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Back To The Usual Grind
Aug. 10th, 2021 11:17 pmWell, sort of -- allow me to elaborate in my now-usual manner:
Work – Busy! Though not as horrifically as I feared after coming back from a vacation. . .and learning one of my OTHER coworkers is now on vacation (turns out she decided to take some time off this week because it was short). Yes, it took me a while to get through all my e-mails, catch up on everything that had happened while I was away, and get the GL done. . .but I actually managed to clear up almost everything in one day, so – win! Didn’t even lose any break time, though I did leave slightly late. Not gonna cry over two minutes, though.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another thirty on the bike, and another thirty with Jon’s Original FO4 Playthrough! Finished up Episode 8 today – Miss Jon, having taken out the raiders in the very front of Back Street Apparel, managed to get back into [hidden] status long enough to take out their leader and finish off the Minuteman radiant quest for Oberland Station. She took a moment to loot the bodies and the “boss room,” and scrap everyone’s armor for spare leather to improve her own kit, then headed back to Oberland to report on the good news. The ladies there happily joined the Minutemen in response, and Miss Jon scrapped their broken-down fencing in favor of throwing up a guard tower and a few guard posts for one of the ladies to keep watch from. Hey, it’s six easy Defense points when you can’t build a nice turret!
With that out of the way, all that remained was to turn in some quests! Miss Jon headed back to the police station to give Haylen her “haptic drive” and pick up another little fetch quest in a different location (and finish the “help the BOS members out” mega-quest completing Rhys and Haylen’s tasks are part of), then went back to Sanctuary to give the good news about Oberland to Preston. He responded by giving her a slightly-different quest – clear out Starlight Drive-In of monsters and set up a recruitment beacon to encourage people to settle there! Miss Jon accepted the quest, but put it on the back burner, as she had other places to be.
Places like, as of Episode 9, Diamond City! Yes, she finally made it there – though the Super Mutants just outside the wall nearly made sure she didn’t. They wiped out the security forces in the area before Miss Jon managed to put them down, and almost got her as well with all their molotov cocktails! But she persevered and made it to the main gate, where she met up with Piper, changed into her nice Charisma gear, and actually managed to pass the speech check to both get Nick Valentine’s name out of Mayor McDonough and get Danny Sullivan not to be mad at her for going along with Piper’s shenanigans. The power of a Dirty Black Suit paired with a nice hat and sunglasses! I left it with Miss Jon exploring Diamond City – talking to Nat about the Institute; checking out the wares of Polly the Butcher; and encountering noted bitch Ann Codman at the barber shop. A good old Diamond City welcome! XD
2. Write some more on “Learn To Love Again”: Check – Victor’s gotten past the disastrous rehearsal into actually meeting Emily, explaining to Alice and June what the Land of the Dead is like and why he likes it so much. Alice is rather taken with his description of a colorful place full of fun and free of things like sucking up to your “social superiors,” and admits she thinks Lizzie would like a place like that. She does, Alice, I can assure you of that. :)
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check! Nice and easy, three in, three out –
A) Started with James Turner and the next episode of the Cottage Living LP! Back on the farm officially with the boys, and, as usual, it’s a hell of a lot of work. Chaz and Trenton planted and fertilized a bunch more oversized crops; Chaz spliced some more dragonfruit and snapdragons to try and get more cowberries (because the single spliced plant just wasn’t doing the job); and they both ran around trying to keep Hennibal and Llamanade from leaving because of “neglect” (I think Llamanade was eventually pacified, but Hennibal seems to be glitched to be permanently starving and dirty, so. . .). It’s a lot of work for two people to run a farm! Especially when the dog needs to be walked, and the plants need to be encouraged to grow, and the downstairs vacuum needs to be replaced because for some reason it can’t be made unbreakable – and then it just keeps going around the lot anyway. XD You get tired just WATCHING this LP! It’s all working out well, though – not only does it look like we’re gonna have some AMAZING aubergines this time around, Chaz took Cowtrina to the cow fair on Saturday, and despite a failed attempt to bribe the new mayor, managed to win first prize anyway and complete his aspiration! He’s now got the trait that means his animals live longer, happier lives without him needing to do a thing, and gets him an extra discount on bills! Good stuff! And they’re making a hefty profit just off eggs and milk, meaning there’s plenty of money for new power-generating items. . .or maybe, in the future, another renovation. . .
