Mobile Phone Upgrades Are A Pain
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crossover_chickEspecially when you have to go through like two layers of the website AND two layers of customer service to discover that the SIM card that came with the phone isn't going to be compatible with the plan you want to buy, so you then have to buy the plan (and pay for the whole year in one go) and wait three to five days for a new SIM card in the mail. *grumbles* Just -- ugh. I know it's a useful upgrade, but I don't like stress, especially when I'm reasonably certain at least some of my grumpiness is coming from PMS. Really gotta watch the old downstairs over these next few days. . .
Anyway! Apart from that eating up pretty much all of my time after work, let's see how my day was:
Work – All right, I suppose – most of the day for me was going through exceptions, updating deceased records and taking people off our mailing list and the like. Both credit-card-related ones were easily resolved too, yay. . .granted, the OTHER credit card related thing I tried to resolve did not go well, but I wasn’t expecting it to at this point, so. . . Look, we’re past the halfway point of the week, that’s all I care about.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike again, and back with Mind Your Manors! Having had a look in the secret passage, Dob and Prudence now had to figure out – what do we even do in the secret passage? Do we want to let Henry Charles Fauntleroy Stripworth Colquhuon The Third At Your Service, AKA Hank (or The Big H, or H-Bomb, as was suggested – or Henners as Egbert called him at one point, which made him visibly contort with anger XD) know we know about the secret passage? Hmmm. . .eventually, Prudence made the decision to go look for the library, which she and Dob found without much trouble, and started searching for books! Prudence critted a roll to find some grimoires (though she needed Andy’s help to realize it WAS a crit – new dice, didn’t realize the Elder Sign was the 20) and got herself a pair of puppy-dog eldritch tomes who were VERY happy to see her. :) Dob, meanwhile, decided to look for anything pertaining to the history of the place, and managed to find a woodcut album! With, uh, all the faces of the previous owners burned away. Worrying. Prudence told him to keep it on him and they’d figure it out later.
While all this was happening, Hank returned with Corazon’s grog, and offered to show the group up to their rooms – Egbert demurred, saying he was famished and asking where the kitchen was; Hank told him to follow his nose, and Egbert was like “do I have a choice?” XD Corazon and Merilwen consented to be taken to the rooms prepared for them, which were – basically magical places that perfectly suited their personalities. Merilwen got an indoor forest glen complete with a little pond and croaking frogs and a silken hammock; Corazon a room full of riches and finery and booze galore! Niiice. . . Dob and Prudence, after accidentally summoning Hank to their location post-book-grab, got led up to their rooms as well (eventually – Dob and Hank got stuck in a bit of a conversational loop regarding the rooms being “prepared”) – Dob had a nice hang-out parlor with a cozy bed and a place to write down some new song ideas, while Prudence got the perfect blend of brimstone hell and clammy briny seawater, complete with a room of blood en-suite. :D So they were all enjoying that, while Egbert, down in the kitchen, introduced Bismuth to the concept of sandwiches (making what was, well, essentially avocado spread on bread for himself, while she went full Dagwood Bumstead) and talked about the house (apparently Hank is in fact the estate agent for the place, trying to shift it, but as no one has passed the challenge and survived the night yet. . .she hinted that there may be some unfinished business for the house and its curse that, if completed, could actually end the horrors and allow the house to pass on peacefully to new owners, but claimed to have no knowledge of what that actually was. Yeah, sure, Bismuth. . .)
And then Prudence and Dob went to visit Corazon and Merilwen in their rooms and HOLY HELL EVERYTHING IS VISCERA AND SLIME WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK. Dob was able to snap Merilwen back to the reality that she was lying in a hammock made of ribs over a gut carpet, listening to hissing cockroaches playing poker (and then he pointed out one of them was cheating, starting a brawl that he carried the horrified Merilwen away from), but Corazon, hilariously, kept failing the Perception check even when he and Prudence joined the others (attracted by Merilwen’s screams), insisting that the brine he was drinking was fine wine, the finger (yes, FINGER, don’t say it) he was smoking was a Cuban cigar, and the human tongues he was eating were smoked salmon. XD Dob was all for holing up in the library and doing ghost Home Alone traps – Prudence loved it, but pointed out that they should PROBABLY get Egbert first. XD Oh man, I’m not entirely sure I want to learn what his “avocado” really is. . .
