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Last Sunday Before Work Resumes
Dec. 29th, 2019 10:15 pm. . .for an entire (or maybe not even; they may let us out early) day before I get two more days off for the New Year. XD Hey, I'll take it -- after that and MLK Jr Day, I'm going to have no automatic time off for MONTHS. (Literally -- next holiday I get off is EASTER. It's a five-day weekend, yeah, but. . .) I mean, I have vacation time, and there's always the possibility of snow days, but it's just kind of nicer when you don't have to worry that you're missing anything at work, you know? *shrug* So yeah, trying to enjoy this end-of-year glut while I can.
Anyway, major achievements of the day:
-->Catching up with the latest episodes of "Rags To Enrichment," which were in large part James trying desperately to make Bob and Trash's Box of Despair house look less like a box of despair (he has only marginally succeeded) and having things get glitch-repoed which suggest the system doesn't actually work. At least they got to keep their fridge as a result? Anyway, Bob and Trash are doing their best -- Bob's making decent money at his job, at least, and Trash is keeping an A GPA, so that's something. Their needs are often in the toilet, but that's not uncommon in James's saves. XD And they do have two roommates now to help with rent, so that's something! Slowly but surely clawing their way to something resembling a successful life. :p
-->Playing my own Sims 4 game -- finally finished my impromptu house renovation and closed out the day! The stairs to the basement are inside now -- in a little mud room sort of area -- I've rearranged some stuff, replaced some furniture with nicer things, framed all the photographs, moved around artwork and other items, and bought a damn chess table. So far so good! The gang had a pretty quiet rest of the day -- Victor did a lot of painting, Alice got her logic on and tried to finish up more of her book. Tomorrow in-game should be more interesting, gameplay-wise -- it's New Year's Eve! XD Funny when my game accidentally gets topical. XD
-->Starting edits on Chapter 3 of "Secundus 2!" Yes, now that I'm out of Gift Fic All Day Every Day, I can get back into my main projects again! Isn't that a trip. . . Anyway, I'm making a solid start on Chapter 3, which is set in the Palace Saloon -- everyone's about to be introduced to Jennifer and a bunch of Marty's relatives, which will be fun. :)
-->Watching a Kubz Scouts video on 60 Seconds Reatomized -- game has various challenge modes, and a recent addition was "Shelter Alone," where you control Timmy for 30 days, defending the bunker from what are clearly the Wet Bandits. XD It's a pretty tough challenge, though -- the supplies you get are randomized, and you need certain ones to successfully pass the Wet Bandit scenarios, so getting to the end can be a bit "luck of the draw!" Jay kept getting up to about day 25, then failing. Fortunately he managed it in the end! Even has the bonus of having the entire family -- including both Pancake the dog and Sharikov the cat -- in the bunker, which can't happen in normal play (if you get the cat, you either can't get the dog, or the dog leaves the moment the cat comes into play). So that was nice.
-->Watching a video on mods that fix The Sims 4 and making note of the ones I wanted the most. Slice of Life came up again, and there's also a mod that informs you when Island Living festivals are starting -- yes, for some reason we don't get these notifs for that pack only -- so that's cool.
-->Watching another video on mods that fix The Sims 4, but this one was shorter and by Plumbella, soooo XD More fun stuff, including new events and a sort of mod pack that converts some adult activities to be doable by kids (sometimes with glitchy animations, but what can you do). Good stuff!
-->And I'm currently finishing up queues on both my accounts (reblogged a meme for my Londerland Bloodlines Alice and got lots of replies, yay), and gonna answer some comments before going to bed. Again, work, so can't stay up too late like I've been doing! Hopefully it won't be too stressful tomorrow. . . Night all!
Anyway, major achievements of the day:
-->Catching up with the latest episodes of "Rags To Enrichment," which were in large part James trying desperately to make Bob and Trash's Box of Despair house look less like a box of despair (he has only marginally succeeded) and having things get glitch-repoed which suggest the system doesn't actually work. At least they got to keep their fridge as a result? Anyway, Bob and Trash are doing their best -- Bob's making decent money at his job, at least, and Trash is keeping an A GPA, so that's something. Their needs are often in the toilet, but that's not uncommon in James's saves. XD And they do have two roommates now to help with rent, so that's something! Slowly but surely clawing their way to something resembling a successful life. :p
-->Playing my own Sims 4 game -- finally finished my impromptu house renovation and closed out the day! The stairs to the basement are inside now -- in a little mud room sort of area -- I've rearranged some stuff, replaced some furniture with nicer things, framed all the photographs, moved around artwork and other items, and bought a damn chess table. So far so good! The gang had a pretty quiet rest of the day -- Victor did a lot of painting, Alice got her logic on and tried to finish up more of her book. Tomorrow in-game should be more interesting, gameplay-wise -- it's New Year's Eve! XD Funny when my game accidentally gets topical. XD
-->Starting edits on Chapter 3 of "Secundus 2!" Yes, now that I'm out of Gift Fic All Day Every Day, I can get back into my main projects again! Isn't that a trip. . . Anyway, I'm making a solid start on Chapter 3, which is set in the Palace Saloon -- everyone's about to be introduced to Jennifer and a bunch of Marty's relatives, which will be fun. :)
-->Watching a Kubz Scouts video on 60 Seconds Reatomized -- game has various challenge modes, and a recent addition was "Shelter Alone," where you control Timmy for 30 days, defending the bunker from what are clearly the Wet Bandits. XD It's a pretty tough challenge, though -- the supplies you get are randomized, and you need certain ones to successfully pass the Wet Bandit scenarios, so getting to the end can be a bit "luck of the draw!" Jay kept getting up to about day 25, then failing. Fortunately he managed it in the end! Even has the bonus of having the entire family -- including both Pancake the dog and Sharikov the cat -- in the bunker, which can't happen in normal play (if you get the cat, you either can't get the dog, or the dog leaves the moment the cat comes into play). So that was nice.
-->Watching a video on mods that fix The Sims 4 and making note of the ones I wanted the most. Slice of Life came up again, and there's also a mod that informs you when Island Living festivals are starting -- yes, for some reason we don't get these notifs for that pack only -- so that's cool.
-->Watching another video on mods that fix The Sims 4, but this one was shorter and by Plumbella, soooo XD More fun stuff, including new events and a sort of mod pack that converts some adult activities to be doable by kids (sometimes with glitchy animations, but what can you do). Good stuff!
-->And I'm currently finishing up queues on both my accounts (reblogged a meme for my Londerland Bloodlines Alice and got lots of replies, yay), and gonna answer some comments before going to bed. Again, work, so can't stay up too late like I've been doing! Hopefully it won't be too stressful tomorrow. . . Night all!
