COVID Boosted
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crossover_chickThough not flu-boosted -- turns out that when Mom did the online appointments, while she managed to sign herself up for both shots, the system only registered Dad for a flu shot and me for a COVID shot. And while she was able to get Dad set up for the COVID shot on-site, as it turned out when I handed over my insurance cards, my damn health insurance wouldn't pay for the flu shot if I got it done at that CVS location -- only if I got it done at work or at a Minute Clinic. (Or a hospital, apparently.) So it was settled that my parents got both the COVID and flu shorts, while I just got COVID and will see if they have come up with a plan to do the flu one at work, as they generally did before the pandemic (I think the person who usually scheduled them quit/left during the shutdowns), and if not, we will book something somewhere else. *sigh* Dad, as you can imagine, was pretty ticked off by this, and I wasn't exactly happy either. Why can't this just be simple? At least I got the COVID booster, so that's something. . .
Other things of note during my day --
1. Continue writing "As Long As You Love Me": Check – have wrapped up the latest chapter with Alice dropping off Victor, Victoria, and Emily at Victor’s house. Victoria and Emily are eager to put this chapter of their lives behind them, but Victor. . .well, Victor’s still feeling pretty miserable about leaving Alice behind. Culminating in a handshake that he would SO like to turn into a hug, but. . . *wince* At least there’s only a minimum amount of this nonsense – next chapter starts with him still moping, but it’s not going to be long before he sees a very important news report on the television. . .
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs and the Plumbella video in my Watch Later: Check – got all three of these watched this evening –
A) Started with that Plumbella video: “The Sims 4 but each FLOOR is a different decade!” Plumbella putting a different spin on the “each room in this build is X” challenge by allowing herself a whole floor to work with, and then choosing a different decade for each. She ended up making a three-story build – first floor got the 2000s, which Plumbella interpreted to mean “as much beige everywhere as possible” – beige exterior, beige paths in the front and back gardens (which were absolutely huge for such a little house), beige kitchen, BURNT beige dining nook, and beige as hell living room with a frankenfireplace for interest. :p Second floor got the 1970s, and Plumbella actually really ended up liking the style on this one – wooden slats and stonework for the outside, a blue carpeted bathroom (solid blue, no variations), a yellow and blue bedroom with some nice wicker furniture and the cool glowy High School Years mirror, and a sitting nook that Plumbella WANTED to put a platform in but couldn’t because it kept deleting her walls. And the third floor got the 1950s, which became a green and yellow attic bedroom using all the mid-century modern stuff The Sims 4 loves so much, plus the classic The Sims TV from Eco Lifestyle. It honestly came together better than I was expecting, and I quite enjoyed the build! :) Fun little challenge is fun.
B) Then it was over to the Subs for Call Me Kevin and “Can you play Fallout: New Vegas as a PACIFIST?” Yes, Kevin is going back to the “I personally can’t kill but I don’t mind if other people kill for me” well in Fallout games with I LOVE PEACE the Courier in F:NV! Who leveled up Speech and nothing else because that is the way to go in this game if you don’t want to kill people. Not that having high Speech actually helped Kevin much. . . XD He attempted to do the starting quest in Goodsprings with helping Ringo and his other friends fight the Powder Gangers, recruiting everyone he could and then watching the action go down from a distance, but the quest never actually properly completed (possibly because a Powder Ganger fell through the scenery or something) despite the villagers holding their own, so he headed out into the wastes to seek his fortune!
