Another Late Update
Though this one is partially my own fault, as I allowed myself to get briefly distracted by TV Tropes twice. . .and partially the fault of the weather, because holy HELL did it get windy a little while ago. O.o We had 40 MPH gusts for a while there! Apparently some storms were moving through, and while we didn't get the lightning, we definitely got the wind. I am starting to wonder what this winter is gonna look like. . .
But I can't stay up all night pondering it, so here, stuff --
Work – A fairly quiet day, with just a couple of phone calls and some exceptions to spice it up. On the one hand, good, lower stress; on the other hand, bad, because we haven’t heard back from the credit card people yet. Uuugh. >( Be a Christmas miracle if they actually get any of this shit fixed.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and back with Oxventure for a seasonal adventure with “A Fishmas Carol!” Shortly after the adventure of All Crim’s Night, the gang found themselves in a tavern, drinking with what money they had after Dob tossed the vast majority of their treasure from Redcastle into a lake for safekeeping. XD A medium-sized lake in the Lake District. XD Corazon has officially appointed Merilwen treasurer. Anyway, they were discussing how they’d like to celebrate the upcoming winter solstice, when suddenly Prudence had a bit of a visitation from Cthulhu, who froze time and hijacked her friends to inform her that she had to head back to Tanner’s Folly to right some wrong there, and provided a convenient tunnel of tentacles and ichor to get back there in a jiffy. Prudence managed to convince the others that jumping down that would be a good thing, and they all ended up back in Tanner’s Folly (complete with a Cthulhu-packed lunch, aw). For some reason, though, everyone in town was very, very on-edge – fortunately, there was an old friend in one of the local taverns (The Rusty Callback, as Johnny couldn’t remember the name of the original tavern they met him in) to explain things – Alfred Strangertide! AKA the scholar and archaeologist that the gang turned into a precocious toddler during their last adventure with him (“An Orcward Encounter,” featuring the crypt, the chalice of Everything You Ever Wanted, and Evil Dob). Dob happily reunited with his “son,” and Alfred filled them in on what was happening – basically, people are being stolen from their beds as they sleep, and nobody knows why or what’s going on. Corazon got him to mark down the kidnappings on a map he had (being a pirate), and it proved to be a sort of cone spreading out from the local docks. The gang promptly decided to set up a sting operation as near to the next likely kidnapping as possible, renting a room in a flophouse and setting up some traps (Dob rigged up an iron to swing into the face of anyone coming in the window; Merilwen got a net over the door; Egbert TRIED to set up a paint can trap but ended up covering himself in paint). Dob lay down and pretended to sleep as the bait, with Merilwen hiding under the bed and Corazon behind the curtain to keep an eye on the street and an ear on the room (and Alfred in a travel-cot at the end of the bed). Prudence and Egbert went outside to patrol – Prudence because if the kidnappings are Cthulhu-related, she really shouldn’t intervene; Egbert because it’s not easy to hide when you’re a massive dragon-man. XD I left it with a mist rising over the streets, making it so Prudence and Corazon can’t see anything – and Egbert, thanks to Mike rolling a one (and having a NEGATIVE Wisdom modifier), seeing a ninja turtle and scampering after it, thinking that its their culprit. XD Oh man, I am looking forward to the rest of this one. . . XD
2. Continue drafting gift fics: Check – pleased to report I’ve got something for you now, Gigs! Featuring Lizzie and Bonejangles, as requested. :) Just a nice chat scene with them going over some hypotheticals. I hope you like it when the time comes to post!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – while there was only one video uploaded today in the Subs, it was a longish Kevin video, and that combined with two other videos I wanted to watch means Wyrd Sisters Podcast will have to wait until this weekend. Ah well! Instead –
A) Started with another OXBox list that dropped today – “7 Scariest Babies That Prove Parenthood Is the Real Nightmare!” Primarily hosted by Mike Channell, actual parent. XD (Him and Luke, in fact! Er, separately, not together.) Video games do like to mine babies for horror, and this video showcased some of the most horrible. From the exploding babies of Dead Space 2 blowing you into small chunks if they manage to swarm you, to the angry block-climbing baby from Catherine menacing Vincent with fears of fatherhood and a chainsaw, to WHATEVER THE FUCK THE FIRST BOSS IS in Neo Contra being an H. R. Gieger nightmare (it’s a flesh-flower with petals with teeth that a baby head in the middle with lots of boils and what not?), these are the babies that will make you say “no thanks!” to parenthood. Yeesh.
