EDIT: Okay, so the last title of this post (Won’t you please not be my neighbor) was… poorly worded at best. Before you read this, realize I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE living at Lionheart. Everything about there is UBER FANTASTIC. lol I am just a paranoid individual and ultimately I’m tripped out by what some people choose to spend money on land for.

It doesn’t matter how much money you spend or how carefully you select where to place your business on Second Life… you’re always going to come across bad neighbors. The only way to really keep that from happening is to buy a whole sim and well, I certainly don’t have that kind of money.

I’m determined not to move Jolly Farm for several reasons. For starters, I love where it is. I love Lionheart Estate and I couldn’t imagine living anywhere else. Secondly, moving wouldn’t do me any good because I’d just end up with crappy, inconsiderate neighbors elsewhere. Third, it would probably be damaging to my business at this point if I moved.

I’m not gonna lie – I have 34 bunnies at any given time at Jolly Farm and usually anywhere from 4-5 others up for sale. I cause lag at Lionheart Scar. I know it, the owner knows it. I try to stay aware of it and be careful. I myself try to wear non-scripted items when I’m there (excluding of course, my AO) and I’ve gone as far as to disallow all tenants excluding Lassarina to sell lives at my store (I allow her because I know she’ll follow ALL of my rules and is as lag conscious as myself).

Having said that, I’m far from the only contributor to the lag. Just across the street from Jolly Farm is a rather large Zyngo / Game business and behind it… another! Now this week, a new club has opened on Lionheart Timon – which is right next door basically. I’m worried about the lag from that. And additionally there is a potential club being opened up at the parcel right behind mine.

But then… then it gets crazy… the owner of the new club on Timon has purchased the parcel next to mine that recently went up for sale and has put some kind of ride on it…. a large, script heavy ride. I have no idea what purpose it serves. I’m a bit worried about it to be honest. I’m a bit worried about all of my surrounding neighbors. I honestly preferred CDSR and his weird, multi-colored tube thing he was doing. At least he never really bothered me (besides calling me a terrorist that is) with lag.

In other news…

I’ve been thinking of opening my own club. Or rather – I thought about it. I very much enjoy being apart of clubs on Second Life but I found working at Sinful Moon especially to be rather draining. I hate seeing what I know is pure failure and powerless to really help fix it. If I am ever to be apart of a club again, it’ll be because it’s mine and because it’s managed how I believe a club should be managed.

But now I’m not so sure. Again, the need to have more time for other activities is a big, big reason for my uncertainty. Xavion has been super busy with some new projects himself the last few days and I know myself how hard it is to just “turn off” so you can relax. He’s about as project heavy as I am – maybe a little more so as of late and he has a hard time managing his time and finding the balance between work and play. I know what that’s like. I was there all the time when I managed Club Obsession…. even more so when I managed The Body Shop.

Although I was labeled a co-owner of Club Obsession, I was never as glued to it as I was The Body Shop. In a lot of ways, I was more an owner of The Body Shop than the actual owner had been (in all ways excluding financially). And I practically never left the sim it was on. I couldn’t… someone always seemed to need to be there. I worry if I ran my own club, I’d feel the need to constantly be there. Then again, I felt that way about Jolly Farm at first. Now I’m able to walk away and know that it’s really okay.

I dunno.. a lot to think about. I’ve already put a lot of thought into how it would be run and a lot of people are very interested in backing me on the project (when they should probably be convincing me otherwise lol).