An Even More Fallout Sunday
Feb. 7th, 2021 11:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickYeah, wearing one of my new Fallout 4 shirts that I got for Christmas today was definitely the right call, as it was almost all-Fallout, all the time here today. Let me show you the to-do list so you can see for yourself:
1. Watch the three tomatoanus videos I put in my Watch Later, Call Me Kevin, and Jon's FO4 YOLO episode: Two-thirds check – due to the length of the third tomatoanus video, me fitting in a workout, and various other distractions, I was unable to get to Kevin. At least my Watch Later is completely clear?
A) Started with speedrunner tomatoanus, as I implied I might, and the three in my Watch Later from him –
1. First, a video on the reason behind the name “tomatoanus!” I was wondering why this was twenty-one minutes long, and the reason is – every time someone asks on stream, he tells another bullshit story about why he chose that username. XD Sometimes two different ones in the same stream! Stories range from “I had bad diarrhea after eating a deep dish pizza with tomato chunks as a kid” to “I ordered a tomato costume for Halloween that came ON Halloween, and the wrinkles on it from the package made it look like a butt” to “there was this tagger in my hometown who spray-painted tomatoes on things, and I decided to make all their tomatoes look like they had anuses because I was a dumb teenager who didn’t like the tag.” XD Gotta give the dude credit for a good multiple-choice past for the name!
2. Second, a video on a “sexpercent” speedrun – a speedrun where the goal is not to complete the game, but to get laid as fast as possible. Soonest possible partner you can find is good old Magnolia in Goodneighbor (you can go on a date with her if you pass all Charisma checks, and it explicitly ends with a “Lover’s Embrace”), so the only trick is to get to her as fast as possible. Tomatoanus, being the kind of speedrunner who enjoys explaining his runs, gave us the rundown, specifically using some new glitches to phase through the elevator at the beginning to cut a good half-minute off his run (at the expense of his health due to dropping into the area from a great height), then using the fact that Fallout 4 has TWO invisible floors beneath its gameworlds to stop characters who get out of bounds from falling forever to skip the elevator ride back up and just load straight into Sanctuary (hitting the first would put him back at the cryopod, but hitting the second catapults you into the elevator’s load zone). From there, a “punchwarp” set up by attacking some radroaches catapulted him to Greentech Genetics, where he was able to swim and run over to Goodneighbor, sprint into the Third Rail, attack a patron to get Magnolia to stop her set, then charm her with his 10 Charisma. Sometimes being a “quantum anomaly” doesn’t impress her, but Tomato was lucky and got himself one of his world records – ten minutes, 37 seconds it looks like! Nice :D And then it ended with him attacking Magnolia and her killing his low-health character. XD Good times!
3. And third – the longest of the bunch – speedrunning the Fallout series, back-to-back! Specifically it’s a “Fallout Anthology Main Series Any % Speedrun” – speedrunning 1, 2, 3, New Vegas, and 4 in order back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back. It was a pretty fascinating watch as he loaded up each game and glitched the hell out of it. XD Explaining said glitches all the while, since that’s his schtick. Turns out in Fallout, you don’t even need to find the water chip – you just gotta blow up the Master’s bases, and you’re good! Both the original games can be beaten in a matter of minutes if you know what you’re doing. FO3 and FO: New Vegas require about a half-hour each, and FO4 takes the longest, I think. At any rate, it was a fun watch, and a wild run – he actually hooks up a heart rate monitor to himself while he does these, so you can see exactly where he starts getting super nervous. XD I am duly impressed by his speedrun skills!
B) Then it was over to Jon’s Fallout 4 YOLO episode! Today’s episode featured – apart from a stop by Covenant to finish “Human Error” by siding with the town in his Charisma gear to avoid being shot at – three main themes:
I. Jon doesn’t know what he can and can’t do in the game – turns out Contraptions gave you the ability to make certain items via a “Builder,” and one of those items are the Vault-Tec lunchboxes he risked his neck for the other week. Jon thought Finalley needed the "Science" perk; she does not. So now he has that thing going so he can make more bottlecap mines.
II. Jon needs better firepower – cue him skirting Chaos Junction (wondering why all the roads around Diamond City suddenly have raiders all around them) and working his way around the Cambridge Police Station to head to Bedford Station and pick up a fresh spawn of a Railway Rifle! This thing does frightening amounts of damage with its railway spikes and will hopefully be a worthy replacement for the laser rifle it is replacing in Jon’s loadout.