Where he was promptly murdered by jumpscare Deathclaws! Yeah, uh, those boys didn’t really like Kevin running across their land and trying to lure them into fights with the populace so he could steal said populace’s hats. XD Kevin eventually lost them and made it to Freeside, where he ended up doing a bunch of quests for Gloria Von Graff at The Silver Rush. Spent an evening doing guard work outside their front door, letting in drunks and getting shot repeatedly for abandoning his post (even if it just involved moving a few feet away to kick a garbage can in frustration); then went out and did some weapon delivery to a guy who had the bad luck to be parked near a giant golden gecko (something that is so goofy and yet so terrifying at the same time) that Kevin had to hide from and then sneak around once it finally lost interest; then did Jean-Baptiste’s quest to go pick up Rose of Sharon Cassidy – which meant doing HER quests to help out the people in the spot where she was bunking. Kevin attempted to circumvent it by stealing the key to a certain safe off a certain person in the nearby NCR bunker, but after many, MANY attempts to get that key and then get to the safe, he discovered it didn’t have the information he needed. So he was forced to do Rose’s quest, which involved clearing a road of monsters and ended up with him running around luring giant ants into the path of the bandits who had happened upon him so they’d shoot THEM instead of HIM. XD I get the feeling the dude was very happy indeed to finally pick up Rose and lead her to her death at Jean-Baptiste’s hands. XD And then, finally, he followed the Van Graffs to their big weapons deal with the Legion, hid in the corner with the pack brahmin as the two of them faced off – then made the mistake of deciding to put on some Legion armor once they were all dead and got shot at BY HIS OWN SIDE because suddenly they thought he was a Legionnaire. XD He eventually got them to stop by stripping, and was promptly booted out of his job because that was the end of the questline. XD Ended the episode back in glitched-out Goodsprings, where I think I LOVE PEACE may choose to stay because I have no idea how he’ll do the main quest without a little bit of murder. XD Good times, good times. . .
C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and “Playing as Every Animal in GTA 5” – yes, really. It seems Alex has a friend named Petey, and Petey ALSO makes GTA V challenge boards. And when asked to create a series of challenges for Gray to complete that tortured him in ways Alex hadn’t thought of yet, Petey decided that the best thing to do would be to change Gray from a human into various animals and make him run a variety of hellish obstacle courses. Starting with a rat who had to maneuver his way along a tightrope of doom, dodging random beer bottles, fake floors, and FIRE VENTS to survive the trip to the checkpoint; then moving onto a pigeon who divebombed a few pedestrians before being presented with the Wind Turbine Tunnel Of Ultimate Doom (so bad that an ORCA couldn’t manage to make it through – and that orca’s death sent Gray into a laughing fit so bad he died too); then moving onto a seagull who had to fly through series of thumbnail holes, throwing bricks at and dropping grenades on the humans in his way (and the way the bird distorted when he loosed his weapons was – pretty fucking amazing); then moving onto a mountain lion who had to very quickly run a tightrope to make it across to the next transformer, which turned him into a cow who then had to run very quickly across its OWN tightrope, knocking people out of the way so it could get over each gap before the truck filling it reversed out, leaving a jump the cow couldn’t make; moving onto a rabbit who had to VERY CAREFULLY do another, even thinner tightrope in the sky (and the one time it fell to earth, it got robbed by some random gangsters); moving onto a shark who had to find its way out of the cube of ocean it was trapped in (Gray blew up a lot of random people on jetskis in hopes of exploding a way out, but then found that there was a crack in the wall near the bottom with a fake panel he could just swim through); and finally moving onto a T-REX who terrorized the local army base and had to take out a helicopter to get the teleporter to teleport to the win. XD Loads of fun pain for Gray here – though I mentioned that to get the full experience, Gray definitely has to play as an alligator at some point. . .
3. Play Sims 4 and get Alice's werewolf form properly sorted; if possible also play through Love Day: Check, though the werewolf form proved to be something of a disappointment – I got into the game, woke Alice from her wolf nap, and had her use the “Change Sim” option on the dresser in her and Victor’s bedroom to start painting her werewolf form to look more like her “Cheshire Dress” form in A:MR –
And quickly realized things weren’t really working as I’d hoped. Mainly because none of the brushes really felt like what I needed? I’m not used to using Paint Mode, and I don’t think I acquitted myself very well with it. ^^; Especially since some of the designs are pretty intricate, and I really wasn’t sure how I was going to do them. I eventually settled on getting as close as I could to the right fur color, roughly the right markings on her face, and giving her a moon necklace to wear in that form. I might try again another time to see if I can get the rest of her form to look better!
