Happy Future Day!
Oct. 21st, 2017 10:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickYes, this being one of the important dates in the trilogy, I have made the effort to get a 10:04 update! Not that I did anything particularly BTTFy today, admittedly. . .though I did wear my Save The Clocktower shirt. So that's gotta count for something. :)
Things that happened today:
-->Went up to the neighborhood that makes up the RI DMV road test area. It's -- not in a good area. ^^; Mom actually drove us up, since there was talk of road construction and of course neither of us knew exactly where the place was. I took over once we reached the actual road where the DMV was, and drove us around for a while. Did pretty well, despite the roads being in fairly miserable condition -- and covered in speed bumps in some places. BIG ones too -- I'm guessing people were really fucking flying around there before they did that. I did miss a stop sign at a four-way stop and thus didn't come to a complete halt. Nothing came of it, but I'll have to be extra-vigilant when it comes to the test. I did handle the eventual return to the house on the highway well, though. 95 isn't quite so scary once you've driven a bit of it a few times. I'm still nervous, but -- it's residential roads. I think I'll be okay.
-->Went ahead and wrote something completely different today -- a snippet of the Holistic Coffee Shop AU! Hey, my mind's been on the Dirk Gently channel recently -- might as well run with it. Get it out of my system a bit. It was fun stuff, though I'm still not entirely sure in my ability to write Dirk and Todd. . .eh, I'm sure Hel (my DGHDA-loving friend who kind of dragged me into the fandom) will enjoy it nonetheless.
-->Played some BioShock! Didn't get a chance to yesterday, so I figured I'd make up for it today. Been exploring the workshops, gathering materials for the bomb I need to make to blow open Ryan's office. Irritatingly, it appears one of the parts I need -- I have to get off Big Daddies.
Guess who's already gotten all the ADAM from the level's available Little Sisters and was hoping not to have to fight more of those diving suit horrors. To be fair, I'm getting a lot better at killing them -- and I was able to cheese one particular fight by noting the Daddy always got stuck in a particular area -- right next to a handy turret, no less. . . So that was all right. Don't appreciate how so much stuff in this area is damn near impossible to hack, though. At least I have some spare automatic hacking tools. . . I also have to figure out how to get into an area underneath some stairs, as I can see goodies and an audio diary. Hmmm. Well, I do have a walkthrough favorited on my iPad. . .
-->Caught up on some more videos in my Watch Later queue (OutsideXBox fun, mainly), Helloween's Secret of Mana set from last week (the heroes have gained the power of Shade magic, from an elemental that looks positively Lovecraftian; also they now have the ability to summon and fly around on an awesome dragon! And you can control them doing so in a semi-3D way!), and his latest Darkwood set (he's out of the forest, but his passage out has led him to an arguably even creepier swamp, full of things like Human Spiders and the like. Also eyeballs in the ground, but the comments insist those are friendly, or at least not actively hostile. . .). Tomorrow I'm marking for The Evil Within 2 sets, along with possibly the next Secret of Mana -- that last one is almost TWO HOURS, though, so we'll see. Depends on what else I might want to do.
-->Mom made cake! :) Chocolate bundt cake -- yummy. Always nice to have a little treat.
Okay, rest of the night should be spent catching up a few things -- I think I'm just gonna queue my RP replies, I'm not really feeling up to any long threads. (And it's not like there's a heck of a lot happening over there right now. People busy with school, from what I can see.) Get the next chapter of "Secundus" up on AO3, watch a couple more things in the Watch Later queue, that sort of stuff. Perhaps it's not the most productive to-do list, but it's the one I have. :p Night all!
Things that happened today:
-->Went up to the neighborhood that makes up the RI DMV road test area. It's -- not in a good area. ^^; Mom actually drove us up, since there was talk of road construction and of course neither of us knew exactly where the place was. I took over once we reached the actual road where the DMV was, and drove us around for a while. Did pretty well, despite the roads being in fairly miserable condition -- and covered in speed bumps in some places. BIG ones too -- I'm guessing people were really fucking flying around there before they did that. I did miss a stop sign at a four-way stop and thus didn't come to a complete halt. Nothing came of it, but I'll have to be extra-vigilant when it comes to the test. I did handle the eventual return to the house on the highway well, though. 95 isn't quite so scary once you've driven a bit of it a few times. I'm still nervous, but -- it's residential roads. I think I'll be okay.
-->Went ahead and wrote something completely different today -- a snippet of the Holistic Coffee Shop AU! Hey, my mind's been on the Dirk Gently channel recently -- might as well run with it. Get it out of my system a bit. It was fun stuff, though I'm still not entirely sure in my ability to write Dirk and Todd. . .eh, I'm sure Hel (my DGHDA-loving friend who kind of dragged me into the fandom) will enjoy it nonetheless.
-->Played some BioShock! Didn't get a chance to yesterday, so I figured I'd make up for it today. Been exploring the workshops, gathering materials for the bomb I need to make to blow open Ryan's office. Irritatingly, it appears one of the parts I need -- I have to get off Big Daddies.
Guess who's already gotten all the ADAM from the level's available Little Sisters and was hoping not to have to fight more of those diving suit horrors. To be fair, I'm getting a lot better at killing them -- and I was able to cheese one particular fight by noting the Daddy always got stuck in a particular area -- right next to a handy turret, no less. . . So that was all right. Don't appreciate how so much stuff in this area is damn near impossible to hack, though. At least I have some spare automatic hacking tools. . . I also have to figure out how to get into an area underneath some stairs, as I can see goodies and an audio diary. Hmmm. Well, I do have a walkthrough favorited on my iPad. . .
-->Caught up on some more videos in my Watch Later queue (OutsideXBox fun, mainly), Helloween's Secret of Mana set from last week (the heroes have gained the power of Shade magic, from an elemental that looks positively Lovecraftian; also they now have the ability to summon and fly around on an awesome dragon! And you can control them doing so in a semi-3D way!), and his latest Darkwood set (he's out of the forest, but his passage out has led him to an arguably even creepier swamp, full of things like Human Spiders and the like. Also eyeballs in the ground, but the comments insist those are friendly, or at least not actively hostile. . .). Tomorrow I'm marking for The Evil Within 2 sets, along with possibly the next Secret of Mana -- that last one is almost TWO HOURS, though, so we'll see. Depends on what else I might want to do.
-->Mom made cake! :) Chocolate bundt cake -- yummy. Always nice to have a little treat.
Okay, rest of the night should be spent catching up a few things -- I think I'm just gonna queue my RP replies, I'm not really feeling up to any long threads. (And it's not like there's a heck of a lot happening over there right now. People busy with school, from what I can see.) Get the next chapter of "Secundus" up on AO3, watch a couple more things in the Watch Later queue, that sort of stuff. Perhaps it's not the most productive to-do list, but it's the one I have. :p Night all!
