Welcome!!

Many people have told me that I really need to do a blog, so here it is. :P Welcome to the mind of Rocky Merosi. Rocky is an avatar in Second Life. If you dont know what Second Life is, you can get information at www.secondlife.com. I will try to post here as often as time allows.

I have been in Second Life since August 19, 2006 as Rocky. My first avatar was named Sammy Steinhardt, but I deleted him because I started off completely wrong in SL. I came to SL because a friend of mine from a text based game told me it was a rip off, so naturaly I had to check it out. When I got here, I was very amazed at how technical it was and I was hooked.

During my first week in SL, I found myself at a strip club and that is where I met Yuri. Yuri had started very shortly before me and we instantly became friends. To this day, he remains my best friend/brother in SL and RL.

Yuri and I played around at that club and eventually became volunteer security there. We did that for a couple weeks and got to be good friends with some of the dancers there. A few of them decided to break off and do a club of their own. I was actually invited to be a part of that as one of the co-owners and hence, Ivory Manor was born.

I was involved with Ivory Manor for a short time until I deleted Sammy and created Rocky. As a newbie, Rocky continued to be a part of the club industry in SL by holding various management and dancer training positions in many clubs. I had spent over 10 years prior to SL playing on a text based game, so I got good at describing which was great for dancer and escort emoting.

After a couple months of doing that, I decided that I wanted to do my own club. I named it Club Kryptonite and it was an instant success. It started on a 8096 sqm parcel and within 3 months, I had purchased my first sim (Merosi Island) and moved the club there plus added a mall and other features.

I ended up closing CK in March of 2007 due to the income being significantly less than it was back when I started in clubs. I ended up turning the sim into various themed rentals. It was at that time when I met my SL wife.

Elseamae and I met through a friend who lived on Merosi Island and we instantly became attached to eachother. She has been there for me through everything including when I unfortunately had to sell my sim due to financial reasons. We ended up partnering August 23, 2007, engaged on September 1, married September 23, and we had twin babies in SL on March 1, 2008.

All of that has been wonderful, but the most wonderful part of our relationship was when my son and I moved to Minnesota RL on April 2, 2008 to be with Elsea and be a family. To this day I have found no greater happiness than with my fiance and my son together.

Elseamae and I own a sim (The Magic Soapbox) and on it is the largest lucky chair shop in SL. We started Magical Freebies and More!! in September of 2007 and it has been a great success. To this day it is still open.

In September of 2007, I accepted a position as General Manager of Alicia Stella Design in SL. The unique thing about this position is that it was a full time job that paid RL full time wages and it was all in world. I still have that position now even after a year and I love it. For more info on Alicia Stella Design, visit www.aliciastella.com.

Anyways I will close this now. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Otherwise, I am going to do my second blog right away about SLCC 2008 that I went to last weekend. Have fun and be safe.

Rocky