Reasonably Busy Monday

And, as usual, it's taken me longer than expected to get through everything this afternoon, so let's whack up the to-do list and go --

Work – Relatively quiet day, with more obits and duplicates and checking on old items – also four credit-card-related calls, which is the most I’ve gotten at once in a while. The commute was the real killer this morning – cops and ambulances responding to a disabled vehicle. Crawled in. *sigh* Anyone wonder why I don’t like driving?

Beanbags – Got in a game as it was nice out – I got 3-W-3, Dad got W-3-W, and Mom got 2-2-2, improving from her streak of threes on Saturday. Could have been worse!

To-Do List –

1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, back with Jon’s Original FO4 Playthrough! Caught up with Miss Jon as she went to Bunker Hill after informing the Railroad of the Institute’s plans, meeting up with her courser escort. . .and discovering that, despite not informing them, the Brotherhood were also there to cause more chaos for the combatants! Miss Jon and Past!Jon were so confused by this, in fact, that Miss Jon never actually made it to the trapped synths. She THOUGHT she did – she got to that one underground room where everyone was fighting each other and just assumed the people trapped behind the turrets were the synths and decided to leave them to their fate because too much going on (though she did kill the courser)! She also disapproved of the Railroad Heavies constantly downing some passing caravan guards, which, you know, fair. Past!Jon actually later indicated that he thought what had happened with the BOS showing up was a glitch – I wonder who told him otherwise, because I KNOW he did the mission correctly in Grills Bears’s BOS Survival run!

Anyway, after basically completely abandoning the main thrust of the mission, Miss Jon went to meet with Father, who declared the Commonwealth “dead,” told her about his reasons for letting her out (Past!Jon criticized it as an “experiment” in seeing if she’d come to find him, saying it was pretty poor given Miss Jon had no idea how long it had been since his kidnapping), and scolded her for trying to claim the whole Bunker Hill thing was an ambush (I think this is the point where Past!Jon decided the BOS showing up was a glitch, since Father indicated the BOS should have had no idea what was up), before asking her to come to the next directorate meeting. Miss Jon agreed, but not before swinging by the Railroad to chat with PAM and learn where she could get the login credentials Liam needed – Cambridge Polymer Labs! Miss Jon indicated she’d be interested in checking that out after attending the directorate meeting. . .

But then episode 31 happened, and the meeting threw things off the rails. Shaun revealed what Phase Three was to his mother (the turning on of the big nuclear reactor; Past!Jon, expecting something more dramatic, was underwhelmed), said that she would be their new mercenary on the surface, and that he was dying of cancer and appointing her his successor – which was obviously not met with a lot of enthusiasm. He indicated that he’d like her to take point on the mission to get the final pieces ready for the generator – intrigued, Miss Jon went to Allie Fillmore and learned they were after a beryllium agitator to fuel the damn thing. She turned down Allie asking to be her backup (Past!Jon, like Present!Jon, is VERY COMMITTED to “Lone Wanderer”), and made her way to the teleporter –

Where she was warned that this would make her a permanent enemy of the Brotherhood of Steel. Past!Jon took a moment, then decided he probably wouldn’t be doing anything more with them and went for it. Cue Miss Jon having to take out a bunch of Brotherhood soldiers around the building while looking for the agitator – fortunately, she was able to crack a terminal to determine its location. Now she just needs to find the right keycard. . .

2. Edit some more on "Londerland Bloodlines": Check! Finished up Chapter 3, with Alice picking up her laundry before being propositioned by a dude-bro in a backwards hat and getting him to agree to some “necking.” XD We have finally hit Chapter 4, which starts with LaCroix actually giving Alice a touch of praise and some money, yay! Girl’s gonna need plenty of quarters for the nights to come. XD

3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – easier than usual with only two, but I found myself a third –

A) As there was no James Turner (I suspect he is out and about for some reason), I instead decided to catch up on the one video that remained in my Watch Later from yesterday from OXtra – “What is Sonic’s TOP Speed? | We Used Sonic Colours Ultimate To Find Sonic's Max Speed (Sponsored)!” Yes, Ellen, with a little help from Luke (holding the Sonic plush), some offscreen ribbing from Mike and James, and some previously-done maths from Jane, used one of the final levels of Sonic Colors Ultimate to determine Sonic’s top speed! The level involves Sonic racing down a space elevator, trying to outrun a black hole – he manages to get through seven of the rings surrounding said elevator before the singularity gets him. Ellen noted how many rings there were on the way up at the beginning of the game, found out the minimum height of a space elevator, noted down how long it took them to get through those seven rings, then (with Jane’s help) did the maths to determine just how fast Sonic can run! It’s 240,858 meters per second, or 530,784 miles per hour. That’s way, WAY faster than the speed of sound, but not quite the speed of light, explaining why he is (presumably temporarily) eaten by a black hole. Gotta go fast indeed! Though, really, the video is just worth watching for the banter – and for Luke needing to get Ellen a box to stand on once they’re both in frame because there’s a pretty VAST difference in their height. XD

B) Then it was over to Call Me Kevin in the Subs for Breathedge, a game about going to space – with a chicken. Just a chicken. Also you can choose for the smoking mafia robot to instead have carrots. Also also one of the things you have to craft in this game is “crap imposed by the developers.” XD In all seriousness, it’s an exploration and survival game centered around a character who is apparently the only survivor of a spaceship wreck, and now has to build his own tools and enhance his gear in order to make it out of his predicament. Also he has a chicken, which he uses to try and solve at least some of his problems. Not good for plugging gas leaks, though – just comes out the other end. XD Your goal is to gather the materials needed for your various tools and upgrades (and crap) from the wreckage around you, all without dying. It’s one of those very self-aware, “we refuse to take this seriously” games, with a cute art style and some genuine challenge. I’m hoping Kevin plays more – I want to see how else you can use the chicken. XD

C) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and Fail Run, a weird mobile game about getting people to walk past various obstacles. As you might imagine, walking is not easy in this game. In fact, given the people flop around like crazy and you have carefully gauge when to make them take big steps and when to make them take small ones, it is incredibly hard! Like QWOP, only stupider. Gray forced a variety of strange characters, including a policeman, a fireman, a lumberjack, and a boxer through a variety of strange obstacle courses, including walking through a door (trust me, it’s hard), walking over a train, walking into a bath, walking across a bunch of toilets, walking in front of a bunch of cannons, walking along a variety of weird block paths, walking along a bunch of chairs. . .trust me, if you can think of a level that involves walking over stuff? They got it. Along with the suffering. Definitely a masochistic Gray game. XD

4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – text is sorted on the Newcrest Adventures update for this week, so that’ll be ready to slap into the queue tomorrow! Just have to figure out what I’m doing for Friday again. . .

So not too shabby! Though I could do without a commute like that tomorrow. . .fingers crossed, folks. Night all!