Virtual Thespian

As I mention in a previous post I have lots of experience in online communities.  I’ve slayed dragons, ran virtual night clubs, dated, you name it I’ve prolly done it when it comes to online socializing and game playing.  I started with Guild Wars and quickly moved on to WoW and then Second Life, and while these are virtual they have all added profoundly to my life.  In all of these world I have made friends, learned things I never even knew I wanted to learn.  The very real paths these virtual worlds sent me down still amazes me, even right now…Right this very moment I am in Germany, which I should mention I am American.

Why am I in Germany?  Clover *sits back with a wide silly grin a moment*  I met Clover in Second Life and over about a year that realtionship grew from casual role playing partners to friends, to role playing lovers, to admiting having feelings, to being the love of my real life….Not just a bit of keyboard candy.  Yet I still insist that for all that it is, the one thing it isn’t is real.  After some long consideration I am starting to think perhaps I am wrong about the not being real part.  I mean the feelings are and were real, the love I feel for Clover and other people I have/had been close with was certainly real…And the way people act and interact with each other I would venture to say, that those interactions are prolly closer to a person’s real personality than what you would get in real life.

Virtual space is something like a night of drinking the more immersed you are in it the more you lose those inhibitions that tell you what you should and shouldn’t do based on society standing.  This can be a really good thing…and it prolly goes without saying a really bad thing, but all in all you at least get to see people for what they truly are or if nothing else a good glimpse at what they would if they could.  Given my new path towards learning the Web my time in some of these spaces has dwindled and been traded for new ones where it is less about socializing and more about knowledge, but me and Clover still spend time there and continue to evolve along the way with new adventures and a ever constant reminder that is never again for one period of time it was all just so very real.

I’ve been involved in various virtual environments over the years….WoW, Second Life, and slew of other various forums, community/networking sites, and of course MMO’s.  But a blog….well this is entirely new to me, I’ve never had much interest in one to be  honest…I mean what exactly am I going to say anyway.  Though over the years slowly but surely the itch to have one crept upon me, first watching other people with theirs and finally I did something I’ve been meaning to do for some time which sealed the deal.  I learned…am learning web design ( it’s easy to get ahead of myself). I am finding though that I’m taking to it a bit better than I imagined, or at least grasping the concepts of what Is taught with little hardship.

I really….really wanted to see if I could design a WP theme.  Now I’m not quite so far along to know all the PhP but I could handle the Css.  So this is what came of it, with some helpful hints along the way I not only have my first blog, but my first theme design!

Other than that I am having fun starting my journey of learning the Web and how it’s manipulated by so many talented people already.  And one day I will be able to join their ranks and have some really fantastic stand out pages of my own.  So hopefully any and all who happen to stop by will continue to come and watch as this blog evolves with new bits and pieces while I continue learning all that I can!