After four months of absence, I logged into Second Life again.

Where have I been?  That seems to be a common question for me, lately.  Christmas was pretty hectic on its own, so that wasn't helping me much.  Then I found out that my 63 year old mom's been diagnosed with a cancerous tumor near her heart.  Wow, what a wallop that was.  That descended into a big maelstrom of just about every emotional response there is.

Waaaah, I know... who cares.  No one likes a whiner.  So, I've been taking a break and trying not to collapse under stress.  Then, I got my new rig working.. and finally got all my SL files/images/textures/whatevers backed up and on the new machine.  I pulled Samantha out for the first time since September and immediately got lost.  I don't remember much about what I was doing with her and lost my notes on it.  Either way.

So, yeah, could I be any more useless with this post?

I'll break it down for those who care about Nora or Skins:

• Sonata is still intact and my store is still there.   I'm currently going through to make sure all the vendors are working.  There's bound to be something broken.
• Today and/or tomorrow I'll be addressing ALL of the remaining customer needs regarding sales/skin problems.  I'll probably be throwing around freebies to compensate for the delay.  I think that's fair.

This week, the following will occur...

• Samantha will make a preliminary debut to the NORA group.  Only those in the group will get this benefit.  I'll be dropping a free, limited edition, you-can't-get-it-anywhere-else Samantha skin.  Samantha has not been officially released yet!
  Now, I know this skin will have to have certain permissions: Copy/Transfer  The skin-maker's worst nightmare.  However, you know what, this will be a freebie and will feature a small Nora tattoo just to make sure that if it makes its rounds, at least people will know WHO made it.  Besides, if you give away something that is considered "limited", you're devaluing your own skin.  I'm rambling...
  
  
• There will be a MASSIVE sale at Nora this weekend.  Details are:
  
  • I'm talking L$1 skins.  EVERY skin will be L$1.
  • This sale will only occur in the sim Sonata.
    
  • The time will not be announced beforehand.  Anyone in the NORA group will find out about the sale when it starts, via an announcement.
  • The sale will last a matter of hours, not all day.  I plan to aim for 5-6 hours.
  • IF you find that a skin is NOT L$1 and you've paid the full price for it - I will refund your purchase.  Don't get upset, because it's easy for a script to not reset itself correctly and boom, it's still using old parameters/prices.
  • The sale will be announced publicly to a wider audience once the half-way mark has occurred.  I don't want to leave everyone out, but I do want to give my group members an advantage.

Windlight is causing a ruckus in the skin-world, or so I've heard from one of my SL-photographer friends, Sysperia Poppy.  So far, she seems to be really happy with how my skin is still performing under WL.  I've checked it out for myself and don't see any real problems, either.  Of course, maybe the FL viewer has been adjusted, I don't know.  The above sale is a good excuse to check out a new skin if you've never heard of Nora.