A Tired Wednesday
Jul. 17th, 2024 11:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickDespite me sleeping a bit better last night (no plushies on the floor today) -- I think it's a combination of work boredom and all the heat and humidity. We're supposed to have rain/potential thunderstorms overnight, and then things are supposed to get at least a LITTLE better, but we'll see if that pans out. *shrug* In the meantime, the to-do list --
Work – Another pretty quiet day with almost nothing going on – the two major things I did were update someone’s expiration date, and have the biweekly call with the credit card people (which was mostly useless, as always, but we did fix ONE thing that I found earlier in the week...too bad I stumbled across another problem that was supposed to have been FIXED this morning on the transaction reports >( ). But other than that, yeah, basically doing whatever online obituaries I can find and noodling with the paper’s puzzle pages. Only two more days – and only one more FULL day, so that’s good.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, pedaling my way through –
A) The last seven-odd minutes of my friend Squid’s Baldur’s Gate 3 cutscene movie starring their character Runa – Act II, Part 1! Featuring Runa and friends meeting a cat, Silverclaw, who’s been hunting loose tadpoles (Runa encouraged them to kill all they could find, which the cat was only too happy to do), and running into – I’m pretty sure the dude who was working with the friendly mindflayer in the Underdark, who had been accosted by one of Karlach’s old Avernus “friends,” Flo (a cambion who likes to garrote people, but apparently has good jokes) and given three soul coins (coins with damned souls tied to them, which can give Karlach a boost to her fighting prowess) to give her, so long as the guy also passed on the stories of the souls within. Runa and Karlach agreed to take the coins and thus listened to the stories of a woman born into a terrible family, who made a deal for love and then watched her soulmate die from being run over by a carriage moments after he clapped eyes on her; a man who begged someone to make sure his children had meat to eat during a famine, and got transformed by a devil into a creature that constantly grew meat; and a little boy who liked to play in the sun. Depressing way to end the video, that’s for sure!
B) About the first half of “I am trying the Every Life Stage Challenge! - Part 1” by James Turner! This is a challenge that will see James’s self-Sim, Semaj Renrut (living in Brindleton Bay with aspirations to become a Super Parent), have babies with seven other Sims and then gradually age them (and himself) up until he has one of every life stage in the household – newborn, infant, toddler, child, teenager, young adult, adult, and elder! Things have started off strong-ish, with Semaj having gotten a job in the Actor career and having met and befriended Denise Robles (one of the premade Sims from Growing Together), who agreed to have a science baby with him while she was staying over his house (Semaj couldn’t have a woohoo baby with her as she was already pregnant – plus, she IS a married woman!). Meaning Semaj has already welcomed his first little one, Krystoff Renrut! Unfortunately, he doesn’t really have any MONEY to take care of Krystoff at the moment, because he keeps failing his auditions and all the money he got running around getting collectibles ended up going toward creating Krystoff. XD We’ll see how he deals with that, and if he can FINALLY ace an audition, tomorrow!
2. Continue the final posting edit of “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland” Chapter Two: Check – up to page 24 of 44 now, with Victor having finished his tale of a corpse bride, a kidnapping, a disappearing girlfriend, and a new start in California nearly cut short by a car, and Alice having gotten most of the way through her story of a childhood spent in Wonderland, a terrible student who caused a terrible fire, a decade in supervised hospitalization, and a literal fight for her very mind. I left off with Alice revealing that she’d left Rutledge, only to end up in the care of the very man responsible for her going there in the first place – we’ll see how much more I can get through tomorrow!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Half-check – didn’t quite have time for the other Josh Way video, so I focused on GrayStillPlays and “Which vehicle is best at surviving the zombie apocalypse?” Specifically, which of a bunch of various arena vehicles (with the spiky armor, the slatted windshields, the blades, and the guns) could get through all three Zombie Situations that Alex had made for Gray –
I. Spamming Explosive Zombies – Gray had to survive in a walled-off block of city streets, going around and around and avoiding not only hordes of explosive zombies, but also yeeters, weebmills, the other citizens trying to go about their business, the occasional LEGO fire truck, and a bomb riding his tail, for 69 seconds so he could unlock the teleporter in the middle of the block. This, as you might imagine, was a VERY tricky proposition, no matter if he went for agility and speed or as much armor and guns as he could find. There were a lot of burnt-out car shells littering the road by the end, is what I’m saying.
