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Would Have Been A Better Day. . .
Jan. 25th, 2022 11:27 pmIf not for a certain bit, which you will see in the "Work" section below:
Work – Work itself wasn’t too bad – another quiet day, with minimal phone calls and lots of obits and duplicates to get through. My main source of frustration was the fact that a bunch of credit card fixes STILL haven’t been done, but that’s now just something that simmers away in the background honestly. Can’t force the credit card company to do their damn job, sadly.
My ride home, on the other hand. . .yeah, there was a car that broke down like JUST past the on-ramp onto the highway, and I got stuck in traffic for about a good half-hour (I reached the site of the problem just in time to see the flatbed tow truck getting ready to take the car away). And THEN, after that, I had to deal with getting gas – and while I was doing that, an ambulance and a fire truck screamed up the road, meaning the previously-very-clear main drag was now packed with cars. Also I nearly drove off with my gas cap open, but fortunately I spotted that before I left the station and was able to hop out and close it. *sigh* Yeah, just – frustrating as all hell. Ugh.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with Jon’s Unpacking livestream! Having finished off the 2013 “rising from the ashes” level, Jon and Claire moved onto the next level – moving in the new(ish, I assume they’ve been dating for a while) girlfriend! Jon, being a horrible person, immediately kept threatening to put the stuff the girlfriend loved under the bed. XD He also claimed that he didn’t like the girlfriend for being really into this one (I assume) anime series, to the point of having all sorts of branded stuff for it – Claire first tried to convince him that maybe the girlfriend WORKS on the series and that’s why she’s so into it (using the walkie-talkies as evidence), then just pointed out the hypocrisy by staring pointedly at his own shelves of fandom stuff (not that we got to see it, as Jon doesn’t use face-cam or anything like that – bit of a shame, as apparently he has his own Dogmeat!). He IS mostly behaving and putting things where they should go – the poster for the series went up in the bedroom, the girlfriend’s Blu-Ray collection in the living room bookshelf, etc. Though he’s a bit cross because the DVDs and Blu-Rays won’t all fit on the SAME shelf. He also likes to accuse Claire of back-seat gaming whenever she tries to point out something logical to him (like moving the dress hanging between the two “lesbian boots” to make them sit closer together, or saying to use the big drawers in the closet storage to actually hold clothes so they can put shoes on the shoe rack). And then he does what she says anyway. XD It’s very silly. Though they’re actually almost totally through the level now – just the bathroom to be unpacked, and then moving anything the game objects to. We’re just over halfway through the livestream now – looks like the majority of it is gonna be focused on the last level! Which makes sense, as that’s the biggest home. . .should be fun!
2. Continue editing Chapter 5 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Santa Monica’s Vale Of Tears”: Check – got through Alice’s meeting with Marian, whom I decided to put into the story because that’s more interesting than Alice breaking into an empty apartment. She is VERY cross with her soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend for a) going out with one of his old crime buddies and missing a court date in the process and b) keeping a “voyeur’s guide” hidden under the sink (the skill book you can pick up from their apartment in the game itself). Alice sympathizes with her fury and has convinced her not to angry-drink alone. Now she just has to go and report to Arthur for her cash, yay. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – only two tonight, which suited me fine as I had to look up phone plans and discuss phone options with my parents –
A) First up, Call Me Kevin with BitLife – or, rather CatLife, the version all about being a cat! (Hey, they made DogLife, so fair is fair.) Kevin promptly created a ragdoll cat he called “Dog” who started life “imprisoned at the Baltimore Rescue Society” (yes, really). In the first three minutes, Dog made an enemy of shelter employee Mr. Nix by vomiting on him and attacking him; got adopted by Navy enlistee and cat lady Kaylee; learned how to twerk; lost Kaylee’s love by urinating on electrical sockets, then vomiting on her, attacking her, and trying to escape when disciplined; got returned to the shelter; and finally got aggressive with a new kitty arrival and got killed by said cat. Kevin moved onto Charlize, a domestic shorthair at Zachary’s Pet Emporium in Perth, Australia – he promptly had her attack the owner, and got thrown into cat prison, aka a shelter. XD She managed to successfully escape onto the streets, where she attracted a mate and started having kittens, named after things Kevin could see on his desk (Gopro, Keyboard, Hat, etc). She was briefly adopted by a woman named Matilda, but after spraying her baby Daisy and attacking her owner, she was brought back to the shelter, where she escaped again to have more kittens and try to become Alpha Cat! Which was – very difficult, as a random dog who moved into the neighborhood ended up ranking higher than her at one point. She proved very vicious though, especially to her own mate, and managed to enjoy the top spot for a little while, though. Eventually, however, she began falling out of favor, and so she snuck onto a ship and traveled the seas all the way to Norway! She promptly began displaying her dominance on her new street to become Alpha Cat – but then the life of a stray began to fill her with various diseases, and she was forced to consult a witch doctor for treatment. The first, the devouring of warthog bum, worked, but the second. . .well, she died while having her tail hairs plucked out as payment, and the witch doctor harvested her organs for ingredients. I think this is the weirdest way Kevin’s died in an X-Life game yet. XD Certainly had some of the weirdest ads he’s watched – was that an actual furry romance simulator on there??? O.o
