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Tiring Wednesday
Mar. 10th, 2021 11:12 pmStill having troubles with the sleep thing, and today was one of those rather stressful days where I was trying to organize everything on my plate while taking care of other stuff, and attempting to prioritize, and having to wait around to eat my damn lunch because no one else was getting out of the kitchen. . .ugh. I got shit done, but I feel like I could have gotten more if I hadn't been interrupted or feeling so stressed. Plus the drive home was "fun" thanks to an accident backing up traffic. Ended up not having to cut through the city, but RI drivers, man. . . Just one more day to get through. . .
At least I did well when it came to the afternoon to-do list:
1. Get in a workout: Check! Did a new kind of ride on the bike (a “fun” ride over “rolling hills” – talk about working up a sweat) and started episode 63 of Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! Caught up with Grills as he left Bunker Hill and used the jetpack attachment on his armor to skip fighting through the mutants in the CIT Ruins, instead just going up on the roof to talk with Father directly. Grills chose to claim they had been ambushed by the warring factions when it came to explaining what went wrong during Bunker Hill, but Father didn’t quite buy it. However, plot is plot, and he invited Grills back inside to the Directorate meeting, where he told everyone he was dying and that Grills was being named as his successor. We didn’t see much of the meeting (besides the Institute claiming the Railroad was still a threat – their intel of the outside world obviously ain’t great), but Jon said it was likely the last Institute quest he would be doing, unless he got the chance to sic the synthetic gorillas on Bioscience when they objected to him being named Father’s successor. Reason? Next quest is “Mass Fusion,” and that makes you draw your allegiance between the Brotherhood and the Institute – and I think we all already know which side Grills has chosen!
So, with his directorship in hand for the time being, Grills returned home to Hangman’s Alley to pick up – Preston! Yup, I assumed he wanted to do MacCready’s personal quest, but in fact what he was after is Preston’s companion perk, which is pretty solid (“United We Stand,” +20% damage and +20 points of damage resistance when facing three or more enemies at once). Of course, to get that, he had to find Preston first, which proved to be rather difficult. He was nowhere to be found in the settlement, didn’t respond to the bell – Jon, out of ideas, finally built that terminal from Vault 88 that allows you to track companions, and had it locate Preston.
Preston had glitched into a wall. Bethesda games. Grills managed to get him out of the wall and take him on as a companion, and the two ended up leaving the settlement to head out to Vault 81, which Jon apparently had only done once before, and then in kind of “speedrun” mode. Along the way, they were chased down by a settler who wanted to give Preston a present (and apparently steal his hat – Jon reequipped it for him), and found a subway station that Jon had never noticed before. Nothing in it but a cooking station and a few bugs, apparently. *shrug* Few points of free XP?
Anyway, they safely reached the vault, where the Overseer said he could come in in exchange for three fusion cores. Grills took the ones he’d brought along off Preston and slowly dragged them over to the Overseer, then took the tour of the vault with Austin – not only getting him to agree to do it for free, but also stealing all the produce out of Dr. Penske’s hydroponics lab. XD And then he tried to get Erin to pay him to find Ashes when they met up, but Erin refused and called him a greedy-guts, forcing Grills to agree to do it for free. He did manage to wrangle 50 caps out of Dr. Forsythe in exchange for a blood sample, though. Grills, if I know Preston, this isn’t really how you get him to like you more. . .
Well, there’s still plenty left to do in the vault – like meet the DeLuca twins, Bobby and Tina! Bobby’s a chem addict working in the “basement” of the vault, and Tina his concerned sister – though she can’t be that concerned, as she’s also his dealer. Grills expressed bafflement, but she said she could keep him on a short leash, but now that he was getting sloppy, she was cutting him off. Nice lady. *grumbles* I left Grills taking a look at the note by the old Overseer’s terminal – don’t think I found that when I did a few quests in there! I know I didn’t do the DeLuca stuff. . .this should be interesting.
2. Work some more on “In A World Of His Own”: Check! Not quite a page today, but I got to the end of Chapter 3 – Victor and Alice getting dropped off on the beach, and the Wizard demonstrating his magical prowess with a Back To The Future Part II joke. XD Managed to work in a TOUCH more description of the clothes, but if I want to add any more, it’ll have to wait for the posting pass.
