Ever wondered what the best way to start the day with a spring in your step is? I have found the secret. First, spend some time with good friends just chatting about random things of interest. In my case, the Forum is my preferred location. Second, meet your owner at the farm for a quick [...]

Forgot one interesting tidbit through the weekend, it’ll take a moment to set it up… Ponies are enormous lag generators. We also tend to have many if not all attachment points occupied with gear as well as several HUDs loaded. One thing I’m trying to do is to reduce the clutter on my screen by [...]

It’s interesting to me to see how my blog has evolved over time. It’s gone from deep introspection into identity and gender and roles… through some serious whining (*cough*), umm, make that examination of unpleasant events and my reactions to them… and now a much more balanced view of how SecondLife is going for me. [...]

I’ve been doing some reflecting over the last few days and I’m really liking what I’m seeing. It’s now been exactly eight days since Miss Enigma first collared me, and four days since we made it permanent. In that time I’ve met some of Miss’s other subs, we’ve found a lot of easter eggs, and [...]

A quick intervention by RL: It’s my birthday today! How the hell did I get to be 45?

How’s that for a mixed bag title? Let’s talk about the last few days, shall we? I’ve been spending a lot of time with my new owner, Miss Enigma. It’s been a trial period to see how we get on and frankly, we’ve been getting on really well. Most of our time together has been [...]

I finally had an opportunity to have a training session with Stable Mistress Jo Gallindo Saturday night. She hitched me up to a cart and drove me all over the farm giving me a good workout on cart commands. She told me some about herself as I pulled her along and then took a wonderful [...]

It’s now the next morning and I’m still kind of floating from the day I had yesterday. I need to keep checking back to my chat log to make sure I’ve got the ordering correct, but who really cares about what came before what? The best part started off after just royally sucking at the [...]

Well I’m sitting here a little in shock, and it’s a very good thing. I got up stupidly early this morning (4:00 am, don’t ask me why, I don’t know) and when I logged in, my friend Chrissy was struggling to get a nice photo done for her stall door at FFF. I was more [...]

Now I remember why pony fits so well for me… Not that I was forgetting at all, but yesterday sure helped bring it to the foreground again. I had a great day. Made a really good friend who’s almost certain to be joining the farm soon; took Miss Button and Miss Izumi (another of the [...]

I’ve been meeting some interesting people as I stand in the paddock, including a pony who’s owner may be enrolling her at FFF. I still haven’t met many trainers, and those I do know are still largely busy with others but I’m practicing my patience. After all, I’ve hardly been here a week (is it [...]

It’s interesting to me how many people are using SecondLife as a therapeutic outlet. I know I certainly am, it provides me a much needed escape from the stress of my wife’s ongoing medical crisis. This morning I had a long conversation with a friend of mine who revealed that she has a number of [...]

Well, a few questions of protocol actually. Really one or two questions of protocol and a couple of questions of expectations. First to protocol, and here I’m referring to pony-trainer protocol, especially that between a pony and a trainer who is actively working with another pony. In a nutshell, is it appropriate to just barge [...]

The waiting is the hardest part… So I’m feeling much more comfortable at FFF, it’s starting to really feel like home. Slowly but surely I’m feeling much more comfortable relating to people as a pony, in particular, I’m feeling less need to convey complex ideas through convoluted emotes, I’m a pony! Ponies don’t necessarily have [...]

I’ve been wondering, given that I wear a chastity belt at all times, and given my androgynous look, made even more feminine by the long hair I wear when in tack, whether it would be more appropriate to describe myself as a gelding. Today I learned the answer: Not a bit. I was wasting some [...]

I spent some time being trained by Jaydana this afternoon. She started off teaching me how to be properly lead, something I hadn’t encountered before. It makes complete sense, the pony stands close to but behing the trainer whenever on lead. She then took me to the lunge circle, or as she put it the [...]

… or how the mundane becomes less so when you’ve got a bit in your mouth… I’m sitting here, getting ready to start my day at work (ugh) and just thinking back over yesterday. There wasn’t a lot that happened, it was a pretty quiet day actually and yet it was deeply satisfying. There were [...]

This is the profile note I’ll be placing in my stall door later today: Name: Corvan Nansen Pony Name: None yet Owner: Unowned Languages: English Time Zone: SLT Interests/Skills: – Some training in Steeple and just started training in Dressage and Carting. – Interested in trying everything, then figuring out where to excel. Limits: – [...]

So now I’m a stabled pony. That has a really nice ring to it doesn’t it? In my interview with Button she pointed out that I didn’t have a proper harness. That was the one thing I’d missed in getting ready to meet her. Off to the tack shop I go (oh, no, I’ve got [...]

I was so nervous about this interview. Jaydana had assured me that I had nothing to worry about, but that didn’t stop me… She was right of course, Button turns out to be a lovely lady with a very sweet disposition. I was quite surprised to see that she dresses as an Indian with a [...]

And no, this is not an April Fool’s Day Joke… First and foremost, my wife is out of the ICU. CT and MRI were both clean, and the pneumonia appears to have completely cleared up. They aren’t quite sure why she had the seizure, but they also aren’t quite sure why she hasn’t been having [...]