B) And then we had GrayStillPlays, with another GTA V parkour story board! This one was “Pickle Rick from Rick and Morty has enlisted Gray’s help in finding the syringe to turn him back into a human,” and involved driving a four-by-four over a number of giant bottles in various configurations (driving over the tops, the bottoms, the fanned necks); launching himself via motorcycle onto various platforms (he actually made one using a little hop instead of crashing into the stop sign like he was supposed to); carefully walking along the top lattice of a bridge; launching himself onto INVISIBLE platforms and following the Clone Ricks shooting RPGs to show him where the middle of each platform was; doing puzzles to knock a couple more Clone Ricks onto the right platforms to fetch new vehicles for him so he could travel through the next gap; and finally doing a little bit of Squi Ga by finding the right path across the transparent platforms so he didn’t fall to his death. Got the syringe, but chose to instead kick the Ricks into the ocean, which feels like the right choice. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – got the Chill Save update and a couple of reblogs queued over on VictorLuvsAlice! Nothing on Valice Multiverse, though – no asks or thread replies, and I didn’t see anything that struck me in any of my tags, so. . . *shrug* What can you do?
Yeah, a bad drive home always wrecks my mood, and stressing over my phone isn't helping. *sigh* But we're going to continue looking at plans and get this sorted, probably over this weekend when we're getting the next snowstorm (or possibly rainstorm, depending on path). And hopefully the traffic won't be a total clusterfuck tomorrow. . .fingers crossed! Night all!
Work – Work itself wasn’t too bad – another quiet day, with minimal phone calls and lots of obits and duplicates to get through. My main source of frustration was the fact that a bunch of credit card fixes STILL haven’t been done, but that’s now just something that simmers away in the background honestly. Can’t force the credit card company to do their damn job, sadly.
My ride home, on the other hand. . .yeah, there was a car that broke down like JUST past the on-ramp onto the highway, and I got stuck in traffic for about a good half-hour (I reached the site of the problem just in time to see the flatbed tow truck getting ready to take the car away). And THEN, after that, I had to deal with getting gas – and while I was doing that, an ambulance and a fire truck screamed up the road, meaning the previously-very-clear main drag was now packed with cars. Also I nearly drove off with my gas cap open, but fortunately I spotted that before I left the station and was able to hop out and close it. *sigh* Yeah, just – frustrating as all hell. Ugh.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with Jon’s Unpacking livestream! Having finished off the 2013 “rising from the ashes” level, Jon and Claire moved onto the next level – moving in the new(ish, I assume they’ve been dating for a while) girlfriend! Jon, being a horrible person, immediately kept threatening to put the stuff the girlfriend loved under the bed. XD He also claimed that he didn’t like the girlfriend for being really into this one (I assume) anime series, to the point of having all sorts of branded stuff for it – Claire first tried to convince him that maybe the girlfriend WORKS on the series and that’s why she’s so into it (using the walkie-talkies as evidence), then just pointed out the hypocrisy by staring pointedly at his own shelves of fandom stuff (not that we got to see it, as Jon doesn’t use face-cam or anything like that – bit of a shame, as apparently he has his own Dogmeat!). He IS mostly behaving and putting things where they should go – the poster for the series went up in the bedroom, the girlfriend’s Blu-Ray collection in the living room bookshelf, etc. Though he’s a bit cross because the DVDs and Blu-Rays won’t all fit on the SAME shelf. He also likes to accuse Claire of back-seat gaming whenever she tries to point out something logical to him (like moving the dress hanging between the two “lesbian boots” to make them sit closer together, or saying to use the big drawers in the closet storage to actually hold clothes so they can put shoes on the shoe rack). And then he does what she says anyway. XD It’s very silly. Though they’re actually almost totally through the level now – just the bathroom to be unpacked, and then moving anything the game objects to. We’re just over halfway through the livestream now – looks like the majority of it is gonna be focused on the last level! Which makes sense, as that’s the biggest home. . .should be fun!