III. Jon needs vertibirds, because just walking around is actually more dangerous than doing missions these days. So once he’d rested up (because overtired means he HAS to give up his Adrenaline), he was off and rolling to the Cambridge police station, and from there to the Prydwen to join up with the Brotherhood of Steel! Because, if nothing else, they have nice vertibirds that can fly you places. Though, hilariously, in his “loyalty mission” to them to take out Fort Strong, Jon actively avoided the vertibird he was supposed to use to fly there. Reason? The Behemoth that spawns there attacking the damn thing, causing damage Jon can’t avoid and sometimes ending things in a fiery crash, because vertibirds are made of paper. XD So instead Jon took his new power armor, jumped off the side of the Prydwen (just in time to see a bunch of recruits practicing at the firing range setting a vertibird parked behind it on fire – yeah, the BOS totally has it together), then headed toward Fort Strong on foot to take out the mutants THAT way. And, along the way, he did a thing for Teagan and bullied the Nordhagen Beach settlers into giving a portion of their crops to the Brotherhood.
He was immediately punished for that and for supporting Convenant’s sick experiments by having to deal with the most annoying Legendary Super Mutant Butcher and his friends ever. Ranged shots were just NOT killing these guys like Jon had hoped (mostly because he had low Adrenaline), and the Butcher came within a hair’s breath of finding him at the little wrecked house he was using as cover. Like, seriously, Jon saw the guy’s hand behind a wall and nearly had a panic attack. And when Jon finally DID get him down. . .he had a Hunter’s Meat Hook on him. Arguably one of the most useless legendary drops Jon has gotten. AND, since he kept falling in the water going back and forth across the bridge to fight them, he also picked up the illness “parasites,” meaning he needs to eat more. And all of that happened before fighting the Behemoth, which took not only an artillery barrage from the Castle (which at least killed the remaining regular Super Mutants), and a critical Fat Man to the head, but also a few regular shots from Jon’s sniper. XD Jon was fully stressed out after all that and decided to end the episode before going into Fort Strong itself. XD I’d suggest doing some sort of warm-up to prep yourself for that at the beginning of next week’s episode, Jon, but looking at your track record, I think that would turn out WORSE for you than if you just went straight in.
2. Play some Fallout 4 and see if I can at least get through the opening quest for Sanctuary: Check – though I had a scare right at the beginning where, when I was trying to get into the Museum of Freedom (after updating my “Advanced Needs 2” settings), the game would just crash during the “entering cell” black loading screen. Fortunately, it seems all I needed to do to “fix” this one was make a quicksave after updating my settings, do a lap around the Museum of Freedom in my power armor, and THEN enter the Museum. Dunno what reset, don’t care. Anyway, I got through the dialogue with Preston, then walked with the gang over to Sanctuary, where an exhausted Victor – running on old Nuka-Cola – went to bed. He caught up with Preston the next morning to talk about the next step, revealing his origins and agreeing to help the guy with another settlement that needs help (good old Tenpines Bluff). First things first, though – gotta set up Sanctuary as a proper settlement. After talking to Jun and Mama Murphy, I located Sturges on a roof (he likes to be tall), built some stairs to get up to him, and did the “build beds” and “get clean water” portions of the “Sanctuary” quest. I sent Victor to bed when he got tired, then got him up bright and early to do some laps around Sanctuary looking for Codsworth. Finally found him, and have teamed up with him to explore the surrounding area and get over to the apple orchard (as in-fic I figure he’d be the one who knows it’s still around). Dogmeat’s back at the Red Rocket in the meantime. So maybe not a full check, since I’m still working on the quest, but I got a pretty good chunk of stuff done! I think that’s good.