Anyway, given that didn’t take as long as I was expecting, I decided to go ahead and play through the actual day! Especially since it was Love Day, and I already had some double date ideas for my little threesome. . . Things seemed to be going well – Victor upgraded his and Alice’s shower while Smiler grabbed some dahlias from the greenhouse and took care of the chickens and Alice caught up on her sleep a bit –
And then I noticed a couple of the wind turbines had broken down again, and decided to have Victor practice his magic by Repairioing them.
First one failed, set the damn thing on fire. *facepalm* Fortunately Victor was able to put it out quickly, and his SECOND attempt at Repairioing it went smoothly, but damn. I had him just fix the other one manually. XD Smiler chatted with Alice and finished their homework while this was going on, then did some recycling while Alice tried some scavenging with her new wolfy powers. Didn’t yield anything, sadly. And then it was time for Smiler to head to class –
And Victor and Alice to go on a date! To the Ice Cream Conery, no less, as I’d never actually USED it before today. They went to the version I created for this save’s Magnolia Promenade, got seated outside at one of the picnic tables, and successfully ordered and ate a Neopolitian cone (Alice) and a chocolate cone (Victor). They had a lovely time snuggling up to each other and flirting away, even if it took a while to actually get their ice cream. :) They also took a moment to watch someone play guitar (badly) and swing on the swings (which left Alice feeling a touch sick, unfortunately) before ending the date – unfortunately, as I wasn’t able to get them to finish socializing over their meal, it was only a silver date. Meh. Still good, though, and got me some cute pictures. :)
After that it was time to go back home just long enough for Victor to get his authenticated artifacts from the mailbox (real vase, real bunny statue, fake skull) and for him and Alice to take care of some needs before I pounced with Smiler so THEY could go on a date as well! :) Two romantic relationships here, after all! They ended up going to Del Sol Valley and one of the lots I downloaded and renovated – Orchid Pictures and Bar, Plumbella’s lounge/cinema lot that I added a live entertainment space to (removing one of the cinemas). They had a decent time there – Smiler got a Plasma Jane from the bar, they and Victor danced for a bit, and after I got tired of having other Sims try to talk to them, I sent them upstairs to hide in the cinema to flirt and watch the movie “Simder” together – but unfortunately, Smiler’s Erratic trait came into play and made them insult Victor, so they ended the date with Gold status, but with Victor nursing a “Festering Grudge” sentiment. *grumbles* Still, it was a very successful date, and the Grudge was drowned out by all of the good feelings Victor had about the date, so I was able to cap things off with them having their very first woohoo together while Alice watched a bit of romantic television. :p Successful holiday for everybody, yay! :) And my Valicer itch is at least somewhat scratched. :p
4. Work on tumblr drafts: Check – did the morning catch up on the Victor Luvs Alice dashboard, then got about halfway through editing a post describing my OTHER Alton Towers coaster OCs (Oblivion, Th13teen, Rita, Galactica, Nemesis, and Wickerman), and what exactly their deal is, before lunch.
Additionally:
-->We did indeed play beanbags, in the hour or so before we went to get our boosters – I had a weirdly up-or-down day where I either won or lost, while Mom had a pretty good day and Dad kept getting stuck on threes whenever he threw. But we each won at least once, and I got two wins myself, so can’t complain. Final scores were me W-3-3-W-3; Dad 3-2-W-2-2; Mom 2-W-2-3-W. Not too shabby.
