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Okay Enough Monday Back
Feb. 22nd, 2021 11:08 pmKind of tense and cranky, which I attribute to that time of the month coming up fast and thus me PMSing. Didn't help that my lunch break was interrupted by a credit card request. . .and then I got hit with another one immediately after coming back from the bathroom. (Didn't even get a chance to sit down!) Ugh. . .but most of the day was pretty quiet and revolved around catching up on roster maintenance and the like, so I can't complain too much. And hey, we're supposed to have some okay temps this week, so that's something?
Anyway -- made it through the day, got home, and started on the Standard Weekday To-Do List:
1. Get in a workout: Check! Another 25 minutes on the bike, another 25 minutes with Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! Caught up with Grills as he made his way back to Zephyr Ridge Camp to take a nap – only to find himself watching someone nuke a bear. Yes, the Trappers who were supposed to have populated the locale before had finally spawned in, and with a Fat Man no less! Jon promptly had Grills whip out the Gauss Rifle to explode some heads before his own got blown up. He managed to take out most of them, but ended up losing track of one Trapper who ran away at half-health. A baffled Jon confirmed that the Fat Man was out of commission, then – because he had the opportunity – had Grills take a nice long snooze.
Grills woke up to find his missing Trapper in the same bed. XD Fortunately said Trapper was a lot slower to wake up than Grills himself, and Grills was able to kill him before he could actually get a move on. Jon was equal parts amused and horrified by this development, and promptly hiked it over to Echo Haddock Cove to take care of the Mariner’s request for three Mirelurk Carpaces. Echo Haddock proved to be the last resting place of Bray Husky and his kin, who had built up a little city of sorts above the water – only to be taken out when some powerful Mirelurks, including Bloodrages and a Deep King, emerged and slaughtered the lot of them. Grills found the guy’s final holotape after killing some of the Mirelurks himself for their shells, and it’s – it’s pretty nasty stuff. Whoever they got for Bray, he did some excellent voice acting. On the more positive side, Grills also got a new bit of Powered gear off a Legendary Bloodrage Mirelurk, allowing him to refresh his action points even faster. He happily traded for his Sentinel Left Leg – and then found himself overencumbered because, you know, no pockets on the new thing. Whoops.
A bit of inventory management later, Grills was on the move again, doing his best to avoid anglers (succeeded) and Glowing Fog Crawlers (failed, though he did successfully kill it). Along the way, he found the church that – hang on, let me check the spelling of her name – Gwyneth, the Children of Atom heretic, was holed up in. (I know, I said Gwen before, but the subtitles are a bit hard to read from the bike!) At any rate, Grills confronted her, discovering that she now believed in Nothing over Atom (which, if she was reading textbooks on subatomic particles, is accurate), and killing her. Mostly because Jon is working himself into the right mindset for a Brotherhood run, and that mindset is “kill anyone who disagrees with my views.”
But, as usual, karma came calling for Jon’s foolish decision to ally himself with the techno-bigots – he stumbled across a new location, Fringe Cove Docks, and that location is full of Bloodrage Mirelurks who are only too happy to break his arms and slap his health down to the point where his Martyr’s gear gives him legendary slow time. XD And his desperate attempts to heal himself (from both this and the radiation he’s taken) have given him Weakness as an illness. I left him being slapped around again, much to my amusement. Sorry, Jon, but I do find your and Grills’s pain funny!
