Happy Birthday Mom!

[crossover_chick]

And Lewis Carroll, of course -- can't forget the author of Alice. :) But Mom had a good birthday -- I was able to get her exactly the presents she wanted (a new cookie sheet and a "silpat" silicone baking mat to stop stuff like cookies sticking to said sheet) and she and Dad went out antiquing and she got a new bracelet. And when I got home from work, we had pizza and got a little chocolate marbled cheesecake to share with Hershey's Special Dark chocolate ice cream topping. Delicious. :D

My day went all right -- finished off that CAP thing, did some obituaries, did a lot of maintenance that involved moving stuff around, and took a phone call right at the end of the day helping some lady figure out her giving history for tax purposes -- fortunately I didn't miss my bus! I also got a bunch done on Chapter 12 -- cracked out the art book for Alice: Madness Returns again as I redid the description of Fixxler's shop. I'm so glad to finally have him in the story now -- he's fun. And eee, we're ramping up to Victor's big moment~

There is one small negative to today -- I've more or less finally given up on DragonVale. I can't even get the app to open today for more than a second without it crashing. It's just -- it's more stress than fun right now. If and when I update my tablet, I'll probably come back to it, but for now. . . I did get what I wanted most of all beforehand -- the fire-breathing dragonarium. That'll hold me for now. :)

Anyway -- I've been working hard clearing out my inbox (well, okay, first I listened to some music on Youtube and mucked around for a bit, THEN I started working hard on clearing out my inbox) -- replied to some reviews, gonna get to another big DW PM in a minute. Also caught up on tumblr, reblogged a few things there. And Weebly's editor is working again, so here's Chapter 11 of "Remembering You" and Gigs's 2013 Christmas fic. Gonna do that PM and see about getting my tumblr queue for at least the weekend settled. Night all!

Comments

[gigs_83]

Sorry about DragonVale. :(

So I had a dream. Remember forever ago when we used to do "DVD commentaries" for fics? I had a dream that you, me, Victor and Alice did a commentary. I can't remember what story it was, unfortunately.

[crossover_chick]

It's okay -- like the lady from their support told me, I've got an older device, and you gotta expect some problems. Ah well. Like I said, I got all the dragons at least once. I can say I "won" the game, however briefly. :P

Oh cripes, that was forever ago. . .and aww! Too bad you can't remember which one. Secundus, maybe, given it's Victor and Alice? :P

[martyfan]

Too bad about Dragonvale. :( Mine hasn't been able to load without instacrashing for a long time now.

[crossover_chick]

I e-mailed support back in the Frosty Jubilee days, and she basically told me that my device isn't suited to playing the game anymore -- it's an iPad Mini, and a few years old at this point. It going into instacrash mode isn't exactly unexpected. :( I just look at it this way -- I got all the dragons before this new event started. I can safely say I "won" the game. :P

[kalel_ofkrypton]

Yeah, my iPod is six years old now and it's been like... two years? since it worked.

I got all the dragons that had been released at the time too, so does that mean I won first? :P

[crossover_chick]

O.o You were playing on your IPOD? That's impressive. Though I'm sorry it's now basically an expensive paperweight.

You did! *blows noisemaker* Congrats! (No, seriously, good job, I know how hard some of those suckers are to breed. *glares at the Barite*)

[kalel_ofkrypton]

Damn straight I did! It still works for, like, browsing internet and playing music, and I can still get email (can't send it for some reason, it tells me my password is wrong, yet I can RECEIVE email all day... figure that out), but most graphically intensive games make it throw a fit now. Anything more complex than Bejeweled and it decides it hates life.

[crossover_chick]

O.o Yeah, that's really weird that it can receive e-mail but balks at sending it. But hey, as long as it still plays music (you know, the thing it was DESIGNED TO DO), I think you're good. XD My own iPad Mini still plays the rest of my games more or less fine (Fruit Ninja occasionally suffers instability/crashes, but not NEARLY on the same level as DragonVale did), so I guess I can't complain.