I was just checking out Second Life, the virtual world sim. I like the concept of it but there's this one problem: I can tell just from looking at the website that I would become addicted to it. You get to explore, make your own world, and create things. I'd never come out. It's NetSpace.

People build pre-made Avatars. They have the Bubblegum Crisis hardsuits as Avatars. I'd get one made in black, green and purple and I'd never come out. I'd build myself my own little world and I'd just cybernate.

I'd probably never write again. Or work. Or do much of anything.

The economy of SL can be used to make real world money but I doubt I'd be able to match what I make at the Post Awful. There's only so many hours in the day and I've committed what I have to my writing and running AAP.

We all have our choices to make to create the life we want to live.

As Xyl found out at the end of MO, blurring the lines twixt RL and the Net can bite you in the proverbial ass. Both layers run parallel, but you can ex out of the virtual. You can't ex out the real. It can't be ctrl-alt-deleted. It can't be paused. It can't be clicked out of existence. It's not going to stop just because you're playing a game.

These days you need three times the time to keep up with your double lives.