Farewell to old friends......

     Well, last night was the closing night for the Cat and Dog Pub... the little "New England corner place" that my dear friend Mistletoe Ethaniel ran in SL.  Her "sister", Clover, has already closed her kitchen shop, Clover's Kitchen, that was next door.
     Mist and her hubby (RL and SL), Archimedes Skytower, gave the final performance of their live group, Cat Agus Cu, to a packed house of sometimes laughing, sometimes tearful fans, friends and family.  People were popping in and out all night, and there were group IM's from many who couldn't physically be at the concert, as Mist's live stream, when they do a concert, is picked up by many all across SL.  Following their concert, which consisted of both modern and traditional Irish-style ballads, jigs, and some renditions of other contemporary music, Symmetry Monroe, one of the most ECLECTIC DJ's I've ever met in SL, took the stand as the closing act.
     As I've said before in this blog, Mist and Arch will be sorely missed after their move to OpenLife, but their reasons are both valid and sensible.  As a builder, Mist is getting in on the bottom layer of a brand new game, and the costs are SO much better than SL.  45,000 prims for a whole region, and only 75 USD a month! No down payment of over 1k USD, just that one flat rate.  Aso and I will be looking into it as well.  It's an open source code game based on the same code as SL, and there are people working on making inventory from SL transferable.  We won't completely leave SL, of course, like Mist and Arch, but we probably will have dual citizenship in the not to distant future.  After all, this is where his business, and my Clan are!  NOT to mention all of our dear,dear friends.  (But more than a few of them have expressed interest in dual citizenship as well, not only for the money savings, but for the chance to actually affect the direction that the new "game" takes, and the challenge of that!)
     Here are some pics from the closing of C and D.  It was like "old home night"..... there were folks there from the old days in Northfarthing, when it was very active with medieval RP... hell, even the sim owner from NF showed up!  One of the best treats of the evening was my old friend Latis showing up.  This is a RL friend of mine, the lady that got Teleny on SL in the first place! She and Asoniel got to finally meet inworld, and we have plans for a RL get together, hopefully, over the holidays.  I know you read this, Latis, so here's yer hug! OH, and thanks for all the kind words about my cooking!  HeeHee!  No pics of "us" this time... this special evening was all about THEM!

Slainte!!!!!