3. Keep up on YouTube Subscriptions: Check! My two in the Subs, plus half a bonus video – I’ll explain below –
A) Started with Call Me Kevin playing a little Civilization VI! There’s a new feature in the game where you can pay barbarian tribes to be friendly, or to go to war against people you don’t like. Kevin sent out scouts to find rich sources of lucre to pay them to all go attack Spain. XD And then he declared himself friends with a bunch of countries, only to get them all to agree to go to war with each other (except Germany). And then he started paying local city-states to levy their armies for all the wars. It ended up with his archers – who don’t even know about the wheel – taking down the likes of Cairo, building the great Pyramids and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and building a city called “What Are You Gonna Do About It?” right on the edge of “America” while his barbarian mercenaries sacked Spain repeatedly. XD Money really does make the world go round in this game! And, as a bonus, we got a look at his latest “Youtooz” figure – Turg! Cuddling Kevin and Jim, as is only right. :D Comes out on St. Patrick’s Day, natch. XD
B) Then it was onto GrayStillPlays and another cursed stunt race in GTA V! This one was all about ramps, jumps, and loops – and yeeting. Lots and lots of delicate yeeting. Gray of course was tormented by everything from Funions (trying to make it around the rim of a yellow tube, like an onion ring) to disjointed butter (very slippery assets that he had to tightrope over). Not to mention a bunch of various vomiters, loop-de-loops, and rings to spin himself around. Plus a couple of super-long jumps that he just BARELY made. The number of times he flung himself off the side by accident. . .though it’s worth noting he also made some pretty incredible saves. The piece de resistance was the final yeet through a bunch of narrow – I don’t know what they are, they’re colorful and they serve as rings of nonliteral fire, that’s all that matters. Another horrible stunt board conquered!
C) And then I watched a compilation video for the (defunct) YouTube channel “Unus Annus,” from Markplier and – okay, I don’t remember the other guy’s channel’s name, but his name is Ethan. They’re both gaming YouTubers, and apparently they did a channel together for one year full of weird content. A friend on tumblr recommended it to me as she thought I would like it.
I got about halfway through before deciding my sense of humor wasn’t really vibing with the clips. I think it’s a lack of context for some of it, coupled with me just not finding some of it funny. I did chuckle a few times, it must be said – I will happily tell my friend that I enjoyed the "Ethan cannot remember the word ‘skillet’ for the life of him" clip. But I don’t think I’ll be watching any more of this.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! Simple one tonight – swapped my queue back to one a day, and added a song for Song Saturday (also a recommendation from my tumblr friend, though this one I liked rather more). So yay, don’t have to do anything with this queue for the next few days!
So that's good at least. Now I just have to wrap up answering comments and then I'll be heading to bed. Just need to get through this last day with a minimum of annoyance, and then -- four days. Oh boy. THAT'LL be nice. But I'm not quite there yet, so. . .night all!
At least I did well when it came to the afternoon to-do list:
1. Get in a workout: Check! Did a new kind of ride on the bike (a “fun” ride over “rolling hills” – talk about working up a sweat) and started episode 63 of Jon’s Fallout 4 Survival Playthrough! Caught up with Grills as he left Bunker Hill and used the jetpack attachment on his armor to skip fighting through the mutants in the CIT Ruins, instead just going up on the roof to talk with Father directly. Grills chose to claim they had been ambushed by the warring factions when it came to explaining what went wrong during Bunker Hill, but Father didn’t quite buy it. However, plot is plot, and he invited Grills back inside to the Directorate meeting, where he told everyone he was dying and that Grills was being named as his successor. We didn’t see much of the meeting (besides the Institute claiming the Railroad was still a threat – their intel of the outside world obviously ain’t great), but Jon said it was likely the last Institute quest he would be doing, unless he got the chance to sic the synthetic gorillas on Bioscience when they objected to him being named Father’s successor. Reason? Next quest is “Mass Fusion,” and that makes you draw your allegiance between the Brotherhood and the Institute – and I think we all already know which side Grills has chosen!
So, with his directorship in hand for the time being, Grills returned home to Hangman’s Alley to pick up – Preston! Yup, I assumed he wanted to do MacCready’s personal quest, but in fact what he was after is Preston’s companion perk, which is pretty solid (“United We Stand,” +20% damage and +20 points of damage resistance when facing three or more enemies at once). Of course, to get that, he had to find Preston first, which proved to be rather difficult. He was nowhere to be found in the settlement, didn’t respond to the bell – Jon, out of ideas, finally built that terminal from Vault 88 that allows you to track companions, and had it locate Preston.
Preston had glitched into a wall. Bethesda games. Grills managed to get him out of the wall and take him on as a companion, and the two ended up leaving the settlement to head out to Vault 81, which Jon apparently had only done once before, and then in kind of “speedrun” mode. Along the way, they were chased down by a settler who wanted to give Preston a present (and apparently steal his hat – Jon reequipped it for him), and found a subway station that Jon had never noticed before. Nothing in it but a cooking station and a few bugs, apparently. *shrug* Few points of free XP?
