The Latest Of Saturdays
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crossover_chickI mean, it's not THAT surprising that I'm updating late, given I had a very long video to watch this evening, and since then I've been juggling the social thing with catching up with other stuff. . .but right under the wire, here is my Saturday in a nutshell:
1. Clean my room: Check – managed to get it all done before lunch too! Started about 10:45 AM, finished just before 1 PM! And while dusting was still a pain in the ass and I accidentally knocked one of my Marty Minimates into the crack between the headboard and my bed, retrieving him actually led to me getting back a couple of OTHER things I’d knocked under there and thought I couldn’t reach, so that was nice. :) All done again for another couple of weeks, yay!
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs and maybe the latest OXBox Hitman 3 stream: Check! Helped that there were only two videos in the Subs, and that I was able to get my writing done early to leave time this evening for the long one, but I got through them all –
A) Started this afternoon with James Turner and “I used frogs to earn $2,900 Simoleons, it wasn't worth it” – AKA, his take on the “Frog Fanatic” limited-time scenario currently in Sims 4! He pulled out a Semaj, gave him “The Curator” aspiration for help in finding rare frogs and the traits “Loves Outdoors,” “Good,” and “Loner,” then put him down in the Daisy Hovel lot in Willow Creek and started searching for frogs to collect, breed, fish with, and cook! Things started off a bit slow, with James finding only a handful of frogs in logs and whatnot – but when he discovered that he could spam the “look for frogs” interaction on the pools in Magnolia Blossom Park and the Desert Bloom Park in Oasis Springs. . .well, things speeded up significantly after that. XD It only took him three days to complete the challenge between looking for frogs in ponds and breeding the ones in his inventory whenever he could – and that was WITH taking a day in the middle to build a micro-home, slap some good lot traits on it, and level up his cooking skill for the “Boiling Frog Hotpot” dish. Though he actually went an extra day after getting the reward because he wanted to complete the collection too. Ended up with a nice plaque and $2,925 extra in the bank from selling all the frogs he collected at the end (hence the title). So yeah, not exactly the best “get rich quick” scenario, but it does inspire me to see about maybe completing some collections in my own game. . .
B) Then, after Sims and writing, we had the latest from GrayStillPlays – “I found the world's tallest waterslide in GTA 5!” Or, rather, he bought it!
From Alex.
Yeaaah, Gray not only found the world’s tallest waterslide, but also UNENDING PAIN. Alex did at least have the courtesy to divide up the agony into discrete chunks, at least. You started with the fast-motion waterslide (where you get yeeted down two slides and through a tunnel of windmills before getting spat out onto the next platform); the slow-motion waterslide (where you fall with the grace of an untitled goose before SOMEHOW having to shoot this alien atop a tiny platform while ragdolling to move the platform off the chips can hiding the teleport); the “weapons of the future” waterslide (where the goal was to make it down one waterslide and launch yourself to the next – without getting lasered by the guns floating in midair, ready to knock you completely off-course); the “bouncy” waterslide (where you had a similar goal to launch yourself across to a pair of waterslides, only you had to make past automated Up-And-Atomizers throwing you around – and also one slide only led to pain and death instead of a checkpoint); and finally the “blender thumbnail hole” waterslide (where you had to make it past a slowly-rotating spike platform, into a closed waterslide with a fan spinner in it, and then finally launch yourself into the win – except you had to time it so you got the RIGHT win, as there were three rotating ones and one was a red non-win. Also, did I mention the spike platform had a green teleport bubble that, if touched, would send you back to the beginning of the “bouncy” slides?). Gray was begging for it to end by the time he lucked out and got the win. XD Only took, what, 90% of his sanity? XD
C) And finally, this evening, we had the big one – “Hitman 3 ALL YOU CAN EAT MURDER BUFFET | Elusive Target Arcade Mode (Hitman 3 Live Stream)” from OXBox! Jane was on the controls with Andy and Mike observing and offering help (in their own ways), playing through the new(ish – it was introduced in January) Arcade Mode, which allows you to try killing reactivated Elusive Targets! They’re all grouped together in various ways (3 or 5 at a time per contract), and they kind of work like escalations, in that you have an additional restriction you must obey per contract. Fail, and you have to wait twelve hours to try that particular set of targets again. Jane tried two of the “three targets” contracts:
The Quanta Contract – The restriction on this one was that you got a single disguise change per mission – you switch outfits a second time, you lose. The targets in this one were Joanne Bayswater, a woman who used to be with a rival assassination organization but was now striking out on her own and making her own firm (Jane-47 ended up using this against her – starting out disguised as a waiter in the Argentina level, she was able to overhear Bayswater wooing a client and giving her a card with instructions to either return it personally or have someone else return it to set up a private meeting; 47 promptly knocked out the client, gave the card back to Bayswater, trailed her to the meeting place, lured her “bodyguard” into the lavender to be choked out, then shot her in the head, grabbed the “bodyguard’s” security staff outfit, and left through the grape fields); Sully Bowden, a former rage-prone boxer who killed an opponent in the ring, and descended into the depths of the “illegal street fighting circuit” to escape justice (Jane and Mike had already done this guy and thus knew he showed up at a certain park bench to have a convo with someone about buying drugs in Chongquin – dressing up as “Pitbull” in one of the fancy “Seven Sins” suits and taking an explosive pen allowed Jane-47 to complete the mission pretty quickly by tossing said pen near their bench when they sat down, exploding it, and running for the train. Hell, the drug dealer even survived!); and Jack Roe and Robert Burk in a “two-for-one” deal of a cannibal chef and the embalmer he works with to secure human meat for his “Nordic” dishes (this is where it all went wrong for Jane-47 – she managed to poison the dish Roe samples in the kitchen/staffroom and kill him without incident, but her attempt to isolate Burk when he met with Roe in an upstairs hallway via hitting them both with an emetic grenade led to him going to a bathroom she couldn’t access without being noticed for days; and her attempt to get to him after his partner’s death via climbing up the OUTSIDE of the house and ducking into the room he was in ended with her being spotted by security and gunned down). So close and yet so far!
The Vitae Contract – The restriction here was one pacification per mission – you knocked out more than one person, it was game over. We only saw two of the three targets here, though to be fair Jane started this one with only a half-hour left in the stream (the Roe and Burk failure took a while with all the running around the mansion Jane did). Started with Terrence Chesterfield, a crooked building inspector who did deliberately lax inspections to save landlords money and got a LOT of people killed thanks to shoddy construction work (this one had the added optional objective of “don’t kill the girl in the purple balaclava guiding him” (she was actually the daughter of one of his victims!) – Jane-47 snuck in as a bartender in a pink balaclava, had an exploded pen smuggled into the back of the bar area, promptly got lost in the building for a while before Andy managed to guide her outside, found her target and his extra security dude walking right next to them, trailed them until they were in a slightly more discreet location, wanged the pen into the head of the security dude and then exploded it to kill Terrence (leaving the girl unharmed as she was “guiding” them from some distance away), then got lost again trying to exit before looping around the entire building and finding a bike to pedal away on); ended with Allison Moreta, whom they didn’t watch the briefing on but whom I later found out was a murderous con artist with aspirations to be an art gallery director, working a mark in Dubai (Mike, trying to speed things up, insisted Jane jump in without planning, meaning she a) didn’t have an explosive pen and b) nearly cheesed things up by trying to run up the stairs with a gun in her pocket in a frisking situation. They eventually got in once she dropped the gun, and eventually found the target once they refreshed their memories on what she actually looked like (after Mike insisted someone in a gray suit was Allison -- turns out Allison is actually in BRIGHT PURPLE PANTS) – they tried to trail her and her mark up to a private room, but were stopped at the door. Andy got Jane to go into a room behind a lounging guard and coin him into the room to steal his outfit and stash him in a cupboard – unfortunately, when Jane LEFT said room, she IMMEDIATELY ran into a noticer, and everything went tits up from there. Though, interestingly, she did not fail from dying in a hail of gunfire, but rather from pacifying a guard shooting at her, since she’d already pacified the guy she got her disguise from!). Shame poor Jane couldn’t complete either contract, but she gave it her best go! And I have hope that maybe these contracts will appear in more standard videos, or perhaps another stream, in the future. Keep your fingers crossed! :)
3. Play Sims 4 and either continue Smiler's university adventuresor build an arcade: Check to the former – though I HAVE put the Arcade pack by Cepzid in my game for later. :P But, inspired by James’s video above, I wanted to actually play Smiler, and so that’s what we did! And they had a relatively busy day too – starting with inviting Lilith Vatore over in the early morning hours and finally, FINALLY successfully beating her in a spar! :D So they’ve finally passed that milestone in the Master Vampire aspiration! Now they just have to keep surviving and eventually get the funds to purchase and read the Ultimate Vampire Tome. . .