B) Then it was over to Call Me Kevin for some Sims 2 chaos! Kevin decided that, now that he had two human – well, zombie workers, it was time to try to make a real restaurant out of his old business venture, Grilled Cheese Good! It took a little finagling (and selling one of his precious statues) to get the business off the ground, but once he did – well, it was mostly chaos and horror, frankly. Vidcund at the stove was decent enough, but Pascal just was a terrible server, dropping food on people’s heads constantly. Not even putting everyone in their underwear helped! (Yes, this is seriously a thing Kevin did.) And yet, despite being plagued by clumsy zombie servers, men peeing by the host stand, family drama in between the tables (apparently Vidcund was in love with Circe Beaker, and seeing her flirt with Loki, her actual husband, sparked off some bad feelings), evil witches, and constant thunderstorms, the boys managed to impress the local reviewer enough to actually get a Best of the Best award. Kevin did not understand it either. XD We ended the episode with 63 simoleons and the promise of everyone who absolutely hated the restaurant dying horribly next time. Yay!
C) And finally we had good old GrayStillPlays going after Minecraft again – this time with BEES! My God. As usual, these bees were absolute killer death machines by the time Gray was done with them (and the villages, and the random animals wandering around, and the souls of the innocents) – a combination of precious minerals and iron golem flesh turned ordinary little bees into arrow-spewing honey-exploding hovering hellbeasts capable of carrying Gray upon their blocky little backs. He ended up with a full set of ultra-powerful Honey Armor, but really, he didn’t need it – his bees took care of every threat before he could even figure out there was one. The Nether was purged in a hail of arrows and honey fireworks, and the Ender Dragon fell quickly beneath their yellow might. Basically, don’t piss off Gray’s bees. You shall regret it.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – got my Newcrest Adventures posts and a Thursday reblog into the queue for Victor Luvs Alice, and three ask replies in the Valice Multiverse one. Plus I added a future reblog into the drafts for both, yay. :)
Not bad, not bad. . .I've certainly had worse first days back at the office after a break. Hopefully the next two and a half days will also be okay. Fingers crossed, at least! And now it's time to wrap things up and head to bed. Night all!
Work – Busy! Though not as horrifically as I feared after coming back from a vacation. . .and learning one of my OTHER coworkers is now on vacation (turns out she decided to take some time off this week because it was short). Yes, it took me a while to get through all my e-mails, catch up on everything that had happened while I was away, and get the GL done. . .but I actually managed to clear up almost everything in one day, so – win! Didn’t even lose any break time, though I did leave slightly late. Not gonna cry over two minutes, though.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another thirty on the bike, and another thirty with Jon’s Original FO4 Playthrough! Finished up Episode 8 today – Miss Jon, having taken out the raiders in the very front of Back Street Apparel, managed to get back into [hidden] status long enough to take out their leader and finish off the Minuteman radiant quest for Oberland Station. She took a moment to loot the bodies and the “boss room,” and scrap everyone’s armor for spare leather to improve her own kit, then headed back to Oberland to report on the good news. The ladies there happily joined the Minutemen in response, and Miss Jon scrapped their broken-down fencing in favor of throwing up a guard tower and a few guard posts for one of the ladies to keep watch from. Hey, it’s six easy Defense points when you can’t build a nice turret!
With that out of the way, all that remained was to turn in some quests! Miss Jon headed back to the police station to give Haylen her “haptic drive” and pick up another little fetch quest in a different location (and finish the “help the BOS members out” mega-quest completing Rhys and Haylen’s tasks are part of), then went back to Sanctuary to give the good news about Oberland to Preston. He responded by giving her a slightly-different quest – clear out Starlight Drive-In of monsters and set up a recruitment beacon to encourage people to settle there! Miss Jon accepted the quest, but put it on the back burner, as she had other places to be.