Anyway, they safely reached the vault, where the Overseer said he could come in in exchange for three fusion cores. Grills took the ones he’d brought along off Preston and slowly dragged them over to the Overseer, then took the tour of the vault with Austin – not only getting him to agree to do it for free, but also stealing all the produce out of Dr. Penske’s hydroponics lab. XD And then he tried to get Erin to pay him to find Ashes when they met up, but Erin refused and called him a greedy-guts, forcing Grills to agree to do it for free. He did manage to wrangle 50 caps out of Dr. Forsythe in exchange for a blood sample, though. Grills, if I know Preston, this isn’t really how you get him to like you more. . .
Well, there’s still plenty left to do in the vault – like meet the DeLuca twins, Bobby and Tina! Bobby’s a chem addict working in the “basement” of the vault, and Tina his concerned sister – though she can’t be that concerned, as she’s also his dealer. Grills expressed bafflement, but she said she could keep him on a short leash, but now that he was getting sloppy, she was cutting him off. Nice lady. *grumbles* I left Grills taking a look at the note by the old Overseer’s terminal – don’t think I found that when I did a few quests in there! I know I didn’t do the DeLuca stuff. . .this should be interesting.
2. Work some more on “In A World Of His Own”: Check! Not quite a page today, but I got to the end of Chapter 3 – Victor and Alice getting dropped off on the beach, and the Wizard demonstrating his magical prowess with a Back To The Future Part II joke. XD Managed to work in a TOUCH more description of the clothes, but if I want to add any more, it’ll have to wait for the posting pass.
3. Keep up on YouTube Subscriptions: Check! My two in the Subs, plus half a bonus video – I’ll explain below –
A) Started with Call Me Kevin playing a little Civilization VI! There’s a new feature in the game where you can pay barbarian tribes to be friendly, or to go to war against people you don’t like. Kevin sent out scouts to find rich sources of lucre to pay them to all go attack Spain. XD And then he declared himself friends with a bunch of countries, only to get them all to agree to go to war with each other (except Germany). And then he started paying local city-states to levy their armies for all the wars. It ended up with his archers – who don’t even know about the wheel – taking down the likes of Cairo, building the great Pyramids and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and building a city called “What Are You Gonna Do About It?” right on the edge of “America” while his barbarian mercenaries sacked Spain repeatedly. XD Money really does make the world go round in this game! And, as a bonus, we got a look at his latest “Youtooz” figure – Turg! Cuddling Kevin and Jim, as is only right. :D Comes out on St. Patrick’s Day, natch. XD
B) Then it was onto GrayStillPlays and another cursed stunt race in GTA V! This one was all about ramps, jumps, and loops – and yeeting. Lots and lots of delicate yeeting. Gray of course was tormented by everything from Funions (trying to make it around the rim of a yellow tube, like an onion ring) to disjointed butter (very slippery assets that he had to tightrope over). Not to mention a bunch of various vomiters, loop-de-loops, and rings to spin himself around. Plus a couple of super-long jumps that he just BARELY made. The number of times he flung himself off the side by accident. . .though it’s worth noting he also made some pretty incredible saves. The piece de resistance was the final yeet through a bunch of narrow – I don’t know what they are, they’re colorful and they serve as rings of nonliteral fire, that’s all that matters. Another horrible stunt board conquered!
C) And then I watched a compilation video for the (defunct) YouTube channel “Unus Annus,” from Markplier and – okay, I don’t remember the other guy’s channel’s name, but his name is Ethan. They’re both gaming YouTubers, and apparently they did a channel together for one year full of weird content. A friend on tumblr recommended it to me as she thought I would like it.
I got about halfway through before deciding my sense of humor wasn’t really vibing with the clips. I think it’s a lack of context for some of it, coupled with me just not finding some of it funny. I did chuckle a few times, it must be said – I will happily tell my friend that I enjoyed the "Ethan cannot remember the word ‘skillet’ for the life of him" clip. But I don’t think I’ll be watching any more of this.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! Simple one tonight – swapped my queue back to one a day, and added a song for Song Saturday (also a recommendation from my tumblr friend, though this one I liked rather more). So yay, don’t have to do anything with this queue for the next few days!
So that's good at least. Now I just have to wrap up answering comments and then I'll be heading to bed. Just need to get through this last day with a minimum of annoyance, and then -- four days. Oh boy. THAT'LL be nice. But I'm not quite there yet, so. . .night all!
