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Well, coping pretty well so far with the first day of mom-in-law being here. I took her down to the lobby for a while to meet Herman the Concierge and sit on the sofas by the big fireplace. I think she liked it. Too bad there weren't any people walking their dogs at the time.

I've been lured back on to SL by the sight of a "nude descending a staircase" avatar. I made myself a Leg Lamp avatar (like the lamp in the movie A Christmas Story). I had to change out of it when I went to the Dove freebie store, because among their rules (no weapons, no nudity etc) is a "no non-human avatars. Bit weird, although it kind of makes sense because they were giving away human-styled clothing.

Things go boom

Making Light did a bit on one of the latest omg-the-internet-is-corrupting-our-kids news stories - a teen who did a making-things-go-boom science experiment he saw online, but ignored the part about not standing over it when it goes off, and temporarily blinded himself. ML's readers respond with over a hundred comments in which they reminise about their, their fathers', uncles', siblings', friends' and high school chem teachers' pre-internet experiments with explosives, and worry where the rocket scientists of tomorrow will come from if kids and teens are too over-protected.