bringing new people to the auctions a bit more.  Seeing hints of people not coming back to them to participate...ones I bought from and sold to regularly.

I think my stands and personal sales yard will feed my animals, but I won't have anymore investment income.  

Skipping Monday's auction...maybe.  Didn't take a panel, even though I make plenty of regular panel stock.  Not out of defiance...just keeping my schedule open until last minute.  Still waiting on the family event.  Still!

I'll get with Luna if nothing happens and see if they're short that day. 

I'll do the night time ones...at least Tuesdays, IF certain people remain.  They go, nah...I stop.  I'll birth some of my Amaretto bundles and attend auctions with my old crowds for my auction hanging out moments.  

Not complaining about it either...like that pest at the party that you pretend not to notice.  Doing that.  Because by what I observe, they don't give a crap about our thoughts.  Ain't wasting my time.  This is a game.  It's their game to run it the way they want, and if their upgrades to the auction game makes it no fun for me anymore, then it's my decision to play or not to play.

As long as Ozzie makes sure the business end of it keeps running, and they stay affordable, and they stay incredibly hot looking animals, and customer service continues to do their jobs...I'll play the breeding part of the game.

As WHO is the current question.  I'm revisiting the idea of putting Issis on haitus.  I have a storyline for her where she and Thorne take off for a year on an Age Expedition, with Sophrosyne in a lot too.  Elpis and Thorne will stay together and will eventually take their relationship to the next level, but at the moment they're having a bit of relationship situation.  Having them separate and work individually on Ages for a year provides me with good fodder on this book.

Oh today's crates...

9T Legend Bubbly from LB parents - it's 3rd gen and a match for another 3rd gen 9T

The safari moon stud let both zulu traits through, but with grey hair, so a close miss on the safari moon with zulu traits attempt

My Inferno epics out for sale gave a crate with safari moon hair random trait

A few shibas gave 5 point crates

The good shiba drop was a 4T black from one of THE lines....this was preceeded by a good drop of a 5T red.  

Added another Licorice crate to the sales pen - this one with an Azul dad and Blanco mom - it's a 4T male - not of Pepi's line so not a keeper for me. 

I did get a 3T Licorice from two of Pepi's line for next gen breeding.

Can't recall if it was today or yesterday, but got another 10T tao crate - two different coated parents, of course.  

Sunlight Fail - two sunlights gave me a coat I don't like - 5 points for me lol

And the hot hot one, which I'd be so incredibly excited over under normal circumstances but only marginally thrilled instead - I got Intensity Eyes and Desires Hair on Savannah Majesty.  Nice!

Was going to get five more epics this week, but due to recent events couldn't justify the extra expense.  Debating on getting a female zeony one to use though...have a little time to decide.

Valentines Day and thankfulness...

The last few posts have seemed very negative, and I've made my opinions known of the issues they involve.  I'm adjusting my business to match the rules involved, and hope it works out the way the ones in charge believe it will.  So I thought I'd do a post on what I'm thankful for...for what I do and have liked in Second Life world.

My gaming family:  Though I'm not with them as much anymore, I'm so thankful for my Myst gaming family.  Thanks to all my friends and family there for showing me that Second Life does not have to be a place where morals are ignored, and can be where individuality is respected.  Thanks to Anarta and Colorado for our home sim, and for Ben taking it over when they had to stop owning it.

Writers and Publishers:  Thanks to the writing groups, publishing groups, and sim owners I've been involved in over the years.  You guys are great and so supportive of each other.

Builders:  The builders and hunters I've associated with have been super great.  Thanks.  Thanks to Perryn for building some of the best hunting groups in Second Life.

Meeroos creators:  Thanks for giving me a wonderful breedable to play with that's ultra cute.  And for the story creativity they show in the design of the Meeroos game.

Amaretto people:  Thanks to the creators for making beautiful horses.  Thanks to Selina for taking me in and guiding me through a good two year breeding game.  Thanks to Camilla, the first auctioneer who showed me how breedables auctions could be fun.  Thanks to Kat, the first auctioneer Smmu and I stalked.  Thanks to more market owners and auctioneers who gave me a little home.

KittyCats people:  Thanks to the creators and members of the KittyCats community for a wonderful game to be involved in.

Biobreeds:  Terrific group of people, terrific talented creators.  Thanks for a breedable so wonderful to work with, that works the way we want it to.  And so realistic.  The dogs are amazing...so are the ponies...but the dogs really do put others to shame.  Thanks to those who have built up the community and have given so generously of their resources and time to do so.  Thanks to the wonderful auctioneers for making the auctions so much fun. Your efforts are appreciated so much.

Happy Valentines Day and thanks.