I believe some of these pony trainers/Mistresses are just evil!
In a previous post I mentioned already one taking me off the running court and locking me in the stable while it was far from my time or intention to log off. I'm still wondering whether or not that was to prevent me from jumping over her favourite mare in the weekly ranking... hard to tell of course if you have no clue about names or relationships.
But yesterday... someone was thinking I am a jumping horse, and filling the court with huuuuuuge prims so the only way to make laps was to jump over. As if it's not hard enough - for a clumsy one with an old laptop like me - to run those laps more or less efficiently when there is no impediment! Pure evil I tell you!
I seriously thought a griefer had come to torment us poor bound creatures.
So when it got impossible for me to continue running, like a stubborn donkey I stopped moving of course and started complaining. Which means whinnying, as a huMare has got little else means of communication. It worked!
So the prims disappeared, and I started running again. But then suddenly my eyeholes grew smaller, and the little I saw through them got paler! I was getting punished for not obeying?!
Although hard to see where, I continued to run. Where the blinkers were preventing my peripheral view, the peek holes ware far enough apart to prevent me to see in front of me. Even the normal sized holes do this, but it had got a lot worse. Okay I can handle that, and I'm not afraid of a challenge, but here I was doubting whether I could deal with this for so many more weeks...
I was so mad at that evil Mistress and anyone running in my way - I must have bumped on many since I couldn't see in front of me - I wished I had a kicking animation ready, like I have in my donkey avatar. I love donkeys btw. Donkeys are smart, and cute.
Maybe I good thing I haven't this kicking available, as it would for sure have gotten me in more punishment and trouble!
Thank you Mistress Dio to reopen my mare eyes at the end of the evening!
So... I guess I'd better been running instead of blogging here today? RL took me too long, and will occupy me the next days also. A day not logged shouldn't count for those 4 weeks... Well, it doesn't matter, but it puts the 7 or 8 weeks I estimated in another daylight, doesn't it?
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Lag lag lag
Oh yeah, there's another enemy of a mare trying to reach her quota in laps: lag! The most frustrating of all!
Even more frustrating than a stable Mistress taking all happily running mares from the track and putting them in the stable. It wasn't my time to go to bed yet!
Okay, so I didn't complete as many laps as I had hoped for, today...
Even more frustrating than a stable Mistress taking all happily running mares from the track and putting them in the stable. It wasn't my time to go to bed yet!
Okay, so I didn't complete as many laps as I had hoped for, today...
Laps laps laps
So here I am in this HuMare adventure... When I log in I peek through my eyeholes and start whinnying, hoping there is someone around who can let me out of my stall so I can start running laps.
These laps.... *sigh* as you might guess it is the subject of this post. For sure it is the hardest part in this challenge! Hard for body and soul, and maybe even for my hardware!
For starters, as I just said, someone has to let you out so you can start making laps.
Then there is the huge number of laps that you have to make. 1000 a week, let's assume you have a little RL too and log in to SL 5 days a week. That's 200 a day. I haven't tried to get exact measures, but this means almost 2 hours of constant running. Plus the time you might have to wait in the beginning. Plus the time you are taken out for other tasks, since the stable Mistresses can also take you for some dressage, or to pull a cart, or...
I was taken out to pull a cart yesterday. My first thought was like "oh no, how am I gonna make enough laps now?!" But then I enjoyed and was happy with it, as those laps are boring after all, and some diversification is very welcome. I hope more stable Mistresses take me out for other chores every now and then.
After all I calculated from the beginning 4 weeks won't be enough for me to make those 4000 laps. First of all because I have a RL that most of the time won't allow me to spend 2 or more hours in SL 5 days a week. Then there is the monotony of the laps, that already followed me in my sleep the second night I had been on it. And, those watching yesterday might have noticed me sometimes deviating from the track, that was because the RL me was simply falling asleep at the computer, the up arrow pressed, but the turning no longer under control. Really. And then I woke up in the middle of the court, quite disoriented by the limited vision. That happened multiple times!
My up key is going to be totally worn out after this adventure, and as I am already at risk for RSI, I will have to be careful not to push it too far. Should I try to tape the key so I don't have to push it myself? But then you hear 2 claps of the whip, meaning stop...
After all I had some time yesterday. It was the first day I reached the 200 laps BTW, bringing my total after 3 sessions to about 480, after 5 days.
So, am I complaining? Not really. I can deal with the restrictions very well, but, to be honest, that was to be expected. 1000 laps a week on the other hand, is a lot. And it's boring, causing RSI and sleep problems, consuming time that could be usefully spent on other things (but this is true for SL in general),...