Places like, as of Episode 9, Diamond City! Yes, she finally made it there – though the Super Mutants just outside the wall nearly made sure she didn’t. They wiped out the security forces in the area before Miss Jon managed to put them down, and almost got her as well with all their molotov cocktails! But she persevered and made it to the main gate, where she met up with Piper, changed into her nice Charisma gear, and actually managed to pass the speech check to both get Nick Valentine’s name out of Mayor McDonough and get Danny Sullivan not to be mad at her for going along with Piper’s shenanigans. The power of a Dirty Black Suit paired with a nice hat and sunglasses! I left it with Miss Jon exploring Diamond City – talking to Nat about the Institute; checking out the wares of Polly the Butcher; and encountering noted bitch Ann Codman at the barber shop. A good old Diamond City welcome! XD
2. Write some more on “Learn To Love Again”: Check – Victor’s gotten past the disastrous rehearsal into actually meeting Emily, explaining to Alice and June what the Land of the Dead is like and why he likes it so much. Alice is rather taken with his description of a colorful place full of fun and free of things like sucking up to your “social superiors,” and admits she thinks Lizzie would like a place like that. She does, Alice, I can assure you of that. :)
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check! Nice and easy, three in, three out –
A) Started with James Turner and the next episode of the Cottage Living LP! Back on the farm officially with the boys, and, as usual, it’s a hell of a lot of work. Chaz and Trenton planted and fertilized a bunch more oversized crops; Chaz spliced some more dragonfruit and snapdragons to try and get more cowberries (because the single spliced plant just wasn’t doing the job); and they both ran around trying to keep Hennibal and Llamanade from leaving because of “neglect” (I think Llamanade was eventually pacified, but Hennibal seems to be glitched to be permanently starving and dirty, so. . .). It’s a lot of work for two people to run a farm! Especially when the dog needs to be walked, and the plants need to be encouraged to grow, and the downstairs vacuum needs to be replaced because for some reason it can’t be made unbreakable – and then it just keeps going around the lot anyway. XD You get tired just WATCHING this LP! It’s all working out well, though – not only does it look like we’re gonna have some AMAZING aubergines this time around, Chaz took Cowtrina to the cow fair on Saturday, and despite a failed attempt to bribe the new mayor, managed to win first prize anyway and complete his aspiration! He’s now got the trait that means his animals live longer, happier lives without him needing to do a thing, and gets him an extra discount on bills! Good stuff! And they’re making a hefty profit just off eggs and milk, meaning there’s plenty of money for new power-generating items. . .or maybe, in the future, another renovation. . .
B) Then it was over to Call Me Kevin for some Sims 2 chaos! Kevin decided that, now that he had two human – well, zombie workers, it was time to try to make a real restaurant out of his old business venture, Grilled Cheese Good! It took a little finagling (and selling one of his precious statues) to get the business off the ground, but once he did – well, it was mostly chaos and horror, frankly. Vidcund at the stove was decent enough, but Pascal just was a terrible server, dropping food on people’s heads constantly. Not even putting everyone in their underwear helped! (Yes, this is seriously a thing Kevin did.) And yet, despite being plagued by clumsy zombie servers, men peeing by the host stand, family drama in between the tables (apparently Vidcund was in love with Circe Beaker, and seeing her flirt with Loki, her actual husband, sparked off some bad feelings), evil witches, and constant thunderstorms, the boys managed to impress the local reviewer enough to actually get a Best of the Best award. Kevin did not understand it either. XD We ended the episode with 63 simoleons and the promise of everyone who absolutely hated the restaurant dying horribly next time. Yay!
C) And finally we had good old GrayStillPlays going after Minecraft again – this time with BEES! My God. As usual, these bees were absolute killer death machines by the time Gray was done with them (and the villages, and the random animals wandering around, and the souls of the innocents) – a combination of precious minerals and iron golem flesh turned ordinary little bees into arrow-spewing honey-exploding hovering hellbeasts capable of carrying Gray upon their blocky little backs. He ended up with a full set of ultra-powerful Honey Armor, but really, he didn’t need it – his bees took care of every threat before he could even figure out there was one. The Nether was purged in a hail of arrows and honey fireworks, and the Ender Dragon fell quickly beneath their yellow might. Basically, don’t piss off Gray’s bees. You shall regret it.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – got my Newcrest Adventures posts and a Thursday reblog into the queue for Victor Luvs Alice, and three ask replies in the Valice Multiverse one. Plus I added a future reblog into the drafts for both, yay. :)
Not bad, not bad. . .I've certainly had worse first days back at the office after a break. Hopefully the next two and a half days will also be okay. Fingers crossed, at least! And now it's time to wrap things up and head to bed. Night all!