3. Write up some more rough drafts of posts I can do for this week on my Victor Luvs Alice tumblr: Check, though I wasn’t sure for a while there – my pre-YOLO writing time was taken up with summarizing what I watched with my workout today (below) and writing up my notes from today’s FO4 play session (above). But after watching YOLO, I went and stared at my tumblr drafts for Victor Luvs Alice, and eventually came up with something for Sims Wednesday – showcasing some of the pictures I’ve taken from my other save file, the one I started playing almost by accident because I wanted some Valice time that wasn’t with the Newcrest variation of the couple. XD Hey, I have pictures of them getting engaged – that’s more than appropriate for the week before Valentine’s! And I’ve got a quick rough draft of a post for Thursday showing off my current version of Sole Survivor Victor (now that I know I don’t have to scrap him and start over), so yay! I’m prepared! :D
4.Get in a workout: Check! Back to the bike, and back to Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! Caught back up with Grills and Nick in Shaw High School, creeping around, killing lots of high-level Super Mutants (Masters and Primuses galore) and figuring out the story of the school. As Jon suspected, the students there were being drugged with Mentats to increase their test scores. But it wasn’t anything official – instead, the principal, Tanner, secured the efforts of a bunch of delinquents, including one Rusty Burton, to procure and hand out the drugs. Of course, what he didn’t reckon was RUSTY also taking the drugs, getting smarter, and realizing that Tanner was happily taking the increase in funding the school got from the jump in test scores and lining his own pockets. So Rusty lured him into a meeting, got him to admit to everything while being recorded, and then blackmailed him into handing over half of his embezzled money or he’d go to the superintendent. Jon was quite tickled by the story and happily declared that Fallout 4 was great, just because he kept finding new stuff in it a year on, even with playing it so much for his channel. It was very cute.
That ended episode 49 – episode 50 saw Grills, refreshed from a nap in the nearby hospital, clearing out more Super Mutants from the nearby West Roxbury station. However, for whatever reason, Nick wasn’t with him! Not because he’d gotten accidentally dismissed – instead, Nick just – wasn’t there. Jon couldn’t figure out where he’d gotten to, so he just tried his best to carry on without him (grumbling about how he wasn’t getting his “Lone Wanderer” bonuses all the while). The station was again full of really high-level Super Mutants – a Legendary Primus and a WARLORD among them. Jon got a lot of use out of his Gauss Rifle, that’s for sure! With them sorted, he decided to head over to Quincy’s police station for the next Eddie Winter holotape via Jamaica Plain, as he’d forgotten he’d mostly cleared it out a while back and was looking forward to playing “are any of these ghouls legendaries?” Along the way he encountered a BOS patrol group, who took out a Legendary Alpha Deathclaw and a Mr. Gutsy for him, which made his life just that bit easier. (Even if the gear he got wasn’t the greatest – Rad-Powered Leather Chest Piece, sadly.) He finished off the ghouls in Jamaica Plain, then took a small detour to do a certain side quest. I left him talking to a certain Kid In A Fridge. XD Looking forward to seeing him do that one – I don’t think I’ve seen it fully played out before! Just heard about people bitching about it as it’s kind of a dumb quest just for the lols and doesn’t make any sense (Billy is supposed to be a ghoulified kid trapped in a fridge for 200 odd years, but given ghouls DO need to eat and sleep. . .). Still, it should be fun to see how Grills handles this – you’re Brotherhood, Grills! Aren’t you supposed to dislike ghouls? Then again, not even Danse can bring himself to dislike reuniting a kid with his parents, if I remember what I've read about this quest correctly. . .
And you can add to the above:
-->Me spending a decent chunk of my post-midnight fiddling around on the web last night making the beginnings of a "Fallout of Darkness" playlist on Spotify -- only six songs so far, but I'm happy with them. Just sad that a remix I found on YouTube that also makes me think of it can't go on there too. . .maybe I'll have to make a YouTube version of the playlist as well.
-->Me setting up the queue for Valice Multiverse with a trio of asks -- and one of them being for the "Fallout of Darkness" verse (specifically mentioning the nuclear apocalypse fitting in well with the werewolf end of days. . .hilariously, I've been having some thoughts about werewolves and the Children of Atom lately. . .)
So yeah, EXTREMELY Fallout Sunday around these parts. Well, I had to do something while it snowed like crazy outside. We got a good few inches out there! No mention of a delay or work-from-home day yet (I got out the laptop to check my work e-mail), so we'll have to see what it's like in the morning. Seems like they're actually trying to do a good job plowing! But then, we're actually supposed to get more snow on Tuesday, and maybe Friday too. . .February has to be the worst month for winter weather in RI, I swear. Like I said, we'll have to see what it's like in the morning. Right now, I have to finish answering DW comments and hit the sheets, as so far as I know I have a regular day of work. Bleh. Night all!