Anyway, after besting Lilith, they hung out with her for a while – Lilith playing games on their computer while they did their homework for their class for the day, “Pondering Personalities” (and picking up another Charisma skill point in the process). I had them attend class straight from home once she left, then – because it was the right day for it – hit up GeekCon! And I’m very pleased to report that THIS time, the stupid festival didn’t glitch out. Geeker sang some terrible karaoke at the local karaoke bar, then tried out the Ultimate Gaming Test – only getting a 30 out of a possible 100, but that’s better than the three I thought they’d originally gotten. XD They gifted a bunch of the congoers with a nice Burst of Focus after that, then played Blicblock for a little bit before deciding to take advantage of the rocket and visit space! Their particular text adventure had them visiting the “Lush Planet” and touching down near some alien ruins, which contained several beautiful religious artifacts. Smelling a trap, I had Smiler leave them alone, and they instead returned safely with a nice space rock instead. :P I was then going to have them take advantage of the festival’s skill-boosting atmosphere to do their logic-based “Neuropsychology” homework. . .but the rocket trip took long enough that by the time Smiler got back (with my assistance, as reentry seemed to be taking a WHILE), the con was starting to end. Meaning when Smiler put their homework down on a nearby table, the table despawned.
With their homework.
Welp! Fortunately, I was already planning to have Smiler visit the Foxbury campus because there was a meeting of the Bot Savants that night, so I just had them head over early and purchase a new homework notebook from the kiosk, then take care of their homework there. Then it was over to the robotics stations to work some more on their computer chip and chat with one of their fellow savants –
And then I was reminded “oh, yeah, they have a job,” and sent them to fly to the despawn point so they wouldn’t be late. Left it with them drinking more plasma fruit and taking in some art after a stressful day at work, poor thing. Next time I’ll build the arcade! And Smiler and Victor are due another date, too. . .
4. Write a birthday gift fic due for my friend Squid: Check – Squid’s birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks (5/16, to be precise), and I wanted to make sure I was well-prepared! They didn’t have any specific requests for me, but we’ve been doing a lot of stuff involving their OCs in the VTMB universe, and one of the potential ideas for a scene they threw out was of said OC, Melody (adopted non-binary kid of their other OC Arianna and Nines Rodriguez) learning how to write their last name as a sort of special surprise for their parents (the child is only just becoming literate, having been a street kid most of their life before their (horrifically early) Embrace). I thought this seemed like a good idea for fic and have written out a scene where they ask Victor for his assistance. I shall edit this next Saturday, and it should be good to go for their birthday, yay!
Additionally:
-->Found and scheduled Mom’s virtual Mother’s Day card right after lunch so I didn’t forget – it features a silly dancing flamingo, so I’m hopeful she’ll like it. XD
-->Also managed to answer my friend Ace’s FF.net PM a day early, look at me go! XD
-->Did the pictures for the next Smiler Always Chill Save update – covering their adventures on Sunday Fall, AKA Prank Day (visiting the Britechester Campus to do school spirit-related pranking, joining the Bot Savants, and hitting the bar with their new friends in the Spirit Squad). Always good to be ahead on that!
-->And I got a message on tumblr from somebody asking if I objected to them printing out the Forgotten Vows Verse as books! O.o Now that’s a weird thought. . .told them I didn’t have any objections so long as it was a “personal use” kind of thing, as I’ve seen at least one other fan do that with a series (believe it was one of the Fallout: Equestria subsets). Be kind of interesting to see what it even looks like as a book series, honestly! Though it does boggle my mind that the series COULD be books. . .I know I wrote a lot (can confirm thanks to AO3 stats that “Forgetting You” is my longest story so far), but still.
