*runs in with update*

Lost track of time looking at tumblr tags, so let me yeet this at you and get to bed:

Work – Another all right day – spent most of the morning getting my “here’s what’s wrong now” document prepped and sent out, and then the afternoon doing a security training video. Nothing too special. *shrug* Still got a bunch of reversals to do, but we’ll cover all that tomorrow.

Beanbags – Day went from a 15% chance of rain in the morning to misty and drizzly most of the day – yeah, we kept the beanbags inside the garage. I suspect that they’ll be staying there for a day or two longer too – I dunno about tomorrow, but Friday’s definitely got a chance of rain, soo. . .

To-Do List –

1. Get in a workout: Check – got on the treadmill today, for a longer chunk of Jon’s Original FO4 Playthrough! Started Episode 32 today, with Miss Jon heading to the homestead near Graygarden to talk down her Minutemen from opening fire on the Institute scientists trying to recruit the reluctant T.S. Wallace within. (After getting a rank of “Mr. Sandman” from a level-up triggered from finding the place.) She slapped on her tuxedo and formal hat and got the leader of the little band to tell her what was going on (Wallace, normally a loner, had seen the Institute scientists coming, panicked, and sent up a flare) – he was all for going in hard, but Miss Jon managed to convince him to have the others hold their ground after a short argument and a little wheedling about what if he was wrong about what was going on. (Past!Jon did end up calling them “thugs” at this point, which got me a little annoyed – fine, the radiant quests are repetitive, but dude.) She then went inside the homestead to find the scientists waiting, embarrassed because, well, their target had locked himself behind a door and wasn’t coming out. The leader suggested that Miss Jon take things nice and easy, and she managed to convince him that the Institute wasn’t here to replace him, but to instead give him a great opportunity and a better life. Situation resolved, no bloodshed, everything cool.

And then Past!Jon surprised me, because he apparently felt a bit guilty about being rude to the Minutemen outside and decided to do a couple of their quests! Namely, “Troubled Water,” because he was already pretty much AT Graygarden, and “Old Guns,” because it had been waiting in his PipBoy for a while. He was rather surprised by the actual Graygarden farm of robots, disappointed that game show host-like Supervisor Green didn’t actually give him a fabulous prize when he said he would (I’m pretty sure the game skipped a voice line about him “giving” you the wrecked car on the property), and slightly creeped out by Supervisor White’s flirtatious way of speaking. But he agreed to check out the water plant, where he found some Super Mutants –

And a Brotherhood vertibird, which actually entirely ignored the Mutants to concentrate on killing Miss Jon. Cue Miss Jon scrambling around trying to lure one set of enemies into the other. She managed to kill them all eventually and get inside, where she drained the flooded main room, killed all the Mirelurks, and got the main pump running again! All well and good, and Supervisor White gave her a bunch of food and 100 caps for her trouble. Past!Jon was unimpressed and decided “Old Guns” was the Minutmen’s last chance to wow him –

Fortunately, that is the quest where you get artillery! Miss Jon traveled to the Castle, spruced up the place with some corn, water, and a machine gun turret for the residents, then met up with Ronnie and helped her crack into the old armory bastion. They fought Sarge (fortunately Miss Jon’s super shotgun worked pretty well against them), and Miss Jon happily traded out her old formal wear for the Minuteman General’s uniform, as it had decent defense PLUS the boost to Charisma! See, Past!Jon? The Minutemen aren’t so bad once you give them a chance! Anyway, they got to the armory, and Miss Jon made herself a nice fancy laser musket before building and testing the artillery. Past!Jon seemed pleased and prepared to go speak to Preston –

And then remembered – “Oh yeah. My Brotherhood companion’s at Sanctuary.”

Fortunately things didn’t go too badly when it came to Danse – Miss Jon was able to get an early sniper shot in on him, then her shotgun did the rest. I left it off with her being shocked that a) he had a synth component on him and b) he had hair under that hood. XD So I guess the “Big Bang” of the title is the artillery, not blowing up the Prydwen as I had assumed. . .still time for that to get off the ground this episode, though!