1. Watch the three tomatoanus videos I put in my Watch Later, Call Me Kevin, and Jon's FO4 YOLO episode: Two-thirds check – due to the length of the third tomatoanus video, me fitting in a workout, and various other distractions, I was unable to get to Kevin. At least my Watch Later is completely clear?
A) Started with speedrunner tomatoanus, as I implied I might, and the three in my Watch Later from him –
1. First, a video on the reason behind the name “tomatoanus!” I was wondering why this was twenty-one minutes long, and the reason is – every time someone asks on stream, he tells another bullshit story about why he chose that username. XD Sometimes two different ones in the same stream! Stories range from “I had bad diarrhea after eating a deep dish pizza with tomato chunks as a kid” to “I ordered a tomato costume for Halloween that came ON Halloween, and the wrinkles on it from the package made it look like a butt” to “there was this tagger in my hometown who spray-painted tomatoes on things, and I decided to make all their tomatoes look like they had anuses because I was a dumb teenager who didn’t like the tag.” XD Gotta give the dude credit for a good multiple-choice past for the name!
2. Second, a video on a “sexpercent” speedrun – a speedrun where the goal is not to complete the game, but to get laid as fast as possible. Soonest possible partner you can find is good old Magnolia in Goodneighbor (you can go on a date with her if you pass all Charisma checks, and it explicitly ends with a “Lover’s Embrace”), so the only trick is to get to her as fast as possible. Tomatoanus, being the kind of speedrunner who enjoys explaining his runs, gave us the rundown, specifically using some new glitches to phase through the elevator at the beginning to cut a good half-minute off his run (at the expense of his health due to dropping into the area from a great height), then using the fact that Fallout 4 has TWO invisible floors beneath its gameworlds to stop characters who get out of bounds from falling forever to skip the elevator ride back up and just load straight into Sanctuary (hitting the first would put him back at the cryopod, but hitting the second catapults you into the elevator’s load zone). From there, a “punchwarp” set up by attacking some radroaches catapulted him to Greentech Genetics, where he was able to swim and run over to Goodneighbor, sprint into the Third Rail, attack a patron to get Magnolia to stop her set, then charm her with his 10 Charisma. Sometimes being a “quantum anomaly” doesn’t impress her, but Tomato was lucky and got himself one of his world records – ten minutes, 37 seconds it looks like! Nice :D And then it ended with him attacking Magnolia and her killing his low-health character. XD Good times!
3. And third – the longest of the bunch – speedrunning the Fallout series, back-to-back! Specifically it’s a “Fallout Anthology Main Series Any % Speedrun” – speedrunning 1, 2, 3, New Vegas, and 4 in order back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back. It was a pretty fascinating watch as he loaded up each game and glitched the hell out of it. XD Explaining said glitches all the while, since that’s his schtick. Turns out in Fallout, you don’t even need to find the water chip – you just gotta blow up the Master’s bases, and you’re good! Both the original games can be beaten in a matter of minutes if you know what you’re doing. FO3 and FO: New Vegas require about a half-hour each, and FO4 takes the longest, I think. At any rate, it was a fun watch, and a wild run – he actually hooks up a heart rate monitor to himself while he does these, so you can see exactly where he starts getting super nervous. XD I am duly impressed by his speedrun skills!
B) Then it was over to Jon’s Fallout 4 YOLO episode! Today’s episode featured – apart from a stop by Covenant to finish “Human Error” by siding with the town in his Charisma gear to avoid being shot at – three main themes:
I. Jon doesn’t know what he can and can’t do in the game – turns out Contraptions gave you the ability to make certain items via a “Builder,” and one of those items are the Vault-Tec lunchboxes he risked his neck for the other week. Jon thought Finalley needed the "Science" perk; she does not. So now he has that thing going so he can make more bottlecap mines.
II. Jon needs better firepower – cue him skirting Chaos Junction (wondering why all the roads around Diamond City suddenly have raiders all around them) and working his way around the Cambridge Police Station to head to Bedford Station and pick up a fresh spawn of a Railway Rifle! This thing does frightening amounts of damage with its railway spikes and will hopefully be a worthy replacement for the laser rifle it is replacing in Jon’s loadout.