2. Continue editing Chapter 5 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Santa Monica’s Vale Of Tears”: Check – Alice has met the furious Therese – and taken a lot of the fire out of her by being genuinely contrite and asking her to please exorcise the ghosts regardless of her feelings toward Alice right now. And then by telling her about her adventures with the serial killer and the Cathayan and what Vandal’s been up to. Therese is now having a much more confusing night than first planned. XD At least this display will keep Alice enough in Therese’s good books to broker a proper peace in the final confrontation later. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – just one in the Subs, as is now typical of Wednesdays, so I snagged another video from elsewhere –
A) Started with the OXtra list video living in my Watch Later – “7 Times a Game Was So Meta It Freaked You Out: The Return!” Another list of meta moments in games, from a tome in Dragon Age: Origins that your adorable stinky dog can find featuring someone becoming aware of the “click-click” of the computer mouse, to Animal Crossing: New Horizons villagers spreading a rumor about how their lives are just entertainment for someone else and how it actually makes a lot of sense when you really think about how fruit goes so fast and how you can sell things to Tom Nook, then give him the money back to pay off your house, to the infamous “reset the computer” level in the 1993 X-Men video game, where the computer you had to reset was the Sega Genesis and you risked losing all your progress if you held that button for a fraction of a second too long, games are sometimes a little more aware of their nature than you’d like them to be. We hope they will treat us kindly when they gain full sentience.
B) And then it was over to the Subs for GrayStillPlays and Happy Wheels, a game that most definitely will NOT treat us kindly when it gains full sentience. We started with a yeet-themed bottle flip where you had to use a flipper to throw the bottles onto the bouncer in the first place (or, if you timed it right, to fling a bottle onto MLG AND Yeet Surgeon in one go, w000), then moved onto Pogo Man surviving not one, but two gaps made of swords and spiky bits (the trick was to avoid the pit and find a way through the backwards boost to the win); a two-part board of Pogo Man versus either a very long board with flailing tridents, a pillar of jets, and a hopper full of watermelons to jump over to get to the coin, or a shorter jet run with lots and lots of jets in a VERY narrow area, followed by a harpoon to maneuver around (Gray actually found the second to be more difficult because of all the crushing whenever he touched a jet wrong); Dylan Snyder presenting “Gorefield,” with Segway Nixon needing to hide from Gorefield’s peeping eyes in both his own home and the obligatory sewer level (not helped by smacking into invisible walls every so often) lest he be murderlated (behind a black screen with some worrying sound effects); and finally Gray getting to play “Grayzilla” against another innocent town – only this time the locals were fighting back, with mines and a wizard throwing butcher cleavers (it took a few tries and the loss of Gray’s legs to get through, but he did it). All typical and wonderful Happy Wheels nonsense. :p
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – reset my queue speed and got my Friday post ready – haven’t done Saturday yet, but I’m waiting to see if Wyrd Sisters Podcast’s tumblr shares their latest episode or not. I like to reblog it from them when I can!
Well, not the greatest start, but certainly can't fault the YouTubing. Or the writing, that's going nicely. :) We'll see how tomorrow goes. Especially weather-wise, as there's some sort of rainstorm that's supposed to move in during the day. And then Friday's just gonna be MISERABLE. . .ugh. Just gotta get through it. Night all!
Anyway! Apart from that eating up pretty much all of my time after work, let's see how my day was:
Work – All right, I suppose – most of the day for me was going through exceptions, updating deceased records and taking people off our mailing list and the like. Both credit-card-related ones were easily resolved too, yay. . .granted, the OTHER credit card related thing I tried to resolve did not go well, but I wasn’t expecting it to at this point, so. . . Look, we’re past the halfway point of the week, that’s all I care about.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike again, and back with Mind Your Manors! Having had a look in the secret passage, Dob and Prudence now had to figure out – what do we even do in the secret passage? Do we want to let Henry Charles Fauntleroy Stripworth Colquhuon The Third At Your Service, AKA Hank (or The Big H, or H-Bomb, as was suggested – or Henners as Egbert called him at one point, which made him visibly contort with anger XD) know we know about the secret passage? Hmmm. . .eventually, Prudence made the decision to go look for the library, which she and Dob found without much trouble, and started searching for books! Prudence critted a roll to find some grimoires (though she needed Andy’s help to realize it WAS a crit – new dice, didn’t realize the Elder Sign was the 20) and got herself a pair of puppy-dog eldritch tomes who were VERY happy to see her. :) Dob, meanwhile, decided to look for anything pertaining to the history of the place, and managed to find a woodcut album! With, uh, all the faces of the previous owners burned away. Worrying. Prudence told him to keep it on him and they’d figure it out later.
While all this was happening, Hank returned with Corazon’s grog, and offered to show the group up to their rooms – Egbert demurred, saying he was famished and asking where the kitchen was; Hank told him to follow his nose, and Egbert was like “do I have a choice?” XD Corazon and Merilwen consented to be taken to the rooms prepared for them, which were – basically magical places that perfectly suited their personalities. Merilwen got an indoor forest glen complete with a little pond and croaking frogs and a silken hammock; Corazon a room full of riches and finery and booze galore! Niiice. . . Dob and Prudence, after accidentally summoning Hank to their location post-book-grab, got led up to their rooms as well (eventually – Dob and Hank got stuck in a bit of a conversational loop regarding the rooms being “prepared”) – Dob had a nice hang-out parlor with a cozy bed and a place to write down some new song ideas, while Prudence got the perfect blend of brimstone hell and clammy briny seawater, complete with a room of blood en-suite. :D So they were all enjoying that, while Egbert, down in the kitchen, introduced Bismuth to the concept of sandwiches (making what was, well, essentially avocado spread on bread for himself, while she went full Dagwood Bumstead) and talked about the house (apparently Hank is in fact the estate agent for the place, trying to shift it, but as no one has passed the challenge and survived the night yet. . .she hinted that there may be some unfinished business for the house and its curse that, if completed, could actually end the horrors and allow the house to pass on peacefully to new owners, but claimed to have no knowledge of what that actually was. Yeah, sure, Bismuth. . .)