B) Then it was over to Plumbella’s latest – “the menswear kit is here and besties i am tired,” the look at the Modern Menswear Kit! Plumbella was – not particularly impressed. She liked some pieces (like some of the skirt/dresses designed for a male frame, and most of the knit tops – though, like me, she wishes the sweaters didn’t have those damn cutouts), but others were just – “eh.” She found the whole Kit to be just “eh,” really – and Kits in general. They’re never anything spectacular, and since we’ve had so many of them come out in a row – yeah, we’re all tired of them at this point. It’s just not a good look. And not just because some of these clothes have AWFUL color swatches. Trust me, I’m all for adding more menswear options to the game, but THIS is not how you go about it. >(
C) And finally, we hit the Subs where Call Me Kevin has returned for – life hacks?? Yes, today’s video was something a little bit different, as Kevin went to watch some of the ridiculous shit over on “5-Minute Crafts” and even tried out some of the nonsense for himself! Such as trying to get a figure drawn in whiteboard marker on a plate to float in water (little bits and pieces of the figure broke off, but it wasn’t a solid object as suggested by the video), making a copy of a key by burning its image into plastic and then cutting it out (he couldn’t get it hot enough to burn, so he just tried to cut out the teeth in regular plastic – no dice), creating a giant soda lolly in the freezer (very, VERY melty, and Kevin could NOT get it out of the bowl), and refilling and recovering a coffee pod with foil to reuse it (Kevin did a damn near perfect foil recover, but had to ruin it because his coffee maker uses barcodes to read the pod – and they sit upside-down in his coffee machine). It was a very weird but fun video, with Kevin being baffled by some of the weirder “life hacks” the video offers up. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – added the reblog of “Strange” by Kerli and Tokio Hotel to my Victor Luvs Alice queue, and got four ask replies and a thread reply done for Valice Multiverse. That’ll do it for Friday!
Not bad, not bad -- and tomorrow, at least, I'll be able to stay up as late as I freaking want. As it stands right now, good night! Fingers crossed we don't blow away at any point!
But I can't stay up all night pondering it, so here, stuff --
Work – A fairly quiet day, with just a couple of phone calls and some exceptions to spice it up. On the one hand, good, lower stress; on the other hand, bad, because we haven’t heard back from the credit card people yet. Uuugh. >( Be a Christmas miracle if they actually get any of this shit fixed.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and back with Oxventure for a seasonal adventure with “A Fishmas Carol!” Shortly after the adventure of All Crim’s Night, the gang found themselves in a tavern, drinking with what money they had after Dob tossed the vast majority of their treasure from Redcastle into a lake for safekeeping. XD A medium-sized lake in the Lake District. XD Corazon has officially appointed Merilwen treasurer. Anyway, they were discussing how they’d like to celebrate the upcoming winter solstice, when suddenly Prudence had a bit of a visitation from Cthulhu, who froze time and hijacked her friends to inform her that she had to head back to Tanner’s Folly to right some wrong there, and provided a convenient tunnel of tentacles and ichor to get back there in a jiffy. Prudence managed to convince the others that jumping down that would be a good thing, and they all ended up back in Tanner’s Folly (complete with a Cthulhu-packed lunch, aw). For some reason, though, everyone in town was very, very on-edge – fortunately, there was an old friend in one of the local taverns (The Rusty Callback, as Johnny couldn’t remember the name of the original tavern they met him in) to explain things – Alfred Strangertide! AKA the scholar and archaeologist that the gang turned into a precocious toddler during their last adventure with him (“An Orcward Encounter,” featuring the crypt, the chalice of Everything You Ever Wanted, and Evil Dob). Dob happily reunited with his “son,” and Alfred filled them in on what was happening – basically, people are being stolen from their beds as they sleep, and nobody knows why or what’s going on. Corazon got him to mark down the kidnappings on a map he had (being a pirate), and it proved to be a sort of cone spreading out from the local docks. The gang promptly decided to set up a sting operation as near to the next likely kidnapping as possible, renting a room in a flophouse and