2. Work some more on “In A World Of His Own”: Check! Got through the end of Chapter 2, with Victor getting soaked when he accidentally falls off Ferdy during his own ride over the jungle. Plan “Get Victor and/or Alice Wet Each Chapter” is going along swimmingly. XD And I’m making good progress on the story too – a spring posting is looking pretty darn feasible. :)
3. Keep up on YouTube Subscriptions: Two-thirds check – due to having to make muffins as well as write (need to have breakfast in the morning!), I got on YouTube REALLY late and thus decided to prioritize watching the two shorter GrayStillPlays videos in my Subs. Kevin’s video will have to wait until tomorrow! But, in the meantime, we have:
I. Another GTA V Impossible Challenge board – you know it’s good when you start off with a wall ride jump from hell through wind turbines. XD And then we proceeded onto tightroping through the wind turbines (Gray cursed a lot at them), going upside-down into a tunnel of doom (Gray went into first person for that), climbing up a bunch of arrows (Gray actually tried going BACKWARDS with his back-heavy car for that), further tightroping and yeeting – you know, everything that makes Gray rage. Including gibberish-inducing surprise boosts! XD Ah, you gotta love the noises he makes when he’s frustrated. Mostly because we hear them so often. XD
II. Another set of Happy Wheels boards – how about a bottle flip where you don’t know what you’re going to get until you flip it? You could have all the bottles taken away! You could get a watermelon perfectly balanced on the edge of one of the areas! You could get your bottle stuck in the colorful worms protecting the MLG! Or you could explode Santa. XD This was followed up by a combined bottle run/spike fall using Mississippi Ted in his mine cart (he is not easy to take over a bottle run); an EXPLOSIVE bottle run (and you had to touch the finish line with your character, not your bike); a board of various evils, like a mega-fan trying to crush you and five tons of spikey glass, plus so many harpoons and arrows (Pogoius the Mighty finally made it through, but it took some doing); and a table slide that basically did its damndest to smash your table to pieces before impaling you on spikes (Gray though he could crawl to the end, but was proven wrong; he eventually beat it with speed and about half his intestines). Some rough ones tonight, but as usual Gray beat them all. “Never give up” indeed.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – I’m good on Victor Luvs Alice through Thursday (as I had pre-drafted my Wednesday and Thursday posts, and just needed to do Tuesday’s with the gift fic), and I have an idea of what I can do for Friday and Saturday, sooo. . .nice to be a little ahead, anyway!
So yeah, that was all good, at least. Time to see about answering my comment and heading to bed. Got a busy week ahead -- four more days of work, and this Saturday is going to be all about cleaning my room, doing my monthly blankets-and-bathrobe laundry load, and getting my taxes sorted. Bleeeh. . .but it's gotta be done, and I'd rather get it done all in one go. Maybe I'll buy myself Paranormal Stuff afterwards as a treat. . .
I'll decide later. For now, gotta wrap up and get to bed. Night!
Anyway -- made it through the day, got home, and started on the Standard Weekday To-Do List:
1. Get in a workout: Check! Another 25 minutes on the bike, another 25 minutes with Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! Caught up with Grills as he made his way back to Zephyr Ridge Camp to take a nap – only to find himself watching someone nuke a bear. Yes, the Trappers who were supposed to have populated the locale before had finally spawned in, and with a Fat Man no less! Jon promptly had Grills whip out the Gauss Rifle to explode some heads before his own got blown up. He managed to take out most of them, but ended up losing track of one Trapper who ran away at half-health. A baffled Jon confirmed that the Fat Man was out of commission, then – because he had the opportunity – had Grills take a nice long snooze.
Grills woke up to find his missing Trapper in the same bed. XD Fortunately said Trapper was a lot slower to wake up than Grills himself, and Grills was able to kill him before he could actually get a move on. Jon was equal parts amused and horrified by this development, and promptly hiked it over to Echo Haddock Cove to take care of the Mariner’s request for three Mirelurk Carpaces. Echo Haddock proved to be the last resting place of Bray Husky and his kin, who had built up a little city of sorts above the water – only to be taken out when some powerful Mirelurks, including Bloodrages and a Deep King, emerged and slaughtered the lot of them. Grills found the guy’s final holotape after killing some of the Mirelurks himself for their shells, and it’s – it’s pretty nasty stuff. Whoever they got for Bray, he did some excellent voice acting. On the more positive side, Grills also got a new bit of Powered gear off a Legendary Bloodrage Mirelurk, allowing him to refresh his action points even faster. He happily traded for his Sentinel Left Leg – and then found himself overencumbered because, you know, no pockets on the new thing. Whoops.