So I guess if nothing else, I had a productive Saturday! And now that it's wrapping up, it's time to prepare for Sunday --
1. Keep up with the FO4 Playthrough Progression
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs, the OXBox list video in the Watch Later, and Jon's latest Fallout video
3. Play Fallout 4 and go mutant hunting in Fanueil Hall
4. Work on tumblr drafts
5. Get in a workout
Pretty typical Fallout Sunday stuff -- and I'm looking forward to seeing what Jon has in store for us this week! Hopefully something exciting. . .in the meantime, I'm juggling some RP stuff, so I should head out. Night all!
Other things of note during my day --
1. Continue writing "As Long As You Love Me": Check – have wrapped up the latest chapter with Alice dropping off Victor, Victoria, and Emily at Victor’s house. Victoria and Emily are eager to put this chapter of their lives behind them, but Victor. . .well, Victor’s still feeling pretty miserable about leaving Alice behind. Culminating in a handshake that he would SO like to turn into a hug, but. . . *wince* At least there’s only a minimum amount of this nonsense – next chapter starts with him still moping, but it’s not going to be long before he sees a very important news report on the television. . .
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs and the Plumbella video in my Watch Later: Check – got all three of these watched this evening –
A) Started with that Plumbella video: “The Sims 4 but each FLOOR is a different decade!” Plumbella putting a different spin on the “each room in this build is X” challenge by allowing herself a whole floor to work with, and then choosing a different decade for each. She ended up making a three-story build – first floor got the 2000s, which Plumbella interpreted to mean “as much beige everywhere as possible” – beige exterior, beige paths in the front and back gardens (which were absolutely huge for such a little house), beige kitchen, BURNT beige dining nook, and beige as hell living room with a frankenfireplace for interest. :p Second floor got the 1970s, and Plumbella actually really ended up liking the style on this one – wooden slats and stonework for the outside, a blue carpeted bathroom (solid blue, no variations), a yellow and blue bedroom with some nice wicker furniture and the cool glowy High School Years mirror, and a sitting nook that Plumbella WANTED to put a platform in but couldn’t because it kept deleting her walls. And the third floor got the 1950s, which became a green and yellow attic bedroom using all the mid-century modern stuff The Sims 4 loves so much, plus the classic The Sims TV from Eco Lifestyle. It honestly came together better than I was expecting, and I quite enjoyed the build! :) Fun little challenge is fun.
B) Then it was over to the Subs for Call Me Kevin and “Can you play Fallout: New Vegas as a PACIFIST?” Yes, Kevin is going back to the “I personally can’t kill but I don’t mind if other people kill for me” well in Fallout games with I LOVE PEACE the Courier in F:NV! Who leveled up Speech and nothing else because that is the way to go in this game if you don’t want to kill people. Not that having high Speech actually helped Kevin much. . . XD He attempted to do the starting quest in Goodsprings with helping Ringo and his other friends fight the Powder Gangers, recruiting everyone he could and then watching the action go down from a distance, but the quest never actually properly completed (possibly because a Powder Ganger fell through the scenery or something) despite the villagers holding their own, so he headed out into the wastes to seek his fortune!