Whew! Can't say I didn't keep busy today! At least I hit everything on my to-do list, plus a few extras! Let's see if I can repeat the trick tomorrow:
1. Keep up with the FO4 Playthrough Progression
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs, OXtra Show of the Weekend, and Jon's Fallout Sunday video
3. Play Fallout 4 and find that darn statehouse with Piper
4. Work on tumblr drafts
5. Get in a workout
Keeping that last one at least semi-optional. . .though I worked out last Sunday, soo -- we'll see! We'll also see if any Mother's Day stuff interrupts any of this, but I kinda doubt it -- gonna be kind of a lousy day, and Mom got all her plants and stuff earlier in the week, so. . . *shrug* Night all!
1. Clean my room: Check – managed to get it all done before lunch too! Started about 10:45 AM, finished just before 1 PM! And while dusting was still a pain in the ass and I accidentally knocked one of my Marty Minimates into the crack between the headboard and my bed, retrieving him actually led to me getting back a couple of OTHER things I’d knocked under there and thought I couldn’t reach, so that was nice. :) All done again for another couple of weeks, yay!
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs and maybe the latest OXBox Hitman 3 stream: Check! Helped that there were only two videos in the Subs, and that I was able to get my writing done early to leave time this evening for the long one, but I got through them all –
A) Started this afternoon with James Turner and “I used frogs to earn $2,900 Simoleons, it wasn't worth it” – AKA, his take on the “Frog Fanatic” limited-time scenario currently in Sims 4! He pulled out a Semaj, gave him “The Curator” aspiration for help in finding rare frogs and the traits “Loves Outdoors,” “Good,” and “Loner,” then put him down in the Daisy Hovel lot in Willow Creek and started searching for frogs to collect, breed, fish with, and cook! Things started off a bit slow, with James finding only a handful of frogs in logs and whatnot – but when he discovered that he could spam the “look for frogs” interaction on the pools in Magnolia Blossom Park and the Desert Bloom Park in Oasis Springs. . .well, things speeded up significantly after that. XD It only took him three days to complete the challenge between looking for frogs in ponds and breeding the ones in his inventory whenever he could – and that was WITH taking a day in the middle to build a micro-home, slap some good lot traits on it, and level up his cooking skill for the “Boiling Frog Hotpot” dish. Though he actually went an extra day after getting the reward because he wanted to complete the collection too. Ended up with a nice plaque and $2,925 extra in the bank from selling all the frogs he collected at the end (hence the title). So yeah, not exactly the best “get rich quick” scenario, but it does inspire me to see about maybe completing some collections in my own game. . .
B) Then, after Sims and writing, we had the latest from GrayStillPlays – “I found the world's tallest waterslide in GTA 5!” Or, rather, he bought it!
From Alex.
Yeaaah, Gray not only found the world’s tallest waterslide, but also UNENDING PAIN. Alex did at least have the courtesy to divide up the agony into discrete chunks, at least. You started with the fast-motion waterslide (where you get yeeted down two slides and through a tunnel of windmills before getting spat out onto the next platform); the slow-motion waterslide (where you fall with the grace of an untitled goose before SOMEHOW having to shoot this alien atop a tiny platform while ragdolling to move the platform off the chips can hiding the teleport); the “weapons of the future” waterslide (where the goal was to make it down one waterslide and launch yourself to the next – without getting lasered by the guns floating in midair, ready to knock you completely off-course); the “bouncy” waterslide (where you had a similar goal to launch yourself across to a pair of waterslides, only you had to make past automated Up-And-Atomizers throwing you around – and also one slide only led to pain and death instead of a checkpoint); and finally the “blender thumbnail hole” waterslide (where you had to make it past a slowly-rotating spike platform, into a closed waterslide with a fan spinner in it, and then finally launch yourself into the win – except you had to time it so you got the RIGHT win, as there were three rotating ones and one was a red non-win. Also, did I mention the spike platform had a green teleport bubble that, if touched, would send you back to the beginning of the “bouncy” slides?). Gray was begging for it to end by the time he lucked out and got the win. XD Only took, what, 90% of his sanity? XD
C) And finally, this evening, we had the big one – “Hitman 3 ALL YOU CAN EAT MURDER BUFFET | Elusive Target Arcade Mode (Hitman 3 Live Stream)” from OXBox! Jane was on the controls with Andy and Mike observing and offering help (in their own ways), playing through the new(ish – it was introduced in January) Arcade Mode, which allows you to try killing reactivated Elusive Targets! They’re all grouped together in various ways (3 or 5 at a time per contract), and they kind of work like escalations, in that you have an additional restriction you must obey per contract. Fail, and you have to wait twelve hours to try that particular set of targets again. Jane tried two of the “three targets” contracts:
The Quanta Contract – The restriction on this one was that you got a single disguise change per mission – you switch outfits a second time, you lose. The targets in this one were Joanne Bayswater, a woman who used to be with a rival assassination organization but was now striking out on her own and making her own firm (Jane-47 ended up using this against her – starting out disguised as a waiter in the Argentina level, she was able to overhear Bayswater wooing a client and giving her a card with instructions to either return it personally or have someone else return it to set up a private meeting; 47 promptly knocked out the client, gave the card back to Bayswater, trailed her to the meeting place, lured her “bodyguard” into the lavender to be choked out, then shot her in the head, grabbed the “bodyguard’s” security staff outfit, and left through the grape fields); Sully Bowden, a former rage-prone boxer who killed an opponent in the ring, and descended into the depths of the “illegal street fighting circuit” to escape justice (Jane and Mike had already done this guy and thus knew he showed up at a certain park bench to have a convo with someone about buying drugs in Chongquin – dressing up as “Pitbull” in one of the fancy “Seven Sins” suits and taking an explosive pen allowed Jane-47 to complete the mission pretty quickly by tossing said pen near their bench when they sat down, exploding it, and running for the train. Hell, the drug dealer even survived!); and Jack Roe and Robert Burk in a “two-for-one” deal of a cannibal chef and the embalmer he works with to secure human meat for his “Nordic” dishes (this is where it all went wrong for Jane-47 – she managed to poison the dish Roe samples in the kitchen/staffroom and kill him without incident, but her attempt to isolate Burk when he met with Roe in an upstairs hallway via hitting them both with an emetic grenade led to him going to a bathroom she couldn’t access without being noticed for days; and her attempt to get to him after his partner’s death via climbing up the OUTSIDE of the house and ducking into the room he was in ended with her being spotted by security and gunned down). So close and yet so far!
The Vitae Contract – The restriction here was one pacification per mission – you knocked out more than one person, it was game over. We only saw two of the three targets here, though to be fair Jane started this one with only a half-hour left in the stream (the Roe and Burk failure took a while with all the running around the mansion Jane did). Started with Terrence Chesterfield, a crooked building inspector who did deliberately lax inspections to save landlords money and got a LOT of people killed thanks to shoddy construction work (this one had the added optional objective of “don’t kill the girl in the purple balaclava guiding him” (she was actually the daughter of one of his victims!) – Jane-47 snuck in as a bartender in a pink balaclava, had an exploded pen smuggled into the back of the bar area, promptly got lost in the building for a while before Andy managed to guide her outside, found her target and his extra security dude walking right next to them, trailed them until they were in a slightly more discreet location, wanged the pen into the head of the security dude and then exploded it to kill Terrence (leaving the girl unharmed as she was “guiding” them from some distance away), then got lost again trying to exit before looping around the entire building and finding a bike to pedal away on); ended with Allison Moreta, whom they didn’t watch the briefing on but whom I later found out was a murderous con artist with aspirations to be an art gallery director, working a mark in Dubai (Mike, trying to speed things up, insisted Jane jump in without planning, meaning she a) didn’t have an explosive pen and b) nearly cheesed things up by trying to run up the stairs with a gun in her pocket in a frisking situation. They eventually got in once she dropped the gun, and eventually found the target once they refreshed their memories on what she actually looked like (after Mike insisted someone in a gray suit was Allison -- turns out Allison is actually in BRIGHT PURPLE PANTS) – they tried to trail her and her mark up to a private room, but were stopped at the door. Andy got Jane to go into a room behind a lounging guard and coin him into the room to steal his outfit and stash him in a cupboard – unfortunately, when Jane LEFT said room, she IMMEDIATELY ran into a noticer, and everything went tits up from there. Though, interestingly, she did not fail from dying in a hail of gunfire, but rather from pacifying a guard shooting at her, since she’d already pacified the guy she got her disguise from!). Shame poor Jane couldn’t complete either contract, but she gave it her best go! And I have hope that maybe these contracts will appear in more standard videos, or perhaps another stream, in the future. Keep your fingers crossed! :)
3. Play Sims 4 and either continue Smiler's university adventures
Anyway, after besting Lilith, they hung out with her for a while – Lilith playing games on their computer while they did their homework for their class for the day, “Pondering Personalities” (and picking up another Charisma skill point in the process). I had them attend class straight from home once she left, then – because it was the right day for it – hit up GeekCon! And I’m very pleased to report that THIS time, the stupid festival didn’t glitch out. Geeker sang some terrible karaoke at the local karaoke bar, then tried out the Ultimate Gaming Test – only getting a 30 out of a possible 100, but that’s better than the three I thought they’d originally gotten. XD They gifted a bunch of the congoers with a nice Burst of Focus after that, then played Blicblock for a little bit before deciding to take advantage of the rocket and visit space! Their particular text adventure had them visiting the “Lush Planet” and touching down near some alien ruins, which contained several beautiful religious artifacts. Smelling a trap, I had Smiler leave them alone, and they instead returned safely with a nice space rock instead. :P I was then going to have them take advantage of the festival’s skill-boosting atmosphere to do their logic-based “Neuropsychology” homework. . .but the rocket trip took long enough that by the time Smiler got back (with my assistance, as reentry seemed to be taking a WHILE), the con was starting to end. Meaning when Smiler put their homework down on a nearby table, the table despawned.