A bit of inventory management later, Grills was on the move again, doing his best to avoid anglers (succeeded) and Glowing Fog Crawlers (failed, though he did successfully kill it). Along the way, he found the church that – hang on, let me check the spelling of her name – Gwyneth, the Children of Atom heretic, was holed up in. (I know, I said Gwen before, but the subtitles are a bit hard to read from the bike!) At any rate, Grills confronted her, discovering that she now believed in Nothing over Atom (which, if she was reading textbooks on subatomic particles, is accurate), and killing her. Mostly because Jon is working himself into the right mindset for a Brotherhood run, and that mindset is “kill anyone who disagrees with my views.”
But, as usual, karma came calling for Jon’s foolish decision to ally himself with the techno-bigots – he stumbled across a new location, Fringe Cove Docks, and that location is full of Bloodrage Mirelurks who are only too happy to break his arms and slap his health down to the point where his Martyr’s gear gives him legendary slow time. XD And his desperate attempts to heal himself (from both this and the radiation he’s taken) have given him Weakness as an illness. I left him being slapped around again, much to my amusement. Sorry, Jon, but I do find your and Grills’s pain funny!
2. Work some more on “In A World Of His Own”: Check! Got through the end of Chapter 2, with Victor getting soaked when he accidentally falls off Ferdy during his own ride over the jungle. Plan “Get Victor and/or Alice Wet Each Chapter” is going along swimmingly. XD And I’m making good progress on the story too – a spring posting is looking pretty darn feasible. :)
3. Keep up on YouTube Subscriptions: Two-thirds check – due to having to make muffins as well as write (need to have breakfast in the morning!), I got on YouTube REALLY late and thus decided to prioritize watching the two shorter GrayStillPlays videos in my Subs. Kevin’s video will have to wait until tomorrow! But, in the meantime, we have:
I. Another GTA V Impossible Challenge board – you know it’s good when you start off with a wall ride jump from hell through wind turbines. XD And then we proceeded onto tightroping through the wind turbines (Gray cursed a lot at them), going upside-down into a tunnel of doom (Gray went into first person for that), climbing up a bunch of arrows (Gray actually tried going BACKWARDS with his back-heavy car for that), further tightroping and yeeting – you know, everything that makes Gray rage. Including gibberish-inducing surprise boosts! XD Ah, you gotta love the noises he makes when he’s frustrated. Mostly because we hear them so often. XD
II. Another set of Happy Wheels boards – how about a bottle flip where you don’t know what you’re going to get until you flip it? You could have all the bottles taken away! You could get a watermelon perfectly balanced on the edge of one of the areas! You could get your bottle stuck in the colorful worms protecting the MLG! Or you could explode Santa. XD This was followed up by a combined bottle run/spike fall using Mississippi Ted in his mine cart (he is not easy to take over a bottle run); an EXPLOSIVE bottle run (and you had to touch the finish line with your character, not your bike); a board of various evils, like a mega-fan trying to crush you and five tons of spikey glass, plus so many harpoons and arrows (Pogoius the Mighty finally made it through, but it took some doing); and a table slide that basically did its damndest to smash your table to pieces before impaling you on spikes (Gray though he could crawl to the end, but was proven wrong; he eventually beat it with speed and about half his intestines). Some rough ones tonight, but as usual Gray beat them all. “Never give up” indeed.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – I’m good on Victor Luvs Alice through Thursday (as I had pre-drafted my Wednesday and Thursday posts, and just needed to do Tuesday’s with the gift fic), and I have an idea of what I can do for Friday and Saturday, sooo. . .nice to be a little ahead, anyway!
So yeah, that was all good, at least. Time to see about answering my comment and heading to bed. Got a busy week ahead -- four more days of work, and this Saturday is going to be all about cleaning my room, doing my monthly blankets-and-bathrobe laundry load, and getting my taxes sorted. Bleeeh. . .but it's gotta be done, and I'd rather get it done all in one go. Maybe I'll buy myself Paranormal Stuff afterwards as a treat. . .
I'll decide later. For now, gotta wrap up and get to bed. Night!
