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Okay Wednesday
Aug. 11th, 2021 11:19 pmHeat and humidity have definitely risen to unpleasant levels outside, but fortunately we've got the AC running in here so it's nice and cool, and things are decent at work in that regard, so. . .at least I have good spots to ride out this incipient heat wave! *nods* Anyway, here's the usual round-up:
Work – Fairly good day, overall – the pace was not so slow that I was extremely bored, nor was it so frantic that I felt overwhelmed. I did the transaction reports and the GL, I looked over some spreadsheet stuff, I handled some exceptions. . .nothing too major, but it made the day go by. Very glad for that!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check! Back on the bike again, and back with Jon’s Original FO4 Playthrough! After getting bullied into getting a haircut by the barber of Diamond City (and then not even changing her hairstyle, though Past!Jon did enjoy scrolling through the new options), Miss Jon continued looping around Diamond City, checking out the sights, the robot running Power Noodles, the wares at the 24-hour junk shop (getting herself a nice new shiny combat shotgun), and finally heading over to Nick’s, where she met Ellie and learned that Nick is missing after going to look into a kidnapping by Skinny Malone. Whoops. And then, after offering to go look for Nick near Goodneighbor, Miss Jon left the office to find the scripted “Kyle vs Riley” event, where Kiley accuses Riley of being a synth and gets shot by Diamond City security. Fun! Certainly a hell of a way to end episode 9.
Episode 10 saw Miss Jon having skedaddled out of Diamond City (not wanting to get caught up in the synth witch hunt) and making her way through the ruins of Boston toward Goodneighbor! Along the way she shot a Super Mutant with a missile launcher and a few raiders that saw her climbing a fire escape; got in a fight with some different Super Mutants that she had to run away from once she saw she was outclassed; and got turned around a bit and ended up in the Massachusetts State House, where she met her first Legendary enemy – a Legendary Mirelurk Razorclaw! Of course, Past!Jon didn’t know about the regeneration mechanic at the time (basically, Legendary enemies get all their health back if you take them below half health without killing them), so he couldn’t figure out why Miss Jon’s shots didn’t seem to be doing a lot of damage. She died once to the damn thing, but the second time she managed to take it out, and get an Exterminator’s 10mm pistol out of the bargain. Ah, for the days when Jon was actually happy to see a weapon that does 50% more damage against Mirelurks and bugs. . . XD
2. Edit some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check! Alice has finished her conversation with Therese, who is a bit more helpful in this version of reality and has bothered to draw her a map and give her an idea of what she should be looking out for, ghost-wise. Too bad Therese apparently doesn’t know about the second spirit haunting the place. . .but yeah, Alice is off to get some old pants and some new boots, and after a scene change, we have everybody’s favorite The Shining pastiche!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – three in, three out again!
A) Started with another episode of James Turner and the Cottage Living LP! James decided the guys need a formal garden to display some of their treasures (like their prize-winning eggplant, and Sucker the robot vacuum), so he spent pretty much all their money on making a sort of hedge maze behind the crops and decorating it with the Romantic Garden stuff. XD Hey, whatever makes him happy, I suppose. :p He also kept working on everyone’s aspirations for a change – Trenton, going to the Bramblewood early, managed to forage five things with no issue at all, yay. He’s now working through the “Nerd Brain” aspiration for the points for fixing and upgrading stuff, while Chaz is continuing to work on the “Freelance Botanist” aspiration. Chaz also tried fizzing a bit of dragon fruit just for fun, though James seems to think it’s a real waste of profit as opposed to actually just selling the dragon fruit itself. You’re the one who didn’t want to sell small crops, James! That’s why you put all your energy into the big ones!
Speaking of. . .all of those became harvestable this episode. And with Chaz having picked up the trait that prevents Sims becoming Embarrassed and unable to haggle, he was able to unload them on the (now very elderly) Kim for $44,038. Seriously. XD Welp, I don’t think the bills are going to be an issue any time soon! James was already talking about improving the farm as the episode wrapped up – moving the hedge maze, upgrading the front “garden,” moving the chicken coop, getting more wind turbines and dew collectors. . .you know, the works! Sounds like it would all be a great project for Hazel! Though things might be awkward with her now, given that she invited Chaz to a club get-together, only for him to get annoyed with all his relatives and Vlad taking over the dance floor and leave early. XD James, Hazel isn’t going to get with EITHER brother if you keep having them flake on her like this!
B) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin and Baba Is You – a puzzle game based around manipulating the stated rules of the game to win. Every level has short sentences written on it – “Baba Is You,” “Wall Is Stop,” “Flag Is Win,” for example. But each one of these sentences can be manipulated by Baba pushing around the separate “word blocks” each is made up of, to change things – like shoving “Is” out of “Wall Is Stop” to allow Baba to walk through walls. The sentence blocks and which ones you can manipulate and what you can do gets gradually more complex as you go along – like one level throws “and” in there so you can be both Baba and a “Keke” for example. Or the rules could say a flag “is win” and “is push” in an inconvenient spot, so you keep pushing it around before you can win, and you have to figure out how to get it so it just reads “Flag Is Win.” Poor Kevin breezed through some levels (almost by accident), while struggling super-hard with others. Straining that brain to the limits! XD I hope he does more, though, it’s fun to watch him play games like these. :D
C) And then we had GrayStillPlays, and oh look, 100 Years Simulator is back! I saw Kevin play this just a few days ago, so it’s very amusing to see it on Gray’s channel now. Gray unfortunately did not get a chance to date the gorilla (he accidentally clicked past her and instead dated Olga, who proved to be as shallow as Kevin’s human pick), but he did do a few fun things, like get swallowed by a Megalodon as a child (and fail to escape it via raft); massage his boss’s legs (and get fired for it); and steal a cop’s gun, followed by stealing a POLICE CAR, driving it into the river, and speed-swimming away from a shark down a tunnel to a private island, where he lived until he was 50. Because reasons. XD So much Regret, so little time. . . (And yes, I capitalized it because that’s what Gray named his character. It seemed appropriate.)
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – only Victor Luvs Alice to worry about, and I managed to stumble across an idea for this Friday while looking up stuff on “Victor as Thirteen” to talk about for Friday the Thirteenth! Said idea was “did I ever tell anyone WHY Thirteen?” and so I did (basically – knew it was traditionally unlucky, thought it was unique, didn’t see the kid with the 13 bib in that portrait of Bumby until later, decided it didn’t really matter and I was sticking with it). That and my Song Saturday post fills out the queue for this week, yay!
And that's about it! Not too shabby, right? Certainly keeps me ahead of the game. . .and now it's time to wrap up and head to bed. Hopefully tomorrow does not take a turn toward the shitty. . . Fingers crossed, everyone! Night!
Work – Fairly good day, overall – the pace was not so slow that I was extremely bored, nor was it so frantic that I felt overwhelmed. I did the transaction reports and the GL, I looked over some spreadsheet stuff, I handled some exceptions. . .nothing too major, but it made the day go by. Very glad for that!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check! Back on the bike again, and back with Jon’s Original FO4 Playthrough! After getting bullied into getting a haircut by the barber of Diamond City (and then not even changing her hairstyle, though Past!Jon did enjoy scrolling through the new options), Miss Jon continued looping around Diamond City, checking out the sights, the robot running Power Noodles, the wares at the 24-hour junk shop (getting herself a nice new shiny combat shotgun), and finally heading over to Nick’s, where she met Ellie and learned that Nick is missing after going to look into a kidnapping by Skinny Malone. Whoops. And then, after offering to go look for Nick near Goodneighbor, Miss Jon left the office to find the scripted “Kyle vs Riley” event, where Kiley accuses Riley of being a synth and gets shot by Diamond City security. Fun! Certainly a hell of a way to end episode 9.
Episode 10 saw Miss Jon having skedaddled out of Diamond City (not wanting to get caught up in the synth witch hunt) and making her way through the ruins of Boston toward Goodneighbor! Along the way she shot a Super Mutant with a missile launcher and a few raiders that saw her climbing a fire escape; got in a fight with some different Super Mutants that she had to run away from once she saw she was outclassed; and got turned around a bit and ended up in the Massachusetts State House, where she met her first Legendary enemy – a Legendary Mirelurk Razorclaw! Of course, Past!Jon didn’t know about the regeneration mechanic at the time (basically, Legendary enemies get all their health back if you take them below half health without killing them), so he couldn’t figure out why Miss Jon’s shots didn’t seem to be doing a lot of damage. She died once to the damn thing, but the second time she managed to take it out, and get an Exterminator’s 10mm pistol out of the bargain. Ah, for the days when Jon was actually happy to see a weapon that does 50% more damage against Mirelurks and bugs. . . XD
2. Edit some more on “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check! Alice has finished her conversation with Therese, who is a bit more helpful in this version of reality and has bothered to draw her a map and give her an idea of what she should be looking out for, ghost-wise. Too bad Therese apparently doesn’t know about the second spirit haunting the place. . .but yeah, Alice is off to get some old pants and some new boots, and after a scene change, we have everybody’s favorite The Shining pastiche!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – three in, three out again!
