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Reasonably Okay Tuesday
Nov. 16th, 2021 11:27 pmAs evidenced by the to-do list:
Work – Quieter day, at least in part because chatty coworker is gonna be out of the office for a bit for medical reasons. Spent most of the day reviewing credit card stuff and seeing what wasn’t fixed (all of it); plus bringing up a NEW issue when I spotted it this afternoon. *sigh* And our call with our singular contact over there has been pushed back again due to illness on his side. Bleh. Think I’ll get back to checking through obituaries tomorrow; might actually be more cheery than waiting for anything to happen with this shit.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another thirty on the bike, and another episode of The Spiffing Brit’s stuff! Today was a rather odd little video where he decided to go up against a professional FPSer (guy has apparently won lots of awards for being really good at Quake) to see how good “pay to win” was – to the point where he claimed to have not only paid for premium bonuses in the free-to-play war FPS they were battling it out in, but upgraded all his equipment and bought a bunch of caffeine-laden supplements, while the pro was using a basic keyboard, mouse, and earbuds. I don’t believe for a second Spiff was actually drinking all of that Red Bull, of course, but the premium bonuses does seem to have made a difference, as in two different game modes (“capture the zones” and “defend this point”) he was able to outpace the professional guy in kills – just by six in the first round, but by over twenty in the second. To be completely fair to the pro, though, he’d also never PLAYED the game that they were doing this in before, and Spiff had every confidence that, if he’d had more experience (the guy confessed to having trouble getting used to the key bindings and whatnot), he would have SLAUGHTERED Spiff. But hey, at least Spiff had the pleasure of shooting down a plane with a tank! Not as good as when Spiff’s just straight-up breaking games (as probably evidenced by the fact I can’t be arsed to look up just what game he was playing), but still a decent time on the bike!
2. Write some more on “Learn To Love Again”: Check – I’ve finished up Victor’s initial trip to the Land of the Dead, with him confirming that he can take a passenger, and deciding that it would be better for everyone to meet in Oxford rather than waiting for both Alice and Mr. and Mrs. Liddell to come to Burtonsville (both for time and because Victor isn’t sure how well Alice visiting Burtonsville would go). Left it on him about to explain the first few chapters to Lizzie – gonna do one more quick scene of him reporting to Alice in Wonderland and her making HER plans to get to Oxford, and that should be another chapter done!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – two in, two out, and two bonus videos!
A) Spotted a video lurking in my Recommendeds from Call Me Kevin’s girlfriend Anna Chess – “I tried to bake a cake for Kevin and me!” Apparently she and Kevin have their birthdays really close, so she decided to do a stream where she made a cake for the both of them! Complete with fondant figures on top! The title is a bit misleading, as it’s actually a no-bake cake – it’s a concoction of cookies, homemade toffee, and chocolate that you put in the fridge. And yet, poor Anna ended up burning herself by touching the hot toffee pot, probably burned the toffee a little (and left it lumpy), scalded her cream, and managed to soak her cookies to the point that they dissolved into mush. And her fondant people – she was okay, but Kevin ended up looking like either Elvis or a friend of theirs with darker hair and a longer beard. XD However, the live taste test actually went rather well – the cake was definitely CRUNCHIER than it should have been, but it tasted all right, so that was something! Happy birthday, Anna and Kevin – hope you’re both doing well! :)
B) And then, because James is still not really back, we headed over to Plumbella for her latest – “there is yet another kit and I AM TIRED!!!! (Menswear Kit)” Yes, EA announced the final CAS Kit of the season today – Modern Menswear! They partnered with the not-for-profit British Fashion Council and designer Stefan Cooke to design a bunch of menswear in both traditional and very not-traditional styles. Plumbella was – meh. She did like some of the fashions on display (mostly the sweaters and the loafers), but she really didn’t like others, and she’s just tired of Kits in general at this point – we’ve had four in a row! Can’t say as I blame her. . .personally, there’s nothing in the Kit to tempt me – like one sweater looks cute to me, and that one has cut-outs for no good reason, so. . .I think I’ll stick to downloading CC clothes.
C) Then it was off to the Subs to catch up with Call Me Kevin and Two Chunk Challenge Minecraft! Kevin – had a bit of a tough day. He spent most of the episode carefully hollowing out the area just below his pig farm to try and make a new lake to fish treasure from – then, after learning that it ought to be exposed to air, moving all the pigs into a new horrible corridor pen and making a giant skylight over what used to be the farm, only for it to yield just lots of fish and one pair of almost-falling-apart leather boots instead of the enchanting table he wanted. He tried to lure a cow over to his chunk by pelting it with eggs, and got it as far as the Netherite fire wall – but then it turned around, and he was unable to lure it back or pull it back with his fishing rod. He found himself a zombie villager in the monstrous depths of his mine, and went to the trouble of penning it in with the loose pig down there, and then carefully luring down the witch from her boat prison (getting killed in the process) – only for the villager to have despawned by the time he got her down there. (He did at least set her up so she was already in a boat there, ready to fling potions at any new spawns). No, not a lot went right for Kevin today. . .
