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Less Humidity Sunday
Aug. 20th, 2017 11:00 pmYeah -- still hot, but a LOT drier. Could actually have my windows open! That's always nice. Even if my curtains tend to blow around a lot. Got the air-con on now, though -- still pretty warm out, and while it was okay for a while, my room was getting uncomfortable. Tomorrow's supposed to be way hot -- not sure about the humidity level, but 90 is pretty darn "yikes" even if it isn't humid. I guess summer isn't going down without a fight!
Things accomplished today:
-->More writing on "Fixing You!" I picked up in the new Chapter 2, and rewrote part of Victor and Alice's conversation to talk about them going to Oxford to visit her family's graves while they search for a way to get Downstairs. I find it mildly ironic to put in all this when I KNOW the fic's going to have them visit BURTONSVILLE first and find Alice's family there. . .but it's a good bit of chatter, I suppose. Not to mention I was planning on adding some Oxford stuff to this next draft anyway. Seems a shame to have all that build-up and not follow through.
-->More videos --
-Helloween's Illusion of Gaia set (Will's best friend Lance and his new girlfriend Lilly have left the party to look after Lance's ailing father, and his uncle Neil has left to run his parents' company (after discovering his parents were killed by vicious moon spirits -- also their company deals in slaves as well as other things), and then the main female character's pig deliberately sacrificed itself to stop her and Will (and their friend Eric) from being eaten by a starving village of natives. And it turns out the pig was possessed by the ghost of Will's mother. For kids!)
-Helloween's latest S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat set (Hells finishes up his missions for the scientists, setting up scanners, and getting a bunch of snorks killed in an anomaly -- he also finally sold some stuff he'd been hoarding, and is now busy moving the plot along by investigating why his military buddies can't contact HQ)
-The Dom's summary, review, and look at the adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey (It sucks, he hates it, it sends awful messages and inaccurately portrays BDSM -- nothing I haven't heard before, but it is always mildly entertaining to watch people rage over this pile of shit)
-Games that were deliberately made worse because their developers were dicks about something (including Atari releasing a half-finished build of something just so they could avoid paying the guy who developed it -- backfired massively and ended up being part of the death knell for the company)
-->More BioShock (as apparently it should be written) -- I am starting to hate this research camera. If only because it takes up a weapon slot, awards more research points for being attacked when you take the picture, and when I press RB, my weapon doesn't always change immediately, meaning sometimes I take two pictures in a row instead of getting out my weapon and killing the people trying to kill me. *grumble* Still chewing through the health kits. On the plus side, I have opened up another Plasmid slot and gotten myself the Winter Blast plasmid so I can freeze suckers. On the minus side, I have entered a "no-weapons (except your wrench)" area and have already died once to a massive ambush of evil evil Splicers. *sighs deeply* I swear I like the game, it's just FRUSTRATING sometimes.
-->More queuing -- Valice Multiverse queue is done, and I got up to Wednesday done on VictorLuvsAlice. So that's good at least -- a few less things to worry about.
So yeah, a pretty productive Sunday, I should say. Now to hope this upcoming week is equally productive. Coming to the end of my half-day Fridays. :( At least I have plenty of vacation time saved up if I need extra time off. Right now, though, I do have work tomorrow, and I should be something approaching well-rested, soooo -- night all!
Things accomplished today:
-->More writing on "Fixing You!" I picked up in the new Chapter 2, and rewrote part of Victor and Alice's conversation to talk about them going to Oxford to visit her family's graves while they search for a way to get Downstairs. I find it mildly ironic to put in all this when I KNOW the fic's going to have them visit BURTONSVILLE first and find Alice's family there. . .but it's a good bit of chatter, I suppose. Not to mention I was planning on adding some Oxford stuff to this next draft anyway. Seems a shame to have all that build-up and not follow through.
-->More videos --
-Helloween's Illusion of Gaia set (Will's best friend Lance and his new girlfriend Lilly have left the party to look after Lance's ailing father, and his uncle Neil has left to run his parents' company (after discovering his parents were killed by vicious moon spirits -- also their company deals in slaves as well as other things), and then the main female character's pig deliberately sacrificed itself to stop her and Will (and their friend Eric) from being eaten by a starving village of natives. And it turns out the pig was possessed by the ghost of Will's mother. For kids!)
-Helloween's latest S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat set (Hells finishes up his missions for the scientists, setting up scanners, and getting a bunch of snorks killed in an anomaly -- he also finally sold some stuff he'd been hoarding, and is now busy moving the plot along by investigating why his military buddies can't contact HQ)
-The Dom's summary, review, and look at the adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey (It sucks, he hates it, it sends awful messages and inaccurately portrays BDSM -- nothing I haven't heard before, but it is always mildly entertaining to watch people rage over this pile of shit)
-Games that were deliberately made worse because their developers were dicks about something (including Atari releasing a half-finished build of something just so they could avoid paying the guy who developed it -- backfired massively and ended up being part of the death knell for the company)
-->More BioShock (as apparently it should be written) -- I am starting to hate this research camera. If only because it takes up a weapon slot, awards more research points for being attacked when you take the picture, and when I press RB, my weapon doesn't always change immediately, meaning sometimes I take two pictures in a row instead of getting out my weapon and killing the people trying to kill me. *grumble* Still chewing through the health kits. On the plus side, I have opened up another Plasmid slot and gotten myself the Winter Blast plasmid so I can freeze suckers. On the minus side, I have entered a "no-weapons (except your wrench)" area and have already died once to a massive ambush of evil evil Splicers. *sighs deeply* I swear I like the game, it's just FRUSTRATING sometimes.
-->More queuing -- Valice Multiverse queue is done, and I got up to Wednesday done on VictorLuvsAlice. So that's good at least -- a few less things to worry about.
So yeah, a pretty productive Sunday, I should say. Now to hope this upcoming week is equally productive. Coming to the end of my half-day Fridays. :( At least I have plenty of vacation time saved up if I need extra time off. Right now, though, I do have work tomorrow, and I should be something approaching well-rested, soooo -- night all!