A) Started with another episode of James Turner and the Cottage Living LP! James decided the guys need a formal garden to display some of their treasures (like their prize-winning eggplant, and Sucker the robot vacuum), so he spent pretty much all their money on making a sort of hedge maze behind the crops and decorating it with the Romantic Garden stuff. XD Hey, whatever makes him happy, I suppose. :p He also kept working on everyone’s aspirations for a change – Trenton, going to the Bramblewood early, managed to forage five things with no issue at all, yay. He’s now working through the “Nerd Brain” aspiration for the points for fixing and upgrading stuff, while Chaz is continuing to work on the “Freelance Botanist” aspiration. Chaz also tried fizzing a bit of dragon fruit just for fun, though James seems to think it’s a real waste of profit as opposed to actually just selling the dragon fruit itself. You’re the one who didn’t want to sell small crops, James! That’s why you put all your energy into the big ones!
Speaking of. . .all of those became harvestable this episode. And with Chaz having picked up the trait that prevents Sims becoming Embarrassed and unable to haggle, he was able to unload them on the (now very elderly) Kim for $44,038. Seriously. XD Welp, I don’t think the bills are going to be an issue any time soon! James was already talking about improving the farm as the episode wrapped up – moving the hedge maze, upgrading the front “garden,” moving the chicken coop, getting more wind turbines and dew collectors. . .you know, the works! Sounds like it would all be a great project for Hazel! Though things might be awkward with her now, given that she invited Chaz to a club get-together, only for him to get annoyed with all his relatives and Vlad taking over the dance floor and leave early. XD James, Hazel isn’t going to get with EITHER brother if you keep having them flake on her like this!
B) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin and Baba Is You – a puzzle game based around manipulating the stated rules of the game to win. Every level has short sentences written on it – “Baba Is You,” “Wall Is Stop,” “Flag Is Win,” for example. But each one of these sentences can be manipulated by Baba pushing around the separate “word blocks” each is made up of, to change things – like shoving “Is” out of “Wall Is Stop” to allow Baba to walk through walls. The sentence blocks and which ones you can manipulate and what you can do gets gradually more complex as you go along – like one level throws “and” in there so you can be both Baba and a “Keke” for example. Or the rules could say a flag “is win” and “is push” in an inconvenient spot, so you keep pushing it around before you can win, and you have to figure out how to get it so it just reads “Flag Is Win.” Poor Kevin breezed through some levels (almost by accident), while struggling super-hard with others. Straining that brain to the limits! XD I hope he does more, though, it’s fun to watch him play games like these. :D
C) And then we had GrayStillPlays, and oh look, 100 Years Simulator is back! I saw Kevin play this just a few days ago, so it’s very amusing to see it on Gray’s channel now. Gray unfortunately did not get a chance to date the gorilla (he accidentally clicked past her and instead dated Olga, who proved to be as shallow as Kevin’s human pick), but he did do a few fun things, like get swallowed by a Megalodon as a child (and fail to escape it via raft); massage his boss’s legs (and get fired for it); and steal a cop’s gun, followed by stealing a POLICE CAR, driving it into the river, and speed-swimming away from a shark down a tunnel to a private island, where he lived until he was 50. Because reasons. XD So much Regret, so little time. . . (And yes, I capitalized it because that’s what Gray named his character. It seemed appropriate.)
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – only Victor Luvs Alice to worry about, and I managed to stumble across an idea for this Friday while looking up stuff on “Victor as Thirteen” to talk about for Friday the Thirteenth! Said idea was “did I ever tell anyone WHY Thirteen?” and so I did (basically – knew it was traditionally unlucky, thought it was unique, didn’t see the kid with the 13 bib in that portrait of Bumby until later, decided it didn’t really matter and I was sticking with it). That and my Song Saturday post fills out the queue for this week, yay!
And that's about it! Not too shabby, right? Certainly keeps me ahead of the game. . .and now it's time to wrap up and head to bed. Hopefully tomorrow does not take a turn toward the shitty. . . Fingers crossed, everyone! Night!