III. Jon needs vertibirds, because just walking around is actually more dangerous than doing missions these days. So once he’d rested up (because overtired means he HAS to give up his Adrenaline), he was off and rolling to the Cambridge police station, and from there to the Prydwen to join up with the Brotherhood of Steel! Because, if nothing else, they have nice vertibirds that can fly you places. Though, hilariously, in his “loyalty mission” to them to take out Fort Strong, Jon actively avoided the vertibird he was supposed to use to fly there. Reason? The Behemoth that spawns there attacking the damn thing, causing damage Jon can’t avoid and sometimes ending things in a fiery crash, because vertibirds are made of paper. XD So instead Jon took his new power armor, jumped off the side of the Prydwen (just in time to see a bunch of recruits practicing at the firing range setting a vertibird parked behind it on fire – yeah, the BOS totally has it together), then headed toward Fort Strong on foot to take out the mutants THAT way. And, along the way, he did a thing for Teagan and bullied the Nordhagen Beach settlers into giving a portion of their crops to the Brotherhood.
He was immediately punished for that and for supporting Convenant’s sick experiments by having to deal with the most annoying Legendary Super Mutant Butcher and his friends ever. Ranged shots were just NOT killing these guys like Jon had hoped (mostly because he had low Adrenaline), and the Butcher came within a hair’s breath of finding him at the little wrecked house he was using as cover. Like, seriously, Jon saw the guy’s hand behind a wall and nearly had a panic attack. And when Jon finally DID get him down. . .he had a Hunter’s Meat Hook on him. Arguably one of the most useless legendary drops Jon has gotten. AND, since he kept falling in the water going back and forth across the bridge to fight them, he also picked up the illness “parasites,” meaning he needs to eat more. And all of that happened before fighting the Behemoth, which took not only an artillery barrage from the Castle (which at least killed the remaining regular Super Mutants), and a critical Fat Man to the head, but also a few regular shots from Jon’s sniper. XD Jon was fully stressed out after all that and decided to end the episode before going into Fort Strong itself. XD I’d suggest doing some sort of warm-up to prep yourself for that at the beginning of next week’s episode, Jon, but looking at your track record, I think that would turn out WORSE for you than if you just went straight in.
2. Play some Fallout 4 and see if I can at least get through the opening quest for Sanctuary: Check – though I had a scare right at the beginning where, when I was trying to get into the Museum of Freedom (after updating my “Advanced Needs 2” settings), the game would just crash during the “entering cell” black loading screen. Fortunately, it seems all I needed to do to “fix” this one was make a quicksave after updating my settings, do a lap around the Museum of Freedom in my power armor, and THEN enter the Museum. Dunno what reset, don’t care. Anyway, I got through the dialogue with Preston, then walked with the gang over to Sanctuary, where an exhausted Victor – running on old Nuka-Cola – went to bed. He caught up with Preston the next morning to talk about the next step, revealing his origins and agreeing to help the guy with another settlement that needs help (good old Tenpines Bluff). First things first, though – gotta set up Sanctuary as a proper settlement. After talking to Jun and Mama Murphy, I located Sturges on a roof (he likes to be tall), built some stairs to get up to him, and did the “build beds” and “get clean water” portions of the “Sanctuary” quest. I sent Victor to bed when he got tired, then got him up bright and early to do some laps around Sanctuary looking for Codsworth. Finally found him, and have teamed up with him to explore the surrounding area and get over to the apple orchard (as in-fic I figure he’d be the one who knows it’s still around). Dogmeat’s back at the Red Rocket in the meantime. So maybe not a full check, since I’m still working on the quest, but I got a pretty good chunk of stuff done! I think that’s good.