In the end, I did some estimation it might take me about 8 weeks (instead of 4) to fulfil the imposed 4000 laps. Maybe it will be only 7. I don't care too much about the time it will take me. If I am on it, I do my best to make laps as efficiently as possible (regarding my legendary clumsiness, an aching wrist, difficulties to stay awake, etc.), but I won't let it stress me, and I'll be happy if I am taken out for a cart ride or something. I enjoy cart riding, even, or especially, on the pulling side.
Will I get addicted to the pony/mare thing? I dunno, but it is conditioning me. I am thinking - while making laps - about what I will do after this challenge, and surprisingly being Mistress Dio's mare for some time more is a candidate: having all the restrictions, but no more laps to do, and being taken for rides and stuff... I think I understand my sis Dana when she also desired to keep on the huMare hood after her challenge... we could pull a cart together?
whinnies, Danii
These laps.... *sigh* as you might guess it is the subject of this post. For sure it is the hardest part in this challenge! Hard for body and soul, and maybe even for my hardware!
For starters, as I just said, someone has to let you out so you can start making laps.
Then there is the huge number of laps that you have to make. 1000 a week, let's assume you have a little RL too and log in to SL 5 days a week. That's 200 a day. I haven't tried to get exact measures, but this means almost 2 hours of constant running. Plus the time you might have to wait in the beginning. Plus the time you are taken out for other tasks, since the stable Mistresses can also take you for some dressage, or to pull a cart, or...
I was taken out to pull a cart yesterday. My first thought was like "oh no, how am I gonna make enough laps now?!" But then I enjoyed and was happy with it, as those laps are boring after all, and some diversification is very welcome. I hope more stable Mistresses take me out for other chores every now and then.
After all I calculated from the beginning 4 weeks won't be enough for me to make those 4000 laps. First of all because I have a RL that most of the time won't allow me to spend 2 or more hours in SL 5 days a week. Then there is the monotony of the laps, that already followed me in my sleep the second night I had been on it. And, those watching yesterday might have noticed me sometimes deviating from the track, that was because the RL me was simply falling asleep at the computer, the up arrow pressed, but the turning no longer under control. Really. And then I woke up in the middle of the court, quite disoriented by the limited vision. That happened multiple times!
My up key is going to be totally worn out after this adventure, and as I am already at risk for RSI, I will have to be careful not to push it too far. Should I try to tape the key so I don't have to push it myself? But then you hear 2 claps of the whip, meaning stop...
After all I had some time yesterday. It was the first day I reached the 200 laps BTW, bringing my total after 3 sessions to about 480, after 5 days.
So, am I complaining? Not really. I can deal with the restrictions very well, but, to be honest, that was to be expected. 1000 laps a week on the other hand, is a lot. And it's boring, causing RSI and sleep problems, consuming time that could be usefully spent on other things (but this is true for SL in general),...
In the end, I did some estimation it might take me about 8 weeks (instead of 4) to fulfil the imposed 4000 laps. Maybe it will be only 7. I don't care too much about the time it will take me. If I am on it, I do my best to make laps as efficiently as possible (regarding my legendary clumsiness, an aching wrist, difficulties to stay awake, etc.), but I won't let it stress me, and I'll be happy if I am taken out for a cart ride or something. I enjoy cart riding, even, or especially, on the pulling side.
Will I get addicted to the pony/mare thing? I dunno, but it is conditioning me. I am thinking - while making laps - about what I will do after this challenge, and surprisingly being Mistress Dio's mare for some time more is a candidate: having all the restrictions, but no more laps to do, and being taken for rides and stuff... I think I understand my sis Dana when she also desired to keep on the huMare hood after her challenge... we could pull a cart together?
whinnies, Danii
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Rubber Mare
I mentioned it already in my previous post, and there we are: a hu-mare at S'n'R!
Mistress Dio has put a nice report on my transformation on their blog, also with some pictures. She suggested that I would blog a little while spending time waiting in the box for someone to let me out to run laps…
And that's exactly what I'm doing right now: waiting in a box in the stable for some human to open the door and let me out, or take my reins or whatever they want, since I am not able to do much more than be a dumb horse.
- oh wait, there is a human! … Bummer, she didn't let me out. -
If you want to know what a huMare looks like, you can look at the pictures on the Maurer's Blog, or you can come visit Stones'n'Rubber, where you can find some Rubber Mares most of the time. What you can't see from the outside however, is how it looks and feels from the inside. Some notecard might tell you about the program and the heavy restrictions it involves, but i's difficult to imagine if you've never experienced it. The HuMare program is described as very strict and harsh, and maybe because of that it was exactly what was attracting me in it.
