Wow, it's been a month exactly! It's been hard to get away, which has really sucked. I was hoping to come home for the holidays, and really spend some time surfing with my family. 

As it was, I could only get back to the past for a few minutes on New Years Day, to give Soph-mom a hug - it seemed she needed it so bad, I wasn't going to let stuff like time and space get in the way.

Anyway, though, big news! I got my own legitimate account in this time!  I'm officially Ciel Chesnokov, registered Resident of Second Life in 2008!  Even better, almost all my stuff transfered: that formal gown and shoes, my surfboard, and almost all my clothes.  I'm really hoping to achieve greater temporal alignment this year, and spend some real time in the past.  My moms have put me in charge of surfing in Extropia, and I'm going to do a good job for them!  Now, to talk Aunt Vids into getting the Core dense enough for a parkour run....  

I didn't get time to surf, but did make it down to the beach at Chi before temporal forces pulled me back.  Next time!

Well, I *had* a plan!  

I was able to get out and make the time jump, though it was kinda late.  I figured it'd be past my moms' bedtime, so I could take some me-time and explore the world a bit.  

It so didn't work.  

The plan was, I'd buy a wetsuit and a surfboard, and go surfing.  Argent-mom loves the beach, and Soph-mom used to surf when she was young, and the whole "oceans" thing has always kind of fascinated me.  Comes from growing up in a country with gay dolphins on its flag, I guess!  

So I went to Namiko Surf Shop, 'cause they take their responsibilities to the oceans really seriously, which I like to see. I paid for a wetsuit, and went off to find a beach.... and discovered I never got my wetsuit. So, like a total noob, I went back and bought *another*  - and didn't get that either.  Since I'm on an allowance from mom, I felt really horrible about that!

I figured I'd at least go for a walk on the beach, check out where the good waves are, and come back another time.  So I TP'd to Venice Beach  (it isn't in Venice - what's up with that??).  And I'd barely rezzed before some guy walked into me, then started talking at me in some abbreviated language, very strange.  He asked if I was from there, and I said no. When he asked where I was from, I proudly told him Extropia Core!  That seemed to confuse him, though - he asked if it was "in RL," and I told him no, it was in Extropia.  He said, "Im from here -LA," which I sorta figured was a sentence, though I had no idea what it meant.

Confused, lost (LA? Venice? Beach? What?), out 900 of these "Lindens" which I know are real important, and mom doesn't have that many to spare - I just gave up, tp'd back to Sophtropia, petted Murasaki a bit, and slipstreamed back uptime. 

My first big solo adventure, huh?  

Teen supergenius from the future pffft, as Soph-mom would say.  Lost money, *got* lost, got nowhere.  I thought things were supposed to be *simpler* in the past!  

I'll try again - I didn't get raised to give up!  But it's a lot harder than I ever thought it'd be, back there...