Another Day Gone By
Feb. 3rd, 2022 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickAnd with me dealing with an annoyingly stiff neck, ugh. . .must have slept wrong, I think. Anyway, updating later than I should be, so let's get this out --
Work – Well, it started out pretty shitty, thanks to the fact that I updated my computer password, only to run afoul of the two-factor authentication tied to getting into my e-mail – despite the fact that my old phone is SUPPOSED to work until 2/22/2022, it could receive neither call nor text, and I was never able to get the damn thing to connect to my office phone either. We had to do some weird workarounds, and the whole process took a good hour and a half. *heavy sigh* Also some more weirdness with the credit card systems, but we managed to figure that out after my lunch break, so. . . Pretty quiet after that, which is good. Commute’s still something of a mess, but at least the snow’s melted enough that most lanes are properly free again. Of course, now we’ve got whatever’s coming TOMORROW, which is looking like rain flash-freezing into ice. . .ugh. Hate New England weather.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another half-hour on the bike, and another half-hour of Mind Your Manors! Dob, Prudence, Merilwen, and Corazon The Oblivious headed down to the kitchen to grab Egbert and Bismuth – and, like Corazon before him, Egbert totally failed the roll to notice anything bad about his sandwich. XD Fortunately his thing wasn’t quite as horrible as everyone else’s – just meat and bread that had really gone off. His dragon constitution can handle it, I’m sure! Anyway, after failing to clue Egbert in, Prudence had everyone gather in the library and form a nice pentagram-circle-thing to conduct a séance! (Once they dragged Egbert off the moving ladders he was playing around with, anyway.) She struggled a bit to get a ghost to appear (low roll, but plenty of add-ons), but one was eventually summoned!
Unfortunately, it was a “bro-st,” as Dob put it – a total Chad of a ghost. Fortunately Corazon had experience with “bros” and was able to talk to him, getting that the guy had died a terrible burny death and getting warned not to go to the basement. Dob, of course, immediately WANTED to go to the basement, to get the jump on whatever was eventually going to lure them into the basement. XD Also Egbert completely missed the ghost because he was working his way through a sandwich. XD On the plus (minus?) side, both he and Corazon FINALLY wised up to how horrible the house actually was during this time period – Corazon after he couldn’t ignore that his “slippers” were the putrefying corpses of cats, and his robe made of faces (prompting a musical number with a brief cameo from Henry Charles Fauntleroy Stripworth Colquhuon The Third At Your Service); Egbert after his final olive just – tasted like it was from a jar. XD
Anyway, talk resumed about what they needed to do and the whole “unfinished business” thing for the house came up again, which Egbert confirmed Bismuth had said was a thing. Dob wondered how a house could have unfinished business, and he and Egbert both managed to roll low on the resultant Wisdom/Perception check and decide “oh, these walls need GROUTING!” and started grouting them with largely-congealed blood (Dob: “still better than the last grouting incident!” Uh, Dob, you don’t KNOW that wasn’t orphan blood. . .). The OTHERS, on the other hand, started hearing strange accordion music coming from the séance circle – and ONLY the séance circle. Corazon recognized the tune as a sea shanty – specifically, one his dad often hummed when he was angry. A brief argument broke out about whether they should try to summon another ghost, or go down into the basement – Dob actually decided he was all for summoning, while Egbert was just “Team Basement” and headed down there. Bismuth took his place in the circle, in the form of a small jet because a joke about her getting up sounding like an old Transformers G1 transformation turned into her actually BECOMING a Transformer. XD Corazon was able to call upon the ghost, who proved to be spectral pirate, singing a song he’d just made up about pirates and improvisation (which Dob immediately took up XD). A pirate –
By the name of Captain Milquetoast.
For those of you who don’t remember, Corazon’s birth name is Percival Milquetoast. Corazon was instantly like “omg we might be related,” and Captain Milquetoast (after stealing one of Corazon’s rings) confirmed it, explaining he was the original builder and owner of the mansion, and asked his son to carry on the “family business” – only for his son to renounce it after Milquetoast died. Given it now seems Corazon is a few greats away from being the Captain’s grandson, perhaps his very existence as a pirate is enough to break the curse? We’ll see tomorrow!