Except he managed to kill enough Endermen to get all the pearls he needed to go to The End. XD So next time we come back to this series, we may in fact be going on a great journey. . .
D) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and another strange GTA V challenge board – going inside the mind of Satan to stop him from taking over the world! Yes, it is like Inception, only stupider. XD Gray had a frat boy, a goth girl, a half-invisible cowboy, and a man wearing two sets of jeans, one around his ankles, on his team to infiltrate the mind of Satan and record his most disturbing secret to blackmail him with to stop him destroying the world with his newest monster. Naturally, things went off the rails the moment half-invisible man tried to drug Satan’s drink and was spotted, forcing Gray to smack Satan over the head with a baseball bat. After some time spent killing clowns with various guns and driving a truck around the wackier parts of Satan’s subconscious (losing Dick Double-Jeans to Limbo in the process – and also encountering Natas from the last board, who wants her damn child support already), Gray found his way into the deepest depths of Satan’s head, yeeting a few of his spawn into the fire and feeding Satan to his own gaping-mouthed creature (and discovering a sneaky little latitude/longitude joke in the process). And when he finally found door 69 in the basement of Satan’s brain?
Satan likes to imagine himself stripping for demonic ducks who spit money at him. Gray filmed a bit of video, then declined to rescue Dick and instead flung himself back into reality – only to watch as the rest of his team killed themselves because half-invisible man for some reason figured Gray would never abandon a friend. Don’t watch his channel much, do you? XD Oh boy – as I put in my comment, we’re practically getting a Gray Cinematic Universe here in GTA V these days. . .
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – got the Victor Luvs Alice stuff done early, during the period between work and workout! Already had my Wednesday and Thursday posts drafted, had a CB-related reblog for Friday, and a particular song I wanted to reblog for Saturday, so yeah! Boom boom boom, all set for a change! (Granted, I’m running out of drafts, but I think I should be good for one more week – if only because Thanksgiving I KNOW I’m posting Chapter 2 of “Londerland Bloodlines.”)
As for Valice Multiverse. . .two ask replies, one thread reply, nothing too stressful. I will take it.
So yeah -- bit of an annoying day at work, but not as bad as yesterday, and the afternoon/evening was pretty solid. :) So it's off to bed again now, to hope Wednesday is at least more of the same! Just three more days to go in this week (plus my Saturday morning thanks to the dentist). . .night all!
Work – Quieter day, at least in part because chatty coworker is gonna be out of the office for a bit for medical reasons. Spent most of the day reviewing credit card stuff and seeing what wasn’t fixed (all of it); plus bringing up a NEW issue when I spotted it this afternoon. *sigh* And our call with our singular contact over there has been pushed back again due to illness on his side. Bleh. Think I’ll get back to checking through obituaries tomorrow; might actually be more cheery than waiting for anything to happen with this shit.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another thirty on the bike, and another episode of The Spiffing Brit’s stuff! Today was a rather odd little video where he decided to go up against a professional FPSer (guy has apparently won lots of awards for being really good at Quake) to see how good “pay to win” was – to the point where he claimed to have not only paid for premium bonuses in the free-to-play war FPS they were battling it out in, but upgraded all his equipment and bought a bunch of caffeine-laden supplements, while the pro was using a basic keyboard, mouse, and earbuds. I don’t believe for a second Spiff was actually drinking all of that Red Bull, of course, but the premium bonuses does seem to have made a difference, as in two different game modes (“capture the zones” and “defend this point”) he was able to outpace the professional guy in kills – just by six in the first round, but by over twenty in the second. To be completely fair to the pro, though, he’d also never PLAYED the game that they were doing this in before, and Spiff had every confidence that, if he’d had more experience (the guy confessed to having trouble getting used to the key bindings and whatnot), he would have SLAUGHTERED Spiff. But hey, at least Spiff had the pleasure of shooting down a plane with a tank! Not as good as when Spiff’s just straight-up breaking games (as probably evidenced by the fact I can’t be arsed to look up just what game he was playing), but still a decent time on the bike!
2. Write some more on “Learn To Love Again”: Check – I’ve finished up Victor’s initial trip to the Land of the Dead, with him confirming that he can take a passenger, and deciding that it would be better for everyone to meet in Oxford rather than waiting for both Alice and Mr. and Mrs. Liddell to come to Burtonsville (both for time and because Victor isn’t sure how well Alice visiting Burtonsville would go). Left it on him about to explain the first few chapters to Lizzie – gonna do one more quick scene of him reporting to Alice in Wonderland and her making HER plans to get to Oxford, and that should be another chapter done!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – two in, two out, and two bonus videos!