Where he was promptly murdered by jumpscare Deathclaws! Yeah, uh, those boys didn’t really like Kevin running across their land and trying to lure them into fights with the populace so he could steal said populace’s hats. XD Kevin eventually lost them and made it to Freeside, where he ended up doing a bunch of quests for Gloria Von Graff at The Silver Rush. Spent an evening doing guard work outside their front door, letting in drunks and getting shot repeatedly for abandoning his post (even if it just involved moving a few feet away to kick a garbage can in frustration); then went out and did some weapon delivery to a guy who had the bad luck to be parked near a giant golden gecko (something that is so goofy and yet so terrifying at the same time) that Kevin had to hide from and then sneak around once it finally lost interest; then did Jean-Baptiste’s quest to go pick up Rose of Sharon Cassidy – which meant doing HER quests to help out the people in the spot where she was bunking. Kevin attempted to circumvent it by stealing the key to a certain safe off a certain person in the nearby NCR bunker, but after many, MANY attempts to get that key and then get to the safe, he discovered it didn’t have the information he needed. So he was forced to do Rose’s quest, which involved clearing a road of monsters and ended up with him running around luring giant ants into the path of the bandits who had happened upon him so they’d shoot THEM instead of HIM. XD I get the feeling the dude was very happy indeed to finally pick up Rose and lead her to her death at Jean-Baptiste’s hands. XD And then, finally, he followed the Van Graffs to their big weapons deal with the Legion, hid in the corner with the pack brahmin as the two of them faced off – then made the mistake of deciding to put on some Legion armor once they were all dead and got shot at BY HIS OWN SIDE because suddenly they thought he was a Legionnaire. XD He eventually got them to stop by stripping, and was promptly booted out of his job because that was the end of the questline. XD Ended the episode back in glitched-out Goodsprings, where I think I LOVE PEACE may choose to stay because I have no idea how he’ll do the main quest without a little bit of murder. XD Good times, good times. . .
C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and “Playing as Every Animal in GTA 5” – yes, really. It seems Alex has a friend named Petey, and Petey ALSO makes GTA V challenge boards. And when asked to create a series of challenges for Gray to complete that tortured him in ways Alex hadn’t thought of yet, Petey decided that the best thing to do would be to change Gray from a human into various animals and make him run a variety of hellish obstacle courses. Starting with a rat who had to maneuver his way along a tightrope of doom, dodging random beer bottles, fake floors, and FIRE VENTS to survive the trip to the checkpoint; then moving onto a pigeon who divebombed a few pedestrians before being presented with the Wind Turbine Tunnel Of Ultimate Doom (so bad that an ORCA couldn’t manage to make it through – and that orca’s death sent Gray into a laughing fit so bad he died too); then moving onto a seagull who had to fly through series of thumbnail holes, throwing bricks at and dropping grenades on the humans in his way (and the way the bird distorted when he loosed his weapons was – pretty fucking amazing); then moving onto a mountain lion who had to very quickly run a tightrope to make it across to the next transformer, which turned him into a cow who then had to run very quickly across its OWN tightrope, knocking people out of the way so it could get over each gap before the truck filling it reversed out, leaving a jump the cow couldn’t make; moving onto a rabbit who had to VERY CAREFULLY do another, even thinner tightrope in the sky (and the one time it fell to earth, it got robbed by some random gangsters); moving onto a shark who had to find its way out of the cube of ocean it was trapped in (Gray blew up a lot of random people on jetskis in hopes of exploding a way out, but then found that there was a crack in the wall near the bottom with a fake panel he could just swim through); and finally moving onto a T-REX who terrorized the local army base and had to take out a helicopter to get the teleporter to teleport to the win. XD Loads of fun pain for Gray here – though I mentioned that to get the full experience, Gray definitely has to play as an alligator at some point. . .
3. Play Sims 4 and get Alice's werewolf form properly sorted; if possible also play through Love Day: Check, though the werewolf form proved to be something of a disappointment – I got into the game, woke Alice from her wolf nap, and had her use the “Change Sim” option on the dresser in her and Victor’s bedroom to start painting her werewolf form to look more like her “Cheshire Dress” form in A:MR –
And quickly realized things weren’t really working as I’d hoped. Mainly because none of the brushes really felt like what I needed? I’m not used to using Paint Mode, and I don’t think I acquitted myself very well with it. ^^; Especially since some of the designs are pretty intricate, and I really wasn’t sure how I was going to do them. I eventually settled on getting as close as I could to the right fur color, roughly the right markings on her face, and giving her a moon necklace to wear in that form. I might try again another time to see if I can get the rest of her form to look better!
