Gone Daddy Gone

"Beautiful girl lovely dress
Where she is now I can only guess"

Violent Femmes, 'Gone Daddy Gone'

 

One of the most difficult parts of getting the list together has not been the sims to visit, but sorting out the ones that are no longer there. I managed to slip back by VWRT Central, and while I was sorting out the mail and trying to find where they stashed the coffee filters, I caught a hint of a familiar sound coming from the back of the office. It was the barely audible sound of keening angst (hey, I have RL teens.  I KNOW what that sounds like) emanating from the intern’s desk. There under a mound of paper I found our resolute student laborer hammering away at a spreadsheet with a highlighter while madly flipping pages in an atlas. After a quick trip to the chocolate stash for a suitable dosage, I was able to determine the issue after a few minutes. She finally handed me the working sheet of locations, and I noticed that there was quite a bit of pink marker on it where I hadn’t expected there to be.

I know, the VWRT is supposed to be about destinations. It will be, as soon as I get this off my chest. Second Life is by its very nature transient and volatile on one hand. Things are there, and then disappear. When I got the original Adventure Brigade list, it already had some missing sims by the time it went into distribution. Given the state of the economy, and all else in the world, it is to be expected. I may put the Gone list up after a bit just in case some of the businesses have moved and I haven’t heard where. The trip continues…