setting up some traps (Dob rigged up an iron to swing into the face of anyone coming in the window; Merilwen got a net over the door; Egbert TRIED to set up a paint can trap but ended up covering himself in paint). Dob lay down and pretended to sleep as the bait, with Merilwen hiding under the bed and Corazon behind the curtain to keep an eye on the street and an ear on the room (and Alfred in a travel-cot at the end of the bed). Prudence and Egbert went outside to patrol – Prudence because if the kidnappings are Cthulhu-related, she really shouldn’t intervene; Egbert because it’s not easy to hide when you’re a massive dragon-man. XD I left it with a mist rising over the streets, making it so Prudence and Corazon can’t see anything – and Egbert, thanks to Mike rolling a one (and having a NEGATIVE Wisdom modifier), seeing a ninja turtle and scampering after it, thinking that its their culprit. XD Oh man, I am looking forward to the rest of this one. . . XD
2. Continue drafting gift fics: Check – pleased to report I’ve got something for you now, Gigs! Featuring Lizzie and Bonejangles, as requested. :) Just a nice chat scene with them going over some hypotheticals. I hope you like it when the time comes to post!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – while there was only one video uploaded today in the Subs, it was a longish Kevin video, and that combined with two other videos I wanted to watch means Wyrd Sisters Podcast will have to wait until this weekend. Ah well! Instead –
A) Started with another OXBox list that dropped today – “7 Scariest Babies That Prove Parenthood Is the Real Nightmare!” Primarily hosted by Mike Channell, actual parent. XD (Him and Luke, in fact! Er, separately, not together.) Video games do like to mine babies for horror, and this video showcased some of the most horrible. From the exploding babies of Dead Space 2 blowing you into small chunks if they manage to swarm you, to the angry block-climbing baby from Catherine menacing Vincent with fears of fatherhood and a chainsaw, to WHATEVER THE FUCK THE FIRST BOSS IS in Neo Contra being an H. R. Gieger nightmare (it’s a flesh-flower with petals with teeth that a baby head in the middle with lots of boils and what not?), these are the babies that will make you say “no thanks!” to parenthood. Yeesh.
B) Then it was over to Plumbella’s latest – “the menswear kit is here and besties i am tired,” the look at the Modern Menswear Kit! Plumbella was – not particularly impressed. She liked some pieces (like some of the skirt/dresses designed for a male frame, and most of the knit tops – though, like me, she wishes the sweaters didn’t have those damn cutouts), but others were just – “eh.” She found the whole Kit to be just “eh,” really – and Kits in general. They’re never anything spectacular, and since we’ve had so many of them come out in a row – yeah, we’re all tired of them at this point. It’s just not a good look. And not just because some of these clothes have AWFUL color swatches. Trust me, I’m all for adding more menswear options to the game, but THIS is not how you go about it. >(
C) And finally, we hit the Subs where Call Me Kevin has returned for – life hacks?? Yes, today’s video was something a little bit different, as Kevin went to watch some of the ridiculous shit over on “5-Minute Crafts” and even tried out some of the nonsense for himself! Such as trying to get a figure drawn in whiteboard marker on a plate to float in water (little bits and pieces of the figure broke off, but it wasn’t a solid object as suggested by the video), making a copy of a key by burning its image into plastic and then cutting it out (he couldn’t get it hot enough to burn, so he just tried to cut out the teeth in regular plastic – no dice), creating a giant soda lolly in the freezer (very, VERY melty, and Kevin could NOT get it out of the bowl), and refilling and recovering a coffee pod with foil to reuse it (Kevin did a damn near perfect foil recover, but had to ruin it because his coffee maker uses barcodes to read the pod – and they sit upside-down in his coffee machine). It was a very weird but fun video, with Kevin being baffled by some of the weirder “life hacks” the video offers up. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – added the reblog of “Strange” by Kerli and Tokio Hotel to my Victor Luvs Alice queue, and got four ask replies and a thread reply done for Valice Multiverse. That’ll do it for Friday!
Not bad, not bad -- and tomorrow, at least, I'll be able to stay up as late as I freaking want. As it stands right now, good night! Fingers crossed we don't blow away at any point!