Let's give a quick overview of my restricted world: what comes to the eye first, is the limited vision. Not alone am I forced to mouselook constantly, I have to peek through eyeholes also, and to top it off there's also a pair of blinders narrowing my sight. The eyeholes are not that bad to be honest, I have been finding my way around with smaller peek holes in the MD gas mask. The combination with the blinkers is a bit… wicked though, as the combined effect of the holes is more than just a smaller view field: seen through the eyeholes, the blinkers are easily misinterpreted by the brain for a wall or something, thus giving the feeling of a less limited vision than you actually have… nice.
Within this restriction, the mouselook is not much of a limitation, as I found out long ago with the MD mask that mouselook actually is the best way to find your way with a vision limited like this.
I'm not sure I even tried, but talking of course is prevented also. IM is totally blocked too, but that's a good thing as it is only distractive. ^^
And hearing? I have no idea what is said around me, although I am not to be considered completely deaf. HuMares have some kind of "pet hearing", meaning they can't understand human chat initially, but they can learn to understand some words eventually. I have written a similar script also.
Further on, I have absolutely no touch. What would I touch with my hoofs? And no names, mares are just mares, humans are just humans, although I am sure I will recognize close family members on sight when they visit. If they don't disguise themself too much, of course.
All this restrictions are putting me in a rather strict isolation. But I think I can say I am used to this, as I have experienced similar restrictions before, even for prolonged times. For short times anyone might support this…
My commitment here is for at least 4 weeks, but to be honest, I think it will be some more. This is because of the hardest part of the whole program: huMares have to run laps, 1000 a week. So that's 4000 laps in total for me. And I won't get released before I make them…
Actually, I don't want to get released too early, I don't care to be a Rubber Mare for more than 4 weeks. Making all those laps on the other side, is something that is not really attracting me. But I chose it, and I want to succeed and finish it! This all of course is my opinion now, maybe I'll squeak otherwise within a few weeks…
whinnies, Danii
Mistress Dio has put a nice report on my transformation on their blog, also with some pictures. She suggested that I would blog a little while spending time waiting in the box for someone to let me out to run laps…
And that's exactly what I'm doing right now: waiting in a box in the stable for some human to open the door and let me out, or take my reins or whatever they want, since I am not able to do much more than be a dumb horse.
- oh wait, there is a human! … Bummer, she didn't let me out. -
If you want to know what a huMare looks like, you can look at the pictures on the Maurer's Blog, or you can come visit Stones'n'Rubber, where you can find some Rubber Mares most of the time. What you can't see from the outside however, is how it looks and feels from the inside. Some notecard might tell you about the program and the heavy restrictions it involves, but i's difficult to imagine if you've never experienced it. The HuMare program is described as very strict and harsh, and maybe because of that it was exactly what was attracting me in it.
Let's give a quick overview of my restricted world: what comes to the eye first, is the limited vision. Not alone am I forced to mouselook constantly, I have to peek through eyeholes also, and to top it off there's also a pair of blinders narrowing my sight. The eyeholes are not that bad to be honest, I have been finding my way around with smaller peek holes in the MD gas mask. The combination with the blinkers is a bit… wicked though, as the combined effect of the holes is more than just a smaller view field: seen through the eyeholes, the blinkers are easily misinterpreted by the brain for a wall or something, thus giving the feeling of a less limited vision than you actually have… nice.
Within this restriction, the mouselook is not much of a limitation, as I found out long ago with the MD mask that mouselook actually is the best way to find your way with a vision limited like this.
I'm not sure I even tried, but talking of course is prevented also. IM is totally blocked too, but that's a good thing as it is only distractive. ^^
And hearing? I have no idea what is said around me, although I am not to be considered completely deaf. HuMares have some kind of "pet hearing", meaning they can't understand human chat initially, but they can learn to understand some words eventually. I have written a similar script also.
Further on, I have absolutely no touch. What would I touch with my hoofs? And no names, mares are just mares, humans are just humans, although I am sure I will recognize close family members on sight when they visit. If they don't disguise themself too much, of course.
All this restrictions are putting me in a rather strict isolation. But I think I can say I am used to this, as I have experienced similar restrictions before, even for prolonged times. For short times anyone might support this…
My commitment here is for at least 4 weeks, but to be honest, I think it will be some more. This is because of the hardest part of the whole program: huMares have to run laps, 1000 a week. So that's 4000 laps in total for me. And I won't get released before I make them…
Actually, I don't want to get released too early, I don't care to be a Rubber Mare for more than 4 weeks. Making all those laps on the other side, is something that is not really attracting me. But I chose it, and I want to succeed and finish it! This all of course is my opinion now, maybe I'll squeak otherwise within a few weeks…
whinnies, Danii