A) Spotted a video lurking in my Recommendeds from Call Me Kevin’s girlfriend Anna Chess – “I tried to bake a cake for Kevin and me!” Apparently she and Kevin have their birthdays really close, so she decided to do a stream where she made a cake for the both of them! Complete with fondant figures on top! The title is a bit misleading, as it’s actually a no-bake cake – it’s a concoction of cookies, homemade toffee, and chocolate that you put in the fridge. And yet, poor Anna ended up burning herself by touching the hot toffee pot, probably burned the toffee a little (and left it lumpy), scalded her cream, and managed to soak her cookies to the point that they dissolved into mush. And her fondant people – she was okay, but Kevin ended up looking like either Elvis or a friend of theirs with darker hair and a longer beard. XD However, the live taste test actually went rather well – the cake was definitely CRUNCHIER than it should have been, but it tasted all right, so that was something! Happy birthday, Anna and Kevin – hope you’re both doing well! :)
B) And then, because James is still not really back, we headed over to Plumbella for her latest – “there is yet another kit and I AM TIRED!!!! (Menswear Kit)” Yes, EA announced the final CAS Kit of the season today – Modern Menswear! They partnered with the not-for-profit British Fashion Council and designer Stefan Cooke to design a bunch of menswear in both traditional and very not-traditional styles. Plumbella was – meh. She did like some of the fashions on display (mostly the sweaters and the loafers), but she really didn’t like others, and she’s just tired of Kits in general at this point – we’ve had four in a row! Can’t say as I blame her. . .personally, there’s nothing in the Kit to tempt me – like one sweater looks cute to me, and that one has cut-outs for no good reason, so. . .I think I’ll stick to downloading CC clothes.
C) Then it was off to the Subs to catch up with Call Me Kevin and Two Chunk Challenge Minecraft! Kevin – had a bit of a tough day. He spent most of the episode carefully hollowing out the area just below his pig farm to try and make a new lake to fish treasure from – then, after learning that it ought to be exposed to air, moving all the pigs into a new horrible corridor pen and making a giant skylight over what used to be the farm, only for it to yield just lots of fish and one pair of almost-falling-apart leather boots instead of the enchanting table he wanted. He tried to lure a cow over to his chunk by pelting it with eggs, and got it as far as the Netherite fire wall – but then it turned around, and he was unable to lure it back or pull it back with his fishing rod. He found himself a zombie villager in the monstrous depths of his mine, and went to the trouble of penning it in with the loose pig down there, and then carefully luring down the witch from her boat prison (getting killed in the process) – only for the villager to have despawned by the time he got her down there. (He did at least set her up so she was already in a boat there, ready to fling potions at any new spawns). No, not a lot went right for Kevin today. . .
Except he managed to kill enough Endermen to get all the pearls he needed to go to The End. XD So next time we come back to this series, we may in fact be going on a great journey. . .
D) And finally we had GrayStillPlays and another strange GTA V challenge board – going inside the mind of Satan to stop him from taking over the world! Yes, it is like Inception, only stupider. XD Gray had a frat boy, a goth girl, a half-invisible cowboy, and a man wearing two sets of jeans, one around his ankles, on his team to infiltrate the mind of Satan and record his most disturbing secret to blackmail him with to stop him destroying the world with his newest monster. Naturally, things went off the rails the moment half-invisible man tried to drug Satan’s drink and was spotted, forcing Gray to smack Satan over the head with a baseball bat. After some time spent killing clowns with various guns and driving a truck around the wackier parts of Satan’s subconscious (losing Dick Double-Jeans to Limbo in the process – and also encountering Natas from the last board, who wants her damn child support already), Gray found his way into the deepest depths of Satan’s head, yeeting a few of his spawn into the fire and feeding Satan to his own gaping-mouthed creature (and discovering a sneaky little latitude/longitude joke in the process). And when he finally found door 69 in the basement of Satan’s brain?
Satan likes to imagine himself stripping for demonic ducks who spit money at him. Gray filmed a bit of video, then declined to rescue Dick and instead flung himself back into reality – only to watch as the rest of his team killed themselves because half-invisible man for some reason figured Gray would never abandon a friend. Don’t watch his channel much, do you? XD Oh boy – as I put in my comment, we’re practically getting a Gray Cinematic Universe here in GTA V these days. . .
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – got the Victor Luvs Alice stuff done early, during the period between work and workout! Already had my Wednesday and Thursday posts drafted, had a CB-related reblog for Friday, and a particular song I wanted to reblog for Saturday, so yeah! Boom boom boom, all set for a change! (Granted, I’m running out of drafts, but I think I should be good for one more week – if only because Thanksgiving I KNOW I’m posting Chapter 2 of “Londerland Bloodlines.”)
As for Valice Multiverse. . .two ask replies, one thread reply, nothing too stressful. I will take it.
So yeah -- bit of an annoying day at work, but not as bad as yesterday, and the afternoon/evening was pretty solid. :) So it's off to bed again now, to hope Wednesday is at least more of the same! Just three more days to go in this week (plus my Saturday morning thanks to the dentist). . .night all!