II. Stiff Zombie Cannon – Gray had to make it past a gauntlet of three cannons firing stiff statue-like zombies at him at Mach 10 in an attempt to knock him off the course, all while avoiding the various slow-down circles scattered across the pavement (plus a random UFO top embedded into the road). Simpler than the first challenge, but no less annoying – especially since he started behind some random shubbery apparently put there to make his life harder, and had to time his mad race to the checkpoint to beat a yeeter that was sitting right in front of it. You needed a car that could take a hit there!
III. Zombie Layers – Gray had to shove his way through multiple layers of zombies, starting with regular zombies and going through stubborn zombies, stiff zombies, teleporting zombies, a zombie trench (aka a small but thicker layer of zombies), highly infectious zombies (not to Gray but to his car – hello tetanus!), VERY stubborn zombies, and explosive zombies, to reach the ending checkpoint – all before the wall at the end came up because this board was timed too. Again, you really needed a car that could take a hit – AND had some weight behind it.
So, which of the various arena vehicles won? Well, Gray tried them all, and most of them fell to the Spamming Explosive Zombies, lacking either the speed or the ability to take a blast to the face (or both). The Sawblade Motorcycle proved to have the agility to make it through the Box of Doom, and the What Looks Like The Insurgent the armor, but neither of them were able to keep their footing (tire-ing?) on the course with the Stiff Zombie Cannons. Meaning the winner was the very unexpected Arena Camper Van. Which Gray had been totally prepared to never touch if he could help it. Could only take a couple of hits, and wasn’t particularly nimble, but it had the power and weight to just PLOW through whatever was in its path – and once Gray was out of the Explosive Zombie Box, that proved VITAL to getting him through the Cannon and the Layers. Still took him a few tries on both, but he got to the end! Proving, once again, why you test out every vehicle if you can. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Substitution – I didn’t really have anything to do on Victor Luvs Alice at the moment (especially since it’s definitely looking like I’ll be posting LB:DQ Chapter Two on Friday instead of queuing it up the night before), and I don’t check Valice Multiverse on Wednesdays, so instead I replied to the first two of the latest crop of messages Moose sent me. *waves* I’ll get to the other two tomorrow!
*nods* So that was my day, yes. And now I need to go and try to get some sleep again. The neverending cycle! Night all!
Work – Another pretty quiet day with almost nothing going on – the two major things I did were update someone’s expiration date, and have the biweekly call with the credit card people (which was mostly useless, as always, but we did fix ONE thing that I found earlier in the week...too bad I stumbled across another problem that was supposed to have been FIXED this morning on the transaction reports >( ). But other than that, yeah, basically doing whatever online obituaries I can find and noodling with the paper’s puzzle pages. Only two more days – and only one more FULL day, so that’s good.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, pedaling my way through –
A) The last seven-odd minutes of my friend Squid’s Baldur’s Gate 3 cutscene movie starring their character Runa – Act II, Part 1! Featuring Runa and friends meeting a cat, Silverclaw, who’s been hunting loose tadpoles (Runa encouraged them to kill all they could find, which the cat was only too happy to do), and running into – I’m pretty sure the dude who was working with the friendly mindflayer in the Underdark, who had been accosted by one of Karlach’s old Avernus “friends,” Flo (a cambion who likes to garrote people, but apparently has good jokes) and given three soul coins (coins with damned souls tied to them, which can give Karlach a boost to her fighting prowess) to give her, so long as the guy also passed on the stories of the souls within. Runa and Karlach agreed to take the coins and thus listened to the stories of a woman born into a terrible family, who made a deal for love and then watched her soulmate die from being run over by a carriage moments after he clapped eyes on her; a man who begged someone to make sure his children had meat to eat during a famine, and got transformed by a devil into a creature that constantly grew meat; and a little boy who liked to play in the sun. Depressing way to end the video, that’s for sure!