Anyway, given that didn’t take as long as I was expecting, I decided to go ahead and play through the actual day! Especially since it was Love Day, and I already had some double date ideas for my little threesome. . . Things seemed to be going well – Victor upgraded his and Alice’s shower while Smiler grabbed some dahlias from the greenhouse and took care of the chickens and Alice caught up on her sleep a bit –
And then I noticed a couple of the wind turbines had broken down again, and decided to have Victor practice his magic by Repairioing them.
First one failed, set the damn thing on fire. *facepalm* Fortunately Victor was able to put it out quickly, and his SECOND attempt at Repairioing it went smoothly, but damn. I had him just fix the other one manually. XD Smiler chatted with Alice and finished their homework while this was going on, then did some recycling while Alice tried some scavenging with her new wolfy powers. Didn’t yield anything, sadly. And then it was time for Smiler to head to class –
And Victor and Alice to go on a date! To the Ice Cream Conery, no less, as I’d never actually USED it before today. They went to the version I created for this save’s Magnolia Promenade, got seated outside at one of the picnic tables, and successfully ordered and ate a Neopolitian cone (Alice) and a chocolate cone (Victor). They had a lovely time snuggling up to each other and flirting away, even if it took a while to actually get their ice cream. :) They also took a moment to watch someone play guitar (badly) and swing on the swings (which left Alice feeling a touch sick, unfortunately) before ending the date – unfortunately, as I wasn’t able to get them to finish socializing over their meal, it was only a silver date. Meh. Still good, though, and got me some cute pictures. :)
After that it was time to go back home just long enough for Victor to get his authenticated artifacts from the mailbox (real vase, real bunny statue, fake skull) and for him and Alice to take care of some needs before I pounced with Smiler so THEY could go on a date as well! :) Two romantic relationships here, after all! They ended up going to Del Sol Valley and one of the lots I downloaded and renovated – Orchid Pictures and Bar, Plumbella’s lounge/cinema lot that I added a live entertainment space to (removing one of the cinemas). They had a decent time there – Smiler got a Plasma Jane from the bar, they and Victor danced for a bit, and after I got tired of having other Sims try to talk to them, I sent them upstairs to hide in the cinema to flirt and watch the movie “Simder” together – but unfortunately, Smiler’s Erratic trait came into play and made them insult Victor, so they ended the date with Gold status, but with Victor nursing a “Festering Grudge” sentiment. *grumbles* Still, it was a very successful date, and the Grudge was drowned out by all of the good feelings Victor had about the date, so I was able to cap things off with them having their very first woohoo together while Alice watched a bit of romantic television. :p Successful holiday for everybody, yay! :) And my Valicer itch is at least somewhat scratched. :p
4. Work on tumblr drafts: Check – did the morning catch up on the Victor Luvs Alice dashboard, then got about halfway through editing a post describing my OTHER Alton Towers coaster OCs (Oblivion, Th13teen, Rita, Galactica, Nemesis, and Wickerman), and what exactly their deal is, before lunch.
Additionally:
-->We did indeed play beanbags, in the hour or so before we went to get our boosters – I had a weirdly up-or-down day where I either won or lost, while Mom had a pretty good day and Dad kept getting stuck on threes whenever he threw. But we each won at least once, and I got two wins myself, so can’t complain. Final scores were me W-3-3-W-3; Dad 3-2-W-2-2; Mom 2-W-2-3-W. Not too shabby.
So I guess if nothing else, I had a productive Saturday! And now that it's wrapping up, it's time to prepare for Sunday --
1. Keep up with the FO4 Playthrough Progression
2. Keep up with YouTube Subs, the OXBox list video in the Watch Later, and Jon's latest Fallout video
3. Play Fallout 4 and go mutant hunting in Fanueil Hall
4. Work on tumblr drafts
5. Get in a workout
Pretty typical Fallout Sunday stuff -- and I'm looking forward to seeing what Jon has in store for us this week! Hopefully something exciting. . .in the meantime, I'm juggling some RP stuff, so I should head out. Night all!
