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*waggles hand* That Kind of Tuesday
Sep. 14th, 2021 11:21 pmThe weather was okay -- fairly dry and cool, but with threatening clouds building up past midday. And as for the day itself -- well, let's consult the usual, shall we?
Work – Mostly quiet – obituaries and duplicates – except there is now a MAJOR bug with trying to update credit cards, and – *sigh* We’re having a staff meeting tomorrow after lunch, and it’s going to take an act of will for me not to complain the entire time about our credit card processor.
Beanbags – Not today – the reason? Mosquitoes! The little fuckers are everywhere right now, and with it looking like it kind of wanted to rain. . .yeah, nothing doing. We’ll see if we fit in a few rounds tomorrow before the rain comes for the end of the week!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check! Back on the bike today, and back to Jon’s Original FO4 Playthrough! Miss Jon met up with Deacon by Lexington (complimenting his disguise because Past!Jon wanted to be polite) and then got the details on the opposition from Ricky up top the collapsed highways – lots of mines, lots of synths. Miss Jon followed Deacon over to the escape tunnel to sneak in the back way, and together they shot their way through the tunnels and whatnot, with Past!Jon musing that it felt a little weird/hypocritical for the Railroad to be okay with killing Gen 1 and Gen 2 synths (the obvious robots), and that they should be considering if these synths are serving of their own free will or not. (I think this IS a conversation that comes up at some point, because I recall reading on TV Tropes and the like that whether or not the fight to save the Gen 3s should extend to the Gen 1 and 2s is an ongoing debate with them. I think they generally believe the earlier generations just aren’t advanced enough to have proper free will? Though I also think the point is a bit moot if the synths are currently trying to kill you.) They located Carrington’s prototype (which I believe is a super-advanced Stealth Boy?) and Deacon handed over the Deliverer 10mil, which Miss Jon was very happy with as a new go-to small gun. Especially once she got it back to Sanctuary and started modding it – it has its own unique mods, but it outclassed the Exterminator’s 10mil she already had by a lot, and the action point cost – let’s just say Miss Jon was extremely happy with it. XD
Anyway, after the gun upgrade break (and refusing to even look at “Old Guns” when Preston told her about it), Miss Jon headed back to Railroad HQ, where she told Desdemona the truth over Deacon’s elaborate lie, and picked the code name “Whisper” (Past!Jon thought it suited her more stealthy build). She got formally inducted into the HQ, handed over the prototype to Carrington, and picked up “Boston After Dark,” the quest to help Old Man Stockton deliver a “package” to a safehouse. Past!Jon whittered a bit about whether or not he was going to do that quest next, but ultimately decided “yeah, I can fit it in before going to see Virgil again” and started Episode 28 with a trip to Bunker Hill, being scammed by Meg (and ending up deeply amused by it) and keeping up the covert chatter with Stockton (happily blathering on with even more ridiculous code phrases all the while). Left off with Miss Jon having just reached the church rendezvous point – let’s see how getting H2-22 off to his new life goes!
2. Write some more on "Learn To Love Again": Check – after a bit of a mental conversation with Cheshire about how yes, she likes Victor, he’s easy to like, but he’s probably not ready to let her follow him home, Alice has met Victoria! Turns out Victor’s ex was picnicking by the river, and Victor was willing to introduce them if Alice was. Time to see if the old fiancee approves of the new lady in Victor’s life! (Spoilers: She will.)
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – another day of three in, three out –
A) Started with James Turner and the latest from the Cottage Living LP – we had three important things happen in this episode:
I. Hazel had the baby! James sent her off to the hospital with Trenton, and – after a LOT of glitching – she delivered a healthy son, Angus! A healthy, um, blue son. James was rather disappointed, as he wanted to have a fully human baby and start fresh with the Bigwallet genes, but the top comments suggest that Angus may in fact be human as he has the normal crib and doesn’t sound weird when he cries. He just has his dad’s out-of-this-world natural skin tone. Time will tell, I suppose!
II. Chaz emptied out the shop! Yes, James sent him to clear out most of the stuff in everyone’s inventory – Trenton’s observatory prints, Hazel’s stolen goods, all his own frogs, etc. – to make space for actual crafted items in the future. Took 66 hours, but he managed to clear it all out and earn a profit of $6,000! More than enough to pay the bills – though, as usual, the real profit was selling his recently-grown giant produce to Kim. $14,000 means it’s pretty easy to live a farmer’s life these days!
III. James made over the little house at the back for Hazel, Trenton, and Angus! Yes, the fans have demanded that Chaz keep the main house, so they’ve been exiled to the tiny home on at the back of the property. James moved their bed over there, and furnished it in keeping with the AirBNB that it’s based off of. Though it took him a moment to realize he’d forgotten to put a fridge in the kitchen. Also a bin. XD And quite a few things needed shuffling to make sure they were all usable. *shrug* It’s a good enough home for now! Hazel will be doing some “renovations” to it soon enough, I’m sure. :p
So yeah, busy day, but the next generation of the family is here, Hazel and Trenton have their own place – next time, we should have more farm work, and maybe even a gig for Hazel! (Technically she had one THIS episode, but as James was with Chaz at the store, it didn’t actually allow him to join her. Ah well!) We’ll see what happens!
B) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin and Jesus Christ RPG Trilogy! Yes, really. This is a simple indie RPG in three parts – you can either play as Jesus at the beginning of his adult life; the people involved in Jesus’s famous birth; or Jesus in his heyday before being crucified. No matter what you choose, though, the game will be FECKING HARD. There are desert bandits out everywhere off the main path, and they WILL one-shot you if you give them the chance. Poor Kevin was destroyed multiple times as Jesus, Mary, and the Wise Men by random encounters because weapons and miracles are in short supply here. The only time he saw ANY success (namely, in throwing the merchants and moneylenders from the temple) was as “Risen” Jesus with a full party of four and a healer in Mary Magdalene. And even then, he got murdered by the two brothers of evil, mostly because they could heal themselves. Add in some fairly crappy art direction and some awful game over screens, and is it any wonder Good Irish Catholic Kevin decided to stop playing? XD
C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and more Happy Wheels! We had another bottle flip of absolute weirdness (he got MLG X2 on a spinning platform, was killed by toilets, and eventually managed to declare himself God – with the bottle upright, that’s very important); an escape from Florida Man’s prison (with three endings – the easiest just going backwards, the hardest managing to find a way to fly over the pane of glass that drops you into the “good” ending – Gray had to try so many times and sacrifice so many Florida Men to get it); a “survive the circle of wrecking balls” challenge (Gray lost his son, but through sheer luck – he hadn’t even finished the INTRO – managed to survive and win!); a “stop the swords being fired out of a cannon with a freeze wall and three tiny pieces of red stuff” (this one took a while, mostly because Gray kept making funnels for the swords instead of walls to stop them); the “wiggle your way through this tiny gap” challenge (again, Gray knows his worming – first try!); a troll board where falling the right way was the only way to win (or so you would think – Gray discovered you could also win by managing to flutter your way over the fake block’s drop); another troll board where you had to get past five million harpoons, a bunch of jets, and not be crushed by a meteor dropping off the back of the starting platform to win (this took SOOO many tries, poor Gray); and a recreation of Surgeon Simulator (complete with smashing ribs and throwing away organs – people in the comments were like “you know, you should play the actual game, you’d probably like it” XD). A good solid episode of pastel-colored lunacy!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! Got up the two Sims Challenges and a Thursday post on Victor Luvs Alice, and two ask replies and a thread reply on Valice Multiverse. Happy with that!
So yeah, at least the evening was all right. But tomorrow's supposed to be plenty more humid, and we've got that staff meeting. . .we'll see how that goes. For now, g'night!
Work – Mostly quiet – obituaries and duplicates – except there is now a MAJOR bug with trying to update credit cards, and – *sigh* We’re having a staff meeting tomorrow after lunch, and it’s going to take an act of will for me not to complain the entire time about our credit card processor.
Beanbags – Not today – the reason? Mosquitoes! The little fuckers are everywhere right now, and with it looking like it kind of wanted to rain. . .yeah, nothing doing. We’ll see if we fit in a few rounds tomorrow before the rain comes for the end of the week!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check! Back on the bike today, and back to Jon’s Original FO4 Playthrough! Miss Jon met up with Deacon by Lexington (complimenting his disguise because Past!Jon wanted to be polite) and then got the details on the opposition from Ricky up top the collapsed highways – lots of mines, lots of synths. Miss Jon followed Deacon over to the escape tunnel to sneak in the back way, and together they shot their way through the tunnels and whatnot, with Past!Jon musing that it felt a little weird/hypocritical for the Railroad to be okay with killing Gen 1 and Gen 2 synths (the obvious robots), and that they should be considering if these synths are serving of their own free will or not. (I think this IS a conversation that comes up at some point, because I recall reading on TV Tropes and the like that whether or not the fight to save the Gen 3s should extend to the Gen 1 and 2s is an ongoing debate with them. I think they generally believe the earlier generations just aren’t advanced enough to have proper free will? Though I also think the point is a bit moot if the synths are currently trying to kill you.) They located Carrington’s prototype (which I believe is a super-advanced Stealth Boy?) and Deacon handed over the Deliverer 10mil, which Miss Jon was very happy with as a new go-to small gun. Especially once she got it back to Sanctuary and started modding it – it has its own unique mods, but it outclassed the Exterminator’s 10mil she already had by a lot, and the action point cost – let’s just say Miss Jon was extremely happy with it. XD
Anyway, after the gun upgrade break (and refusing to even look at “Old Guns” when Preston told her about it), Miss Jon headed back to Railroad HQ, where she told Desdemona the truth over Deacon’s elaborate lie, and picked the code name “Whisper” (Past!Jon thought it suited her more stealthy build). She got formally inducted into the HQ, handed over the prototype to Carrington, and picked up “Boston After Dark,” the quest to help Old Man Stockton deliver a “package” to a safehouse. Past!Jon whittered a bit about whether or not he was going to do that quest next, but ultimately decided “yeah, I can fit it in before going to see Virgil again” and started Episode 28 with a trip to Bunker Hill, being scammed by Meg (and ending up deeply amused by it) and keeping up the covert chatter with Stockton (happily blathering on with even more ridiculous code phrases all the while). Left off with Miss Jon having just reached the church rendezvous point – let’s see how getting H2-22 off to his new life goes!