B) About the first half of “I am trying the Every Life Stage Challenge! - Part 1” by James Turner! This is a challenge that will see James’s self-Sim, Semaj Renrut (living in Brindleton Bay with aspirations to become a Super Parent), have babies with seven other Sims and then gradually age them (and himself) up until he has one of every life stage in the household – newborn, infant, toddler, child, teenager, young adult, adult, and elder! Things have started off strong-ish, with Semaj having gotten a job in the Actor career and having met and befriended Denise Robles (one of the premade Sims from Growing Together), who agreed to have a science baby with him while she was staying over his house (Semaj couldn’t have a woohoo baby with her as she was already pregnant – plus, she IS a married woman!). Meaning Semaj has already welcomed his first little one, Krystoff Renrut! Unfortunately, he doesn’t really have any MONEY to take care of Krystoff at the moment, because he keeps failing his auditions and all the money he got running around getting collectibles ended up going toward creating Krystoff. XD We’ll see how he deals with that, and if he can FINALLY ace an audition, tomorrow!
2. Continue the final posting edit of “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland” Chapter Two: Check – up to page 24 of 44 now, with Victor having finished his tale of a corpse bride, a kidnapping, a disappearing girlfriend, and a new start in California nearly cut short by a car, and Alice having gotten most of the way through her story of a childhood spent in Wonderland, a terrible student who caused a terrible fire, a decade in supervised hospitalization, and a literal fight for her very mind. I left off with Alice revealing that she’d left Rutledge, only to end up in the care of the very man responsible for her going there in the first place – we’ll see how much more I can get through tomorrow!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Half-check – didn’t quite have time for the other Josh Way video, so I focused on GrayStillPlays and “Which vehicle is best at surviving the zombie apocalypse?” Specifically, which of a bunch of various arena vehicles (with the spiky armor, the slatted windshields, the blades, and the guns) could get through all three Zombie Situations that Alex had made for Gray –
I. Spamming Explosive Zombies – Gray had to survive in a walled-off block of city streets, going around and around and avoiding not only hordes of explosive zombies, but also yeeters, weebmills, the other citizens trying to go about their business, the occasional LEGO fire truck, and a bomb riding his tail, for 69 seconds so he could unlock the teleporter in the middle of the block. This, as you might imagine, was a VERY tricky proposition, no matter if he went for agility and speed or as much armor and guns as he could find. There were a lot of burnt-out car shells littering the road by the end, is what I’m saying.
II. Stiff Zombie Cannon – Gray had to make it past a gauntlet of three cannons firing stiff statue-like zombies at him at Mach 10 in an attempt to knock him off the course, all while avoiding the various slow-down circles scattered across the pavement (plus a random UFO top embedded into the road). Simpler than the first challenge, but no less annoying – especially since he started behind some random shubbery apparently put there to make his life harder, and had to time his mad race to the checkpoint to beat a yeeter that was sitting right in front of it. You needed a car that could take a hit there!
III. Zombie Layers – Gray had to shove his way through multiple layers of zombies, starting with regular zombies and going through stubborn zombies, stiff zombies, teleporting zombies, a zombie trench (aka a small but thicker layer of zombies), highly infectious zombies (not to Gray but to his car – hello tetanus!), VERY stubborn zombies, and explosive zombies, to reach the ending checkpoint – all before the wall at the end came up because this board was timed too. Again, you really needed a car that could take a hit – AND had some weight behind it.
So, which of the various arena vehicles won? Well, Gray tried them all, and most of them fell to the Spamming Explosive Zombies, lacking either the speed or the ability to take a blast to the face (or both). The Sawblade Motorcycle proved to have the agility to make it through the Box of Doom, and the What Looks Like The Insurgent the armor, but neither of them were able to keep their footing (tire-ing?) on the course with the Stiff Zombie Cannons. Meaning the winner was the very unexpected Arena Camper Van. Which Gray had been totally prepared to never touch if he could help it. Could only take a couple of hits, and wasn’t particularly nimble, but it had the power and weight to just PLOW through whatever was in its path – and once Gray was out of the Explosive Zombie Box, that proved VITAL to getting him through the Cannon and the Layers. Still took him a few tries on both, but he got to the end! Proving, once again, why you test out every vehicle if you can. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Substitution – I didn’t really have anything to do on Victor Luvs Alice at the moment (especially since it’s definitely looking like I’ll be posting LB:DQ Chapter Two on Friday instead of queuing it up the night before), and I don’t check Valice Multiverse on Wednesdays, so instead I replied to the first two of the latest crop of messages Moose sent me. *waves* I’ll get to the other two tomorrow!
*nods* So that was my day, yes. And now I need to go and try to get some sleep again. The neverending cycle! Night all!
