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My winter holiday is Catmess. On Catmess eve, we play with all of our old toys, roll in catnip, and eat tunafish before going to bed. On Catmess morning, we open all the new toys, play with the wrapping paper, listen to our Jingle Cats CDs, and eat more tunafish before taking a nap.
I love Catmess.
Still there as of 7-25-12! :)
So, it started here, with a surpraxis completion - somewhere during this exploration, I picked up a lovely chunk of rusty metal with a big round hole near the top, strung it up, and wore it as a necklace. I'd been wearing rusty metal junk as necklaces for years, but this was the first time I remember gathering one up specifically to wear as a souvenir, a memento of a wonderful day spent doing something wonderful with a wonderful person.
It progressed here, which is the real catalyst for the whole thing. From this time on, tasking or not - climbing bridges, exploring buildings, walking the streets - I was scavenging constantly with the aim of making the lost bits of City into wearable adornments, so we should be reminded that nothing we can put together with our hands, however grand, will ever be permanent. Looking back through my completed tasks done after this, I remember coming back with pocketsful of orphaned hardware from almost every one of them.
And now, for a year and a half I've been the owner of a small business, Urbex Archaeology, in which I find the discarded, forgotten, unwanted pieces of the things we once so carefully built, and endeavor to make them useful and beautiful again. Everywhere I travel, small pieces of those places come home with me, are reconstructed, and sent back out into the world to live another life.
I can't say for sure this wouldn't have happened without SF0, but I can definitely say it took the course it did because of SF0. So many of my fellow players were enthusiastic and supportive of my early work, and they were undoubtedly the people that made me realize there were others out there who would appreciate my vision and want to share in it. I'm far from making a living with my business - though I think maybe I could do so, given time - but it does support itself, which is all I can ask for. Thank you, SF0 friends and family - I love this place, and I love you.
For those of you that, like myself, have a difficult time either climbing the girder on one side of the bridge (I'm 180 lbs) and/or scaling the six-foot welded steel door on the other (and I'm 5'2") - I have built a five-foot long portable chain ladder that will hook over the top of the steel door. It has a tensile strength of 300 lbs and fits in a plastic grocery bag.
As payment, I will accept hugs, high fives, and bacon cookies. :)
Yeah, and where are GY0 this era? This would make a hell of a team battle.
Tyrone Tyrone and Sara Bear (and John Galt!) - this game can be whatever you want it to be. There will be other players who are harshly critical no matter how long you've been playing, and there will be other players who can't conceive of possibly being new to it and taking some time to figure everything out. Don't let them discourage you from playing in any way you choose and having a good time doing it.
There are also many other players who are excited to see new people come to the game and are willing to encourage and help educate. Things here are not always explained in great detail - reading this really helped me understand a lot more about SF0 and how things work.
He is gone. And he took my heart with him.