And then Prudence and Dob went to visit Corazon and Merilwen in their rooms and HOLY HELL EVERYTHING IS VISCERA AND SLIME WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK. Dob was able to snap Merilwen back to the reality that she was lying in a hammock made of ribs over a gut carpet, listening to hissing cockroaches playing poker (and then he pointed out one of them was cheating, starting a brawl that he carried the horrified Merilwen away from), but Corazon, hilariously, kept failing the Perception check even when he and Prudence joined the others (attracted by Merilwen’s screams), insisting that the brine he was drinking was fine wine, the finger (yes, FINGER, don’t say it) he was smoking was a Cuban cigar, and the human tongues he was eating were smoked salmon. XD Dob was all for holing up in the library and doing ghost Home Alone traps – Prudence loved it, but pointed out that they should PROBABLY get Egbert first. XD Oh man, I’m not entirely sure I want to learn what his “avocado” really is. . .
2. Continue editing Chapter 5 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Santa Monica’s Vale Of Tears”: Check – Alice has met the furious Therese – and taken a lot of the fire out of her by being genuinely contrite and asking her to please exorcise the ghosts regardless of her feelings toward Alice right now. And then by telling her about her adventures with the serial killer and the Cathayan and what Vandal’s been up to. Therese is now having a much more confusing night than first planned. XD At least this display will keep Alice enough in Therese’s good books to broker a proper peace in the final confrontation later. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – just one in the Subs, as is now typical of Wednesdays, so I snagged another video from elsewhere –
A) Started with the OXtra list video living in my Watch Later – “7 Times a Game Was So Meta It Freaked You Out: The Return!” Another list of meta moments in games, from a tome in Dragon Age: Origins that your adorable stinky dog can find featuring someone becoming aware of the “click-click” of the computer mouse, to Animal Crossing: New Horizons villagers spreading a rumor about how their lives are just entertainment for someone else and how it actually makes a lot of sense when you really think about how fruit goes so fast and how you can sell things to Tom Nook, then give him the money back to pay off your house, to the infamous “reset the computer” level in the 1993 X-Men video game, where the computer you had to reset was the Sega Genesis and you risked losing all your progress if you held that button for a fraction of a second too long, games are sometimes a little more aware of their nature than you’d like them to be. We hope they will treat us kindly when they gain full sentience.
B) And then it was over to the Subs for GrayStillPlays and Happy Wheels, a game that most definitely will NOT treat us kindly when it gains full sentience. We started with a yeet-themed bottle flip where you had to use a flipper to throw the bottles onto the bouncer in the first place (or, if you timed it right, to fling a bottle onto MLG AND Yeet Surgeon in one go, w000), then moved onto Pogo Man surviving not one, but two gaps made of swords and spiky bits (the trick was to avoid the pit and find a way through the backwards boost to the win); a two-part board of Pogo Man versus either a very long board with flailing tridents, a pillar of jets, and a hopper full of watermelons to jump over to get to the coin, or a shorter jet run with lots and lots of jets in a VERY narrow area, followed by a harpoon to maneuver around (Gray actually found the second to be more difficult because of all the crushing whenever he touched a jet wrong); Dylan Snyder presenting “Gorefield,” with Segway Nixon needing to hide from Gorefield’s peeping eyes in both his own home and the obligatory sewer level (not helped by smacking into invisible walls every so often) lest he be murderlated (behind a black screen with some worrying sound effects); and finally Gray getting to play “Grayzilla” against another innocent town – only this time the locals were fighting back, with mines and a wizard throwing butcher cleavers (it took a few tries and the loss of Gray’s legs to get through, but he did it). All typical and wonderful Happy Wheels nonsense. :p
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – reset my queue speed and got my Friday post ready – haven’t done Saturday yet, but I’m waiting to see if Wyrd Sisters Podcast’s tumblr shares their latest episode or not. I like to reblog it from them when I can!
Well, not the greatest start, but certainly can't fault the YouTubing. Or the writing, that's going nicely. :) We'll see how tomorrow goes. Especially weather-wise, as there's some sort of rainstorm that's supposed to move in during the day. And then Friday's just gonna be MISERABLE. . .ugh. Just gotta get through it. Night all!