3. Write up some more rough drafts of posts I can do for this week on my Victor Luvs Alice tumblr: Check, though I wasn’t sure for a while there – my pre-YOLO writing time was taken up with summarizing what I watched with my workout today (below) and writing up my notes from today’s FO4 play session (above). But after watching YOLO, I went and stared at my tumblr drafts for Victor Luvs Alice, and eventually came up with something for Sims Wednesday – showcasing some of the pictures I’ve taken from my other save file, the one I started playing almost by accident because I wanted some Valice time that wasn’t with the Newcrest variation of the couple. XD Hey, I have pictures of them getting engaged – that’s more than appropriate for the week before Valentine’s! And I’ve got a quick rough draft of a post for Thursday showing off my current version of Sole Survivor Victor (now that I know I don’t have to scrap him and start over), so yay! I’m prepared! :D
4.Get in a workout: Check! Back to the bike, and back to Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! Caught back up with Grills and Nick in Shaw High School, creeping around, killing lots of high-level Super Mutants (Masters and Primuses galore) and figuring out the story of the school. As Jon suspected, the students there were being drugged with Mentats to increase their test scores. But it wasn’t anything official – instead, the principal, Tanner, secured the efforts of a bunch of delinquents, including one Rusty Burton, to procure and hand out the drugs. Of course, what he didn’t reckon was RUSTY also taking the drugs, getting smarter, and realizing that Tanner was happily taking the increase in funding the school got from the jump in test scores and lining his own pockets. So Rusty lured him into a meeting, got him to admit to everything while being recorded, and then blackmailed him into handing over half of his embezzled money or he’d go to the superintendent. Jon was quite tickled by the story and happily declared that Fallout 4 was great, just because he kept finding new stuff in it a year on, even with playing it so much for his channel. It was very cute.
That ended episode 49 – episode 50 saw Grills, refreshed from a nap in the nearby hospital, clearing out more Super Mutants from the nearby West Roxbury station. However, for whatever reason, Nick wasn’t with him! Not because he’d gotten accidentally dismissed – instead, Nick just – wasn’t there. Jon couldn’t figure out where he’d gotten to, so he just tried his best to carry on without him (grumbling about how he wasn’t getting his “Lone Wanderer” bonuses all the while). The station was again full of really high-level Super Mutants – a Legendary Primus and a WARLORD among them. Jon got a lot of use out of his Gauss Rifle, that’s for sure! With them sorted, he decided to head over to Quincy’s police station for the next Eddie Winter holotape via Jamaica Plain, as he’d forgotten he’d mostly cleared it out a while back and was looking forward to playing “are any of these ghouls legendaries?” Along the way he encountered a BOS patrol group, who took out a Legendary Alpha Deathclaw and a Mr. Gutsy for him, which made his life just that bit easier. (Even if the gear he got wasn’t the greatest – Rad-Powered Leather Chest Piece, sadly.) He finished off the ghouls in Jamaica Plain, then took a small detour to do a certain side quest. I left him talking to a certain Kid In A Fridge. XD Looking forward to seeing him do that one – I don’t think I’ve seen it fully played out before! Just heard about people bitching about it as it’s kind of a dumb quest just for the lols and doesn’t make any sense (Billy is supposed to be a ghoulified kid trapped in a fridge for 200 odd years, but given ghouls DO need to eat and sleep. . .). Still, it should be fun to see how Grills handles this – you’re Brotherhood, Grills! Aren’t you supposed to dislike ghouls? Then again, not even Danse can bring himself to dislike reuniting a kid with his parents, if I remember what I've read about this quest correctly. . .
And you can add to the above:
-->Me spending a decent chunk of my post-midnight fiddling around on the web last night making the beginnings of a "Fallout of Darkness" playlist on Spotify -- only six songs so far, but I'm happy with them. Just sad that a remix I found on YouTube that also makes me think of it can't go on there too. . .maybe I'll have to make a YouTube version of the playlist as well.
-->Me setting up the queue for Valice Multiverse with a trio of asks -- and one of them being for the "Fallout of Darkness" verse (specifically mentioning the nuclear apocalypse fitting in well with the werewolf end of days. . .hilariously, I've been having some thoughts about werewolves and the Children of Atom lately. . .)
So yeah, EXTREMELY Fallout Sunday around these parts. Well, I had to do something while it snowed like crazy outside. We got a good few inches out there! No mention of a delay or work-from-home day yet (I got out the laptop to check my work e-mail), so we'll have to see what it's like in the morning. Seems like they're actually trying to do a good job plowing! But then, we're actually supposed to get more snow on Tuesday, and maybe Friday too. . .February has to be the worst month for winter weather in RI, I swear. Like I said, we'll have to see what it's like in the morning. Right now, I have to finish answering DW comments and hit the sheets, as so far as I know I have a regular day of work. Bleh. Night all!