With their homework.
Welp! Fortunately, I was already planning to have Smiler visit the Foxbury campus because there was a meeting of the Bot Savants that night, so I just had them head over early and purchase a new homework notebook from the kiosk, then take care of their homework there. Then it was over to the robotics stations to work some more on their computer chip and chat with one of their fellow savants –
And then I was reminded “oh, yeah, they have a job,” and sent them to fly to the despawn point so they wouldn’t be late. Left it with them drinking more plasma fruit and taking in some art after a stressful day at work, poor thing. Next time I’ll build the arcade! And Smiler and Victor are due another date, too. . .
4. Write a birthday gift fic due for my friend Squid: Check – Squid’s birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks (5/16, to be precise), and I wanted to make sure I was well-prepared! They didn’t have any specific requests for me, but we’ve been doing a lot of stuff involving their OCs in the VTMB universe, and one of the potential ideas for a scene they threw out was of said OC, Melody (adopted non-binary kid of their other OC Arianna and Nines Rodriguez) learning how to write their last name as a sort of special surprise for their parents (the child is only just becoming literate, having been a street kid most of their life before their (horrifically early) Embrace). I thought this seemed like a good idea for fic and have written out a scene where they ask Victor for his assistance. I shall edit this next Saturday, and it should be good to go for their birthday, yay!
Additionally:
-->Found and scheduled Mom’s virtual Mother’s Day card right after lunch so I didn’t forget – it features a silly dancing flamingo, so I’m hopeful she’ll like it. XD
-->Also managed to answer my friend Ace’s FF.net PM a day early, look at me go! XD
-->Did the pictures for the next Smiler Always Chill Save update – covering their adventures on Sunday Fall, AKA Prank Day (visiting the Britechester Campus to do school spirit-related pranking, joining the Bot Savants, and hitting the bar with their new friends in the Spirit Squad). Always good to be ahead on that!
-->And I got a message on tumblr from somebody asking if I objected to them printing out the Forgotten Vows Verse as books! O.o Now that’s a weird thought. . .told them I didn’t have any objections so long as it was a “personal use” kind of thing, as I’ve seen at least one other fan do that with a series (believe it was one of the Fallout: Equestria subsets). Be kind of interesting to see what it even looks like as a book series, honestly! Though it does boggle my mind that the series COULD be books. . .I know I wrote a lot (can confirm thanks to AO3 stats that “Forgetting You” is my longest story so far), but still.
Whew! Can't say I didn't keep busy today! At least I hit everything on my to-do list, plus a few extras! Let's see if I can repeat the trick tomorrow:
1. Keep up with the FO4 Playthrough Progression
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs, OXtra Show of the Weekend, and Jon's Fallout Sunday video
3. Play Fallout 4 and find that darn statehouse with Piper
4. Work on tumblr drafts
5. Get in a workout
Keeping that last one at least semi-optional. . .though I worked out last Sunday, soo -- we'll see! We'll also see if any Mother's Day stuff interrupts any of this, but I kinda doubt it -- gonna be kind of a lousy day, and Mom got all her plants and stuff earlier in the week, so. . . *shrug* Night all!