2. Edit some more on "Londerland Bloodlines”: Check! After checking her e-mails and picking up her money (both LaCroix’s and Malcolm’s) from her mailbox, Alice has made her way over to Trip’s to see if she can get a better gun! Trip has tried to deny selling weapons, but Alice informed him that Knox told her he was good for them – which has made poor Trip facepalm, because apparently Knox is a little freer with that info than he’d like. As Alice reminded him, though, she’s ALREADY bought morphine from him, so. . .he’s not actually going to have anything more interesting than what she’s got, but he’ll be good for more ammo. And a big old bag, which is arguably more important right at the moment. . .

3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – another easy night too –

A) No James tonight, so instead I hopped over to Atop the Fourth Wall for the latest – “Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters #6!” AKA that crappy series that seems to focus more on crappy humans than the actual monsters. Which – par for the course, this issue – we had Sargent Woods traveling the wastes with the little girl he saved, ending with him having to take down a bunch of other desperate people trying to steal their supplies; the introduction of a new spider monster that didn’t actually do anything; and the American government building a mecha-Godzilla in Detroit to fight Godzilla – only to cheap out on its rear defense, leading to it suffering a major hit and switching sides, destroying Atlanta, Georgia in the process. According to the writer’s blog, this is actually all according to plan – the book is SUPPOSED to be all doom and gloom, with the monsters representing humanity being unable to cope with disaster and the whole thing supposed to end in a post-apocalyptic scenario. Which – there are better ways to do that kind of story, and Linkara’s just done with the constant doom, gloom, and general mean-spiritedness. I don’t blame him.

B) Then it was into the Subs to see Call Me Kevin try another character in Bitlife! Today’s person was Pop Starr, from Famous PopStarLand (Kevin found place names like “Boston” to be too fake), who was very musical from an early age! Well, sort of – it took him a while to actually find his niche. He tried jazz band while in school, only to be kicked out for poor performance, then he attempted to become a guitarist (after robbing some houses for the money), only to to foolishly turn down a chance to become a member of a Christian Rock band and spend like ten years trying to get a contract on his own. He also had a brief stint as a construction worker, and was UNJUSTLY BROUGHT IN FOR MURDER. Like, seriously, Kevin didn’t even kill anyone at that time! Fortunately he got off, but man. . . He ended up just spending hours and hours and hours working on his singing voice, and eventually landed a music contract, deciding to focus on the punk genre. . .

And holy CRAP did the money start rolling in. He finally made it at the age of 35 or so, and within years he was super-rich and super-famous – doing world tours, releasing gold-certified albums and singles (with names like “please buy this I’m scared,” and “this album is free”), buying a big old mansion and a pirate ship, and adopting five million kids and openly playing favorites with them. XD The success lasted for quite a while, as he switched companies and did a few more tours – but then he decided he wanted to get into politics, and things kind of went downhill from there, as he blew a lot of money on trying to become President, then Mayor, then just anything. He also dated and briefly married a much younger woman, only for her to cheat on him and get half his assets in the divorce – the single murder of the episode happened when Pop hired a hitman to kill her. XD He FINALLY became School Board Director of the local schools in his old age – and then a speeding boat rammed into his pirate ship, exploded, and he died at the age of 89. XD To be fair, though, that is the kind of death you WANT as a previously-famous rock star. XD

C) And then it was time for GrayStillPlays and some Affairs 3D: Silly Secrets! This is a horrible mobile game all about being – well. Some levels have you spraying money at women and men respectively to turn them into your harem, luring them away from their actual partners; some levels are all about escaping the apartment after having sex with someone before their partner shows up (from just sneaking out the door to rappelling down a building); some levels are about sneakily cheating on the person that you’re currently on a date with (via text or just some flirty looks); some levels are actually about catching someone having cheated on you (examining them with a magnifying glass, taking pictures of someone going around and chatting with other men, dusting them for prints); and at least one is about beating up the guy who slept with your girlfriend with a trout (or possibly a mullet, Gray wasn’t sure). It’s terrible and hilarious and Gray clearly had a lot of fun with it. XD

4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – reset my Victor Luvs Alice queue and found something for Song Saturday (one of Coldplay’s latest, “Higher Power”), so I’m good through then, yay! :)

Whew -- yeah, not a bad night, just, like I said, I got distracted. Hopefully tomorrow is less humid and I don't need to have the AC on again like I have tonight! Night all!