2. Continue editing Chapter 5 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Santa Monica’s Vale Of Tears”: Check – Alice has received her penance task from Therese, which is to find Jeannette at the Surfside Diner and pass on the message that, no, Therese will not be burning her satin sheets. Alice is naturally suspicious that this is Therese’s attempt to kill her in revenge, but just in case it’s legit, she has headed to the diner anyway. Where she can’t see anyone in the booth Therese said Jeannette would be waiting in. . .and some guy’s just made himself her problem. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – just like yesterday, single Sub video shored up by something else –
A) First up, the latest AT4W – “Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating the JLA!” Naturally, a team-up between Stan’s versions of Superman (a space cop trapped on earth), Batman (a framed man who became a professional wrestler as well as a superhero), Wonder Woman (a woman with the power of an Incan god on her side), The Flash (a girl with hummingbird DNA and a bit of a bad sense of humor), and Green Lantern (a professor tied to the power of the World Tree). The team-up is prompted by the creation of the Doom Patrol (here three convicted felons given power and purple glow-ups by Domenic Darrk, the main villain of these comics – a guy who can kill with his hands (Deathstroke), a guy who is so strong he can throw cars around (Blockbuster), and a woman capable of possessing people (Parasite)) chasing a kid called Adam Strange. The team-up goes rather poorly at first – Green Lantern is nearly killed, Superman is possessed, Batman and Wonder Woman struggle to work together, and the Flash arrives late – but after talking it over, the team is able to work together better against Domenic himself after chasing the possessed Superman to his church. They defeat the Doom Patrol, Adam Strange is killed by Darrk after revealing himself to be Darrk’s son and trying to become “eviller than thou,” and Darrk elects for a strategic retreat. Not a bad outing, though it was a little faster-paced than Linkara would have liked, and the humor. . .eeeh. I think The Flash could have used a different personality trait than “random annoying quipster,” honestly. Ah well – “pretty good” is better than a LOT of what we get on this show! I mean, see just last week.
B) And second up, from the Subs, Call Me Kevin playing Alt Life – one of those Not-BitLife simulators. XD He played as Lou Zer, a young man obsessed with the buying and trading of things that are not exactly money. I thought he was gonna be a stock broker, what with his first word being “shitmystocksaredown,” but instead, when he was of age, he went into Instagram to become an influencer, and crypto to become a crypto-bro! Neither paid off like he was hoping – even after paying $20K and posting a shit-ton of selfies to become a “model,” Lou never got a lot of followers, and his crypto – wellll. . .let’s just say that had its ups and downs. Mostly downs. Because he always bought low-performing crypto. Because crypto. :p He also tried and failed to steal cars repeatedly, occasionally getting caught and spending a couple of years in prison without any of his stuff (also he never got his driver’s license, so he would have had no idea what to do with the cars anyway); had a couple of long-term girlfriends who each gave him a son before finally getting sick of his shit and leaving (NFT and Bored Ape respectively), and one short-term one in his old age whom he immediately fake-confessed to cheating on, which made her dump him; a dog he praised for drinking out of the toilet; an apartment he was evicted from because all of his money was in crypto; and a mother who, despite smoking and drinking for much of his life, died at 106! He himself died peacefully in his sleep at 100, with about 4K in Insta followers and crippling debt. ...It’s sad to say that this is genuinely one of Kevin’s more successful virtual lives, isn’t it? XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check, though it took a while – obviously I’m good until tomorrow with VictorLuvsAlice, but I had no asks or threads over on Valice Multiverse, and nothing immediately grabbed me in my tags. . .fortunately I eventually found some FO4 and VTMB stuff to reblog, but damn. Good part of the reason I’m so late in updating!
And now it's time to rush off to bed because I do have one more day of work to get through! Though it might be a SHORTER day, at least, because we're due some nasty winter weather (rain flash-freezing into ice, as said, with a possibility of a bit of snow late in the day), and it would be nice if they let us go home early before it really got bad. A lot of schools are already canceling classes, sooo -- keep your fingers crossed! Night all!