2. Write some more on "Learn To Love Again": Check – after a bit of a mental conversation with Cheshire about how yes, she likes Victor, he’s easy to like, but he’s probably not ready to let her follow him home, Alice has met Victoria! Turns out Victor’s ex was picnicking by the river, and Victor was willing to introduce them if Alice was. Time to see if the old fiancee approves of the new lady in Victor’s life! (Spoilers: She will.)
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – another day of three in, three out –
A) Started with James Turner and the latest from the Cottage Living LP – we had three important things happen in this episode:
I. Hazel had the baby! James sent her off to the hospital with Trenton, and – after a LOT of glitching – she delivered a healthy son, Angus! A healthy, um, blue son. James was rather disappointed, as he wanted to have a fully human baby and start fresh with the Bigwallet genes, but the top comments suggest that Angus may in fact be human as he has the normal crib and doesn’t sound weird when he cries. He just has his dad’s out-of-this-world natural skin tone. Time will tell, I suppose!
II. Chaz emptied out the shop! Yes, James sent him to clear out most of the stuff in everyone’s inventory – Trenton’s observatory prints, Hazel’s stolen goods, all his own frogs, etc. – to make space for actual crafted items in the future. Took 66 hours, but he managed to clear it all out and earn a profit of $6,000! More than enough to pay the bills – though, as usual, the real profit was selling his recently-grown giant produce to Kim. $14,000 means it’s pretty easy to live a farmer’s life these days!
III. James made over the little house at the back for Hazel, Trenton, and Angus! Yes, the fans have demanded that Chaz keep the main house, so they’ve been exiled to the tiny home on at the back of the property. James moved their bed over there, and furnished it in keeping with the AirBNB that it’s based off of. Though it took him a moment to realize he’d forgotten to put a fridge in the kitchen. Also a bin. XD And quite a few things needed shuffling to make sure they were all usable. *shrug* It’s a good enough home for now! Hazel will be doing some “renovations” to it soon enough, I’m sure. :p
So yeah, busy day, but the next generation of the family is here, Hazel and Trenton have their own place – next time, we should have more farm work, and maybe even a gig for Hazel! (Technically she had one THIS episode, but as James was with Chaz at the store, it didn’t actually allow him to join her. Ah well!) We’ll see what happens!
B) Then it was onto Call Me Kevin and Jesus Christ RPG Trilogy! Yes, really. This is a simple indie RPG in three parts – you can either play as Jesus at the beginning of his adult life; the people involved in Jesus’s famous birth; or Jesus in his heyday before being crucified. No matter what you choose, though, the game will be FECKING HARD. There are desert bandits out everywhere off the main path, and they WILL one-shot you if you give them the chance. Poor Kevin was destroyed multiple times as Jesus, Mary, and the Wise Men by random encounters because weapons and miracles are in short supply here. The only time he saw ANY success (namely, in throwing the merchants and moneylenders from the temple) was as “Risen” Jesus with a full party of four and a healer in Mary Magdalene. And even then, he got murdered by the two brothers of evil, mostly because they could heal themselves. Add in some fairly crappy art direction and some awful game over screens, and is it any wonder Good Irish Catholic Kevin decided to stop playing? XD
C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and more Happy Wheels! We had another bottle flip of absolute weirdness (he got MLG X2 on a spinning platform, was killed by toilets, and eventually managed to declare himself God – with the bottle upright, that’s very important); an escape from Florida Man’s prison (with three endings – the easiest just going backwards, the hardest managing to find a way to fly over the pane of glass that drops you into the “good” ending – Gray had to try so many times and sacrifice so many Florida Men to get it); a “survive the circle of wrecking balls” challenge (Gray lost his son, but through sheer luck – he hadn’t even finished the INTRO – managed to survive and win!); a “stop the swords being fired out of a cannon with a freeze wall and three tiny pieces of red stuff” (this one took a while, mostly because Gray kept making funnels for the swords instead of walls to stop them); the “wiggle your way through this tiny gap” challenge (again, Gray knows his worming – first try!); a troll board where falling the right way was the only way to win (or so you would think – Gray discovered you could also win by managing to flutter your way over the fake block’s drop); another troll board where you had to get past five million harpoons, a bunch of jets, and not be crushed by a meteor dropping off the back of the starting platform to win (this took SOOO many tries, poor Gray); and a recreation of Surgeon Simulator (complete with smashing ribs and throwing away organs – people in the comments were like “you know, you should play the actual game, you’d probably like it” XD). A good solid episode of pastel-colored lunacy!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! Got up the two Sims Challenges and a Thursday post on Victor Luvs Alice, and two ask replies and a thread reply on Valice Multiverse. Happy with that!
So yeah, at least the evening was all right. But tomorrow's supposed to be plenty more humid, and we've got that staff meeting. . .we'll see how that goes. For now, g'night!