2. Continue editing Chapter 5 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Santa Monica’s Vale Of Tears”: Check – got through Alice’s meeting with Marian, whom I decided to put into the story because that’s more interesting than Alice breaking into an empty apartment. She is VERY cross with her soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend for a) going out with one of his old crime buddies and missing a court date in the process and b) keeping a “voyeur’s guide” hidden under the sink (the skill book you can pick up from their apartment in the game itself). Alice sympathizes with her fury and has convinced her not to angry-drink alone. Now she just has to go and report to Arthur for her cash, yay. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subscriptions: Check – only two tonight, which suited me fine as I had to look up phone plans and discuss phone options with my parents –
A) First up, Call Me Kevin with BitLife – or, rather CatLife, the version all about being a cat! (Hey, they made DogLife, so fair is fair.) Kevin promptly created a ragdoll cat he called “Dog” who started life “imprisoned at the Baltimore Rescue Society” (yes, really). In the first three minutes, Dog made an enemy of shelter employee Mr. Nix by vomiting on him and attacking him; got adopted by Navy enlistee and cat lady Kaylee; learned how to twerk; lost Kaylee’s love by urinating on electrical sockets, then vomiting on her, attacking her, and trying to escape when disciplined; got returned to the shelter; and finally got aggressive with a new kitty arrival and got killed by said cat. Kevin moved onto Charlize, a domestic shorthair at Zachary’s Pet Emporium in Perth, Australia – he promptly had her attack the owner, and got thrown into cat prison, aka a shelter. XD She managed to successfully escape onto the streets, where she attracted a mate and started having kittens, named after things Kevin could see on his desk (Gopro, Keyboard, Hat, etc). She was briefly adopted by a woman named Matilda, but after spraying her baby Daisy and attacking her owner, she was brought back to the shelter, where she escaped again to have more kittens and try to become Alpha Cat! Which was – very difficult, as a random dog who moved into the neighborhood ended up ranking higher than her at one point. She proved very vicious though, especially to her own mate, and managed to enjoy the top spot for a little while, though. Eventually, however, she began falling out of favor, and so she snuck onto a ship and traveled the seas all the way to Norway! She promptly began displaying her dominance on her new street to become Alpha Cat – but then the life of a stray began to fill her with various diseases, and she was forced to consult a witch doctor for treatment. The first, the devouring of warthog bum, worked, but the second. . .well, she died while having her tail hairs plucked out as payment, and the witch doctor harvested her organs for ingredients. I think this is the weirdest way Kevin’s died in an X-Life game yet. XD Certainly had some of the weirdest ads he’s watched – was that an actual furry romance simulator on there??? O.o
B) And then we had GrayStillPlays, with another GTA V parkour story board! This one was “Pickle Rick from Rick and Morty has enlisted Gray’s help in finding the syringe to turn him back into a human,” and involved driving a four-by-four over a number of giant bottles in various configurations (driving over the tops, the bottoms, the fanned necks); launching himself via motorcycle onto various platforms (he actually made one using a little hop instead of crashing into the stop sign like he was supposed to); carefully walking along the top lattice of a bridge; launching himself onto INVISIBLE platforms and following the Clone Ricks shooting RPGs to show him where the middle of each platform was; doing puzzles to knock a couple more Clone Ricks onto the right platforms to fetch new vehicles for him so he could travel through the next gap; and finally doing a little bit of Squi Ga by finding the right path across the transparent platforms so he didn’t fall to his death. Got the syringe, but chose to instead kick the Ricks into the ocean, which feels like the right choice. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – got the Chill Save update and a couple of reblogs queued over on VictorLuvsAlice! Nothing on Valice Multiverse, though – no asks or thread replies, and I didn’t see anything that struck me in any of my tags, so. . . *shrug* What can you do?
Yeah, a bad drive home always wrecks my mood, and stressing over my phone isn't helping. *sigh* But we're going to continue looking at plans and get this sorted, probably over this weekend when we're getting the next snowstorm (or possibly rainstorm, depending on path). And hopefully the traffic won't be a total clusterfuck tomorrow. . .fingers crossed! Night all!