Work – Well, it started out pretty shitty, thanks to the fact that I updated my computer password, only to run afoul of the two-factor authentication tied to getting into my e-mail – despite the fact that my old phone is SUPPOSED to work until 2/22/2022, it could receive neither call nor text, and I was never able to get the damn thing to connect to my office phone either. We had to do some weird workarounds, and the whole process took a good hour and a half. *heavy sigh* Also some more weirdness with the credit card systems, but we managed to figure that out after my lunch break, so. . . Pretty quiet after that, which is good. Commute’s still something of a mess, but at least the snow’s melted enough that most lanes are properly free again. Of course, now we’ve got whatever’s coming TOMORROW, which is looking like rain flash-freezing into ice. . .ugh. Hate New England weather.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another half-hour on the bike, and another half-hour of Mind Your Manors! Dob, Prudence, Merilwen, and Corazon The Oblivious headed down to the kitchen to grab Egbert and Bismuth – and, like Corazon before him, Egbert totally failed the roll to notice anything bad about his sandwich. XD Fortunately his thing wasn’t quite as horrible as everyone else’s – just meat and bread that had really gone off. His dragon constitution can handle it, I’m sure! Anyway, after failing to clue Egbert in, Prudence had everyone gather in the library and form a nice pentagram-circle-thing to conduct a séance! (Once they dragged Egbert off the moving ladders he was playing around with, anyway.) She struggled a bit to get a ghost to appear (low roll, but plenty of add-ons), but one was eventually summoned!
Unfortunately, it was a “bro-st,” as Dob put it – a total Chad of a ghost. Fortunately Corazon had experience with “bros” and was able to talk to him, getting that the guy had died a terrible burny death and getting warned not to go to the basement. Dob, of course, immediately WANTED to go to the basement, to get the jump on whatever was eventually going to lure them into the basement. XD Also Egbert completely missed the ghost because he was working his way through a sandwich. XD On the plus (minus?) side, both he and Corazon FINALLY wised up to how horrible the house actually was during this time period – Corazon after he couldn’t ignore that his “slippers” were the putrefying corpses of cats, and his robe made of faces (prompting a musical number with a brief cameo from Henry Charles Fauntleroy Stripworth Colquhuon The Third At Your Service); Egbert after his final olive just – tasted like it was from a jar. XD
Anyway, talk resumed about what they needed to do and the whole “unfinished business” thing for the house came up again, which Egbert confirmed Bismuth had said was a thing. Dob wondered how a house could have unfinished business, and he and Egbert both managed to roll low on the resultant Wisdom/Perception check and decide “oh, these walls need GROUTING!” and started grouting them with largely-congealed blood (Dob: “still better than the last grouting incident!” Uh, Dob, you don’t KNOW that wasn’t orphan blood. . .). The OTHERS, on the other hand, started hearing strange accordion music coming from the séance circle – and ONLY the séance circle. Corazon recognized the tune as a sea shanty – specifically, one his dad often hummed when he was angry. A brief argument broke out about whether they should try to summon another ghost, or go down into the basement – Dob actually decided he was all for summoning, while Egbert was just “Team Basement” and headed down there. Bismuth took his place in the circle, in the form of a small jet because a joke about her getting up sounding like an old Transformers G1 transformation turned into her actually BECOMING a Transformer. XD Corazon was able to call upon the ghost, who proved to be spectral pirate, singing a song he’d just made up about pirates and improvisation (which Dob immediately took up XD). A pirate –
By the name of Captain Milquetoast.
For those of you who don’t remember, Corazon’s birth name is Percival Milquetoast. Corazon was instantly like “omg we might be related,” and Captain Milquetoast (after stealing one of Corazon’s rings) confirmed it, explaining he was the original builder and owner of the mansion, and asked his son to carry on the “family business” – only for his son to renounce it after Milquetoast died. Given it now seems Corazon is a few greats away from being the Captain’s grandson, perhaps his very existence as a pirate is enough to break the curse? We’ll see tomorrow!
