Back To Normal Tomorrow
Aug. 15th, 2017 11:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickWell, mostly normal -- it is a very short work week. And probably a busy one, given we'll have a lot to squeeze into just two and a half days. But at least that should make it go by all the faster. Always a little hard to go back to work after a nice long weekend. . . But if I want to keep having money to pay off my mortgage, I'd better keep at it.
Notes on today:
-->Ended up not driving -- the plan was that I'd drive us to an ice cream place and back today as my trip, but the day ended up not being good for going out for ice cream (kinda cloudy and not particularly hot; just mid 70s F). It's all right, though -- I did a lot of driving in a lot of places this weekend, and the idea is that we'll go out tomorrow since it's supposed to be nicer and hotter, so I'm not missing out too much.
-->Unfortunately, driving time was taken up with "arguing with Cox" time -- my password STILL wasn't working for their site (also I'd somehow ended up going paperless with my bill). We think it's fixed now -- I finally got a verification e-mail for my, er, e-mail -- so fingers crossed. Real test will come when it's time to pay my bill, I suppose. Fingers crossed. . .
-->Did some writing/editing on "Fixing You" -- it's a bit slow going in parts, but I'm hammering it into shape. Refining a few ideas here and there, getting Dr. Wilson a little more involved, going over the issues that will be solved over the course of the story. . . Come hell or high water, I WILL get this thing done.
-->Played more Bioshock -- I officially hate Nitro Splicers and Big Daddies. Died SO MANY TIMES to this second "Rosie" model with the Rivet Gun and those stupid mines they can throw (and that come so randomly I can't try catch and return with Telekinesis). Did manage to slaughter the damn thing eventually, and save the Little Sister. Helps that I snuck past it first to get another Plasmid slot open and reequip my Incinerate! Fire really is handy. Also handy is having cover in a fight and being able to hack shit. I'm actually getting rather good at the hacking minigame -- and I've got a tonic equipped that gives me health and EVE for hacking, so that's useful. :) I also now have a grenade launcher, which should come in handy. >:D Currently working my way around to get a research camera for one of the NPCs, Peach Wilkins. Now when enemies attack me, I'm expected to take pictures! Fun. (I am enjoying the game, it's just -- it has some weird ideas sometimes.)
-->Watched another episode of Parenthood (the Powers go to a restaurant! The customers all start cleaning up plates because James forgot to lock the kitchen properly! Max ages up into a teenager and is the definition of a tool!), Helloween's latest Pripyat set (exploring a creepy lab with poltergeists, telekinetic Ewok-like things, and Controller mutants! Investigating flame anomalies at night! Discovering NPCs with plot armor can take a bunch of dogs to the ankles and a bloodsucker to the face!), and a stream he did of Alice: Madness Returns with American McGee present (American McGee apparently is not that good at playing his own game now that he's not a developer by his own admission! He also can't remember his own development process as the artbook clearly states that there was a set of weapons based on the tarot they considered, while he says it was pretty much always going to be the more kitchen-and-toy-themed set we finally got! I'm still not backing his new Kickstarter because I don't trust him after Otherlands!) So that ate up plenty of time.
-->Just did my Valice Multiverse queue -- short and sweet, but a friend did some cute fanart of one of her characters and shared it with me. So that was nice too. :)
And now I need to go to bed. Night all, sleep tight, hope I don't feel too overwhelmed tomorrow!
Notes on today:
-->Ended up not driving -- the plan was that I'd drive us to an ice cream place and back today as my trip, but the day ended up not being good for going out for ice cream (kinda cloudy and not particularly hot; just mid 70s F). It's all right, though -- I did a lot of driving in a lot of places this weekend, and the idea is that we'll go out tomorrow since it's supposed to be nicer and hotter, so I'm not missing out too much.
-->Unfortunately, driving time was taken up with "arguing with Cox" time -- my password STILL wasn't working for their site (also I'd somehow ended up going paperless with my bill). We think it's fixed now -- I finally got a verification e-mail for my, er, e-mail -- so fingers crossed. Real test will come when it's time to pay my bill, I suppose. Fingers crossed. . .
-->Did some writing/editing on "Fixing You" -- it's a bit slow going in parts, but I'm hammering it into shape. Refining a few ideas here and there, getting Dr. Wilson a little more involved, going over the issues that will be solved over the course of the story. . . Come hell or high water, I WILL get this thing done.
-->Played more Bioshock -- I officially hate Nitro Splicers and Big Daddies. Died SO MANY TIMES to this second "Rosie" model with the Rivet Gun and those stupid mines they can throw (and that come so randomly I can't try catch and return with Telekinesis). Did manage to slaughter the damn thing eventually, and save the Little Sister. Helps that I snuck past it first to get another Plasmid slot open and reequip my Incinerate! Fire really is handy. Also handy is having cover in a fight and being able to hack shit. I'm actually getting rather good at the hacking minigame -- and I've got a tonic equipped that gives me health and EVE for hacking, so that's useful. :) I also now have a grenade launcher, which should come in handy. >:D Currently working my way around to get a research camera for one of the NPCs, Peach Wilkins. Now when enemies attack me, I'm expected to take pictures! Fun. (I am enjoying the game, it's just -- it has some weird ideas sometimes.)
-->Watched another episode of Parenthood (the Powers go to a restaurant! The customers all start cleaning up plates because James forgot to lock the kitchen properly! Max ages up into a teenager and is the definition of a tool!), Helloween's latest Pripyat set (exploring a creepy lab with poltergeists, telekinetic Ewok-like things, and Controller mutants! Investigating flame anomalies at night! Discovering NPCs with plot armor can take a bunch of dogs to the ankles and a bloodsucker to the face!), and a stream he did of Alice: Madness Returns with American McGee present (American McGee apparently is not that good at playing his own game now that he's not a developer by his own admission! He also can't remember his own development process as the artbook clearly states that there was a set of weapons based on the tarot they considered, while he says it was pretty much always going to be the more kitchen-and-toy-themed set we finally got! I'm still not backing his new Kickstarter because I don't trust him after Otherlands!) So that ate up plenty of time.
-->Just did my Valice Multiverse queue -- short and sweet, but a friend did some cute fanart of one of her characters and shared it with me. So that was nice too. :)
And now I need to go to bed. Night all, sleep tight, hope I don't feel too overwhelmed tomorrow!