2. Continue editing Chapter 5 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Santa Monica’s Vale Of Tears”: Check – Alice has received her penance task from Therese, which is to find Jeannette at the Surfside Diner and pass on the message that, no, Therese will not be burning her satin sheets. Alice is naturally suspicious that this is Therese’s attempt to kill her in revenge, but just in case it’s legit, she has headed to the diner anyway. Where she can’t see anyone in the booth Therese said Jeannette would be waiting in. . .and some guy’s just made himself her problem. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – just like yesterday, single Sub video shored up by something else –
A) First up, the latest AT4W – “Just Imagine Stan Lee Creating the JLA!” Naturally, a team-up between Stan’s versions of Superman (a space cop trapped on earth), Batman (a framed man who became a professional wrestler as well as a superhero), Wonder Woman (a woman with the power of an Incan god on her side), The Flash (a girl with hummingbird DNA and a bit of a bad sense of humor), and Green Lantern (a professor tied to the power of the World Tree). The team-up is prompted by the creation of the Doom Patrol (here three convicted felons given power and purple glow-ups by Domenic Darrk, the main villain of these comics – a guy who can kill with his hands (Deathstroke), a guy who is so strong he can throw cars around (Blockbuster), and a woman capable of possessing people (Parasite)) chasing a kid called Adam Strange. The team-up goes rather poorly at first – Green Lantern is nearly killed, Superman is possessed, Batman and Wonder Woman struggle to work together, and the Flash arrives late – but after talking it over, the team is able to work together better against Domenic himself after chasing the possessed Superman to his church. They defeat the Doom Patrol, Adam Strange is killed by Darrk after revealing himself to be Darrk’s son and trying to become “eviller than thou,” and Darrk elects for a strategic retreat. Not a bad outing, though it was a little faster-paced than Linkara would have liked, and the humor. . .eeeh. I think The Flash could have used a different personality trait than “random annoying quipster,” honestly. Ah well – “pretty good” is better than a LOT of what we get on this show! I mean, see just last week.
B) And second up, from the Subs, Call Me Kevin playing Alt Life – one of those Not-BitLife simulators. XD He played as Lou Zer, a young man obsessed with the buying and trading of things that are not exactly money. I thought he was gonna be a stock broker, what with his first word being “shitmystocksaredown,” but instead, when he was of age, he went into Instagram to become an influencer, and crypto to become a crypto-bro! Neither paid off like he was hoping – even after paying $20K and posting a shit-ton of selfies to become a “model,” Lou never got a lot of followers, and his crypto – wellll. . .let’s just say that had its ups and downs. Mostly downs. Because he always bought low-performing crypto. Because crypto. :p He also tried and failed to steal cars repeatedly, occasionally getting caught and spending a couple of years in prison without any of his stuff (also he never got his driver’s license, so he would have had no idea what to do with the cars anyway); had a couple of long-term girlfriends who each gave him a son before finally getting sick of his shit and leaving (NFT and Bored Ape respectively), and one short-term one in his old age whom he immediately fake-confessed to cheating on, which made her dump him; a dog he praised for drinking out of the toilet; an apartment he was evicted from because all of his money was in crypto; and a mother who, despite smoking and drinking for much of his life, died at 106! He himself died peacefully in his sleep at 100, with about 4K in Insta followers and crippling debt. ...It’s sad to say that this is genuinely one of Kevin’s more successful virtual lives, isn’t it? XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check, though it took a while – obviously I’m good until tomorrow with VictorLuvsAlice, but I had no asks or threads over on Valice Multiverse, and nothing immediately grabbed me in my tags. . .fortunately I eventually found some FO4 and VTMB stuff to reblog, but damn. Good part of the reason I’m so late in updating!
And now it's time to rush off to bed because I do have one more day of work to get through! Though it might be a SHORTER day, at least, because we're due some nasty winter weather (rain flash-freezing into ice, as said, with a possibility of a bit of snow late in the day), and it would be nice if they let us go home early before it really got bad. A lot of schools are already canceling classes, sooo -- keep your fingers crossed! Night all!
